What’s next for Sweden’s FinTech ecosystem?
After years of record growth and it briefly being home to Europe's most valuable FinTech, how will Sweden's emerging FinTech ecosystem come out of the Covid-19 pandemic?
Will InsurTech startups come out as the big winners of the coronavirus pandemic?
COVID-19 could be great for the InsurTech industry as the crisis highlight where insurers’ shortcomings are. But that does not mean there won’t be hard times ahead.
What does Klarna’s mega valuation mean for the Nordic FinTech industry?
Swedish payment and shopping unicorn Klarna has become Europe's most valuable FinTech, but what does that mean for the other FinTech ventures in the Nordics?
Why investors hate startups that do these things
Being backed by a successful venture capital firm can make or break a FinTech startup. So, we asked Karen McCormick, chief investment officer at Beringea, what new ventures must do to pique investors interest.
Klarna backer launches new VC enterprise to fill seed funding gap
The co-founder of European VC Atomico Mattias Ljungman has launched Moonfire Ventures – a VC aimed at providing seed stage funding for FinTechs among others.
OneStream bags $200m Series B, secures $6bn valuation
Corporate Performance Management (CPM) business OneStream Software has raised $200m in investment from a Series B funding round and now has a $6bn valuation.
Snyk bags $200m in new funding round led by Addition
Having joined the unicorn club earlier this year, cybersecurity venture Snyk has added another $200m to its coffers in a new funding round.
What is holding back challenger banks’ expansion?
Challenger banks’ big issue currently is they’re not actually banks and lack the experience to thrive, according to Alior Bank managing director Bruno Ferreira in a research interview with FinTech Global.
Tech teams build better FinTech startups than bankers, says Earlybird VC
Entrepreneurs with no financial services background still build superior FinTech startups to those from traditional finance or banking businesses, according to venture capital firm Earlybird's Christian Nagel.
San Francisco VC firm eyes Lithuanian FinTech investment
Venture capital startup Launchpad Capital is investing up to $35m in early-stage Lithuanian startups who are looking to break into the North American market.
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