AlbionVC recently hosted an event with our friends at Altima (CFO search specialists) featuring a panel of 3 experienced CFOs from different backgrounds discussing the evolution of the CFO role from early to late stage. The conversation covered a lot of ground and we wanted to summarise some key insights…

I recently gave a Masterclass presentation at CogX on the top 10 mistakes made when pitching, which I thought I would turn into a blog post. As an ex-CFO turned VC, I made many of these mistakes myself previously and so the goal is to give practical insights on the…

Cohort-based analysis is powerful, but I remember the pain of building it myself in my previous role as FD of a B2C startup (Citymapper). I had to aggregate data from various tools into excel, then build a model, which would easily have dozens of rows for a basic monthly analysis…

Although APIs have been around for a while, their omnipresence continues to rise and they are now truly eating the world. Part 1 described the rise of API-first, how APIs are both fuelling and eating software, and the opportunities in API-first. This Part 2 focuses on the tools and the…

The API economy has been around for a while and yet it still feels like early days for APIs. Over 80% of internet traffic goes through APIs and it is fascinating to see how their omnipresence continues to rise year after year. Many organisations and developers are now spending the…

We are delighted to announce that we have co-led an $11m series A round in Gravitee.io, an exciting open source API management platform. API management is the process of managing APIs throughout their lifecycle (designing, publishing, monitoring, analysing) in a secure environment. It is a fairly established market with many…

How many times were you offered a gift card by a corporate/employer/friend [insert any use case here]? I would guess plenty of times and yet, if you are like me before I met WeGift, you probably ignore the massive scale of this market (still mainly offline) and the inefficiencies of…

AlbionVC is happy to be leading the series A in Credit Kudos, a challenger credit bureau using open banking and machine learning to generate better credit scores. The problem with existing credit scores Have you ever tried checking your credit score online with different providers? I had previously checked my credit score anecdotally but when I…