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Incumbent Financial Institutions Will Not Catch Up to Robo-Advisors
“I don't think the large incumbents will actually be able to catch up.”
InsurTech Is Less Crowded and More Lucrative Than FinTech
“We're close to reaching peak fintech when it comes to the hype, and little by little, entrepreneurs are figuring out that, that the insurance space is, is potentially more lucrative, it's less crowded, there's a bigger, there's so many problems to solve, they'…”
Startupbootcamp Takes 6% Equity and Provides €15,000 Cash
“We take six percent equity and the startups pay they give us the equity for the program. We give them cash. We give them 15,000 euros cash, but it's not a reflection on the valuation of the company.”
FinTech Focus Is Shifting From Payments to Wealth Management
“We have seen a move away from payments and lending as being the key fintech themes. And we now move increasingly towards investment related stuff”
Corporate Partners, Not Startup Exits, Fund Startupbootcamp's Operations
“So our program is funded by the industry players who participate in this. So when we have 10 banks in one program or in, in the insurtech program, we've got 17 insurtech partners, insurance industry players who put money into the program. So for us, this is re…”
Buzzmove Was Startupbootcamp's Highest-Funded Alumni as of 2017
“The company that raised more money is a company called Buzzmove, which is a team that we had in our insure tech program in London last year.”
Rainmaking Innovation Generates Revenue Through Corporate Consulting
“So what we do is we actually make money out of the corporate engagements that go outside the accelerator.”
Startupbootcamp Graduated 400 Companies Across 60 Programs by 2017
“We have now had about 60 programs in the fintech and insured kind of verticals but overall we started bootcamp. We now had 400 companies that graduated.”
Startupbootcamp FinTech Targets Pre-Seed Teams With Unlaunched Products
“The teams we work with are usually very early stage. They are usually early stage, pre-seed. So they come to us with a product that is usually not ready for launch yet, and they use a program to validate the proposition, to do all the customer discovery and al…”