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| 05.01.2021 | Digital.com Announces Best Mobile Payment Services of 2020 | SEATTLE (PRWEB) January 05, 2021
Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has announced the best mobile payment services of 2020. The top solutions were selected based on key... |
| 31.07.2018 | Boston Startups and Tech Companies Hiring in August | Boston is home to a number of global brands, specializing in everything from catering to cybersecurity. Many of them are hiring this August, so get ready to polish your resume and draft your cover letters. Right now could be the perfect tim... |
| 30.07.2018 | This $390-million Grubhub deal was good for Dreamit | Dreamit founder Steve Welch still remembers getting LevelUp’s application to the inaugural cohort of the DreamIt Ventures accelerator, way back in 2008 when the digital payments, ordering and loyalty company went by SCVNGR and focused on in... |
| 26.07.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, July 26 | BUBBLE SOUND-OFF
Good morning, Term Sheet readers.
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Eight jurisdictions, including the United States, had already given the thumbs up on the Qualcomm’s purchase of the Dutch... |
| 26.07.2018 | GrubHub Acquires Mobile Fintecher LevelUp | LevelUp, a Boston-based mobile app fintech firm announced this week it has been acquired by GrubHub. According to the startup, although this new deal is still subject to regulatory approvals, Seth Priebatsch, Chief “Ninja” at LevelUp, wante... |
| 14.07.2018 | Стартапы дня год спустя: база данных MariaDB, сеть апартаментов Sweet Inn, сервис предзаказа еды LevelUp и другие | Директор по стратегии и анализу Mail.Ru Group Александр Горный о судьбе проектов из рубрики «Стартап дня».
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| 18.08.2017 | FinTech: 90% Hype, 10% Revolution. And Why It’s Okay. | Buzz vs. Life Changing Innovations. A systemic, a consumer and an innovator point of view.
A couple of months ago, when I read Barclays’ CEO Jes Staley say “Fintech won’t challenge us” I couldn’t help but think of this other quote from Ed Z... |
| 29.06.2017 | 14 Boston Fintech Startups to Watch | Over the past few years, Boston has undoubtedly become an emerging hub for financial technology companies.
"Outside of payments, there weren’t a lot of [fintech] startups going on between 2007 and 2012. But since then, in the last five... |
| 16.05.2017 | JPMorgan Fuels $50M Round for LevelUp as Co. Transforms Into Payments Platform | Say goodbye to LevelUp the app and hello to LevelUp the platform.
The Boston startup on Tuesday announced that it has raised a $50 million round — its largest fundraise yet — from JPMorgan Chase, CentroCredit Bank and wealth management firm... |
| 16.05.2017 | Mobile Payment Network LevelUp Completes $50M Funding | LevelUp, a Boston, MA-based mobile payment network, completed a $50m funding round.
Investors included JPMorgan Chase, US Boston and CentroCredit Bank.
The company will use the funds to continue to advance product development and accelerate... |
| 16.05.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, May 16 | RETAIL, PHARMA, REAL ESTATE, IMMIGRATION
Good morning. Yesterday I spent a few hours at TechCrunch Disrupt. A few notes:
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| 28.10.2016 | Onshape Is Almost a Unicorn: This Year's Highest Startup Valuations in Mass. So Far | Onshape, the Cambridge cloud CAD startup led by former SolidWorks CEO John McEleney, is just $200 million shy from gaining the coveted (or not coveted?) "unicorn " status — that is, private companies that have a $1 billion valuati... |
| 07.04.2016 | From Funding to Fabrics, This Week’s Boston Tech Highlights | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week in Boston’s technology scene, we’re tracking new capital for startups, executives on the move, a local fintech company’s foray across the pond, and Staples’ unexpect... |
| 04.04.2016 | New Money: RiskRecon Gets $3M GCP-Led Round, Lola Raises $19.7M Series A | Get a daily dose of Boston startup funding news in The Beat. Sign up here. New Money is BostInno's report on all the tech funding deals this week. Check back for updates.
RiskRecon (Boston)
Amount: $3 million seed
Investors: Round led by Ge... |
| 16.02.2016 | «Мой пакет акций Uber сейчас стоил бы десятки миллионов долларов» | ИТ-предприниматель из Бостона об упущенном шансе устроиться в Uber
ИТ-предприниматель из Бостона Джон Валентайн написал в своём блоге, как в 2011 году чуть не устроился работать в Uber, когда в штате будущего гиганта было всего 20 человек. ... |
| 24.06.2015 | 1app lets local businesses tempt you with bacon pizza | “Mashed Potato and Bacon Pizza. THIS is what you want for dinner.”
That call to heartburn from Southern California-based URBN Coal Fired Pizza might greet you if you were in the neighborhood and had 1app.
The iOS app is the latest effort to... |
| 24.06.2015 | 1app lets local businesses tempt you with bacon pizza | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
“Mashed Potato and Bacon Pizza. THIS is what you want for dinner.”
That call to heartburn from Southern California-based URBN Coal Fire... |
| 09.03.2015 | FiveStars announces Promotions to help SMBs bring back customers | Let’s say you’re a mom-and-pop coffee shop.
Some of your customers are regulars, but most don’t return for a second visit.
Small business marketing platform FiveStars has targeted businesses with 100 locations or less that want to build the... |
| 09.03.2015 | FiveStars announces Promotions to help SMBs bring back customers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Let’s say you’re a mom-and-pop coffee shop.
Some ... |
| 13.05.2014 | Let’s Face Facts: Mobile Wallets Are Doomed | The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything.
The other shoe has dropped for Square. The once-hyped mo... |
| 22.04.2014 | Tough Realities Persist In Mobile Payments | The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything.
Welcome to The Platform, a new column by ReadWrite mobil... |
| 04.03.2014 | How Modern Marketplaces Like Uber And Airbnb Build Trust To Achieve Liquidity | Anand Iyer Contributor
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| 21.02.2014 | Startup accelerator DreamIt Ventures sees new leadership in New York (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Tech accelerator DreamIt Ventures, best known for... |
| 21.02.2014 | Startup accelerator DreamIt Ventures sees new leadership in New York (exclusive) | Tech accelerator DreamIt Ventures, best known for housing startups such as SeatGeek and LevelUp, today announced major leadership changes in New York.
Mark Wachen, the founding managing director of DreamIt Ventures New York since 2011, has ... |
| 07.02.2014 | OpenTable goes beyond reservations, opens private beta for new dining payments service | OpenTable may soon make getting out of a restaurant just as easy as getting in.
After teasing the service back in September, OpenTable last night revealed new details about its “pilot” payment program — a feature which lets users pay for th... |
| 07.02.2014 | OpenTable goes beyond reservations, opens private beta for new dining payments service | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
OpenTable may soon make getting out of a restaurant just as easy as getting in.
After teasing the service back in September, OpenTable ... |
| 08.11.2013 | LevelUp’s Latest Fundraise Intended to Get It to “Break-Even” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We’ve got an answer about the latest fundraising round for LevelUp, the Boston-based mobile payments startup with a history of twists and turns–and big venture backing.
In lat... |
| 06.11.2013 | LevelUp, Mass. AG Coakley Take Aim at “Patent Trolls” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
LevelUp, a Boston-based mobile payments startup bankrolled by Google Ventures, is joining with the attorney general of Massachusetts to scold the people behind frivolous paten... |
| 30.09.2013 | Leaf Adds $20M as Payments Sector Heats Up | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Deals are starting to fly in the battle over small-business payment processing.
Cambridge, MA-based Leaf, a startup that sells point-of-sale systems built around Android-based... |
| 27.09.2013 | Boston Deals: LevelUp, Ministry of Supply, Predilytics, CO Everywhere | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Lots of startup funding news around town:
—LevelUp, the Boston-based startup that has gone through several changes in direction as it tries to figure out a mobile payments bus... |
| 16.04.2013 | Get Help, Give Help: Boston Tech Responds to Marathon Bombings | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Nonprofits, companies, and service providers of all sizes across the technology scene are banding together in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, offering ways to s... |
| 04.03.2013 | Mobile Payment Platform Wars: LevelUp, Paydiant, PayPal, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Is 2013 the year I put all the cash under my mattress away, leave my credit card at home, and start paying for everything with my phone?
Not bloody likely. At least not for a ... |
| 28.02.2013 | With 1M Users And $50M In Transactions, LevelUp Launches Its First API & SDK, “A Starter Kit For Mobile Payments” | In spite of the fact that we now use smartphones to do just about everything, a winner has yet to emerge in the mobile payments space. Unlike mobile photo and video, consumers have yet to get fully comfortable with the idea of turning their... |
| 24.01.2013 | Customer Loyalty Startup Front Flip Raises $3.75 Million For Its Digital Scratch Cards Platform | Although a number of mobile customer loyalty and rewards companies have debuted over the years, a good many of these new efforts have been focused on taking the offline concept of the 10-hole punch card and transitioning it to mobile. Anoth... |
| 17.01.2013 | Mobile Payments’ Cashless Utopia Is Not Coming Anytime Soon | The term “mobile payments” has been around for several years now. Really though, who knows what it actually means?
Different aspects of the payments industry want you to think different things. PayPal wants you to think of mobile payments a... |
| 10.01.2013 | Sugarhouse Casino: LevelUp partners with its first casino | LevelUp recently announced its first partnership with a casino, Philly’s Sugarhouse.
But don’t get too eager for the slot machines — Sugarhouse is only accepting the mobile payment service at some of its restaurants, including The Refinery ... |
| 31.12.2012 | Top 10 Mobile Products Of 2012 | When it comes to the mobile industry, we talk a lot about new devices and the virtues or detriments of each one. Is the iPhone 5 the best thing ever or does the Samsung Galaxy S 3 blow it out of the water? These questions, while pertinent a... |
| 05.12.2012 | As Mobile-Payment Giants Bicker, Startups Step Up | The mobile payments industry is stuck in neutral. The ability to pay for your goods and services at brick-and-mortar locations from your smartphone is a dream of technologist and financial companies, but the realities of a complicated indus... |
| 16.10.2012 | Airtag releasing NFC mobile payments developer kit, wishes Apple would help simplify the ecosystem | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Want to build mobile payment apps?
Tomorrow, the Paris-based company that built MasterCard’s PayPass SDK and counts McDonald’s and Reeb... |
| 16.10.2012 | Airtag releasing NFC mobile payments developer kit, wishes Apple would help simplify the ecosystem | Want to build mobile payment apps?
Tomorrow, the Paris-based company that built MasterCard’s PayPass SDK and counts McDonald’s and Reebok among its mobile commerce clients will release the Airtag Kit, a full collection of everything develop... |
| 26.09.2012 | LevelUp launches white-label version of mobile pay service | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
LevelUp today introduced a white-label offering in the hopes of making its QR code and NFC-ready mobile payment system the backbone of ... |
| 13.09.2012 | DreamIt Ventures’ Austin startups to land at the Capital Factory (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Startup accelerator DreamIt Ventures targeted Aus... |
| 13.09.2012 | DreamIt Ventures’ Austin startups to land at the Capital Factory (exclusive) | Startup accelerator DreamIt Ventures targeted Austin, Tex. for its next expansion back in July, but now it has a home within the city.
The accelerator program’s companies will now be housed at the Capital Factory, a co-working space that ma... |
| 06.09.2012 | On A Mission To Be Mobile Payment Agnostic, LevelUp To Roll Out NFC-Capable Terminals | As a small startup, the mobile payment space shouldn’t be appealing. Every carrier and credit card company seems to have its own system, the space is fragmented, crowded and no standard for payment mechanisms has emerged. (QR codes, really?... |
| 06.09.2012 | LevelUp upgrades mobile pay network with NFC-equipped terminals | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In with the new, out with the — well nothing, actually.
LevelUp, the mobile payment network from Boston upstart SCVNGR, has embraced ne... |
| 17.08.2012 | A tale of two iPhones — what an NFC-equipped iPhone would do to the mobile payments market | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Right now it’s the best of times for mobile payment companies, with new ideas and startups cropping up what seems like daily.When and i... |
| 03.08.2012 | LevelUp Raises Additional $9M | LevelUp, a Boston, MA-based mobile payment network, has raised an additional $9m in venture capital.
Backers in the funding, which is the second part of a larger round and brings the total raised to just more than $21m, include T-Venture an... |
| 03.08.2012 | LevelUp Leads “Cambrian Explosion” of Mobile Payments & Rewards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Don’t bet against Boston-based SCVNGR. That’s what I’ve been hearing lately. You take that much talent and that much money and throw them at a big market, like mobile payments... |
| 02.08.2012 | LevelUp Raises A $9M Funding Add-On to Help Boost Its No-Fee Mobile Payments | LevelUp, the mobile payments provider that grew out of mobile gaming startup SCVNGR, today announced an add-on round of $9 million in funding from Deutsche Telekom’s T-Venture investment arm, bringing the total for this round to $21 million... |
| 02.08.2012 | LevelUp Now Has $21M To Take On The Squares Of The Mobile Payment World | Mobile payment service LevelUp, an off-shoot of Boston-based SCVNGR, announced this morning that it has raised $9 million from T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom. The investment is the second tranche of a larger funding ... |
| 02.08.2012 | Mobile pay service LevelUp completes $21M round with $9M from T-Ventures | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile payment service LevelUp, a part of Boston-based startup SCVNGR, has collected $9 million more in financial padding, courtesy of ... |
| 12.07.2012 | Mobile pay provider LevelUp shucks the status quo, drops credit card fees | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
LevelUp, the one-year-old mobile payments arm of Boston startup SCVNGR, is now providing merchants with the sweetest of incentives for ... |
| 12.07.2012 | LevelUp removes fees to separate from the Square model | In an effort to help merchants, grow usership, LevelUp looks to loyalty perks not transaction fees
Up until now, small merchants everywhere have had a tumultuous relationship with their credit card systems. They have known that while accept... |
| 18.06.2012 | LevelUp Philly: to celebrate the mobile payment startup’s 500th Philly partner, get a free lunch | This post is provided by guest contributor Jenna Flateman, a community manager at LevelUp, a mobile payment service from SCVNGR, the Boston-based startup with Philly roots and a local marketing presence.
After seven years of being knee-deep... |
| 08.06.2012 | SCVNGR Raises $12M in Funding | SCVNGR, the Boston, MA-based app developer led by Seth Priebatsch, has raised $12m in funding.
Backers include existing investors Highland Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Balderton Capital and new investors Continental Investors and Tran... |
| 07.06.2012 | LevelUp Grabs $12M From Highland, Google Ventures To Take Its Mobile Payment Solution National | At the beginning of the year, Square doubled its retail presence, landing in about 20K outlets nationwide. As Jack Dorsey’s mobile payment system continues to find legs, all the major players have been rushing to bring their own solutions t... |
| 07.06.2012 | Forget the check-in, SCVNGR one-ups Foursquare with big raise for mobile payment app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Check-in schmeck-in. Leveling up in status, Boston-based SCVNGR has picked up $12 million in funding as part of a two-part, extra-large... |
| 07.06.2012 | SCVNGR Raises $12 Million for LevelUp and Is Raising More | Boston-based SCVNGR today announced $12 million in funding, part of a larger round that is still in the process of closing.
This part of the round will go toward expanding LevelUp, an app that lets you pay and save at stores and restaurants... |
| 10.05.2012 | Who Is Boston’s Hottest Startup? [Poll] | As we prepare to kick off our monthly speaker series Tech Cocktail Sessions in Boston next week (register here), we have been getting a lot of questions about the Boston area startup scene. With some of the top educational establishments in... |
| 07.05.2012 | LevelUp is asking consumers to scan, not swipe | Mobile payment startup eyes the path of Square, but with a bigger focus on loyalty perks
The mobile wallet market has reached a fever pitch this year. With tech companies zoned in on turning your mobile devices into methods of payment, cons... |
| 16.04.2012 | How the iPad Is Revolutionizing Local Businesses | It was dinner at a fancy restaurant in Boston. After the last sip of Scotch was polished off, the waiter came over with the check… and an iPad. It was to take a survey about the quality of service, but it just as easily could have been used... |
| 14.03.2012 | 5 Things to Watch at Mobile Madness: Mobile Mafia, Facebook’s Future, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Mobile Madness is here at last. Xconomy’s fourth annual mobile conference is set for today at 1 pm, at Microsoft NERD in Kendall Square, Cambridge. The event is sold out with ... |
| 05.03.2012 | The Potential of Turning Mobile Money Into Mobile Apps | While it might be surprising to some, there are many things that we can learn from Boston-based startup SCVNGR. More appropriately, from its mobile payments business LevelUp. The company is rethinking the nature of transactions from the gro... |
| 29.02.2012 | Mobile Payment Solution LevelUp Now Seeing $1M Per Month In Transactions; Launches API | With increasing smartphone adoption and with users in turn becoming more and more comfortable using their mobile devices to do things traditionally reserved for the Web or desktops, every industry is going mobile. But, when you consider the... |
| 28.02.2012 | ViziApps, Springpad, LevelUp, & LoseIt: A Mobile Madness Preview | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here at Xconomy, we are gearing up for the biggest mobile event of the year in Boston: Mobile Madness 2012—Total Mobility, on March 14 at Microsoft NERD.
I’ve been talking wit... |
| 27.12.2011 | LevelUp Nabs First National Merchant, Plans to Go After Big Brands in 2012 | Mobile payments solution LevelUp is ringing in the new year with some big news in an attempt to grow into a leading mobile payments provider. The SCVNGR-owned platform has bagged its first big brand. LevelUp is teaming with Villa Pizza, a n... |
| 08.12.2011 | SCVNGR’s New Mobile Payment Solution LevelUp Goes Device Agnostic With A Web App | Back in March, SCVNGR launched a product to complement its mobile scavenger hunt called LevelUp that essentially took on Groupon and the daily deals industry with a mobile product that focused squarely on one of the biggest problems with th... |
| 10.05.2011 | LevelUp Joins the Deals Bandwagon with a Boost from Levi’s and American Express | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Boston-based SCVNGR started out in 2008 doing exactly what its name suggests—organizing mobile-based scavenger hunts. Since then, the startup has been downright Protean, morph... |
| 10.05.2011 | SCVNGR copies Foursquare AmEx deal, beats it | LevelUp, daily deals with game mechanics, adds American Express integration for automatic rewards
The future of commerce is barreling towards us faster than anyone expected.
Riding on the coattails of Foursquare’s partnership with American ... |
| 09.05.2011 | LevelUp makes redeeming check-in rewards easier with American Express | LevelUp, a pilot in the local deals space created by check-in app Scvngr, today announced a partnership with American Express to give users the ability to redeem deals with their credit cards, eliminating the need for printed coupons or sho... |
| 09.05.2011 | LevelUp Now Lets You Swipe Your AmEx Card To Redeem Deals, No Print-Outs Required | Back in March location-based game SCVNGR launched a spinoff venture called LevelUp — a direct competitor to Groupon, Living Social, and other daily deal sites. LevelUp’s key twist is that it has a heavy focus on generating repeat visitors, ... |
| 09.05.2011 | LevelUp makes redeeming check-in rewards easier with American Express | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
LevelUp, a pilot in the local deals space created by check-in app Scvngr, today announced a partnership with American Express to give u... |
| 05.04.2011 | Check-in site Scvngr tries out special deals for entrepreneurs | Scvngr, a check-in app that asks users to complete activity challenges, recently launched LevelUp, a pilot in the local deals space. Now it’s offering a deal aimed specifically at entrepreneurs and their startups, dubbed “LevelUp Your Start... |
| 12.03.2011 | SCVNGR CEO Seth Priebatsch: The Game Layer Is Coming (SXSW) | Today’s SXSW keynote speaker is Seth Priebatsch, founder and CEO of location-based gaming startup SCVNGR.
SCVNGR has had a big week — on Thursday the site launched a spinoff service called LevelUp that combines some of the retention mechani... |
| 10.03.2011 | SCVNGR Rolls Out Location-Based Deals Service in Boston, Philadelphia | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“SCVNGR is kind of a weird company.” That’s what it says in its press release today, so you know it’s true. And not only because it needs to buy a vowel.
The Cambridge, MA, lo... |
| - | A Tag-Team Effort to Foster the Next Generation of Startups | “I’m not enthusiastic about trying to replicate what goes on in Boston or what goes on in Silicon Valley,” says BioAdvance Managing Director and CEO Barbara Schilberg. “I think Philadelphia has an opportunity to create its own model. Be cre... |
| - | LevelUp is acquired by Chicago-based Grubhub | We are incredibly excited to be able to share the news that LevelUp, a portfolio company of Balderton, has been acquired by Grubhub.
We had the privilege of investing in the indefatigable Seth (LevelUp's 'Chief Ninja') and his team in 2011... |
| - | LevelUp Closes $50m funding round to advance product development and accelerate growth | The company is building best-in-class mobile experiences for innovative restaurant brands. |
