Re:Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone
by coding_unit_1 on Thursday March 09, 2023 @10:32AM
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Starling Bank would be a better example than Revolut.
Re:Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone
by samstave on Thursday March 09, 2023 @11:53AM
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How can you say money laundering for the Eastern Bloc Mafia without saying you're doing money laundering for the Eastern Bloc Mafia ;
"Revolut, sort of. Bank license in Lithuania, founders are Russian and Ukrainian, but headquartered in London."
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On a serious note: can we determine if any of the Ukranian AIDE went into / through this 'bank'?
The City Of London is the money laundering capital - with all their insturments pointing to the companies/countries of the Panama Papers and the other laundering/tax evasion scandals....
Graphcore. Semiconductor company doing accelerators for machine learning, based in Bristol. Raised $200m at a $1.7bn valuation in 2018.
> edit: I'll also take websites, has the UK got any big website companies? Seems like our biggest are Rightmove and Autotrader
Hopin (virtual events; raised about $1bn)
Cazoo (online car sales; about 2k employees)
Deliveroo (food delivery; market cap of about 1.6bn)
Snyk is now apparently Boston based, but was founded in London (cybersecurity); this is a common issue for the European startup space, but perhaps especially so for the UK since startups here tends to target English-speaking markets from the start, in that the incentive to move the companies to the US are pretty significant.
Revolut, sort of. Bank license in Lithuania, founders are Russian and Ukrainian, but headquartered in London.
EDIT: Babylon Health. "Online first" healthcare provider offering both NHS and private GP services via app/video as the first instance (with offline facilities to complement with face to face examinations when needed). About 2k employees; took about $550m funding at a $2bn valuation in 2019