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• Meet the ‘CEO of fun’ shaking up the payments industry - Featurespace 's Martina King

• 'Why I made my first tech investment aged 53' - Rhys Jones explains why he invested in HR tech startup Candidly, co-founded by Alexandra Slater and Hannah Peet

• Newcastle startup Grid Finder acquired by RAFA Racing Club in 7-figure deal - Thomas Stapley-Bunten founded the business in 2020 before meeting his co-founder Nikhil Patel in 2021
• British Business Bank takes stake in PropTech Shojin Property Partners - Shojoin is a fast-growing real estate investment platform

• £600k seed funding is music to ears of Setmixer - Setmixer, a platform that allows artists to record and mix their live performances with studio quality, has raised £600,000 seed funding led by Raw Ventures

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