Haatch Monthly - January 2023

Happy New Year and welcome to our first issue of 2023 and our first on our new home here on substack.

Last year we had great feedback on our newsletter, so please keep it coming, content you’d like to see, news you find interesting and what we should be changing moving forward!

As always we hope you enjoy it.

Portfolio News

• 3 fantastic portfolio companies (Poplar, Deazy & Teamsportz) are featured in the 2023 Startups 100 Index

• Nuon AI was named in the Top 100 Insurtechs by The ITC DIA Community

• PepTalk Lands Major Funding Round to Fuel U.S. Expansion

• Financielle is Shortlisted for the Northern Power Women awards in the Inclusive Innovation Award Category

• 1 Second Everyday turns 10!

• Neutrally Health to be the UK's only digital health company selected for LG NOVA's 2022 Mission For The Future Program

• Scurri announces integration with HIVED, allowing for affordable zero-emission deliveries

• Advanced Commerce lands £1.3m from Wealth Club

New Investments

• We are thrilled to be backing RoEx through the Haatch SEIS Fund alongside Queen Mary University of London

• Data Literacy Academy Raises $525K to Accelerate Transformation of Businesses through Data Literacy

Haatch Blog

• A new video from Mark Bennett, Partner at Haatch Ventures, talking about our SEIS fund

Interesting

• A great video from Craft Ventures (and the legendary David Sacks) on Preparing for a Recession in 2023

• Starlink now has more than 1,000,000 active subscribers

• Microsoft looking at a $10B investment into OpenAI

• $4.4bn IPO on only $7M of VC funding? Veeva.

• The Fed Has A Shotgun, Not A Sniper Rifle

• Why TikTok's future has never been so cloudy

Events & Webinars

• Our end-of-tax year webinar series is now open for registration. To join us, register here!

Thanks,

Team Haatch!