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Who's going to Slush? Tickets out today!

Can you imagine not investing here if you’re a VC in fintech? At current growth rates and w current demographics in 15 years half of the working age people 👏 ON EARTH 👏 will be African. I’m not sure if I’ve seen as glaring a gap ever. ⁦Balaji⁩ ⁦delian⁩

Worth having a look at how #FinTech deal size has evolved across stages: later stage (series B+) is where they significantly overtook the last years average. #RegTech #InsurTech

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Proud to host the FinTechs and companies leading on British growth. Thanks Irene Graham ScaleupInstitute for the inspiring presentation. 46% of CEOs from our 2021 #UKFast50 award rankings, said successful product innovation is the main driver of growth deloitte.co.uk/fast50/insights

Could not be more impressed with the level of mask wearing Slush. I think this speaks to the data driven and empathetic tech community we have here in Europe. Mask wearing is not mandated here just FYI. Well done everyone. I love you 😍

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Forget fintechs. This is actual innovation:

49 years young and still the best in the world

People confuse the metaverse with VR. Most Web 3 gaming and content experiences with traction look more like existing games with open economies You can visit some in VR but that's not the thing The thing is the open economies

The Ultimate SWIFT and Russia Sanctions explainer You've probably been reading lots of people explaining SWIFT, but most explainers miss some key details like 👇 1. SWIFT is not a payment system. SWIFT is a messaging system (like email) used by 11,000 banks in 200+ countries

We have been waiting to see bitcoin become geopolitically critical

You didn't think I'd get through this entire thread w/o crypto, did you? The maximalists must be sweating. 😅 💡 Crypto adoption closely mirrors internet adoption minus a few decades. This trajectory predicts 1B users by 2027. Others peg as soon as 2023. h/t @AzazelAyers

The Bank of England is hiring full stack developers for Central Bank Digital Currency project #fintech #blockchain #CBDC

Very excited to announce this investment today alongside CommerzVentures @AOProptech Blue Wire Capital Pale blue dot Hampus Jakobsson Blue Ventures

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The UFOs have landed at OpenAI

We're delighted to have supported Sky News on this exclusive, landmark report, assessing the impacts of climate risk to over 20,000 critical infrastructure sites across the UK. Well done to the team at Climate X for delivering this important work.

Everyone who says AI is in the experimental budget phase of enterprise spending does not see it. Enterprises are experimenting with AI but where it works and provides sufficient value, they are spending BIG. Seen 7 companies scale to $1M contracts in the last 30 days.