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 article bt Y-combinator on lessons on seed funding
Startup companies need to purchase equipment, rent offices, and hire staff. More importantly, they need to grow. In almost every case...…
Nice summary of Nutmeg, curious to see Nutmeg in 2020...as ROBO economics are not very attractive...at this scale
Nutmeg chooses investments for customers based on the outcome they are investing towards, rather than what risk profile they identify...…
Great to see all banks stepping up their participation in the ecosystem! The network effect of Blockchain!
Digital Asset Holdings, the blockchain startup helmed by former JP Morgan luminary Blythe Masters, has raised more than $50 million in a...…
Big question is......why has the Netherlands despite the "Outdated" regulation been the home to unicorns such as Adyen, Flowtraders,...
The Word Economic Forum gathered this week in Davos, where the flagship debate was unsurprisingly on the future of financial...
In this podcast, Don Duet, the Co-head of the Tech Division at Goldman Sachs explains how the bank thinks of itself as tech company. Don...
Flywire (formerly peerTransfer), a provider of cross-border payment solutions, acquired Toronto-based ScholarFX, a processor of tuition,...
The future is mobile, but requires massive investments in the ecosystems to enable also cheap pay-outs and devices in shops to pay with...
The UK is getting Increasingly becoming attractive versus the US
Non-US targets are increasingly attractive to American multinationals Pfizer's record-breaking $160bn deal to take over the Irish...…
the hot sector for 2016! CBinsights put together this list of 8 early stage insurance companies taking the "insurtech" space by strom
Soon-to-launch insurance tech startups include stealth startup Ladder, aspiring carriers in health and P&C, and a couple of startups...…
App Annie released its 2015 retrospective report. The report has great insights on developments in the app ecosystem.
Below are some key highlights from this report: Emerging markets showed impressive download and revenue growth, particularly in India,...…
Another great company in this space factoring!
Another big bet on “FinTech,” Palo-Alto based BlueVine has raised $40 million to provide credit lines for small businesses. The round is...…
ING among one of the most active FinTech investors of the European Banks!
Hope the timing of the Chinese pricing worked in their favour
Blackrock well on track to roll-up the ROBO B2B market!
Saxo Bank has moved into the fast-expanding robo-advisory market with a full-scale digital investment platform for retail investors in...…
Great read on Bitcoin by an insider
I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of...…
2016 the year of Insurance!
Insurance companies will start marketing more toward millennials. (Photo: Handout/AP Photos) In recent years, we’ve seen major shifts...…
Consolidation
Investment management firm Invesco Ltd. has acquired Jemstep, one of the first online automated investment platforms in the financial...…
2016 the year of savings disruption!
Moneybox, a digital savings and investment app that rounds up spare change from card transactions into a stocks and shares ISA, has...…
A lot of money is being invested in the UK new Banking scene. Historical results for new banks have been mixed in the UK, but who knows...
Interesting journey from micro credits to new bank models platforms
Mambu, the SaaS banking platform, has raised a further €8 million in funding. The round was led by Acton Capital Partners and...…
Third savings player in Germany. Deposit Solutions is a Hamburg-based FinTech company which was founded in 2011 and has already...
Interesting to see the impact on the house prices in London of the shift! Next to that it is not only expensive fir the Banks....also for...
Insurance the next place to disrupt! we have made 3 investments (KNIP, Komparu and Salviol) in Insurance in 2014/2015 and look forward to...
Singapore really becoming the hub in South East asia!
Xfers, a startup that wants to simplify bank transfers, announced today that it has raised a $2.5 million seed round. Based in Singapore,...…
Expect to see more shut downs of the Corporate VC arms...in 2016, and growing shift towards partnerships with start-ups and funds and...
Expect in 2016 to see this trend to continue via a mix of partnerships and M&A
On Deck Capital has had a pretty easy time attracting investments from venture capitalists and convincing customers to try its...…
DueDil's platform pulls together data from thousands of sources including company websites, financial filings, news reports, registry...
Nice overview! Bitcoin the # 6 currency globally after the Swiss frank. Overall activity continues to grow, but overal adaptation is not...
The world has become more skeptical on blockchain/bitcoin type of investments in 2015, and this trend will continue in 2016. For the...
Off we start the year with another Lending platform! 2016 might be the year of specialisation and consolidation in Lending platforms!
The alternative lending sector had an outstanding year in 2015. It is one of the hottest sectors in FinTech that attracts the most...…
Nice article of CB Insights data on acquihires between 2012 and 2013 to see trends in this relatively new type of exit. It is worth...
Great research deck with cool facts on the Bitcoin and Blockchain landscake
See website and deck
Mobile only bank in 2017...unclear why you should communicate your plans a year ahead
Orange is seeking to target a new generation of consumers with its mobile bank plans French telecoms firm Orange is to create a new...…
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