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06.13.2025Blog

From Series B to IPO: The Early Bet on Chime, America’s Most Loved Digital Bank

How Cathay Innovation’s global VC perspective led to conviction in Chime before Silicon Valley…

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Medium
05.28.2025Blog

Cathay Innovation Closes $1B VC Fund — A Different Kind of Fund Built to Bring Vertical AI to Industry

04.29.2025Blog

AI & Healthcare: Building Bridges Through Collective Dialogue

04.22.2025In the Press

Fintech Isn’t Just Back, It’s Being Rearchitected For AI

05.28.2025Blog

Cathay Innovation Closes $1B VC Fund — A Different Kind of Fund Built to Bring Vertical AI to Industry

04.29.2025Blog

AI & Healthcare: Building Bridges Through Collective Dialogue

04.22.2025In the Press

Fintech Isn’t Just Back, It’s Being Rearchitected For AI

06.13.2025Blog

From Series B to IPO: The Early Bet on Chime, America’s Most Loved Digital Bank

Medium
05.28.2025Blog

Cathay Innovation Closes $1B VC Fund — A Different Kind of Fund Built to Bring Vertical AI to Industry

Medium
04.29.2025Blog

AI & Healthcare: Building Bridges Through Collective Dialogue

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04.22.2025In the Press

Fintech Isn’t Just Back, It’s Being Rearchitected For AI

Crunchbase News
03.19.2025In the Press

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want: How Agentic AI Closes The Gap Between IRL And E-Commerce Shopping

Crunchbase News
02.04.2025Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Bioptimus’ $41M Series A

Medium
01.30.2025Blog

Healthcare Transformed: Agentic AI

Medium
01.14.2025Blog

Cathay Innovation US: 2025 VC Outlook

Medium
01.14.2025Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Nelly’s €50M Series B

Medium
12.13.2024In the Press

“We are a global reference for facilitating the link between corporations and startups”

Maddyness
12.10.2024Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: AQEMIA’s 38M Funding Round

Medium
11.26.2024Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Range’s $28M Series B

Medium
11.04.2024Blog

Healthcare Transformed: Where AI Meets Clinical Care

Medium
10.30.2024Blog

Need a Loan? The (AI) Agent Will See You Now

Medium
10.28.2024In the Press

Why the time for grid tech innovation is now

Latitude Media
10.22.2024Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Ghost’s $40M Series C

Medium
09.23.2024Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: David Energy’s $23M Series A

Medium
09.13.2024In the Press

Retail media is shaking up the traditional e-commerce value chain [Tribune]

LSA
09.12.2024In the Press

“In the beginning, it’s 70-30”: between the team and the product, what do VCs prioritize?

JDN
09.11.2024Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Entalpic’s $8.5M Seed

Medium
08.09.2024In the Press

AI is the most important productivity driver in the healthcare sector

Maddyness
06.27.2024Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Sidecar Health’s $165M Series D

Medium
06.03.2024Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: imagino’s €25M Series A

Medium
05.20.2024Blog

Four Ways FinTechs Are Capitalizing on the Silver Tsunami

Medium
05.06.2024Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Reuse is giving electronics a second life in Spanish-speaking Latin America

Medium
04.29.2024Blog

Towards a medical revolution: the impact of AI in Healthcare

Medium
04.26.2024In the Press

“Crowdequity”: How Web3 Startups Fund Themselves Without the Help of Investment Funds

Capital.fr
04.01.2024In the Press

Beyond speculation, cryptos are the shovels and picks of the financial revolution

La Tribune
03.01.2024Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Meet Pulsar, the AI Startup Out to Optimize Manufacturing in Latam & the US

Medium
02.10.2024In the Press

“Bitcoin Spot ETFs, a huge opportunity for Flowdesk” according to Denis Barrier, co-founder of Cathay Innovation

cryptoast
01.25.2024In the Press

VC Cathay Innovation welcomes the institutionalization of the crypto economy exemplified by Bitcoin ETFs.

Coins.fr
01.22.2024Blog

Leading Flowdesk’s $50M Series B

Medium
01.08.2024Blog

Cathay Innovation US: 2024 VC Outlook

Medium
01.08.2024Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Meet Nabla, the Leading Ambient AI Assistant for Healthcare Practitioners

Medium
01.02.2024In the Press

More than 40 investors share their top predictions for 2024

TechCrunch
12.19.2023In the Press

Cathay Innovation on BFM Crypto, the Club: Crypto-assets, how to analyze the latest levels?

BFM Crypto
12.18.2023In the Press

Financing the energy transition through digital innovation: the convergence of technologies

Le Magazine des Professions Financières et de L’Economie
12.08.2023Blog

Gaps in the Modern CFO Stack: The Generative AI Opportunity

Medium
12.01.2023In the Press

Opinion | French Tech at the crossroads

Les Echos
11.01.2023Blog

Money20/20 Key Takeaways: AI X Fintech? Not Yet.

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09.27.2023Blog

Startup to IPO: How Tuhu Car Became China’s 1st Automotive Aftermarket Company to Debut on the HKEX

Medium
09.21.2023In the Press

Klaviyo IPO offers valuation benchmark

Axios
08.22.2023In the Press

AI’s transformative role: Making insurance accessible and affordable globally

e27
08.21.2023Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Ghost is Revolutionizing Inventory Management with Access to Excess

Medium
08.08.2023Blog

Global AI Regulation: The Need for Speed in an Era of Unbridled Innovation

Medium
06.14.2023Blog

Data Unleashed: Navigating the Brave New World of Consumer Data

Medium
06.14.2023Blog

A New Intelligence Infrastructure: Where AI, Web3 & Cybersecurity Converge

Medium
05.19.2023Blog

Policy: The Least Spoken About, But Most Important Topic in Artificial Intelligence

Medium
05.18.2023In the Press

5 investors discuss what’s in store for venture debt following SVB’s collapse

TechCrunch
05.11.2023Blog

Reality vs. Hype: How AI & Human Activity Combine

Medium
05.09.2023In the Press

Exploring the rise of finance-as-a-service in APAC

e27
05.08.2023Blog

Industry Insights: How Will AI Impact the Modern-Day Education System?

Medium
04.21.2023Blog

Reduce, Reuse…Recommerce? Why Recommerce is the New Black

Medium
04.07.2023In the Press

VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags

TechCrunch
03.31.2023Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Inato is Solving the Massive Clinical Trial Access & Diversity Gap

Medium
03.29.2023Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Looking Back on Reebelo’s $50M Series A and the Emergence of a Global Recommerce Player

Medium
01.17.2023Blog

Global Investor Roundtable: 2023 Predictions on What’s Next for VC & Startups Across the World

Medium
01.16.2023In the Press

French Tech: the 10 women to follow in 2023

Les Echos
01.03.2023In the Press

Venture Capital’s 2023 Rising Stars

Venture Capital Journal
01.03.2023In the Press

The rising star of platform services

Venture Capital Journal
01.03.2023In the Press

Meet the new generation of investment funds in France

Maddyness
12.20.2022In the Press

Web3: 10 personalities to follow in 2023

The Big Whale
12.16.2022Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Meet Kuona, an AI-Driven SaaS Company Solving CPG’s Pricing & Promotion Headaches

Medium
12.15.2022Blog

Industry Insights: 8 Investment Sectors that Thrive Through Recessions

Medium
12.07.2022In the Press

Recessions, Resilience And Returns: Here Are 8 Tech Sectors Primed For Growth

Crunchbase News
09.02.2022Blog

Understanding the Capital Behind Venture Capital

Medium
07.12.2022Blog

€1B to Invest in Startups Transforming Industries & Society

Medium
07.06.2022In the Press

How e-commerce companies can brave the new retail environment

TechCrunch
05.03.2022Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Meet Henry, Latam’s Tech Bootcamp Allowing Anyone Access to Higher Education

Medium
04.14.2022In the Press

Credit-focused fintechs target LatAm’s underbanked

S&P GLobal Market Intelligence
03.30.2022Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Skan’s AI-Powered “Dynamic Process Intelligence” is Disrupting a $100B Industry

Medium
03.09.2022Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How AI Rudder is Localizing Conversational AI for Southeast Asia

Medium
02.15.2022Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Reebelo is Building APAC’s Circular Economy for Refurbished Electronics

Medium
02.02.2022Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How French HealthTech Resilience is Reinventing How We Treat Cancer through Digital & Remote Medical Monitoring

Medium
01.12.2022Blog

Global Investor Roundtable: Cathay Innovation’s 2022 Predictions on What’s Next for VC & Startups Across the Globe

Medium
01.11.2022In the Press

Top Ten 2022 Fintech Predictions

Forbes
01.10.2022Blog

Positive Impact Throughout the Startup Journey

Medium
12.15.2021In the Press

Podcast: Where fintechs will flourish in 2022

American Banker
12.07.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Peek is Leading Experiences’ Digital Transformation Moment as Travel Makes its 2022 Comeback

Medium
12.02.2021In the Press

Cathay Innovation’s Keshup on Grab’s SPAC, SE Asia Tech

Bloomberg
11.17.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Meet Facily, the Brazilian Startup that’s been Quietly Democratizing E-Commerce in Latin America

Medium
11.10.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How ZenBusiness Became a $1.7B SMB Powerhouse

Medium
11.03.2021Blog

Industry Insights: Fintech’s Growing Role in the Healthcare Revolution

Medium
10.27.2021Blog

Fund of Funds: Granting Investors Smart Access to the Early-Stage VC Game

Medium
10.25.2021In the Press

Fintech’s growing role in the healthcare revolution

TechCrunch
10.01.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How LeadIQ Has Quietly Built the Next Global SaaS Leader Unifying Top of Funnel Sales with Hyper-Efficient Teams

Medium
09.28.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Colizey is Reinventing Online Sports Retail for the Post-Pandemic World

Medium
09.01.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Xepelin is Helping LatAm’s SMEs Flourish

Medium
08.26.2021Blog

Industry Insights: How insurtech is improving the way insurance is built, bought and experienced across the globe

Medium
08.24.2021In the Press

16 promising embedded finance startups that top European investors predict are the future of fintech

Business Insider
08.05.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How DayTwo is Revolutionizing Diabetes Care and Beyond with Microbiome Precision Nutrition

Medium
08.03.2021Blog

How FinAccel’s $2.5B SPAC Points to Southeast Asia’s Golden Age

Medium
06.10.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Ledger is France’s Newest Billion Dollar Company Securing Digital Assets in Tomorrow’s Tokenized World

Medium
06.09.2021Blog

How Wallbox $1.5B SPAC by Kensington Capital Will Fuel the EV Boom & Shift to Sustainable Mobility

Medium
06.08.2021In the Press

What The Chipper, Flutterwave, OPay And Tyme Bank Mega-Rounds Mean For The African Tech Scene

Forbes
05.25.2021Blog

Ecosystem Outlook: The Global Hydrogen Energy Market & Cross-border Synergies

Medium
04.23.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Unsupervised is Solving Big Data’s Big Problem with AI-Augmented Analytics

Medium
04.22.2021In the Press

India’s Startups Worth Billions Sidelined From Global SPAC Hunt

Bloomberg Tax
04.11.2021In the Press

Grab’s $34 Billion SPAC Deal Puts Southeast Asia Tech on the Map

Bloomberg
04.02.2021In the Press

🇨🇳 Cathay Innovation’s Man In Paris 🇫🇷

French Tech Journal
03.08.2021Blog

French Startups to EU’s Scaleups – Part II: Customers, Products, Marketing & Sales

Medium
03.04.2021Blog

French Startups to EU’s Scaleups – Part I: Vision, Culture & Leadership

Medium
02.02.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Wallbox’s Ecosystem of EV Charging is Pushing Forward the Shift to Sustainable Mobility

Medium
01.26.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Sidecar Health is California’s Newest Billion Dollar Startup Radically Transforming Health Insurance

Medium
01.25.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Alma is Poised to Lead the “Buy Now, Pay Later” Movement in France & Democratize the Future of Retail

Medium
01.13.2021Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: Doubling Down on Iziwork to Revitalize Europe’s Economy with a New Standard for Temporary Work

Medium
01.02.2021Blog

Global Investor Roundtable: Cathay Innovation’s 2021 Predictions on What’s Next for VC & Startups Across North America, Europe and Asia

Medium
12.31.2020In the Press

Banktech and Payments: What to expect in 2021

Finledger
12.30.2020In the Press

30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

HIT Consultant
12.29.2020In the Press

From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity (TechCrunch)

Medium
12.29.2020Blog

New Year Letter: 2020 Reflections to 2021 Predictions

Medium
11.19.2020Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How ZenBusiness is the Operating System for Small Business — Making Entrepreneurship Accessible for All

Medium
11.19.2020Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How FirstVet’s Telemedicine for Pets is Revolutionizing Animal Care

Medium
11.10.2020Blog

Industry Spotlight: Insurance at the Inflection Point — Digitization Disruption in the Developed World Meets Massive Emerging Market Growth Opportunity

Medium
10.29.2020Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Skan’s AI-Driven Process Discovery is a Launchpad for Digital Transformation

Medium
10.15.2020Blog

Behind the Term Sheet: How Savana Accelerates Life-Saving Health Science with Big Data

Medium
10.02.2020In the Press

Which neobanks will rise or fall?

TechCrunch
07.23.2020Blog

Investing in Sidecar Health: Bringing Better Access to Quality Affordable Healthcare in the US

Medium
07.19.2020Blog

From the Eyes of F500 Execs: Making Sense of the Automation Journey

Medium
07.18.2020In the Press

How to deploy RPA responsibly in the COVID-19 era

VentureBeat
06.09.2020Blog

Fueling Transformative Innovation in Healthcare with Sanofi

Medium
06.02.2020In the Press

‘Video is fine’: venture capitalists find the benefits in digital due diligence

Financial Times
05.25.2020Blog

Accelerating the Digitalization of Healthcare: Cathay Innovation Leads €28M Series B in Germany’s MEDWING

Medium
05.13.2020In the Press

Venture Capital Has A Lot To Learn From Fintech: Data-Driven, New Products, And More Access To A Broader Set Of Companies

Forbes
05.13.2020Blog

$550M to invest in Startups Impacting the World

Medium
04.29.2020In the Press

‘Post-pandemic, SEA will see a sustainable leapfrog into the digital age’: Cathay Innovation report

E27
04.28.2020Blog

COVID-19 & South East Asia: A Catalyst for a Sustainable Leapfrog in the Digital Age

Medium
04.15.2020In the Press

The coronavirus might have changed China’s venture capital scene for good

Fortune
04.07.2020In the Press

Forget Unicorns. Startups Should Be Camels

Entrepreneur
04.07.2020In the Press

How Entrepreneurs Succeed Outside Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review
04.07.2020Blog

Start Up Bright Spots in a Time of Global Meltdown

Medium
04.06.2020In the Press

How Does Your Financial Future Change From These Unexpected Good Things That Will Come Out Of This Crisis?

Forbes
04.01.2020In the Press

How bad will SaaS churn get in the downturn

TechCrunch
03.19.2020Blog

Cathay Innovation suggestions and tactical advices to deal with the COVID-19 period

Medium
03.12.2020Blog

A Sustainable Economy: it takes a Village!

Medium
03.06.2020In the Press

With Coronavirus, there’s more to do than wash your hands

Venture Capital Journal
03.05.2020In the Press

Firms Move to Hold Virtual Meetings, Limit Travel Amid Coronavirus

Venture Capital Journal
03.01.2020In the Press

China’s Venture Capitalists Start Making Deals, Amid Signs of Recovery

The Information
02.29.2020In the Press

The Unique Challenges To Scaling Fintechs In Emerging Markets

Forbes
01.25.2020Blog

China 2020: Rise of the AI driven Services

Medium
01.21.2020In the Press

Why 2020 Is The Year For Fintech

Forbes
01.13.2020In the Press

How Start-ups Became The Key To A Sustainable Economy

Forbes
12.26.2019Blog

3 Cathay Innovation Predictions for 2020

Medium
12.26.2019Blog

Pourquoi les startups sont devenues la clé vers une économie durable

Medium
11.18.2019Blog

Web Summit 2019: 3 Take-Aways on the Future of Tech

Medium
11.18.2019Blog

Industry Insights: How Logistics is Changing

Medium
11.04.2019In the Press

The five biggest trends in Fintech for 2020

Forbes
10.18.2019In the Press

4 scenarios new entrepreneurs should consider when setting up a global company

Business Insider
08.07.2019Blog

We’re looking for you to join the Cathay Innovation team!

Medium
07.31.2019In the Press

How retailers can survive the Amazon era

TechCrunch
07.10.2019In the Press

Interview: Cathay Innovation

Mobile World Live
07.06.2019In the Press

Distributed teams are helping startups scale faster

VentureBeat
06.26.2019Blog

The Rise of AI-Driven Enterprise Software in China

Medium
05.21.2019Blog

Internet Access for the Next Billion People: Meet KaiOS, the Company Taking on the Global Digital Divide

Medium
04.24.2019Blog

CES 2019: The shift towards an AI driven services economy has begu

Mailchimp
04.09.2019Blog

Connecting African Entrepreneurs to the world with the first Pan-African Venture Capital Fund

Medium
03.25.2019In the Press

What Type Of Innovator Do You Want To Be?

Forbes
03.21.2019In the Press

China and the Bay Area face off over AI

Business Journal
03.01.2019In the Press

Denis Barrier on globalization

Audioboom
02.18.2019Blog

Do not miss 5G, the highway to the Artificial Intelligence revolution!

Medium
01.08.2019In the Press

Denis Barrier discusses the latest that some Chinese tech firms have to offer at CES 2019

YouTube
12.19.2018Blog

Where East meets West: Consumer Fintech at a crossroads — A South East Asia Story

Medium
11.27.2018In the Press

The innovation supply chain: How ideas traverse continents and transform economies

TechCrunch
10.02.2018In the Press

InsurTech Investor Panel: It’s About Finding Pain Points, Trimming Fat

AM Best
10.02.2018In the Press

Financial Inclusion- Innovation Meets Social Responsibility

Vimeo
09.30.2018Blog

Insuretech’s real promise: growing the pie

Medium
09.24.2018Blog

How we early-backed Cootek, now China’s most global software company, with 132 Million DAU in 240 countries, going Public on the NYSE on September 28

Medium
08.20.2018In the Press

‘The future will be won or lost on this technology. I’m very concerned’: The co-founder of a $9 billion company warns that China is on track to dominate the US in AI

Business Insider
07.30.2018Blog

PinDuoDuo: how they became the fastest growing commerce company ever

Medium
07.29.2018Blog

Help your ecosystem and your ecosystem will help you, the lesson taught by the uncontainable rise of PinDuoDuo

Medium
07.01.2018Blog

Why I joined Cathay Innovation

Medium
06.19.2018Blog

Peek, the company that is powering your next local experience

Medium
06.04.2018Blog

What it will take to power the revolution in mobility, and transportation as it appears at Movin’On conference

Medium
04.25.2018In the Press

Meet our advisors: Denis Barrier, co-founder and CEO of Cathay Innovation

Orange Fab
03.13.2018In the Press

Nicolas du Cray (Cathay Innovation): “The speed of digitalization in China has been incredible”

Leaders League
11.07.2017Blog

Is the future of cartech in China?

Medium
10.10.2017Blog

How we bet on the man who went from Zero to US$ 15 Billion sales run-rate in 18 months

Medium
10.08.2017Blog

Digital Revolution makes adjacent industries collide

Medium