Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: e-scooter boom; Moley's robo-chef; Indian startup bonanza
Read MoreEach week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: iCar; Big Tech bans Trump; LG Rollable
Read MoreEach week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Alphabet Workers Union; digitised auto sales; regulation of fintechs vs banks.
Read MoreThis week, Altio reviews the European Commission's Digital Acts, proposed on 15 December 2020. With inforgraphics about both the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA), Altio summarises and analyses the implications of these proposed acts.
Read MoreIn this article, we look at contrarian investing and how to overcome herd mentality when investing. The availability of tracker funds or ETF marketed at low cost by brokers have made it increasingly easy and simple to follow the crowd. But is it still paying off to go the extra mile and beyond the majority sentiment?
Read MoreEach week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: IPO bubble; Uber expands to groceries; tax compliancy without borders; Flow's at-home depression treatment.
Read MoreEach week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: 2020 VR/AR developments; EV Cadillac Ultimatum; Cisco acquires Slido and IMImobile; Wind Energy Investment Boom
Read MoreEach week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: COVID-19 vaccines; SpaceX launch; Cashless Payment; Microsoft Teams; EdTech
Read MoreIn this article, we go over the basics of traditional value investing, critique assumptions about value in light of disruption, and offer a holistic new solution to appropriately apply the tenets of value investing to the dynamic tech sector.
Read MoreEach week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Moolec Molecular Farming; London Hub of Impact Tech; Klain's appointment as Chief of Staff; Africa-Based Tech Investment; Electric Ford
Read MoreSo you want to join the 21st century by investing in technology, but you don’t know where to begin? The last few decades centred on real estate, and many of us, or our parents, have benefitted from this by buying a first home, maybe even a second one. But how do we translate this success into investing in technology? Can we employ real estate investment strategies to that of tech? At Altio, we think so. Instead of buying a home, it is time to buy property in technology . . .
Read MoreEach week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Emerging tech ecosystems; electric vehicles; NimbleFin startup rankings; real-estate disruption; freelance working
Read MoreEach week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Apple's ARM chip; Google's Journalist Studio; China regulates tech; Alibaba acquires Sun Art Retail; Renault wants to be Ferrari
Read MoreThe Venture Capital (VC) firm Accel has shown the world how to monetise 7.5bn USD worth of tech firms in 3 months following the successful IPOs of Slack, Crowdstrike and PagerDuty. Andreessen Horowitz (Slack, PagerDuty, Pintrest, Lyft) and Bessemer (PagerDuty, Pinterest) have also done similarly well in this stream of tech IPOs. More and more funds are following the Series B through to IPO route . . .
Read MoreRaising cash to pursue the networking effect — growth at a rate that allows you to dominate your space — is one of the core investment thesis behind technology. But balancing goals is also important and a single-minded focus on this should not blind us from another core priority: excellent product.Excellent product combined with reasonable sales investments based on pre-set KPIs will allow you to navigate unpredictable ground and is likely to substantially increase your chances of success and reach the desired networking effect . . .
Read MoreVenture debt is useful for companies who are still in the cash burn phase (negative cash flows) or lack the collateral required to access traditional debt. This is very relevant to the SaaS business model since development costs are usually high before the first minimum viable product is created. After that there are additional costs to acquire customers, and it generally takes a while before a company starts to generate revenue . . .
Read MoreVenture debt is a useful tool for startups and growing companies who are still in the cash burn phase (negative cash flows) or lack the collateral required to access traditional debt. This means venture debt is available earlier than traditional debt in your capital structure, usually whilst your business is younger and in the steepest part of its growth . . .
Read MoreWe know that the time taken to raise financing can run into the hundreds of hours. Here we go over three of the reasons why this can be the case (slower growth, threat of competition, complicated model or product) and some points to consider to make the process more efficient . . .
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