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Why 2023 is the comeback year for UK fintech? | Yonder CEO Tim Chong


It’s fair to say consumer fintech has had a tough run of it recently. A sector which was once one of hottest investments in the market was hit by a wave of blows last year – from nose diving valuations …

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Hybrid Work: The New Norm We Can’t Afford To Fumble | Toby Hough, Director of People and Culture EMEA at HiBob


Hybrid work is the new buzzword in the workplace lexicon, and for good reason. There are plenty of perks to be had from this flexible working arrangement. Employees get to enjoy a better work-life balance, with less time spent commuting …

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In collaboration with FieldHouse BaseCamp; Pre-Series A Startups | Ariana Alexander-Sefre,Founder and Co-CEO of SPOKE


What is unusual about your company and the problem identified? At SPOKE we have worked out how to engage a young and diverse audience in mental well-being in a way that no other wellness product has been able to do. …

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Is CHATGPT and the future both awesome and terrifying?’ | David Balko, Chief Client Officer, Tribal Worldwide London


The future’s so bright I’ve gotta wear shades. It’s been often commented lately that ChatGPT and Bard and AI in general will render us all useless and redundant. Perhaps, in some dystopian future that might be true, but I’m sensing …

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In barely 10 month’s the archaic car finance industry in the UK has been made customer first! | Aidan Rushby, CEO of Carmoola explains.’


This is the story about Carmoola’s journey from launch to Series A in only 10 months… Carmoola launched on the 1st of April 2022. Bringing consumers a cheaper, easier and faster way to finance a used car. And wow, it …

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Emil Gigov, Partner at AlbionVC | Q and A


What have been your biggest learnings whilst being a Board member/observer at Toqio, Zift, Phrasee, Solidatus, and Clear Review? My experience from over 20 years of investing at Series A and partnering with founders is that almost every successful company …

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Sam Endacott, Partner at Firstminute Capital | Q and A


What were your biggest learnings whilst working at Goldman Sachs and subsequently driving FirstMinute’s work into South Africa, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Egypt? At Goldman Sachs, I worked in the Financial Institutions M&A Group working on transactions for Banks, Insurance and …

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Janneke Niessen, Founding Partner at CapitalT | Q and A


What were your biggest learnings as a founder? Being a founder is an ongoing learning experience. You make so many smaller and bigger mistakes. You learn from them, adapt and move on. If you only see the media it is …

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David Peterson, Partner at Angular Ventures | Q and A


What inspired you to become a VC and was there a ‘lightbulb’ moment? As the founder of a bootstrapped company, and an early employee twice over (most recently at Airtable, where I built our first growth team and led partnerships), …

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Isabel Fox, General Partner at Outsized Ventures | Q and A


What were your biggest learnings as Partner at SURFnCode,Board Member at Hadean,Co Founder of Luminous Ventures and Mentor at Entrepreneur First? I think the biggest takeaway throughout my tech career is that this sector (no matter whether you are a …

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