1. Who are you? I am the Co-CEO and Co-founder of Scalable Capital (we love the Co-thing). Prior to this I worked in e-commerce (Co-CEO of Westwing Germany) and finance (Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in the Sales & Trading division). 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We manage your […]
Swiss Mobile-First Insurance Broker Knip Picks Up $15.7M Series B The digitisation of legacy industries shows no signs of slowing and nor does the enthusiasm of VCs for startups doing just that. Knip, the Swiss ‘mobile-first’ digital insurance broker, has closed a $15.7 million Series B round led by U.S.-based Route 66 Ventures. http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/26/knip/ Germany’s […]
Aegon expands investment in Germany’s leading consumer loan platform (auxmoney) Germany’s leading online peer-to-peer loan marketplace, auxmoney, has entered a partnership with Aegon Bank….In addition to the equity stake Transamerica Ventures owns in the company, Aegon Bank has committed to provide €150 million funding for loans on the auxmoney platform. http://www.aegon.com/en/Home/Investors/News/News/Archive/Aegon-expands-investment-in-Germanys-leading-consumer-loan-platform/ (Congratulations to Auxmoney, which […]
Germany’s Finpoint Makes Move to UK, Joins Forces with PwC and Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership The newly announced partnership between Finpoint, Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and PwC allows for the expansion of Pinpoint’s service into the UK. Finpoint has already been supported by 70 lenders across the UK, including among others Loyds Bank, […]
FinTech Forum @FinTechForum_DE Innovationen im Finanzsektor: London lockt Fintech-Firmengründer – NZZ #FTFInvestTech #FinTech Forum On Tour http://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/unternehmen/london-lockt-fintech-firmengruender-1.18619841 … Efi Pylarinou @efipm @FinTechForum_DE FTF on Tour – InvestTech: Insurgents, Incumbents, Investors & FCA innovation hub http://wp.me/p4L5c7-wQ by @efipm Scalable Capital @ScalableCapital .@Mellinghoff presents his findings on #Investtech More investtech firms in the EU than in US #FTFInvestTech #Fintech Roberto Ferrari @ferrarirobtweet A key snapshot chart fm @techfluence_eu on […]
1. Who are you? I am Ralf Beck, founder and CEO of Geldwerk1 and professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Dortmund, Germany. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We are a Crowdinvesting (Equity Crowdfunding) platform that offers everybody the opportunity participating in and sharing the success […]
Target Global invests in FinLeap InsureTech Startup Clark Target Global investiert gemeinsam mit dem ProSiebenSat.1 Accelerator sowie Karl-Heinz Flöther und Thomas Noth in den Versicherungsmakler Clark. Das Start-up, ein Ableger der Berliner FinTech-Fabrik Finleap, ist das erste Seed-Investment von Target Global in Deutschland. http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2015/10/06/joko-winterscheidt-investiert-von-jungfeld/ Rocket Internet’s Zencap: exit to British FinTech Unicorn Funding Circle? Die […]
1. Who are you? I am Indrek Neivelt, CEO and a co-founder of Pocopay that is a new player in everyday banking business coming to live later this year. I have been more than 15 years the CEO and Chairman of two different banks. I feel it is time to bring some freshness into the […]
Kreditech Nabs $92M To Build Financial Services For The ‘Underbanked’ Another startup out of Europe focused on finance has raised a hefty round of funding. Kreditech, a German company building a suite of credit and banking products for consumers who have little or no credit history, has raised €82.5 million ($92 million) to continue adding more […]
1. Who are you? I’m a Canadian living in Germany for the past 15 years. For the past 12 years, I’ve built banks and financial services companies around the globe for Daimler and then in my own company Avantalion International Consulting. Now, I’m doing a second startup, ascribe.io to fix the UX for intellectual property. […]