On a global basis, total fintech funding reached $39.57 billion in the previous year, up more than 120 percent from $20.4 billion in 2017.

🔺The Americas accounted for the bulk of deals, registering 504, with the US leading the way.

🔺 In Europe, $26 billion in Fintech investment was completed, with the UK leading with $16 billion. Acquisitions and buyouts helped to power the category, but the median seed/angel round also rose to $1.5 million in 2018 from $1.2 million year prior.

🔺Asia totaled $16.8 billion across 162 deals with Ant Financial hoovering up much of this number. China and India dominated this region, with India hitting a new high of 31 Fintech VC deals.

https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2018/08/137368-kpmg-report-on-fintech-2018-started-with-a-bang-as-fintech-investment-gained-momentum/

Zopa is considered to be one of the world's first peer-to-peer lenders, having launched in 2005. Zopa has lent almost £4 billion to consumers in the U.K. since its launch — £1 billion of that has been lent out in the last 12 months alone.

Fact #1: By investing £5,000 in Zopa Plus, investors could have grown their money by up to 5.2% or £260 in 2018, 13.5% more than if they’d invested in a product tracking the stock market.

Fact #2: Zopa recently obtained a banking license from Britain's financial regulator, on the back of a £60 million ($76.5 million) funding round it closed last month.

Zopa has been a Runa portfolio company since 2013. #RunaFamily #Fintech

💳 We are proud to announce that our portfolio companies Mambu and Lendio were included in the list of TOP250 FinTech Startups by CB Insights. Congratulations to the teams!

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/fintech-250-startups-most-promising/

#RunaCapital #VentureCapital #FinTech #Mambu #Lendio #startups

We are excited to announce our new FinTech deal!

Runa Capital and Amadeus Capital Partners invested in Polish startup Kontomatik.

Welcome to the family!

#RunaCapital #VC #Kontomatik #FinTech #startups #investment

https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/84086/amadeus-capital-partners--runa-capital-invest-in-polish-fintech-kontomatik

Runa's fintech family is growing!

We are excited to announce our investment in Europe's best investment app QUIN 📈

https://www.eu-startups.com/2020/10/berlin-based-fintech-quin-raises-e1-million-to-empower-millenials-to-invest-rationally/

#Runa #VC #fintech #investment #seed #startups #venturecapital

🎉 We are proud to announce that Lendio co-founders - Brock Blake and Trent Miskin were named as EY Entrepreneur Of The Year! Congrats!

Runa is always looking for the best founders and we are really happy to work with such outstanding teams.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/10/07/2104860/0/en/Lendio-Co-Founders-Brock-Blake-And-Trent-Miskin-Named-As-EY-Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year-2020-Utah-Region-Award-Winners.html

#VC #RunaCapital #Lendio #fintech #founders #venturecapital #startups #EY #enterpreneurs

🏦 Proud to announce our next fintech deal — Runa Capital led $17M Series A round of Oxygen, US challenger bank for freelancers and small businesses. US market is still behind the EU in terms of #fintech, and we see astonishing opportunities there!

https://siliconangle.com/2021/01/04/fintech-startup-oxygen-raises-17m-series-round-digital-banking-app/

Our fintech-focused Associate Gleb Onishchenko offered his industry insights on the fintech-infrastructure space.

#fintech #VC #embeddedfinance