Reading Unicorns: 21st March

Your weekly digest from the world of unicorn building 🦄

Happy Monday. Here’s this week’s Reading Unicorns round-up:

📖 Top Articles from last week:

1. UK crypto unicorn Blockchain.com teams up with Stripe to power payments (AltFi)

2. ‘Spotify for textbooks’ edtech Perlego raises £38m (UKTN)

3. Hoxton Ventures brings the heat with new $215 million fund (Tech.eu)

4. Are UK venture capital firms missing out on an African tech boom? (CityAM)

5. Getir is now worth nearly $12 billion after raising another $768 million (TechCrunch)

💡 Spotlight - Playter

Playter is the BNPL solution for businesses. Playter helps fund the global community of startups and scaleups by helping them convert any invoice into Buy Now, Pay Later. Pringle Capital has worked with Playter for a while and we were delighted when they raised $1.7m in a recent round led by Fin Capital and 1818 Ventures. Read more here.

💼 Jobs

120+ jobs at SaltPay, view here.

10+ jobs at Numan, view here.

🎙️ Last week’s podcast: Guy Podjarny, Founder @ Snyk

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Have a great week,

The Reading Unicorns team.