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🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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May is the founder of Globechain,a reuse marketplace that connects corporates to charities and smes to redistribute unneeded items, generating ESG data.Working in investment banking, May saw a need to digitise waste.Globechain has 10,000 members, operates in UK,Spain,NYC&UAE.Recognised as one of Forbes 100 top environmentalist 2020&top 100 Meaningful business 2020
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0:00.0 | So really interesting, I actually bootstrapped for four years because there was no market cap in the industry. |
0:05.6 | So I only got VC funding late 2018 and we got 750,000 from VC and we've been running off that since actually. |
0:15.4 | So we were due for a fundraise last year in COVID, but that stopped to everything in the works, |
0:21.6 | especially in the UK. So we'll probably start it up this year again. |
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