Over the last year, ESG principles have become a core part of what we do at Talis: from our internal ops, to how we support our companies on their own ESG initiatives. One of the key challenges we’ve seen is the difficulty in identifying and implementing relevant sustainable strategies…

Based in London, iwoca offers credit facilities to small businesses in the UK and Germany. Christoph founded iwoca in 2011 with James Dear: they were both working in finance when they noticed how small businesses were getting left behind by big banks. …

This week we had the pleasure of announcing our investment into Nøie, leading the $12m Series A round with participation from Inventure — as well as angels like Thomas Ryge Mikkelsen, former executive vice president at jewellery company Pandora and Kristian Schrøder Hart-Hansen, former CEO of LEO Innovation Lab. …

By Vasile Foca and Ellie Crocker As Darktrace goes public on the London Stock Exchange today, it cements its status as one of the most successful cybersecurity companies in the world. Needless to say, this is a huge boost for the UK’s tech sector — as well as being a…

Last year, we had the pleasure of meeting Zak Ringelstein and the Zigazoo team, and I’m proud to say that we closed our seed investment in the company earlier this year. We participated in the round alongside a fantastic line-up of investors, including MaC Venture Partners; Serena Williams’ Serena Ventures…

Doron Meyassed founded luxury holiday home platform Plum Guide in 2015. Playing in the same arena as Airbnb, Plum Guide accepts only the top 1% of homes onto its books in any location, putting homes through the rigorous Plum Test, which uses a mix of algorithms and physical visits by…

2020 was the year where online communities finally gained as much significance in our lives as offline communities. As people all around the world spent the months of the COVID-19 pandemic confined to the four walls of their apartments, moving constantly between platforms like Discord, Twitch, Slack, and Strava, and…

At Web Summit’s 2020 virtual event, Talis Capital’s managing partner and co-founder Vasile Foca and Darktrace’s chief strategy officer and co-founder Nicole Eagan spoke to the New York Times’ Don Clark on how they built the cyber-AI powerhouse that Darktrace is today. Darktrace is the world’s leading cyber AI company…

Founded in 2009 by Sophie Hill, Threads Styling is a chat-based commerce company, providing customers with a bespoke and personalised personal shopping service that allows its customers to find luxury apparel, accessories, home and beauty products through the use of social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. …