Brilliant to see Qureight featured in Sifted's list of 13 techbio startups to watch 👏 👀 After an $8.5m Series A in spring, Muhunthan Thillai and the team have continued to feel the pull from the market with pharma leveraging Qureight's technology to make better drug development decisions A huge congrats to the Qureight team and to all the other startups featured! Full article link in the comments👇 #vc #venturecapital #startups #biotech #pharma #investing #tech #entrepreneurship #sifted
Playfair
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
London, England 22,603 followers
We play fair by founders. Giving you an unfair advantage, to take you from where you are to where you want to be
About us
Playfair is a generalist fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+ companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.
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http://www.playfair.vc
External link for Playfair
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- London, England
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2013
- Specialties
- Venture Capital, Seed Funding, Pre-Seed Funding, Deep Tech, VC, and Angel Investing
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8 Warner Yard
London, England EC1R 5EY, GB
Employees at Playfair
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Awesome to see Playfair's very own Lucia Polverino featured in Business Insider last week talking about how she landed a role in venture capital She outlined some valuable advice for young VCs who want to enter the field: 💻 Explore varied careers that will help you to build skills and experiences that will be relevant in a venture role 💡 Every VC fund is different, so try to find one that aligns with your interests and skills 🗣 Connect with recruiters who can help you to find funds that are hiring and secure an opportunity Check out the full article link in the comments below #venturecapital #vc #careers #hiring #tech #startups #investing
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New Podcast Episode Alert!🎙️ Henrik Wetter Sanchez sat down with Rupert McSheehy from Fireside with Founders and Leaders to shine a light on how we like to do things at Playfair They covered a lot of ground, from diving deep into our high-conviction investment strategy, to the critical role of due diligence in making investment decisions, and the importance of promoting diversity in venture Check out the full podcast link in the comments below 🎧 #venturecapital #vc #entrepreneurship #startups #tech #podcast #investing
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Being a founder is no easy feat, and being a founder and parent is an even more challenging combination James Roycroft-Davis launched Dads Building Companies with a clear vision: to create a place where dads can share advice on building, fundraising and parenting and seek support, connection and community We are delighted to be hosting the first Dads Building Companies event at the Playfair office in September 🎉 More details in the link in the comments 👇 #venturecapital #vc #startups #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #ceo #tech #innovation #fundraising
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Curious about what makes a killer pitch deck? 🤔 Our very own Henrik spoke with UKTN to demystify the investment journey for founders that are looking to raise. With half of small business owners in the UK concerned that their business won’t survive the next 12 months, it’s important for founders to have the right advice when raising startup funding. To get tips from investors who have funded countless startups, UKTN spoke with Chenelle Ansah, founder of LightPace VC; Andy Ayim MBE, founder of the Angel Investing School; George Whitehead, partner at ACF Investors; Christopher Lascelles, investment manager at Triple Point Ventures and our very own Henrik. Check out the full article below 👇 https://lnkd.in/ezsC4WvR #venturecapital #vc #fundraising #startups #founders #technology
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📣 Exciting news for Passionfruit 📣 We are thrilled to announce that Passionfruit has raised a $9M Series A round led by Seaya, with participation from existing Seed investors firstminute capital, Playfair , Cornerstone VC and Portfolio Ventures . Passionfruit’s platform’s worker-base has surged to a community of 3,000 and supports the needs of hundreds of major brands worldwide, including PepsiCo, Mars, AB InBev, HSBC and The Match Group. 🚀 Passionfruit is now hiring for the next stage of the journey; across sales, marketing product and engineering. Raffi and Issah would love to meet you! Check out the comments for the full coverage! #startups #venturecapital #fundraising
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We are thrilled to announce that we have co-led NetFabric.ai's £2.2M funding round with our friends at Founderful to revolutionise network monitoring 🚀 From the first interactions with Benjamin Bichsel, Tobias Bühler and Marlene Brakhane at NetFabric we were convinced this was an investment we had to make. 1. Downtime remains a critical issue for enterprises worldwide 2. A unique solution combining advanced mathematical models and machine learning 3. A supercharged team across research from ETH Zürich, AI deployments and operational scaling XP To read more about why we invested in NetFabric.ai, check out our Medium article in the comments below 👇 #venturecapital #vc #startups #preseed #fundraising #tech #investing #ai
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We are delighted to welcome Lucia Polverino and Felix Neubeck to the Playfair team 👋 Lucia and Felix have joined our investment team after a rigorous hiring process that started with over 1,500 applicants It's great to have you both on board 🙌 #venturecapital #vc #entrepreneurship #startups #hiring #tech #investing
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📣 The Playfair portfolio is hiring 📣 If you're looking to break into the early stage startup world, some of the most innovative startups in Europe backed by Playfair are hiring across 60+ roles in 💻 Product 🤝 Sales 👥 Customer Success 💪 HR 🎨 Design 🛠 Engineering And more! For more information head to the Playfair website or check the link in the comments 👇 Don't find a suitable role? Register to join our Talent Network and you'll be notified when your ideal role pops up 📩 #venturecapital #vc #startups #hiring #recruiting #tech #jobs #careers #entrepreneurship
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Ascento is making strides! Congratulations to Alessandro Morra and the whole Ascento team for picking up the W.A. De Vigier Stiftung award, one of the most prestigious startup awards in Switzerland 🏆 We are incredibly excited about Ascento’s mission to revolutionise security with robotics and AI This is just the beginning 🚀 #venturecapital #vc #startups #founders #tech #robotics #switzerland #dach
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