Hi! My name is (what?) (1) : is your startup name fashionable?

Brand naming analysis over 100+ startups & 100 years in Europe

For early-stage startups, branding is key, but too often neglected. An effective branding…

This is how we roll: what it’s like to intern at a Fintech VC 🚀 🚀

A Song of Value Chain and Capital Requirements: mapping out the European fintech & insurtech fullstack ecosystem

A growing number of fintechs and insurtechs are going fullstack. What does that mean? It means that they want to be risk carriers and…

BlackFin Tech weekly

Hello everyone, I guess founders and VCs alike are still scrambling to strike deals before the summer break because last week saw another € 100m being poured into the European fintech & insurtech ecosystems across 12 deals. While the largest round last week was landed by French SME lender…

You hate KYC and they know it

Uploading documents is remarkably boring for the end-user (and so does KYC seem to be as an investment…

Will the next Fintech unicorn come from Portugal?

BlackFin Tech weekly

A review of the European Fintech deals, week by week