The Investment Tracker accelerated in terms of activity and deal size in the week that ended March 31. For that period, $2.3 billion in fund flows was logged, with the top three transactions coming from the FinTech sector. That marks a change from the previous...
Investment activity picked up in the week that ended March 24, roughly doubling the amount seen in the previous week, to the tune of $416 million. The activity was weighted to B2B transactions at 60 percent of the total, and B2B as an investment arena...
Is the way March will end for the Investment Tracker, not with a bang but a whimper? In the period that ended March 17, investment activity could only be termed anemic. The week saw only $159 million in fund flows, with no triple-digit deals seen at...
Investments for the week ending March 10 came in a bit under $1 billion. Not a bad haul, and one that keeps up a pace that outshines past weeks, when the tracker saw a bare-bones parade of barely triple-digit deals. In the latest period, the $976...
September 14, 2016
C3 IoT sees a fourth IT revolution from integrated platforms, Big Data and the application of machine learning. We caught up with Ed Abbo, president and chief technology officer, to discuss C3 IoT’s recent funding round of $70 million and the challenges that cybersecurity and fraud are posing to mobile devices and the IoT.
August 24, 2016
Investor appetite for fintech start-ups has waned recently while concern for cybersecurity is growing. While PwC reports cybersecurity as the fourth greatest health issue in 2016, the KPMG Fintech reports...
July 06, 2016
The changing workforce has been something of an obsession since the rise of Uber and its many imitators. While 1099 contractors were not a new idea that on-demand introduced to...
June 15, 2016
The recent “Chewbacca Mask” viral escapade demonstrated one solid truth: The finest minds of Madison Avenue – Don Draper himself (were he real) – could not come up with any...
September 20, 2022
Venture partners are trying to encourage tech startups to accommodate the current economic downturn by continuing to innovate, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wrote Tuesday (Sept. 20). They say they’ve seen startups that have been innovating even amid the worse economy, as there’s been demands fearing that underinvestment in tech could hit their market shares. […]
April 05, 2017
The Investment Tracker accelerated in terms of activity and deal size in the week that ended March 31. For that period, $2.3 billion in fund flows was logged, with the...
March 29, 2017
Investment activity picked up in the week that ended March 24, roughly doubling the amount seen in the previous week, to the tune of $416 million. The activity was weighted...
March 22, 2017
Is the way March will end for the Investment Tracker, not with a bang but a whimper? In the period that ended March 17, investment activity could only be termed anemic....