Amazon's wages and taxes, funding for Huel, Balderton's Liquidity fund, interviews with Monzo and GitLab, and more

What this episode covers

On this episode, hosted by Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler, we discussed the following topics: The biggest deal of the week: Owlstone Medical from Cambridge raises $35 million for its breathalyser-based diagnostics solution. Amazon has announced that it will raise minimum wages for all its workers in the US and in the UK - Don’t let Amazon’s living wage announcement fool you. This is why I’m not calling off my boycott yet - Amazon workers strike in Germany, Spain and Poland to coincide with Prime Day - Amazon’s other pay benefit: A higher UK tax rate? - Amazon warehouse workers lose bonuses, stock awards for raises - Amazon raises the minimum wage for US and UK employees Interview: Jonas Huckestein, co-founder and CTO of Monzo Huel, the UK food startup that has secured a £20 million funding round from Highland Capital Interview: Dmitriy Zaporozhets, the co-founder and CTO of Europe’s latest unicorn GitLab Balderton Capital, a venture fund headquartered in London, has raised its new fund of $145 million called Liquidity I - Why we raised Balderton’s Liquidity I — and the dramatic growth and maturation of Europe’s tech ecosystem - Balderton’s $145M ‘secondary’ fund will give shareholders in European scale-ups the chance to exit early Events: - Web Summit stays in Lisbon - World Summit AI in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; October 10–11 - Health Pioneers in Vienna, Austria; October 10 - RuhrSummit in Bochum, Germany; October 11–12 - Europe Code Week; October 6–21 - SaaStock in Dublin, Ireland; October 15–17 - Uprise Festival in Dublin, Ireland; October 17–18 - Fintech Belgium Summit in Brussels, Belgium; October 22 - Women Startup Challenge Europe in Paris, France; October 25 Our reading recommendations After earning €10 million in revenues, Tim Schumacher and Christian Kroll will to turn their company, Ecosia over to their employees and become a “self-owned company” - Our company, Ecosia, makes 10 million in revenues. Today, we’re donating all of our shares. Why on earth are we doing that? - Purpose economy It turns out that there are still a lot of journalists — mostly those writing for local newspapers — who use Microsoft Word and not Google Docs to send their stories to the editors. - Journalists just can’t quit Microsoft Word. But some are trying - Do capybaras dream of Google Docs? We hope you enjoy the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].   Photo by Hello I'm Nik on Unsplash For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy