CB Insights held a webinar discussing fintech trends in Europe; top trends included insurtech expansion, blockchain, open banking and the changing financial services infrastructure; reports that European fintech has raised $2.637 billion in 2017 from 300 deals with record financing in the first quarter of $1.1 billion. Source
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CB Insights provides a list of 189 global unicorns from its private market database; 91 companies are located outside of the US; globally by country, China ranks first in number of private market unicorns with 46; Lufax is the top P2P lender globally by valuation at $18.5 billion. Source
CB Insights has analyzed 1,098 startups which raised capital from 2008 to 2010; only 46% followed with a second funding round and 14% achieved a fourth round of funding; only 10 companies or 0.91% achieved unicorn status with a valuation of $1 billion and approximately 70% of the startups have failed. Source
CB Insights details wealthtech exits from 2012 reporting a total of 29 exits with 28 mergers or acquisitions and one IPO from Yodlee; during the sample timeframe, TradeKing was active in the wealthtech market acquiring Zecco, GAIN Capital Securities, TraderOS and MB Trading before being acquired by Ally Financial; also active in wealthtech deals has been Envestnet who has acquired Yodlee, Wheelhouse Analytics, Finance Logix and Upside. Source
According to CB Insights, real estate tech received $2.6 billion in funding in 2016 across 277 deals; the category is broad including companies providing technology to brokers, investors, lenders, mortgage providers, property owners, managers and buyers; given current run-rates total volume for 2017 is expected to increase; notable financings include Homelink, PropTiger, Placester, Knock, OfferPad and Nested. Source
CB Insights outlines five tech giants' notable investments, partnerships and M&A moves in the Southeast Asia region; the five tech giants included in the article are Alibaba, Ant Financial, Tencent, Didi Chuxing and JD.com; the article highlights Ant Financial's investments in Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Malaysia, as well as its strategic partnerships throughout Southeast Asia. Source