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26 Apr 2023
Two years after our first analysis , we’re back with more granular stats on gender diversity across our portfolio based on data from >250 companies and >20,000 full-time…
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19 Apr 2023
Fintech summer of 2021 has given way to the winter of 2022–23, bypassing autumn almost entirely. But in years to come, we’ll look back to today and realize…
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17 Apr 2023
There was a moment — in 2020 and 2021 — when the long-awaited disruption of the insurance industry seemed well underway. Category leaders such as Lemonade, Oscar and…
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7 Apr 2023
Gig work management app Rodeo has raised $5 million (£4 million) to support its mission to transform the future of gig work. The seed round was led by…
4 Apr 2023
The concept of gig economy work has been around for decades driven by changes in technology and the increasing availability of high-speed internet and mobile devices, which has…
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29 Mar 2023Written by Remus Brett
Scaling companies is hard. Really hard. Many of the challenges, like finding product market fit, hiring and raising capital are well documented. Some are not, like scaling a…
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28 Mar 2023
Translucent , the accounting platform solving the everyday finance problems of multi-entity businesses, has raised a £2.7M pre-seed round led by London-based VC firm LocalGlobe, Europe’s number one…
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28 Mar 2023Written by Remus Brett
For a traditional bank, a mass-market customer is worth $400–500 per year in revenue. An SME customer will typically generate two or three times that amount. But a…
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26 Mar 2023
Africa now accounts for 70% of the world’s $1 trillion mobile money market, with mPesa — the mobile phone-based money transfer service and darling of mobile money in…
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23 Mar 2023
The financialisation of carbon — meaning its treatment as a priced liability or asset in a company’s balance sheet — is an ongoing transition whose origins can be…
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21 Mar 2023Written by Tom Lambert
The past decade has seen a huge shift in how we bank and transact. In the UK, challenger banks like Tide , Starling and Monzo now manage around…
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10 Mar 2023
The Ecosystem Restoration Standard ( ERS ) is launching a next-generation standard to certify restoration projects on the Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs). ERS assesses and monitors the impact…
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9 Mar 2023
Ever since publishing The Climate Equation , and making our first investments in companies like Sylvera and Supercritical , the carbon markets have been a prominent feature of…
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21 Feb 2023
Africa is booming. The continent is projected to have the fastest urban growth rate in the world, with Africa’s cities set to be home to an additional 950…
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8 Feb 2023
Jumba raises $4.5m seed round to grow construction tech in africa
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17 Jan 2023
Benchmarks from LocalGlobe’s portfolio
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10 Jan 2023
Benchmarks from LocalGlobe’s portfolio
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3 Jan 2023
In what could be a significant step towards reducing the impact that construction projects have on the planet, the founders of a graphene-enhanced additive to concrete have raised…
18 Nov 2022
It’s been over a month since I joined Phoenix Court, home to Flagship fund LocalGlobe, and sister funds Latitude, Solar and Basecamp. Prior to joining, in my conversations…
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17 Nov 2022
As the economic trend is towards inflation, in the residential real estate market, access to real estate credit is becoming more complex, between rising rates and tighter lending…
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16 Nov 2022Written by Ziv Reichert
Three decades ago, Tim Berners-Lee created WorldWideWeb, the first public road to the internet. For the first time, text docs were linked over a public network — a…
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26 Oct 2022Written by Ziv Reichert
Ask anyone who has grown up playing video games what their most profound memories are and certain game moments will likely make the cut. For me: — Driving…
5 Oct 2022
Pixaera raises $5.7m to empower people through play
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3 Oct 2022
Noala raises $4m to help families access speech and language therapy
