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InsurTech’s strange relationship with the industry giants

The 3 links in the credit value chain, explained.

Find out why has Octopus Ventures invested in the inventor of the web’s new company, inrupt?

Everybody needs financial advice, but few get it – that could be about to change

In the world of money, the big, old monoliths are making way for nimble, smart, more focused challengers. Fintech is part of it, but in our definition...

Alastair Paterson continues to explore his individual strengths and challenges and how these influenced the success of his company, Digital Shadows.

Octopus Ventures investment in Mosaic Smart Data, the company bringing a data driven platform to FICC organisations.

Alastair Paterson continues to explore his individual strengths and challenges and how these influenced the success of his company, Digital Shadows.

Octopus Ventures’ internal structure is crafted to help pioneers change the world through three ‘pods’: Future of Money, Future of Health and Deep Tech. Here, Zihao Xu reveals the inner workings of the Future of Money pod.

Nick Sando of Octopus Ventures’ Future of Money team announces an investment that will help deliver fairer access to credit.

Tosin Agbabiaka talks growth with the CEO of the market leading digital risk protection company.

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...

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....