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 ]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 Charlie Kroll in 2001, … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]“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.”
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Boston-based @catchbenefits, which is rethinking benefits for freelancers, contractors, and gig workers, reveals $5.1MM seed round led by @khoslaventures with participation by @nycapartners and others. https://t.co/0NC2tmMVY2 Congrats to @KristenTyrrell! #FinTech
You will get the barest glimpse of digital innovation efforts at @natixis in this Q&A with @barnaud50 and @pierreleger: https://t.co/UFSxZRnD9z #FinTech #89C3R
Alternative data platform provider @Thinknum raises $11.6MM Series A. https://t.co/vio00R2mCB Congrats to @ugwigr! #FinTech
. @EY_US is now lead sponsor and exclusive advisory services partner of @fintechsandbox https://t.co/ACfX5aiRNv #FinTech
Eric Holder lands a highly lucrative gig that requires very little time and absolutely no heavy lifting: https://t.co/vPhqjJY7Ri
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