Author: Kate McGinn
The Rise of Real-Time Collaborative Tech
In 2007, Chris Wanstrath and PJ Hyett were sitting in a small SF apartment, building websites for CNET on Ruby on Rails. The more they used Rails, the more suggestions they had for improving the open-source project. But as was the industry norm back then, the open-source initiative was managed by a group of trusted…
The Future of E-Commerce and the Companies out to Enable it
This post is by Kate McGinn from Seedcamp Last month, Meta lost $232Bn in market value after releasing its first-quarter earnings report, which displayed a sharp decline in profits. It is the single biggest one-day decline for a stock in U.S. history. The reasons for this drop are manifold: the rise of TikTok, plummeting daily…
Cauldron raises $1.4m to debut Sci-Fi project in Web3 gaming
This post is by Kate McGinn from Seedcamp Cauldron founders (left to right) Matt Hyde, Mark Warrick and Fox Rogers Gaming has become the pinnacle of media. It’s where art meets technical brilliance. At Seedcamp, we believe that gaming is the future of entertainment and, over the past few years, we’ve made bets to double-down…
Cauldron raises $1.4m to debut Sci-Fi project in Web3 gaming
This post is by Kate McGinn from Seedcamp Cauldron founders (left to right) Matt Hyde, Mark Warrick and Fox Rogers Gaming has become the pinnacle of media. It’s where art meets technical brilliance. At Seedcamp, we believe that gaming is the future of entertainment and, over the past few years, we’ve made bets to double-down…
The Future of Cybersecurity and the Tech Companies out to Improve it
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in 418sec, Blog, cerbos, cyber, cyber security, cyscale, deep-dive, digital-security, Featured, founder-q&as, rollee, Seedcamp, zamnaThis post is by Kate McGinn from Seedcamp The digital lives we’ve built for ourselves are proving to be more vulnerable to cyber attacks than ever before. Tech, media, and, yes, even beef corporations are being infiltrated by sophisticated hacker groups which current cyber solutions seemingly can’t defend against. Gone are the days of exclusively…
Seedcamp 2021 Year in Review
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in Blog, Featured, hopin, Investment, seed fund, Seedcamp, seedcamp-2021, uipath, vc, WISE, year in reviewThis post is by Kate McGinn from Seedcamp 50 new companies, £4Bn+ in follow-on funding, and two Seedcamp companies list publicly It feels like a daunting task to reflect back on what has arguably been the busiest in our 14-year history at Seedcamp. 2021 has been a year of incredible highs, with some amazing successes…
Seedcamp 2021 Year in Review
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in Blog, Featured, hopin, Investment, seed fund, Seedcamp, seedcamp-2021, uipath, vc, WISE, year in reviewThis post is by Kate McGinn from Seedcamp 50 new companies, £4Bn+ in follow-on funding, and two Seedcamp companies list publicly It feels like a daunting task to reflect back on what has arguably been the busiest in our 14-year history at Seedcamp. 2021 has been a year of incredible highs, with some amazing successes…
Hiring for Design Part 5: Scaling your Design Team
This post is by Kate McGinn from Seedcamp By Andy Budd, Designer and Expert in Residence at Seedcamp As startups raise funding and grow their customer base, the demands placed on the engineering teams tend to scale quite rapidly. This is one of the reasons you need a solid CTO from the onset. Not only to get…
When it comes to fundraising, you’re more important than you think
This post is by Kate McGinn from Seedcamp Our Head of Talent Alex Lewis shares insights, with collaboration with Felix Martinez and Kate McGinn from our team, on what Seedcamp’s high-level due-diligence process is for vetting and assessing founding teams. In this blog post, he lays out five traits we look out for when speaking…
Hiring for Design Part 4: What a High Performing Designer Looks Like
This post is by Kate McGinn from Seedcamp By Andy Budd, Designer and Expert in Residence at Seedcamp In order to hire a top end designer—or for that matter a product manager, marketer or engineer—you need to know what “good” looks like. Otherwise you may end up hiring somebody who looks good on paper, but is actually…