>The UK retained its second place ranking globally and first in Europe by attracting £2.6bn, more than the next five European countries combined. Europe raised £6.5bn across 1,391 deals in 2025, with the UK closing 534 of those deals.
17Beta18Carbons on
You really have to ask if this is a worthwhile endeavour for society. Like look at Britain, look at exploding poverty rates, and crumbling infrastructure, and a failing healthcare system, and schools that are literally about to collapse on Children’s heads. If you had to £2.6B to spend, would you really look at it and go “yeah the best way to spend this money is to create Flimbo, the app that lets you finance parking tickets over 4 monthly payments”?
Deepmidwinter2025 on
It’s hard to get excited about yet another app that rounds up pennies or the next trading app.
Any_Perspective_577 on
As much as I like mobile banking, and it is terrible in other countries, making apps for financial services isn’t exactly rocket science is it?
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>The UK retained its second place ranking globally and first in Europe by attracting £2.6bn, more than the next five European countries combined. Europe raised £6.5bn across 1,391 deals in 2025, with the UK closing 534 of those deals.
You really have to ask if this is a worthwhile endeavour for society. Like look at Britain, look at exploding poverty rates, and crumbling infrastructure, and a failing healthcare system, and schools that are literally about to collapse on Children’s heads. If you had to £2.6B to spend, would you really look at it and go “yeah the best way to spend this money is to create Flimbo, the app that lets you finance parking tickets over 4 monthly payments”?
It’s hard to get excited about yet another app that rounds up pennies or the next trading app.
As much as I like mobile banking, and it is terrible in other countries, making apps for financial services isn’t exactly rocket science is it?