Summer newsletter
OUR NEWS
2 investments this month! A new investment in Adora Health (CEO & Co-Founder Ann O’Neill pictured below) and a follow-on investment in The Dots
New partnership: InnovateUK Investor Partnership with Setsquared
Watch: our latest webinars: the tech talent landscape with Spinks, SEIS & EIS with haysmacintyre and term sheets with Kingsley Napley
In case you missed it: watch recordings of other recent events and read our latest articles
NEWS FROM OUR FEMALE FOUNDERS
Uncommon (formerly known as Higher Steaks): closes a $30m Series A led by Balderton and Lowercarbon Capital
Dressipi: featured in Beauhurst’s report on Gender & Diversity in UK Tech (P24-25)
Béa Fertility: leading the UK’s largest ever at-home fertility care research study
ScaleXP: chosen as a ‘Xero staff pick’ across Xero’s global app store network
Coco Coders: 50% off 8 weeks of group coding classes
Fiskl: wins Accounting Tech of the Year for the 2nd year running
Forte Medical: used as a case study (p29 & Appendix 2) in Imperial College report on UK’s competitiveness in Med Tech
GoodLoop: Will Luttrell, CTO of the Brandtech Group joins as non-exec director
ImproveWell: recognised in BusinessCloud’s HealthTech50 ranking for the second consecutive year!
Provenance: submitted comments to the US Federal Trade Commission for their updated “Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims”
YEO Messaging: Keeping Communications Secure in Regulated Industries
PORTFOLIO JOBS:
Century Tech: hiring a growth manager & digital marketing executive
FeedForward: hiring a senior software engineer & machine learning scientist
Nuggets: hiring a senior Rust developer
ScaleXP: hiring a part time marketing manager with B2B experience
MEMBER & PARTNER NEWS
Emma Maslen and Applied CEO Khyatia Sundaram in Stylist: Why you should make a career lattice, rather than climbing the ladder
Angel Academe member Ros Singleton speaks to #SheLeadsinTech on Cultivating a CEO Mindset
DC Advisory: DC Discusses - the future of AI in media
haysmacintyre: Capital Gains Tax on fractional shares (The Daily Mail)
Kingsley Napley: Lifecycle of a tech startup series: expansion overseas
WiTT event recording: Generative AI - Opportunities and Risks
Latest blog from Shoal IT: staying vigilant in the holiday season
Women On Boards: upcoming “get on board” workshops
NEWS & EVENTS FROM OUT THERE
Breakthrough Labs: applications open in July for Sept Accelerator
Management Today: Olio founder Tessa Clarke, “We’ve faced an exhausting wall of male cynicism”
EIT Digital: AI in Healthcare
Google for Startups: AI First, a 10-week equity-free accelerator program
UKRI/Innovate UK: Diverse Innovators Award
Hive Founders: 8-week Investment Readiness Accelerator for pre-seed & seed stage founders
Three programmes from Barclays Rise: Ideation Academy, Start-up Academy and Growth Academy
Andreesen Horowitz: The AI Canon - a curated list of resources around generative AI
Tyler Cowan at the LSE: Economics, Hayek, and Large Language Models
The Economist Films: Generative AI, What is it good for?
Nina Schick on the Sam Harris podcast: AI & Information Integrity
Innovate UK: Latest funding opportunities
DigitalHealth London: Accelerating FemTech 10-week programme
British Business Bank: Small Business Equity Tracker 2023
Julie Burchill: The toughness and stoicism of Tina Turner
RECOMMENDED SUMMER READING
Sebastian Mallaby: The Power Law - Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
Martin Vander Weyer: The Good, the Bad and the Greedy: Why We've Lost Faith in Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang: Edible Economics
Peter Attia: Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Matthew Crawford: Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control
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