Reading Unicorns: 30th May

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

📖 Top Articles from last week:

1. TransferMate hits 🦄 Status after US$70M Funding Round (FinTech Magazine)

2. RBF platform Bloom secures $377M Series A (TechCrunch)

3. IKEA parent company invests in insurtech Urban Jungle (UKTN)

Listen to our episode with founder Jimmy Williams here:

4. UK surges ahead of Europe to retain crown as venture capital ‘epicentre’ (CityAM)

5. Klarna to cut 10% of staff as it warns of recession (BBC news)

Listen to our episode with rival BNPL founder Philip Belamant here:

💡 Spotlight - Mast

Mast is a SaaS startup building cloud-native mortgage technology infrastructure to help lenders increase capacity, reduce costs and strengthen operational controls.

Mast’s products allow lenders to operate more efficiently, react faster to changing market conditions, and focus on offering the best service possible. Mast has just closed a pre-seed round which will allow them to scale-up their commercial relationships with mortgage lenders.

https://usemast.com/

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💼 Jobs

60+ jobs at Primer, view here.

200+ jobs at Checkout.com, view here.

🎙️ Last week’s podcast: S4E4 - Adnan Ebrahim, Co-Founder & CEO @ MindLabs

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Have a great week,

The Reading Unicorns team.