Interview 

Esther Perel: 6 ways to love your cofounder

🔓 How to scale in a crisis 🔓

Next Tuesday join Tech Nation for Lockdown Unlocked.

A powerhouse panel of founders, investors and experts will share advice and guidance on how to navigate through the coronavirus crisis. 

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 Health 

Doctolib is hungry for hires

 Fintech 

Fintech unicorn OakNorth buckles up

💡 Pivot like a pro 💡

In challenging times, a smart pivot can make a startup — while doing nothing could break it. But, when everything’s in shift, how can you be sure of the best moves to make?

Today, at 12:30pm, join us, Microsoft for Startups and a brilliant panel to discuss how to change course without getting derailed.

Last chance to register here.

 Opinion 

Fashion's overdue makeover

📸 Adapt to thrive 📸

Your online presence is key in the digital age, especially under lockdown.

With snappy content and sharp visuals, you’ll entice the 90% of consumers who base their purchase decisions on a products’ image quality.

Want to know more about how to market like a master? Photo tech company BOOM has the answers. [Sponsored post]

News that matters

✈️ Google, help us! Eight German CEOs from travel startups such as GetYourGuide have written to the tech giant in a bid to defer their ad payments.

🔒 The AI security guard. Resistant AI, a Prague-based security company which protects algorithms from attacks and fraud has closed a $2.75m seed round led by Index Ventures.

⚠️ A coworking conundrum. Research shows that around 10,000 companies in shared office space in the UK are not eligible for the government’s Covid-19 support grants. The FT reports.

🏢 Some, at least, aren’t ruling out office life in the future. Bruntwood SciTech’s £30m Enterprise Wharf development at Birmingham’s Innovation Campus in the UK has been approved. The 120,000 sq ft space is due to open in 2022.

🥡 Deliverect, a Belgium-based online food delivery management software startup, is eyeing international expansion after closing a €16.25m funding round led by OMERS Ventures. For more on the food delivery sector, read this from Sifted.

🤖 Cardio robotics. Robocath, a French company developing robotic systems to treat cardiovascular diseases, has raised €40m in a Series C funding round led by MicroPort Scientific Corporation. It will pump some money in the development of its second-generation robot.

Sifted Suggests 

🎰 Advocating for an inclusive Future Fund. This piece proposes various tests that the government could implement to ensure its bailout fund gets put to good use — a 'positive for society' test, a 'needed product' test, and a ‘future insight’ test. Read more here.

⏳ The fintech force. The UK needs to include fintechs in the rollout of SISS (the Self-employed Income Support Scheme), argues Portify cofounder Sho Sugihara.

🕺 A mega VC database. This spreadsheet lists 26,000 VCs and what they do. Check it out here.

💚 Tech for good in a crisis. Bethnal Green Ventures breaks down the current tech for good landscape, and analyses what the space will look like on the other side.