Data is the new oil, as the saying goes, and today Kabbage — a fintech startup backed by SoftBank that has built a business around lending up to $250,000 to small and medium enterprises, using AI-based algorithms to help determine the terms of the loan — is picking up an asset to expand its own data trove as it looks to expand into further SMB financial services.
The company has acquired Radius Intelligence, the marketing technology firm that has built a database of information on some 20 million small and medium businesses in the U.S. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, but notably, it comes on the heels of a sightly tumultuous period for Radius .
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/03/kabbage-acquires-radius-intelligence/
