Tagged: valuations

April 21, 2026 @ 5:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut is strategically positioning itself for a significant public market entry by aiming for a towering $150 billion valuation. This goal forms part of a deliberate multi-year plan that could see the firm debut on the stock exchange around 2028, potentially outstripping the… Read More

February 27, 2026 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial infrastructure Fintech Plaid Inc. has recently achieved an $8 billion valuation in its most recent funding round, according to sources familiar with the transaction. This development represents a significant recovery for the San Francisco-based company, which was valued at $6.1 billion just last April… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 12:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stretched valuations in segments of global financial markets and continued trade and economic uncertainty represent the main risks facing the financial system in Ireland, according to the Financial Stability Review released by Central Bank of Ireland. The research report is released twice per year and… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook noted that venture valuations are surging as liquidity begins to creep back up. Now, with liquidity returning, though still relatively modest when compared with recent years, venture market pricing has started to rise. The researchers at PitchBook also mentioned that across all investment stages,… Read More

September 8, 2025 @ 1:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut has appointed Frédéric Oudéa, former CEO of Societe Generale, as chairman of its newly established Western Europe operation. This new hire underscores Fintech Revolut’s push to challenge traditional brick-and-mortar banks across the region, leveraging Oudéa’s experience in global banking to steer its… Read More

August 24, 2025 @ 11:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The venture capital landscape in Q2 2025, as detailed in Carta’s latest State of Private Markets report, paints a picture of somewhat cautious optimism for startups navigating a complex fundraising environment. Despite a persistent decline in deal volume, rising valuations and reduced dilution signal a… Read More

August 21, 2025 @ 7:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European venture capital market has shown resilience in the second quarter of 2025, with valuations and deal sizes rising across most series despite ongoing geopolitical turbulence and macroeconomic uncertainty. According to PitchBook’s Q2 2025 European VC Valuations Report, the region’s startup ecosystem is navigating… Read More

March 2, 2025 @ 5:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook’s latest research reveals a complex landscape for insurance technology (insurtech) venture funding in 2024, marked by a contraction in total investment but persistent investor interest and soaring valuations. In Q4 2024, PitchBook noted that deal value plummeted 42% quarter-over-quarter, dropping from $1.9 billion in… Read More

February 19, 2025 @ 1:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

VC math, or valuations of private firms, has long been more of an art than a science. The friction between investors and firms raising capital is well known. Too low, and money is left on the table. Too high and a future down round, or… Read More

September 9, 2024 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In Q2 2024, $1.2 billion was reportedly invested across 106 deals in the insurtech vertical, representing a 27.1% QoQ increase in deal value and a 3.9% QoQ increase in deal count. This, according to an extensive update shared by PitchBook. The research team at PitchBook… Read More

July 3, 2024 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Carta has released their First Cut—State of Private Markets: Q2 2024. Initial data from Q2 2024 reportedly “shows modest increases in median valuation and round size across much of the U.S. venture ecosystem.” Every quarter, Carta releases the latest information on the startup ecosystem in… Read More

June 23, 2024 @ 4:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook has provided their 2024 US Venture Capital Outlook as part of a comprehensive  Midyear Update. Expectations for the turnaround in the VC market entering 2024 were not especially high, the research-focused firm noted in a recent update. PitchBook pointed out that the headwinds that… Read More

February 12, 2024 @ 6:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Though the venture market was in a state of declines over the past couple of years, much of the pricing pressure has not yet forced pre-seed or seed-stage valuations below the highs of 2021, according to an update from Pitchbook. While it’s true this area… Read More

June 16, 2023 @ 9:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

VC firm Molten Ventures has reportedly written down its current holding in digital banking platform Revolut by a sizeable 40%. This move is adding to the Fintech firm’s recent challenges as it struggles to obtain a UK banking license. Molten Ventures has discounted the value… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment bank Schroders recently revealed that it has slashed the valuation of its shareholding in digital bank Revolut by nearly half after the Fintech company had been criticized for trying to downplay potentially serious red flags from auditors BDO regarding its revenue statement. As noted… Read More

January 11, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In Q3 2022, Insurtech companies globally “raised $1.6 billion in VC across 134 deals, representing a 51.1% decrease in QoQ deal value,” according to an update from Pitchbook. This was “the lowest amount of invested capital since Q2 2020 and the lowest deal count since… Read More

November 23, 2022 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Venture capital (VC) pre-money valuations remained robust through Q3 2022, as bearish macroeconomic outlooks spread across Europe,” the team at Pitchbook noted. Pitchbook also mentioned that “the drop off in public market capitalizations has not filtered into the VC ecosystem, with the valuations of VC-backed… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zhikai Chen, Head of Asia Equities at BNP Paribas Asset Management, notes that a number of factors justify their hopes for “a better year after the challenges that 2021 brought to Asian equities, and northern Asian equities in particular.” Chen writes in a blog post… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lex Sokolin, CMO at blockchain firm ConsenSys and Co-Head of Fintech and DeFi at ConsenSys Codefi, recently discussed how can we “best understand” the 100x revenue multiples for Fintech firms Affirm, Checkout, Rapyd, and several others. 1/ How can we best understand the 100x revenue… Read More

November 26, 2020 @ 1:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Stripe is reportedly planning an investment round so that its payment platform and business can be valued significantly higher than the $36 billion valuation it received during its last funding round. According to Bloomberg (which cited sources familiar with the matter), Stripe could… Read More