Reading Unicorns: 11th April

We hope you all had a Happy Easter! 🐇 🐣

📖 Top Articles:

1. Connect Earth Lands $5.6 Million in Seed Funding with participation from Gresham House and Portfolio Ventures (Finovate)

2. How early-stage startups should actually think about sustainability (Sifted)

3. TikTok fined nearly £13m for accessing data of 1.4 million children without parents’ consent (CityAM)

IMPORTANT NOTICE - For Founders Raising Soon

For any founders raising Pre-Seed to Series A over the next few months, apply to Focal (previously The Stage) to pitch thousands of VCs and angels in one go, generating a ton of investor inbound. Alumni raised from the likes of Lightspeed, GV and 20VC. It's like YC but without the accelerator. Application deadline: 24th April 6pm. To apply, visit gofocal.vc.

NEWSLETTER RECOMMENDATION

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🎙️ Last week’s podcast: S5E20 - Mark Chaffey, Co-Founder & CEO @ hackajob

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Have a great week,

The Riding Unicorns team.