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Prosper Marketplace, the Glossary

Prosper Marketplace, Inc. is a San Francisco, California-based financial services company.^[1]

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Peer-to-peer lending companies

Accel (company)

Accel, formerly known as Accel Partners, is an American venture capital firm.

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Benchmark (venture capital firm)

Benchmark is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, and Val Vaden.

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BlackRock

BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company.

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Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company founded on July 21, 1994 and specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts, headquartered in Tysons, Virginia with operations primarily in the United States.

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Chris Larsen

Chris Larsen (born 1960) is an American business executive and angel investor best known for co-founding several Silicon Valley technology startups, including one based on peer to peer lending.

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Comparison of crowdfunding services

Crowdfunding is a process in which individuals or groups pool money and other resources to fund projects initiated by other people or organizations "without standard financial intermediaries." Mollick, E. (2014).

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Credit card

A credit card is a payment card, usually issued by a bank, allowing its users to purchase goods or services or withdraw cash on credit.

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Credit score

A credit score is a numerical expression based on a level analysis of a person's credit files, to represent the creditworthiness of an individual.

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Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse Group AG is a global investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland as a standalone firm but now a subsidiary of UBS.

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DAG Ventures

DAG Ventures is an American venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California.

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Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American venture capital firm.

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Dutch auction

A Dutch auction is one of several similar types of auctions for buying or selling goods.

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E-Loan

E-Loan, Inc. is a financial services company that offers its users access to partners that may be able to assist them in obtaining loans.

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EBay

eBay Inc. (often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide. Prosper Marketplace and EBay are online marketplaces of the United States.

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Eric Schmidt

Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former software engineer who served as the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and as the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015.

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FICO

FICO (legal name: Fair Isaac Corporation), originally Fair, Isaac and Company, is a data analytics company based in Bozeman, Montana, focused on credit scoring services.

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Fintech

Fintech, a portmanteau of "financial technology", refers to the application of innovative technologies to products and services in the financial industry.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Home equity line of credit

A home equity line of credit, or HELOC (/ˈhiːˌlɒk/ ''HEE-lok''), is a revolving type of secured loan in which the lender agrees to lend a maximum amount within an agreed period (called a term), where the collateral is the borrower's property (akin to a second mortgage).

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Home equity loan

A home equity loan is a type of loan in which the borrowers use the equity of their home as collateral.

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Microcredit

Microcredit is the extension of very small loans (microloans) to impoverished borrowers who typically lack collateral, steady employment, and a verifiable credit history.

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Microfinance

Microfinance is a of financial services targeting individuals and small businesses who lack access to conventional banking and related services.

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Omidyar Network

Omidyar Network is a self-styled "philanthropic investment firm," composed of a foundation and an impact investment firm.

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Peer-to-peer lending

Peer-to-peer lending, also abbreviated as P2P lending, is the practice of lending money to individuals or businesses through online services that match lenders with borrowers. Prosper Marketplace and Peer-to-peer lending are peer-to-peer lending companies.

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Pierre Omidyar

Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire.

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Price discovery

In economics and finance, the price discovery process (also called price discovery mechanism) is the process of determining the price of an asset in the marketplace through the interactions of buyers and sellers.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Prospectus (finance)

A prospectus, in finance, is a disclosure document that describes a financial security for potential buyers.

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Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik

Syed Rizwan Farook (June 14, 1987December 2, 2015) and Tashfeen Malik (July 13, 1986December 2, 2015) were a Pakistani-American mass murder duo who were the two perpetrators of a terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, United States on December 2, 2015.

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Ron Suber

Ron Suber is an American investor.

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Rotating savings and credit association

A rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) is a group of individuals who agree to meet for a defined period in order to save and borrow together, a form of combined peer-to-peer banking and peer-to-peer lending.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Securities Act of 1933

The Securities Act of 1933, also known as the 1933 Act, the Securities Act, the Truth in Securities Act, the Federal Securities Act, and the '33 Act, was enacted by the United States Congress on May 27, 1933, during the Great Depression and after the stock market crash of 1929.

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Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California which specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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Unsecured debt

In finance, unsecured debt refers to any type of debt or general obligation that is not protected by a guarantor, or collateralized by a lien on specific assets of the borrower in the case of a bankruptcy or liquidation or failure to meet the terms for repayment.

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Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with a significant global presence.

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2015 San Bernardino attack

On December 2, 2015, a terrorist attack, consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing, occurred at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_Marketplace

Also known as Prosper (web site), Prosper.com.

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Peer-to-peer lending companies

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