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To celebrate International Freelancer Day, Passionfruit hosted some of their brilliant specialists at the Playfair offices for an evening of networking, games and drinks! We hope you guys had an awesome time 🥳 Passionfruit's purpose is to provide an AI-powered platform that radically simplifies a company’s ability to discover, arrange and engage vetted independent talent, whilst also proving on-project collaboration tooling and implement entire work-streams within a single, streamlined platform If you are a business looking for specialist marketing services, or if you're a freelancer looking for more work, check out Passionfruit here down below 👇 #freelance #marketing #passionfruit #startups #tech #venturecapital

Awesome to see Nory featured in Accel's 2024 Euroscape report 🌍 To be recognised as one of the top 100 AI & Cloud companies in Europe is a brilliant achievement 💪 Congrats to Conor Sheridan and the whole Nory team for the progress they have made so far in building the future infrastructure of the hospitality industry - we can't wait to see what you guys achieve next 🚀 Download the full report in the comments below #startups #tech #investing #innovation #ai #venturecapital

Female Founder Office Hours is coming back to Slush for the third time! 🚀 This year, we’re excited to be partnering with Slush, Zendesk, and Women TechEU for what will be the most exciting edition of FFOH x Slush yet! In the heart of the Slush venue, the event will bring together 25 remarkable women founders to meet and network with 25 of the most influential and supportive European VCs 💪 Event Details: Date: Day 1 of Slush Time: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM For more information or to apply, visit the Slush FFOH website in the comments below 👇 Hope to see you all there! #venturecapital #startups #founders #investors #slush #womenintech #investing

Yesterday we co-hosted a founder breakfast at SaaStock along with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Intercom to continue our engagement in the ecosystem🇮🇪 At Playfair, we have been bullish on Ireland for a while and we believe that there are many more incredible founders to be found. We’d love to continue working with local VCs, angels and accelerators to enable their success 🚀 Founders and investors alike in Ireland, feel free to reach out to the team 👋 #founders #startups #vc #tech #entrepreneurship #ireland #dublin 

How is AI transforming claims processes? Sprout.ai's latest research dives into the real-world experiences of 20 senior claims leaders building a business case for AI 🚀 The team at Sprout.ai interviewed leaders from general insurance, Lloyd’s, and third-party adjusting services to explore how AI is being applied in claims To discover the challenges they faced, what’s working, and how AI can streamline processes and enhance customer satisfaction, check out the whitepaper below👇 #tech #innovation #entrepreneurship #startups #AI #claims #insurance

📣 5 days left to apply for Edition 12 of Female Founder Office Hours 📣 Applications close on October 15th! Don’t miss out on the opportunity of joining us for the 12th Edition of FFOH which is set to be our largest one to date, featuring the most investors ever (200!) and Microsoft for Startups and Carta as our partners 💪 The event is taking place on November 7th where 300 women founders will be matched with 4 investors each for one-to-one meetings. To date, 25% of founders have gone on to raise funding after attending an event. £194m has been raised in 2024 by companies that have attended one of the previous editions. If you’re a woman founder, or know any women founders out there that fit these criteria, please do apply/share with them: 🌱 Inception to Series A 💻 Tech company 🌍 Europe HQ 🙋♀️ Women-led Apply using the link in the comments below by October 15th! 👇

Our very own Clare Zhang returned to her alma mater, London Business School, to share her journey of becoming a VC Investor and give an insight into her day-to-day role It's really important to us at Playfair to demystify Venture Capital for both founders and young talent, so it is truly amazing to see more panels like this taking place to help more aspiring students break into the industry 💪 Great work Clare Zhang and thank you London Business School for the opportunity! #vc #venturecapital #careers #startups #tech #lbs

Yesterday we wrapped up the first edition of our Female Founder Office Hours at WVC:E 🇫🇷🚀 It was an incredible opportunity to bring an initiative so close to our hearts here at Playfair to an event focused on making the European tech ecosystem more inclusive for all The founders that we meet across all of our FFOH editions never seize to amaze us, and the founders who showed up in Paris were no different 🙌 A huge thank you to the 20 investors for their time and support, to the entire WVC:E team for partnering with us to make this happen, and to the Google Paris team for hosting us 🙏 We are one step closer to closing the funding gap, but there is still a lot of work to be done 💪 #femalefounders #womenintech #officehours #paris #france #wvce #venturecapital #tech

Celebrating 5 years of Recycleye 🎂♻️🚀 We are incredibly proud to look back on how far Recycleye has come since September 2019 From starting the build in a garage, to an arch under railway tracks in 2021, the Recycleye team have now settled into their amazing new Resource HQ 🦾 The new 17,400sqft facility conveniently located in East London includes: 📍 Test Centre 📍 Manufacturing Halls 📍 R&D facilities & offices The new factory will host thorough testing and full scale production of Recycleye QualiBot® and Recycleye QuantiSort® product ranges, delivering on the vision of making a meaningful contribution to the world's recycling rates Huge congratulations to Victor Dewulf, Peter Hedley and the team! Here's to the next 5 years 👏 Read the full story on Resource HQ down below 👇 #vc #venturecapital #startups #innovation #recycleye #wastemanagement #sustainability #tech #entrepreneurship

Founders, are you interested in how to maximise the chances of securing funding for you company? In this piece for Startups Magazine, Chris Smith broke down the 4 critical phases of fundraising: 💻 Research 📧 Connecting 🎩 Formal Process 🤝 Securing The Deal We hope that it's a helpful guide If you have any questions for us or Chris, drop them down below 👇 #venturecapital #startups #fundraising #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #technology #innovation