What do these 36 FinTech rounds raised in the last week reveal about the industry
WealthTech and cybersecurity enterprises were among the FinTech businesses that closed investment rounds in the last seven days. Companies operating in the WealthTech, cybersecurity, RegTech, anti-fraud, PropTech, credit, InsurTech and loan segments of the FinTech industry raised money over the course of last week. Of the 36 rounds FinTech Global reported on over the past […]
A VC Reveals the Metrics They Use to Evaluate Startups — The Startup Tapes #031
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So what actually happens before a VC decides to invest in your company? Susan Liu looks at hundreds of startups every year for B2B software investor Scale Venture Partners. She explains the top 5 metrics they look at, and how a company can prepare to pass the investor diligence with flying colors.
Guest: Susan Liu
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The Startup Tapes chronicle the highs & lows of building a startup, through candid interviews with founders, operators & advisors. Tim Anglade, an Executive-in-Residence at Scale Venture Partners and formerly with Realm, Apigee, and Cloudant leads the project with the goal to de-mystify the process through which startups emerge, grow & succeed. His unfiltered interviews transcribe the conversations we often hear in the boardroom, amongst our portfolio community and with entrepreneurs and partners we engage with every day.
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Startup Funding | Statistics and Insights 2021 (FinTech, IFC)
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Inveztor Announces 1.3M Pre-Seed Raise
London based startup Inveztor™ has announced the successful completion of their first funding round, raising a total of £1.3 million from a group of angel and institutional investors. The company is building a digital platform for issuance and maintenance of deals within Debt Capital Markets (DCM).
The round was more than two times oversubscribed and generated significant interest in the market, closing with a total of 17 investors including, Marcus Everard (via private family office Skye Capital),
direct investment company StemFinancial, venture capital fund Portfolio Ventures, and several angels including Philip Lynch and Rupert Eastwood. Inveztor is one of the first female founded FinTechs to operate in investment banking in the UK.