Reading Unicorns: 13th June

Happy Monday. Here’s this week’s Reading Unicorns round-up:

📖 Top Articles from last week:

1. Euan Blair’s Multiverse becomes UK’s first edtech unicorn with £176m raise (UKTN)

2. Open banking fintech Bud closes $80m Series B funding round (FinTech Futures)

3. Endurance events marketplace Let’s Do This raises $60M Series B led by Craft and Headline (TechCrunch)

4. UK Tech receives record VC funding in first quarter (Daily Business)

5. London tech funding more than double Paris since January (Evening Standard)

💡 Spotlight - Portfolio Ventures

Armed with fresh capital, Portfolio Ventures is investing in pre-seed to Series A startups across FinTech, InsurTech and SaaS. They’ve an enviable track record having worked with companies like Credit Kudos, PensionBee, Tractable and Marshmallow. If you are raising an EIS eligible round, contact the team through the PV site:

https://portfolio.ventures/

💼 Jobs

1000+ jobs at Spotify, view here.

180+ jobs at Netflix, view here.

🎙️ Last week’s podcast: S4E6 - Paul Murphy, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Have a great week,

The Reading Unicorns team.