by Robert Solomon | Jan 29, 2024 | Financial services, Fintech
Last week, Pitchbook published its IPO Watchlist of 10 US fintech venture-backed with a high likelihood of going public. According to the article, The list was created using PitchBook’s VC Exit Predictor, which calculates exit probability using a machine learning...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 10, 2024 | B2B Software, Financial services, Industry Big Data, Marketplaces
The latest controversy around Carta, the equity management software company, has been a soap opera. There is excellent coverage from Dan Primack on Axios here and here. After summarizing the breathtaking timeline, I provide a few observations: Carta Background Most...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 22, 2021 | B2B Software, Financial services, Marketplaces
It’s no surprise that there are too many investment marketplaces to name. After all, marketplaces tend to thrive in markets that are: Volatile Varied Fragmented on both sides The world of investment management certainly meets these requirements. In the US...
by Robert Solomon | Nov 23, 2020 | CPG/Retail, Electronic Payments, Financial services, Marketplaces
Every day there is a new IPO for an interesting software company with a marketplace angle. Airbnb’s S-1 is the obvious example. But Affirm, which filed to go public last week has marketplace aspirations as well. There are plenty of great articles on the...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 13, 2017 | B2B Software, Financial services, Real Estate
When I was at Ariba, we started by automating relatively straightforward business transactions. The transactions usually involved well-defined goods from catalogs, simple purchase orders, and invoices. Many items did not even require proof of delivery. This was an...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 1, 2017 | B2B Software, Financial services, Industry Big Data, Insurance, Oil and Gas
Unless you are a true B2B software nerd (which many of you are), you just thought to yourself, “Who bought who?” After all, neither the acquirer nor the acquiree is exactly a household name. Nonetheless, Verisk Analytics and PowerAdvocate are great...
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