I have certainly learned a thing or two in the past 6months about not only raising a venture fund but also closing a venture fund (ohh the legal, regulatory, banking and operational fun that was had by all). In any case, we completed our first close and the MiddleGame Ventures fund is a reality. You can find the official press release here. My partners and I also wrote a short blurb about our first close, see immediately below: We are very pleased to announce that we completed the first close of our new fund.  As every entrepreneur knows, fundraising has its own very special challenges, so th ..read more

All of us at MiddleGame Ventures collaborated to write this piece: Michael Meyer, Patrick Pinschmidt & myself. The Next Wave Of Fintech Will Be A Tsunami vs The First Fintech Wave (Editorial Note:  This  is a high-level, big picture post that might not be suitable for hardened financial technology geeks.  Don’t worry, we’ll have more for you in subsequent posts. ) It used to be that financial services intermediaries were to a large extent immune to outside innovation.  While entire industries have been obliterated or reimaged over the last 30 years by waves of technological in ..read more