Andreessen Horowitz is looking to raise $450mn for their second cryptocurrency fund after raising $350mn for their first fund in...
Machine learning and predictive analytics have started to make a real difference in the VC world when it comes to finding investments; VC’s typically traveled a lot and met with thousands of companies to find a few investments; by using machine learning to break down troves of data, like job postings or performance in the App Store, investors can find potential gems without the same laborious effort; VC firms are investing in tools to help them refine searches and comb through thousands of companies quickly; increased computing power and cheaper ways to rent server capacity has really helped VC’s, even the small firms, use these techniques every day. Source.
Last August U.S. lawmakers passed the National Defense Authorization Act which was designed in part to stem Chinese acquisitions of...
The current pandemic has upended the financial services industry more in the last two months than fintech has in the...
A study by KPMG found that women-led fintechs are buttressed with a longer cash runway than is typical across the...
Challenger bank Masthaven receives £60m investment Postal Banking Is Back — On Democratic Party Platforms — But Is It Viable?...
VC firm Atomico announced the raising of a new fund, Atomico V, which will partner with mission-driven European founders at...
Digital banks secured $3bn in 2019 as venture capitalists poured money into banking startups looking to upend the traditional banking...
CB insights has compiled a list of the top European venture capitalists by country based on the number of portfolio companies they have backed; the list focused on the most active investors of the last five years and included VCs, corporate VCs, growth equity firms and super angels. Source.
Crypto and blockchain startups have raised more than $850mn of VC funding in 13 deals, this puts the market on...
