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Our Investment in Empyrean: A Modern Risk Management Solution
Risk management is crucial for all types of businesses. The ability to make strategic bets while minimizing potential losses is what helps drive smart and sustainable growth. For financial institutions, managing risk is doubly important as they serve as custodians for...
Let the Blood Flow Again
Think back to the last time you had to negotiate an NDA with an enterprise. Do you wish to get those weeks of your life back? Now imagine a more complex contract. Now imagine it with a financial institution. It doesn’t get any better, but it needn’t be this bad. Data...
On Defying Convention and Lessons for VCs and Founders: A reflection on our time as investors and friends of Verafin
By Dave Unsworth The acquisition of Verafin, the market leader in financial-crime detection and investigation software, by global financial technology (FinTech) firm Nasdaq announced last November and consummated February 11, 2021, was a bittersweet triumph for the...
COVID Accelerates WealthTech Adoption as Millennials Automate Financial Advisory
By: Rob Antoniades and Hasan Basrai With wealth technology (WealthTech) startups attracting some $4 billion in equity funding last year, the sector has emerged as a red-hot niche for some of the most successful venture capital firms, according to market data provider...
Venture Capital in 2021: Expectations, Predictions and Areas of Growth
Against seemingly impossible odds, 2020 – the “pandemic year” – also proved to be a resilient one for the global venture capital industry. With worldwide VC funding hitting $300 billion last year, according to Crunchbase, this haul represents a 4% increase from 2019,...
Information Venture Partners Appoints Jane Podbelskaya as Principal
Venture capital firm strengthens investment team with the addition of 20-year industry veteran TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / February 3, 2021 / Information Venture Partners, a Toronto-based venture capital firm that primarily invests in early-stage North American B2B...