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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Momentum in Asia is growing rapidly, from China to Indonesia from Japan to India!
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is willing to team up with start-ups and other companies to bolster its "fintech" business and catch up with...…
Innovative/omnichannel go to market strategy!
Fintech could be bigger than ATMs, PayPal, and Bitcoin combined Robo-advisor MoneyFarm has taken an unusual approach, but it could...…
Continues momentum in adding new participants, wondering whether at some point the complexity is not getting to big with 40 +...
finally, real activity on the ripple platform!
Today Santander announced that they are the first U.K. bank to introduce Ripple’s blockchain technology to facilitate international...…
nice article especially the part looked through the lens of the value chain, the disrupting power of Blockchain is all the more tangible:
Over the last few years and months, this technological piece of art has been gaining traction among developers, journalists and citizens....…
The Hangzhou based P2P lender raised the amount to continue to expand its platform into consumer loans (it had previously focused on auto...
Some banks and fintech companies are in the early stages of collaboration, but for the partnerships to fully take hold, the companies...
Malaysia-based financial comparison startup Saving Plus has closed a $3 million Series A round to move into new digital banking services....
The New Delhi-based provider of software that enables Indians to file their income tax returns raised the amount from Sequoia and Peter...
AIG is set to launch what it is calling “Crowdfunding Fidelity,” an insurance product developed to protect investors on equity...
Nasdaq just launched its blockchain backed solution for financial infrastructure providers - the Nasdaq Financial Framework. The idea is...
2016 is turning out to be a promising year for fintech startups, with fundraising to date exceeding last year's by 36%. This is largely...
72% of americasn have used the sharing economy, although also counted in the research for sharing is when purchasing second hand...
A host of City titans list among Netwealth’s 28 initial investors, funding the firm’s £6.5M launch. They include Jupiter vice-chairman...
For UBS, bringing in SigFig’s technology is meant to bolster production as the industry faces competitive pressures. In the first...
The Singapore based provider of Canopy (a wealth data aggregation and visualization product) will use the amount to further invest...
The Redwood City, CA based provider of digital wealth management solutions will use the proceeds to continue to scale its existing...
French startup Shift Technology just raised a $10 million Series A round from Accel, with existing investors Elaia Partners and Iris...
Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, Clover Health aims to offer better and more affordable health care for consumers. Its...
Online consumer lending startup Avant this week told nearly 60 employees, most of whom work in its Chicago headquarters, that they would...
What a chaos, only concern is that the buzz could create real negative impact given the dependency on origination fees, as the negative...
Taking failure as a learning! Learn by making "small"mistakes and double down on the successes! Amazon's first smartphone, the Fire...
From hot to not, to probably a consolidation of winners and at the end a success story!
What Lending Club’s falling share price means for the P2P lending sector The meteoric rise of e-lending platforms attracted a lot of...…
Venture-capital arm backs LendUp, where annual percentage rates are generally in the triple digits. Google announced this month it would...
Nice overview of the IoT bets!
Four separate insurance investors, AXA Strategic Ventures, AmFam Ventures, MunichRe/HSB Ventures, and USAA have made three or more...…
Expect to see many more of these Telco, FinTech and Bank Partnerships! Banks and Telcos have the customers, the start-ups the tech and CeX
Telefonica Germany is to launch a mobile banking service using white-label technology supplied by Fidor Bank. Slated for launch in...…
Great article! trying to clarify a lot of the chaos and misunderstanding Just as it’s not helpful to call Twitter and Microsoft...
R3, is trying to raise $200 million from a consortium of banks. One industry insider in the article described the stand-off as an...
What makes Ellevest truly interesting is it is focused on empowering woman. I am not sure there is so much special that it justifies a...
In an effort to give Asian and European FinTech companies access to each others' markets, the UK's FCA and Singapore's MAS announced the...
The New York-based blockchain startup uses the technology to improve supply chains globally.
A blockchain startup dedicated to supply chain applications has raised $1.65m in new seed funding. Fluent, which last year raised...…
With banks ramping up their innovation divisions and technology spend to ensure they stay ahead of each other, and of disruptive new...
Whilst banks may be racing to ensure their innovations are protected by patents, filing for a patent doesn't always make sense.
This was...
Despite a visionary founder tackling a stodgy industry ripe for disruption with a steady stream of recurring revenue from the start, this...
M-Pesa was launched in South Africa in 2010 with the hope it could capture a customer base of 10M users in 3yrs. However, 6yrs on the...
By Wednesday, LendingClub had touched an all-time intraday low of $3.95, for a market cap of $1.5 billion. That is a world away from the...
Whilst this trend will only grow, research firm Preqin currently estimates that family office money represents c.9% of private equity...
Another Nice article on the Insurance disruption!
It's taken a while, but the insurance industry is waking up to the opportunities – and threats – posed by technology and how it may upend...…
China is home to multiple fintech giants, from Ant Financial to Lufax, and yet the Chinese government appears to have mixed views on how...
TransferWise have been aggressive marketers from the start launching with the slogan "bye bye banks" and naked people on the tube. They...
With technology stalwarts from Elon Musk to Bill Gates warning of the potential threat presented by artificial intelligence, one would be...
VTS raises $55M in Series C at $200M valuationCloud-based CRE platform scores one of the biggest-ever venture rounds in real estate tech
VTS founders Nick Romito, Ryan Masiello and Karl Baum, and a screen shot of the product In one of commercial real estate technology’s...…
Gurgaon-based One MobiKwik Systems Pvt Ltd, which runs online recharge platform and mobile wallet venture MobiKwik, has raised $50...
The San Francisco-based online-only bank raised the amount at an undisclosed valuation to launch its product, with the ultimate aim of...
The London-based remittances company raised the amount from Rakuten's FinTech Fund.
The raise follows Azimo's $20m Series B in June 2015...
Ant Financial, now valued at close to $60B and one of founder Jack Ma's crown jewels, recorded a net loss in the quarter, mainly driven...
Amazon has announced that it will be partnering with Digital Currency Group to provide it's own blockchain as-a-service sandbox. Amazon's...
Martin Stead, Nutmeg's current chief revenue officer, is being promoted to CEO whilst Nick Hungerford, who cofounded Nutmeg in 2011 will...
French startup Linxo has won over almost 1 million customers and gained access to their bank accounts. The company’s app aggregates...
Cybersecurity spend in 2015 was $75b, and the market is estimated to be worth $170b by 2020. This makes cybersecurity startups hot...
Bigger big and biggest a series B of 4.5Bn for ANT
It’s the biggest ever fundraising for a private Internet company. China’s biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding’s affiliate...…
Insurance investments tripping to more than 2Bn, this includes also health insurance. Expect to see this triple again in the next 2 years
Insurers such as Aviva have established their own in-house venture capital funds Investment in insurance tech start-ups more than...…
On Demand one click insurance, niche or mainstream opportunity? Time will tell!
Insurance isn’t necessarily an inviting word, especially for millennials. Not only do young people have fewer items to insure, but the...…
Nice overview of the European FinTech investment scene
Big breaks across industries don’t usually happen without VCs backing them. Success stories in most cases have co-authors and in 2016,...…
Good article on the issue of all the new Banks....where is the money...
Dutch banking giant ING thinks it can teach the new crop of app-only banks a thing or two about innovation and disruption. "We like...…
20% in 2020, could well be more as insurance is perfectly set up to be disrupted, actually the value chain is already disrupted and split...
Up and down - After a depressing start of the year we are back up, however not mark ups of the the high profile multi billion...
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