Following on from myearlier post, this FT article reinforces the strong position of the cybersecurity sector in Israel with some more...

An interesting article that provides some statistics on the booming cybersecurity sector in Israel. It is amazing that israeli companies...

Norwest Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners and others have made a $20m Series A investment in Fireglass, a company founded...

Great article from Let's Talk Payments on how incumbent financial services players are making plays in fintech. 

Despite relatively low...

This Denver-based company, Zvelo, is the first example I have seen of royalty-backed debt finance used by a cybersecurity company. In...

Patreon, the music focused crowdfunding platform, has raised $30m led by Thrive Capital. 

The company offers a pay per creation model. At...

As always, a fiery piece by Sarah Lacey, looking at how Europe will fare if the markets in the US continue to fall in 2016. 

It is true...

Great post from Rob Moffat at Balderton outlining his view that 2016 will be another strong year for fintech. Expect to see more...

Whilst fintech gets all the attention, travel tech is one of Europe's great success stories. This market map of travel tech companies...

Vitruvian,Yahoo! Japan, Baillie Gifford, Artemis and Khazanah are investing $192m in primary and secondary capital into Skyscanner....

A great post on SaaS from Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital. Growth in SaaS has comprehensively outstripped on-premise software in...

The acquisition of Bookatable by Michelin is the latest step in the consolidation of the restaurant booking space in Europe. It follows...

Deutsche Post DHL's acquisition of a stake in Relais Colis, the French package delivery company, is another step in the restructuring of...

Starling is the latest challenger bank to raise a large round to support a UK market launch. It remains to be seen whether better...

Europe is building a strong base of high growth tech companies in the scale up stage. In 2015, 90 companies raised over $20m in growth...

Amazon is leveraging its central position in ecommerce to become a more significant player in payments. This is an interesting initial...

Great post by Ben Holmes at Index on why the games sector is the most misunderstood within the whole of tech. Europe is well placed to...

Gartner has an interesting take on venture funding of cybersecurity companies, recognising that many of them are destined to become, as...

An interesting article that looks at cybersecurity issues through the positioning of five of the leaders of major US computer companies.

Automotive tech remains hot with GM's $500m investment in Lyft. 

This also reflects a much broader theme of an old economy company...