[Doncaster], 30 April 2024 – Purplebricks, the UK’s most popular estate agency¹, has launched Purplebricks Mortgages Limited and retired the Strike Financial Services brand. The move will see a team of more than 150 people operating under the Purplebricks Mortgages name, enabling customers to benefit from an end-to-end house buying solution on the Purplebricks platform. […]
London, 25th March 2024 – 1991 Ventures, has launched a £15 million fund to invest in untapped Ukrainian and Central Eastern European (CEE) startup talent with global potential to solve real-world problems. The fund is backed by prominent UK-based limited partners (LPs) Venrex and Samos Investments, early institutional investors in highly successful startup programmes Seedcamp […]
London, 20th February: Monumo, a technology business that couples deeptech AI innovation with traditional engineering expertise to redesign the electric motor, has emerged from stealth. Monumo’s patented technology has already produced a deeptech-generated design for a switched reluctance motor (SRM*) which reduces torque ripple by 50% across the drive cycle making it significantly smoother and […]
There’s a multitude of reasons why FieldHouse Associates makes Slush a key part of its events calendar each year. Our clients are there and speaking (Kuda, Robin AI, Seraphim Capital, CIBC). We get to catch up with tech journalists from across Europe in one place. The parties are outstanding – with thanks to MMC Ventures, […]
Solihull, 12 December 2023 – Purplebricks, the UK’s most popular estate agency1, will disrupt the housing market by allowing customers to sell their homes for free as part of a progressive new operating model that places more power in the hands of homeowners. Following its recent acquisition by Strike, the estate agency group backed by […]
Here are our takeaways from across the two days: 1/ The big takeaway from the opening session, “New rules: playing a new startup game”, was that we are undoubtedly going through a bit of a reset period. The last few years have been tough for a number of reasons – from the pandemic to the […]
I’ve seen many great products before, but realised that if people can’t see you, hear you, or even know you exist – is it really worth it? I grew mildly frustrated with founders getting so over-excited at the prospect of their own growth, while forgetting one fundamental thing: communicating it! That’s when I looked into […]
LONDON, 14 September 2023 — CIBC Innovation Banking announced today that it has provided an £8m growth capital package to Ometria, a customer data and experience platform (CDXP), headquartered in London and New York. Ometria will use the capital to further develop and advance the retail-specific AI capabilities of its platform. Founded in 2013, Ometria […]
The view from our network of founders, investors and influencers provides a true snapshot of the UK’s tech sector – and an opportunity to build policy to reflect its passion, diversity and technical brilliance. These innovators are building businesses from the ground up and offer a different perspective to the same small circle of industry […]
EY’s quarterly PE report shows that tech deals in Europe accounted for “one-quarter of PE’s total spend”. Key investment areas mimic that of the VC landscape – for example, cyber security is seeing a great deal of attention, along with a broader look at more traditional markets, where tech integration will become a key component […]
London, 1 September – OneID, the UK’s only provider of bank-verified digital identification services, has secured £1 million in new funding from ACF Investors. The investment will be used to further develop its product and bolster its mission to make the world a safer place by helping people prove who they are online easily and […]
London, 28 July 2023 – Home Grown, London’s only members’ club entirely designed for entrepreneurs, scale-up founders and their investors to socialise, connect, build ideas and relationships, has received a Butterfly Mark Positive Luxury accreditation. This globally respected and independently verified sustainability certification verifies to consumers and other stakeholders that as a luxury business, Home […]