Curious about what makes a killer pitch deck? 🤔 Our very own Henrik spoke with UKTN to demystify the investment journey for founders that are looking to raise. With half of small business owners in the UK concerned that their business won’t survive the next 12 months, it’s important for founders to have the right advice when raising startup funding. To get tips from investors who have funded countless startups, UKTN spoke with Chenelle Ansah, founder of LightPace VC; Andy Ayim MBE, founder of the Angel Investing School; George Whitehead, partner at ACF Investors; Christopher Lascelles, investment manager at Triple Point Ventures and our very own Henrik. Check out the full article below 👇 https://lnkd.in/ezsC4WvR #venturecapital #vc #fundraising #startups #founders #technology
Playfair
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
London, England 22,305 followers
We play fair by founders. Giving you an unfair advantage, to take you from where you are to where you want to be
About us
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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http://www.playfair.vc
External link for Playfair
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- London, England
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2013
- Specialties
- Venture Capital, Seed Funding, Pre-Seed Funding, Deep Tech, VC, and Angel Investing
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8 Warner Yard
London, England EC1R 5EY, GB
Employees at Playfair
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📣 Exciting news for Passionfruit 📣 We are thrilled to announce that Passionfruit has raised a $9M Series A round led by Seaya, with participation from existing Seed investors firstminute capital, Playfair , Cornerstone VC and Portfolio Ventures . Passionfruit’s platform’s worker-base has surged to a community of 3,000 and supports the needs of hundreds of major brands worldwide, including PepsiCo, Mars, AB InBev, HSBC and The Match Group. 🚀 Passionfruit is now hiring for the next stage of the journey; across sales, marketing product and engineering. Raffi and Issah would love to meet you! Check out the comments for the full coverage! #startups #venturecapital #fundraising
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We are thrilled to announce that we have co-led NetFabric.ai's £2.2M funding round with our friends at Founderful to revolutionise network monitoring 🚀 From the first interactions with Benjamin Bichsel, Tobias Bühler and Marlene Brakhane at NetFabric we were convinced this was an investment we had to make. 1. Downtime remains a critical issue for enterprises worldwide 2. A unique solution combining advanced mathematical models and machine learning 3. A supercharged team across research from ETH Zürich, AI deployments and operational scaling XP To read more about why we invested in NetFabric.ai, check out our Medium article in the comments below 👇 #venturecapital #vc #startups #preseed #fundraising #tech #investing #ai
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We are delighted to welcome Lucia Polverino and Felix Neubeck to the Playfair team 👋 Lucia and Felix have joined our investment team after a rigorous hiring process that started with over 1,500 applicants It's great to have you both on board 🙌 #venturecapital #vc #entrepreneurship #startups #hiring #tech #investing
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📣 The Playfair portfolio is hiring 📣 If you're looking to break into the early stage startup world, some of the most innovative startups in Europe backed by Playfair are hiring across 60+ roles in 💻 Product 🤝 Sales 👥 Customer Success 💪 HR 🎨 Design 🛠 Engineering And more! For more information head to the Playfair website or check the link in the comments 👇 Don't find a suitable role? Register to join our Talent Network and you'll be notified when your ideal role pops up 📩 #venturecapital #vc #startups #hiring #recruiting #tech #jobs #careers #entrepreneurship
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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 🚀 #venturecapital #vc #startups #founders #tech #robotics #switzerland #dach
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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 👇 #venturecapital #vc #startups #preseed #fundraising #tech #investing #ai #automation
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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 🎟 #venturecapital #vc #startups #founders #investors #wvce #womenintech #investing
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Curious about what it's like to work in VC? 🤔 Our very own Clare Zhang has pulled together her top 9 learnings from the last 18 months of being a tech investor at Playfair Check out the full medium blog in the comments below 👇 #venturecapital #vc #fundraising #startups #founders #technology #investing
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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