By Mike Lobanov

The COVID-19 crisis made a huge impact on global payments and significantly accelerated the pace of change in the $95tn payment industry [link]. In light of this, investors’ interest in startups offering innovative solutions in this area has grown considerably which led to huge investment rounds raised…

By Ben Kaminski & Florian Unger

Big news! We are very happy to announce that Target Global has led the $70m Series B in YuLife supported by new investors Eurazeo and Latitude as well as existing investors Creandum, Notion Capital, Anthemis, MMC Ventures, and OurCrowd. Congratulations to Sammy, Sam, and…

By Yaron Valler & Florian Unger

We are very happy to announce that Target Global has led the $650m Series C in our portfolio company wefox, bringing the total valuation to $3bn! Congratulations to Julian, Fabian, Dario and the whole wefox team! This round not only represents the largest Series…

By Mike Lobanov (General Partner and COO at Target Global)

What is securities lending?

There is a $2.5trn industry that remains one of the best-kept secrets of capital markets. It’s not widely known that every single person who owns stocks, bonds or ETFs has the right to lend out their…

By Bao-Y Van Cong and Dominic Aits

Over the last decade, our relationship with food has moved from a necessity to a lifestyle

As consumers are adapting to a different and new reality with much more time spent living, working and eating at home, cooking at home has become one…

A lot of investments in fintech that we do are in the infrastructure space. It requires an understanding of the topic as one cannot just “try it out” by downloading the app on the phone. …

By Ben Kaminski, Jorge Fontúrbel, & Florian Unger

Our portfolio company REEF Technology secured today one of the largest funding rounds in Target Global’s history, raising $700m in growth equity led by Mubadala with participation from Softbank, Oaktree Capital Management, UBS Asset Management and Target Global. …

By Ben Kaminski, Jorge Fontúrbel, & Florian Unger

The way we’ve bought and sold cars has barely changed in almost a century. Although we’ve seen sporadic improvements and innovations, especially since the digitalization boom and the global financial crash, the basic channel from manufacturer to customer via a network of…