Partner @ Volution Ventures

England, United Kingdom
Joined March 2013
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🚀 @JamesCodling Volution's Managing Partner, is featured on @CityAM today, sharing his view on Arm's $54.5 billion IPO in City AM. It's good news, but it won't save tech from the 'valley of death' - the UK must nurture startups from inception to IPO #UKTech 👇Full article below
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Exciting News! Volution is a finalist at the @GIAwards 2023. We're delighted to be recognised in the ESG Champion of the Year category. 🌿🍃 These awards reward companies and individuals who support the growth of UK businesses, creating jobs and supporting innovation. 🚀
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Jonny Laughton retweeted
Another successful collaboration with Cambridge Judge Business School! The students have shown impressive skills and professionalism, delving into the current state of the UK's venture ecosystem. We're grateful for their contributions & wish them success! 🎉#CambridgeJBS
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💥Break down the Venture silos! Managing Partner @JamesCodling's latest blog on why we need to rethink the UK funding model to support scaling companies in Fintech and SaaS. link.medium.com/B5bn4c9qIwb
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Jonny Laughton retweeted
Congratulations to legal tech @ApperioLtd for raising their $7m Growth Round, led by @MoltenVentures and @volutionvc. You can read more on our news page: volution.vc/news/Apperio-Inv…
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Jonny Laughton retweeted
As 2021 draws to a close, we’d like to thank our investors and portfolio companies for their support. It’s been a busy year! The infographic below shows what we've been up to including two exits and welcoming @SteveLemon2 & @Cloud_CEO as EIRs in our team.
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We have very exciting news!! PassFort has been acquired by the @MoodysCorp family and as of today we are part of @MoodysAnalytics.🎉 Moody’s also announced its planned acquisition of @Kompany, which is awesome, and we can’t wait to work together.🤩 bit.ly/31pDJ8m
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2021 has been a tricky year in lots of ways, but also a great one with lots of fun! Looking forward to the next one... #PassFort #regtech
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Live on @SkyNews on the Ian King show, @DonaldGillies11 - Talking about the role of #regtech in decision making for financial services businesses and how #PassFort is enabling institutions to be compliant around the world, no matter the jurisdiction. #skynews #Compliance
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Congrats to Ivan and the team on a fantastic B raise OKR-focused Gtmhub raises $30M Series B after growing 3x in 2020 tcrn.ch/2XpOi5L via @techcrunch
Congrats Richard to you and the team for the acquisition and the solid growth this yea
We are excited to announce the acquisition of @netnanny one of the best known & most influential parental controls companies!This acquisition brings a rich vein of knowledge, experience & technology to SafeToNet & creates an industry-leading safeguarding product! #SafetyTech
Leading UK FinTech VoxSmart receives £5.5m funding from NatWest to accelerate growth blog.voxsmart.com/ukfintech-…
Currencycloud nabs $80M from Visa, World Bank Group and more for cross-border payment APIs tcrn.ch/2uBLV4I via @techcrunch
Gtmhub raises $9M from CRV after posting 400% ARR growth in the last year tcrn.ch/2YEINA5 via @techcrunch
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Excellent work SafeToNet team! Well done!
Well this is rather nice! @SafeToNet has been included in the 2019 Top 50 Future Shapers Report as produced by the London Stock Exchange ELITE team. Thank you so much @__ELITEGROUP_ It means the world to us.
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We're proud to announce that Unbabel has raised $60 million in Series C financing led by @p72vc , along with @eventuresVC, @greycroftvc, and @IndicoCapital Partners. unbabel.com/news/unbabel-rai…
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Anecdotally eyeballing pre-money valuations for early stage startups in London: 👼 pre-seed £1-4M (usually c.2). 👧 seed £5-10M 👷‍♂️ late seed / small A £10-15M 🏃🏼‍♀️... and anything with traction is anyone’s guess... £20-£100M+ on Series A - up to 🤯
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