After joining our portfolio just over a year ago, Comma is well on its way to building a new and crucial part of the SME payments stack whilst solving the age old problem of manual bank payments. In this Spotlight, Rory talks with founder and CEO, Tom Beckenham, about Comma’s…

Data breaches. Privacy headlines. GDPR fines. If you’re building a company and these things aren’t on your mind, you’re setting yourself up for some major headaches in the future. Lucky for us, Rich Vibert, CEO of Metomic, has felt the pain and come up with a carefully crafted solution. Using…

Whether you’re a product that relies on them for your business or a user who’s fielding too many, notifications are a powerful tool, and getting them wrong can be unforgiving. MagicBell knows this, and they’re here to take the pain and mystery out of notifications for everyone. A complete notification…

Whether it’s defining your org chart or wrestling through performance reviews, the pain that comes with career growth exercises echoes through too many companies and industries. It’s a pain Jonny Burch and Neil Cameron have felt first-hand, and one they’ve brilliantly chosen to solve with Progression, a standardised but customisable…

What it will mean for the firm, the founders in our portfolio, and me — Hi, I’m Graham, Connect’s new Product Partner. If building product wasn’t my job, it would be my hobby… I’ve spent the last 10-or-so years helping tech companies grow by building great products. I cut my teeth at TransferWise and Deliveroo, then took those learnings to other startups as both an employee and advisor. I’ve absolutely loved my time building products, and if it weren’t my job it would…

Data. It’s growing exponentially and you need it for just about any sound business decision. No matter what industry you’re in, knowing how to collect and interpret data is one of those skills you just can’t do without. Enter Intropic. Founded by Ravinder Bhadhal and Sam Shannon, and seed funded…

Founded by Amon Ghaiumy, Paul Chong, and Prof. Qingchen Wang, London-based Ophelos is bringing a new energy into the archaic $24 billion debt collection industry. We love how they’re using AI and behavioural science to boost the financial health of consumers and enterprises, and are proud to have backed them…

Lessons learned from CEO burnout In honor of Mental Health Awareness Week (10th — 14th May), we’ve partnered with Mental Fitness Consultant and Trainer, Charlotte Wiseman, to share her research on the pervasive impact of CEO burnout and low mental health in the workplace. Healthy leadership is the key to a healthy organisation and it…

Our journey with Stairway began in 2019, when Connect led the pre-seed round of this promising digital learning startup. Back then, Stairway was only 6 months old, but it was already changing the way students felt about studying — specifically about studying Maths. They’ve since added courses in Biology and…