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40 years of VC: Where does Europe’s biggest VC hub stand today?


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VC funding is expected to continue its slowdown into 2023 amid the tech crunch. As such, growing numbers of startups are turning to venture debt as a means to ride out the rocky period and wait for calmer — more cash-heavy — seas.

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How does venture debt actually work?



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VC funding is expected to continue its slowdown into 2023 amid the tech crunch. As such, growing numbers of startups are turning to venture debt as a means to ride out the rocky period and wait for calmer — more cash-heavy — seas.

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THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Reversing Roe has sharpened the data mining threat


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When I went to get a quarantine-releasing Covid test last year, I had no idea that my DNA could end up permanently in someone else’s hands. There was no explicit warning when I booked the test online with Cignpost Diagnostics, trading as ExpressTest. I simply ticked a box next to the privacy policy - as we all do. Had I trawled through the 4,876-word policy and clicked a further link, I would have found a document on Cignpost’s “research programme”, and discovered that it reserved the right to sell customers’ DNA to third parties. And that the swabbers’ data would be retained indefinitely. Cignpost has since changed its privacy policy — the company said the document had been uploaded in error and that it has “not shared any human DNA” from Covid tests.

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Big banks' big footprint: UK financial institutions responsible for double UK's annual carbon emissions, report warns



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Green campaigners warn City of London would be ninth biggest emitter of CO2 in world if it was a country in fresh analysis of financial sector's environmental impact. UK banks and investors are responsible for almost double the UK's net annual carbon emissions, a damning new report by WWF and Greenpeace has found. The analysis argues that based on the carbon footprint ...

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Report: Lab-grown meat investment tops $350m worldwide in 2020



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Good Food Institute report details record-breaking year for the fledgling sector, amid growing interest in greener, more ethical alternatives to livestock-reared meat. Lab-grown meat enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2020, with investment soaring six-fold and dozens of new companies and food products launching across the burgeoning sector, according to the Good Food.