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Martin Boujol

Martin has recently graduated from the university of St. Gallen with a master's degree in Business Innovation. He joined Flowbank in September 2020 as strategy assistant to the CIO. He has a strong interest in finance and new technologies and has a certain expertise in literature and philosophy.

Stocks ・ Technology

7 December 2020

Watch website Hodinkee raises $40 million in series B funding

The funding was mainly led by TCG, LVMH Luxury Ventures, quarterback Tom Brady and singer John Mayer

Stocks ・

4 December 2020

CITI's outperforming venture capital arm: the success formula

While we often speak of venture capitalist companies, we rarely examine the VC branches of larger companies. Citi's VC has been very successful in the past 5 years, let's have a look!

Technology

3 December 2020

The biggest acquisition of 2020: $44B for more data

S&P Global, the Data giant, agreed to buy IHS Markit in an all-stock deal, a London-based data company for the decent amount of $44 billion.

Stocks ・ Technology ・ ESG

2 December 2020

Yet another SPAC: The Lion Electric EVs

The EV bus and truck company is looking to go public via SPAC in the beginning of next year.

Stocks ・ ESG

1 December 2020

3 French businessmen creating the next European Food Champion

Xavier Niel, Mathieu Pigasse and Moez-Alexandre Zouari, decided to raise 300m euros for a blank-cheque company and establish a vertically integrated player in the organic industry.

Stocks ・

30 November 2020

Pinterest launches online community classes

Pinterest is winning the pandemic, and aims to double down on growth with a new educational feature.

Stocks ・ Technology ・ Investing

27 November 2020

Is Salesforce buying Slack?

The giant cloud software company is working on a deal to acquire the messaging company. According to people familiar with the matter, this would be one of the biggest software transaction ever.

Commodities ・ Technology

26 November 2020

Toast, the DineTech startup, soars to an 8 billion valuation

It was not an easy year for a company focused on serving restaurants, but it seems like they managed to pull it off, and with grace. How?

Stocks ・ Technology

25 November 2020

New Snapchat feature Spotlight pays users $1 million for viral hits

Likes are not only here as a vanity metric anymore: They can make you rich. How does that happen?

Technology ・ IPO

24 November 2020

Yet another IPO: Wish, the cheap e-commerce platform

Wish, your favourite cheap stuff e-commerce platform just announced its initial public offering in New York (joining the planned IPOs of Airbnb, DoorDash, Affirm and Roblox).

Technology ・ Europe ・ The Swiss Series

23 November 2020

Swiss Stocks: Zur Rose and their new healthcare platform

Zur Rose is developing its own, fully-integrated healthcare platform for user's convenience. Insurances, doctors and pharmacies: all in one place for the best patient experience.

Stocks ・ Technology

23 November 2020

Google is in overlord mode again, here's why

Google is launching its own payments and money management services. An upgraded Google Play which, frankly, scares me a little.

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