By Tim Levene, CEO, and Ellen Logan, Investor, at Augmentum Fintech The proposed acquisition of Augmentum portfolio company Cushon by NatWest Group, the FTSE 100 banking and financial services group, subject to FCA approval, was announced today (link here). Augmentum is expected to receive proceeds of £22.8 million from the…

Introducing Augmentum’s first insurtech investment By Martyn Holman, Partner at Augmentum Fintech Insurance: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose Up until now, Augmentum has held a more circumspect thesis on insurtech. Early consumer-focused propositions worked hard to solve similar issues that the neo-banks had addressed a decade previously, namely that user experience problems with incumbent offerings were…

By Ellen Logan, Investor at Augmentum Fintech After a landmark year for digital assets we have announced our investment in leading crypto exchange and financial services platform Gemini. Already established as a key player in the global crypto market, we believe Gemini is exceptionally well positioned to achieve further scale…

Capital markets: an overlooked area of fintech where innovation becomes mandatory — By Reginald de Wasseige, Investor at Augmentum Fintech For the past couple of years, every segment of fintech has been impacted by technology, with opportunities for disruption and competitive advantage becoming far easier to leverage. Capital markets has been somewhat shielded however, with higher barriers to entry which has made…

Why we led Tesseract’s $25m Series A round — By Martyn Holman, Partner at Augmentum Fintech Our digital assets thesis Augmentum’s investment in ParaFi at the start of this year was made on the back of strong momentum in underlying crypto and blockchain markets in 2020, with significant inflows of institutional capital particularly in H2. In December 2020 the digital asset/crypto market cap…

By Ellen Logan, Investor at Augmentum Fintech We are delighted to announce our two latest investments, in Cushon and Epsor. Read on to learn about our pensions thesis and specific investment rationale for these two companies innovating in the workplace savings sector across the UK and France respectively. Europe’s Pension Problem Read an…

By Martyn Holman and Ellen Logan, Augmentum Fintech As first published on Master Investor. Read about our latest investment, in ParaFi, here. What is DeFi? Cryptocurrency has now been around for some time and has more than permeated the general consciousness. Stories of its wild volatility and overnight millionaires abound. But at its…

As we kick off 2021 we are delighted to announce our investment in and partnership with ParaFi Capital, who are backing pioneers in the decentralised finance (DeFi) and blockchain spaces. We have outlined below our investment rationale on the emerging DeFi space and why we chose to back the ParaFi…

We are delighted to announce our investment in Volt.io, the leading provider of account-to-account payments connectivity for international merchants and payment service providers (PSPs). Read on to learn about the Open Banking opportunity and our decision to back the Volt.io team. The Open Banking opportunity Progressive regulation is one of the key pillars which…