Morning. For those who apprehensively opened their Spotify Wrapped yesterday, dyk Spotify traffic peaks in December each year. Christmas songs or Wrapped marketing? 🤷♀️
UK spinouts
11 of the world's top 100 universities are in the UK (including #1). Great leaps in deeptech and biotech innovation often come in the rich research environments of universities. The next leap is managing to turn that innovation into a business, but 1,183 founding teams in the UK have done just that.
Oxford, Cambridge, Belfast, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, Bristol and London, each home to multiple universities, are well represented for spinouts.
8 of the 10 most-funded UK university spinouts are biotech companies (+ Darktrace and Onfido).
Oxford spinout Vaccitech is co-founded by Sarah Gilbert and Adrian Hill, leaders of the successful Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine.
One of the most frequently requested data sets is here! We’re very excited to bring tech stack data to Dealroom 🎉
You can now find info on the tools and languages a startup uses by directly using the filter bar. See whether a startup is using leading front-end frameworks, or if they’re dockerized 🐳. Look beyond programming languages and dev tools too; check out web hosting, CRM tools, marketing tools and similar. E.g. fun fact re. yesterday’s acquisition: there are 41 unicorns that currently use Slack but not Salesforce.
🇪🇺 8th Dec: The State of European Tech 2020 report launch. Grab your seat.
🎤 10th Dec: 8 promising startups will pitch at Dealflow.eu's heathcare pitch event. Each startup has received significant non-dilutive EU funding for breakthrough innovations.
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