Congratulations to Suranga Chandratillake Bernard Liautaud Rob Moffat & the Balderton Capital team on an impressive raise. And yes I am all about getting more cash into #deeptech in the UK & Europe, so as a pre/seed VC, I look forward to working with Balderton! techcrunch.com/2024/08/12/eur…

Expect a lot more of this in our future 9to5mac.com/2024/08/13/mas…

Latest slick phishing email - looks like @Docusign but throws to a Gmail login which is not Gmail but phishing for your password. You've been warned.

Look how much of UK wealth is wrapped up in property and the tiny percentage compared to US equity. This is not a good thing, for the UK’s wealth in society and economic growth to be driven by property markets.

A sad incitement of UK government policies since Brexit . Will Labour reverse this trend..? Taxing carried interest for VCs would not be a good start.

Which is why I backed ⁦Aerovolt⁩ with their first investment - now rolling out across the UK and soon the US. Seed round being raised soon; DM me. on.ft.com/3AuhOyl

This is just downright cool #space And at that cost Elon Musk should just buy them for a couple of $bn 😂

I think they look more like they’re auditioning for Waiting For Godot.

Why the wheels always break on that nice luggage you bought.

Perhaps someone could explain this to all the UK & European LP's looking at early stage Deeptech funds and wondering why after just 4 years there isn't much DPI? 😄 Graham Cendana Capital told me "Selling assets to get DPI so early in a fund would be a red flag for us". Quite so.

Hopefully some very clever technology. How about a checksum created from the hardware of the source of the images, stored on the blockchain? If someone is building that (or something else which solves deepfakes) pls let 7percent Ventures and I know !

This.

How cool is this?! 😄 Aerovolt on Microsoft Flight Simulator ✈️ Microsoft Flight Simulator, the team told me "Our chargers have been scanned at various airports by the Microsoft Flight Simulator team and have become a detailed feature within the game. Along with all branding and

Who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour?

Pre-seed extension is not a thing.

It's the year 2050. You're grinding to hit realtime profitability goals while iterating daily by observing paying customers through your one-way mirror. Jk that's us in London today.

See you there!

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All the platforms must do way better. No excuse for this. bbc.com/news/articles/…