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The post I made in January about my first decade of Illuminate Financial was so kindly received that I put together a medium blog sharing some of the lessons learnt along the journey for those that want to know more, learn from my mistakes or avoid some of them! Suffice to say that I have a high degree of empathy for the entrepreneurs that we get to meet and work with along the way. #alwayslearning #enterpreneurship #fintech https://lnkd.in/gMzT9mjs

“Private equity is more accessible than ever. We are realising our true mission which is to democratise private equity for everyone to create more prosperity for all." During a sit-down interview with my fellow partner and Co-CEO, Lorenz Jüngling, we wanted to capture Moonfare’s remarkable achievement– €3 billion in assets under management.   This is a testament to our commitment to making private equity accessible to a wider audience; yet, this is only the beginning of a secular trend that some consider to be one of the largest disruptions in financial history. . Read more about our upcoming plans as we celebrate this achievement: https://moonfa.re/4bXOBcF #PrivateEquity #Interview #FinTech #Moonfare #Finance #PrivateMarkets #DigitalWealth #Entrepreneurship #VentureCapital #AssetManagement

We're often asked the question: "How are you adjusting your strategy based on [insert the latest market or investment trend]?" And we always answer the same way. Last week, TTV Capital Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Gardiner Garrard, shared his perspective with The Wall Street Journal’s Brian Gormley in the WSJ Pro VC newsletter: “We haven’t changed how we evaluate investment opportunities, and we don’t plan to make adjustments as a result of the current environment. The criteria that we’ve relied on for the past 24 years remains the same: we’re always looking for capable, hard-working entrepreneurs with an idea to solve a problem in financial services. We screen for founders who can build a real business, rather than ones who tell a story around scaling rapidly. While other investors may have cooled on fintech, for us, it’s never been about following the trends. It has always been about the ways that technology can bring about innovation in financial services," Gardiner Garrard, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, TTV Capital cc: Jen Zimmerman, Laney Lewis, Sean Banks, Lizzie Guynn, Paul Todd, Neil Kapur, Sapphire Partners, AllegisCyber Capital #wsj #teamttv #fintech

What does it mean to be a serial #entrepreneur? Walking the path of building a scalable business creates muscle memory for the next time around, even if the destination is different. The experience I have gathered building #VentureCapital fund Force Over Mass, combined with my past in the world of trading and designing trading systems, gave me the right foundation to understand what drives success in a modern VC. I saw the friction associated with private market investments and the path to using technology and financial engineering to change that. That’s what led me to found Floww. https://lnkd.in/eEF5DFEb

🚀 Exciting Insights from Our FinTech Strategic Investments Event! 📈 💬 Last week, Zelig had the privilege of hosting an outstanding discussion on strategic investments in FinTech, exploring a range of topics, including: - the key challenges and opportunities of raising capital from strategic investors - the attributes that make a FinTech suited to raise strategic capital - how best to structure strategic investments to ensure all-parties have the right incentivization 🌐 A huge thank you to our panel for sharing their views and experiences: Philip Carr (Acin), Andrew Murray (Citi), Michael Sim (Fidelity International Strategic Ventures), Shea Wallon (Fitch Group, Inc. / Fitch Ventures), Rezso Szabo (Illuminate Financial), and Anthony Craufurd (Visa)!!! 💬 Zelig has supported many FinTechs on raising capital from strategic investors and would be happy to discuss the topic with any company that wants to better understand whether a strategic investment might be right for them. Please feel free to reach out! 🚀 #FinTech #Investments #Networking

« My grand parents were champions but at the same time they had a really cautious vision of life, a strong conscience about impact. The family business was a place to work on our company values and share them. The idea of the foundation came afterwards, to secure these values and engage the younger generations as early as possible. » During the Panel V « Family stories, from Entrepreneurship to impact » Sophie Lacoste Dournel shares Interesting insights : 👉 «It's all about authenticity. Whatever the intention is, whatever the goal is, it's how you do it.» #wealthmanagement #wealthtech #fintech #assetmanagement #foam24 #hubfinance #familyoffice Fusalp FOND DE DOTATION POROSUS

In our fun new video series, our Fintech Nation Fund Founder Duo - Varun Mittal 海王-米塔尔 and Vanessa Ho, sit down and answer some burning questions about investing in fintech companies in Southeast Asia. 🔥 😍 In this first snippet, find out the top 3 relevant themes our co-founders believe are noteworthy and key to lookout for when investing in the Southeast Asian region. Stay tuned for more video content soon! #investments #southeastasia #fintechnation #singapore #venture #venturecapital #fund #sea #fintech

🇺🇸US FinTech VC deal value on track to surpass pre-2021 levels👇 Source: PitchBook Data Find this helpful? [ 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 ] Anything to add about this subject? [ 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 ] Nice story, Marcel. Next! [ 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 ] #fintech #financialtechnology #fintechindustry #venturecapital #fintechstartup #vcfunding #fintechstartups #angelinvestor #angelinvesting #angelinvestors #fintechnews