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The founders of Refute share over 40 years of experience in data analysis, cybersecurity, tackling terrorist attacks, and identity management. Vlad Galu, co-founder and CTO, shares some of that experience and how it inspired him to set up Refute, alongside his co-founder Tom Garnett. Join us as Tom and Vlad share details about the world of disinformation and how it's not limited to political campaigns but becoming a Board level threat. In the wake of Generative AI, disinformation has become even more prevalent, with threat actors of many kinds making use of AI to generate their campaigns. In light of this, the founders speak about the importance of not only detecting and responding to attacks, but being able to do so in real-time to avoid business interruption. 🔗Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/3ZFw7sv #Disinformation #Founder #Refute #FromFoundedtoFunded

Congratulations to Healx, Riverlane, PolyAI and Xampla for featuring in the Capsule Insurance Scale-Up 50! Some of our best and brightest have featured in this list of UK fast-growth companies. True visionaries in drug discovery, quantum error correction, voice AI and novel materials. Thank you to Capsule Insurance, and their supporters Cooper Parry and HSBC Innovation Banking for recognising the innovation and growth of these exceptional companies. 🤝 🔗Full list here: https://bit.ly/3QkM7fq #ScaleUp50 #Funding #VentureCapital

Read our latest blog on Growth Unleashed at The Mansion House, an event organised by WCIT Entrepreneurship Panel for The Rt Hon. the Lord Mayor Alastair King. Three of our trailblazing portfolio company founders presented their technology to over 200 senior figures from pensions, banking, investment, insurance, and professional services. 🌱 Xampla was represented by CEO Alexandra French as she shared their pioneering natural alternatives to plastics with their novel Morro™ materials range. 🌐 V7, with CEO Alberto Rizzoli at the helm, presented their AI-driven solutions to automate workflows with AI agents and the ability to label data at scale. 🤝 UnlikelyAI, led by CEO William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng, spoke about his novel approach to building a hallucination-free, auditable and trustworthy AI for regulated industries which require the highest-level of trust and reliability to adopt AI applications. 🔗Learn more: https://bit.ly/3ENpbTq #GrowthUnleashed #Entrepreneurship #VC

Shortening the timeline to useful quantum computing. We’re thrilled to share that our portfolio company, Photonic Inc., has made a significant leap in quantum computing! The company has announced SHYPS, a new family of Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes that drastically reduce the number of qubits needed for error correction. Stephanie Simmons, Chief Quantum Officer at Photonic, says it best:  “Unlocking the quantum logic of high-performance QLDPC codes has been the holy grail of quantum error correction R&D for decades. Today, we’re announcing that we have cracked these codes."  David Shaw, Lead Analyst at Global Quantum Intelligence also shared: "This is a truly major milestone. The quantum field must now be divided into those whose hardware can run these new codes, and those who can’t. We’re going to see a race between players that invest in the scarce skills required for in-house code innovation, and those that seek to be fast followers. Implementing logic always looked like the hard part of standing-up better codes. This new work has knocked it out of the park." Join us in celebrating this milestone that promises to accelerate the timeline to useful quantum computing. Congratulations to the team at Photonic! 🔗Read more about this exciting development here: https://lnkd.in/g9gqpQ2e #QuantumComputing #IYQ2025 #TechNews #QuantumLeap Manjari Chandran-Ramesh, PhD | Hermann Hauser

How do you hook investors as a deep tech startup founder? Simon Randall, CEO of PIMLOC shares what inspired his investors: ⛵ Tailwinds: growth in cameras, legislation complexity, and changing consumer attitudes to privacy 📈 A sizeable, addressable market in a broad range of sectors Simon shared his views on fundraising from the perspective of a deep tech founder on this episode of Founded to Funded, with Amadeus Partner, Nick Kingsbury. 🔗Listen to the full episode here: https://bit.ly/40BkJjb #FoundedtoFunded #Pimloc #DeepTech

2025 is shaping up to be the year for significant steps towards scalable quantum computing. Nu Quantum has recently released a landmark research paper on Distributed Quantum Error Correction (QEC), which moves up the timeline to useful quantum computers significantly. The theory work has three implications: 🌐Distributed-QEC of modular quantum computing systems is possible 🔗The network requirements for an error-corrected distributed system are feasible 🤝Distributed-QEC is at least as efficient as other Monolithic QEC strategies The paper charts a path to build a modular system architecture where many relatively small QPU cores (~100 qubits) are connected via a sparse network with realistic interconnect performance to efficiently create an arbitrarily large fault-tolerant machine. 🔗 Read the press release here: https://bit.ly/4hrBZ0v #QuantumComputing #QuantumNetworking

Amadeus Partner, Susanne K. Schorsch, will be speaking at Techleap's State of Dutch Tech 2025 this week. Susanne will be speaking on the following panel: Financing Europe's Tech Future: Mixed Capital's Strategies for Deeptech Scaleups Key topics will include: 💡 How can collaboration across public and private capital providers strengthen Europe’s deeptech future? 🤝 What mixed capital strategies are needed to fund ambitious tech scaleups? 🌍 How can Europe close the gap in tech’s contribution to GDP growth?  Speakers and Moderators include: Otto van Reijendam, Chief Corporate Development Officer at Battolyser Systems Bjorn Tremmerie, Head of Venture Capital and Impact Investing at European Investment Fund (EIF) Ian Kitchenham, Head of Capital Formation, Decarbonization Partners, at BlackRock and Temasek joint venture Kara Conway, Vice President at Bootstrap Europe (Moderator) 📆 12 February 2025, 14:15 

We were proud to see three of our trailblazing portfolio company founders present their technology in front of over 200 senior figures from pensions, banking, investment, insurance, and professional services at Growth Unleashed at The Mansion House yesterday. An event organised by WCIT Entrepreneurship Panel for The Rt Hon. the Lord Mayor Alastair King. 🌱 Xampla was represented by CEO Alexandra French as she shared their pioneering natural alternatives to plastics with their novel Morro™ materials range.  🌐 V7 labs, with CEO Alberto Rizzoli presenting their AI-driven solutions to automate workflows with AI agents and the ability to label data at scale.  🤝 UnlikelyAI, led by CEO William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng, spoke about his novel approach to building a hallucination-free, auditable and trustworthy AI for regulated industries which require the highest-level of trust and reliability to adopt AI applications. We were in good company with supporting promoters including: British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA), Cavendish, Envestors, Founders Forum Group, Goodwin, Guinness Ventures, HSBC Innovation Banking, Imperial College London, Insurtech UK, Lloyds Banking Group, Octopus Ventures, ScaleUp Group, University of Strathclyde, VenturePath 🔗Read our blog about the event here: https://lnkd.in/egSQUFFj #GrowthUnleashed #Entrepreneurship #VC 

Since leading the Seed round in 2015, we've seen Ravelin Technology grow to be a market leader in identifying fraud for merchant-side businesses. Worldpay has now announced that its set to acquire Ravelin, so we thought we'd look back at the growth of the company. In this article, we chart the rise of Ravelin from Seed to Series C and the latest news of its imminent acquisition. Amadeus Partner, Manjari Chandran-Ramesh, PhD, worked with the investors and management team at Ravelin throughout the acquisition process. Congratulations to co-founders Martin Sweeney, Nick Lally and Martin O'Riada! 🔗Read more: https://lnkd.in/dWTmtDq7 (Photo of Martin Sweeney from Ravelin Series C announcement, 2020) #Ravelin #Worldpay #VC

We are thrilled to announce that Ravelin Technology, the Amadeus-backed AI-native fraud prevention platform has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Worldpay. Since its inception in 2015, Ravelin has developed next-generation fraud prediction and prevention solutions for e-commerce merchants. Over this period, Ravelin has established itself as a market leader in identifying payment fraud, account takeover, return & refund abuse, promotion & voucher abuse and marketplace fraud, and performing 3D Secure authentication. Ravelin’s cloud-based AI platform will allow Worldpay to offer its customers leading-edge technology to further improve authorisation rates. Manjari Chandran-Ramesh, PhD, Amadeus Partner, had this to say: "I'm delighted with this result for the team at Ravelin, marking the next stage of growth and development for their product suite and technology as they join Worldpay. Helping founders through this process and gaining the best possible outcome for everyone involved is the ultimate goal, as we succeed together." 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4aLxrzg #Ravelin #Worldpay #Acquisition #VC #FinTechNews