Last week was one for the record books for founders, funders, and The Fed. Let’s throw in the American public, too, while we’re at it, many glued to the news wondering w…
Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in Digital Wealth (3/13/2023) Crackdown. Last week's seizing of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) likely will lead to the regulation of how and wher…
No code, low code tooling is HOT! Business strategy and developers are poised for greater productivity with deals across categories as funding increases for plug-and-pla…
Move over Meta and Musk; a much more interesting player is in town- AI. “In 2023, a wide range of open-source AI models will drive adoption across enterprises toward th…
Politics and regulation- The VC world is waiting to see how the SEC intends to regulate the industry, thanks to more money flowing into VC and a 'Fried' crypto exchange…
Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovers out there. If I could make custom candy hearts with VC messages, they would say: VC Rocks Fearless Startup Angel LOI Deal…
By Teresa Leno The generative AI gold rush is on! Last week the world (or at least the U.S.) woke up to generative AI. According to CB Insights, in 2020, funding for ge…
By Teresa Leno Social media 'tech chat' has been dominated by ChatGPT, a chatbot that tallied up to 1M users in under a week following their Q4 2022 release. But, even…
By Teresa Leno Carnage? Not so fast. This past week's news headlines were nothing 'rose-y' for tech (and VC) as Google, Microsoft, and heck, even Spotify cut workers or…
By Teresa Leno Last week CB Insights released its State of Venture Global | 2022 recap report, and as many anticipated, VC funding fell 32% in 2022. However, almost as…
By Teresa Leno As you can imagine, VC deals slowed a bit during the holidays. But, with the New Year's optimism, new VC funding deals are already warming up the first w…
Friends, with the holidays now behind us, we're back it in 2023 analyzing the top deals in fintech and digital wealth the world over. Turns out, there were still some m…
As we march along toward the holidays and the end of 2022 - all I can say is, WOW, hat a year. And as we type this, it's just been announced that Sam Bankman-Fried has…
Friends, for those of you who celebrated Thanksgiving in the US, we hope you had a beautiful time with family and friends over the long holiday weekend. As you can ima…
Friends, it's Thanksgiving week here in the US, but AS YOU KNOW, the news NEVER stops (sometimes I SO wish it did, as in the NON-STOP coverage of the FTX fiasco). But I…
Friends, with our lead writer out for the past few weeks, we temporarily shifted up our content offering, and this column went "on vacation", but only for a moment. BUT…
Frineds, checking in with our latest news in fintech venture capital. While we are always optimistic about the sector and the innovation coming from start-ups, there's…
Here we go with a fresh look at the past week's largest venture capital deals in fintech and digital wealth, the world over. 5 top VC deals, 5 top countries…
The past week was herky jerky (I always have to look up the spelling of that) in the VC funding sector for digital wealth. Two deals went over the $100M mark - the rest…
Friends, we're back with a new week's look at the venture capital sector in fintech. We have numbers back in the stratosphere, and some interesting trends in this week'…
Anybody remember THE BLUES BROTHERS out there? One of my favorite movies EVER (I love the blues, spent many a night in the blues bars of Chicago in my younger days with…
Here we go - heading into Labor Day - and the deals in fintech are waning somewhat. It's true that it is the end of summer, and there's this weird (but normal) summer m…
Last week we took a brief summer break from publishing this column. We're back with several deals in the $100M+ range, but it's still not back to the levels we were see…
This will be a short but sweet fintech funding VC overview today, as we've had a lot of IT issues to contend with. Ahhhhh, IT still affects us all in the end, doesn't i…