| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.08.2021 | David Kempton: “My must-have trusts for the global recovery” | David Kempton covers Augmentum in his latest piece for Citywire.
“Augmentum Fintech is one of Europe’s leading venture capital investors focusing exclusively on the fintech sector, backing unlisted financial technology businesses that are ... |
| 19.08.2021 | Investors’ Chronicle: “Profit from the UK fintech boom” | Investors’ Chronicle explores the boom in late-stage venture in fintech and how investment trusts provide access to the market in their latest article.
“As fintechs delay listing and venture funding accelerates, select investment trusts lo... |
| 02.08.2021 | MoneyWeek: “Augmentum Fintech – a buying opportunity for sceptics” | ‘The trust has returned nearly 45% and has issued additional equity to double in size. The recent 15% drop in the share price provides a great opportunity for the sceptics to jump aboard.’
MoneyWeek’s Max King covers Augmentum in his lates... |
| 28.07.2021 | Grover raises $1 billion in new funding deal to democratise access to consumer tech | Congratulations to Grover as they announce raising $1 billion in financing, the largest financing round for a startup within the circular economy space.
Grover plans to use the funds to democratise access to consumer tech while tackling th... |
| 21.07.2021 | Investment Week: “Crypto at ‘the point of no return’ according to the Augmentum trust” | ‘The size of the opportunity within financial services is arguably the biggest…the market is currently 10% disrupted so has a long way to go’, says Tim Levene.
Augmentum CEO Tim speaks to Investment Week for their latest piece to discuss t... |
| 21.07.2021 | The Guardian: “UK fintech sector hits multibillion-pound peak of investor interest” | ‘British fintech firms continue to attract huge amount of international investment…this is due to London’s continued strength as a financial centre where most business is done in English, its access to top tier universities, a diverse talen... |
| 13.07.2021 | Augmentum Fintech strengthens partnership with Tikehau Capital | We are delighted to announce our partnership with the global alternative asset management group, Tikehau Capital, who have €29.4 billion of assets under management (as of 31 March 2021) plus developed a wide range of expertise across four a... |
| 12.07.2021 | AltFi: “How Habito is planning to move beyond mortgages” | ‘Habito One is finding traction amongst groups like older homeowners, those in their 50s who are looking for total repayment stability during the remainder of their mortgage’, says Dan Hegarty.
Habito CEO, Dan, sits with AltFi to discuss w... |
| 08.07.2021 | MarketWatch: “Augmentum Fintech Increases Target Size of Share Placing to Up to £55m” | MarketWatch covers our increased target size of share placing in their latest piece.
‘Augmentum Fintech PLC said Thursday that it has decided to significantly increase the target size of its share placing.
The fintech-focused venture capi... |
| 02.07.2021 | The John Baron Portfolios: “Investment Trust of the Moment” | John Baron covers Augmentum in his latest ‘Investment Trust of the Moment’ update.
“AUGM is looking to raise funds for further investment by way of an open offer of four shares (priced at £1.355) for every 19 held (basic entitlement) – sha... |
| 28.06.2021 | This is Money: “Our tip Augmentum Fintech rises 40% in three years – what next for investors?” | This is Money’s Joanne Hart explored Augmentum’s growth to date and the current investment opportunity in her Midas Shares Tips column.
“Midas verdict: Financial technology is a specialist field, but it is growing fast and the pace of chan... |
| 28.06.2021 | Financial Times: Tim Levene on bringing in more retail investors | “Augmentum was the first UK-listed venture capitalist to tap retail investors on PrimaryBid last October, and is now raising a further £40m, including from private investors.”
Augmentum CEO Tim was interviewed by the Financial Times for th... |
| 25.06.2021 | Female Fintech Founders Pitch Event | In May we hosted our first Female Fintech Founders Pitch Event in partnership with OutwardVC. We heard from seven brilliant early stage fintech Founders from across Europe during our live pitch event.
Listen to their individual pitches her... |
| 24.06.2021 | Investors Chronicle: Simon Thompson covers Augmentum in his latest piece | Simon Thompson covers Augmentum in his latest piece “Upgrading target prices” for Investors Chronicle.
“Augmentum cashed up for new investments
Shares in Augmentum Fintech (AUGM:140p), the first publicly-listed fintech fund in the UK, ral... |
| 22.06.2021 | CoinDesk: Tesseract raises $25 million led by Augmentum Fintech | CoinDesk covered our latest investment in Finnish digital-asset lender Tesseract who have raised $25 million in Series A funding.
The Helsinki-based firm offers digital-asset lending products, including margin loans, to institutional clien... |
| 22.06.2021 | Grover reaches 1 million registered customers | Another milestone for Grover, as they reach 1 million registered customers on their platform.
Grover brings the access economy to the consumer electronics market by offering a simple, monthly subscription model for technology products. Pri... |
| 21.06.2021 | Augmentum leads Finnish fintech Tesseract’s $25m Series A round | We are thrilled to announce our first Finnish investment, leading Tesseract’s $25 million Series A round.
“We are witnessing wholesale changes in digital assets infrastructure as it evolves to the demands of increasing institutional activi... |
| 18.06.2021 | Tech Zero: Habito and Onfido are leading the climate crisis fight | Augmentum portfolio companies Habito and Onfido are working alongside other leading UK tech businesses to fight the climate crisis, accelerate progress to net zero and help consumers make greener choices through Tech Nation’s “Tech Zero” in... |
| 18.06.2021 | Sifted: 2021 has been a record year for European fintech investment | “So far this year, European fintechs have raised €10.4bn, trumping the €9.3bn raised across the whole of 2019 — the previous highest year on record according to Dealroom data.”
The article explores the boom in fintech investment, driven by... |
| 16.06.2021 | Insider Intelligence: Augmentum Fintech on DeFi’s disruptive potential in finance | Augmentum’s Tim Levene and Ellen Logan spoke to Insider Intelligence about the disruptive potential of decentralised finance (DeFi).
“Since the beginning of the year, speculative behavior among retail and institutional investors alike ha... |
| 15.06.2021 | AIC: Tim Levene on fintech and value rotation | “As the economy improves we expect fintechs to continue to grow the market shares they have won over the last 18 months…we are seeing an increase in investor appetite for fintech and we believe this trend will continue”, says Tim Levene.
A... |
| 14.06.2021 | Annual Results for the year ended 31 March 2021 | The Augmentum Fintech plc Annual Results for the year ended 31 March 2021 were released this morning.
See Portfolio Manager Tim Levene talk through the highlights below, and read the full report here.
Read the full report here |
| 14.06.2021 | AltFi: Tim Levene on Weathering the Covid-19 Storm | “Generally, anything digital-led has benefited over the past year,” Tim Levene says. “A lot of our portfolio has seen accelerated digital adoption.”
Augmentum CEO Tim was interviewed by AltFi for their Alternative Lending State of the Mark... |
| 02.06.2021 | Augmentum enters the workplace savings space with investments in Cushon and Epsor | We are delighted to announce two new investments in companies disrupting the workplace savings space: Cushon and Epsor.
Learn about our pensions thesis and specific investment rationale for these two companies innovating in the workplace s... |
| 09.05.2021 | The Economist Report: How fintech will eat into banks’ business | “Bankers, once kings of capital, may be dethroned by payment platforms”.
The Economist explored the shifting balance of power through looking at the significance of data and other ways in which tech companies are reverse-engineering bankin... |
| 04.05.2021 | Female Fintech Founders Pitch Event | We are pleased to announce our first Female Fintech Founders Pitch Event in partnership with Outward VC, happening on 20th May. Hear six early stage Founders pitch live and answer your questions in a Q&A. 🎤
If you are an angel investor... |
| 20.04.2021 | “Fintech innovation will be at the heart of London’s recovery” says Lord Mayor | Lord Mayor of London William Russell spoke to City AM about UK Fintech Week, the Government’s Kalifa Review of UK Fintech and the role of fintech in the UK’s recovery post-Covid.
“Innovate Finance data shows $4.1bn was invested across 408 ... |
| 16.04.2021 | Portfolio Exit: Dext | Congratulations to Dext on their new investment round, with Hg.
We first invested in the digital bookkeeping platform (then called Receipt Bank) in their Series C round back in January last year. It has been a pleasure working with Adrian ... |
| 06.04.2021 | Meet the Team: Fareedah Daranijo | We are delighted to welcome Fareedah Daranijo to our team, as our Digital Marketing & Operations Assistant. Prior to joining Augmentum, Fareedah studied Business and Management at university and conducted various placements across sales... |
| 24.03.2021 | Augmentum’s Ellen Logan and Georgie Hazell named to Women in Fintech Powerlist | We are delighted to see Augmentum Investor Ellen Logan and Head of Engagement Georgie Hazell recognised on this year’s Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Powerlist. The Powerlist exists to celebrate female leaders and innovators transforming... |
| 15.03.2021 | Meet the team: Reginald de Wasseige | We are delighted to welcome Reginald (Reggie) de Wasseige to our Investment Team. Learn what he finds most exciting about the European fintech scene, his favourite business biographies and how he has found relocating to London during the pa... |
| 09.03.2021 | Akash Bajwa Named as one of 20 European Tech Leaders to Follow on Clubhouse | “Founder of the European Tech Club, he moderates conversations in the Club and drops smart comments about European tech and fintech.”
Augmentum’s Akash Bajwa has been named by Sifted as one of twenty European tech leaders to follow on Club... |
| 05.03.2021 | Funds Insider: Financials have ‘huge upside’ | David Stevenson explored the case for financials in his latest piece for CityWire’s Funds Insider.
In the same vein I would also thoroughly recommend a specialist investment trust called Augmentum (AUGM), run by Tim Levene, which I have in... |
| 03.03.2021 | Good Money Guide: Investing in Unlisted Fintech Companies | “Retail investors have embraced this emerging asset class, seeing us as one very effective way of indirectly getting exposure to a diversified set of assets.” Good Money Guide’s Richard Berry spoke to Tim Levene about the ups and downs of i... |
| 26.02.2021 | The Kalifa Review of UK Fintech | The Kalifa Review of UK Fintech was published this morning, setting out a plan for the UK to retain its global leadership in fintech by helping the country’s financial technology firms to scale up, access the talent and finance they need, a... |
| 23.02.2021 | Receipt Bank rebrands to Dext | Receipt Bank today announced their rebrand, becoming Dext.
Hear all about their new chapter from CEO Adrian Blair and Tim Berners-Lee at their event this afternoon.
Learn more about Dext here. |
| 23.02.2021 | Mayor’s International Business Programme: The Fintech Club – 10th March | This special edition of The Mayor’s International Business Programme Fintech Club will cover the outcomes of the UK government’s Independent Strategic Review of UK Fintech, looking at priority areas for industry, policy makers, and regulato... |
| 22.02.2021 | iwoca named in The Sunday Times Fast Track | iwoca has been named as the no. 1 small business lender and top fintech firm on The Sunday Times Fast Track.
The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 names Britain’s top 200 mid-market private companies with the fastest-growing intern... |
| 09.02.2021 | Innovate Finance: Fintech Investor Office Hours Week | Augmentum’s Martyn Holman and Ellen Logan are looking forward to speaking with Innovate Finance members tomorrow (10th February) as part of their Fintech Investor Office Hours Week.
Learn more here |
| 05.02.2021 | Ellen Logan named as one of Europe’s top 30 young VCs | Augmentum Associate Ellen Logan named by Sifted as one of Europe’s top 30 young VCs, “poised to lead the next era of European venture”.
See the full list on Sifted here. |
| 05.02.2021 | Onfido delivers record revenue year for 2020 | Global identity verification and authentication company Onfido has announced another record growth year in 2020, with global annual recurring revenue (ARR) increasing by 82% YoY.
Read more on Yahoo Finance here. |
| 02.02.2021 | Event: Power to Black Founders | We’re looking forward to being involved in the next Power to Black Founders event with Founders Factory, TechNation and 10×10, happening next month.
This includes: |
| 01.02.2021 | Gamestop craze is boon for funds platform interactive investor | “The stampede of small retail investors into the stock market has sent customer numbers surging at one of Britain’s biggest investment platforms.
interactive investor attracted 10,589 clients and a net £1.2 billion of new business during t... |
| 08.01.2021 | Augmentum enters the DeFi space with ParaFi | As we kick off 2021 we are delighted to announce our investment in and partnership with ParaFi Capital, who are backing pioneers in the decentralised finance (DeFi) and blockchain spaces.
We have outlined below our investment rationale on ... |
| 06.01.2021 | Supporting Investment: How VC fund structures affect investor behaviours | In his latest Medium piece, Augmentum Partner Martyn Holman explores three fund structures commonly found in the UK and the implications of these for investee companies.
Read the full post on Medium here. |
| 21.12.2020 | 2020: A Year in Review | As we come to the end of an unprecedented year, we wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on what has been an exceptionally busy twelve months for our team and portfolio companies.
See the progress from the Augmentum team and across our... |
| 16.12.2020 | Meet Volt.io, Augmentum’s Latest Investment | We are delighted to announce an investment into open banking payments platform Volt.io, the leading provider of account-to-account payments connectivity for international merchants and payment service providers (PSPs).
Learn more about t... |
| 02.12.2020 | Interim Results Announced | We are delighted to announce the Augmentum Fintech plc Interim Results for the six months ended 30 September 2020.
See the highlights in the RNS here.
Read the Portfolio Manager’s Review here.
Read the full report here. |
| 01.12.2020 | Meet the Investor: Martyn Holman | In our latest ‘Meet the Investor’ feature, we speak to Augmentum Partner Martyn Holman. Learn about Martyn’s route into VC, his view on the most underrated skill for working in the industry and the learnings he’s taken from his passion for ... |
| 10.11.2020 | Onfido announces new leadership for the next phase of growth | Earlier today, Onfido announced a change in leadership for their next phase of growth.
Onfido, the global identity verification and authentication provider, today announces the appointment of Mike Tuchen as Chief Executive to lead the comp... |
| 28.10.2020 | ‘Crisis To Catalyst’ Fintech Film by BBC StoryWorks and Innovate Finance | Released earlier today, the 30 minute film explores the evolution of fintech and digital transformation in the wake of the 2008 crash and more recently, COVID-19, featuring interviews with leading voices from across the fintech industry, in... |
| 27.10.2020 | Technology Stocks for the New ‘Normal’ | Investors Chronicle covered Augmentum in their article “Technology Stocks for the New Normal”.
“A trading update for the six months to 30 September 2020 highlights just why the offer is worth taking up. Augmentum’s diversified portfolio of... |
| 26.10.2020 | Augmentum Fintech announces placing following strong performance over the year-to-date | Augmentum was featured in this article from QuotedData: “Augmentum Fintech announces placing following strong performance over the year-to-date”
“Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), one of the year’s best-performing investment companies, announced i... |
| 20.10.2020 | Meet the team: Akash Bajwa | We are delighted to welcome Akash Bajwa to our Investment Team. Learn about where his passion for venture originated, his work with impact-driven companies and the Augmentum portfolio company he’d work at if he had the choice in this, our l... |
| 19.10.2020 | Monese and Mastercard enter strategic partnership to better serve the underbanked across Europe | Monese and Mastercard have today announced that they are entering a strategic partnership to better serve the underbanked across Europe. The companies have teamed up to provide better financial services to those relying on the gig economy, ... |
| 05.10.2020 | Seedrs and Crowdcube Announce Merger Plans | Earlier today, equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs announced plans to merge with Crowdcube, creating one of the world’s largest private equity marketplaces.
As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky said,
By joining forces, we’ll be able to harness the ... |
| 23.09.2020 | Tide win £25m in BCR funding in partnership with ClearBank | SME business bank Tide has been awarded £25m from the RBS Alternative Remedies Package Pool E Fund, in partnership with ClearBank. This builds on their previous £60m Pool A Fund win from February 2019.
“With this grant, we’ll be able to de... |
| 17.09.2020 | 5 Portfolio Companies Named in The Fintech 50: ‘Top European Fintech Companies to Watch’ | Onfido, Farewill, Habito, Monese and Previse feature in this year’s The FinTech 50: “The top European fintechs to watch in 2020”, and Onfido take the top spot.
See the full list of winners here |
| 09.09.2020 | Augmentum named as a Diversity VC Standard ‘Pioneer Fund’ | We are delighted to be a pioneer fund for the Diversity VC Standard, championing diversity and inclusion across our investment and internal fund processes.
The announcement was covered by Sifted:
Today, non-profit organisation Diversi... |
| 08.09.2020 | “Augmentum Fintech offers tremendous potential”, says John Baron for Investors Chronicle | “Investment trusts are a superior option” and “Augmentum Fintech offers tremendous potential”, says John Baron in the latest Investors Chronicle podcast.
Listen to the podcast here |
| 25.08.2020 | Business Insider: 7 Hottest Lawtech Startups to Watch in 2020 | Augmentum portfolio company Farewill featured in Business Insider’s “7 Hottest Lawtech Startups to Watch in 2020” article.
Why it’s hot in 2020: “Farewill helps sort out legally binding wills and probate from the comfort of their own home,... |
| 21.08.2020 | Investors Chronicle podcast: “To PE or not to PE?” | On this week’s investment hour, John Hughman and Dave Baxter are joined by Phil Oakley to discuss the pros and cons of investing in Private Equity and the companies they invest in, while James Norrington talks to Augmentum Fintech’s chief e... |
| 14.08.2020 | IG: An intro to fintech in the UK: companies, stocks and how to invest | Augmentum featured in IG’s article on the ten UK fintech stocks that can help you gain exposure to the fintech sector.
“The UK is a hub for fintech, but most companies remain in private hands. We outline ten UK fintech stocks that can help... |
| 12.08.2020 | Habito announce their £35m Series C and B Corp certification | TechCrunch covered Habito’s announcement on their £35m Series C and B Corp UK certification. We are delighted to be supporting Dan Hegarty and the team as they take home financing and purchasing digital.
Read the full article on TechCrunch... |
| 11.08.2020 | Master Investor: Fintech investing in the age of COVID-19 | In our latest piece for our Master Investor fintech investing column, Martyn Holman looks at the reaction of venture capital in the wake of COVID-19, in particular those investing in the fintech industry, and explores the longer-term possib... |
| 10.08.2020 | QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – August 2020 | Augmentum featured in QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – August 2020:
“Augmentum Fintech has featured regularly in the ‘winners’ section since April, with digitisation take-up being propelled by the pandemic”
Read the full arti... |
| 07.08.2020 | Citywire Wealth Manager: Private equity: the state of play in the UK | Augmentum featured in Citywire Wealth Manager’s “Private equity: the state of play in the UK” piece on 6th August 2020.
“At Wellian Investment Solutions, wealth manager Richard Philbin gets exposure to private markets both by investing in ... |
| 23.07.2020 | AltFi: Augmentum Fintech ends the year up 5.9%, sees opportunities ahead | “Coronavirus and changing consumer behaviours present the fintech sector with “significant opportunity for further disruption,” Tim Levene, the CEO of listed investor Augmentum Fintech said today.
His comments came as Augmentum reported it... |
| 20.07.2020 | Watchlist Small Caps on the Upgrade | Augmentum had a positive write-up by Simon Thompson for Investors Chronicle following the company’s results last week.
“There is no doubt in my mind that Augmentum is performing well. Annual results revealed an unrealised portfolio gain of... |
| 17.07.2020 | Augmentum Fintech hails Covid chance as Zopa launches bank | “Augumentum Fintech (AUGM) has hailed the ‘fundamentally changed behaviours’ engendered by Covid-19 as pivotal for the young financial technology companies it backs” wrote Jeremy Gordon for Citywire’s Investment Trust Insider.
Read the ful... |
| 16.07.2020 | Augmentum Fintech plc Announces Final Results | Augmentum Fintech plc announces its Final Results for the year ended 31 March 2020.
Read the full report here
Read the RNS here |
| 24.06.2020 | Augmentum wins AIC Shareholder Communication Award | We are pleased to have won ‘Best Marketing Campaign’ in the The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) Shareholder Communication Awards 2020.
Learn more and see the full list of award winners here |
| 16.06.2020 | Onfido wins two CogX 2020 Awards | Augmentum portfolio company Onfido has won two awards in the CogX 2020 Awards, for “Best Innovation in Algorithmic Bias Mitigation” and “Outstanding Leader in Accessibility”.
The CogX Awards exist to celebrate best in class artificial inte... |
| 16.06.2020 | AltFi: Here are the fintech sectors which are thriving (and those which are just surviving) | “The macro story has been the acceleration in digital adoption, and behaviours that would have taken two to three years to change have changed in the last two to three months.”
Augmentum featured in this article on the fintech in the wake ... |
| 16.06.2020 | Receipt Bank acquires data processing platform Xavier | Augmentum portfolio company Receipt Bank had acquired data processing platform Xavier.
Learn more and watch a video from Receipt Bank CEO Adrian Blair on the acquisition here
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| 05.06.2020 | Augmentum joins FTSE SmallCap and AllShare Indexes | We are delighted to announce that Augmentum Fintech plc will be joining the FTSE SmallCap Index and the FTSE AllShare Index with effect from after the close of business on 19th June.
Learn more: |
| 21.05.2020 | Augmentum Head of Engagement Georgie wins WeAreTheCity Rising Stars Award | Augmentum Head of Engagement Georgie Hazell has won a WeAreTheCity Rising Stars Award 2020 in the Investment Management category.
Georgie says, “WATC exists to strengthen the female leadership pipeline, working with the likes of Goldman Sa... |
| 20.05.2020 | Tide accredited to deliver Bounce Back Loans | Augmentum portfolio company Tide have been accredited by the British Business Bank to deliver Bounce Back Loans to their members
Read more here
Visit Tide’s coronavirus support hub here |
| 20.05.2020 | An intro to fintech in the UK: companies, stocks and how to invest | IG featured Augmentum in their article, “An intro to fintech in the UK: companies, stocks and how to invest”.
“The UK is a hub for fintech, but most companies remain in private hands. We outline ten UK fintech stocks that can help you gain... |
| 20.05.2020 | iwoca joins list of CBILS accredited lenders | Augmentum portfolio company iwoca received accreditation from the British Business Bank to provide SMEs with Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) loans.
Read more here
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| 07.05.2020 | Fintech in the Eye of the Storm | In recent weeks we have regularly been asked what the future holds for fintech in a post-Covid world. No one can answer this with any certainty yet, but little happens in the European fintech space that does not cross our radar screen and w... |
| 14.04.2020 | UK Fintech Week 2020 | Today marks the start of UK Fintech ‘Week’ (taking place from 14th April until 1st May).
Key events this week:
Listen back to the Innovate Finance webinar “Venture Capital Perspective on Navigating COVID-19” from last week here and hear A... |
| 30.03.2020 | Augmentum Fintech launches TeenVC | We are delighted to announce the launch of TeenVC, powered by Augmentum Fintech, a free digital education platform where teenagers can learn about Venture Capital (VC) and entrepreneurship.
At a time when schools around the world are closi... |
| 26.03.2020 | Investors Chronicle: Exploiting market mis-pricing | Simon Thompson of Investors Chronicle featured Augmentum Fintech in his “Exploiting market mis-pricing” article today.
Read the article here |
| 24.03.2020 | COVID-19 Potential Impact and Portfolio Progress | Our note to Shareholders outlining our approach towards managing the fund in light of the COVID-19 developments can be read here |
| 11.03.2020 | Launch of Augmentum’s Master Investor fintech column | In the first article of our ‘Fintech Investing’ column for Master Investor, Augmentum Partner Martyn Holman weighs in on the rise of fintech and its position in the wider European venture capital ecosystem.
Read the full article here |
| 05.03.2020 | Augmentum Capital Markets Day 2020 | Yesterday we hosted the annual Augmentum Capital Markets Day at Plaisterers’ Hall in the City of London. The audience of institutional investors heard about Augmentum’s investment strategy and progress, along with the latest developments fr... |
| 05.03.2020 | Playing the long game: An interview with Tim Levene | Soldo’s Martino Tramontin recently interviewed Augmentum CEO Tim Levene. They discussed evolving consumer behaviour in fintech, the Augmentum portfolio, the future of fintech and what being publicly listed means in practice for Augmentum.
... |
| 05.03.2020 | Augmentum’s Georgie Hazell named in the Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Powerlist | Our Head of Engagement Georgie Hazell has been named in the ‘Standout 35’ and ‘Rising Stars’ categories of the Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Powerlist 2019.
See the full list here |
| 18.02.2020 | FT: “interactive investor to acquire Share Centre” | Financial Times published this article about Augmentum portfolio company interactive investor, on 18th February: “interactive investor to acquire Share Centre… Tie-up would see the UK’s second-largest investment platform manage £36bn of ass... |
| 17.02.2020 | Innovate Finance 2019 Investment Landscape Report | Innovate Finance have published their 2019 Fintech Investment Landscape report, which highlights the UK’s position as a European and global leader. The report explores the latest investment trends and top deals, European and global rankings... |
| 14.02.2020 | iwoca 22nd in Sunday Times International Track 200 | iwoca ranked 22nd in the “Sunday Times International Track 200: British private companies with the fastest growing international sales”
Read more and see the full rankings here |
| 13.02.2020 | Onfido announces 130% year-over-year growth and rapid US expansion | Onfido, today announced a year-over-year growth of 130%. The significant revenue growth, coupled with its first US acquisition, key leadership appointments and sustained industry recognition, signal continued scale and growth for the compan... |
| 06.02.2020 | Investors Chronicle: How the 2019 Bargain Shares portfolio beat the market | Augmentum was featured in this Investors Chronicle article; “Trading 10 per cent below NAV, and with pro-forma cash of £17m on hand to invest, Augmentum’s shares have scope to resume their upward trajectory. Buy.”
Read the full article h... |
| 01.02.2020 | 20 European start-ups changing how we spend and manage money | Grover was featured in this Silicon Republic article on the 20 European startups changing how we spend and manage money.
Read the full article here |
| 16.01.2020 | London Startups to Watch in 2020: Augmentum and 6 portfolio companies feature | Augmentum are in good company in the “111 London startups to watch in 2020” ranking from SeedTable, alongside portfolio companies Onfido, Receipt Bank, Tide, Habito, iwoca and Seedrs.
Read more and see the full list here
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| 15.01.2020 | Augmentum was one of the most active VCs in London Tech in 2019 | Augmentum was featured in this London TechWatch article; “These are the 7 Most Active London Venture Capital Firms in 2019”.
Read the full article here |
| 14.01.2020 | Augmentum invests £7.5m into digital bookkeeping platform Receipt Bank | We are delighted to announce our first investment of 2020, £7.5m into digital bookkeeping platform Receipt Bank.
Read the full announcement here and hear Tim Levene explain why the team are backing the company below… |
| 02.01.2020 | How to Invest in Fintech | Augmentum Fintech plc [AUGM] invests in fast growing fintech businesses that are disrupting the financial services sector. Augmentum is the UK’s only publicly listed investment company focusing on the fintech sector in the UK and wider Euro... |
| 11.12.2019 | Podcast: Freddie Evans interviewed for the Associated Podcast | Augmentum Associate Freddie Evans discusses Augmentum Fintech’s unique structure, what his first day at the fund was really like and his views on what makes both a great investor and investment in the latest ‘Associated’ podcast episode.
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