Tagged: pivot

Trade Finance Fintech Traydstream Acquires $21M in Funding via Series B Round

Traydstream, a fintech company at the nexus of digitizing and automating the trade finance industry, announced the successful completion of its $21 Million Series B financing round. Led by Pivot Investment Partners, a U.S.-based fintech investment firm, and e& capital, the investment arm of e&,… Read More

Global Fintech Adyen Announces Startup Accelerator Programs for 2023

Adyen (ADYEN:AMS), which claims to be the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, announces “the launch of four accelerator programs following the success of EMEA accelerator winner, Pivot.” Alongside the relaunch of the Amsterdam based EMEA program, the new accelerators will reportedly… Read More

Security Token Offering Platform Neufund Decides to Pivot Away from Digital Securities [u]

Neufund, once a leading voice in the European security token offering market, has decided to pivot away from its digital security mission. Based in Germany, Neufund was founded by CEO Zoe Adamovicz who announced several years ago their intent to conduct the first-ever legally binding… Read More

Long Blockchain Corp. Withdraws Proposed Public Offering as Company Pivots from a Beverage Based Business While Shares Jump

Long Blockchain Corporation, formerly called Long Island Ice Tea Corporation (NasdaqCM: LTEA), has withdrawn an S-1 registration statement following the interesting name change that swapped beverages for Blockchain. At yesterday’s market close, when the company was known more for the mixed drink, shares traded at… Read More

PINTEC Debuts Digital Wealth Management Technology Services in Southeast Asia

Chinese fintech company PINTEC Group announced on Wednesday the launch of its new digital wealth management technology services, PIVOT. The company revealed that PIVOT is its first venture outside of China and is in part backed by pan-Asian life insurer, FWD Group and angel investors…. Read More

TuringSense Forms Partnership With A+Labs; Tennis Wearable Nears $140,000 on Indiegogo

TuringSense, a Silicon Valley wearable sports technology startup, and A+Labs, a smart device incubator, announced on Monday that they have reached an agreement for A+Labs to be TuringSense’s design and manufacturing partner for initial volume production of PIVOT, the most advanced wearable for tennis. As… Read More

TuringSense Teams Up With Hall of Fame Coach Nick Bollettieri to Launch Indiegogo Campaign For Tennis Wearable “PIVOT”

After successfully securing $3 million during its latest seed funding round, wearable startup, TuringSense, and its partner, Hall of Fame coach Nick Bollettieri, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for its device, PIVOT. Sharing details about PIVOT, TuringSense stated: “Tennis, throughout its centuries-old history, hasn’t fully… Read More

Wearable Startup TuringSense Raises $3M in Seed Funding; Announces Upcoming Indiegogo Initiative For Product “PIVOT”

TuringSense, a Silicon Valley pioneer of wearable sports technology, announced this week that it secured $3 million during its latest seed funding round. Participating in the round were Angel Plus, ChinaRock Capital, Ideosource, SV Tech Ventures, Zen Water Capital, along with several serial entrepreneurs and angel investors…. Read More

Crowdfunding News Roundup: November 7, 2013

BBC | Blogger raises funds to tweet from phone-hacking trial Peter Jukes has been following the News Of The World phone hacking scandal since the news broke. However, financial hardship was going to force him to stop following the proceedings in person for the rest… Read More

Crowdfunding News Roundup: November 4, 2013

The links in today’s roundup are kind of gloomy, but they do include some interesting and arguably valid concerns about crowdfunding moving forward. Do you think any or all of these concerns are valid? Let us know in the comments. PostCrescent.com | Crowdfunding trend gets… Read More

The perils of the pivot

Everyone in the startup world knows a good pivot story, right? The wedding planner site that became a peer-to-peer boat rental outfit, the “gay Groupon” that became a fabulously successful retailer. It’s not that unusual for a team to find that their original concept just isn’t going… Read More

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