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Dwolla teams up with BBVA Compass to move money in real time
DES MOINES—As of Thursday, Dwolla is one step closer to helping people across the country move money a bit faster.…
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Dwolla announces strategic $9.7M investment led by CME Group
Dwolla founder and CEO Ben Milne took the stage at Sibos in Boston Tuesday morning and announced that the company has raised $9.7 million in funding led by strategic investor, the CME Group.
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Fox Business gets Dwolla CEO Ben Milne’s take on Apple’s big reveal
Dwolla CEO Ben Milne is well known around these parts as a leader in the Prairie, but his knowledge of mobile payments and security lent well to a discussion on Fox Business about Apple’s big event, where the tech giant announced the iPhone 6, iPhone 6+ and Apple Watch.
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Ben Milne shares hard lessons learned building Dwolla in 2013
(Guest post by Ben Milne) 2013 was one of the hardest years of my life. It wasn’t the hardest but it was challenging. The hardest, was one year as a kid when my dad got Parkinson’s, my mom got sick, my mom’s best friend died and the grandparent who helped raise me withered away like…
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With Zinc Save, shoppers can now use Dwolla to pay for Amazon purchases
Next time you hit the “checkout” button on Amazon.com, you’ll have the option of paying with Dwolla. Through Zinc Save—a plugin for Google Chrome—customers are able to order goods online and pay with funds from their Dwolla account …
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Iowa State student creates PayHere (for Dwolla) with startup’s API demo
A few weeks ago, the Des Moines-based financial startup Dwolla released an API demo iPhone app on Github. Not long after, Iowa State University student Brett Neese took the API and began modifying it. Last week, his customized app—PayHere (for Dwolla)—appeared in the Apple App Store, with a version 2.0 already active …
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clusterFlunk announces plans to add 50 major universities in new semester
This afternoon Iowa City, Iowa-based startup clusterFlunk announced via Facebook that its services will be scaling to 50 major universities beginning in January. “The decision to scale to the number 50, was in regards to our runway and size of team,” co-founder AJ Nelson told Silicon Prairie News. “We feel with our current team and…
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Dwolla Credit launches beta with financial partner Alliance Data
Earlier this month Dwolla announced the launch of a private beta for its real-time payment system. Today the Des Moines startup opened its new platform, Dwolla Credit, to public beta with Alliance Data Retail Services and subsidiary Comenity Capital Bank as its financial partner. “Essentially, if you think about what we’ve done integrating the way…
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Dwolla launches private beta for its real-time payment system
Des Moines-based startup Dwolla announced Monday that after three months of work, the online payment company will launch real-time payments in private beta. While the blog post announcing the launch offered few details, Dwolla CEO and founder Ben Milne did note…
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Ben Milne appears as featured guest on This Week in Startups
On Tuesday Dwolla’s founder and CEO Ben Milne appeared as a guest on the bi-weekly podcast This Week in Startups. Milne discussed everything from getting angry about credit card fees and splitting time among the startup’s offices …