| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.10.2025 | Fintech brasileira expande operação e passa a atender pequenos negócios no México | A fintech SumUp inaugurou operações no México neste mês, consolidando sua presença continental e alcançando o trigésimo sétimo território onde fornece serviços. A iniciativa marca a chegada da companhia a um dos maiores mercados latino-amer... |
| 04.02.2025 | Riley AI: $3 Million (Seed) Raised For Product Insights Platform | Riley AI, an AI-based product insights assistant, has launched from stealth with $3 million in seed funding led by Vertex Ventures US, with participation from NextView Ventures, Hyphen Capital, and leading product angel investors. The compa... |
| 05.07.2024 | Apollo.io appointed two new executives to its leadership team | Apollo.io, a leading go-to-market (GTM) solution for sales and marketing teams, has appointed two new executives to its leadership team: Matt Curl as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Rich Bessel as SVP of Design. These strategic hires will... |
| 15.10.2021 | SumUp acquires customer loyalty startup Fivestars | SumUp, a London-based payments company, acquired Fivestars, an SF-based two-sided local commerce market, for $317M in cash and stock. It’s the largest acquisition in the young history of the company.
SumUp, best known for its small credit c... |
| 14.10.2021 | Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar throws down a gauntlet to social media companies—and to herself | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Social media is a double-edged sword full of unintended consequences, as recent election cycles a... |
| 14.10.2021 | London-based payments startup SumUp acquires fintech startup Fivestars for $317M to take expand into the US and take on PayPal and Square | SumUp, a London, England-based fintech startup and global payments service provider, has acquired San Francisco-based startup Fivestars for $317 million in a bid to expand its footprint in the U.S. and take on giants like PayPal and Square.... |
| 14.10.2021 | Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar throws down a gauntlet to social media companies—and to herself | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Social media is a double-edged sword full of unintended consequences, as recent election cycles a... |
| 13.10.2021 | European point of sale provider SumUp acquires customer loyalty startup Fivestars for $317M | SumUp, a European-based competitor to Square, PayPal/iZettle and others that provide mobile-powered card readers and other sales technology to merchants and small businesses, has made an acquisition in the U.S. to dig deeper into that marke... |
| 18.11.2020 | Small Business, Big Experience: Why Main Street America Should Bet On The Experience Economy | Victor Ho is the CEO of Fivestars, a payment and marketing platform building the largest local small business fintech network in the U.S. |
| 19.10.2020 | Integrated Payment Processing & Marketing Platform Fivestars Raises $52.5 Million Through Combined Series D Equity & Debt Financing | Fivestars, a U.S.-based integrated payment processing and marketing platform, recently announced it raised $52.5 million in a combination of Series D equity and debt financing. Founded in 2011, Fivestars claims to be a leading payment and c... |
| 16.10.2020 | Fivestars Raises $52.5M in Series D Equity and Debt Funding | Fivestars, a San Francisco, CA-based integrated payment processing and marketing platform powering a large local commerce network in the U.S., raised $52.5m in a combination of Series D equity and debt financing.
The round was led by Salt P... |
| 16.10.2020 | Payments company Fivestars lands $52.5M | Fivestars has raised $52.5 million in equity and debt to grow its payments processing and marketing platform. Salt Partners led the Series D round, with participation from Lightspeed, DCM Ventures, Menlo Ventures and HarbourVest Partners. T... |
| 15.10.2020 | Small business payments and marketing startup Fivestars raises $52.5M | It’s a difficult time for small businesses — to put it mildly. And Fivestars CEO Victor Ho said that many of the big digital platforms aren’t really helping.
Ho argued that those platforms (whether they offer delivery services, user reviews... |
| 17.10.2018 | Q&A with Victor Ho and Matthew Doka, Cofounders of FiveStars | We put together a list of the top YC companies by valuation as of October 2018. You can see that list at https://ycombinator.com/topcompanies.
Here’s a Q&A with Victor Ho and Matthew Doka, Cofounders of FiveStars, one of the companies ... |
| 29.05.2018 | Expanding Your Business? Ignore These Pitfalls at Your Peril | May 29, 2018 5 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Once a certain degree of business success has been achieved, it's easy to feel ready for the challenges -- and benefits -- of further growth. But there a... |
| 22.01.2016 | FiveStars Secures $50M in Series C Funding | FiveStars, a San Francisco, CA-based rewards program for small businesses, secured $50m in Series C funding.
The round was led by HarbourVest Partners with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures and DCM Ventures.
The... |
| 22.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 22, 2016 | FiveStars raised $50M; IVP led $30M round for Qubole; Iterable closed $8M Series A funding
D-Eye, a Padua, Italy-based startup that has developed a “digital eye” into the state of the human body, raised €1.5 million (approximately $1.6 mill... |
| 22.01.2016 | FiveStars Gets $50M To Help Small Retailers Run Loyalty Programs Like Their Bigger Rivals | FiveStars, a five year-old startup that has built a platform and app to run loyalty programs and shopping analytics for small brick-and-mortar retailers, has received a reward of its own: the company has raised a round of $50 million, fundi... |
| 22.01.2016 | FiveStars raises $50 million to help small businesses build consumer loyalty | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Engaging customers with rewards and special offers is smart business. Instead of spending a ton acquiring new users, small businesses c... |
| 22.01.2016 | FiveStars raises $50 million to help small businesses build consumer loyalty | Engaging customers with rewards and special offers is smart business. Instead of spending a ton acquiring new users, small businesses can re-engage with customers through rewards and special offers. FiveStars does just that, which is why th... |
| 25.06.2015 | The future of small business marketing will be automated | This sponsored post is produced by FiveStars.
Small businesses are stuck in the stone age of marketing. They don’t have access to the same marketing tools as Fortune 500 companies and resort to marketing tactics that would make a CMO shiver... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| 10.02.2015 | Top 10 Y Combinator Companies by Funding Stage | Mattermark just released a new report with Y Combinator‘s top startups to graduate from its program. Since it was founded in 2005, Y Combinator has put hundreds of startups through its program. The program offers entrepreneurs access to an ... |
| 25.09.2014 | Funding Daily: This Canadian company is hauling in big money | Today’s funding deals: Hootsuite grabs $60M
The folks at Vancouver, Canada-based Hootsuite continue to be busy. Today, the social media management provider announced $60 million in new financing, the acquisition of a social telephony compan... |
| 25.09.2014 | FiveStars raises $26M for small-business loyalty platform | 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!
Have you noticed that loyalty programs are everyw... |
| 25.09.2014 | FiveStars Raises $26m in Series B Funding | FiveStars, a San Francisco, CA-based customer loyalty startup, raised $26m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, DCM, and Rogers Communications.
The ... |
| 25.09.2014 | Helping Local Businesses Get the Five Star Review, FiveStars Raises $26 Million | In the $60 billion market for customer loyalty among small and medium-sized services businesses companies are always looking for an edge. With coffee shops and artisanal stores springing up on every corner from Portland to Pittsburgh, diffe... |
| 25.09.2014 | FiveStars raises $26M for small-business loyalty platform | Have you noticed that loyalty programs are everywhere now? Every retailer of any size wants you to carry their rewards card or app around with you.
Companies spend $60 billion a year on loyalty and marketing automation technology, but they’... |
| 28.01.2013 | Recruiting unicorns: How we hired top talent from Facebook, Google, and Apple | 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!
Victor Ho is the CEO and Co-Founder of FiveStars.... |
| 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... |
| 21.01.2013 | Big Data And SaaS Will Become Relevant For Small Businesses In 2013 | Editor’s note: Chris Luo is VP of marketing at FiveStars. Previously, he ran small business marketing at Facebook and acquisition marketing in Asia-Pacific for Google AdWords. Follow him on Twitter @chrisluo.
Over the past few years, most o... |
| 07.11.2012 | With Key New Hire & Acquisition, YC-Backed Loyalty Card Startup FiveStars Readies Nationwide Expansion | FiveStars, the loyalty card solution originally launched out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2011 class, and now backed by $14 million in outside funding, is announcing a key new hire in its quest to expand the business nationwide: Pat Eastburn, f... |
| 03.08.2012 | FiveStars (YC W11) raises $13.9M from Lightspeed Venture Partners and DCM | FiveStars, a loyalty program for local retailers, has raised $13.9 million in a first round of funding.
The Mountain View, Calif., company is trying to eliminate the need for loyalty punch cards in a very low-tech way — in other words, no ... |
| 02.08.2012 | Loyalty card program FiveStars raises $13.9 million from Ali and Hadi Partovi, DCM and others | We’ve been tracking a lot of activity in customer loyalty programs in recent weeks, from shopping apps such as Qthru to Madrona Venture Group’s bankrolling of RewardLoop to a new breed of loyalty cards from TangoCard.
Now, here comes anothe... |
| 02.08.2012 | FiveStars Raises $13.9M in Series A Funding | FiveStars, a Mountain View, CA-based company that provides local businesses with solutions to increase customer loyalty, has raised $13.9m in Series A funding.
Backers include Lightspeed Venture Partners and DCM.
The company intends to use ... |
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| - | Startup Events To Attend This Week: Odisha Startup Summit And More | We bring to you the latest edition of the startup events to attend this week.
Under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, the Indian states are becoming a frontrunner in creating startup-friendly infrastructure. The year 2017 witnessed a numb... |
| - | SumUp sums up Fivestars for $317 million, gains access to over $3 billion in sales | London’s global payments provider SumUp has successfully completed the acquisition of Fivestars, a US-based startup that delivers vertically integrated payments, loyalty programmes, and a marketing automation platform. The translation amoun... |
