Reading Unicorns: 24th July

Grab a coffee and enjoy a quick round-up on the latest venture news:

📖 Top Articles:

1. UK climate fintech Sylvera secures $57m Series B funding from Balderton, Fidelity Strategic Ventures & Index Ventures (FinTech Futures)

2. HR management platform Zelt lands £2.7m from Episode 1 Ventures, Concept Ventures & Portfolio Ventures (UKTN)

3. Thingtrax raises £4.3m for industrial IoT platform from Concentric, SuperSeed, Haatch & Portfolio Ventures (UKTN)

4. UK optical chip company Optalysys bags £21m in funding for ‘groundbreaking’ encryption tech (CityAM)

5. AI insurtech Tractable closes £50m round led by SoftBank (UKTN)

🎙️ Last week’s podcast: S6E9 - Cristina Vila Vives, Founder & CEO @ Cledara

🎙️ Co-Host, James Pringle, featured on VC10X:

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Have a great week,

The Riding Unicorns team.