In this guest post — the second in our ‘mistakes series’ — Holly Brautigam from Passionfruit takes a deep dive into the 6 marketing mistakes made by pre-seed startups and shares tips to avoid common pitfalls. When working for a pre-seed startup, time is precious and money is tight. …

In this guest post, Matt Bradburn, the founder of our external People & Talent partner, People Collective, takes a deep dive into the mistakes pre-seed founders make with People Ops and Hiring and shares tips to avoid common pitfalls. It all starts with the genesis of an idea, a plan…

We launched our angel community last month and held our first AMA. Now we want to set out a little more about how we see the community working and how you can get involved. If you’re an active angel that hasn’t registered, click here. Our vision for the Playfair Angel…

This is the twenty-first in our “8 Questions” series — in which we sit down with founders in the Playfair portfolio who share their entrepreneurial journey. We first invested in Qureight in early 2022. Since then, the company has worked with a who’s who of global biopharma companies, hospitals and…

Edition 10 of Europe-wide Female Founder Office Hours is a key milestone for Europe’s largest diversity led founder initiative This event will bring together over 300 female founders and 150 VCs from some of the world’s leading funds The latest funding data shows that over £1.2bn has been raised by…

Ascento, a Swiss robotics company, has raised a $4.3 million funding round led by Wingman Ventures and Playfair to roll out its latest autonomous security patrolling robot to tackle the global security guard personnel shortage Ascento fits into our thesis that robotics is a multi-decade trend to watch: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith1/2023/09/18/5-reasons-robotics-is-the-next-multi-decade-trend-to-watch/?sh=3009c8ae1287

This is the twentieth in our “8 Questions” series — in which we sit down with founders in the Playfair portfolio who share their entrepreneurial journey. We first invested in Continuum Industries, an AI driven, cloud-based optioneering platform that dramatically accelerates the development of linear infrastructure, in 2020. Since then…

This is the nineteenth in our “8 Questions” series — in which we sit down with founders in the Playfair portfolio who share their entrepreneurial journey. We first invested in Vinehealth, a global oncology platform combining behavioural science and AI to deliver scalable personalised care and resarch, in 2019. Since…

Edition 9 of Europe-wide Female Founder Office Hours is a key milestone for Europe’s largest diversity led founder initiative This event will bring together over 300 female founders and 165 VCs from some of the world’s leading funds The latest funding data shows that over £600m has been raised by…