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To some, an SD card is simply an SD card, notable only for the amount of storage it provides as printed on the label. However, just like poets, SD cards contain multitudes. [Jason Gin] was interested as to what made SanDisk’s High Endurance line of microSDXC cards tick, so he set out to investigate.
Naturally, customer service was of no help. Instead, [Jason] started by scraping away the epoxy covering which hides the card’s test points. Some delicate soldering was required to hook up the test points to a breakout board, while also connecting the SD interface to a computer to do its thing. A DS Logic Plus signal analyzer was used to pick apart the signals going to the chip to figure out what was going on inside.
After probing around, [Jason] was able to pull out the NAND Flash ID, which, when compared to a Toshiba datasheet, indicates the card uses BiCS3 3D TLC NAND Flash. 3D NAND Flash has several benefits over traditional planar Flash technology, and SanDisk might have saved [Jason] a lot of time investigating if they’d simply placed this in their promotional material.
We’ve seen other similar hacks before, like this data recovery performed via test points. If you’ve been working away on SD cards in your own workshop, be sure to let us know!
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As the technology requirements of your business or practice grow and change over time, deploying business-critical applications can increase complexity and overhead substantially. To help manage this ever-growing complexity, we are pleased to announce the introduction of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework. Following industry standards and terms, the Azure Well-Architected Framework provides a set of Azure architecture best practices to help you build and deliver great solutions.
The Azure Well-Architected Framework is divided into five pillars of architectural best practices: cost management, operational excellence, performance efficiency, reliability, and security. These pillars help you effectively and consistently optimize your workloads against Azure best practices and the specific business priorities that are relevant to you or your customers’ cloud journey.
Get started with the Azure Well-Architected Framework:
Here is how each of these modalities can help you improve your workloads and grow your business.
Designing and deploying a successful workload in any environment can be challenging. This is especially true as agile development and DevOps/SRE practices begin to shift responsibility for security, operations, and cost management from centralized teams to the workload owner. This transition empowers workload owners to innovate at a much higher velocity than they could achieve in a traditional data center, but it creates a broader surface area of topics that they need to understand to produce a secure, reliable, performant, and cost-effective solution.
As an example, consider a Dev/Test workload that you’ve deployed as a simple proof of concept to measure the feasibility of Azure. If you’ve never had to manage the security, cost, performance, and reliability constraints for a workload, how do you ensure that your proof of concept is valid? How do you know you’re even asking the right questions or reviewing the metrics that you have available? The Azure Well-Architected Framework helps you make all the appropriate considerations for your workload.
For existing workloads, an additional tool that aligns with the Azure Well-Architected Framework is Azure Advisor. The guidance provided by Azure Advisor helps you pinpoint specific resources in your application that can be improved across the five pillars. Additionally, recommendations are prioritized according to our best estimate of significance to your environment, and you can share them with your team or stakeholders.
The Azure Well-Architected Review is designed to help you evaluate your workloads against the latest set of Azure best practices. It provides you with a suite of actionable guidance that you can use to improve your workloads in the areas that matter most to your business. Every customer is on a unique cloud journey, so we designed the Azure Well-Architected Review to be tailored to an individual company’s needs. You can evaluate each workload against only the pillars that matter for that workload, so when evaluating one of your mission-critical workloads, you might examine reliability, performance efficiency, and security first and then later come back and look at the other pillars to improve your operational efficiency and cost footprint.
As you complete the assessment, you’re provided a score for each pillar that you chose to evaluate and an aggregate score across the entire workload. You also receive a set of actionable recommendations that you can follow to better align the workload with your business priorities.
At the current pace of technical innovation, having a well-architected workload is a moving target. As best practices and technology evolve, business priorities change, or other factors shift, what was best for your workload may move right along with it. To continuously meet these targets and requirements, update your process to regularly review and monitor your or your customers’ most important workloads to ensure that they’re reliable, secure, and operating as expected.
At Microsoft Build 2020, we introduced the Build great solutions with the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework learning path, which you’ll find helpful if you’re new to building solutions in the cloud or prefer a more interactive experience. This learning path consists of six modules: an overview of the framework along with one module for each pillar that provides a high-level conceptual overview without getting bogged down in the specific details of workload optimization.
For a quick introduction to the Azure Well-Architected Framework please visit us at this session, or explore one of the modalities that we’ve detailed above.
We’re rapidly iterating to build out Azure Well-Architected across each of the channels we’ve detailed. If you have feedback, please reach out to us via GitHub, Facebook, and Twitter.
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Chauffeured group transportation — the vehicles used for corporate outings, special events, and even weddings — is a fragmented industry with hundreds of small operators that rely on analog systems to book customers. Now in this era of COVID-19, these operators are being squeezed as travel and tourism has dwindled and companies have opted to have employees work from home.
One Los Angeles-based transportation booking startup called Swoop aims to bring these small, local operators into the digital age with a new software-as-a-service platform that it says is helping them adapt in this COVID-19 era. The startup, loaded with an injection of capital, is ramping up its SaaS product in hopes of tapping into a marketplace where customers spent $40 billion annually.
Swoop has raised $3.2 million in a seed funding round led by Signia Venture Partners, South Park Commons and several angel investors, including former Uber CPO Manik Gupta, Kevin Weil, co-creator of Libra at Facebook, Kim Fennel, a former Uber executive and Elizabeth Weil, former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, 137 Ventures.
“I’m fascinated about how operators are still running most of their business with pen and paper,” Swoop CEO and co-founder Amir Ghorbani said in a statement. Ghorbani has witnessed first hand the constraints of these small operators. During high school and college, Ghorbani helped with his parents’ limousine business. The experience prompted him to seek a solution.
“I saw a huge opportunity to help these small mom and pop shops, in an under-digitized industry, where no operator has more than 1% market share,” Ghorbani added.
Ghorbani began by building a group transportation booking platform used by companies like Airbnb, Google and Nike. Through those bookings the companies saw an opportunity to build business management software for vehicle operators.
Swoop’s SaaS platform lets companies book and dispatch rides, track vehicles and communicate with customers. It also acts as a central hub for payments and other bookkeeping. The tool is designed to smooth out the booking process as well as increase vehicle utilization, which is currently at 4.9%, according to the company. Swoop also passes on leads from companies that use the booking platform to the operators using its SaaS tool.
For now, the focus is on local transportation companies, not public transit, which is a sector that Uber is chasing after.
COVID-19, which has suspended most group outings, has upended these local transportation operators. Swoop says it has adjusted its platform to help these operators survive. The company told TechCrunch that it is helping operators repurpose their vehicles to ship goods rather than people. For instance, large vans once used for corporate outings can now be marketed to food wholesalers or companies that need local package delivery. The platform is also being used to connect operators with companies like Amazon that provide transportation to shuttle essential factory workers.
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Workspot’s SaaS platform is now available on Google Cloud, extending the company’s cloud-based desktops to even more users. Google Cloud customers… Read more at VMblog.com.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has cut the ribbon on a new lab that will allow cellular vendors to test interoperable networking kit.…
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TL:DR (Give me the Github link) You can find the tool here.
It's named KITT (Knightrider reference) and was built with PowerShell Studio. KITT was designed to make working O365 Business Email Compromise investigations easier and more efficient for DFIR and SOC analysts by pairing the power of PowerShell cmdlets with the ease of use of a GUI.
This was done as part of a research project for my Master's – Full link to the research paper is here, if anyone is interested.
I'm not a dev by trade, and would appreciate feedback from seasoned devs/PowerShell gurus.
Hope you like it.
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Microsoft’s servicing updates for Windows 10 have been controversial and confusing for consumers and businesses. Last year, Microsoft finally relented on the biannual feature updates somewhat by issuing a second feature update for Windows 10 that was delivered like a minor cumulative update for users on the first feature update released in 2019.
But that wasn’t the only change Microsoft has made to servicing since Windows 10 first launched. Microsoft removed the update deferral settings from Windows Update in the Windows 10 May 2020 Update Settings app because they caused too much confusion for users.
And back in 2017, Microsoft changed the Current Branch, Current Branch for Business, and Long Term Servicing Branch in favor of two servicing channels: Semi-Annual Channel and Long Term Servicing Channel.
Not only is servicing sometimes difficult to follow but Windows Update settings are also complex, adding to the overall confusion about how to configure updates to complete in a timely way but without annoying users.
To address this issue, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Update Baseline tool in June. The tool comes with advice about how to optimize Windows Update settings, including Microsoft’s recommended update settings in the form of a Group Policy Object (GPO) that can be imported into the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).
The tool contains a detailed PDF explaining the different settings that affect Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Windows Update for Business (WUfB). And how those settings relate to update velocity and the effect on user productivity.
For example, organizations often determine a compliance deadline by which time devices should receive the latest updates. Microsoft explains that Windows components adapt their behavioral heuristics based on compliance deadlines. Windows can also make tradeoffs between user experience and update velocity to ensure that the compliance deadlines you set are met.
At 44 pages long, the document provides a comprehensive look at how Windows Update settings work in practice. You will find everything you need to know about Windows Update settings in one place.
At the end of the document, there’s a policy and settings reference guide that lists all Microsoft’s recommended Group Policy and Mobile Device Management (MDM) settings for Windows Update. The settings are optimized for velocity and user experience.
Organizations that would like to deploy Microsoft’s recommended Windows Update settings in their environments can use the provided script to import the GPO into GPMC. Although the PDF provided with the script states that the settings in the GPO differ slightly from those outlined in the whitepaper. So, that’s worth checking out.
Active Directory (AD) administrators can decide where to link the GPO so that it overrides any existing Windows Update settings in an environment. But like always, it’s best to test out the settings in a lab environment before applying them in production.
If you want to set Microsoft’s recommended Windows Update settings using MDM, you’ll need to configure each setting manually in Microsoft Intune or other MDM solutions.
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Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Sand Lab have developed a technique for tweaking photos of people so that they sabotage facial-recognition systems.…
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URL rewrite and wildcard host names in listener for Azure Application Gateway are now available in preview. Use URL rewrite to rewrite the host name, path, and query string of the request URL. Use the wildcard listener capability add wildcard characters and configure up to five host names per listener.
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports bring-your-own identities for the control plane managed identity.
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The current global crisis has only reinforced what was already true for many IT organizations—that they must increase agility and accelerate innovation to better serve customers and prevent future disruptions. But for many, maintenance of legacy IT systems has inhibited change and consumed disproportionate amounts of budget. In fact, a recent McKinsey study of enterprises found that legacy systems account for 74% of an organization’s IT spend while continuing to be a drag on innovation.
Today’s crisis has only increased the urgency with which organizations must modernize their applications in the cloud. By embracing public cloud technologies, organizations can reduce infrastructure costs and management overhead while increasing agility, scalability, and security. But change is not easy, and determining the right path forward can be challenging when critical systems are on the line.
At Google Cloud we’ve developed a number of best practices through our work with organizations of all sizes that we’re sharing in our new whitepaper, the CIO Guide to Application Modernization. In it, we share our insights on everything from modernizing your first applications all the way to transforming your entire software delivery strategy with a product delivery model.
Most application modernization starts with evaluating your existing applications. By streamlining your existing application portfolio, you can improve efficiency, reduce complexity, and lower your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). In our guide, we describe how to reorient your roadmap for application modernization through the lens of business services rather than applications.
Your digital transformation journey will begin to generate value even in its early phases.. Focusing on low-hanging fruit early means every new capability improves the organization’s ability to enhance business services to provide better value. In our guide, we’ll introduce you to what our Devops Research and Assessment (DORA) calls “The J-Curve of Transformation” which can help you determine the right path forward.
Ultimately, any changes to your organization’s IT structure must deliver value to your customers. In our guide, we share how we can help you reorient your IT organization to adopt a product-based model for delivering business capabilities quickly, efficiently and securely.
Whether you’re an enterprise trying to untangle the challenges of a legacy Java environment or looking to adopt modern development principles, we’re here to support your transformation. Download the guide to view our in-depth recommendations and start your application modernization journey today.
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ISP Telkom Kenya is launching the first commercially available 4G LTE service using balloons that act as a network of cell towers floating in the stratosphere.
The service will initially cover approximately 19,000 square miles in Kenya, according to Alastair Westgarth, CEO of Loon, a spinout of Alphabet and the underlying technology provider. Roughly 35 or more balloons will comprise the fleet, moving continually, drifting in the stratosphere about 12 miles above the surface of the earth, Westgarth said in an article on Medium. “We refer to Loon as a floating network of cell towers,” Westgarth said.
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With so many people working remotely, secure cloud-native devices have never been more important. During Productivity and Collaboration weekat Google Cloud Next ‘20 OnAir, our Chrome Enterprise and Android Enterprise sessions aim to help businesses deploy and support a remote workforce.
Enabling a Remote Workforce with Chrome Enterprise: Learn how Chrome Enterprise can help keep your employees productive and your data secure while enabling IT to remotely manage devices.
Securing Remote Workers with Google and Chrome Enterprise: Learn about Google’s security solutions such as Chrome Enterprise Upgrade, BeyondCorp Remote Access, and Chrome Browser Cloud Management to ensure your business can remain secure, even in a remote working environment.
Boosting Chrome OS Adoption with Effective Change Management: Discover strategies and best practices for increasing Chromebook adoption in your organization.
Sneak Peek: What’s to Come in Chrome Browser for the Enterprise: Hear about the latest enterprise enhancements to Chrome and get a sneak peek into roadmap planning and upcoming capabilities.
Deep-Dive into Modern OS Architecture Built for the Cloud: Dive into Chrome OS’s multi-layered approach to computing and explore key features that sets Chrome apart from legacy systems.
Deep Dive into Chrome Extension Management: Learn about best practices and the different ways to manage extensions, and get a sneak peek at new capabilities that improve how extensions are approved and made available to end users.
Advanced Update Management for Chrome: See how to best manage and roll out Chrome updates in your organization in this demo-rich session.
What’s new and next with Android Enterprise: Learn the latest about Android and discover features that help Chrome and Android work together in an enterprise environment.
Redefining the approach to mobile security: Discover how Android uses multi-layered protections and the power of machine learning to continually protect mobile device fleets.
Equip your frontline workers for success with Android: Hear how companies around the world are using Android to help their frontline workers better collaborate, engage with customers, and streamline processes.
To take a look at all the sessions offered Next OnAir, check out the full lineup. If you haven’t registered yet, you can do so for free on the Next OnAir website. Once registered, you’ll be able to build a customized program of sessions that interest you. To get you started, here’s a quick guide to the must-see Chrome Enterprise and Android Enterprise sessions coming up this week. We hope you’ll join us.
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Streamline your image building pipeline and integrate your DevOps application lifecycle with cloud native tools using VM Image Builder.
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One management challenge of a multi-cloud environment is how to handle all the contracts that come with using multiple providers and services.
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With massive workforces now remote, IT admins and security professionals are under increased pressure to keep everyone productive and connected while combatting evolving threats.
Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and application virtualization service running in Azure, delivering simplified management for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
While organizations go through this transformation, allowing their employees to remain productive, IT and security professionals required to ensure the deployment of Windows Virtual Desktop is done in accordance with security best practices so it doesn’t add unnecessary risk to the business. In this blog, we will explore how Azure Security Center can help maintain your Windows Virtual Desktop environment configuration hygiene and compliance, and protect it against threats.
When setting up your Windows Virtual Desktop environment, you first need to create a Host Pool which is a collection of one or more identical virtual machines (VMs). To support the remote workforce use case, these VMs will usually run a Windows 10 multi-session OS. Below is an overview of the architecture:
You can find the VMs running in your host pool by checking the Host Pool details and clicking on the Resource Group name:
This will bring up the resource group details. Filtering by Virtual Machine will show the list of VMs:
Considering the shared responsibility model, here are the security needs customers are responsible for in Windows Virtual Desktop deployment:
These needs should be examined both in the context of security posture as well as threat protection. Here is an example:
Azure Security Center the following security posture management and threat protection capabilities for Windows Virtual Desktop VMs:
Here is a table that maps Azure Security Center protection capabilities Windows Virtual Desktop security needs:
You can find the complete list of recommendations and alerts in the following Azure Security Center reference guides:
Switching to the Azure Security Center portal, we can see the Windows Virtual Desktop host pool VMs under Compute & apps followed by the VMs and Servers tab, as well as their respective Secure Score and status:
Drilling down to a specific VM will show the full recommendation list as well as the Severity level:
These VMs are also assessed for compliance with different regulatory requirements, built-in or custom ones, and any compliance issues will be flagged out under the Regulatory Compliance dashboard.
In addition, security alerts will be showing under Threat Protection followed by Security Alerts:
Both security alerts and recommendations can be consumed and managed from the Security Center portal or can be exported to other tools for further analysis and remediation. One great example would be integrating Azure Security Center with Azure Sentinel as part of monitoring the Windows Virtual Desktop environment.
Azure Security Center Free tier provides security recommendations and Secure Score for Windows Virtual Desktop deployments.
To enable all protection capabilities you should follow these two steps:
And one last tip. If you are using Azure Devops CI/CD Pipelines together with Windows 10 Azure VM Image as a solution for continuous build and deploy of the Windows Virtual Desktop solution, you’re most likely using Azure Key Vault for the secret management. If not already enabled, setting up threat protection for Azure Key Vault should be your next stop.
How are you protecting your Windows Virtual Desktop environment? We are sure there are plenty more ideas out there and we would love to see the community submitting them to our GitHub repo.
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We get hands-on with the IP65 rated Supermicro Outdoor Edge System designed to provide compute for 5G and AI video analytics directly on the pole
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Our partners play an important role in all that we do, and we are always looking for ways to showcase and help them differentiate themselves in the market. Last year, we launched the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program to help them do exactly that. Since then, we’ve added new certifications,expanded our Expertise areas to cover new priority solutions, and added new specializations. According to our most recent Forrester study, certification, expertise, and specializations are three of the top areas partners talk about when it comes to growing their business—and it’s why all three play a key role in our program.
As we look ahead to the second half of 2020, we wanted to share updates to the Partner Advantage program across several core areas.
Certifications
Recognition as a certified professional on Google Cloud or G Suite is the first major step an individual can take to demonstrate their level of skill and knowledge on Google Cloud. We offer several learning and training opportunities of which you can take advantage:
Use the certification interest form to get started on certifications.
Take proctored exams online or at a local testing center. Click here to register.
Consider learning opportunities such as Partner Certification Kickstart (PCK) programs that allow you to take accelerated, self-paced courses and hands-on training in six weeks or less. PCK Sprint, in particular, enables technical partners on GCP products through a mix of virtual classes, SME sessions and CloudHero games. Or Google Courses powered by Qwiklabs, which provides a central location for on demand training and hands on labs.
Join upcoming webinars, such as the “Why Certify Now?” webcast on Wednesday, August 5. We’re also launching the Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification in October, so you can also register to learn more about the Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification.
Customer success
Customer success is the driving force behind a partner’s entire differentiation journey. Highlighting your customer wins and showcasing what you do in the market along the way builds credibility. Customer success stories also help you meet eligibility requirements for Expertise (one public story required) and Specialization (at least three required).
To help you easily share your customer wins, we’ve introduced a new customer success story tool to accelerate and simplify highlighting your phenomenal stories—find it on the Partner Advantage portal.
While you can find a wealth of partner customer showcases on the Google Cloud Partner Directory, here are a few of the many great examples of customer success from our partners:
Mondelēz and MightyHive: Personalizing CPG sales and marketing on a global scale
DxTerity and Pluto7: Using data-driven precision medicine to combat autoimmune disease
Mitsubishi Motors and Aeris Communications: Fueling customer engagement with the connected car
Expertise
Partner Expertise demonstrates your early customer success at a more granular level across products, priority solutions, and/or industries segments, based on a defined set of requirements, including customer evidence. All partners are welcome to apply for Partner Expertise, no matter the business model.
New Expertise areas for which Partners can apply:
Google Meet
Mainframe Modernization
Microsoft on Google Cloud
Migrate Oracle Workloads to Google Cloud
Our partners continue to showcase their commitment via Expertise in solutions and industries:
NORTHAM: Maven Wave, Pluto7 Consulting Inc, Softserve Inc., SpringML
EMEA: Ancoris, Cloudreach, Fourcast, PA Consulting Group
APAC: Cloud Comrade, CloudMile Limited, Pluto Seven Business Solutions Private Limited, Searce
LATAM: Colaborativa, Dedalus Prime, Qi Network, Safetec Informatica
JAPAN: Cloud Ace, Inc., Enisias
Specialization
Partner Specialization remains the highest level of achievement within the partner journey. It represents the strongest signal of proficiency and experience with Google Cloud, while helping you maintain a consistent practice that delights the customer. Congratulations to all of our partners who have achieved this milestone or renewed in 1H 2020:
Application Development
Infogain Corporation | PA CONSULTING GROUP | Qvik Ltd | SpringML
Cloud Migration
CLOUD COMRADE
Data Analytics
Atos
Infrastructure
Appsbroker Limited | Cloudbakers | CLOUDPILOTS | Cognizant | Opticca Consulting
Machine Learning
iKala | NT Concepts
Marketing Analytics
Aliz Technologies | SingleView
Training
Jellyfish Training | LearnQuest
Work Transformation
Cloudypedia | eSource Capital | Huware Srl | Intelligence Partner | NGC (New Generation Cloud) | Softline | TS Cloud
Work Transformation Enterprise
Davinci Technologies | NextNovate| Nubalia | S&E Cloud Experts | Safetec Informática| Softline Vodafone | Wipro Limited
Announcing two new Specialization areas
We are also pleased today to announce two new Specialization areas: SAP on Google Cloud and Data Management. Congratulations to our launch partners who are blazing the trail in these new areas.
SAP on Google Cloud
Accenture | Deloitte | HCL | ManageCore | Tech Mahindra
Take the journey with us! For our partners who want to accelerate their Partner Advantage Differentiation journey today, please fill out this form and we will contact you directly.
Looking for a partner in your region who has achieved an expertise and/or specialization? Search our global Partner Directory. Not yet a Google Cloud partner? Visit Partner Advantage and learn how to become one today!
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STH Project TinyMiniMicro is set to revolutionize the home lab segment with clusters of high-quality, quiet, low power, and inexpensive nodes
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The UK has created 63 tech unicorns in the past decade (according to Dealroom), and it almost goes without saying that the vast majority of those companies were based out of London, the country’s largest tech hub.
Famously, London’s DeepMind, an AI startup, was acquired by Google in 2014 for $500 million, but it has resolutely refused to move to Silicon Valley; founder Demis Hassabis says the city’s diversity of talent meant the powerhouse needed to stay put.
London has produced fintech upstarts like Revolut, Monzo and Starling and attracted early Skype team members who went on to create TransferWise. In 2019, London’s startups received $9.7 billion in venture capital funding, more than Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Madrid combined.
Furthermore, last year Pitchbook found that up to $4.4 billion worth of deals had involved at least one U.S.-based investor, with London receiving over $12.5 billion from American investors in the previous five years – almost twice as much as Berlin (on $6.5 billion of investment from U.S. VC firms).
Brexit uncertainty may impact startups’ ability to recruit and sale, and the UK government’s points-based system for immigration is unlikely to satisfy the industry’s voracious appetite for talent. But London is a tech supertanker that other European cities are unlikely to be able to match any time soon, Brexit or no Brexit.
But in the era of COVID-19, will major hubs like London still be able to attract future tech unicorns, and will these be in the same sectors as before? Will geography be replaced by mere time zones?
We surveyed many of London’s top VCs to get their insights. Here’s who we heard from:
How much is local investing even a focus for you now? If you are investing remotely in general now, are you filtering for local founders?
Neither our investment thesis, nor our geographic focus has changed: we are a global investor, focused on the U.S., US, UK and Europe. We are filtering, even more, for the best founders, as geography feels less important in lockdown.
From that, what do you expect to happen to the startup climate in London longer term, with the shift to more remote work (post COVID-19), possibly from more remote areas. Will London stay a tech hub or will the ecosystem become more dispersed across the country?
As a global financial hub with substantial infrastructure (including capital) designed to support emerging technology, London will remain a critical node in the fintech ecosystem.
Long-term, do you expect to be more or less locally focused, especially in light of COVID-19 or in other ways?
We’re anticipating a pretty substantial change to working norms, at least over the near term (6-12 months). The long-term impact is likely to level the playing field for great founders operating outside of established tech hubs. Remote assessment of companies, while challenging, has the potential to create more equitable investment practices.
From that, what do you expect to happen to the startup climate in London longer term, with the shift to more remote work (post COVID-19), possibly from more remote areas. Will London stay a tech hub or will the ecosystem become more dispersed across the country?
As a global financial hub with substantial infrastructure (including capital) designed to support emerging technology, London will remain a critical node in the fintech ecosystem.
Will there be tech hubs post-COVID-19? What is a tech hub now, by your definition?
To the extent that culture, regulation and capital play a large role in favoring certain types of economic activity, I expect existing tech hubs to remain important bastions of innovation. That said, I think we will see the rise of complementary tech hubs, as well as teams “in the middle of nowhere” emboldened to start great companies.
Are there particular industry sectors that you expect to do uniquely well or poorly, locally?
Given the proximity to the City and the heritage in financial technology innovation, the London tech ecosystem will continue to produce great fintech and insurtech companies.