Co-Founder of @PlannerPalAI, the financial planners AI virtual assistant. Former fintech VC. #AIinfinancialadvice #fintech #wealthtech
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New on Octo: @MarkWhitcroft, CEO of @PlannerPalAI on the latest exciting insights on AI at work from Microsoft.
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We’re delighted to be backing @PlannerPalAI . We led a £500k investment round alongside prominent fintech angel investors. PlannerPal is an AI-assistant for financial planners.
Read Why we Invested: medium.com/ada-ventures/why-…
We’re proud to support @MarkWhitcroft and @shoomon_perry as they launched their beta product at Empowering Advice Through Technology conference and won one of the 'Best in Show' awards at #EATT2024. At Ada Ventures, we invest in the founder as much as their idea. And this is one of the perfect examples of great founder-market fit.
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Leadership is changing — but the need to balance traditional management with new ways of leading is creating a handful of tensions. hbr.org/2020/02/every-leader…
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So pleased to be working with @NetaMeidav @RotemHM and the @VaultPlatform team as they help modern organisations handle ethics & compliance. For more on why we participated in their Series A alongside @GradientVC , Kindred and @AngularVentures - medium.com/illuminate-financ…
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Here is why we invested in Accelex who are addressing data extraction and analytics challenges in private markets
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Data acquisition and reporting startup Accelex from London bags £3.5M as growth funding. ⚡️
Read full details here 👇🏼
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@IlluminateFM @exponcapital @SixThirty_630ft @AlbionVC
#privateequity #investing #funding #investment #data #startup #finance #UKtech
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Congratulations to @TickSmith
and @SnowflakeDB on your partnership #fintech #dataarchitecture #DataAnalytics
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Great to be onboard @tokarev_d and team @CopperHQ !
Announcing the close of our $50m Series B funding round.
We’re excited to have @dawncapital and @IlluminateFM join the @CopperHQ family, and grateful for the continued support from @TargetGlobalVC, @MMC_Ventures and @localglobevc.
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Enterprise software design has always traditionally lagged consumer technology, by years. Now, we’re regularly seeing enterprise software that is more thoughtful and simple than the consumer space. We’re still early, but this is an incredible trend.
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Scaling Enterprise - @FinTechForum_DE interview with @MarkWhitcroft of @IlluminateFM
Illuminate Financial is a strategic independent investor in early stage financial markets technology companies
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#investor #earlystage #fintech
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New portfolio company!🙌🎉 Welcome to the Illuminate family ArteriaAI #enterprisetech #contractmanagement #digitaldocuments #vcfunding medium.com/illuminate-financ…
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You know how much you hate entering into a new monthly subscription? Well, so do you customers.
The obsession with recurring revenue is restricting people's imagination. Very few products need to be subscription based.
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Venture Capital Firm Illuminate Financial Receives Backing from JPMorgan bit.ly/3vCcd1M #News #Finance
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Massive 📣 to @IlluminateFM, good news continue to flow following Curv exit
Congrats @MB_IFM @MarkWhitcroft @rezso_szabo @AlexanderRoss
finextra.com/newsarticle/376… via @Finextra
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The investment will be used to grow the sales, marketing, and engineering functions; expand into international markets including Asia-Pac; and further build out the Genesis platform’s #lowcode #nocode tooling and functionality bit.ly/30LDEIs
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My @WSJ op-ed on shortening the securities trade settlement cycle beyond T+2. wsj.com/articles/its-t-0-to-…
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Big News: We've acquired Pragmic to expand our efforts in agency MBS and ESG, as well as closed a $6 million series B3 financing round led by Pivot Investment Partners and added AGNC Ventures as a new strategic investor! via @businessinsider
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Expect to see more from us and others in #sustainablefinance and #climatefintech in 2021...
Climate fintech and sustainable finance remain under appreciated long term opportunities in #fintech 🌍. Great to see more👀on the space in 2021, it's a big focus for us at @IlluminateFM
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🔥 Hot off the press: “What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #218” Predictions: enterprise still 🔥 in 2021, 🦄 anywhere, SaaS collaboration + dev 1st product to embedded workflow, everyone is a 🌱 investor, SRE is new DevOps, security continues shift ⬅️
whatshot.substack.com/p/what…
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10 ideas that changed my life: (thread)
Illustrations by @visualizevalue