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Techstars

Accelerator

Techstars operates a prestigious startup accelerator programme.


Recent investments

Seed
£2.0M

The funding round was led by Deloitte Ventures with backing from Techstars, ZAKA Ventures, and angel investors to support product development and team expansion.

"The knowledge gap around financial literacy, especially for younger generations, is a global problem that has deep societal implications. Prograd’s approach to this challenge offers meaningful benefits to both consumers and financial services."
— Louise Brett, Head of FinTech and Financial Services Innovation, Deloitte North and South Europe
Pre-Seed

The pre-seed round was led by SFC Capital and included participation in the Techstars accelerator.

"We were delighted to have led Virtue’s latest funding round. With the rapid growth in socially-conscious consumers, it is imperative that retailers are able to continue to retain and attract these individuals by doing their bit to solve some of the biggest issues facing the planet and societies. Virtue’s easy-to-integrate technology allows them to do this in a simple and effective manner. The team behind the company is extremely passionate and we are excited to see what the future holds for the company"
— Ed Stevenson, Investment Executive
Seed
£2.4M

The seed round was co-led by Merus Capital and GoHub Ventures with backing from APX and Techstars.

"training latest deep learning models accurately on very small data sets, which any local, low-resource language usually suffers from, is a very challenging task because models are usually designed to perform well in English with terabytes of available text and speech data but not in languages with a few hundred megabytes of data."
— Felix Laumann, CEO