Funding 

What’s happened to the angels?

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 Fintech 

A new CEO at hyped fintech Monzo

 Micromobility 

The big moment for bikes

 Fintech 

Abandoning your home market

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News that matters

😱 Funding for seed-stage UK startups has fallen by more than 80% in the lockdown. Isabel Woodford takes a look at the brutal new data from Beauhurst.

🏘️ Amsterdam-based employee communications platform Happeo has raised $12m at a time when there is more demand than ever for tools to help manage remote workforces. The funding comes just a week after competitor Workvivo raised $16m.

🍲 Portuguese dark kitchen startup Kitch has announced a €1m pre-seed round. For more on future of delivery-first kitchens and delivery startups generally, download our deep-dive report on the topic here.

💸 Any founder looking to apply for the UK government's £500m Future Fund to help startups struck by the coronavirus lockdown better be quick. According to Sky News, the fund received applications for more than £450m on its first day of operation. For more on how to apply, see here. 

Sifted Suggests 

🤔 A diversity disaster? There are (justified) concerns that the UK's Future Fund will mostly benefit white, male, London-based founders and investors. We asked the Treasury what it's doing to avoid that, and here's what it said.

👶 A nice "what I would tell my younger self" essay from the cofounder of Lingumi. One smart piece of advice for founders is: product-market fit is not a solution, it is an iterative process.

🇫🇷 Saul Klein from LocalGlobe talks to Paris startup hub Station F: “There will be a lot of investment activity in the coming months,” he says.

💀 It’s time to recognise that fintech as a movement has evolved. It’s the new normal and no longer defined by challengers but by category leaders. Fintech is dead. Long live fintech.