After Brandon Lloyd sold his second company, Bypass, a payments and point-of-sale software company for sports and entertainment, to Fiserv in 2020, he dove more into the payments […]
Pine Labs gets Singapore court approval to shift base to India
Pine Labs, a merchant commerce startup, has received approval from a Singapore court to merge its local entity with its Indian unit, and transfer all its assets and […]
Sona, a frontline workforce management platform, raises $27.5M with eyes on US expansion
Sona, a workforce management platform for frontline employees, has raised $27.5 million in a Series A round of funding. More than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce are reportedly […]
Dripos raises $11M Series A to replace Square, Toast and 8 other pieces of software
Small coffee shops that relied on foot traffic were thrown for a loop when the global pandemic kept people in their homes. That’s when many coffee shop owners […]
Flatpay rings up $47M to target smaller merchants with simple payment solutions
As the world waits for $65 billion payments tech giant Stripe to go public, a wave of smaller startups continues to roll into the market to pick up […]
ChowNow snaps up YC-backed POS platform Cuboh and is laying off staff
ChowNow, the online ordering platform and marketing service for local restaurants, acquired Cuboh, a Y Combinator-backed point-of-sale (POS) platform that consolidates all orders from delivery apps into one […]
DOJ says Apple’s ‘complete control’ over tap-to-pay transactions stops innovation, cements its monopoly
In its wide-ranging antitrust complaint against Apple and its iPhone business, the U.S. Justice Department takes specific aim against Apple’s massive financial business, specifically how it uses Apple […]
Fantuan acquires Chowbus’ food delivery business
Fantuan, a Vancouver, Canada-based Asian food delivery company, announced it acquired Chowbus’ delivery business line. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Chicago-based Chowbus also started out […]
Prometeo raises $13M from PayPal, Samsung, and more to bring open banking to Latin America
Open banking — where traditional banks can share data, and build new services, by way of APIs that bring their ageing systems into the 21st century — has […]