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Globally, healthcare IT systems are groaning under the weight of legacy platforms. Thankfully, there’s a new wave of startups entering the arena: U.K. startup Anima is a “care enablement” platform…

Healthcare platform Anima brings Salesforce-like capabilities to clinics, raises $12M

Early-stage European venture capital (VC) firm Episode 1 has closed its third fund at £76 million ($95 million), as the London-based investor turns to in-house “data-driven deal sourcing tools” to…

Early-stage UK VC Episode 1 closes $95M third fund
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Shein a light

10:00 am PST • December 2, 2023

We won’t be getting our hands on a Shein filing just yet, but we can’t wait to.

Shein a light

Binalyze, a London-based startup building a toolset for digital forensics and incident response, this week announced that it raised $19 million in a Series A round led by Molten Ventures…

Digital forensics firm Binalyze raises $19M to investigate cyber threats

British startup Satellite Vu has raised £12.7 million ($15.8 million) to develop what it calls “the world’s thermometer”: a satellite constellation capable of monitoring thermal emissions around the world. The…

Thermal imaging startup Satellite Vu closes $15.8 million ahead of first launch

GPS in its many regional flavors has become a ubiquitous feature in phones, smart watches, cars and other connected devices, but for all the location-based features that it helps enable…

UK’s FocalPoint raises $17M for its software-based approach to repairing the flaws of GPS

Last year we covered how “&Open” (yes, “ampersand open,” pronounced “And Open”) had raised a raised $7.2 million seed to make it easier for brands to send gifts to customers…

Dublin-based corporate gifting platform &Open raises $26M Series A led by Molten Ventures

So-called “tech for good” accelerators addressing such worthy sounding subjects as ESGs and SDGs have appeared in the last few years. Some observers have dismissed these efforts as scalable only…

Zinc heads toward new $41M tech-for-good fund to back pre-team talent solving big problems

To understand what’s happening, but also what’s coming if synthetic data does get more broadly adopted, we talked to various CEOs and VCs over the last few months.

The market for synthetic data is bigger than you think

One of the most popular applications of artificial intelligence to date has been to use it to predict things, using algorithms trained with historical data to determine a future outcome.…

CausaLens gets $45M for no-code technology that introduces cause and effect into AI decision making

Synthetic data startup MOSTLY raised a $25 million Series B round led by British VC firm Molten Ventures, with participation from new investor Citi Ventures and existing investors 42CAP and…

MOSTLY AI raises $25 million to further commercialize synthetic data in Europe and the US

Thought Machine, a 2014 (Xoogler) founded startup that sells cloud-based b2b banking services, has closed a $200 million Series C round and announced that it’s achieved unicorn status (aka, passing…

Thought Machine closes $200M for its cloud native banking SaaS and becomes a unicorn

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As Sequoia changes its model, other permanent-capital VCs weigh in

To better understand Sequoia’s new model, The Exchange reached out to a number of publicly listed venture capital groups from the United Kingdom.

8:09 am PST • November 19, 2021
As Sequoia changes its model, other permanent-capital VCs weigh in

Draper Esprit, Europe’s only stock market-listed tech VC firm, is changing its name to Molten Ventures after a change in senior personnel and an increasingly distant relationship with the U.S.…

Draper Esprit cuts the legacy name apron strings to rebrand as Molten Ventures