For the past year, I’ve been spending time in the Fintech Capital Markets space. Capital markets are the oil of modern commerce, with trading volumes and fees that dwarf anything I’ve ever seen in consumer and SME banking space… yet innovation lags far behind it, and the sector has attracted…

Given how much our cultural institutions have been suffering financially over 2020, and how much I *love* a good museum gift shop, I’ve been trying to make these online shops my go-to for Christmas and other gift shopping. Places like museums rely on their gift shops for crucial revenue, and…

I’m hugely excited to announce that OMERS Ventures has led an investment in PrimaryBid’s Series B. We couldn’t be more thrilled to support co-founders Anand, Kieran, James and Eric in their mission to democratise access to public market primary issuance. Public market primary issuance, you say? Every year, companies go public, typically via an IPO. Public…

Hi all, OMERS Ventures recently hosted its first roundtable over Zoom. We focused on the Capital Markets Infrastructure stack alongside our Capital Markets colleagues and heard from smart, senior and opinionated people for 2 hours. I It was so much better that we hoped (huge thanks to Will, Nicole, Dan…

After nearly 4 amazing years at LocalGlobe, the news is out that I’ve just left to join the newly formed OMERS Ventures Europe, alongside my new colleagues Harry Briggs, Henry Gladwyn and Damien Steel, focusing on Series A investments and above. …

Life insurance. It’s a huge market — c. £10B of premium spent in the UK annually. It’s also boring, undifferentiated and old fashioned. Plus the process of buying coverage is often full of friction, paper-based and time-consuming. 75% of buyers in a recent ABI survey want to be able to…

We’re delighted to announce that LocalGlobe have invested in Zencargo’s seed round, completed earlier this year alongside our friends alongside our friends Samos and Picus Capital. The announcement coincides with the 1st anniversary of the launch of the Zencargo platform. …

Cleo, the AI banking assistant we first invested in at seed in 2017, has just raised an additional $10m. We couldn’t be more delighted to welcome Balderton Capital, which is leading Cleo’s series A, as an investor. Cleo is a banking chatbot, powered by Artificial Intelligence. It’s ridiculously engaging (with…

We first met Adam and Ian, the founders of FloodFlash, via Freddy, the CEO of Cuvva, one of LG’s portfolio companies (our favourite kind of intro) and were immediately struck with the potential of what they are building: no less than a category defining product, changing an opaque, poorly understood…