23 Feb 2023
2021 was the year of funding records – global venture capital funding was up 111% year-on-year, with total value hitting $621 billion, according to CBI Insights. Tech companies received funding at 50- 100 x revenue multiples. FOMO and herd mentality was driving the VC industry globally. But now the brakes are on, hard – funding dropped 35% in 2022...
13 May 2022
In the last few years investors have become enamored with, and clamored over themselves to invest in, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) companies. And you can certainly understand why. According to research analysts this sector is expected to be worth $166 billion by 2023. In the US alone, the number of BNPL users increased 81% year over year (YoY) in 202...
08 Feb 2022
How do you know when an industry has gone from disruptor to establishment? When people start to talk about how it is going to be disrupted. That’s the situation Fintech, that fusion of financial services and technology that has helped propelled all aspects of finance into the digital era, currently finds itself in. The pure Fintech players, such a...
20 Oct 2021
The definition of insurance is protection against potential risk. For those companies providing insurance, whether to consumers or businesses, being able to accurately predict the likelihood of disruptive events occurring is critical to their business models. Yet as with almost every other industry, the insurance sector was severely exposed by the ...