FinTech Panel: Real Estate's Tech Boom
According to a new report from real estate consulting firm RE: Tech, investors funnelled $743.7 million globally into commercial real estate tech startups Read more: www.empirestartups.com
Startup Finomena disrupts youth loan market in India
How Matrix-backed FinTech startup Finomena is disrupting the $8 bn Youth Loan Market. Read more: inc42.com
Russia's tech startups aim to defy economic gloom
In spite of the Russian economy's poor state and sanctions imposed by the European Union and the US over Ukraine and Crimea in 2014, the local tech startup scene is developing rapidly. Read more: www.computerweekly.com
Tableau scores database tech with acquisition of HyPer
Tableau announced today that it has acquired HyPer, an early-stage German startup born in academia that has developed an advanced database technology. Tableau intends to incorporate the technology into its product set. Read More: techcrunch.com
Startup Simplesurance innovates customer experience
Joachim von Bonin (CFO), Robin von Hein (CEO) and Ismail Asci (CTO)Founding Team of simplesurance. Read more: www.b2x.com
Crowdfunding earning respect in commercial real estate
David Kessler points to the old formula of supply and demand as one of the main reasons why crowdfunding has become such a viable option so quickly for commercial real estate investors. Read more: www.rejournals.com
Kreditech and the Next Generation of Consumer Banking
Consumer Banking is fundamentally about lending and non-bank lending (whether called AltFi, Marketplace Lending or P2P Lending) is already a mature market. Read more: bankinnovation.net
Wall Street giving billions to FinTech start-ups
Investing in the fintech start-ups hits a new high, as Wall Street banks and corporates hedge against disruption. Read more www.cnbc.com
Tola Capital, Sapphire Ventures back $11m Convercent Series C round
Financial services compliance management software maker Convercent has snapped up $11m of Series C funding thanks to investors including Tola Capital and Sapphire Ventures.
Self-service shopping startup MUUME seals CHF2.2m Heliad Equity-led round
Digital self-service shopping startup MUUME has picked up CHF2.2m ($2.28m) of growth financing led by German investor Heliad Equity Partners.