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Dairy-ing to do butter with data
As far as bad food related puns go, that’s probably our wurst. Data isn’t modern “In God we trust, all others bring data.” Data is ubiquitous. Our ability to use it, draw insight and put it into nice dashboards is critical. “Data driven” they said. Our favourite search
SVB - Getting risk management wrong...as a bank?!
You expect a restaurant to be able to serve (edible) food, a hospital to be staffed with trained doctors and a bank to have a Chief Risk Officer to oversee risk? Simples. In the case of Silicon Valley Bank, they didn't have a CRO for 8 months from
Death and taxes
The only two things are certain in life. Fortunately (and somewhat morbidly…), Keen has death ‘covered’ with our investment in Fairwill. Unfortunately, taxes continue to be a proverbial shit show. Whilst big businesses have the services of the Big 4, small business owners don’t have the Small 4 have
Restaurant tech in Europe – plenty to chew on and why allO is the start, main, and dessert
TLDR: running a restaurant isn’t easy; there is a lot of software out there; we think e2e wins with an unbeatable user experience; so we found allO, and led their (pre)seed round “Giving small-to-medium restaurants more power” was a thesis idea we debated in my first month at
Building bits of wealth with Bits of Stock
(Previously posted on Medium on June 14th 2022 but I like this place better) A new kind of loyalty program…through stock 📈💸 If I had a dollar for every time someone at a checkout asked me “do you have our loyalty card?” I’d probably have enough to be able
FINN — In pole position for new car subscription…
… by shaking up traditional car ownership models (Previously posted on Medium on May 25th 2022 but I like this place better) The first thing you’re probably expecting from this “Why We Invested” piece is for it to be about how attractive the car subscription market is, catering to a