… the NHS. This astounding fact highlights the opportunity for even simple digital technology to revolutionise healthcare. Our portfolio company Push Doctor is using (by today’s standards) relatively straightforward video chat technology to give patients on-demand access to a doctor. Yet simple technology can have …

We are very pleased to have made an investment in HomeTree. The company is re-thinking the energy space and is starting with home boiler installations, but plans to be able to provide much more convenient and compelling energy services over time. The company has an …

What happens when machine learning algorithms pick up on human biases? Naturally, the bias scales. This article covers the extraordinary challenge that machine learning practitioners face when they set their algorithms loose on training datasets. What will be the consequences of their data choice? In …

This is a fantastic graphic showing 263 companies focused on self-driving cars. There are a great number of different sub-components, from services related to maps to algorithms that perform the driving. Enjoy!

Have you ever wished that you’d taken that latest selfie in summer not winter? Or that your photo of a horse was actually a cool and exotic zebra? Good news – the latest research from UC Berkley is looking to fix exactly these problems. Most …

NIO (the new name for NextEV) has just announced that Eve, their prototype self driving car, will be launched in 2020. This car starts to hint at the ways that a car primarily designed as a self driving car will look. The car is focused …

Last week, scientists at the New York Genome Centre published a paper demonstrating 100% fidelity digital data storage on DNA. This is potentially interesting, because DNA is an extremely space-efficient means of storing data. I’m reminded of the mind-blowing fact that each one of my …

We recently announced our investment into Spoke. I took the opportunity to write a longer piece explaining what got me excited about the space and why we wanted to invest in Spoke. In short, menswear can seem to be the most ignored segment of the …

This post provides a reminder of the importance of healthy scepticism in a world where technologies and companies are founded on little more than hype. The revelation that scientists have been making the same predictions about the potential for predictive medicine for the last 100 …

The Digital City Index has ranked London as the number 1 startup city in Europe. Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Manchester and Edinburgh also round out the top 20. We feel that the UK is one of the best places to start a new company and are …

Every time they raise investment, founders are trading off between dilution and the amount and value of the funding round. The oft used adage is that it’s better to own a smaller slice of a bigger pie, than lots of a small pie – but …

There seems to be nothing that VCs and the start-up community love more than a novel business model. Ride-sharing, subscription meal kits, peer-to-peer lending, freemium games, bots… the list goes on, and the press loves a story about how a new approach is disrupting incumbents. …

We recently announced our investment into Red Sift. I took the opportunity to write a longer piece explaining our rationale for the problem space and why we decided to back Red Sift’s approach. Put simply, we produce huge amounts of data — not just in …