A company that aims to give founders an unfair advantage, to take them from where they are to where they want to be.

Playfair

Playfair is a generalist fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+ companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.

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Ascento is making strides!

Congratulations to Alessandro Morra and the whole Ascento team for picking up the W.A. De Vigier Stiftung award, one of the most prestigious startup awards in Switzerland 🏆

We are incredibly excited about Ascento’s mission to revolutionise security with robotics and AI

This is just the beginning 🚀

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We are thrilled to announce that we have co-led Recurse ML's £2.5M funding round with our friends at Seedcamp 🚀 

Jack Jackson and Armins Stepanjans are solving the painful and expensive problem of code maintenance, which accounts for around 30% of all software engineering time spent globally

If you are looking to automate codebase maintenance, reach out to Jack and the team who are hiring and accepting early customers into a closed beta!

To read more about why we invested in Recurse ML, check out our Medium article in the comments below 👇 

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🇫🇷 Female Founder Office Hours is Paris bound 🇫🇷

We are thrilled to be bringing the FFOH initiative in-person to the WVC:E Summit this October!

Since its inception in 2019, we have run 11 virtual editions of FFOH and 3 in-person editions in Helsinki and Vienna at Slush and LTST

We could not think of a better event than WVC:E to debut our first edition in Paris 🤝 

We’ll be selecting our investor mentors for the initiative in August, so make sure to grab your ticket to the Summit before the end of July if you want the chance to be selected as a mentor

Head to https://www.wvce.tech/ for tickets 🎟

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Applications for the next Newton Venture Program cohorts are open 🙌

It's awesome to see all the fantastic work that the Newton Venture Program does for the VC ecosystem. They currently provide three programs: 

1️⃣ Newton Fundamentals Program
Supports the entry, onboarding, and development of early-career venture investors
👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eEhQJUjH
🗓 Deadline: 24th July 2024

2️⃣ Newton Fellowship Program
Supports current investors looking to advance their careers
👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/ey-UkXRr
🗓 Deadline: 3rd July 2024

 3️⃣ Newton Foundations
A free course ideal for anyone who is curious about VC
👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/erbnG-CH
🗓 Sign up anytime

#venturecapital #vc #learning #training #development #innovation

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Playfair will be in Edinburgh from the 8th-10th of July 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 

Andrew Sheffield and Clare Zhang will be at Turing Fest next week!

We are really excited by the thriving Scottish tech ecosystem (shoutout to Continuum Industries) so we can’t wait to meet more amazing founders in the area

If you're going to be around, feel free to reach out to Andrew and Clare 👋 

#vc #venturecapital #scotland #edinburgh #founders #startups #tech

AeroCloud have recently launched their Destination Airport: Runway to Revenue Growth report 🛩 📈 

As global passenger traffic is predicted to reach 9.7 billion passengers in 2024 ( 😮 ) the report reveals how airports can capitalise on this massive opportunity by making revenue-boosting changes to their passenger experience

To read more about consumers’ pain-points, priorities, and the huge opportunity for airports, check out the link below 👇

#vc #venturecapital #startups #airports #aviation #innovation #aerocloud

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Anouska Moss

Managing Partner

Chris Smith

VC Analyst

Clare Zhang

Partner

Henrik Sanchez

Chair of the Investment Committee

Simon Blakey

Federico Pirzio-Biroli

Founder & Chairman

Joe Thornton

Partner & Head of Talent

Henrik Wetter Sanchez

General Partner

Analyst

João Nunes

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Trouva is a SaaS-enabled online marketplace connecting customers with unique homeware, fashion, and lifestyle items from boutiques.

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Hassle.com is an online marketplace that matches busy people with local, trusted cleaners.

acasa is a household management tool and bill splitting package that helps students, sharers and couples.

Gluru is an advanced analytical & predictive user data software company, making unstructured user data smart.

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