Samarth Shekhar

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Regional Manager EMEA

SixThirty Ventures

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25 Mar 2012

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Amsterdam

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Samarth heads SixThirty Ventures' EMEA presence, investing in early stage Enterprise FinTech & InsurTech startups and helping them scale via a go-to-market program. He is the co-founder of FinTech Forum, and was recognised by the WSJ / FN FinTech40 - Innovators Shaping the Future of Finance in 2014.

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Is a FinTech revolution brewing in Continental Europe?

With the continent's share of FinTech funding and deals under 6% of the global volumes (and less than 2% in the German-speaking countries), this is not a post about a burgeoning fintech scene in the region. However, talking to or meeting over a hundred startups, investors and banks for the first study of fintech startups in Germany, Austria and Swi...

03 April 2014

1 Bn worth of new FinTech-focused funds just in 2013

It has never been a better time to start (or own!) a FinTech Startup- or so it seems. VC funds, bank and tech provider venture funds pumped in over a billion dollars in FinTech-focused funds in 2013 alone. The announcements and the size of the funds underscore the attention FinTech is getting from investors and the confidence of expected returns. T...

12 October 2013

Germany's FinTech rising stars- and their investors

Investors put in over €35 mn (disclosed amounts only) into these FinTech startups in the last three years. However, this is really just a starting point: as per an Oct. 2012 study by London New Finance, of the total investments and M&A spend into nearly 350 FinTech transactions globally, Germany's share was less than 0.6%, compared to the UK (...

04 September 2013

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1 Bn worth of new FinTech-focused funds just in 2013

Agreed, in that specific context.

14 Oct 2013 13:12 Read comment

1 Bn worth of new FinTech-focused funds just in 2013

Hi Alex, thanks for your comment. I do not agree with "true potential of FinTech is in the TECH part of it". Banks wasted enough money on tech for the sake of tech, increased their IT costs, charged customers more for poorer service etc. FinTech winners are working backwards from what customers *really* want or would like, and use just the right bit of technology magic to deliver that.

14 Oct 2013 10:15 Read comment

Old car exchange scheme for platform renewal

Thanks for your comments Nikhil and Ketharaman! Would you say that package vendors realize this disconnect (between banks' lack of CapEx and their traditional upfront licensing/AMC model and have started to do something about it?

27 Jun 2012 10:40 Read comment

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