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May 18 · Issue #13 · View online
A weekly summary of the latest news in our world of finance, design, and technology.
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This week: 📉 Dropping growth rates in Fintech 📈 WealthTechs on the rise 📹 Videos incoming 💳 More touchless, less touching 🤓 Monday reading
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Fintech-news from week 20
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Robinhood, Credit Karma, the Cash app, Chime, N26, Spiir
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Is there such a thing as Fintech-green? The thought occurred when we noticed Robinhood rebranding to a darker green. The new color looks like a move to appear like a more mature brand before their rumored IPO. Credit Karma also seems to have made their fintech-green color darker before Intuit bought them. Maybe we can look for these subtle changes for the Cashapp, Chime, N26, or Spiir in a few years? Btw: have you noticed the nice upwards-arrow on Robinhoods feather? 😍
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Over the last year, NorQuant has helped primarily family offices implement factor-based management in their strategy based on scientific and rule-governed investment-advise. Last week they secured over 5 million NOK in funding (🇳🇴) via crowdfunding on Dealflow. This new capital is earmarked for further commercialization of the company’s analysis services and, primarily, launching three new funds.
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It seems like video meetings are the new normal. Could you imagine a more perfect time for listing a video company on the stock exchange? The Norwegian video startup Pexip did that on Thursday and the stock immediately rose 40% (🇳🇴). The VC-investor Fred Wilson, however, reminds us that even though video conferencing is getting better, it will never replace real-life experiences: The tech sector will continue to build virtual worlds and online experiences. We will continue to use them, some more than others. They are valuable, efficient, convenient, and entertaining. But they can not and will not replace in real-life experiences. This pandemic has shown me that in spades. - Avc
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