March 17, 2020
News Roundup: Indonesia’s mPOS firm Cashlez to raise US$6M via IPO to acquire IT firm
Finance Medtech startup Biolidics plans to raise US$2.2M to fuel expansion...
March 13, 2020
Startup founders are building companies on WhatsApp
In Asia, where I work as a partner at an early-stage VC, startups are regularly...
March 6, 2020
Nvidia acquires data storage and management platform SwiftStack
Nvidia today announced that it has acquired SwiftStack, a software-centric data...
February 12, 2020
Israel’s maturing cybersecurity startup ecosystem
It often feels like half of the new security startups that receive funding are...
January 29, 2020
Greylock’s Reid Hoffman and Sarah Guo to talk fundraising at Early Stage SF 2020
Early Stage SF is around the corner, on April 28 in San Francisco, and we are...
January 16, 2020
Bolt raises €50M in venture debt from the EU to expand its ride-hailing business
Bolt, the billion-dollar startup out of Estonia that’s building a...
January 10, 2020
2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns
Two years ago, we created the Matrix FinTech Index to highlight what we saw as...
November 18, 2019
Elavon to acquire Sage Pay, a gateway that competes with Stripe, PayPal and Adyen, for $300M
E-commerce continues to gain momentum — a trend we’ll see played out...
October 22, 2019
Luge Capital raises $85M to invest in Canadian fintech startups
There are 831 financial technology startups headquartered in or operating in...
October 18, 2019
Kenyan telco Safaricom’s Alpha incubator faces uncertain future
Safaricom’s Nairobi-based Alpha innovation incubator may have an uncertain...