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December 13, 2022

UK gets latest unicorn as AI talent management platform Beamery raises $50m Series D

Beamery passes the $1bn mark as the number of unicorns in Europe drops


Beamery founders: (l-r) Abakar Saidov, Mike Paterson, Sultan Saidov

AI talent management platform Beamery has shot to unicorn status — a $1bn+ valuation — after raising $50m in Series D financing from Teachers' Venture Growth (TVG), the venture fund of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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