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FinTech Sandbox’s new focus includes environmental, social and governance, or ESG, investing — three letters becoming more and more popular with the Fidelitys and State Streets of the world. But executive director Kelly Fryer wants to go beyond that, seeking out entrepreneurs who, through technology, want to make financial services more accessible to underserved populations.

Five years ago, Boston’s fintech scene was barely getting off the ground. Meetups were small, investors were few, and the investors who did write checks to early-stage startups often ended their involvement after that. For husband-and-wife entrepreneurial pair Adrian and Senofer Mendoza, it was a clear gap in the market. The two founded venture capital

We often hear about companies working to improve the customer experience, but for IT their customers are the company’s employees. Nexthink, a late-stage startup that wants to help IT serve its internal constituents better, announced a $180 million Series D today on a healthy $1.1 billion valuation. The firm, which was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland

Castle Island Ventures, the early-stage crypto fund helmed by Nic Carter and Matt Walsh, has raised $50 million for its second fund. “We believe that public blockchains are a transformative technology and will change the way that we interact with money, value transfer, trusted third parties and even the fundamental architecture of the internet itself,”

TBD Angels set out nearly a year ago with a singular, straightforward mission: bring together a group of experienced founders and operators who want to invest collaboratively, and in a diverse set of startups. It started over a pizza lunch in February 2020, where a handful of Boston-area angel investors met to discuss their investment

One Way Ventures, a venture capital firm that backs immigrant founders, has closed its second fund at $57.5 million. The close comes three years after One Way announced its debut fund, a $28 million investment vehicle. The new fund will allow One Way to grow their check size from $500,000 to $1 million, giving them […]

Better late than never. So it might be said of the Boston- and New York-based seed-stage firm Flybridge Capital Partners, which is today announcing that Anna Palmer has been promoted to general partner. She is the first woman to hold the title at the 19-year-old firm. It’s a nice distinction to have and Palmer sounds […]