Fintech 

Fintech's darkest day

🎬 Fintech behind the scenes 🎬 

Just who are the movers and makers enabling fintech to thrive? (Hint, it's not Monzo and co.)

There's a secret fintech army working backstage to keep the show on the road, from open banking to security.

 
Find out who they are and what they're about in our report. 

 Opinion 

Reasons to hire more women in tech

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We're looking for founders, VCs and startup employees to have their say on topics that are often overlooked — and who want to be 100% anonymous.

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 News 

The key to flying cars — hydrogen

Sifted Suggests 

🌍  The global startup ecosystem. From London to LA, Tel Aviv to Tokyo, global startups advisory Startup Genome maps out how startups across the world are faring after Covid-19. Read here.

🤔  Will cities go green or mean? Cities saw reductions in air pollution during the pandemic, but it doesn't look like that will last for long as cars flock to the roads again. How can we prevent this from happening? Learn more here.

🇪🇺  European tech visas: a thread. A list of 40+ European visas for tech founders and employees well worth checking out.

📢 Calling all UK fintech founders. Take this survey to tell the government what you want from them.

In case you missed it 

☕ How to step down as a founder. An honest, emotional and powerful interview from the founder of Pact Coffee.

💳 Dear Monzo, Starling and co; we’re still a long way off the perfect neobank.

🌴 Enter the era of the digital nomad. Estonia has recently become the first country in the world to create a digital nomad visa — and others would be wise to follow suit.

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Events [virtual only]
 

🇬🇧 Investing in black founders matters | 1 July
The UK Business Angels Association is convening this panel to discuss what can be done to increase investment in black and ethnic minority founders. Hear insights from fantastic angels and VCs on how we can foster a more diverse ecosystem that favours equality.

🇬🇧 How to bounce back as a startup | 2 July
Scaleup advisor Zanda teams up with SeedLegals and Crowdcube to show early-stage high growth tech firms how to scale up successfully.

🇬🇧 #TEENSINAI Accelerator 2020 | 27 July - 7 August
This event focuses on those who will shape AI in the next decades — Gen-Z. Teens aged 11-19 have the opportunity to learn and develop their own AI with leading tech mentors from the BBC, Microsoft and more.

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