Reading Unicorns: 27th February

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

📖 Top Articles from last week:

1. Italy gets its first unicorn as Scalapay raises $497m from Tencent (Sifted)

2. Pipe (our sponsor) expands into media and entertainment financing with its acquisition of Purely Capital (TechCrunch)

3. Coinbase crushes expectations in Q4 earnings, but stock sinks as it reports slower start to year (TechCrunch)

4. Darktrace snaps up Dutch Cybersprint to drive preventative cyber attack approach (CityAM)

5. SoftBank orders second serving of Gousto with $230m investment (UKTN)

💡 Spotlight - Incredible

Pay off your credit debt, fast. Incredible helps consumers pay off debt faster and save thousands of pounds on interest and fees. One of the hottest new FinTech startups in the UK has just closed it’s pre-seed round. Watch this space.

💼 Jobs

Backend Engineer @ Scribe Labs

Babylon - 200+ jobs on LinkedIn

Revolut - 500+ jobs on LinkedIn

🎙️ Last week’s podcast: Giles Andrews, Co-Founder @ Zopa

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Have a great week,

The Reading Unicorns team.