Finch Capital is a Financial Technology Investment firm founded in the fall of 2013. We invest in high growth companies primary in EMEA and prefer to invest after the seed round, when there is proof of concept and there are some revenues.
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Nice analysis
Funding Circle has thus far reacted with graceful discretion to numerous reports, all un-substantiated, that the company has achieved the...…
The mobile lead bank! Curious to experiment it
Atom Bank, a mobile-first challenger bank, just won a banking licence to operate in the UK and plans to launch later this year. Unlike...…
Interesting start-up in the world of connected cars!
The financial company is leading the $24 million funding round for Automatic. Automatic, a startup that makes a device that shares...…
It’s the latest and boldest move into personal finance by Alibaba, which is China’s biggest ecommerce company. It comes two years after...
Currency Cloud, a fast and secure payment network for businesses, has landed $18mm in Series C funding led by Sapphire Venture.
London's finance and tech worlds are forming successful companies (Source; Getty) One of London’s FinTech stars has landed a new round...…
Credit Karma, the platform that allows users to check their personal credit score and apply for loans, has raised a round of funding as...
Indonesian FinTech startups have attracted global venture capital giants, such as the Japan-based venture capital firm CyberAgent...
Some financial institutions have already opted in to a web stack for their internal tools, but the major complaint is that programming...
The Australian based company, PromisePay, helps online marketplaces ditch an in-house payment solution, essentially outsourcing the...
The two founders of the crowdfunding site GoFundMe are relinquishing control and reaping a fortune by selling a majority stake worth...
If A.T. Kearney are right assets under management by robo advisers will increase 68% annually over the next 5 years to about $2.2...
If your babysitter only accepts payment via a P2P payment app this Re/Code article will help you understand how they work. The article...
While markets are not yet in bubble territory, Jeremy Grantham warns that they are getting closer. He does not believe that imminent...
The opportunity space of credit scoring (e.g. credit Karma) copying into China....
A U.S. and Chinese company are trying to give China’s consumers access to credit by bring a new concept to that country: the credit...…
Few events will be as significant for the world in the next 15 years as China opening its capital borders. The nation’s surfeit of...
Data discovery and analytics provider Engima has received $28.2 million in Series B funding. New Enterprise Associates led the round...
Nice report....however not too much news...think sufficient reports have been written that FinTech is happening
Deutsche BankThe time is ripe for established banks to transform themselves into digital platform-based ecosystems, says Deutsche Bank....…
The Asia-Pacific region led by China is quickly catching up to the West in terms of wealth.Existing wealth has grown much richer in the...
Growing regulatory costs are causing some UK wealth managers to fire clients with less than £500,000 of investable assets. One...
Insurance being disrupted! Uzamo great company, some comparable models in Europe tackling P2P
Much like the way Groupon leveraged the buying power of groups and peer-to-peer lender Lending Club cut out the middle man to offer lower...…
Do not get why they make payments free, with only FX as the cost, and ask for a kick back on the revenues
Azimo, a mobile money transfer startup out of London that was once feted by Facebook, is jumping into the funding ring with a $20 million...…
Interesting interview...not sure the what's app of Money is a term that makes sense
International money transfer start-up WorldRemit is worth a rumoured $500 million (£320 million) after raising $100 million (£64.5...…
What the report does not tell is where they switch the funds from into ROBO e.g. may be they see it as a product and not as a substitute...
Great deck on US tech funding and later stage financing, great facts!
Nice deck
Big outstanding question is whether the computer complements the advisor or replaces?
COMPUTER-GENERATED investment advice has gotten a lot of attention in the last few years. And for good reason. Many web-based services...…
Nice interview to get a perspective on the vision Ripple has
In the world of distributed ledgers, bitcoin may grab the lion’s share of attention and headlines. But there’s also a sea change going on...…
Great article on AI
What is causing the current boom in AI innovation? My current thinking is that there are six primary drivers of the current AI wave....…
For Alibaba, an investment in Snapdeal (competes with Flipkart) could speed up the Chinese company’s expansion in India’s booming...
The wealth management discovery platform raised $5mm in Series B funding led by Highland Capital Management.
Harvest Exchange (HVST.com), the fast-growing investment management marketplace platform today announced a $5 million Series B funding...…
Chinese technology company Beijing Kunlun just invested £22 million ($34.2 million) in peer-to-peer mortgage lender LendInvest in the...
Brooklyn based insurance startup has raised $5.3mm in Series A funding from co-led by Karlin Ventures and Susa Ventures.
PolicyGenius secured $5.3 million in its Series A funding round, reasserting the company as the champion for consumer insurance advice...…
Alipay, the "crown Jewel' in the Ant financial group, has been a driving force in Alibaba’s eCommerce growth too. Alipay is China’s most...
Nearly three quarters of insurers (74 percent) feel they are unprepared for autonomous vehicles today. In addition, more than half of...
Boston FinTech startup, Quantopian, is open-sourcing its application to coders interested to “write market-beating algorithms.”
One Boston FinTech startup, Quantopian, is open-sourcing its application to coders interested in researching and testing financial...…
Europe now has 40 unicorns, with the UK contributing 17, eight of which were founded in the last 12 months.
Unicorns - billion-dollar technology startups - are more common in the UK than anywhere else in Europe, according to new research...…
International fund managers are exploring partnerships with Chinese internet firms such as Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu. These funds have...
Nice article
This year, in 2015, we are officially entering what is called the “Internet of Things” era. That’s when your watch, fridge, car and lamps...…
Part III of TradeBlock's Bitcoin network capacity analysis. This time they explore Miner compensation and the incentive structures...
Nice way to get free adverstisement, although not sure all facts are facts
Note: Today, Charles Schwab Corporation rolled out a new automated investment service, designed to directly compete with my company,...…
Inetersting correspondence
Wealthfront CEO Adam Nash posted a blog that may have reflected his personal tagline, “inevitably optimistic, slightly amusing, always...…
Melbourne fintech startup Moula has raised $30 million in Series A funding to accelerate growth and improve its product offering....
At least revenues could be questioned, in 2000, in many cases there was no revenue
A number of prominent tech companies have been subject to questioning from the SEC about how they record their revenues. When Etsy...…
In July Brits will be able to pay for good and services via their iPhone 6. Launch partners include: Boots, M&S, Lidl, Waitrose,...
Wondering when we will see a consolidation of the mobile and domestic payment space
In the rush of companies crowding into the mobile payment space, a startup out of Europe has announced more funding to grow its footprint...…
Nice article, the regulation to help create stability to create instability...
After the financial crisis, a focus on safety and soundness was good medicine for the financial system. New bank liquidity and capital...…
Symbiont has raised $1.25 million in funding from ex-NYSE EuroNext CEO Duncan Niederauer and ex-Citadel Trading Head Matt Andresen....
CIB/B2B fintech start-ups are often ignored as the big bucks head into B2C start-ups. However those start-ups tend to prove to deliver...
Cool usecase of Blockchain!
During his talk at IDX Derivatives Expo in London, Alex Batlin, UBS Bank’s chief Information officer for innovation (CIOI) shed some...…
Nice Overview....Asia is hot!
The growing buzz surrounding fintech has given rise to a number of initiatives to promote local cities as the place to be for start-ups...…
Very nice overview of the Millenial FinTech space!
Fin Tech startups targeting the millennial demographic have raised over $2.29B across 126 deals. They range from 'robo-advisors' offering...…
Nice overview of the connected transportation system, some of these sectors are hot to disrupt Insurance and Car Leasing
. At the time of writing this post, we’ve been able to identify 369 companies which have collectively raised $3.15B, and organized them...…
Innovation in the insurance sector aiding the pay-as-you-go model and other cool things: What are startups up to?
Within a short span of time, micro-insurance and the pay-as-you-go model of insurance has evolved into a long-term strategic business...…
Strong growth, albeit from a small base. Main catalyst would be more entrepreneurs setting up insurance disruptors
Companies in the insurance tech space raised $2.12B since 2010 a whopping $1.39B of which has come since the start of 2014. 2015 is...…
API's are starting to eat the information out of Banks
Santander Corporate & Commercial UK customers can now connect to Xero and automatically receive their bank transactions. With direct...…
Classic start-up vs. incumbent battle.. As Ghandi once said.. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and...
3.2 million savings on voicemail
For JPMorgan's retail employees, there will be no more messages after the beep. The company's consumer banking chief told an industry...…
McKinsey's new report, “The Virtual Financial Advisor: Delivering Personalized Advice in the Digital Age” argues that the prospects for...
UBS is setting up a technology innovation lab in Singapore to meet the changing demands of its wealth management clients, following the...
The company provides trading and investment management software for more than 15,000 financial firms. The company has hired investment...
Mosaic develops enterprise software with a focus on corporate actions and post trade securities processing.
Dublin-based software company Information Mosaic has been bought by financial information services firm Markit. The value of the deal...…
Will expect many Bitcoin companies to either shut down or pivot. Smart contracts could be an area, but time will tell how easy it is to...
Nubank, the Brazilian digital finance and payments company raised a new round. Innovating banking via the mobile should be a big success...
At their I/O conference last week, Google outlines how customers will soon be able to pay "hands free".
Technical details have not...
Quicken Loans, PHH and loanDepot.com have overtaken US banks to grab a record slice of government-backed mortgages. Regulatory curbs on...
I think the list must be much longer, would be good to put performance and use of machine learning side by side as well as sort by type...
Smart moves think we will see a lot of innovation to come out of Asia in the comings years, by combining different sets of data. Most of...
Amazing to see how this is developing...curious how the role of Robots evolves, now very much in the manufacturing industry...when will...
gradually, people are figuring out that Financial Services has always been a tech business, but seem not be be fully aware of this. Look...
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