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#Fintech #Defi - HUBX closes further investment led by Mandalore Partners and ACF Investors.

HUBX, a deal syndication platform for banks and brokerage firms, welcomes two new investors, Mandalore Partners and ACF Investors’ Delta Fund. They join other existing investors including Barclays and Basinghall Partners.

HUBX clients and partners include Tier 1 banks, Finastra and Barclays.

The platform allows financial institutions to digitise their syndicated lending and private placement transactions by collaborating safely with other organisations without sharing private data. This gives every HUBX client access to other client networks for deal syndication and joint bookrunning on a private basis.

HUBX simplifies collaboration between banks by allowing institutions of all sizes to quickly deploy their own deal syndication platform and share deals on their own terms privately. Each platform leverages actionable insights and structured data that connects with back-office systems such as Fusion Loan IQ, to deliver a single source of truth and straight through processing.

Axel Coustere, co-founder of HUBX said “Banks are embracing end-to-end execution and better customer experience across the value chain. The front-end deal syndication process is the logical next step in terms of digitisation in capital markets. We look forward to working with Mandalore Partners and ACF Investors on delivering platform adoption in this space.”

Stephen Ong, co-founder of HUBX added “We are excited to be digitally connecting more players in the private deal syndications markets. By providing a single infrastructure to large and small banks alike, we can deliver significant efficiency gains for large institutions, cost-effective cutting-edge technology to the smaller ones and digital transformation of front office operations, out of the box.”

Minh Q. Tran, managing partner at Mandalore, said “Mandalore Partners invests in Insurtech and focuses on Decentralized Finance (#DeFi) with possible acceleration in adopting blockchain technology. Hence, we want to onboard more institutional investors on marketplaces or blockchain platforms to assess new alternative assets in private equity.”

Tim Mills, CEO of ACF Investors, said “HUBX has built a robust, highly usable and extremely scalable platform to improve the efficiency, but also enhance the client experience, for one the largest areas of capital markets. With the traction they now have with major institutions in both Europe and the US serving to re-enforce the strength of the value proposition. We are therefore delighted to be supporting the founding team of Stephen and Axel on this journey, through this latest tranche of funding that will help to build on the Company’s momentum.”

 

 

About HUBX

Headquartered in London, The Hub Exchange Limited (“HUBX”) delivers state-of-the-art deal syndication platforms to help banks, brokers, exchanges and asset management firms execute private transactions within their own network and beyond. It helps financial institutions meet time-critical deal execution deadlines and reduce dramatically costs associated with executing and syndicating private transactions. HUBX delivers its robust, secure platform directly as well as through outsourcers and major industry service providers.

Further information can be found at: hubx.capital.

About Mandalore Partners

Mandalore works with insurance companies, institutional investors, and fund managers to invest at scale in real and alternative assets, with strong technology expertise and exposure to startups seeking to disrupt traditional players in Fintech, Insurtech, Proptech, Wealthtech, and Impact Finance. Mandalore has offices in Paris, London, and Luxembourg.

Further information can be found at: mandalorepartners.com.

About ACF Investors (“ACF”)

Based in London, ACF manage £100m active co-investment funds that seek to achieve consistent returns by partnering with experienced syndicates of angel investors to help fund and scale early-stage businesses. Built on the experience of many investments across multiple funds, the ACF coinvests with angel investors and provides its capital, experience and support. ACF is a proponent of patient capital, making conscious long-term investments to help companies reach their full potential and generate the best returns.

Further information can be found at: acfinvestors.com.

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#Insurtech - Trends in insurance health and prevention at Drive Innovation Insights

Top 25 #DeFi influencers_October ranking_Pilot

Top10 online Influencers in a BNI Chapter - Pilot ranking done last summer

 

The above methodology is a mix of followers and online social authority.

SUMMARY

Do you know that this week, we have the 1st BNI International Convention 100% online? Programme and registration here from @BNI_official_pg

I recently joined as a founding member the BNI French Connexion, the 1st online chapter in the history of BNI. It is 100% online and it is the worldwide premiere. Thanks for @BNI_France for allowing that

There are mainly 35 members after a few months now and we aim to reach about 100. For my businss as an investor and venture capitalist, there are many questions that have raised. Why join? There are clearly no investors or LPs to reach out.

However, one can observe 3 key facts:

• BNI is a fantastic organisation for offline events. In the online space, there are many rooms to improve. As a "startup" in the digital space, one could be attracted by the potential
• BNI offers many hidden and learning opportunities to create business "tribes", especially an investment fund
• As a long time online influencer, joining the 100% online BNI is no brainer.

Happy to hear from the top influencers too:

@IvanMisner

@pkhill

@HatmatSsekaaya

@BrandYouYear

@Wendy_Met

@HectorCisneros

@BushellsCA

@CH_Lawson

@PascalOngom

 

#Insurtech #StartupStudio - Mandalore Partners invests in Start-Up & Spin-Off Studio KER

Mandalore Partners announces its first investment in an innovation accelerator. This partnership between the Start-up & Spin-Off Studio Ker and Mandalore Partners will allow Mandalore to:

1. Invest in the Start-up Studio Ker

2. Create a vertical in Insurtech with APICIL group, a non-profit French corporation focusing on social protection in the “Auvergne Rhône-Alpes” (AURA) region

3. Develop tech innovation in SMBs in the AURA region on others verticals with corporates

The AURA region is a great source of high-potential SMBs (nearly 3000 of them, the highest concentration in France), but struggles to scale due to a lack of tools to deploy these innovations. These promising companies generally need follow-up and financing.

Established in the heart of Lyon Tech-La Doua campus in Villeurbanne (22,000 students), the Start- Up Studio KER has access to the best French engineers and to 23 labs from INSA structured around multiple verticals, especially health. Ker is a Start-up & Spin-Off studio specialized in the creation and acceleration of tech projects in collaboration with the startups. Ker also provides seed money to the best startups. Its core technologies include in particular GreenTech, HRTech, FoodTech and SportTech.

The Start-Up Studio Ker focuses on a proven methodology and has the role of tech innovation catalyst. Ker identifies business-related needs with high added-value for its stockholders and partner companies, then gathers a team of high-potential engineers with complementary co-founders in order to launch entrepreneurial projects in optimal conditions for success. Mandalore Partners has been seduced by the multiple shared resources, the multi-disciplinary team, the market knowledge of partner companies and the privileged relations with labs and engineering universities (especially INSA Lyon) of Ker.

In addition, this investment will allow the establishment of a new vertical founded on insurance. This vertical will focus on three industries: digital insurance products (neo-insurance), Data and Artificial Intelligence especially targeted at prevention and services to insurers and brokers (marketing and sales). This investment thus fulfills the joint goal of Mandalore Partners and APICIL to address clients’ needs through innovation.

Other verticals besides insurance, such as digital, transports and energy, will be addressed in partnership with corporates. Financed projects will benefit from support on governance, fundraising, financial management, HR management and public relations.

« We are delighted to partner with APICIL and Mandalore Partners in order to help emerge new businesses around insurance, prevention, and health in corporations. Ker is open to other collaborations in order to build new verticals, based on its creation methodology and investment tool. » Sébastien Perros, CEO of KER.

« Mandalore once again highlights its capacity to support partner companies in their innovation approach and deployment of regional partnerships. Our sector expertise in InsurTech allows us to identify relevant projects in order to create appropriate innovation synergies. We are convinced that they will know how to benefit from it and put themselves at the forefront of InsurTech »Minh Q. Tran, Managing Partner and Founder of Mandalore Partners

« Convinced that open-innovation is the way to go about transformation, the APICIL group has actively joined support programs for startups and Intrapreneurial projects. This partnership is a new opportunity to develop innovative ideas coming internally, in order to transform our job as insurers and bring a new customer experience thanks to this collaboration with Ker and all of its multi-disciplinary partners. »Marie Christine Eudes, Director of Innovation and Services at Groupe APICIL