Sector focus: Financial services
GCV Analytics defines the financial services sector as encompassing payment technologies and cryptocurrencies, alternative lenders, personal finance and wealth management products and services, crowdfunding, social investing, financial analytics and insurance technologies, among other areas.
GCV reported 667 rounds involving corporate investors from the financial services sector for the period between October 2016 and September 2017. A significant portion of those (305) took place in the US, 84 were hosted in China, 50 in the UK, 36 in India and 29…