The Young Entrepreneurs Initiative is an accelerator program for U.S. startups sponsored by the government of France. It is administered from the Consulate General of France in Boston by the Office for Science and Technology. I …
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I was excited to read that Eastern Bank hired the team behind PerkStreet and created Eastern Labs, with the objective of leveraging the bank’s resources and data to build new financial service technologies, and of digitizing …
Some say venture capital investing is a “pattern recognition” business. But others say that pattern recognition is one way unfounded biases are perpetuated. And that even experienced VCs who rely too much on pattern recognition are simply …
I’ve just returned from the Finovate spring session in northern California. What did I see? Quite a few single occupant automobiles in the HOV lane on Highway 101. Finovate, for the uninitiated, is a grueling two-day …
CommonAngels is a small venture capital fund with over 60 Boston-area angel investors and a few family offices as its limited partners. The group is currently investing from CommonAngels Ventures Fund IV, which regulatory filings show …
On April 1, 2014, two startups from the greater Boston FinTech cluster were acquired. Both were venture-backed, and both were founded over a dozen years ago. Andera was the larger of the two deals. Founded by …
Here are 17 new – or, more accurately, new to me – greater-Boston FinTech or financial services startups. The truly new company is Liberty Teller, founded in 2013. I’ve also come across two startups in stealth …
There is no shortage of incubators and accelerators in the Boston area. We have: Betaspring Bolt DogpatchLabs Mass Challenge TechStars Boston All, save hardware accelerator Bolt, have helped FinTech or financial services startups get to the …
Last week, BBVA announced that it is buying Simple for $117 million. It’s easy to think of reasons why this acquisition appeals to BBVA. It’s not for assets and deposits. Yes, the 100,000 tech-savvy early adopters …
Capital Market Exchange (CMX) was founded in 2010, in the wake of the financial crisis. CMX provides fixed income credit analysts, portfolio managers, and bond traders with predictive analytics and sentiment analysis – that is, a …