The Boston FinTech Meetup group held a demo night earlier this week, with four companies presenting to a standing room only audience at Workbar in Central Square, Cambridge. Here’s a rundown of the companies in the order they presented, which … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 2 ]Boston-based G20 Ventures recently announced the closing of its first fund with $63.5MM in assets. G20 was founded and is led by Bill Wiberg and Bob Hower, industry veterans who will be familiar to many from their years at Advanced … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 3 ]FinTech Sandbox is a new non-profit focused on giving early-stage financial services and FinTech entrepreneurs access to financial data for product development and testing. While it is based in Boston, its mission is to promote entrepreneurship and financial technology innovation … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 7 ]It’s time once again for our first annual Greater Boston FinTech year in funding review. 2014 saw roughly $194 million invested in private financial technology companies, a substantial jump from roughly $86 million in 2013. But, for perspective, keep in … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 3 ]The Boston FinTech Meetup group held its second demo night Tuesday, with six companies presenting to a standing room only audience at the IBM Innovation Center in Kendall Square. Here’s a rundown of the presenters, in alphabetical order. Cardinal Wind … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 3 ]In lieu of a post this morning, I offer you a link to my thoughts on what is needed to move the Boston FinTech community forward, as published in the Boston Business Journal.
COMMENTS [ 0 ]These are the FinTech startups in the greater Boston area that announced new funding in the first six months of 2014: Consumer United – $14MM Kensho – $10MM peerTransfer – $6.2MM Swipely – $20MM Did I miss anyone? If so, … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]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 the bank. Dan O’Malley, … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]Jeff Bussgang is General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage VC firm with offices in Boston and New York. Jeff is currently a board member at FinTech startups Plastiq and SimpleTuition, as well as at AdTech firm DataXu. He … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]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 had its first close … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 5 ]“If no one seems to understand, start your own revolution and cut out the middleman.”
“I’m not even sure what I want, but that’s not the point – it’s that I want it now.”
“Whenever the old gives way to the new, everybody with vested interests in the old starts crying that the world will stop. There aren’t many people with vested interests in the new.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
The #Ibizagate scandal in Austria highlights the importance of a free press & is the umpteenth proof that the extreme-right in Europe is colluding with the Russians to undermine our liberal democracies.
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House Financial Services Committee establishes #FinTech Task Force. Stephen Lynch named Chair; French Hill, Ranking Member. https://t.co/afHC9mucEs
Shade thrown in what I would have thought is the least likely of places: https://t.co/rqSpiMnKYG
Small business banking startup @banknovo seeks marketing head in NYC: https://t.co/JOIs8GIltF Comp range is $60K – $100K & 0.2% – 0.5%.
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