Author: OurCrowd

[Beyond Meat in Market Watch] Beyond Meat is heading to Sam’s Club and BJ’s Wholesale

Aug 3, 2020 |

Beyond Meat Inc. BYND, 2.86% said Monday that its Beyond Burgers will be sold at Walmart Inc.’s WMT, 0.92% warehouse chain Sam’s Club, and at BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc. BJ, 2.41%. Beyond Meat began selling at Costco Wholesale Corp. COST, 1.86% last summer. The news comes just days after rival plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods Inc. began rolling out its Impossible Burgers at nearly 2,100 Walmart Supercenters and Neighborhood Markets nationwide. Walmart is also selling Impossible Burgers on its website. Beyond Meat stock is up 2.5% in Monday premarket trading, and has soared 66.5% for the year to date. The S&P 500 index SPX, 0.13% is up 1.3% for 2020 so far. Read...

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[Lemonade in Investor Place] Lemonade Stock Should Be Your Main Squeeze This Summer

Aug 3, 2020 |

Insurance companies have been around for as long as we can remember, but the lack of innovation has made this industry ripe for disruption. Enter Lemonade (NYSE:LMND), the “insurtech” startup that hopes to make insurance cool again. Fresh off its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in July, Lemonade stock rallied 138% and pushed the company’s market valuation to $3 billion. Read...

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[Varo Money in Tech Crunch] Mobile banking startup Varo is becoming a real bank

Aug 3, 2020 |

Mobile banking startup Varo is becoming its own bank. The company announced on Friday it has been granted a national bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and secured regulatory approvals from the FDIC and Federal Reserve to open Varo Bank, N.A. The news follows Varo’s recent close on an additional $241 million in Series D funding aimed at helping Varo transition its service to its own bank, as well as expand into new banking products and hire new staff across operations, marketing, risk, engineering and communications. Read...

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[Apploi in PR Newswire] Corra Group is Now Offering Full Integration with Apploi and Other Major Applicant Tracking Systems

Aug 3, 2020 |

“We are now offering integration with Appoloi in addition to most ATS systems,” said Corra Group Co-Founder, Nick Gustavson. “Our Appoloi integration allows our clients who are using this applicant tracking system to move easily from talent recruitment and management to conducting pre-employment background checks on any final candidates. Read more in...

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