We launch new series of 1-minute videos – tips for startup founders from Alexander Konoplyasty, co-founder of Flashpoint Venture Capital. ❓”Can my convertible cap be a signal to the next round’s valuation?”👉Your conversion cap could be a signal to the next round’s valuation but... View Article
US and Europe’s leading tech VC’s discuss investment and RegTech at the SaaS lounge co-hosted by Flashpoint VC and Clausematch November 7, 2022, London, UNITED KINGDOM – New York: Leaders from Flashpoint VC, Lytical Ventures, the Sony Innovation Fund, and... View Article
Helsinki, Finland– October 25, 2022 — Tech-driven hospitality provider, Bob W, which offers a smarter and more sustainable alternative to hotels and short-stay rentals, has secured €21 million in series A funding, led by IDC Ventures, Elevator Ventures, Verve Ventures and Flashpoint.... View Article
Intellectual Property (IP) protection is not always high on the list of priorities for start-up founders immersed in the day-to-day struggle to turn an inspired idea into a successful business. Quite often, the first time entrepreneurs seriously consider securing their... View Article
October 10, 2022. New-York. Flashpoint Venture Capital, an international technology investment firm that manages equity and debt funds that are focused on US and international tech start-ups originating in Emerging Europe and Israel, has opened a new office in New York.... View Article
Széchenyi Funds, a Hungarian fund manager, to invest $20 million in Flashpoint VC III fund. The close allows VC III to reach its target fund size of US$100 million. August 4, 2022. London. Flashpoint Venture Capital, an international technology investment firm... View Article
Remarks by Dr. Jan Dauman, CEO, InterMatrix; co-Founder and Trustee, IBLF Global Let me start by saying that the question “will ESG increase my value” doesn’t make much sense to me, because the answer is “it depends”. What we actually... View Article
June 14, 2022 — London — New York — San Francisco — Clausematch, a global RegTech company automating policy management and compliance for regulated industries, today announced the close of a US$10.8M strategic funding round led by Lytical Ventures and joined by... View Article
Global financial markets have been disrupted recently, inevitably affecting private markets around the world. Early-stage start-ups find themselves in a particularly difficult and risky environment as investors start to become hesitant in these market conditions.
Back in 2020 Flashpoint launched a new initiative called SummerSaaS — an online competition for seed and post-seed SaaS companies. In 2021, we went further and not only repeated the previous event but grew it into a conference with interesting panel discussions around VC topics.
3rd annual SummerSaaS conference for venture capital firms and tech startups with founders from Emerging Europe and Israel is scheduled for June 9, 2022 in online format and will feature the pitch competition and VC panel discussions on trending topics, as well as corporate panel with the region’s leading technology companies.
Finally we are back to in-person events but still you can get the first contact from the LinkedIn. You might hate attending various conferences being a hige introvert, so this is the great tool that will help you to connect to partners, startup founders, other VCs, potential employers.
April 14, 2022- Flashpoint, an international technology investment firm that manages venture capital, growth secondary, and venture debt funds and Dynamo Software introduce Flashpoint’s new Investor Portal that optimises the front-to-back office productivity of the investment teams, the fund managers and the limited partners, while providing innovative solutions to facilitate data exchange between the parties.
April 11, 2022 — Flashpoint has been appointed an authorised representative of ALDGATE ADVISORS LIMITED which is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Flashpoint Venture Capital Fund III has migrated from being a Jersey Private Fund to a Jersey Expert Fund which reflects Flashpoint’s desire to adhere to more stringent regulatory requirements.
FinTech Startup Gaviti helps companies recoup outstanding receivables with their automated platform. “In 2021, our clients recovered $6.2 billion in A/R Receivables by streamlining an otherwise tedious process,” said Yan Lazarev, Co-founder & CEO of Gaviti. April 6, 2022– Gaviti, an... View Article
We are happy to announce that Flashpoint’ AUM set to cross US$0.5 billion! Click here to see the video press-release As at December 31, 2021 our Assets Under the Management reached c. US$480 million, amount of exits exceeded US$50 million. As... View Article
Flashpoint, international investment group with c. US$0.5 billion AUM announces its 3rd annual SummerSaaS conference for venture capital firms and tech startups with founders from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Israel, Finland and the Baltics. The Conference is scheduled for June 9, 2022 in online format.
The last two weeks for us at Flashpoint have been one of the hardest periods in our lives. Being an investor with Eastern European roots, and physical offices across Riga, Warsaw and Budapest, we are deeply disgusted by the horrors of the war in Ukraine.
Omnipack, a full-stack fulfillment service company for medium-sized European online stores, today announced that it has secured €2 million in new debt financing from Flashpoint Venture Debt. Omnipack will use its new financing by Flashpoint to further develop new systems... View Article
ByNext Secures $10 mln in Capital from Flashpoint to Accelerate its Organic Growth and Consolidate the Home Services Market in the US New financing will provide growth capital to the leading tech-based, omni-channel clothing and premise care company providing sustainable... View Article
The main difference between public and private markets lies in accessibility i.e. liquidity. While it is easy and inexpensive to invest in and trade in the public market, the private market is a different story. This article is Part I of a two-part series highlighting the importance of creating liquidity from the founder and company perspective. It dives into problems like dead equity and presents subsequent solutions on how to tackle these issues, including solutions involving secondary transactions in shares.
If you are an entrepreneur and it’s your first rodeo, you may come across different VC’s and startup terms you are not going to be familiar with and while many of the terms are technical not being familiar with them may cost you in losing points in the eyes of the VC. Therefore, you should want to learn the relevant language of funding. There are several terms and abbreviations that are used for evaluating your company, understanding your growth and your business plans.
Sustainable development has recently gained momentum; the public is paying attention to the topic, and governments are taking it into account in their legislative activities, and VCs are also getting more interested in the concept of sustainability. In 2021, 80% of... View Article
17 January 2022, London – DigiDoe, the first company in the UK to offer biometrics-based payments to merchants without the presence of a card or phone, today announced that part of its freshly secured £852,500 ($1.15m) in new funding comes... View Article
January 12, 2022 — Meal Ticket, a leading end-to-end business management solution for foodservice distributors, and MarketMan, a leading inventory management and supplier automation platform for the restaurant industry, today announced a merger to combine their complementary software and enable... View Article
Qonversion raises $2M seed round to facilitate adoption of subscriptions in mobile apps Mobile subscription data platform closes latest funding round, co-led by Visionaries Club and Flashpoint VC, alongside Blinkist founder Holger Seim and S16.vc, to power the growth of... View Article
Flashpoint Secondary Fund (“FSF”), a secondary vehicle of Flashpoint Group, has completed an investment in K2View, a global leader in operational data fabric solutions. K2View Fabric transforms fragmented data from source systems according to business-centric data products — customer, product,... View Article
A pitch deck can make or break your entire company. Investors see hundreds to thousands of pitches a year, so how do you make yours stand out? Based on some of the top fundraising pitch decks, here are some steps.... View Article
We are pretty sure you’ve googled “best investor decks” and consequently were bombarded with hundreds of sites offering to help you with outdated templates and the classic Airbnb cliches. The industry has moved past these examples and building an investor... View Article
Edward Tufte of Yale, one of the fathers of information design and data visualization, noted that “there are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: illegal drugs and software.” His insight is especially troubling for the venture capital (VC)... View Article
Thank you for considering to subscribe to Flashpoint Five, our weekly newsletter, that contains five hand selected articles from Flashpoint's Investment Team for the five days of the working week with five lines of text.
By subscribing, I consent to the processing of my personal data in order to receive Newsletters initiated by FVC Management Consultants Cyprus Ltd ("Flashpoint"). I am aware that the submission of data is optional, but necessary to receive the Newsletter.
