Reading Unicorns: 29th August

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

📖 Top Articles:

1. Steven Bartlett of Dragons’ Den gains £20m funding for blockchain platform (The Independent)

2. A new 'institutional angel' fund from Portfolio Ventures is an example of the UK's continuing ability to innovate in venture (TechCrunch)

3. Anaphite raises £4.1m to improve EV batteries with graphene (UKTN)

4. NFTs worth more than $100m stolen in the past year (CityAM)

5. Drivers to benefit from £20 million EV chargepoint boost (GovUK)

💡 Spotlight - New episodes coming soon

We are excited to announce that we are launching an additional Friday Startup Spotlight series introducing the most exciting startups to our audience. The episodes are less than 5 mins long and are the perfect compliment to our Wednesday episodes.

🎙️ Last week’s RU podcast: S4E17 - Tom Wilson @ Seedcamp

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Have a great week,

The Reading Unicorns team.