Tag "venture capital"
Swiss Fintech Funding Pulls Back 45% YoY
Venture capital (VC) financing going into Swiss fintech startups pulled back significantly in H1 2023, plummeting by more than 45% year-on-year (YoY) as the global economic downturn continued to weigh on startup valuations and the VC funding landscape as a
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14 Swiss Venture Capitalists Fintech Startups Should Watch in 2023
Despite a challenging global funding landscape, Swiss startups continued to see notable traction in 2022, securing a record of CHF 3.8 billion in funding between January and November, data from Startup.ch show. The sum represents a 27% increase compared to
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Global Blockchain Funding Dip; Mega-Rounds Shrink
After a record year 2021, the venture capital (VC) market for blockchain investment is slowing down significantly in 2022 amid uncertain macroeconomic conditions and financial markets turmoil. In Q2 2022, VC investors scaled back cryptocurrency investments due to macroeconomic pressures,
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Swiss VCs Supporting the Domestic Fintech Startup Ecosystem
When talking about fintech investors, the first names that come to mind are often the prominent US venture capital (VC) firms that have backed some of the world’s most successful fintech startups such as Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners and Index
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Swiss Investors Still Too Risk Averse Toward Fintech Startup Investment
Swiss VCs and institutional investors are largely still shy about investing huge sums into fintechs, a fact that is hardly a secret to those who are familiar with the scene. This fact is made clearer when you contrast the recent
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10 Most Active VCs in the European Fintech Sector
2018 witnessed an explosion of high-profile venture capital (VC) deals in the European fintech space, surpassing the US by nearly EUR 100 million, according to PitchBook. Just a few weeks ago, UK banking startup OakNorth raised US$440 million from SoftBank’s
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10 Most Well-Funded Fintech Companies in Germany
Germany is quickly emerging as a fintech powerhouse, with Berlin and Hamburg in particular witnessing thriving fintech communities. According to EY, Germany hosts over 300 fintech companies which raised a record of US$655.4 million in 2017. The followings are ten
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Swiss Fintech Startups Increasingly Turn to ICOs
Swiss fintech startups raised a total of CHF 288 million through nine initial coin offerings (ICOs) in the first half of 2018, surpassing venture capital (VC) investments, according to a new report by e-foresight, the IFZ and Swisscom. The rise
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The Swiss Fintech Startups PostFinance Is Backing
PostFinance, the financial services unit of Swiss Post and one of the leading financial institutions in Switzerland, has been an active investor in the fintech space as it seeks to become a digital powerhouse in the country. In an interview
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Switzerland Welcomes New Startup Fund To Support Entrepreneurship
The newly launched Swiss Entrepreneurs Foundation aims to raise a fund worth CHF 500 million to support young Swiss startups. So far, around CHF 300 million has been committed, according to a report by NZZ am Sonntag. The fund is
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