London Brief #25: Pitch for £500,000 from Fuel.Ventures
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People
Mark Pearson of Fuel.Ventures is using Facebook to find someone to invest in, promising an average investment of £500,000.
Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, has given awards to Desolenator, Trylife and SafetyNet Technologies at the Pitch@Palace 7.0
In the news
AXA PPP Health Tech & You Awards 2017 winners are as follows:
- Trending Award: MyAsthma
- The Future Award Winner: sensewear
- AXA PPP Health Tech & You Challenge: Affinity
- The Health & Care Professional’s Choice: uMotif
- The Health Tech & Age Award: MIRA Rehab
- The Wow! Award: HealthUnlocked
Startupbootcamp IoT London is now open for applications. Ten startups can get into a 3-month accelerator programme and receive network support, co-working space, and £15,000 for expenses.
Eye Candies
If you read this before 4 May, check out the event about UX and Design in IoT products at Cocoon Networks, with talks from Kickstarter, Seymourpowell, Special Projects and Morrama
The second D&AD Festival is now over, and it has left a lot of awards and creative ads to look at. Here are the picks for Digital Design and Digital Marketing.
This whirring gadget you can see everywhere now is a fidget spinner. It seems to be very popular now, but it is an old invention, patented in 1997 according to Wikipedia. Now, as the patent has expired, you can spin it all day.
Business as usual
- LoveCrafts, a community for makers, has raised £26m in a funding round led by Scottish Equity Partners
- Hibob, an HR make-it-all platform, has closed a $17.5m Series A led by Battery Ventures
- Farmdrop, an online grocery platform, has secured £7m in a Series A round led Atomico
- Exonar, a data-science company, has raised £1.25m from investors including Winton Group and Amadeus Capital
- No Agent, a property management platform, has raised £584,162 in a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs
Number of the day
£500,000: The amount Mark Person wants to invest in your startup.
Idea
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Aleksandra Prejs
On behalf of the London Brief Team
