Reading Unicorns: 5th September

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

📖 Top Articles:

1. Carta Acquires Capdesk (FinSMEs)

2. Stripe rival Ryft raises £1.2m for merchant payment system (UKTN)

3. UK in the running for £7bn lithium battery gigafactory (CityAM)

4. Klarna losses quadruple as costs rise (FT)

5. The best startups with good teams and good execution that are hitting their numbers are getting funded (LinkedIn)

💡 Spotlight - Passionfruit

New short-form series with early-stage founders. We covered Passionfruit previously in the newsletter and we are delighted to have Co-Founder Raffi on for our first edition of the audio version:

💼 Jobs

4 Jobs at Juno, view here. 2 jobs at The Electric Car Scheme, view here.UX/App Designer at Narchie, view here.

🎙️ Last week’s podcast: S4E18 - Ben Kaminski, Partner @ Target Global

This episode is sponsored by The Electric Car Scheme. Get 30-60% off any electric car. Salary sacrifice lets you pay from your salary before tax. It’s like the cycle to work scheme for electric cars. The Electric Car Scheme sets up and manages the salary sacrifice scheme for your company at no cost.

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Have a great week,

The Reading Unicorns team.