Restive Ventures is an early-stage venture firm run by former founders and operators focused on AI-native financial services. San Francisco-based Restive is looking for startups in the AI-native financial services ecosystem in which the products, the teams, the workflows, and the unit economics are fundamentally different from what came before. They back entrepreneurs innovating at the intersection of AI and financial services who are building entirely new categories: tools that let machines transact and negotiate with each other; systems that automate work humans …
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Most banks in the U.S. are community banks. They are facing a rapidly evolving technology landscape and rising nonbank competition as well as the usual economic and regulatory uncertainty. Because of their size, community banks generally …
There are roughly 190 active fintech startups that I am aware of based in the Greater Boston area, which runs in my view approximately from Portland in the north to Providence in the south, and west …
Are today’s traders making informed judgements based on data and analysis or are they responding to influencers, leaderboards, behavioral psychology cues like nudges, and instant rewards in order to level up? Does it matter? Hooked and …
Are property insurance markets prepared to manage escalating climate risk? Climate change related disasters are become more frequent and more devastating, and wildfires are now the fastest-growing source of climate related damages in the United States. …
Roughly 190 active fintech startups that I am aware of are based in the Greater Boston area, the geography of which runs in my view approximately from Portland in the north to Providence in the south, …
This is the second of an indeterminant number of posts delivered at irregular intervals highlighting songs about money. Some everyone will know; some are more obscure. Taken together, they create a soundtrack for the fintech experience. …
Boston Fintech Week is back! This seventh edition, brought to you once again by Fintech Sandbox, is running from October 14 – October 18, 2024. This year’s theme is Fintech at Full Throttle. One of the things that makes …
Small and midsize enterprises (“SMEs”) make up almost all businesses in the EU and, indeed, around the world. But while their financial services needs are different from those of individuals and large corporations, they often report …
Private credit plays a growing role in finance and this market segment now exceeds $2 trillion in value. As it has grown, so to have worries that it conceals significant risks to the global financial system. …
“That clinking, clanking sound Can make the world go ‘round” After more than 30 years of operating at the intersection of technology and financial services, I’ve come to realize that what fintech really needs isn’t AI …