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Ever wondered how angels exit their investments? 🤔
Sifted answers this with our own Simon Blakey about the increasing ease of investing into a private, early-stage business and getting your money (and hopefully profit) out of it 💰
Read more here 👇
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Since March last year, the @RMIsyndicate
has made 8 ClimateTech co-investments and grown to 1.600 members. Here’s a short video where @alexfarcet explain what we’re up to and how we give a different experience to both founders and individual investors: bit.ly/41A3aOB
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Founders have told us so often that there's no transparency in the industry, we're going to change this.
Join us for an AMA with @ChrisSmithPF and @JeevanKSunner and ask us any question you've ever had about early stage fundraising
Register here: playfaircapital.typeform.com…
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Travel is back in full swing, and airports are advancing their technologies to stay on top of their game.
Our CTO Ian Forde-Smith shares the key operational systems innovations that will shape the future of this industry.
Read Ian’s blog ➡️ bit.ly/3TCXKP2
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Female Founder Office Hours is now in its 8th edition! To date, the initiative has brought together 1,300 women founders for 5,230 mentoring meetings. Let's keep up the momentum!
Please share with any women founders in your networks 🙏
Playfair is hiring! Looking for two analysts to work with a great team :)
We're hiring 2x Investment Analysts at @playfaircapital 🙌 Application deadline is September 11th and application link here: apply.workable.com/playfair-… Good luck 🤞
(psst pass it on)
Generally good advice for any founder looking to fundraise here…
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Though bad investors sometimes cut back dramatically in bad markets, good investors keep investing. They know how terribly dangerous it would be to stop. What if they miss the Google? So don't be deterred from starting a startup because you worry it will be hard to get funding.
Incredibly excited to have backed this company, just out of stealth. Epoch is using recent tech advances to build new bioprocesses that break down waste plastic quickly, cheaply and at scale into useful chemicals
It’s a big ambition but so needed by our 🌎
Today, we're excited to officially exit stealth and share what we've been building with the world. (1/3)🧵
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Ventrata and @Zenbus are signing a technological and commercial partnership.
Both market leaders, the companies associate their expertise to propose a combined offer for their Hop-on Hop-off, attractions and bus operator...
Click the link for more.
hubs.li/Q01bP67j0
Spoke to the UK founder of one of my portfolio companies yesterday and he’s now being inbounded for roles by great tech talent on LinkedIn.
Quite a difference from the the last few years #changingtimes
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When an ASA (Advanced Subscription Agreement) hits 31 pages it's really missed the whole point
Some great roles open in a v friendly, fast-growing and profitable company in my portfolio…
We are hiring!
To support our rapid growth we are currently hiring for a number of roles. If you are looking for a new challenge in a fast-growing dynamic company get in touch, click the link for more details on current vacancies hubs.li/Q01bN2-L0
This is true, but VC is as guilty of groupthink as much as anyone else
I always try to remember ‘if you do the same as everyone else you’ll get the same results as everyone else’.
And VCs are looking for those outlier performers…
This is a great 🧵on uni equity ownership (UK) for their spinouts.
Later stage VCs are focussed on founder % stake/incentive….if its too small, founders can be ‘re-upped’ w options that will additionally dilute Uni’s and those early-stage investors
I'm really happy to see more reports on spinout formation. We need more transparency. 🔍
@Beauhurst tracked the equity stakes of UK universities in ~600 spinouts. In most cases, their stakes are absurdly high. 🧵 from @osebbouh and I here:
Report link: raeng.org.uk/publications/re…
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This is how I try to do my job in leading the company with a culture of trust and kindness.
This is a great 🧵: even if you don’t remember all the points, remember 1 (have 100% conviction around the CEO) and 2 (run if you find the CEO is being ‘economical with the truth’ during DD)
