hello Ellie Reeves I hope you have visited or plan to visit Richard Ratcliffe at the Iranian Embassy and support his hunger strike?

What a game.

My new favourite thing is Italian mayors and regional presidents LOSING IT at people violating quarantine. Here's an eng subtitled compilation. "I hear you wanna throw graduation parties. I'm gonna send the police over. With flamethrowers." #Covid19 #coronavirus

During lockdown, while many other artists are doing mini-concerts from their homes, I thought I’d do you all a favour and not.

Nick and I have been busy investing in some super exciting UK tech start-ups and founders. Check them out: 👩‍💻🧑‍💻🚀📈 horseplay.ventures/our-companies/

Is there an award for best signage? There should be.

4 tickets available for the England Ukraine Quarter Final in Rome on Saturday. Unable to go due to covid restrictions. Can transfer them immediately. DM me if interested. #Englandtickets #Englandaway #Eng #Euro2020

Really excited to be invested in Humanity Health App. #healthspan #globalhealth

Exciting news that one of our investments, Mamamade, is now crowdfunding seedrs.com/mamamade a startup for the modern parent. Their crowdfunding campaign has launched and hit 98% in under 24 hours So impressed with what Sophie and the team are building.

Delighted to announce that Rory Sadler Pitch Deck Pod | Nick Telson-Sillett and I are going again on business no2. Welcome to @sendtrumpet, transforming the B2B sales cycle. We have 100 limited spots on waitlist left for those who want free access and some beautiful merch! sendtrumpet.com

Disruption of seed VC investment perhaps under-discussed, e.g.: 1. YC can now fund 1000 startups per batch on its own 2. Hot startups can raise $5m-$20m from operator funds 3. Hot startups FBOW can raise $5m-$20m without a lead investor or selling 15%-20% to anyone

Fascinating read for market booms and busts. Quite relevant for public markets and venture alike. pivotal.substack.com/p/minsky-momen…

🧵 Go to Google maps. Find any Russian restaurant, shop, business premises. Leave a 5 ⭐️ review, so as not to affect their business or search ranking, as this isn’t their fault. Paste the message below in Russian. It tells them what Putin is doing, evading his media censorship.👇

This is an incredible thread, something material we can all do to help Ukraine and Russia.

Series 5 is now LIVE. This series I have bite-sized conversations with early-stage investors from all walks of life. Thrilled for Ep1 to be with Nangianomics (Speedinvest & Alma Angels). Episode: anchor.fm/pitch-deck

It's time to make some noise as we welcome @sendtrumpet founded by Rory Sadler, Pitch Deck Pod | Nick Telson-Sillett and Andrew Webster to the Lightbird portfolio! 🎺 And what's a better way to show why we're excited about the investment than through a trumpet Pod 👇 lightbird.trumpet.app/pods/62ab12795…

I’ve read most of these, inspirational reading for founders. Alex Macdonald Rory Sadler Matt Smith

Really exciting day! @sendtrumpet We're out of beta and launching on Product Hunt 😸. Please spare 1 min and give us an upvote 🙏 producthunt.com/posts/trumpet-2

Hilarious thread 👏

I have 2 spare tickets for England v Slovakia, block D1 right by players bench. Genuine seller #england #euros