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Innovation in the Asset Management industry

Tefkin

Companies such as Betterment (disclosure, Anthemis is an investor & I am a customer) make investing in a diversified portfolio of ETFs easy and provide additional services such as automated rebalancing and tax optimisation. On the other end of the scale (Alpha), access to alternative assets has become easier with the JOBS act.

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Fintech Fundings: 22 Companies Raise $300 Million Plus 2 IPOs Raise $5.9 Billion

Fintech Labs Insights

Total raised: Unknown (carved out of Royal Bank of Scotland in 2010). HQ: Boston, Massecheusetts. Tags: Consumer, 401(k), retirement savings, tax-advantaged, wealth management, Finovate alum. Here are the deals by size from Oct 10 through Oct 16: . Payment processer. HQ: London, England, UK. Latest round: $3.3 billion IPO.

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The Future Of Housing: From Home Building To City Planning, Tech Giants & Startups Are Reimagining Where & How We Live

CB Insights

Asimov predicted the exploding population would cause US cities like Boston and New York to converge along the coast into combined super-urban bodies, while suburban communities would have to expand downwards, building subterranean homes. before interest, taxes, and depreciation (EBITDA) for the year.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

After Amazon announced in March that it was planning to shut down Diapers.com and all the other eCommerce sites operated by Quidsi, the company it acquired in 2010 — the online retailer has pulled all of the Quidsi apps from its app store. Title: Boston startup Besomebody, once featured on ‘Shark Tank,’ shuts down app.

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