CEO/co-founder ($2.3B valuation) of a UK digital bank that reported an annual profit of £10.6M in its second year of operations
Co-founder ($20B valuation) of a rumored 2019 IPO candidate
CEO/co-founder ($1.1B valuation) of a startup building a modern corporate card
CEO/co-founder ($3B valuation) of an open access crypto co trading $2B a month
CEO/co-founder ($3.2B valuation) of an insurtech co with plans to enter 6 new markets this year
CEO/co-founder ($1.2B valuation) of a payments co with 10M users and the first Korean fintech unicorn
CEO/co-founder ($2.65B valuation) of a startup whose API helps link US bank accounts to fintech apps such as Robinhood, Coinbase, Venmo, and others
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A ton of other great speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
Check out the 7 fintech unicorn CEOs and co-founders here.
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My country, ’tis of thee
The tech boom is no longer concentrated in California, New York, and Massachusetts — it has diffused across the whole United States.
We identify the most well-funded, VC-backed tech startup in each state. See them all here.
Data nerd challenge
One of the hardest data science/ML challenges we’ve dealt with (and are dealing with) at CB Insights is how to identify competitors algorithmically.
Competitive relationships often violate transitivity and symmetry.
If the phrase “violates transitivity” gets you excited and you’re interested in why building an algorithm to identify competitors is so hard, we dig in here.
The year of the IPO?
Four tech companies could make 2019 a blockbuster year for IPOs if they go public at their rumored valuations.
Note: If you’re optimizing for lots of crust, this probably does not work.
I’m prescribing you blockchain
The healthcare world is highly regulated, which means data can often be siloed and underutilized. Maintaining provider data costs around $2.1B every year across the healthcare system.
Consumer and business preferences are shifting away from paper cash and checks, so public and private companies are updating payment methods for the 21st century.
Private payment tech companies have raised $30B+ since 2014. We look at where that money is being deployed and where the payment sector is headed. Clients can read about it here.
The Industry Standard
CB Insights data is the most trusted by those in the industry and the media. A few recent hits.
This could be big
