Tony Hunter

Enabling wealth managers, advisers & investment platforms to complete their proposition with investment backed loans from £25k without the need to move custody. Lombard loans have historically only available to clients with more than £1m and, even then, for advisors, non-bank wealth managers & investment platforms, they have to move the assets to a private banks custody - Firenze is changing all that. Firenze provides a seamlessly integrated loan platform that takes care of the technology for application, underwriting & monitoring, handles the consumer credit compliance & provides the capital to allow you to offer loans to your clients from as little as £25k. Helping investors meet their liquidity needs, grow their wealth or have more flexible tax planning. Helping wealth managers & investment platforms attract & retain AUM and better meet their clients needs.

A population of employees with the Yurtle employee benefit is less absent from the workplace than a population without. Yurtles app and insurance helps companies better support colleagues with adult and child care duties. The result: employers and employees perform better. Two in three people will take time out of work to provide unpaid care. Shockingly, each day 12,000 people are pushed into caregiving for a loved one having had no prior caring experience. This affects both employee wellbeing (it is a key obstacle to gender equality in the workplace), and UK corporate performance. With the upcoming enforcement of the 2023 Carer’s Leave Act in April 2024, this topic has never been more pressing for corporates to act. Our insurance pays for and places professional back up care when an employee is unable to provide care due to ill-health or accident, offering them peace of mind and a contingency plan. Outside of emergencies, our app minimises workplace absence and care breakdown by connecting employees with Yurty, our digital care ally. Yurty guides caregivers towards building a resilient care team (family, friends, neighbours) and connects them with personalised educational resources, curated discounts from care service providers, and care team collaboration tools. Reach out if youre an employer looking to align your benefits programmes with the needs of the modern day.

Platformed ensures every sale is built on a platform of trust. Accelerate your paper process with AI-powered consistent, high-quality automated questionnaire responses, and a self-maintaining knowledge base that never goes out of date. Assess the risk of suppliers in minutes with real-time, first-party risk data on your full supply chain, automatically assessed against your own bespoke controls.

AudioStack is a London/Barcelona/New York City based software company. AudioStack.ai is the worlds leading infrastructure for fully automated, scalable AI audio production. By connecting cutting edge technologies such as text to speech, music, AI-based post production or versioning, audio brands and agencies can build complex audio production workflows in a breeze. For the first time, audio assets can be created in real-time - unlocking completely new use cases that are faster, addressable at scale and more cost-effective than ever before.

At Tuza were building an exchange for card payments to give businesses access to the most competitive rates for their payment terminals, while helping banks to access volume they want to process. This is important. Just like insurance, payments is a product priced on risk. But currently that risk is priced manually in spreadsheets, leading to businesses paying billions in extra card processing fees. Were working with the largest banks in payments to fix that, bringing the biggest change to how businesses access card payments in two decades.

Quantly provides LLM infrastructure for investment research use cases. We work with financial institutions to enable their internal tech teams or analyst teams to build their own GenAI use cases. Quickly and efficiently, using the latest LLM technology purpose-built for investment research. Deployed on clients infrastructure or on the cloud.

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Fluent is the agency reporting engine that finds insights, explains performance, and builds client-ready reports.

Enabling wealth managers, advisers & investment platforms to complete their proposition with investment backed loans from £25k without the need to move custody. Lombard loans have historically only available to clients with more than £1m and, even then, for advisors, non-bank wealth managers & investment platforms, they have to move the assets to a private banks custody - Firenze is changing all that. Firenze provides a seamlessly integrated loan platform that takes care of the technology for application, underwriting & monitoring, handles the consumer credit compliance & provides the capital to allow you to offer loans to your clients from as little as £25k. Helping investors meet their liquidity needs, grow their wealth or have more flexible tax planning. Helping wealth managers & investment platforms attract & retain AUM and better meet their clients needs.

A population of employees with the Yurtle employee benefit is less absent from the workplace than a population without. Yurtles app and insurance helps companies better support colleagues with adult and child care duties. The result: employers and employees perform better. Two in three people will take time out of work to provide unpaid care. Shockingly, each day 12,000 people are pushed into caregiving for a loved one having had no prior caring experience. This affects both employee wellbeing (it is a key obstacle to gender equality in the workplace), and UK corporate performance. With the upcoming enforcement of the 2023 Carer’s Leave Act in April 2024, this topic has never been more pressing for corporates to act. Our insurance pays for and places professional back up care when an employee is unable to provide care due to ill-health or accident, offering them peace of mind and a contingency plan. Outside of emergencies, our app minimises workplace absence and care breakdown by connecting employees with Yurty, our digital care ally. Yurty guides caregivers towards building a resilient care team (family, friends, neighbours) and connects them with personalised educational resources, curated discounts from care service providers, and care team collaboration tools. Reach out if youre an employer looking to align your benefits programmes with the needs of the modern day.

Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors. Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more. EF is backed by some of the worlds leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t. For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.com Were hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers

Platformed ensures every sale is built on a platform of trust. Accelerate your paper process with AI-powered consistent, high-quality automated questionnaire responses, and a self-maintaining knowledge base that never goes out of date. Assess the risk of suppliers in minutes with real-time, first-party risk data on your full supply chain, automatically assessed against your own bespoke controls.

AudioStack is a London/Barcelona/New York City based software company. AudioStack.ai is the worlds leading infrastructure for fully automated, scalable AI audio production. By connecting cutting edge technologies such as text to speech, music, AI-based post production or versioning, audio brands and agencies can build complex audio production workflows in a breeze. For the first time, audio assets can be created in real-time - unlocking completely new use cases that are faster, addressable at scale and more cost-effective than ever before.