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Event season is in full swing and we're gearing up for some big weeks ahead — Slush details coming soon 👀. But first, we're excited to share the news about the next #LONDONBIO, taking place alongside #Jefferies2024 Healthcare Conference, on Tuesday 19th November. This invite-only gathering of US and European #lifesciences and #techbio investors, practitioners and academics will feature a lively discussion with Otello Stampacchia from Omega Funds and Bharatt Chowrira CEO of PureTech Health. LONDON BIO is a community proudly hosted by Yasmin Siraj BACKED VC and Jack O'Meara. This edition is co-hosted with Emma Tinsley, Weatherden. With thanks to our partners — key pillars in London's bio ecosystem from cloud services to creating new lab spaces and consulting — Patricia Suhrcke at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Mairi Dillon at Canary Wharf Group and Kadans Science Partner, and Victoria Igumnova at Meru Advisors. We're especially excited to welcome our US friends for a uniquely British afternoon tea aboard a very special location! 🛥️

Thanks for having us last week for the AFTERPARTY fabric ✌

A really great event that we hosted last week with BACKED VC, Stride.VC, Material Ventures and #TheDownload. A special thanks to Clare Hunter, Andre de Haes, Gabbi Cahane, Amy Harrison Holt, Raisa Bruner, Leon Kirchhoff for the efforts put in and particularly Richard Goold, for bringing room 3 to life! If you want to host your after party please do get in touch with me!

🏗️ Research report: Realtech - (Re)building Europe's critical industries Alongside Dealroom.co, we have compiled 40+ pages of in-depth analysis on trends in Europe's most critical industries—energy, robotics, supply chain, and defence. Over 10 years, we analysed 15,000 companies and 11,000 investors to bring you what matters. Read here -> https://lnkd.in/daPsCeZd cc Entropy Industrial Capital REALTECH Conference Yoram Wijngaarde Lorenzo Chiavarini Orla Browne #industrialtech #vc #startup #manufacturing #robotics #defence

✨ 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆? 🤖 Join us at the Epic Event: 𝗢𝗿𝗯𝗶𝘀𝟴𝟲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵: 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝟯 𝘅 𝗔𝗜 🌟, proudly sponsored by Hedera and GNUS.AI, where innovation and collaboration converge. 📢 Special Guest: Michael Heinrich, 𝗖𝗼-𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗘𝗢, 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝗚 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀, will unveil groundbreaking insights into the next wave of tech trends! ✨ Engage with pioneers in Web3 and AI, network with industry leaders, and gain insights from cutting-edge panels and pitch sessions. 📅 Monday, October 7 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT 📍San Francisco, California 🎟️ Secure your spot now for this exclusive event! Register here. https://lnkd.in/dsGXiVh2 Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital revolution! 🌐💡 Hosts: Orbis86 Co-Host: OffChain Global Sponsors: Hedera, Genius Ventures, Inc 🌐 #Hedera #Orbis86 #SFTechWeek #Web3 #AI #Blockchain #TechInnovation #FutureOfTech #GNUSAI #DigitalRevolution #TechLeaders #Networking #Crypto #Gaming #Web3Community #AIandBlockchain #TechConference #InnovateTech #TechNetworking #FutureOfAI #TechWeek

Seal joined CERN's Rucio Community Workshop last week to support global researchers with secure, decentralized cloud storage. Rucio manages critical data for experiments like ATLAS Collaboration and CMS Collaboration. Seal's decentralized cloud storage supports Rucio researchers and experiments in several ways: ✔️Seamless setup 👉No egress fees 📍Data provenance 📄Immutable record of data transactions 🌏Data democratization Learn more in our latest blog: https://hubs.ly/Q02SQwTL0 #CERN #Rucio #ATLAS #CMS #LHC #researchdata #decentralizedstorage

Thanks again Andrew Richardson Foundation Partners for partnering with us on THE AFTERPARTY last week and now congrats on this huge milestone!

It was a pleasure to host CAPITAL TABLE for some of London’s top fintech growth investors earlier this month, at an undisclosed location in central London. 💬 We spoke about the broadening definition of fintech and what the next 10 years of investing in this space will look like, after a huge run up and crash. 🤳 Our content plans for the evening were scuppered by a no photography rule but shout out to Gabriel for capturing some moments between Andrew Davis at Goodwin, our investor David Linsey, Clare Mitchell from HSBC Innovation Banking and co-founder and GP, Andre de Haes before welcoming our guests. It was a great to get this #CAPITALTABLE fintech series moving and we look forward to the next. #fintech #growthinvesting #VC

Introducing David Linsey, our multidisciplinary investor at BACKED, for the next in our #HumansofBACKED series! Prior to joining BACKED, David co-founded JiPay, a fintech startup, and he now brings that entrepreneurial background and #fintech passion to the fund. When he's not at the latest restaurant hot spot in London, he'll most definitely be in Italy! 🇮🇹 Over to David: Q. Why #VC? "Venture is a role where you are paid to meet interesting people, inform yourself, and allocate capital to founders building the future. That doesn’t sound like work does it? I chose Backed because of our team, and because I was given an incredible amount of freedom to pursue my own investment ideas and theses. Since joining I’ve Backed a B2G Visa OS, a cloud-spend-optimisation platform, and a neobank (details of the last two to come shortly). Q. Which sectors do you find most fascinating? "Fintech is the process of rebuilding our economy’s operating system. With the progress we have achieved in recent years on the infrastructure layer, the opportunity in fintech naturally broadens, as we learn how to connect and integrate the financial tools we have built across industries and workflows. A few holdouts of basic infrastructure still remain undisrupted, and present an enourmous opportunity in the years to come. If you are a founder building in this space, or fintech investor wanting to exchange ideas, please reach out! 💌 Q. What did you do before BACKED? "I was an operator. I cofounded a fintech startup (JiPay) fresh out of university, and moved to Singapore during the height of covid to run it. We were building fintech products for Filipino domestic workers, something which turned out to be a tough game with brutal unit economics. I was fortunate enough to leave that startup with a secondaries exit at the tail end of the fintech boom, and join Backed with a clear idea of which business models do not work! Q. Can you share an insight into your BACKED experience? My highlight is the opportunity for me to constantly improve myself. Venture is truly a craft, and to be great it one must become a master of deciding, sourcing, and fundraising. While I haven’t yet tried my hand at the third, seeing the first two consistently improve with effort over time is immensely rewarding. It’s also addictive - the idea that any conversation or introduction could potentially lead to the next big outcome for the fund is an intoxicating idea that keeps me going. Q. And what about the David outside work? "I run the Amelie and Daniel Linsey Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the improvement of emergency (trauma) care in Sri Lanka. We’ve raised and deployed hundreds of thousands of dollars to give victims of traumatic accidents the best possible chances of survivals. Outside of this, my two greatest passions are attempting to maintain a very problematic classic car, and pretending to be Italian (as anyone know knows me can testify)...

Introducing David Linsey, our multidisciplinary investor at BACKED, for the next in our #HumansofBACKED series! Prior to joining BACKED, David co-founded JiPay, a fintech startup, and he now brings that entrepreneurial background and #fintech passion to the fund. When he's not at the latest restaurant hot spot in London, he'll most definitely be in Italy! 🇮🇹 Over to David: Q. Why #VC? "Venture is a role where you are paid to meet interesting people, inform yourself, and allocate capital to founders building the future. That doesn’t sound like work does it? I chose Backed because of our team, and because I was given an incredible amount of freedom to pursue my own investment ideas and theses. Since joining I’ve Backed a B2G Visa OS, a cloud-spend-optimisation platform, and a neobank (details of the last two to come shortly). Q. Which sectors do you find most fascinating? "Fintech is the process of rebuilding our economy’s operating system. With the progress we have achieved in recent years on the infrastructure layer, the opportunity in fintech naturally broadens, as we learn how to connect and integrate the financial tools we have built across industries and workflows. A few holdouts of basic infrastructure still remain undisrupted, and present an enourmous opportunity in the years to come. If you are a founder building in this space, or fintech investor wanting to exchange ideas, please reach out! 💌 Q. What did you do before BACKED? "I was an operator. I cofounded a fintech startup (JiPay) fresh out of university, and moved to Singapore during the height of covid to run it. We were building fintech products for Filipino domestic workers, something which turned out to be a tough game with brutal unit economics. I was fortunate enough to leave that startup with a secondaries exit at the tail end of the fintech boom, and join Backed with a clear idea of which business models do not work! Q. Can you share an insight into your BACKED experience? My highlight is the opportunity for me to constantly improve myself. Venture is truly a craft, and to be great it one must become a master of deciding, sourcing, and fundraising. While I haven’t yet tried my hand at the third, seeing the first two consistently improve with effort over time is immensely rewarding. It’s also addictive - the idea that any conversation or introduction could potentially lead to the next big outcome for the fund is an intoxicating idea that keeps me going. Q. And what about the David outside work? "I run the Amelie and Daniel Linsey Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the improvement of emergency (trauma) care in Sri Lanka. We’ve raised and deployed hundreds of thousands of dollars to give victims of traumatic accidents the best possible chances of survivals. Outside of this, my two greatest passions are attempting to maintain a very problematic classic car, and pretending to be Italian (as anyone know knows me can testify)...