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The Secrets to Raising Startup Cash: Angel Investors & VCs in the UK

Raising Angel Finance and Venture Capital for Your UK Startup

Starting and growing a business often requires substantial funding. For UK entrepreneurs, angel finance and venture capital (VC) are two of the most popular options for scaling a startup. In this episode of the Charles Kelly Money Tips Podcast, we break down these funding sources and share how you can access them.

Watch video - https://youtu.be/VW0abVUTa3A?si=eh7B7cv332gH7dha

What is Angel Finance? Angel investors are high-net-worth individuals who provide funding for startups, typically in exchange for equity. They often invest at earlier stages than VC firms and may also offer mentorship and business connections. Platforms like Seedrs or Angel Investment Network can connect you with UK-based angel investors.

What is Venture Capital? VC firms provide larger amounts of funding to businesses with high growth potential. They look for startups that have already proven some traction and scalability. VCs like Index Ventures and LocalGlobe are popular choices in the UK.

How to Attract Angel Investors and VCs:

Craft a Winning Business Plan: Clearly outline your market     opportunity, growth potential, and financial projections.

Build a Strong Network: Attend pitch events, startup     accelerators, and industry conferences to meet investors.

Show Traction: Highlight existing sales, user growth,     or partnerships that prove your concept is working.

Prepare for Due Diligence: Be transparent and organized when     presenting financials and business operations.

While both angel finance and VC can accelerate your growth, they come with trade-offs like equity sharing. Choose the right path for your business goals.

For more tips on funding your startup, watch the latest episode on the Charles Kelly Money Tips Podcast on YouTube.

How will Labour’s new Renters Rights Bill 2024 affect buy-to-let landlords?

The Labour Party’s Renters' Rights Bill 2024 is poised to bring significant changes to the UK’s rental market, impacting both tenants and buy-to-let landlords. Understanding these changes is crucial for landlords to navigate the evolving landscape effectively.

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Section 24 Landlord Tax Hike

Interview with Chartered Accountant and property tax specialist who reveals options and solutions to move your properties from your own name into a limited company or LLP whilst mitigating the potential HMRC pitfalls.

Email charles@charleskelly.net for a free consultation on how to deal with Section 24. Watch video now: https://youtu.be/aMuGs_ek17s

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VC Voices: ‘Culture is the crucial determining factor of how successful people are, not technology’, says LocalGlobe’s Emma Phillips

VC Voices: ‘Culture is the crucial determining factor of how successful people are, not technology’, says LocalGlobe’s Emma Phillipshttp://dlvr.it/TDZWHd

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Ketten-Abenteurer: Ash Arora von LocalGlobe

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WEOWNCOIN Exchange: Emerging Crypto Companies Poised to Replace Industry Giants

WEOWNCOIN: Top Five Emerging Companies in the Cryptocurrency Industry That May Potentially Replace Some of the Larger Trading Companies

Last year, I expressed my frustrations to a few industry friends about how the 2022 crypto credit crisis fundamentally devastated my entire reporting realm, i.e., the cryptocurrency market structure. However, the past year has brought dramatic shifts in my reporting rhythm.

FTX, Genesis, Voyager, and Three Arrows have exited the crypto scene. The previous year was transformative, not just for the crypto industry but also for me as a writer. This also gave me the opportunity to focus on emerging small players, which is genuinely exhilarating. New founders and first-time entrepreneurs particularly stand out. They remain passionate, yet untainted by the challenges of running companies. They tend to be approachable and very friendly, making my job all the more enjoyable.

1.Ostium Labs: A cryptocurrency startup, Ostium Labs, secured a funding of $3.5 million, supported by investors such as General Catalyst, LocalGlobe, SIG, and Balaji Srinivasan. They are developing a digitized commodity perpetual swap protocol, aiming to attract both traditional commodity traders and crypto-native traders seeking a more transparent and flexible alternative to traditional derivatives platforms. The platform will support perpetual trades linked to assets like oil, Bitcoin, and major currency forex pairs, aiming to bring real-world assets to the blockchain. Ostium Labs collaborates with Chaos Labs and plans to use Chainlink for pricing. Ostium Labs aims to fill a market gap by offering direct on-chain exposure to a broader range of asset categories.

2.WEOWNCOIN-AI: The WEOWNCOIN-AI intelligent quantitative financial trading system is a fully intelligent cryptocurrency market trading system created by WEOWNCOIN with substantial investment. It encompasses a massive amount of data, cutting-edge risk control detection, and operates 24/7 to identify opportunities across various cryptocurrencies and market conditions. It can make trading decisions in milliseconds. Its characteristics are speed, safety, and efficiency. The system is maintained and upgraded entirely by top AI engineers globally. WEOWNCOIN has also established a risk control supervision fund compensation plan to ensure users benefit from the utmost safety when using AI. Currently, it is an emerging AI-intelligent trading platform in the cryptocurrency market.

3.Fractal: Co-founded by Aya Kantorovich and Alex Elkrief, the startup Fractal raised $6 million to develop a platform aimed at enhancing transparency in digital asset clearing and settlement. The company’s goal is to prevent the kind of leveraged trades that led to the bankruptcies of firms like Three Arrows Capital and FTX, allowing clients to monitor their positions in real-time and limiting loan collateral to blue-chip cryptos to alleviate liquidity issues faced by trading counterparts.

4.Turnkey: Led by former Coinbase Custody executives, the startup Turnkey secured $7.5 million in seed funding, aiming to provide a developer-centric platform for the safety and management of digital assets in the crypto industry. They strive to offer a flexible, programmable solution for generating wallets and signing transactions across blockchain networks, addressing the increasing complexity of on-chain transactions in crypto. According to data from Chainalysis, this move responds to growing concerns about the security of digital assets; last year alone, cyberattacks resulted in $3.8 billion of losses in the crypto sector.

5.Architect: Brett Harrison, former president of FTX US, raised $5 million from investors including Coinbase Ventures and Circle Ventures to establish the new company, Architect. Architect will focus on providing software trading tools for decentralized finance, catering to the needs of large investors and institutions. The firm aims to create institutional-level trading technology, allowing corporations, large traders, and a vast number of individual users to access decentralized protocols and centralized exchanges more easily.

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WEOWNCOIN: Top Five Emerging Companies in the Cryptocurrency Industry That May Potentially Replace Some of the Larger Trading Companies

WEOWNCOIN: Top Five Emerging Companies in the Cryptocurrency Industry That May Potentially Replace Some of the Larger Trading Companies

Last year, I expressed my frustrations to a few industry friends about how the 2022 crypto credit crisis fundamentally devastated my entire reporting realm, i.e., the cryptocurrency market structure. However, the past year has brought dramatic shifts in my reporting rhythm.

Now, I’d like to take some time to introduce a few emerging companies in the crypto industry that may someday replace the big firms that folded last year.

1.Ostium Labs: A cryptocurrency startup, Ostium Labs, secured a funding of $3.5 million, supported by investors such as General Catalyst, LocalGlobe, SIG, and Balaji Srinivasan. They are developing a digitized commodity perpetual swap protocol, aiming to attract both traditional commodity traders and crypto-native traders seeking a more transparent and flexible alternative to traditional derivatives platforms. The platform will support perpetual trades linked to assets like oil, Bitcoin, and major currency forex pairs, aiming to bring real-world assets to the blockchain. Ostium Labs collaborates with Chaos Labs and plans to use Chainlink for pricing. Ostium Labs aims to fill a market gap by offering direct on-chain exposure to a broader range of asset categories.

2.WEOWNCOIN-AI: The WEOWNCOIN-AI intelligent quantitative financial trading system is a fully intelligent cryptocurrency market trading system created by WEOWNCOIN with substantial investment. It encompasses a massive amount of data, cutting-edge risk control detection, and operates 24/7 to identify opportunities across various cryptocurrencies and market conditions. It can make trading decisions in milliseconds. Its characteristics are speed, safety, and efficiency. The system is maintained and upgraded entirely by top AI engineers globally. WEOWNCOIN has also established a risk control supervision fund compensation plan to ensure users benefit from the utmost safety when using AI. Currently, it is an emerging AI-intelligent trading platform in the cryptocurrency market.

3.Fractal: Co-founded by Aya Kantorovich and Alex Elkrief, the startup Fractal raised $6 million to develop a platform aimed at enhancing transparency in digital asset clearing and settlement. The company’s goal is to prevent the kind of leveraged trades that led to the bankruptcies of firms like Three Arrows Capital and FTX, allowing clients to monitor their positions in real-time and limiting loan collateral to blue-chip cryptos to alleviate liquidity issues faced by trading counterparts.

4.Turnkey: Led by former Coinbase Custody executives, the startup Turnkey secured $7.5 million in seed funding, aiming to provide a developer-centric platform for the safety and management of digital assets in the crypto industry. They strive to offer a flexible, programmable solution for generating wallets and signing transactions across blockchain networks, addressing the increasing complexity of on-chain transactions in crypto. According to data from Chainalysis, this move responds to growing concerns about the security of digital assets; last year alone, cyberattacks resulted in $3.8 billion of losses in the crypto sector.

5.Architect: Brett Harrison, former president of FTX US, raised $5 million from investors including Coinbase Ventures and Circle Ventures to establish the new company, Architect. Architect will focus on providing software trading tools for decentralized finance, catering to the needs of large investors and institutions. The firm aims to create institutional-level trading technology, allowing corporations, large traders, and a vast number of individual users to access decentralized protocols and centralized exchanges more easily.

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Travel Assistance Companies

Travel assistance companies provide an extra layer of support for employees on the go. They often work around-the-clock via hotlines and chat apps.

They can help with a range of issues, from canceled flights to medical and insurance concerns. They also offer concierge services and can help with language barriers.

Travel Perk

TravelPerk is a business travel management platform that helps companies budget, book, and manage trips, while maintaining travel policies in line with company budgets. It also provides a portal to monitor travel expenses and invoices. Its features include a mobile app for booking flights, hotels, car rentals, and rail services; customer care; carbon offsetting solutions; and expense integrations.

It offers three pricing plans: free, pro, and enterprise. The paid options allow companies to embed their travel policies into the program and eliminate the need for manual approval processes. The enterprise option also includes more advanced reporting.

TravelPerk uses Twilio Segment to build a unified data pipeline and centralize its customer support workflow, enabling it to deliver a next-level customer experience. This has resulted in a significant reduction in engineering time and an increase in collaboration between the product and engineering teams. TravelPerk is backed by world-class investors including Kinnevik, Target Global, Felix Capital, and LocalGlobe.

Global Rescue

Tulane University partners with Global Rescue, a leading integrated travel risk crisis management company, to provide medical and security field rescue and evacuation services for its business travelers and students on university sponsored study abroad programs.

Unlike travel insurance, a Global Rescue membership covers local field rescue and worldwide medical evacuation services, even within 100 miles of home. It also includes access to expert medical doctors for real-time video consultations and treatment as well as intelligence on 215 countries and territories including COVID-19 entry requirements, restrictions and alerts.

When a member experienced symptoms of a blocked bowel in Argentina, Global Rescue dispatched an ambulance to the site. The member was stabilized and evacuated to the hospital of his choice. Global Rescue’s team of military special operations veterans will also extract members if they become threatened or injured during war, civil unrest, natural disasters and government evacuation orders. Memberships include a lifetime service guarantee. For additional coverage, an upgrade to the Security Membership provides medical and security teams, aircraft and top-quality hospitals.

Travel Guard

Travel Guard is the product name for insurance and travel assistance services underwritten by AIG Travel. It is an American International Group subsidiary, with headquarters in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

The company provides travel insurance and assistance plans to individuals and companies worldwide. Plans include medical, trip cancellation, baggage, and emergency evacuation coverage. Assistance services include 24/7 helpline, lost bag tracking, locating a doctor, and more.

AIG Travel also offers a variety of add-on options such as a wedding bundle for canceled engagements, pet bundle for sick pets, and an inconvenience bundle for when attractions you wanted to see are closed. They also offer upgrade plans like Preferred and Deluxe with more comprehensive coverage, including a Cancel For Any Reason (CFAR) option.

Five College students, faculty, staff, and alumnae traveling on official business are eligible for discounted rates and benefits through AIG/Travel Guard. For more information about the program, please review the Travel Guard Program Overview.

On Call International

For more than 25 years, On Call International has enabled academic institutions like Columbia to take a proactive approach to managing travel emergencies when they occur and planning for them before they happen. On Call’s fully customizable medical, security and travel assistance programs deliver care to travelers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Kristin began her career at On Call as an Assistance Coordinator in the Global Response Center where she handled a broad range of travel, medical and security evacuation cases. She was promoted to Operations Supervisor and Senior Assistance Coordinator before assuming her current role as Client Relations Manager, where she works closely with clients to ensure their programs are meeting their business goals.

She is proud to be part of a team that is passionate about helping travelers, every day, in their time of need. In her free time, she enjoys restoring her turn of the century home in New Hampshire and competing in gaited dressage with her Tennessee Walking Horse.

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Python local/global scopes - Yasoob Khalid

How’s everyone? I am back with another tip/gotcha which might trip beginner programmers. This one relates to Python scopes so if you are already familiar with them then this article might not be very informative for you. If you are not very well versed in Python scopes then keep reading. Lets start with a code sample. Save the following code in a file and run it: command = "You are a LOVELY person!" def shout(): print(command) shout() print(command) Output: You are a LOVELY person! You are a LOVELY person! Perfect. Working as expected. Now modify it a bit and run the modified code: command = "You are a LOVELY person!" def shout(): command = "HI!" print(command) shout() print(command) Output: HI! You are a LOVELY person! Amazing! Still working fine. Now modify it a tad bit more and run the new code: command = "You are a LOVELY person!" def shout(): command = "HI!" print(command) command = "You are amazing!!" shout() print(command) Output: HI! You are a LOVELY person! Umm the output is not as intuitively expected but lets make one last change before we discuss it: command = "You are a LOVELY person!" def shout(): print(command) command = "You are amazing!!" shout() print(command) Output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "prog.py", line 8, in shout() File "prog.py", Read the full article

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Visual Thinkers Toronto is here!🙌 Week 1 ___ Super-excited to start this new project, this July with the amazing @playthinklive (Patricia Kambitsch). We are a Toronto based Visual Thinkers group, under normal circumstances doodling and meeting up to visualise complex information together and play drawing games but under these new circumstances, we are rebooting as an online group hoping to be able to sketch together in person soon. July is Visual Thinkers Toronto’s 30 day Map My World Challenge! #mapmyworldchallenge and we challenge you to draw maps with us! We are also inviting you to join #visualthinkerstoronto as we draw and play games and geek out together during our virtual meet up this July 9, 7:30-8:30 pm eastern time continuing monthly from here on! DM me for details. .. #doodledo #sketchnoters #sketchnotearmy #visualthinkers #sketchnotes #visualmapping #doodlesketch #challenge #localglobal (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCJmbpkJ53p/?igshid=5nqpz2xd7780

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VC Voices: ‘Culture is the crucial determining factor of how successful people are, not technology’, says LocalGlobe’s Emma Phillips

http://dlvr.it/TDZWHt

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So good I had to share! Check out all the items I'm loving on @Poshmarkapp #poshmark #fashion #style #shopmycloset #betseyjohnson #calvinklein #localglobal: https://posh.mk/UmVwsn7XUZ

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Gotrade gets $7M led by LocalGlobe to let investors around the world buy fractional shares of U.S. stocks – TechCrunch Stock in many American companies... https://mblogs.info/gotrade-gets-7m-led-by-localglobe-to-let-investors-around-the-world-buy-fractional-shares-of-u-s-stocks-techcrunch/?feed_id=11239&_unique_id=60d544ab18e69 #Buy #fractional #Gotrade #investors #led #LocalGlobe #Shares #stocks #TechCrunch #world #fashion #food #lifestyle #tech #politics #business #travel #animals #celebrities #vip #hollywood

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London Business School and LocalGlobe launch new VC course aimed at women, Black and Asian candidates – TechCrunch With the UK’s Black Tech Fest on this week it’s timely that a new executive education course aimed at those wanting to enter the venture capital industry has been launched to serve previously under-represented groups, especially women, Black, Asian and other minorities.

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Kencko chugs down $3.4M to help you get more fruit and vegetables in your diet

Kencko chugs down $3.4M to help you get more fruit and vegetables in your diet

Kencko, a company that wants to help people eat more fruit and vegetables in their daily life, is entering feast mode after it announced a $3.4 million seed round for growth and product development.

We profiled the company last year, but — for those who missed it — Kencko develops plant-based products that help people eat healthy without having to suffer the pain of horrible tasting food or other…

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PRESENTING: The 15 European fintechs VCs think will blow up in 2019, Defence Online

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Defence On the web spoke with some of the most distinguished voices in venture money to decide out the most exciting businesses in the European money technological know-how market this yr. The industry experts also highlighted what to glimpse out for heading forward.

Big fintech names to day have mainly been challenger or neo-financial institutions which provide payment solutions, significantly linked to overseas exchange and lower-rate transfers. But there have been some key new trends in the market place, these as open up banking, the rise of compliance, and a big transfer in direction of insurance coverage technology.

We requested enterprise capitalists who their hot picks are for 2019.

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