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14 VCs discuss COVID-19 and London’s future as a tech
The UK has created 63 tech unicorns in the past decade (according to Dealroom), and it almost goes without saying that the vast majority of those companies were based out of London, the country’s largest tech hub.Famously, London’s DeepMind, an AI startup, was acquired by Google in 2014 for $500 More
Review: Handsome and nippy, new VanMoof e-bikes could be the
I have to admit, I was an e-bike virgin. Sure, I’d tried out Uber’s Jump bikes and similar e-bikes, but these are more like normal bikes “with a little extra help.” So when I was offered the chance to try out the new VanMoof S3, an e-bike that has literally More
LocalGlobe and TransferWise’s Taavet Hinrikus back ‘frictionless finance’ startup Radix
Radix, a U.K. startup that’s building a decentralised finance protocol on which new financial apps can connect and be built on top of, has raised $4.1 million in new funding.Backing the company, which counts the Ethereum network and a number of other “DeFi” projects as competitors, is London-based seed-stage VC More
Enterprise architecture software company LeanIX raises $80M Series D
LeanIX, the enterprise architecture software company founded out of Bonn in Germany, has closed $80 million in Series D funding. The round is led by new investor Goldman Sachs Growth. Previous investors Insight Partners and DTCP also followed on.The Series D brings LeanIX’s total funding to over $120 million. The More
Lydia expands credit offering in partnership with Younited Credit
French startup Lydia is announcing a new partnership with Younited Credit, which lets you borrow anything between 500 and 3,000 and pay back within 6 to 36 months. The feature will be released in France at some point during the summer.This isn’t the first time Lydia is playing around More
Portfolio companies of startup studio eFounders have raised $148M this
European startup studio eFounders has looked back at the first half of 2020 to share some metrics about its portfolio companies. The startup studio that is focused on building software-as-a-service enterprise startups has now launched 25 companies in total. Those startups have raised $148 million in 2020 alone.You may remember More