VCs seek outliers: companies with the potential to deliver highly defensible cash flows, define industries and establish category leadership. At early stages, they look for the characteristics that will transform the business into an outlier. Investors use different phrases for this rare occurrence — defensibility, secret sauce, unfair edge. …

Data. It’s growing exponentially and you need it for just about any sound business decision. No matter what industry you’re in, knowing how to collect and interpret data is one of those skills you just can’t do without. Enter Intropic. Founded by Ravinder Bhadhal and Sam Shannon, and seed funded…

The new operating system for higher education Judging by headlines and tweets, hating on higher education is a popular trend. Journalists, students, pundits, VCs — all would have you believe that Covid has accelerated the death of an already dying industry and going to university will be a minority interest…

Founded by Amon Ghaiumy, Paul Chong, and Prof. Qingchen Wang, London-based Ophelos is bringing a new energy into the archaic $24 billion debt collection industry. We love how they’re using AI and behavioural science to boost the financial health of consumers and enterprises, and are proud to have backed them…

Building better debt collection — I really didn’t want to invest in this company. Yes, you read that right. Probably not the opener you’d expect but (sadly) it’s true. I was introduced to Ophelos by two separate people — both of whom I trust and both had strong endorsements of the founding team — and…

Our journey with Stairway began in 2019, when Connect led the pre-seed round of this promising digital learning startup. Back then, Stairway was only 6 months old, but it was already changing the way students felt about studying — specifically about studying Maths. …

Peter Kecskemethy and Tobias Rijken met at Entrepreneur First (EF) in 2016. On the first day of introductions, they simultaneously singled each other out as kindred minds with similar interests and complementary skill sets. They immediately started working together, and the vision for Kheiron was born. Fast forward to today…

Unpacking what we do and why we do it — In the world of venture capital, our success is determined exclusively by the success of the companies we back. It’s as simple as that. The process of investing in a startup differs from almost any other investment category in the sense that it is a two-way street: founders have a…

On the heels of raising an impressive Series C round of $95M, Curve, which allows customers to consolidate multiple cards into one smart card and an app, is well on its way to people’s pockets around the world. Founded in the UK in 2016 by IDF veteran Shachar Bialick, Curve…