Over the past decade, disruptive payment companies have challenged retail banks for ownership of their merchant relationships. Pollinate is reinventing merchant acquiring for banks, enabling them to compete effectively with these disruptors. The Pollinate technology is an innovative cloud-based platform that wraps around a bank’s legacy payment systems. The platform powers merchant and consumer digital […]
Hello! My name is Finn and I am thrilled to be the latest member of the FieldHouse team. A little about me: I grew up in Paris and Washington, moving to the UK when I was eight. Having grown up (relatively sane) in a family of journalists, I am familiar with what it takes to create […]
Founded in 2017 by four UCL researchers from the Department of Computer Science, TurinTech.ai is a spin-out from University College London (UCL), home to the UK’s leading AI research center. The company is also an alumnus of Conception X – a venture builder and a deep tech incubator affiliated to UCL. TurinTech.ai provides a […]
Image: Ollie Forsyth poses with Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph We recently had the pleasure of a visit to FieldHouse HQ from the (distressingly) young entrepreneur Ollie Forsyth, who swung by to both check out our new Seven Dials digs and have a catchup with the team. As we all stuffed ourselves full of wraps from Pure, Forsyth regaled us […]
Last Thursday, FieldHouse Associates attended the first TableCrowd dinner as a partner. To the uninitiated – which I was just a matter of weeks ago since I’ve just joined the FHA team – TableCrowd is a business community that hosts dinner parties where guests can network with like-minded individuals over a burger or a salad. The dinner we partnered […]
The funding round was led by existing investor Ahren Innovation Capital (Ahren), an investment fund co- founded by leading UK scientific entrepreneurs, supporting transformational companies at the cutting edge of deep science and deep tech. Parkwalk, the largest EIS growth fund manager, backing businesses with IP-protected innovations creating solutions to real-world challenges, 24Haymarket, an early […]
Proptech is one of the most exciting areas of technology at the moment and has seen huge amounts of investment in recent years. Disruptive startups, such as Habito in the mortgage space, Hubble in office rental and even Airbnb in the short-term rental market, have led to a real estate revolution. However, the relationship between technology and the property industry has […]
In keeping with what the day stands for, a diverse line-up of female role models in STEM, including CEO of Commercial and Private Banking RBS, Alison Rose, DeepMind COO Lila Ibrahim, Girlguiding advocate Juliet Dowley, Snap Inc VP Claire Valoti, Microsoft for Startups UK MD Amali de Alwis, Francis Crick Institute mathematician Esther Wershof and […]
I was forewarned that the process of finding a job here can be difficult and at times a little demoralising. A few friends had searched for months before finding something they were interested in. But when I entered FieldHouse, I was greeted kindly and warmly by Cordelia and Iain who asked great questions and seemed […]
Last week I visited WeWork on Devonshire Square for an afternoon and evening of celebrating London’s entrepreneurial diversity. It was organised by London startup body Capital Enterprise through its OneTech programme, which launched in September 2018 to provide oft-overlooked female and black and minority ethnic (BAME) entrepreneurs more opportunities. The event itself marked the first anniversary of OneTech. With […]
Having left Italy and returned to the UK, I knew I wanted to do something agency based. The chance to work with lots of companies, all doing different and exciting things in a fast-paced world. Life in a PR agency beckoned. I joined FieldHouse having previously been exposed to the world of technology PR and […]
Dataswift’s platform enables consumers to interact with companies’ apps and websites using their “personal data account,” storing all the sensitive personal information that would otherwise have to sit on the company’s own servers. Individuals can decide what personal data they want their ‘HAT’ account to hold, and are able to deal directly with apps and […]