Reading Unicorns: 23rd January

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

📖 Top Articles:

1. Dragons' Den star Steven Bartlett launches $100m fund to back new companies (Sky News)

2. New £240m fake meat fund looks to disrupt and decarbonise the food industry (CityAM)

3. Kuai Commerce raises £2m to bring Western brands to China (UKTN)

4. Cazoo CEO steps down as car marketplace misses targets (UKTN)

5. Startups’ R&D tax credit cuts are a short-sighted and bad idea (AltFi)

🎙️ Last week’s podcast: S5E10 - Alan Chang, Founder & CEO @ Tesseract Energy

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Have a great week,

The Riding Unicorns team.