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The Founder Gazette
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Filed under: fintech

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Startup news

Sprive raises $10m Series A seven months after £50,000 Dragons' Den deal

The mortgage app says it has 567,000 registered users and an £18m annual revenue run rate. Its round is a rounding error next to Britain's biggest tech deals this year.

№ 263 · 23 September 2026
Startup news

Allica applies for Swedish licence months after $1.2bn valuation

The UK business lender has filed with Sweden's regulator, hired four executives and set up a local entity. Its £4bn UK loan book now shares management attention with a second country.

№ 173 · 2 September 2026
Build versus buy

Ramp built its own coding agent with 5.5 people

The fintech turned down off-the-shelf coding agents and wrote its own. It says 75% of merged pull requests now come from it, and the team that maintains it is four engineers, a director and a part-time PM.

№ 149 · 26 August 2026
Founder profile

Humanities PhD dropout raised $92m for AI billing startup Tabs

Ali Hussain left Oxford two months into a doctorate, spent six years learning operations at a 10-person startup, then hired a technical co-founder to cover what he could not do himself.

№ 129 · 23 August 2026
Startup news

Rillet raises $100m in 48 hours after a board meeting

The AI accounting company was not fundraising. It showed investors a quarter in which annualised revenue doubled, and a $1bn valuation followed two days later.

№ 118 · 22 August 2026
Startup news

New York City gives four prediction market firms 14 days

City consumer-protection officials have demanded answers from Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini over marketing that may be deceptive. Any founder advertising financial upside should read the deadline as a warning.

№ 78 · 14 August 2026