InPlayfair BlogbyChris Smith·Jun 24, 2025“8 Questions with Playfair” ft. Raffi Salama @ PassionfruitThis is the twenty-second in our “8 Questions” series — in which we sit down with founders in the Playfair portfolio who share their…
InPlayfair BlogbyChris Smith·May 19, 2025“8 Questions with Playfair” ft. Jonny Plein @ YASOThis is the twenty-second in our “8 Questions” series — in which we sit down with founders in the Playfair portfolio who share their…A response icon1A response icon1
InPlayfair BlogbyChris Smith·Dec 9, 2024Ten highlights from 2024TL;DR tough years are the new normal in the world of venture backed startups. Despite this, it’s been a strong one, with our founders…
InPlayfair BlogbyChris Smith·Aug 21, 2024Term Sheet TransparencyTL;DR congratulations, you’ve received a term sheet for your funding round 🎉 But what now? In this post, we share our standard term sheet…
InPlayfair BlogbyChris Smith·Mar 8, 2024Edition 11 of Female Founder Office Hours (FFOH) launches today as past attendees breakthrough £1.4bEdition 11 of Europe-wide Female Founder Office Hours is a key milestone for Europe’s largest diversity-led founder initiative
InPlayfair BlogbyChris Smith·Dec 12, 2023Ten highlights from 2023TL;DR It’s been a tough year. Nothing has been easy. It’s taken a lot more effort to maintain momentum. Yet against the backdrop of a…A response icon1A response icon1
InPlayfair BlogbyChris Smith·Nov 8, 2023Top 5 Mistakes Pre-Seed Founders Make with SalesIn the third part of our ‘mistakes series’, I take a look into the most common avoidable mistakes founders make with sales. These were…
InPlayfair BlogbyChris Smith·Oct 31, 20236 Marketing Mistakes Made by Pre-seed StartupsIn this guest post — the second in our ‘mistakes series ‘— Holly Brautigam from Passionfruit takes a deep dive into the 6 marketing…
InPlayfair BlogbyChris Smith·Oct 24, 2023Top 5 Mistakes Pre-Seed Founders Make with People Ops and HiringIn this guest post, Matt Bradburn, the founder of our external People & Talent partner, People Collective, takes a deep dive into the…
InPlayfair BlogbyChris Smith·Oct 18, 2023The Playfair Angel Community ExplainedWe launched our angel community last month and held our first AMA. Now we want to set out a little more about how we see the community…
