Building a media profile for your startup over time forms a solid basis for establishing strategic relationships, selling and generating leads, increasing the brand value (and thus even the enterprise valuation), and increasing success in capital raising (as per our article earlier this year). Whil...

Having written a blog on the insureTech industry several months ago where we looked at vertical integration as a possible route for Insuretech’s seeking sustainable earnings, we believe that the time is right for this to happen at a quicker pace. Indeed, is this the time of true disruption in the ...

Venture debt in its classic form is used by VC-backed startups to leverage their existing VC equity investments, relationships and investability in a variety of situations, including providing extra runway to the technopreneur during a pandemic. The characteristics of venture debt are driven by its ...

Since taking on ThingCo (www.thingco.com) as a client, I have been rethinking my views on the future of telematics. In 2016 I attended my first Insuretech conference to listen to speakers from outside of my experience. At that point I had been exposed to Ingenie and InsureTheBox, both of which seeme...

Europe is marching towards a dangerous and, potentially, irreversible trend that could see the world’s second largest economy alone and alienated. The trend is: digital sovereignty. This article  was written by Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis, Senior Director of Policy, Strategy and Development at the ...

With data analytics software company Palantir Technologies set to do a direct listing next month, and with a number of successful high-profile direct listings over the years such as MetroBank & Pennpetro Energy (LSE 2017), Spotify (NYSE 2018), and Slack (NYSE 2019), can we expect more companies ...

There are many reasons that technopreneurs may take on a transaction advisor, but most often it is for their rolodex of contacts, or to outsource the M&A/capital raising process so that they concentrate on their core business. In this somewhat personal article, we discuss some of the softer but ...

The 2Q2020 data (when the first full-quarter impact of Covid-19 was felt across large portions of the globe) is generally good news given the many dire predictions. Although a “reset”, there is resilience and strong activity in spite of the huge blow to virtually every economy. Our view is based...

We are frequently asked by technopreneurs looking to raise capital what the chances are of reaching their objectives in the current climate, or whether it might be better to wait for the investment climate to improve. We are still in very early stages of this period of uncertainty. As investors wres...

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) have the potential to take remote collaboration to the next level through giving people a “remote presence”. Will our current lockdown, and its consequent change in behaviour, be the catalyst to finally get these technologies to deliver? It was ama...