the Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator

https://accelerator.wellsfargo.com/

Last activity: 29.06.2021

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Aug 7, 2019	The Wells Fargo Foundation Announces $20 Million Innovation Challenge Grant Designed for Entrepreneurs	August 7, 2019 3 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Jon Campbell strongly believes that America cannot afford unaffordable housing. The Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Philanthropy and Com...
Mar 14, 2019	Wells Fargo CEO gets raise to $18.4 million the day after being scolded by Congress	Lawmakers scolded Wells Fargo & Co. Chief Executive Tim Sloan for hours Tuesday, telling him the bank had not done enough to rehabilitate itself after years of scandals about its allegedly abusive practices toward customers. Some called...
Mar 14, 2019	Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan lands $2 million bonus day after congressional beatdown	Looks like Tim Sloan’s week is looking up. On Tuesday, the Wells Fargo CEO received a brutal lashing from Congress during a four-hour hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, during which he was raked over the coals for the ba...
Feb 5, 2019	Accelerators from top corporate companies	They include accelerators from AT&T, Coca-Cola, Google, IBM, Disney, Sprint and Wells Fargo For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitio...
Apr 20, 2018	Wells Fargo extends deadline to take part in $142 million fake account settlement	It’s been a busy day in the settlement department for Wells Fargo. Early Friday, the bank was fined $1 billion by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for mortgage lending and auto insur...
Apr 20, 2018	It’s official: CFPB announces $1 billion fine for Wells Fargo	Rumors have been circulating, including the most recent report Thursday, that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is on the brink of hitting Wells Fargo with a $1 billion fine. Well now, the protection bureau announced exactly that. Th...
Apr 5, 2018	Wells Fargo Center gets $60-million upgrade as Bunker Hill skyscrapers grapple with competition	The Wells Fargo Center, with its granite walls soaring more than 50 stories into the air, has long been considered one of the best office addresses in downtown Los Angeles. But its owners recently came to an unpleasant realization: Although...
Feb 14, 2018	Top 10 Fintech Accelerators In Southeast Asia And Hong Kong for 2018	In 2017, Asia Pacific attracted the largest amount of investment in fintech with a total of US$14.8 billion, according to a report by PwC and Startupbootcamp Fintech. The region represented 56% of the world’s total fintech funding, highligh...
Nov 6, 2017	Brooklyn startup Edquity accepted into Wells Fargo fintech accelerator	Brooklyn startup Edquity announced it has been accepted into Wells Fargo’s fintech accelerator in San Francisco. The startup looks to be a bit like the Princeton Review or U.S. News and World Report for the financial part of the college pro...
Oct 23, 2017	Authentication now comes with a wave of your hand	Two former Leap Motion employees think they’ve solved the perennial problem of passwords and identity management. Under the nom de guerre of Redrock Biometrics, the company’s technology is waging war on the world’s legions of identification...
Oct 16, 2017	Wells Fargo to pay $3.4 million over investment sales practices	The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ordered Wells Fargo Clearing Services and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network to pay more than $3.4 million in restitution to affected customers over faulty sales practices. Separate from its f...
Oct 5, 2017	Startups say this fintech ‘lab’ is giving them needed access to Wall Street and regulators	Banks want to know what around the corner is trying to put them out of business, so it’s no surprise that a spate of fintech-focused accelerator programs has sprung into existence in recent years. For example, Deutsche Bank just opened is f...
Aug 15, 2017	15 Corporate Accelerators Giving Startups A Boost	The corporate world can sometimes seem very disconnected from the startup world. People entering into the world of business can either opt to seek security and gradual mobility in the corporate world or take a gigantic risk and start their ...
Jul 5, 2017	5 tips to land the perfect pitch	Presented by Wells Fargo Startup CEOs are all too familiar with the hustle — forming a team, building a product, attracting funding, watching burn rates, and attracting more funding. Through it all, they’re constantly pitching their solutio...
Jun 9, 2017	Your guide to accelerators focused on the FinTech space	These accelerators include Plug and Play, Barclays and Wells Fargo For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but another popular metho...
Feb 17, 2017	Fintech Accelerators and Incubators in Singapore, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia	Accelerators and incubators play an important role within a startup ecosystem, as they provide a platform for young teams and startups to connect with successful entrepreneurs, allowing them to learn from the bests while securing funding an...
Feb 1, 2017	Friend or Foe? Why fintech and banks need each other	Presented by Wells Fargo. Will new technology unseat traditional banks? Can fintech startups survive long enough to prove themselves? I’ve heard different iterations of these questions throughout my more than 20-year career — first, in the ...
Jun 14, 2016	2 Singapore Payments Companies Selected for Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator	Two Singapore startups aim to improve the accessibility and security of international payments Wells Fargo announced today that it has selected two early stage payments companies — Alpha Payments Cloud and Jewel Paymentech — for investments...
Apr 19, 2016	FinTech – Banking Disruption Myths from Alessandro Hatami	Alessandro Hatami’s personal view The technology and digital disruption on banking and financial services will profoundly change a very large, extremely profitable and well-established industry. Alessandro Hatami, a serial corporate entrepr...
Aug 26, 2014	Wells Fargo Launches New Startup Accelerator	Community-based financial services company Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) is joining the startup world with the launch of a new startup accelerator. The Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator is a semiannual boot camp for innovators “whose technology idea...
Aug 25, 2014	Corporate Accelerators Are An Oxymoron	Building a corporate accelerator is certainly in vogue these days. Wells Fargo launched a new accelerator program last week targeting financial services startups and has already unveiled its first class of three participants. The program fo...
Apr 10, 2012	Wells Fargo Provides $26M in Financing for SDSU Housing Project	Wells Fargo & Co. has provided $26 million in financing for Village Lindo Paseo, a planned 287-unit student housing complex at San Diego State University. An April 9 statement from the San Diego regional office of Wells Fargo said the p...
Jul 21, 2010	Wells Fargo Nets $3bn in Q210 Earnings as Mortgage Applications Rise 14%	Wells Fargo (WFC) reported $3.06bn in net income in Q210, up 20% from the previous quarter as mortgage applications with the San Francisco-based bank increased 14% to $143bn worth of loans. The Q210 income is up from the $2.55bn reported in...
Aug 7, 2001	The Athlete's Foot Announces New $38 Million Line Of Credit With Wells Fargo Retail Finance	August 7, 2001 1 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Atlanta-The Athlete's Foot recently announced the completion of a $38 million line of credit with Wells Fargo Retail Finance. This independent fac...

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Parsers VC has collected 25 articles mentioning the Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator, among them “The Wells Fargo Foundation Announces $20 Million Innovation Challenge Grant Designed for Entrepreneurs” (Aug 7, 2019) and “Wells Fargo CEO gets raise to $18.4 million the day after being scolded by Congress” (Mar 14, 2019).

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