Tag: Intelligence Briefings

Commodity marketplaces struck gold this year. The segment tapped into the improving demand for raw materials amid China’s recent relaxing of COVID restrictions and Europe’s push for improving energy efficiency. What are they? Commodity marketplaces are companies trading between businesses in commodity markets such as steel and agriculture. Examples include: Zhaogang – large scale steel trading…

Fintech companies and startups are increasingly integrating Space Tech into their operations. In particular, the potential of low-cost, high-coverage, repeatable and global Earth Observation data and of the capabilities of Satellite Communications are becoming new areas of exploration for next-gen finance and insurance companies. Satellite data at a scale, frequency, quality and cost not seen…

We are currently living through the sixth mass extinction. Man-made interventions such as climate change, land-system change (urban development, deforestation, monocrops), and introduction of novel entities (e.g. plastics and chemical pollution) have breached the Earth’s planetary boundaries of safe operating levels, leading to cascading reduction of biological diversity. Today, the UN’s COP15 on Biodiversity kicking…

With the World Cup underway, it serves as a reminder of the role of marketplaces in event tech, including: Ticket marketplaces (Live Nation, DICE and SeatGeek) Venue marketplaces (Event Inc., VenueE and PeerSpace) Planning, financing and execution marketplaces (HoneyBook, Maroo and Platerrz) Event tech is still a small segment within marketplaces, with event marketplace startups…

Success breeds success. Europe and Israel’s unicorns have been acting as training grounds for entrepreneurial talent, who are now founding the region’s next generation of startups. In partnership with Accel, we explored the new wave of fintech unicorn founder factories. Fintech has been the industry breeding the most unicorns and biggest exits in Europe and…

Last week, the German healthcare had a major victory for advanced technologies and its regulation. ReWalk Robotics achieved regulation, a giant leap forward for exoskeleton tech. Israel’s ReWalk is a developer of robotic exoskeletons⁠, wearable devices worn to support for gait rehabilitation or locomotion assistance. BARMER, one of Germany’s largest statutory health insurance providers, accepts…

Alternative protein has been one of the fastest growing segments in Foodtech. Between 2016 and 2021, VC investment grew 17x to $5.1 billion. With $2.7 billion, this year’s VC investment has slowed down compared to 2021 and 2020. However, there are still many promising and investible startups. We’ve ranked the top alternative protein startups to watch globally…

Climate fintech took centre stage at the COP27 climate talks this week. The success of the summit heavily depends on finding an agreement on the “loss and damage” mechanism to scale up financing for developing countries which are being heavily hit by climate change. The exact mechanism and conditions are however hard to reach a…

With the second week of COP, the international eyes are focused on sustainability and climate discussions. In light of developments and discussions surrounding how economies can finance climate transition, we’ve launched a landscape of 215+ startups in the circular economy ecosystem. Why the Circular Economy? It is estimated that of the 100 billion tonnes of…

The biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Binance, has pulled out of its buyout of FTX, its largest competitor, after corporate due diligence. The “Prince of Risk” Sam Bankman has lost quite a big bet here. This story singles out some of the worst characteristics of the crypto market: Interconnectedness and the systemic danger it…