@Conor_Scanlan

Investor @octopusventures

 London
Joined May 2012
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🕵️‍♂️Jonathan W. Lee comes out of stealth mode and debuts Kodiact Kodiact helps manufacturers act on raw-material cost exposure now run on annual plans and manual work. Location: San Francisco, United States kodiact.com Connect on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jonathanwlee

Kodiact — AI-powered category management for direct materials

AI-powered category management and decision intelligence for direct materials. 5–8% EBITDA uplift, 100–150bps margin expansion.

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🕵️‍♂️Eric Olszewski comes out of stealth mode and debuts Actinide Actinide is building a scalable U.S.-owned isotope separation platform for medicine, energy and defense. Location: United States actinideinc.com Connect on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ericolszewsk…

Actinide — Unlocking America’s Atomic Era

Actinide is building a scalable, U.S.-owned isotope separation platform for medicine, energy, defense, and advanced materials.

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🕵️‍♂️Ruben G. comes out of stealth mode and debuts Wundr AI Wundr AI is an on-device, privacy-first speech intelligence platform for early childhood literacy. Location: Portugal wundr.ai Connect on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ruben-goncal…

Wundr: On-device speech intelligence for early literacy

Wundr: On=device speech intelligence for early literacy

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Kirsten Connell@kirst23 Jun 2022
I’ve been quiet on social media but busy behind the scenes. Announcing @OctopusVentures new First Cheque Fund designed to back pre-seed #startups across #Europe sifted.eu/articles/octopus-v…

Octopus Ventures launches its first-ever pre-seed fund of £10m

With a new female-led pre-seed fund, Octopus Ventures wants to get in early as the first cheque that diverse founders across Europe receive.

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Declines in muscle protein synthesis account for short‐term muscle disuse atrophy in humans in the absence of increased muscle protein breakdown onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Declines in muscle protein synthesis account for short‐term muscle disuse atrophy in humans in the...

Background We determined the short-term (i.e. 4 days) impacts of disuse atrophy in relation to muscle protein turnover [acute fasted-fed muscle protein synthesis (MPS)/muscle protein breakdown...

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Excited to be participating in Europe-wide Climate Tech Office Hours, hosted by @OctopusVentures and The Greentech Alliance on 9th June 2021. 25 VCs are collaborating to support climate tech founders Register here: octopusventures.typeform.com… @dawncapital
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Amy Lewin@amyrlewin12 Oct 2020
Octopus Ventures has massively grown its team (👏 @millenws) & is doubling down on consumer startups @siftedeu sifted.eu/articles/octopus-v…

Octopus Ventures to focus more on consumer startups

VC firm Octopus Ventures has created a new team to focus on consumer startups — and made nine new hires. It's now one of the largest VC teams in Europe.

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Skimlinks@Skimlinks28 May 2020
We are thrilled to announce Skimlinks has been acquired by Connexity. Our new partnership will enable us to further the support the growth of publishers publishers’ commerce revenue and merchants new customer acquisition: skimlinks.com/blog/connexity…
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TechCrunch
@TechCrunch13 May 2020
Modulr raises £18.9M for its 'Payments as a Service' tcrn.ch/35VTHVZ by @sohear
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@tech_eu27 Feb 2020
Scottish startup @shesoftware gets £7 million Series B to scale across North America and Australasia tech.eu/brief/she-software-s… by @annieMusgrove @frogcapital #Glasgow #HSE
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Morgan Housel
@morganhousel2 Jan 2020
Being born in America in 1900 gave you a 79% chance of living for five years. Today, the five-year survival rate for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is 82%. So just being a kid 1900 was riskier than having lymphoma is today.
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Modulr@ModulrFinance30 Oct 2019
Big news! Today we're announcing we plan to invest the majority of £20m raised recently in Scotland: ☑️ To drive disruptive innovation 📈 ☑️ Boost Scotland as a tech hub ⚡️ ☑️ Create new job opportunities 💪 Read: lnkd.in/d-yzH-V #Scotland #fintech #innovation
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NaomiOreskes@NaomiOreskes9 Oct 2019
If you are under 34, you have never experienced a month of below average temperatures | Greg Jericho theguardian.com/commentisfre… – at Massachusetts, USA

If you are under 34, you have never experienced a month of below average temperatures | Greg Jericho

Of course the Extinction Rebellion protesters are angry. You should be too

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Frog Capital@frogcapital5 Sep 2019
We are delighted to announce our latest investment in Sellics @Sellics_AMZ the leading global Amazon growth software business taking eCommerce by storm: frogcapital.com/think-frog/f…
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Frog Capital@frogcapital30 Aug 2019
.@VulogTech's movement away from its #carsharing roots to a #shared #mobility approach has been praised by @automotiveworld in a recent article. bit.ly/2Zu5IB5 #ThinkFrog #ScaleUp #SharedMobility
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Some personal news... theguardian.com/football/201…
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Modulr@ModulrFinance14 Aug 2019
Modulr awarded £10m grant 🎉 We’ll be using the grant to deliver greater payment control and cost benefits to our SME and accountant clients. Read more about it here👉bit.ly/2YK0th7ModulrWon #news #payments #fintech #SMEs #accountants
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Shane Lowry.... That is all
Shane Lowry
@ShaneLowryGolf31 Jul 2016
Carl frampton.... That is all
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Only 4 British Sign Language interpreters in the UK are specialists in Grime. Tara Asher signed Stormzy’s Glasto set for deaf festival goers. She rehearsed each song for a day. This is joyous. She LOVES her job. Have a watch please. @BritishSignBSL @deafzone1 #glastonbury19
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