Reading Unicorns: 1st May

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

📖 Top Articles:

1. We need to talk — it’s how the UK has become the “Unicorn Kingdom” (The Times - subscription may be required)

2. Amazon share price tanks after software giant announces fall in cloud spend (CityAM)

3. Crypto compliance firm run by Starling co-founder raises £29m (UKTN)

4. OpenAI closes $300M share sale at $27B-29B valuation (TechCrunch)

5. This startup just raised £20m to build 'the Tesla of plastics' (Sifted)

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The Riding Unicorns team.