🚀 Expert-led #VentureCapital learning starts here. 🌏 Making the ecosystem globally accessible. 🤝 @LBS x @LocalGlobeVC x @HSBCInnovation
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Stealth Mode 🥷
When a startup builds quietly, without revealing its product, customers or even its name. The reveal usually lands with a funding announcement.
Going quiet buys you time, but what you build with it decides whether anyone cares when you step out. ✅
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That's Careers Month 2026, done. Four Thursdays, eleven seasoned voices, one message: many tasks are being automated, but judgement, relationships and staying power can't.
Thank you to everyone who shared so generously. The next edition is already calling.
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We've covered breaking in, moving roles and moving up. The finale covers staying.
"Playing the Long Game: Building a sustainable career in venture", Thursday 1pm UK. Don't leave it late.
Alumni and learners: details in your inbox and on the learning platform.
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Up Round 📈
A funding round priced at a higher valuation than the last one. New investors pay more per share, and existing stakes get marked up. The opposite of a down round.
An up round prices in momentum, but the company still has to deliver it. ✅
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Session three of Careers Month 2026 is a wrap.
Pam Burton and Tom Haywood on career progression: what got you here won't get you there, and the real promotion test is a messy problem.
Finale next Thursday. Alumni: details in your inbox.
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Myth: you need a finance background to work in VC.
Reality: venture rewards judgement, and some of the top investors started in journalism, medicine, ops, teaching.
The industry's blind spots exist because too many people share the same CV.
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Something we didn't predict, but probably should have.
Learners are negotiating Newton seats into their job offers before they sign.
Weighing up a new role? Worth asking.
Building a team? Worth offering.
Explore Newton programs: newtonprogram.vc/
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Venture Debt 🏦
A loan for startups that sits alongside equity, not instead of it. Borrow, pay interest, repay. No ownership given up.
Raise a £10m Series A, add £3m of debt on top. Longer runway, less dilution.
Borrowed money is cheapest when you least need it. ✅
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Careers Month continues tomorrow 👇
Session 2: navigating career transitions in venture. Moving between funds, stages, and functions. Switching between operating and investing. Making the leap during uncertain times.
📅 Thu 10 Sep, 1:00 pm UK
🔒 For Newton alums
Check your 📩
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⏳ Final hours. Newton Fellowship applications close at midnight tonight, 7 September.
9 months, part-time, at @LBS and ecosystem partner venues, alongside global peers driving the innovation economy.
Claim your spot: app.beapplied.com/apply/utnk…
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Session one of Careers Month 2026 is done.
Anna Ott,Sam Warren, moderated by Anika H gave us the no-gloss version of building a VC career in the age of AI. Some of their takes:
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5 days. That's all that stands between you and the 7th cohort of the Newton Fellowship.
9 months part-time. 3 in-person modules, and a global cohort.
Applications close Monday 7 September. What are you waiting for?
Apply: newtonprogram.vc/fellowship
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The Newton Fellowship closes to applications on Monday. Final window for the 7th cohort.
Delivered by world-class academics and top-decile practitioners at London Business School and ecosystem partner locations.
Spots are very limited.
👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/utnk…
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Venture capital is the engine room of the innovation economy.
VC-backed companies account for 41% of US market cap and 62% of public R&D. Europe's tech sector at a record $4 trillion valuation
Apply to impact the venture ecosystem: newtonprogram.vc/fellowship
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Careers Month returns this September 🥳
Four Thursdays, four conversations on building a career in venture: breaking in, next moves, progression and the long game.
Full details on Disco and in your inbox.
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Growth starts with a pause. 🌱
For this Newton Fellow, the program created space to reflect, reassess, and move on to the next step with conviction.
Application link below 👇
bit.ly/44Mm7kr
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"Marvellous. Challenging. Intense"
The Newton Fellowship, straight from the Fellows who've experienced it. 🎥
We're training the next generation of VC global leaders.
Cohort 7 (NVPxLBS07) closes Monday 7 September. ~30 spots.
Apply 👉 newtonprogram.vc/fellowship
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Priced Round 🏷️
A funding round with a fixed valuation and a set price per share. No deferrals, or conversions pending. It's also the moment SAFEs and notes finally convert into equity.
It's where a startup's value stops being a conversation and becomes a number on paper. ✅
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Myth: founder friendly means staying out of the way.
Founders don't need friendly, they need useful.
Knowing when to lean in is a skill. One of the least taught in venture.
Join the Newton Fellowship, link in the bio🔗
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