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The latest ‘Ecosystem’ webinar session brought together leading investors and one of world’s largest engineering and manufacturing companies for a conversation on challenging industry perceptions to break down barriers to VC funding and innovation. The 'Ecosystem' under lockdown webinars featured 5 sessions that brought together Europe’s leading investors, innovators, corp...
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Bolt raises €100m from Naya Capital to help with the growth of its innovative ride-hailing, micromobility and food delivery services. The leading European transportation platform, Bolt has closed an investment round of €100m as it continues to scale all of its product segments from ride-hailing to micromobility and food delivery in Europe and Africa. The investment comes fr...
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Major investment for innovative InsurTech company, By Miles Good news for By Miles, the UK’s first real-time pay-by-mile car insurance provider, that has successfully raised £15m in a Series B funding round led by CommerzVentures. Existing By Miles investors Octopus Ventures, Insurtech Gateway and JamJar investments also continued their support committing further investment.The insu...
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Brytlyt, provider of the world’s fastest data analytics and visualisation technology, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from global technology investor Amadeus Capital Partners and Finch Capital.  Until now, sectors with billion-record data sets such as telcos, retail and finance, have struggled to use their data to gain insights into company performance and improve customer ex...
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Blackfinch Launches ISOLATIONINTERN, a platform to help startups recruit specialist talent during Covid 19 restrictions. Partnership initiative with investment and venture capital firms and universities allows startups to enlist the UK’s brightest students and researchers to work from home. Blackfinch Group announces the launch of the #ISOLATIONINTERN platform in partnership ...
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Countingup, the business current account that automates your accounting, has received the backing of leading fintech investors. The London-based startup has raised £4m in a bridge round of financing led by ING Ventures with co-investment from Triple Point, CVentures and BiG Start Ventures. All are backing the company’s vision to be the one financial hub for 1m small businesses. In the...
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London FinTech Flagstone reveals major VC investment news...London based FinTech Flagstone, developer of the UK’s largest cash deposit marketplace, has raised $15m in venture capital in a round led by OMERS Ventures and supported by existing investors including Kindred Capital and Moneysupermarket Group plc. Flagstone was founded in 2013 and has grown rapidly to become the leader in the U...
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Thoughts, advice and perspectives shared by leading VC investors discussing the future of innovation in a post COVID-19 world... Days after the announcement of UK’s Future Fund, a few of the most prominent VC investors in Europe and the US came together to share perspectives on the current market, the innovations to watch and to give advice to founders in a new online “Ecosystem&rdq...
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Laundryheap is a leading on-demand, laundry service operating across the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and UAE. Since launching, they've cleaned over 4.5 million items of clothing and seen a growth in active users by 450% per year, in a fiercely competitive on-demand space. But CEO Deyan Dimitrov bootstrapped Laundryheap into profitability before taking any VC funding. Writing on Startacus, he sugg...
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From what you need to do to become investor ready, the appropriate time to look at investment, the factors that makes your startup investor-ready, through to the key factors that help make sure that a startup and investor can come together successfully, we chatted with John McGuckian, Partner at commercial law firm Tughans, to find out more about getting your startup investor ready. Tughans&...
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