Revolut granted UK banking license. My Balderton Capital partner Daniel Waterhouse gives his perspective here: linkedin.com/posts/danielwa… revolut.com/blog/post/revo…

Following the positive news for UK fintech that Revolut got their banking license yesterday, I thought I’d share this timeless piece from Daniel Waterhouse on what Balderton Capital saw in the team from day 1. linkedin.com/pulse/reflecti…

At last, Revolut has a licence to lend. Now for America thetimes.com/article/65846b…

$1.3b for AI startups in the EU Balderton Capital: ft.com/content/f21180…

$1.3bn in new Balderton Capital funds to back Europe’s best founders! 25 years since we started we remain as excited as ever about the innovation coming out of Europe. The $615 million early fund and $685 million growth fund marks our largest fundraise to date. lnkd.in/er2tKaEb

#1 Cleo forbes.com/sites/bernardm…

Early returns from a fund are not a predictor of overall success. (DPI = distributions to paid in capital i.e. % of the fund which has been returned to the limited partners)

Rob Moffat Would be interesting to do the same analysis with TVPI at year 5 cc David Clark

Update: The actual deal proposed is even wilder Shareholders had <2 days to approve a pay-to-play deal; they'd need to invest more $ into the company or Bolt buys out their shares for next to nothing. Breslow would get a $2M bonus for returning as CEO, plus an additional $1M of

"you don’t beat that by making the same thing but slightly better, and getting a judge to give you an entry point. You win by making the old thing irrelevant.. OpenAI got 100m users in two months without going to a judge." ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…

Deepset ( the team behind wildly popular opensource AI framework Haystack ) have been on absolute fire recently. Shipping agent frameworks, Deepset Studio and now partnering with NVIDIA AI. Check out their free tutorial on building GenAI apps here: deeplearning.ai/short-courses/… x.com/deepset_ai/sta…

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Free speech is meant to enable a fair battle of ideas, so the good ideas outweigh the bad. That's what classical thinkers like John Stuart Mill proposed. But when social media platforms optimize for engagement, the crazy stuff often outweighs nuance and truth. That's not a

So true. And with the EU’s latest CSRD legislation, the problem is only going to get worse. “a cash cow for consultants” that might cost small businesses 5-7% of turnover to implement apple.news/AHyK880CvTJWCu…

🚀📚 Having covered the tech industry for the last 14 years and the field of AI for the last 7 years as a journalist, I'm so pleased that one of my most enthralling and fascinating projects, a book on story behind the AI boom, is now available in the US. "Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT