Fintech

In Part 1, I outlined the challenges facing the Challenger Banks aiming to expand to the US. Here in Part 2, I’ll take a closer look at their...

Viewed from the stormy shores of Brexit Britain, Singapore can seem like a shining beacon representing how things could be: simpler, cleaner...

Recently, I sat with Monica Murthy of Empire Startups to speak to founders of 20 UK Seed/Series A companies as part the TechNation Fintech Programme’s...

The world of car ownership is changing. The proliferation of new mobility models, from Uber to scooter rental, combined with the approaching...

From our position at Octopus Ventures, we get a broad view across the portfolio of the cyber security situation within many startups in a range...

Private Not Public Before I begin, I’d like to clarify the difference between a public and private blockchain. The overarching distinction...

I happen to think that the crypto boom and the blockchain hype have done a lot of good. They’ve driven capital into distributed ledger technologies...

Over the last 10 years, Octopus Ventures, like many other VCs, has been defined by three things: the money we have available to invest, the deals...

Death is something that most people would rather not think about. So much so that we talk about “Life” insurance, not “Death” insurance....

Terms like: “trustless network”; “getting rid of trusted intermediaries” and “trust replaced with mathematics” crop up all the time....

The atmosphere was electric, the place full of the crypto-faithful, many of them now very wealthy people given the crypto markets’ recent performance....

In the last couple of weeks there has been a cacophony of rage against the FCC repealing net neutrality here in the US. Open internet...