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Top 3 Trends for the Institutional Investing & Pension Funds Space in 2018

Accenture Capital Markets

The year ahead will be busy for institutional investors and pension funds as they navigate political turbulence and speculations around when the economic cycle will shift. From an operational standpoint, we expect three strategic priorities to dominate in 2018: 1. A growing need to make sense of unstructured data – and use it.

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UK corporate venture capital firms by sector

Growth Business

By Dom Walbanke on Growth Business - Your gateway to entrepreneurial success In the UK, cleantech, AI, health and biotech dominates venture capital funding – a trend that looks to continue into Q4 and early in the new year. It invests across seed to Series A stages.

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Socure acquires identity verification startup Berbix for $70M

TechCrunch: M&A

Founded in 2018, Berbix focuses on verifying users’ identities by checking scanned IDs in real time. “There are a number of companies that made some very interesting investments in innovation in the past couple of years, but unfortunately don’t have the runway or access to capital to continue independently.

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12 Concepts We Can Learn About Fund Raising From How2Exit's Interview W/ Will Sachs

How2Exit

rn Visit [link] rn rn Concept 1: Venture Capital Empowers Entrepreneurs rn Venture capital empowers entrepreneurs by providing them with the necessary financial resources to turn their ideas into reality. With venture capital, entrepreneurs can pursue high-growth opportunities and scale their businesses at a faster pace.

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Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning

TechCrunch: M&A

Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8 The reason Blinkist hasn’t gone out for funding again in the last five years is because it has’t had to: the company is growing and profitable, and it still has money left in the bank, according to Holger Seim, Blinkist’s CEO and co-founder.

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Where to find fintech investment

Growth Business

Two-thirds of the UK’s fintech start-ups are in in the city, and in 2020, the capital attracted 94 per cent of the country’s total fintech venture capital. Beringea Beringea is a transatlantic venture capital firm with more than $800m under management across its funds in the UK and the US.

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Party planning platform Punchbowl’s owner is acquiring Timehop

TechCrunch: M&A

The app attracted more than $14 million in funding from investors like Spark Capital, O’Reilly Alphatech Ventures , Shasta Ventures , Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley, and Randi Zuckerberg. In 2018, the app suffered a major data breach affecting 21 million people. In the latter part of the decade, the app’s relevance waned off.

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