BGX Investment Report covering venture capital flow into the period of 2018 Q4 and market sentiment for blockchain in 2019. Note: we are not talking about discredited ICOs or cryptocurrency predictions.
Opening Presentation - Sthlm Fintech Week 2019- How to work together?MichalGromek
An anticipated solution to connect traditional financial players with Startups using a non-for profit solution called: InnoBridge.Tech - presented at the #SthlmFintechWeek -
#SthlmFinTech #InnoBridge
Mercer Capital's Portfolio Valuation: Private Equity and Venture Capital Mark...Mercer Capital
Mercer Capital's Portfolio Valuation: Private Equity Marks and Trends Newsletter provides a brief digest and commentary of some of the most relevant market trends influencing the fair value regarding private equity portfolio investments.
global Venture funding and start up data : top 10 chartsSumit Roy
2015 VC FUNDING HITS ALL-TIME HIGH. ENDS WITH PULLBACK.
Multi-year highs in funding: Globally, funding to VC-backed companies in 2015 hit an all-time high of $128.5B, up 44 percent versus 2014’s total of $89.4B.
Deals see steep decline: Large deals were the headline of 2015, largely driving the funding trends and leaving deal activity to fall for the final 2 quarters, including Q4’15, which saw just 1742 deals, the lowest quarterly total since Q1’13.
PwC - Investment and Corporate Insight's for SIA's In This Together Series Paul Fifield
- According to PWC Venture Capital survey 36% of VCs see a 20% price reduction, 30% see a 30% reduction, and a further 30% see >30% price reduction
- Series B investors are more bullish than early-stage investors
- View from corporates is huge financial and operational
distractions which extends sales cycles unless the need is critical
- M&A is happening, cash-rich companies are taking advantage of the 20-30% drop in price. Corporate venture appetite is tied entirely to business performance
- One of the many cashflow management nuggets included "Burn fat, not muscle!" and develop a cash culture
Opening Presentation - Sthlm Fintech Week 2019- How to work together?MichalGromek
An anticipated solution to connect traditional financial players with Startups using a non-for profit solution called: InnoBridge.Tech - presented at the #SthlmFintechWeek -
#SthlmFinTech #InnoBridge
Mercer Capital's Portfolio Valuation: Private Equity and Venture Capital Mark...Mercer Capital
Mercer Capital's Portfolio Valuation: Private Equity Marks and Trends Newsletter provides a brief digest and commentary of some of the most relevant market trends influencing the fair value regarding private equity portfolio investments.
global Venture funding and start up data : top 10 chartsSumit Roy
2015 VC FUNDING HITS ALL-TIME HIGH. ENDS WITH PULLBACK.
Multi-year highs in funding: Globally, funding to VC-backed companies in 2015 hit an all-time high of $128.5B, up 44 percent versus 2014’s total of $89.4B.
Deals see steep decline: Large deals were the headline of 2015, largely driving the funding trends and leaving deal activity to fall for the final 2 quarters, including Q4’15, which saw just 1742 deals, the lowest quarterly total since Q1’13.
PwC - Investment and Corporate Insight's for SIA's In This Together Series Paul Fifield
- According to PWC Venture Capital survey 36% of VCs see a 20% price reduction, 30% see a 30% reduction, and a further 30% see >30% price reduction
- Series B investors are more bullish than early-stage investors
- View from corporates is huge financial and operational
distractions which extends sales cycles unless the need is critical
- M&A is happening, cash-rich companies are taking advantage of the 20-30% drop in price. Corporate venture appetite is tied entirely to business performance
- One of the many cashflow management nuggets included "Burn fat, not muscle!" and develop a cash culture
The GIO report looks at responses from over 600 investors in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions, including private equity, property companies, REITs, funds, institutions, and sovereign wealth funds.
Softbank Investor Presentation November 2019 discussing the progress of SoftBank. The value of SoftBank's business is underpinned by the value of Alibaba, Sprint and ARM Holdings. The SoftBank Vision Fund and in particular its stake in WeWork has performed disastrously but overall the value of the entity has risen.
What does 2017 hold for the Innovation Economy? In the latest State of the Markets report, SVB Analytics took a rear-view approach, identifying the factors that mattered most in 2016 and examining which trends and themes will play out in 2017.
New startup funding in the finance sector witnessed a decline in Q1 2019 while early-stage startups form the biggest chunk. Discover the global trends in our latest Insights Report here http://bit.ly/fi_sector
Can RoboAdvisors Change Investment Behavior to Achieve Financial Goals?April Rudin
Great slides from Paolo Sironi of IBM, Greg Davies of Centapse, and David Wilson of Capgemini as we explore the changes to the wealth management industry because of technology.
Invest2Innovate's Deal Flow Tracker includes most (if not all) of the disclosed deals that occurred in the Pakistan Startup ecosystem from 2015-2020 (July). It is open-source and dynamic - if there are deals missing or as more deals occur, it will be updated. All the investment data was vetted by our team via startup founders, investors, or secondary resources. As much as we could, we went straight to the source.
Silicon Valley Bank’s Trends in Healthcare Investments and Exits report analyzes the fundraising, investment, M&A and IPO activity of private, venture-backed biopharma, medical device and diagnostic/tools companies. Report author Jon Norris also gives his annual forecast of what’s likely to happen in 2016.
Trends in Healthcare Investments and Exits: Mid-Year 2017Silicon Valley Bank
In our mid-year 2017 report on healthcare investing, SVB analyzed the fundraising, investment, M&A and IPO activity of private, venture-backed biopharma, medical device and diagnostic/tools companies.
Investment and fundraising in the healthcare ecosystem saw a banner first half of 2017, driven in part by advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning for healthcare applications and a surge in Series A investments, particularly in biopharma.
Great entrepreneurs dream about creating new sectors, reshaping entire industries and fundamentally disrupting the status quo. Seed stage is the inaugural moment in every startup’s lifecycle, and often impacts the trajectory of a company’s journey. Investors who make these early bets, in no small part, help to shape the startup’s ability to succeed in the years to come.
In conducting this research, we specifically set out to capture the sentiment of the Europe-based seed investment ecosystem. It reflects a moment in time (Q3/Q4 2017), and intends to collate insight from a broad base of leading seed investors across the continent - to take the temperature of the community, and help build a picture of the seed landscape.
At Mosaic, we typically invest after seed, in a company’s Series A round. We work alongside the seed community every day so we hope that taking the pulse of the seed investor ecosystem will provide useful insights for the founder and investor ecosystems alike.
We would like to extend our thanks to everyone who made this report possible. First and foremost to all of the respondents. Everyone who participated is either a General Partner of a European seed fund, or serial angel investor.
We are always appreciative of your thoughts and feedback, please feel welcome to get in touch at info@mosaicventures.com
Technology and wealth management in digital age by Miles SoftwareMiles_Software123
This presentation focuses on:
What are the trends in Wealth Management Business In India v/s global trends?
Investment trends
What are the challenges in Wealth Management business?
What are the technology trends In Wealth Management industry?
The future of technology in Wealth Management?
How does technology meet the industry challenges?
Summary of findings
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Fintech is happening on global scale with deals outside of core markets (US, UK, and China) accounting for 39% of deals: Fintech deal hubs are starting to emerge globally. The count of unique fintech startups raising funding topped an annual high of 1,463 companies, and the unique number of investors reached 2,745 boosted by an influx of corporate investors.
Early-stage deals, as a percentage, fell to a 5-year low as investors concentrated bets in perceived winners: Global seed and Series A fintech deals grew 5% on an annual basis in 2018, but fell as a percentage of total deals to 57%. US early-stage deals were flat YOY as investors concentrated their bets in established fintech unicorns.
There are 39 VC-backed fintech unicorns worth a combined $147.37B: Q4'18 saw five new unicorns births (Plaid, Brex, Monzo, DevotedHealth, and Toss) and two in the first month of Q1’19 (N26 and Confluent). The cohort’s total valuation in 2018 was boosted by a record year for megarounds to existing unicorns, including Gusto and Robinhood, among others.
The GIO report looks at responses from over 600 investors in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions, including private equity, property companies, REITs, funds, institutions, and sovereign wealth funds.
Softbank Investor Presentation November 2019 discussing the progress of SoftBank. The value of SoftBank's business is underpinned by the value of Alibaba, Sprint and ARM Holdings. The SoftBank Vision Fund and in particular its stake in WeWork has performed disastrously but overall the value of the entity has risen.
What does 2017 hold for the Innovation Economy? In the latest State of the Markets report, SVB Analytics took a rear-view approach, identifying the factors that mattered most in 2016 and examining which trends and themes will play out in 2017.
New startup funding in the finance sector witnessed a decline in Q1 2019 while early-stage startups form the biggest chunk. Discover the global trends in our latest Insights Report here http://bit.ly/fi_sector
Can RoboAdvisors Change Investment Behavior to Achieve Financial Goals?April Rudin
Great slides from Paolo Sironi of IBM, Greg Davies of Centapse, and David Wilson of Capgemini as we explore the changes to the wealth management industry because of technology.
Invest2Innovate's Deal Flow Tracker includes most (if not all) of the disclosed deals that occurred in the Pakistan Startup ecosystem from 2015-2020 (July). It is open-source and dynamic - if there are deals missing or as more deals occur, it will be updated. All the investment data was vetted by our team via startup founders, investors, or secondary resources. As much as we could, we went straight to the source.
Silicon Valley Bank’s Trends in Healthcare Investments and Exits report analyzes the fundraising, investment, M&A and IPO activity of private, venture-backed biopharma, medical device and diagnostic/tools companies. Report author Jon Norris also gives his annual forecast of what’s likely to happen in 2016.
Trends in Healthcare Investments and Exits: Mid-Year 2017Silicon Valley Bank
In our mid-year 2017 report on healthcare investing, SVB analyzed the fundraising, investment, M&A and IPO activity of private, venture-backed biopharma, medical device and diagnostic/tools companies.
Investment and fundraising in the healthcare ecosystem saw a banner first half of 2017, driven in part by advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning for healthcare applications and a surge in Series A investments, particularly in biopharma.
Great entrepreneurs dream about creating new sectors, reshaping entire industries and fundamentally disrupting the status quo. Seed stage is the inaugural moment in every startup’s lifecycle, and often impacts the trajectory of a company’s journey. Investors who make these early bets, in no small part, help to shape the startup’s ability to succeed in the years to come.
In conducting this research, we specifically set out to capture the sentiment of the Europe-based seed investment ecosystem. It reflects a moment in time (Q3/Q4 2017), and intends to collate insight from a broad base of leading seed investors across the continent - to take the temperature of the community, and help build a picture of the seed landscape.
At Mosaic, we typically invest after seed, in a company’s Series A round. We work alongside the seed community every day so we hope that taking the pulse of the seed investor ecosystem will provide useful insights for the founder and investor ecosystems alike.
We would like to extend our thanks to everyone who made this report possible. First and foremost to all of the respondents. Everyone who participated is either a General Partner of a European seed fund, or serial angel investor.
We are always appreciative of your thoughts and feedback, please feel welcome to get in touch at info@mosaicventures.com
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This presentation focuses on:
What are the trends in Wealth Management Business In India v/s global trends?
Investment trends
What are the challenges in Wealth Management business?
What are the technology trends In Wealth Management industry?
The future of technology in Wealth Management?
How does technology meet the industry challenges?
Summary of findings
2018 VC-backed fintech deals and funding set an annual record: In 2018, - VC-backed fintech companies raised $39.57B across 1,707 deals globally. Deals were up 15% year-over-year while funding surged 120% on the back of 52 mega-rounds ($100M+) worth $24.88B combined.
Fintech is happening on global scale with deals outside of core markets (US, UK, and China) accounting for 39% of deals: Fintech deal hubs are starting to emerge globally. The count of unique fintech startups raising funding topped an annual high of 1,463 companies, and the unique number of investors reached 2,745 boosted by an influx of corporate investors.
Early-stage deals, as a percentage, fell to a 5-year low as investors concentrated bets in perceived winners: Global seed and Series A fintech deals grew 5% on an annual basis in 2018, but fell as a percentage of total deals to 57%. US early-stage deals were flat YOY as investors concentrated their bets in established fintech unicorns.
There are 39 VC-backed fintech unicorns worth a combined $147.37B: Q4'18 saw five new unicorns births (Plaid, Brex, Monzo, DevotedHealth, and Toss) and two in the first month of Q1’19 (N26 and Confluent). The cohort’s total valuation in 2018 was boosted by a record year for megarounds to existing unicorns, including Gusto and Robinhood, among others.
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Blockchain Investment Report 2019
1. BGX IN THE INVESTMENT
LANDSCAPE
OUTLOOK REPORT
1
J a n 0 7 , 2 0 1 9
A n a l y t i c s
2. 2
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the BGX management. It does not purport to be complete or make accurate predictions. The Presentation has been prepared based on the
information available at the time of its making. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is made to the fairness, accuracy or
completeness of the information, opinions and conclusions contained in the Presentation or any omission from the Presentation or of any
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the accuracy of the facts within the Presentation, certain statements in this Presentation are forward-looking statements, which include
information related financing, development of certain distributed ledger related technologies and other matters. Forward-looking
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intentions regarding the future. By nature, forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions and uncertainties. The Company
assumes no obligation to update forward looking statements should circumstances, markets, management’s opinions and estimates
change.
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purposes of applicable securities and financial law.
Certain information contained herein has been prepared by third-party sources and has not been independently audited or verified by
BGX. BGX has used its reasonable best efforts to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the information presented.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT
A n a l y t i c s
3. BLOCKCHAIN MARKET HIGHLIGHTS 3
A n a l y t i c s
Platform proliferation will continue. We are
expecting more contenders to emerge, given
the number of well-funded projects that are
under way and promise to address some of
the key shortcomings in existing
architectures.
From 2018 to 2024, there will be
significant growth, as we will see more
validated information from lessons learned
and new use cases, better software,
service providers and accurate clarity
2017 and 2018 noise is clearing and cryptocurrency / ICO projects are
diminishing in importance. 2019 is predicted to be the year of enterprise-level
decentralized ledger technologies (DLTs)
Institutional players enter the market and serious investment funds increase
activity, hindered only by regulatory and insurance uncertainties.
Less projects get funding, but the deal structure is increasing in complexity
(more investors per deal) and more $ USD are invested per DLT Project,
indicating blockchain investment market growing maturity.
While Finance and Cryptocurrency sectors dominated investments in 2018, 2019
is predicted to be the year of insurance, oil & gas, and supply chain solutions.
Most importantly, 2019 will see blockchains taking on digital goods.
Venture capital overtakes angel investment in seed stages and almost half of
leading investors in deals are from the Asian region.
While seed capital is open to projects without a product, those with a product
have greater chance of fundraising success and raise more per deal.
4. 2018 Q4 EARLY STAGE FUNDING 4
Graph 1: Early Stage Funding (Crunchbase Data)
$0
$200,000
$400,000
$600,000
$800,000
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$1,200,000
$1,400,000
$1,600,000
$1,800,000
$0
$100,000,000
$200,000,000
$300,000,000
$400,000,000
$500,000,000
$600,000,000
$700,000,000
$800,000,000
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Total Invested Median Invested ! While total funding has been decreasing for three quarters, the median sum
invested is on the rise.
0
100
200
300
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Projects 2018
Graph 2: Total Number of Projects (Crunchbase Data)
! The decrease in total investment is associated with the decline in number of
projects. Those that remain collect larger sums.
$1,232,000 2018 Median $1,700,000 Q4 Median 608 Projects $2,732,000 Average (stable through quarters)
64.0%
15.9%
5.4%
13.2%
Type (Year)
Seed Series A Pre-Seed Angel
Graph 3: Types (Year) (Crunchbase)
53.2%
27.8%
11.4%
7.6% Type (Q4)
Seed Series A Pre-Seed Angel
! Early funding in blockchain has
gained maturity towards Q4, evident in
the increase of Series A funding with
greater availability of Pre-Seed
support.
Graph 4: Types (Q4) (Crunchbase)
Number of Investors
Total… 1,103
Year Median… 1
Q4 Median… 2
! The median number of investors
per deal increased in Q4. The
average number remained at 3.
Table 1: # of Investors per Deal (Crunchbase)
A n a l y t i c s
5. 2018 Q4 VENTURE FUNDING BY INDUSTRY 5
117 projects, $591 mil accounted for
$0
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$300,000,000
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$400,000,000
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
BLOCKCHAIN INVESTMENT
# of Projects $
A n a l y t i c s
6. 2018 Q4 VENTURE FUNDING FIRST ROUND 6
Fundraising by Blockchain Projects for their first funding round
45%
27%
23%
5%
1st Round Lead Investor Region
(by # of projects)
Asia Europe North America International
11%
14%
3%
63%
9%
1st Round Type
(by # of projects)
Angel Pre-Seed Private Equity Seed Series A
First Round Investments
70
Average Investment
$2.79 MN
Average Pre-Money Valuation
$5.87 MN
Asian Region Investors Leading
45%
Asian investors led 45% of investments, but
invested 56% of the total sum in Q4 2018.
US investors led 23% of investments, but
only-American deals account for only 6% of
the sum.
Angel Funding
• 11% of projects
• 9% of total funding
• 88% lead angels from Asia
• $1.4 mil investment per deal (avg)
• 2 investors per deal (avg)
VC Seed & Series A Funding
• 72% of projects
• 91% of total funding
• Mostly international cooperation
• $3 mil investment per deal (avg)
• 2.5 investors per deal (avg)
Average Pre-Money Valuation
• Pre-Seed = $2.18 mil
• Angel Seed = $3.5 mil
• VC Seed = $6.8 mil
• Private Equity = $25 mil
Other Statistics
• 95% of Asian region investors invested
in Asian region projects
• Project origin is evenly spread (36%
Europe, 29% Asia, 30% N. America)
A n a l y t i c s
7. 2018 Q4 FIRST ROUND PRODUCT READINESS 7
57%
26%
10%
7%
First Round Funding Product Readiness
None MVP Post-MVP Productivity
1,400,000
4,800,000
765,000
8,635,000
0
1,000,000
2,000,000
3,000,000
4,000,000
5,000,000
6,000,000
7,000,000
8,000,000
9,000,000
10,000,000
None MVP Post-MVP Productivity
Average
! Most projects achieving first-time funding did not have a product (59%),
though those that did – got more than 3x on average funds invested.
! “MVP” is defined as a basic demonstration of product, “Post-MVP” is a
fully working product version, “Productivity” is a product with existing users
A n a l y t i c s
Rated by BGX Analytics based on available data of 117 projects funded in Q4 2018
8. 2018 Q4 TOTAL ROUNDS INVESTMENT HUBS 8
A n a l y t i c s
ASIA
In 2018 Q4, Asian investors led venture deals in 31% of
the total deal flow, but raising just 10% of the total sum.
Note: Out of 117 total 2018 Q4 deals, only 68 have available information about investors, which is a representative selection on which the following data is based on
Most of that activity is in first round investments, as they
led 45% of first round deals, raising 57% of the total.
$41,324,846,
76%
1%
1%
9%
3% 8%
0%
2%
Asian Investment Hubs (by $ Sum)
Beijing Hangzhou Hong Kong Seoul Shanghai Shenzen Singapore Tokyo
Beijing investors led 76% of the funds from Asian-led
deals, despite having only 24% of the number of deals
made.
This pattern is even stronger for the first round (83%).
NORTH AMERICA
In 2018 Q4, North American investors led venture deals in 41% of the total
deal flow, but those deals raised 77% of the funds invested in this period.
For first rounds, N. American investors led 6% of deals and raised 23% of funds.
82% of funding was led by
the Silicon Valley (53% of
deals led).
For first round investments,
Silicon Valley led 44% of
deals for 36% of the funds
(59% came from Boston to
11% of deals).
EUROPE & OTHERS
Europe led 2% of the deals for 22% raised. In first round investments, European
investors led 28% of the deals for 13% raised.
London led 28% of the total sum and Tel-Aviv led 27%. However, Tel-Aviv had
less deals (6% vs. London’s 26%). Pattern persists for first round deals (34% of $
each). 5% of all deals had mixed lead investors, not attributed to any one group.
$339,183,047,
83%
US Investment Hubs (by $ Sum)
Alexandria Boston Houston Jackson
Kentucky Madison Mountain View Palo Alto
Sacramento Salt Lake City San Francisco Toronto
West Palm Beach
9. 2019 MARKET SENTIMENT 9
APPLICATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
CHALLENGES
OUTLOOK
2019: THE YEAR 2018 ‘Cleared the Noise’, 2019 Will Be the Time for the
Big Players”
As the sector clears of opportunistic low-quality projects, institutional
players and enterprise-level solutions will dominate the technology.
Integration becomes easier. Clearance & settlement, IOT, and insurance
lead the way in adopting enterprise-level systems, according to analysts.
Blockchain is one of the seven technologies insurers
must master for digital transformation [… or] new
market entrants will do what Amazon has done to retail”
2019 will be revolutionary in UX and adoption support. Integrating
decentralized solutions will get easier, enterprise-friendly, and multi-faceted.
It is inconceivable that [blockchain] remains desktop-
first when clearly the most important computing devices
are mobile. And this is clearly changing.”
Blockchain technology is still maturing and implementation is slow. Some
sectors, especially supply chain, are investing far less than expected.
A n a l y t i c s
By 2023, 90% of blockchain-based supply chain
initiatives will suffer blockchain fatigue for lack of strong
use cases.”
Blockchain is at an inflection point, with momentum
shifting from “blockchain tourism” and exploration to
the building of practical business applications.”As business-ready solutions offer greater usability and integration, higher
institutional attention will give blockchain the necessary boost in 2019.
10. BGX 2019 DIRECTION 10
A n a l y t i c s
Blockchain introduces a new vector to
accelerate the move to digital business. This
allows enterprise architecture and
technology and innovation leaders to create
or represent assets in a digital context and to
create a new, decentralized economic and
societal model.
The blockchain ledger is only a small part
of the overall enterprise app. Many off-
chain components are also needed – user
management, workflows, systems
integration, user interface, APIs, security,
event mediation, and many more.
Current status: BGX has released a fully operational v 0.5 of its network, a
white-label mobile application, API, and published its unique consensus.
Market focus: Enterprise-level DLT with a focus on digital enterprise
organizations in the digital retail and services sector
Product focus: Network growth through increased nodes, modifying
anchoring system, unveiling AI ORACLES
Strategic priorities: Attracting funding to continue development and
accelerate network adoption among enterprise clients
Investment focus: Seed funding venture capital round with 30% in equity
and token options
11. DATA COLLECTED 11
A n a l y t i c s
We thank the following resources and agencies, whose data and insight have helped in the creation of this analysis report.
12. If you have questions and want to find out
more about BGX
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Editor's Notes
Stable Coin system – maybe more towards white-label tokens? Exchange-ability?
Comparing to Vanig – no bold, have to read… maybe shorten, but add titles?