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📣 Calling all #Fintech and #SaaS, #Seed and #SeriesA founders in the #Manchester area! If you are seeking guidance, mentoring or are looking to raise, Volution is hosting our latest Office Hours event on Wednesday 9th October in Manchester with Palatine Growth Credit! 🤝 Join us for a drink and an informal conversation with the investment teams of Volution and Palatine Growth Credit, including exited founders and former operators. Enjoy networking with our team and fellow founders! 🚀 You can book a 20-minute slot to discuss fundraising, go-to-market strategies, partnerships, deal structuring, team building, pitching and more. ✍️ Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/euDpw8Mz We will get back to you to confirm if you have secured a slot. 👋 All are welcome! We are particularly keen to meet more female and underrepresented founders. 🌐 Please share widely with your network and especially to those in the Manchester area! ↗️ #Venture #Investment #OfficeHours #ManchesterEvents #FemaleFounders #UnderrepresentedFounders #TechFounders #ManchesterTech William Chappel Ryan Sorby James Codling Stephen Lemon Nina Foote Ed Bardos Jonny Laughton

📣 @Focal powered by HSBC Innovation Banking, is back! 🚨 Applications for Focal’s W24 demo day are open to startups raising in the next 6 months. It takes 7 minutes to apply on their website: https://lnkd.in/eSE_WhQp, and even those who don’t make it to demo day can get introductions to over 250 leading VC fund partners, including Volution Last demo day alone, applicants received over 1600 introductions from investors; it's one of the highest leverage activities you can do for your fundraise. #focal #startup #fundraising #vc #demoday

📣 Calling all #Fintech and #SaaS founders! Join us on 9th October for the Manchester edition of our Office Hours, in partnership with Palatine Growth Credit. Sign up link below! 👇

🖐️ High Five! Fantastic to see Volution portfolio company Signal AI featured in The Times profile of the UK's most promising AI firms - and how they might revolutionise their industries. Signal AI had modest beginnings - it was started in a garage by co-founders David Benigson and Miguel Martinez with the aim of disrupting market intelligence... Now "it counts Hearst and Guardian Media Group among its backers, having raised £77 million. London is its base, with offices in New York, Hong Kong and Lisbon. The company uses AI to analyse and provide insights from vast amounts of “unstructured” data. Its customers include Meta, HSBC, Google and Pfizer." #AI #venture #SaaS #growth #marketintelligence You can read more more here 👇

📣 Calling all #Fintech and #SaaS, #Seed and #SeriesA founders in the #Manchester area! If you are seeking guidance, mentoring or are looking to raise, Volution is hosting our latest Office Hours event on Wednesday 9th October in Manchester with Palatine Growth Credit! 🤝 Join us for a drink and an informal conversation with the investment teams of Volution and Palatine Growth Credit, including exited founders and former operators. Enjoy networking with our team and fellow founders! 🚀 You can book a 20-minute slot to discuss fundraising, go-to-market strategies, partnerships, deal structuring, team building, pitching and more. ✍️ Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/euDpw8Mz We will get back to you to confirm if you have secured a slot. 👋 All are welcome! We are particularly keen to meet more female and underrepresented founders. 🌐 Please share widely with your network and especially to those in the Manchester area! ↗️ #Venture #Investment #OfficeHours #ManchesterEvents #FemaleFounders #UnderrepresentedFounders #TechFounders #ManchesterTech William Chappel Ryan Sorby James Codling Stephen Lemon Nina Foote Ed Bardos Jonny Laughton

🚀Leading the Way: Newsletter #10 🚀 Launching the 10th edition of The Volution Newsletter, we delve into leadership in venture capital and celebrate the milestones of some of our remarkable portfolio companies. Key highlights include: 💼 Portfolio: Zopa Bank: Celebrates its first annual profit of £15.8m in 2023. Flagstone: Ranked 56th in The Sunday Times Top 100 fastest-growing firms. Habito: Expanded its team and launched a new protection division. Runa: Recognised as one of Europe’s most exciting fintechs. 🌱 ESG and Sustainability: We've launched our second ESG and Sustainability Report, spotlighting our pioneering Carbon Carry initiative. Sustainability is a key focus, with efforts to drive inclusive businesses from the top. 📊 Fintech Market Update: Our Partners' insights in the 2024 H1 FinTech Investment Landscape report that shows the UK leading European hubs with $2.0 billion of investments and a clear focus on quality, resilient business models and profitability. 📖 Our Summer Read: "Leaders Eat Last" by Simon Sinek – a must-read on leadership and building thriving, people-centred organisations. Dive into these stories and more! 👉 Read the full newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/e9Gq999w #Leadership #ESG #VentureCapital #Fintech #Sustainability #Newsletter James Codling Ed Bardos Nina Foote Jonny Laughton Stephen Lemon

📢 It's here! We’re delighted to share highlights from our our second Annual ESG and Sustainability Report, which launched today! 🌱 The report outlines the progress made internally with Volution's own ESG initiatives over the past year, as well as the results of our annual portfolio ESG survey. Over the course of 2023 we embedded #ESG into our operations, joined the Investing in Women Code and hosted our first volunteering day. 🌍 We also measured our carbon footprint with Re:Co | B Corp Certified and offset our emissions with Carbon Neutral Britain™ Our portfolio companies showed 100% participation in our annual benchmarking survey, scoring particularly well in Social and Governance. 🙌 We were named the “One to Watch” at the Growth Investor Awards in the ESG Champion category and finalists for Fund Manager of the Year at City AM’s Impact AM awards. 🏆 📄 To access the full report, you can sign up here [https://lnkd.in/eY95PJSZ]. 🌱 You can learn more about our pioneering ESG and Carbon Carry initiative here  [https://lnkd.in/eSsCvehA]. We remain committed to driving positive change at Volution, within our portfolio companies, and across the wider industry. We are grateful to all our partners for their help and support, and particularly Re:Co | B Corp Certified Carbon Neutral Britain™, ESG_VC, VentureESG, European Women in VC, British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and Innovate Finance James Codling Nina Foote Ed Bardos Jonny Laughton Stephen Lemon #ESG #Sustainability #DiversityAndInclusion #Volution

💡 The Innovate Finance H1 2024 FinTech Investment Landscape report is out now! 👩💻 Featuring analysis and insight on the current Global FinTech funding landscape - including commentary by Volution Partners Stephen Lemon and Nina Foote - the report shows how the FinTech sector is demonstrating resilience and adaptability despite ongoing macro-economic challenges. What do you need to know? 🌱Global FinTech investment is at $15.9B with 81% early-stage deals. 🥇The US continues to lead globally with the UK second, above India and China - and ahead in Europe 🇬🇧 UK showing strong early-stage investments - but only 6.7% of funding going to female founders. 🤝 Impressive M&A performance with 301 M&A deals globally totalling $45.8B, including major deals like Worldpay ($12.5B). 📈 Signs of recovery in the IPO market with 8 IPOs on LSE - with hope for future FinTech IPOs 🗞 You can download the full report here: https://lnkd.in/ewPhnTfc ⭐️⭐️ And don't miss Innovate Finance's roundtable webinar for more market analysis next week with Stephen Lemon - July 17th at 3pm ⭐️⭐️ Sign up here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e2mcvxsi #fintech #venture #investments #VoiceOfUKFinTech #FinTechInvestmentReportH12024 James Codling Ed Bardos Jonny Laughton Veronica Maria Glab Thin Chambers

🚀 In case you missed it... we're thrilled to share that Volution portfolio company Flagstone has made it onto the Sunday Times 100 list! 🎉 🙌 Congratulations to Simon Merchant, Andrew Thatcher and the whole Flagstone team for this fantastic achievement!

Well that was full-on few days in #Berlin at #SuperVenture with the Volution Partners… It’s clear that - The European Venture scene is alive and kicking!💥 📈  There are significant investment opportunities across UK and Europe with industry-leading innovation and attractive valuations. 💪  Diverse teams and emerging managers both out-perform industry benchmarks when it comes to returns. 💚 There's growing momentum in ESG initiatives as more LPs, VCs and portfolio companies commit to building sustainable and equitable businesses. Some personal highlights: 🌱 The launch of the latest ESG_VC and British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) Research and Trends Report 2024 providing essential industry benchmarking data and featuring Volution’s portfolio companies, with Henry Philipson and Chris Elphick 🚀 The launch of the European Women in VC x Founders Forum Group Report 2024 report showing how Europe is leading the way in positive impact venture capital investing, with 🚀Kinga Stanislawska The European Women in VC VC/LP lunch, and reuniting with Alice Tealdi! Three parties in an evening thanks to Goodwin at the Pan Am lounge, Top Tier Capital Partners at the Zoo and of course the VC party, with JOIN CAPITAL and Isomer Capital. Plus my first ever #Padel game at a rooftop tournament hosted by the event masters at Love Ventures with Marcus Love, Adrian Love and Bill Corfield Great to see many familiar faces and meet many new VCs, LPs and more, not to mention hanging out with the brilliant Volution team James Codling, Ed Bardos, Jonny Laughton Stephen Lemon Until next year! 🇩🇪