Making sense of bitcoin ETF outflows
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Do these ETFs, like the cryptocurrencies undergirding them, require more investors to buy into their vision in order to become successful and profitable?
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Fintech News Stories
Would I work for this founder?
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FR Contributor Alex Lazarow offers a different lens on startup investing
Read MoreFintech is operating at scale, with huge growth potential
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From Abdul Abdirahman: In our recent State of Fintech report, my colleagues and I took stock of the sector’s progress over the last decade, identifying the companies that have reached (or are about to reach) enterprise scale.
Read MoreThe future of SXSW Pitch
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According to Chris Valentine, who produces SXSW Pitch, the event offers a crucial niche within the larger SXSW ecosystem.
Read MoreInsights from the 2023 Fintech Index
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FR Contributor Alex Lazarow shares his takeaways from F-Prime’s 2023 Fintech Index report.
Read MoreDo hedge funds have data budgets?
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From Matt Ober: If data solutions can make the firm money, save the firm money or help the firm raise money, then there is no budget.
Read MoreWhat's next for Robinhood?
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It’s hard to tell how much Robinhood’s uptick stems from its savviness—poaching competitors’ brokerage customers through deposit matching, releasing popular product features, and more—rather than improved economic conditions.
Read MoreThe myths of impact in investing
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In a piece for The Financial Revolutionist, Fluent Ventures’s Alex Lazarow looks back at his time at Omidyar Network and sets the record straight on the effects and ethics of impact investing.
Read MorePredictions and discussions for 2024
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In a piece for The Financial Revolutionist, Fluent Ventures’s Alex Lazarow looks at the trends and debates shaping fintech in the coming year.
Read MoreInnovation and insurtech investing with Anthemis
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Kate Sampson, Managing Partner at Anthemis, helps spearhead Anthemis’s growth-stage insurtech investments. A self-identified insurtech futurist, Sampson has a celebrated career in leadership positions at both traditional as well as tech-driven insurance players, helping create new insurance products for emerging risks.
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The scavenging growth strategy
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Coupled with the accelerated nature of venture-backed economics, it’s easy for a privately funded fintech to sink and go defunct without making much of a splash.
Read MoreThe evolving fintech VC landscape with Portage
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Stephanie Choo is a partner at Portage Ventures, and has played a keystone role in the group’s fintech-focused funds since its founding. Choo primarily invests in consumer fintech, payments, infrastructure, and wealthtech.
Read MoreIt's not wrong to down-round
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In a piece for The Financial Revolutionist, Fluent Ventures’s Alex Lazarow looks at the misconceptions surrounding down-rounds—and fundraising writ large.
Read MoreWaiting for fintech: The moment at Money20/20
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From Alex Lazarow: This year’s Money20/20 just wrapped up. It had the feeling of waiting—waiting to see what the public markets might bring in terms of stock recovery or new IPOs, waiting to see whether any of the historically transformative technologies would actually pan out (think crypto), waiting to see whether mainstream venture capital would return.
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