Reading Unicorns: 17th April

Grab a coffee and enjoy a quick round-up on this week’s venture news:

📖 Top Articles:

1. Yonder secures £62.5 million in Series A funding (Finextra)

2. Scan.com, which gives patients direct access to private medical imaging services, raises $12M (TechCrunch)

3. Albion Capital hits £80m fund goal (UKTN)

4. Aviva injects £150m into VC arm as it commits to funding more tech start ups (CityAM)

5.Why EIS Funds Can Outperform VCT Funds (Master Investor)

🎙️ Top 3 episodes from Season 5:

1. Alan Chang at Tesseract

1. Magnus Karnehm at Left Lane Capital

2. Victor Trokoudes at Plum

Season 6 will be starting in the next couple of weeks.

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.

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Have a great week,

The Riding Unicorns team.