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Fintech Companies Redesigning The Financial World

YoungUpstarts

China, Asia’s financial capital: the country is in 2 nd place in the fintech numbers list. Analyzing in a general way, what appears with much emphasis is a disintermediation movement, in particular the banks. The report also goes back to an extremely important topic and is highlighted by these startups: the user friendly experience.

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Where are the opportunities for the next venture-scale marketplace business?

Version One Ventures

With that said, here are some opportunities we see for the next generation of large, venture-scale marketplace businesses: Product marketplaces. With Amazon capturing nearly 50% of US e-commerce market , it may seem that there isn’t much room for a new marketplace focused on products. Services marketplaces. B2B marketplaces.

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The Final Edition

thebarefootvc

I had alluded to this in a piece I wrote in 2015 – Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?: “Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector.

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Better, Cheaper, More Convenient

Rob Go

These are companies that offer consumers a product or service (or both) that they are paid for (as opposed to consumer audience businesses that are monetized through advertising). The product or service is better than what else is out there. One very broad category of companies are what I’d call consumer transactional businesses.