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Two completely separate events this week left me pondering the same big question: 👉 How do we solve the health investment gap -particularly in women?
Two completely separate events this week left me pondering the same big question: 👉 How do we solve the health investment gap -particularly in women?
📍 Monday: Closing the Women’s Health Gap I had the pleasure of attending an inspiring event at the Royal College of…
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis reposted this🏥 Investment Announcement 🏥 Excited to announce our investment in Edinburgh-based Bioliberty as part of their $8.2m Series A 🚀 BioLiberty is transforming physical rehab for the hardest patients to treat: those recovering from stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury in US inpatient rehab facilities. Their FDA-approved platform combines soft robotics, computer vision, and AI to deliver therapy intensity that simply isn't possible manually, while automating the clinical documentation and outcome data that drives reimbursement under value-based care. With proven discharge-to-home rates, improved therapy dosage vs. standard care, and traction with the largest rehabilitation networks in the US - they're only just getting started. We invested to support its next chapter, which is getting its platform from the hospital into the home 🏠, perfectly aligned with our integrated health thesis. We're happy to have invested alongside familiar and trusted co-investors including The Scottish National Investment Bank, Old College Capital, Eos Advisory, Archangel Ventures and Hanna Capital. Rowan Armstrong Ross O'Hanlon Conan Bradley Shea Quinn Eva-Maria Dimitriadis Alexander Shapiro Jo Pisani Peter Bruce-Clark John Spiers Conduit Connect #HealthTech #MedTech #Rehabilitation #ImpactInvesting #EIS #IntegratedHealth #ValueBasedCare #RoboticsEva-Maria Dimitriadis reposted thisToday, we are making some exciting announcements! Bioliberty has secured $10.2m in new funding, including an $8.2 million Series A financing round, to advance the development of our technology and take it in the home of patients. Our sincerest gratitude to our new investors (The Scottish National Investment Bank and Conduit Connect) and returning ones (Archangel Investors Limited Eos Advisory, Old College Capital and Hanna Capital SEZC). In addition, Bioliberty is also extending a warm welcome to two new members of our board of directors: Russell Bailey, FACHE, a distinguished healthcare professional with a 30-year career dedicated to rehabilitation and healthcare operations. Currently, he serves as the President of Lifepoint Rehabilitation for Lifepoint Health®, a leading provider of rehabilitation services in the U.S. He oversees over 300 hospital-based rehab programs, joint venture and standalone rehab hospitals. Dana Prommel Strauss, a Doctor of Physical Therapy and now serves as Lead Director, Public Policy and Government Affairs for CVS Health. After nearly 20 years as a treating therapist and population health leader, she now focuses on healthcare delivery policy as an expert on value-based care, including Medicare, post-acute care, and home-based care, shaping healthcare policy to improve healthcare outcomes. Read our press release to hear more about what we have in store for 2026 and beyond: https://lnkd.in/eKuaYqQB
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis shared thisLoved seeing our portfolio company ReBorn Homewares featured here #reducereuserecycleEva-Maria Dimitriadis shared thisFantastic to see ReBorn Homewares lighting up Oxford Street and showing us how plastic waste can be transformed into beautiful and functional homewares. I interviewed the founder of ReBorn, Brian Walmsley, a couple of years ago to discuss how waste is a design flaw and it was fascinating: https://lnkd.in/eueWFdFR #design #founder #sustainability #innovation
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis shared this🌍 Investment Announcement 🌍 The Conduit EIS Impact Fund was proud to co-lead a £1m pre-seed round into Edinburgh-based Forge Minerals 🚀 We invested alongside Sustainable Ventures, with participation from deep sector experts including Old College Capital, One Planet Capital, Kappika Ventures and Scottish Enterprise 🤝 ♻️ Forge is focused on turning waste CO₂ into high-value minerals — starting with magnesium carbonate — that can directly replace far more carbon-intensive materials used across industry today. Applications span pharma, food and agriculture, through to more niche uses like climbing chalk 🧗♀️ 🧪 Supported by the raise, Forge has opened its first laboratory at the Edinburgh Innovation Hub, where trials are now underway to prepare the process for scale-up. 🌱 Forge Minerals’ solution sits at the very heart of our Sustainable Industry thesis, and we’re excited to welcome this technology into our portfolio. Four elements drew us to the investment: 1️⃣ a highly experienced, multidisciplinary team 2️⃣ a laser focus on decarbonisation, with a pathway to carbon-negative outcomes 3️⃣ a smart approach to turning waste emissions into value 4️⃣ a clear determination to reach price parity, so customers aren’t paying a green premium despite a superior product Ian Spencer I Matthew Vaughan, PhD I Sylvain Petitgirard I Joshua Armistead-Wood I Hannah Dent | Gabby Morgan l Alexander Shapiro l Jo Pisani l John Spiers l Andreas Raffel l Peter Bruce-Clark | Dr Annalisa Jenkins OBE l Nick Hamilton l Alice Jiang-Cusaro l The Conduit #minerals #magnesium #ClimateTech #DeepTech #DecarbonisationEva-Maria Dimitriadis shared thisWe’ve just closed a £1m pre-seed round, co-led by Sustainable Ventures and The Conduit Connect (Conduit Impact Fund), with co-investment from Old College Capital, One Planet Capital, Kappika Ventures and Scottish Enterprise. Forge is focused on turning waste CO₂ into high-value minerals — starting with magnesium carbonate — that can directly replace much more carbon-intensive materials used across industry today. Supported by the raise, we’ve opened our first laboratory at the Edinburgh Innovation Hub, where we’ll be running trials to prepare the process for scale-up. Big thanks to our investors and partners for backing a very practical ambition: making minerals that industry already needs, but with a much lower carbon footprint. 👍 #minerals #magnesium #ClimateTech #DeepTech #Decarbonisation
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis shared thisToday is the launch of The Conscience Collective, launched by our formiddable Chair, Dr Annalisa Jenkins OBE. This is an exciting new community for ambitious leaders in healthcare and life science. I am excited for all the founders in our portfolio who can benefit from this incredibly unique offering. "Breakthroughs succeed when leadership is strong, supported, principled and connected." I encourage all the relevant founders from the Conduit Connect portfolio to check this out.Eva-Maria Dimitriadis shared thisProud launch day - The Conscience Collective. Today marks the beginning of a new chapter: the launch of The Conscience Collective. Across my career — in the Royal Navy, global biopharma, and now in boardrooms and advisory roles — I have witnessed one consistent truth: Breakthroughs succeed when leadership is strong, supported, principled and connected. And leadership fails — often painfully — when people feel isolated or alone. The Conscience Collective was founded in response to that reality. It is a programme built for a particular kind of leader: those who are curious, compassionate and ambitious. Individuals who understand that science and innovation alone are not enough — that to truly improve lives, we need leaders who combine rigour with kindness, vision with humility, ambition with empathy. We are building a community to ensure no leader stands alone. Through a tailored 12-month mentorship programme, The Conscience Collective pairs founders with seasoned global leaders who understand the complexity, responsibility and courage required to build ethical, scalable healthcare solutions. The programme offers time, reflection, challenge and support, connecting founders with mentors who have walked the path — with a clear purpose: To help leaders bring healthcare solutions to those who most need them, especially in resource-constrained settings where innovation can make the greatest difference. Above all, we want to nurture leaders who are thoughtful, resilient, patient and brave — leaders who will shape healthcare with conscience. We want to get the word out. If you’re working on a truly innovative healthcare solution and would value support that strengthens both your leadership and your mission, I’d encourage you to explore the programme. I am deeply grateful to the individuals who contributed their time, insight and encouragement during the development of this initiative. Your support helped bring The Conscience Collective to life. Charlotte Casebourne Stock, Yarvie, Eva-Maria Dimitriadis, Conduit Connect, Julia Fan Li, Micrographia Bio, Dr Oliver Harrison, MD MPH, Koa Health, Nathan Macabuag, Koalaa | Upper Limb Prosthetics, James Roberts MBE, mOm Incubators, Michel Valstar, BLUESKEYE AI, Arthur Wakeley, Kinly. I am especially grateful to Holly Butcher, who will serve as Strategic Advisor, and Rani Nagra, who joins as Chief Operating Officer. Their clarity, integrity and operational rigour have been instrumental in shaping this initiative from idea to reality. I am also thankful to the brilliant creative team at Poke, whose thoughtful work brought the brand and spirit of Dr Annalisa Jenkins OBE Conscience Collective to life. My hope is simple: That this community becomes a place of belonging, learning and courage. Because when we are surrounded by others who care, we can do extraordinary things. You can learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eJKVYvFu
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis shared thisA few weeks ago we published our 2025 Impact Report - https://lnkd.in/ekkhkiMJ. Within our impact report, we look publish both our impact over the last year – and our plans for the next year. Last week my colleague Gabby Morgan shared our priorities for our Integrated Health theme over the next 12 months. Today I am highlighting what we are looking for in Financial Resilience. We observe mega trends of demographic change, AI and tech disruption and widening inequality. In that context we know we will need tools, services and skills to support people over longer lifespans, enabling adaptable careers, greater financial literacy and facilitating economic mobility. Below you will see several sub-categories we are looking to back in 2026. Do you run a business in one of these areas? Do you know someone that does? Please reach out – we would love to hear from you. Aahuti Rai Annalisa Jenkins Jo Pisani Andreas Raffel Alexander Shapiro Elisabeth Ling Carmel Max Richardson Jimmy Cockerton David Bent Molly Webb John Spiers Peter Bruce-Clark Donna Brown Nick Hamilton Alice Jiang-Cusaro Aurelio Cusaro Shevaun Haviland Guy Ranawake Emma Lupton Emanuele Jari Tosetti Gabby Morgan
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis shared thisOur 5th Annual Impact Report has just been published! We are very proud to share this with you. People always ask when we have the time to create this... The seedlings are planted in early summer with Alexander Shapiro carving up the tasks across the team. The lion's share of the writing happens over our summer holidays and then we have the enviable task of sourcing and validating all the reporting data from our 34 portfolio companies to bring their numbers and stories to life. This year we have given extra focus to our evolving thesis and how we designed our investment strategy to create a future-proofed portfolio. We hope you will take the time to read the report and marvel at what these companies have achieved. Thank you to our Team, IC and Venture Partners for your belief and commitment. Alexander Shapiro, Gabby Morgan, Alice Jiang-Cusaro, Annalisa Jenkins, Nick Hamilton, Paul van Zyl, Charles Eve, Charles Watson, Aahuti Rai, Carmel Rafaeli, Jimmy Cockerton, Martin Leuw, Andreas Raffel, John Spiers, Donna Brown, Emanuele Jari Tosetti, Max RichardsonEva-Maria Dimitriadis shared thisIt is our very great pleasure to share our 5th Impact Report, summarising our portfolio's impact across our target areas of Sustainable Industry, Integrated Health, and Financial Resilience. In the last year, Conduit EIS fund portfolio companies: 💚 removed or avoided 108,683 tonnes of CO₂e 🗑️ avoided or recycled 16,356 tonnes of waste 🩺 and supported 103,737 patients We are proud to report that in the last 12 months, over 80% of the businesses we have invested in have at least one female founder. Across our entire portfolio, that number is now 50%. Behind all of these numbers are founders and leaders making personal sacrifices to build businesses solving real problems for people and planet at scale. Some of their successes can be measured in numbers, and some are better shared as stories, so we have shared plenty of both. Within the report you will read about our evolving thesis, and how we have refined our strategy to back founders and technologies that create a more healthy, sustainable and equitable 100-year life. Thank you to our incredible portfolio founders, the investors who put their faith in us, and our venture partners who advise and support us. Eva-Maria Dimitriadis Alexander Shapiro Gabby Morgan Annalisa Jenkins Elisabeth Ling Andreas Raffel Aahuti Rai Carmel Rafaeli Max Richardson Jo Pisani Jimmy Cockerton David Bent Molly Webb John Spiers Peter Bruce-Clark Donna Brown Nick Hamilton Alice Jiang-Cusaro Aurelio Cusaro Shevaun Haviland Guy Ranawake Emma Lupton Emanuele Jari Tosetti https://lnkd.in/eMik96HaDocSend - Simple, intelligent, modern content sendingDocSend - Simple, intelligent, modern content sending
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis shared thisIt was very validating to receive this recognition at last week's Growth Investor Awards. At the Conduit Fund we don't just invest in women because it's a good thing to do (and a lot of us are women) but also because it makes absolute business sense. If we included and invested in women in the same proportion as we backed men, we could unlock £250billion for the economy. Since launching the Conduit EIS Impact Fund, exactly 50% of our investments are into a company with a female founder. If we look at only the last 12 months, that figure rises to 82%! Of course we can't make this change without a team who completely support this theory of change too. Thank you to our investment team - Gabrielle Morgan, Alexander Shapiro - who also make it their mission to find and include incredible founders of all backgrounds, and to our incredible venture partners and IC members who do the same Jo Pisani, Aahuti Rai, Annalisa Jenkins, Donna Brown, Shevaun Haviland, Martin Leuw, Molly Webb, Elisabeth Ling, John Spiers, Peter Bruce-Clark, Emma Lupton, Carmel Rafaeli The biggest congratulations go to the founders themselves and prize winners! THENA Capital, Pamela Walker Geddes, Tatum Getty, Esther Reynal de St Michel Richardot Francesca Cordeiro, Anya Doherty, Josephine Philips, Rachel Carrell, Brittany Harris FICE, Jade Cohen, Kelly McCabe, Morgan Fitzsimons, Sarah Montgomery 毛淑丽, Hannah Chappatte, Georgia Ware, George Robinson, Claire Trant PhD FRSA This is high recognition for the full team! 👏
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis reposted thisFantastic to see our portfolio company Lucida Medical featured by the BBC News and The Telegraph for its AI platform Pi, transforming how prostate cancer is diagnosed. In the UK, 1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer, yet there’s no national screening programme - too often leading to late detection and preventable deaths. Lucida’s AI helps clinicians spot aggressive disease earlier and avoid unnecessary biopsies. This is a great example of our thesis in action: AI-driven precision and prevention tech improving outcomes for both patients and health systems. 👏 HUGE congratulations to Antony Rix and the Lucida Medical team. Eva-Maria Dimitriadis Alexander Shapiro Conduit Connect #AI #HealthTech #Diagnostics #ImpactInvesting #ProstateCancer #PrecisionMedicineEva-Maria Dimitriadis reposted thisWonderful to see Lucida Medical and our work on faster prostate cancer diagnosis with NHS England covered in the The Telegraph, BBC News and other media today in the UK. Peter Johnson from the Office for Life Sciences - Cancer Mission highlights that offering a same-day or next-day prostate cancer diagnosis service using AI could be a "game changer". Telegraph: https://lnkd.in/e7y5fdyV BBC News: https://lnkd.in/e9iTbV_K I would especially like to thank the team and the medical professionals who have made this possible: investors and funders who have supported us, Lucida Medical colleagues who have worked hard and overcome many challenges in the last 5 years, our partners in the NHS who have supported our R&D, and the clinicians with vision who are now making this a reality. To name just a few: XTX Ventures, Macmillan Cancer Support, Prostate Cancer Research, Wayra UK, Prostate Cancer UK, Empirical Ventures, The Conduit EIS Impact Fund, Oxford Technology Management Evis Sala, Lucy Davies, Benita Prud'homme, Nádia Moreira da Silva, Steffi Barwick, Zoë Clarkson, Amy Frary, Mirjana Ferrer Rodríguez, Stefani Aleksandrova, Toby Davis, StJohn Brown, Marcus Clark, Corina Cucuruzac, Roberta Belánová, Christopher Wilson, Ines BEN SALEM Olly Hulson, Anwar Padhani, Paul Burn, Aarti Shah, Richard Hindley, Prof Nikhil Vasdev, Tristan Barrett, Rhidian Bramley, Luca Russo, Dr. med. Charlie Hamm, PhD ... and many more - you know how you have helped make this possible. Thank you!
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis shared this💚🌍 It’s a real privilege to bring together the *9th edition* of the Conduit Connect Generation Impact Academy. When I first designed the curriculum for this programme, my aim was to promote the democratisation of impact investing by building knowledge and capacity across the ecosystem. It’s therefore deeply rewarding to see this vision reflected in the diversity of participants joining us this year. - We’re welcoming participants from 🇿🇦 South Africa, 🇺🇸 the United States, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇵🇪 Peru, 🇺🇬 Uganda, and 🇬🇧 the United Kingdom - 80% women - age range from 16 to 60 Diversity in impact investing isn’t just important - it’s vital. Both in the people writing the cheques and those receiving them 🚀. It strengthens perspectives, fuels innovation, and creates a more equitable and resilient investment landscape. 💡 My sincere thanks to Cazenove Capital and RW Blears for sponsoring this programme, and to our outstanding speakers and panellists for generously sharing your insights and leadership. Helen McDonald Adam Lawrence Amelia Sandbach Elizabeth Corrado Ayesha Ofori Rodney Appiah Marla Shapiro Guy Ranawake Jim Totty Aahuti Rai Sarah Teacher Carmel Rafaeli David Linehan Dorothy Holt, CFA Arthur Goujon Arden Tomison Gabrielle Morgan Gemma Lakin Raad Pharaon #ImpactInvesting #DiversityAndInclusion #GenerationImpact #ConduitConnect #VentureCapital #SocialImpact
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis liked thisWe have invested $20m in 9fin, a London-based fintech company, as part of a $170m Series C funding round. This investment, made in partnership with redalpine, sees 9fin reach unicorn status, becoming the latest unicorn in the Bank’s equity portfolio. Founded in 2016, 9fin is an AI-native intelligence platform built for credit and debt-market professionals, offering real-time data, analytics, news and document-extraction tools to help banks, investors and advisors identify, analyse and act on opportunities. Our investment will fuel the development of its AI models, help expand its proprietary dataset and support its continued growth in the US market. "We are stepping up our support for the UK’s scale ups. Investments like this provide vital growth funding for fast-growing companies and are complementary to our indirect support through venture capital funds," says Leandros Kalisperas, our Chief Investment Officer. "By increasing the availability of later-stage capital, we are helping the UK’s most innovative businesses to realise their commercial potential while maintaining a strong UK presence." -
Eva-Maria Dimitriadis liked thisEva-Maria Dimitriadis liked thisBeen having an inspiring couple of weeks leading up to international women's day! First - thank you to Karina Vazirova, Claire Cockerton and British Land for hosting an afternoon focussing on the state of play in women's health venture investing. Esther Reynal de St Michel Richardot Sarah Turner Gail Armstrong Roxane Sanguinetti and Sapna Shah led a great panel on what it takes to scale (and invest in) women's health ventures today. Key takeaways: - not news but always good to remember: closing the women's health gap could add $1T to global GDP annually but still only 6% of healthcare funding goes to the area (and most of that only goes to reproductive health).. this is clear market mispricing - the best opportunities aren't just apps any longer - they are IP-rich platforms spanning biopharma, medtech, and diagnostics with clear payer outcomes. This is where we focus in the Conduit Impact Fund... - winning companies will combine real-world evidence, privacy & regulatory excellence by design, and unique partnership stacks (clinical, distribution, and blended capital) Then I got to end the week with a lovely women's community breakfast at our home The Conduit organised by the lovely Ella Walford. I'm always inspired by the diversity of thought and backgrounds the Conduit brings together - there were gender-based violence researchers, startup leadership coaches, charity executives, human rights lawyers, paediatric medicines experts - I feel very lucky we get to invest alongside a community like this 😃
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis liked thisEva-Maria Dimitriadis liked this🌎 I'm feeling inspired and hopeful (which is much needed at the moment given global conflicts) at Change Now in Paris today. I'm sharing our work at Ada Ventures later this morning and looking forward to meeting founders building hugely successful companies tackling the biggest societal issues. If you are here, please say hello 👋 Imène Maharzi Gabby Morgan Marie Ekeland
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis liked thisEva-Maria Dimitriadis liked thisYour AI agents aren’t exposing a technology gap. They’re exposing a leadership gap. Leadership teams risk treating “AI performance” as a tech decision. It isn’t. AI programmes rarely fail because the model is weak; they fail because leadership don’t govern the operating model the model lands in. An agent doesn’t create capability from scratch. It scales whatever you already run—good or bad. In a demo, it looks competent. In a live enterprise, it inherits your data gaps, blurred accountability, and weak escalation paths. Then it exposes them at pace. Going into 2026, I expect many GenAI programmes to stall after proof of concept, not because the tech can’t ship, but because the business can’t absorb it and data is poor quality. The models don’t fail—governance does. I saw this years before “agents” were fashionable. We lost a major customer and called it “unexpected.” It wasn’t. Usage sat in one system, service history in another, and account ownership went fuzzy the moment pressure arrived. No single version of truth meant no early warning. Churn wasn’t a commercial surprise. It was a leadership failure of attention, coupled with poor quality #data. Sustainable growth is engineered. So is AI performance. It must create significant tangible value for owners while remaining #netpositive for stakeholders—otherwise you’ve just manufactured a new class of unmanaged #risk. For CEOs and Chairs, the implication is uncomfortable: you can’t delegate this to the CIO and hope for the best. If workflow ownership isn’t explicit end-to-end, you don’t have automation—you have a control gap. This is why #reskilling is so essential in the age of #agentic #AI. So here’s the question: who on your board/leadership is personally accountable when an AI agent makes a bad decision at pace—and do they have the authority to stop it? #AI #GenAI #AIAgents #BoardGovernance #DigitalTransformation #Leadership #RiskManagement #reskilling #NetPositive La Fosse Ollie Whiting Lisa Gordon Boardwave IRIS Software Group Marc Philippo Lucy Kemp Claudia Cohen Shalini Khemka CBE Eva-Maria Dimitriadis Ground Control Simon Morrish Chris Beanland Chris H. Matt Hay Carrie Osman
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis liked thisEva-Maria Dimitriadis liked thisI’m delighted to share that I’ve started a new role as Enterprise Custom Content Director at Getty Images. Getty has long been at the forefront of how people, ideas and cultures are brought to life through imagery, and I’m keen to bring my experience into a space I’ve always been passionate about. I’m excited to join a great team, and I’m looking forward to combining my background in custom content and client partnerships to help brands create impactful visual storytelling that connects with their audiences.
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Eva-Maria Dimitriadis liked thisEva-Maria Dimitriadis liked thisLast night at Downing Street, we launched the latest Future Fifty cohort – 25 scaleups helping fly the British flag for innovation, ambition and entrepreneurship. Hugely grateful to Rt Hon Rachel Reeves for hosting us and for her strong support of Future Fifty, Tech Nation and the founders building here in the UK. If we want to build world-changing companies here, government, big tech, investors, corporates and policymakers all need to work together to back great British tech. This year’s cohort has already raised £1.3b+, employs 2,900+ people, with 96% expanding internationally and 32% based outside London. That’s exactly why Future Fifty matters. The UK has extraordinary founders. The challenge is scaling – and doing it with the right backing around you. Proud of this cohort and excited for what comes next. HSBC Innovation Banking | Emerald Technology | EY | Harmonic Finance™ | Certified B Corp | Capsule Insurance | HM Treasury | Founders Forum Group #FutureFifty #TechNation #UKTech #Scaleups #ItTakesATechNation
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