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Friday 30 October 2026
UK Budget creates a 10% tax rate for founders on up to £10M of gains
- Chart of the day Jaan Tallinn's angel investments, from DeepMind to Anthropic.
- Just raised Kalshi $1B, Fractile $762M, Dren Bio $350M.
- Just founded Duly, Apprentice, Aarus.
- In the news UK Budget creates a 10% tax rate for founders on up to £10M of gains, and two more stories.
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Jaan Tallinn led Anthropic's first round in 2021, and Anthropic filed to go public on 26 October 2026. Six of the 44 companies in his angel portfolio are unicorns, which puts him 100th among 619 of the most active angel investors worldwide and fourth in Europe. Elad Gil (52), Peter Thiel (37) and Kevin Hartz (26) lead worldwide, with Oliver Jung (17) and Taavet Hinrikus (12) ahead in Europe.
Just raised
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KalshiNew York$1B Series GFirst federally regulated exchange dedicated to trading on event outcomes.
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FractileLondon$762M Series CNext-generation inference chips for frontier AI models.
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Dren BioFoster City$350M Late VCClinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm focused on developing novel antibody therapeutics to target pathogenic cells and disease-causing agents.
By country
- US$105B
- China$18B
- UK$3.1B
- South Korea$2.8B
- India$1.5B
- France$831M
By sector
- Enterprise$103B
- Health$8.1B
- Fintech$6.8B
- Energy$5.7B
- Hosting$4.4B
- Transportation$4.3B
$137B across 1,428 rounds in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.
Just founded
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Client-owned fraud and payment risk controls.
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MNNetanel Kabala & Matan Naor founded it. Kabala previously founded Simplex. Naor worked at Cymbio and Stream Elements. -
Personal AI agent for cross-device workflow automation.
ABAkshit Bansal founded it after working at Oxane Partners and Suvidha Bazaar. -
AarusKolkata
Wellness rituals rooted in science and Indian philosophy.
SDSiddhant Dutta founded it after working at Blue Matter Consulting and IQVIA.
In the news
View all news stories- UK Budget creates a 10% tax rate for founders on up to £10M of gains
The new Founders' Relief taxes up to £10M of lifetime gains at 10%, from April 2027. To qualify, founders need a 25% stake from day one, held for five years, in a company with £10M+ turnover. The Budget also adds more pension money for UK VC.
- DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17B in grocery delivery bet
DoorDash has agreed to acquire Instacart for $65.00 per share, an equity value of about $17 billion, the companies said on October 29.
- Marvell nears $83B deal for Nvidia-backed optics maker Lumentum
Marvell Technology is in advanced talks to buy data center optics maker Lumentum Holdings, which carries a market value of about $83 billion, Bloomberg reported.
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