PeerBerry – next investment

We finally get to the final post of the year, and what a year 2018 has been! At the end of 2017, this blog and DS were only having baby steps. Although our ambitions are for much higher flights, there were a few accomplishments that we should be proud of, and some self-imposed challenges going forward. Before that, however, let …

IUVO – next investment

Before the year ends, we still wanted to make some last investment posts, and this one is about the platform IUVO. Strangely enough I found this platform through Facebook, which as mentioned previously is not something I usually like to admit. In my opinion, the best online platforms to act as intermediaries are specialized one way or another, but in …

Ecoligo – new investment

Our last post treated the intermediaries who got us a few new investment opportunities. We now move our focus to the investment opportunity itself, and this is a particularly exotic addition to our portfolio, obtained through Ecoligo Investments. The platform focuses on sustainable investments in developing countries, some of the recent ones in Latin America and in Africa. Generally projects …

Finance Intermediaries

today’s post addresses less FinTechs themselves and more about those intermediaries who often help us get to the financial services that we need. The inspiration for this post came after overcoming a general resistance I have. Basically I had an ad come up on my Facebook timeline, which is something I don’t remember agreeing to and more often than not …

Motivation to Startup

Let’s take a look at the motor behind successful startups, namely it’s and the founder’s motivation. Motivation is also broadly helpful when considering work in general, but specifically for Startups it is one of the most decisive factors to define it’s future. I haven’t always taken interest in being an entrepreneur. Not ruling it out, it simply wasn’t in my …

DagobertInvest – next investment

Let me share the next investment we have lined up for DS, made through the platform DagobertInvest from Austria. Unlike previous links to the company’s main page, the link I offer is already including my personal recommendation to new investors, so would be glad to see readers becoming investors there and will be glad to acknowledge you if that is …

TWINO – Next Investment

Our next FinTech investment was made, through the originally Latvian platform TWINO, already present in many European countries and counting among the largest among the new batch of peer-to-peer lenders. Perhaps most interesting in this platform are the relatively high interests, with most loans offering around 10% per year. They combine previously seen features such as offering guaranteed repayment and …

August catch up

It’s been almost a month since I’ve posted something here, hope you weren’t waiting for the next post. Or maybe I don’t find it too bad if you were, but please feel free to write me whenever that happens and give me a nudge, ask something or even to plain and simply complain about it. Instead of a more focused …

Next Investment – Younited Credit

Let me introduce DS’s most recent FinTech investment – the French platform Younited Credit – and also give a bit of a sum up of where we are in our project. I stumbled upon this company by searching the biggest FinTech firms in Europe and was surprised with their size, with reports in 2017 of over €500 million through 100000+ credits. …

Next investment – Mintos

This text post will introduce the next investment through FinTechs for DS: the platform Mintos. This marketplace offers something quite different than other crowdfunding platforms, and this is a report of my first experience investing with them. First thing to know about Mintos is that it positions itself as a second-tier aggregator crowdlending platform. This means that you don’t finance …