Podcast Special: Haatch under the Investment Review Spotlight

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Jonathan Keeling
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Haatch

Hardman and Co is one of the nation's most respected independent investment review companies and so their view on the movers and shakers in the EIS Fund world matter!

When they speak the investment world listens and so Team Haatch is incredibly proud of the company's latest EIS Navigator Podcast on our fast growing EIS Fund and the background to where, and how, it all started.

Click below to listen to the story of how Haatch Co-Founder Scott Weavers-Wright started and how that experience now helps our portfolio of start ups win...

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Jonathan Keeling
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If you no longer need your pension, April 2027 changes what it is

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Tom Healy
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Haatch
August 12, 2026
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From the 6th of April, 2027, most unused defined contribution pension funds count inside your estate for inheritance tax. Here is what that costs, what the alternatives are, and where EIS and SEIS genuinely help.

‘Capital Growth’ Has Many Meanings. So does ‘Performance’!

By
Roger Linley
By
Haatch
July 28, 2026
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Why do we invest? The glib answer is ‘to make money’. For most investors however, I suspect the reasons are much more nuanced.

When I first committed funds to a Haatch portfolio company, the reasons for doing so were multiple. Of course, I was looking forward to value amplification and the tax basis was also highly attractive. However, I also had a strong sense of wanting to ‘plug in’ to a modern, cutting-edge area of technology.

Headcount Is Dead as a Growth Metric. Here's What Our Portfolio Data Says Replaced It.

By
Tom Healy
By
Haatch
July 21, 2026
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For two decades, venture capital used a crude proxy for progress: how many people have you hired? Team size signalled ambition, traction, momentum. If a seed-stage company doubled headcount, it was "scaling."Our portfolio data now tells us that era is over.Across roughly 200 early-stage B2B software companies we track, median revenue growth over the past two years ran at around 50% annualized. Median headcount growth over the same period? Zero.

Backing Prolo: AI-Powered Procurement for the Construction Industry

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Jessica Fox
By
Haatch
July 14, 2026
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We're delighted to announce that Prolo has successfully raised £4.2 million in Seed funding, in an oversubscribed round led by Triple Point Ventures, alongside a strong syndicate of investors including Haatch, a16z, Concrete VC, Foundation Ventures, Love Ventures, Portfolio Ventures, Anamcara Capital and Koro Capital.