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IoT Investor / Incubator Breed Reply Announces Latest Start-up Investments, Launches Latest “Best in Breed” Start-up Search

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Breed Reply, the investment arm of Reply, who support the Telco, Media, Banking, Insurance and Public Administration sectors with new communication channels and digital media, announced today that they have reached agreement with 4 London Based, early stage IoT start-ups, to provide investment and support. …

Global Insurer RGA, Worth $53bn, To Back Nottingham Based Health Improvement App Quealth With “Multi-Platform Global Distribution”

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Do you know your “Quealth” score yet – chances are the health conscious amongst us might. A Nottingham-based health-tech firm, roadtohealth has bagged $4m of investment from Reinsurance Group of America, one of the world’s largest life and health reinsurers, after RGA took a minority stake in the business, with further investments planned dependent upon …

FinTech Pendulum Swinging Towards Germany, Says Latest CB Insights Report; But Long Term Future Of Financial Disruption Harder To Predict

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CB Insights latest European FinTech report reveals Berlin attracted 80% more venture Capital funding than London – will it last? Could London’s status as the world’s leading hub for FinTech innovation and investment be under threat? Perhaps the more pertinent question is; does it matter? It would seem to be the inescapable conclusion to be …

Silicon Roundup; First Q2 VC Funding Figures Released – Worst Fears Confirmed About Brexit Inspired Drop-off In Europe?

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VC Funding is falling in Europe but remains steady or increasing elsewhere, according to the latest figures from Pitchbook – it is hard, but far from impossible, to pin the blame on Brexit VC funding into European startup’s has fallen by one third in Q2 2016, according to data from Pitchbook; the total amount raised, …

Silicon Roundup; The Good Ship Startup Plots A Course Through The Brexit Storm

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Whilst everyone in London discusses a potential “Brexit”, startup’s are quietly getting on with the job of scaling There’s been good news for maturing early stage startup’s based in London in the past week. It’s good to see the seed / Angel / VC model working just like it’s supposed to. Last week, Polystream founders …

London (and Europe’s) Biggest Tech Startup Funds And What They Are Buying

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It’s raining funding in Europe – but where are the puddles forming? Sometimes startup founders must feel a little bit like Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and his stranded crew mates, who stared at the ocean surrounding their lost ship and cried out in desperation: “water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink!” “Funding, …

Squeezing The Truth Out Of British Venture Capital Funding; Deals Down, Funding Up, VCs Asleep At The Wheel?

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Stocks and Loans may break my bones but stats will never hurt me? Torture them for long enough, and stats will confess anything. At least that’s how the saying goes, but it’s a cynical soul who still decries “lies, damn and statistics”, in the face of today’s data driven analytical world. Do the stats really …

Maserati And The Centre For Entrepreneurs Reveal UK’s Hottest Hundred Entrepreneurs

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These days on London’s startup scene, it seems that if you want to be thought of as hot property, you also need to be listed property. Hot on the heels of Business Insider’s list of the 100 coolest people in UK Tech, bookended by two of the country’s most recognisable women in tech, Baroness Martha …

Uh-Oh – We’re In Trouble!

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Has someone come along and burst our start-up bubble? Reports have surfaced that one of Britain’s most valuable (as much as £1.8bn) and celebrated startup “unicorns”, Powa Technologies is about to enter administration, putting 300 jobs at risk – Deloitte have been appointed to try to sell the business as a going concern. Meanwhile across …

Silicon Round-Up – things you need to know about London’s Tech City this week – on the successful launch of Tech.london

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So the .London domain wasn’t just a gimmick! Tech.london, a collaboration between the Mayor of London, Angel investment platform Gust, IBM and a diverse range of partners from the tech community, launched 3 months ago and has released data relating to its traffic since launch. The site had 127,000 visitors from 864 cities across 123 …

Dreamstake founder stories: David Buttress on risking it all and how “talking about Kevin” helped deliver the goods!

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David Butress tells his founder story at Google Campus Dreamstake’s excellent founder stories series continued on Wednesday evening at Google Campus; there were queues around the corner as a packed house assembled to hear David Buttress give a talk about how he helped turn JustEat from a promising Scandinavian start-up into a household name in …

London’s Top VCs: Google Ventures in the UK has £100m to spend and a great team but strangely, online visibility is not its strong point

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This week in the Haggerston Times we’ll be looking at 5 of London’s prominent Venture Capital Tech investment firms. The goal is to research the firms to try to find out more about what each stands for, who its key staff are, what kind of company culture they espouse, and what the future holds for …

Motivii founder Eamon Tuhami on quitting the day job, founding an ambitious new start-up, and why happiness is a journey that can be mapped

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Eamon Tuhami has half a mind to take his dissertation back to his professors at Derby University and ask to have it re-marked. “They didn’t believe me back in 1999 that digital would be the worlds biggest marketing channel!” he says; perhaps not many lecturers would have done, but most of what Eamon believed would …

EIP launch the Enterprise Network at Nabarro offices, London Wall

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Matt Lenzie and Jeri Dutz put on a great show last night at law firm Nabarro’s stunning new offices on London Wall. The occasion was the launch of The Enterprise Network, or TEN for short, an exciting opportunity for investors to have first refusal on Leisure and Entertainment opportunities in central London, sourced by TEN’s …

Corking evening at No. 11 Pimlico Road as EIP discuss alternatives to Solar for EIS and SEIS Investment schemes

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On Tuesday night, Enterprise Investment Partners put on a wine tasting and product showcase at No. 11 Pimlico Road, the award winning bar and restaurant in Chelsea. The evening was well attended by a mix of investors, drawn from many different industries and backgrounds, curious to hear EIP Directors Martin Sherwood and Christian Elmes view …

Home Flood prevention solution Hydroguard launches rewards based funding campaign on Indiegogo

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Now that the hot weather is over it is time to start worrying about being frozen and flooded. Excuse the cynicism, but given our government’s recent record of response to crises of an environmental nature it seems we would do well to take as much personal responsibility as we can. …

How Do You Disrupt The Legal Industry? Offer Value The Big Firms Can’t Match

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What’s the best way to stop yourself doing something? Try consulting a lawyer. By the time they have finished outlining the risks involved in your plans, and quoted you a price, you will have tears in your eyes and a large hole in your pocket. Or so the story goes. What is certain is that …

Silicon Round-up: Amazon moves to Liverpool Street, Facebook tries to tell the truth, servitude is back in vogue!

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The big news this week is the much heralded and talked about launch of Apple’s new app for removing that annoying U2 album that was automatically sent to more than half a billion iTunes users worldwide. The band performed at the close of the iPhone6 and Smartwatch launch, and their new album “songs of innocence” …