JobNimbus sells a home services Saas product.
JobNimbus is projected to double in size in 2021, after more than doubling customers and employees in 2020.
The company plans to add approximately 100 employees in 2021 with an emphasis on product development and customer support roles.
JobNimbus
Based in Lehi. Founded in 2013.
Mainsail Partners
2 funds, 21 investments.
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MX banks $300M for financial data Fintech data company MX landed $300 million in a Series C financing led by TPG Capital.
MX provides software used by banks and credit unions to help aggregate, analyze, and visualize financial data.
Here is MX’s release:
MX
Based in Lehi
Fintech company. Started as MoneyDesktop. Co-founded by Ryan Caldwell and Brandon Dewitt in 2010.
TPG Capital
Texas Pacific Group.
9 funds, 160 investments
- Brainstorm
- Research — we are here
- Prototype
- Final Build
Research
As you are researching, you need to look at the the ideas you have and then start narrowing them down. One way to narrow down designs is to:
Look for open questions and run experiments
Mark calls these ‘Science Fairs’
Build them into your story and video.
Experiments are 4 step process:
- define question and variables
- Get the materials, setup the experiment
- Run the experiment, measure the outcomes
- Analyze data, form conclusions
Independent variable you chose.
Dependant variable you measure.
Watch out for lurking variables. Keep everything the same except for the one thing you changed.
Make sure your materials match. …
Series D round of $165 million from existing and new investors Hanaco…
Research Phase = Pick Requirements
Engineers are planners and problems solvers. Breaking a problem down into its basics allows them (us) to build way more complicated and awesome things.
Research Phase
We are on the R phase of the BRPF engineering process. Remember the mnemonic, Big, Robots, Pop, Footballs or
- Brainstorm
- Research — we are here
- Prototype
- Final Build
Rent-A-Center is buying Draper Utah based Acima for 1.65 billion.
Acima is a lease to own platform.
Acima helps merchants to boost sales. According to FICO research, 43 percent of consumers have a credit score of less than 700. That often puts them into a category where they don’t qualify for traditional financing.
Acima will give them credit from 500–5000.
Acima won fastest growing company in Utah in 2019.
Why?
Technology. Acima has instant approval technology and from the looks of it, a much more modern tech stack.
The idea is that Acima has 15,000 merchant partners. No on really wants to go to Rent-A-Center, they go because they have to. But having a different finance option as a normal merchant doesn’t have the same stigma. …
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