With fintech funding momentum not slowing down and surpassing more than $5.4b in the first quarter, Matt Harris covers for Fortune the trends and maturity across the sub-sectors of payments, lending, wealth management, insurance, real estate, and crypto.
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Fintech frenzy: hype or reality? A closer look at 6 key sectors
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Insurance startups are really at a pivot right now. Companies like Oscar or ZhongAn have scaled from nothing to billions a year in funding, and in the process, they’ve decided to be full stack. Historically, insurance startups Insureon and Zenefits were simply brokers or managing general agents, but increasingly there’s a take that startups need to be(come) carriers. I certainly understand that instinct—if you don’t control the product, someone else controls the capital. So, I get it. But return on equity for carriers tends to be around 9%. It doesn’t make sense for a VC to invest in a carrier. Not at all.
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