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Fuel Ventures launches £45m early stage fund to invest in 60 UK tech start-ups to be deployed within 12 months

A man who sought 1 cent in a suit alleging he was unlawfully arrested after refusing to cooperate during a traffic stop, has reached a settlement.

The Palmerston North distribution centre will be finished in July; recruitment is underway so it will be fully staffed when it opens in a few months.

You may have heard of payments startup Paddle which has raised $93.3m or perhaps Heroes which raised $65M to become the “Thrasio of Europe” but you might not have heard so much about a backer of these startups, Fuel Ventures, at least not yet. That’s about to change as Fuel Ventures comes out of the […]

You may have heard of payments startup Paddle which has raised $93.3m or perhaps Heroes which raised $65M to become the "Thrasio of Europe” but you might not have heard so much about a backer of these startups, Fuel Ventures, at least not yet. This is quite the pace for an early-stage fund, but Fuel’s founder and managing partner Mark Pearson told me at length how he is confident of making it one of the most prolific early-stage investors in the UK. Since launching in 2015, ...

It would be easy to save koalas from extinction by saving their habitat. But will the NSW government do it? Jim McIlroy reports.

MFAT approved the export of weapons systems to the United Arab Emirates despite officials warning they could be used in Yemen.

Documents show officials were well aware of their potential deployment to Yemen.

Mark Pearson said the only thing he's been stuck in before is meetings.

U.S. Activists Try to Halt an Australian Way of Life: Killing Kangaroos A bill in Congress aims to ban all kangaroo products from Australia, setting up a clash between two very different kinds of people on opposite ends of the earth. Ian White, a commercial hunter, carrying a kangaroo he had shot in Surat, Australia. May 22, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET SURAT, Australia — Ian White drove slowly over the red dirt track, past wheat stubble and into the long grass, where he glimpsed a tuft of white fur mo...