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Today we had the pleasure of supporting PACT to announce their Seed raise 🌱 Many companies are developing greener materials. But few seem to have cracked the key question: producing them at the necessary scale. Yudí Ding and Niels Ramay have cracked it. Their first material is derived from natural collagen, and a new 13,000 sq ft lab in Cambridge is enabling them to industrialise production to service luxury brands around the world. Zuleyka Strasner and team, you've been a dream!

Not us fan-girling over The Guardian featuring our latest survey for Bloom Stories in Pass Notes 💁♀️

New research from ethical hiring platform Applied shows that 36% of Gen Zs believe they've faced bias during a recruitment process ⚖ This week, Applied's CEO Khyati Sundaram spoke to Lindsay Dodgson at Business Insider about the findings; and shared some advice for Gen Z jobseekers on how to stand out.

It's been a joy working with Lovetovisit.com to announce this raise today, led by Redrice Ventures and Venrex 💸 A genuinely lovely team with an infectious enthusiasm for the industry they're disrupting. Huge congratulations to Andy Peacock, Georgia Aubrey, Alice Aubrey, Fed Pereira and the whole team. And thank you to Richard Tyler for this ace story!

PR. For founders it can often feel like the scariest, most vulnerable part of the role. But if you can side-step the 'cringe' and lean into the process, sharing your personal story through a channel like PR is one of the best ways to amplify your mission and supercharge growth 🚀 Our Director Rhiannon Evans-Young joins James Mitra, Isabella Cookson and Hannah Urbanek on the 40 Minute Mentor podcast this week to demystify #PR for startups and share advice for founders looking to build their personal brands 🎙️ Link to the full episode in the comments below 🔗

We love working with founders who have lived the problem they're trying to solve. Amanda Philpott certainly fits the bill, leveraging nearly three decades of senior NHS management to drive health innovation at eargym. In her latest article for Hospital Times, Amanda combines her NHS and healthtech expertise to explore how technology can revolutionise preventative care. Read more below.

Climate-proofing the electricity grid is no mean feat. But the team at Neara is leading the way 🌍 Harnessing AI and digital modelling, Neara is supporting energy providers globally to safeguard the grid and future-proof energy supply 💡 Earlier this month, Managing Director Taco Engelaar wrote about how we can “take the heat off the grid” in New Civil Engineer; an opportunity we landed to further Neara's mission of helping utilities manage the impacts of climate change on energy infrastructure. #ClimateTech #DigitalTwins

Our client Mobilise | B Corp was in papers and on screens up and down the country last week during Carer's Week 💚 We were proud to help the team announce the UK's largest roll-out of digital support for unpaid carers on BBC Look North, and raise awareness of the financial support on offer to carers in eight regional papers with insights from co-founder Suzanne Bourne 💸 #CarersWeek

"We could have huge proportions of patients managed through autonomous systems like [Flok] and still keep all the physios extremely busy" 🩺 Flok Health's CEO Finn Stevenson talks about how AI can support traditional care delivery models on Felix Beacher, PhD's Medical AI Podcast this week 🎧 The takeaway? The supply/demand mismatch is so great in MSK that Flok will not be coming for physiotherapists' jobs (but it will free up space so they can do their jobs even better).

Brilliant coverage for our client Flok Health in The Guardian to kick off the week ✨ (Also in print in the paper today). Huge thanks to Sarah Marsh for the great piece!