Top 5 VC Deals | Fintech

This past week, America "won" with four of the five top VC deals in the fintech sector. Furthermore, all four of those deals surpassed $100M, while the 5th deal - and Indian digital lending startup - scored $75M for their new venture.

This past week, the real estate category (proptech) continued to see dollars flow iwht a $227M deal for Fraction Technologies out of Canada. This is a shared equity program, similar in scope to what Unison offers here in the US. And we think this is SUCH a smart offering, as many people may have sufficient cash flow but not enough capital for real estate down payments.

This past week saw a bit of a slowdown in the massive deals we've been seeing since the...

More big money passed hands this past week as we were driving across America from Atlanta to our new home in Bozeman, MT, including an $800M USD deal for a POS retail loan processor and a $400M USD for a Brazilian challenger bank serving South America.

The fintech VC spigot continues to burst, with all five deals in our listing this week, again continuing to exceed $100M. This seems to be an ongoing trend for the sector, as the money continues to flow.

This week, we had some MAMMOTH deals in VC in the fintech sector, with three of the five based in the US, and the other two in London and Vietnam. Also, this week saw some VERY big funding rounds. If this is indicative of what 2021 holds in the fintech VC arena, now that we are officially back at work post-holiday season, we're in for some whopper deals. I wouldn't be surprised if we something at $1B or more at this point.

Fintech venture deals surged in the first and second weeks of January, with several mega-deals occurring in the US offshore. India, Germany and the Philippines each saw deals closing in excess of $100M USD within the fintech sector and two US deals rounded out the top 5 for this past week.

With the holidays, closings of deals the last week were a little "shy" but we did see activity the week leading up to Christmas, and since we did a 2020 trend piece on the fintech venture sector last week, we thought we'd reach back a little further than usual for this week's "weekly" report.

The year is finishing out strong. Now there's a statement you don't often hear when referring to 2020, but the fintech venture capital is still flowing and there were some large deals penned this past week. Three of the top 5 were out of the US, with Paxos - a major crypto trading platform taking the top funding slot, followed closely by OscarHealth, an insurtech focused on health insurance offerings.

It was a week before Christmas, and all the land...... the capital was flowing, for payments and...... crypto and proptech and international financial indeces