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  • Designmynight founders raise £5m for new tech venture

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    The founders of hospitality booking platform Designmynight have raised $6.35m (£4.9m) for their new tech venture. Nick Telson-Sillett and Andrew Webster, who scaled Designmynight and sold it for £25m in 2017, have raised the capital for new digital sales platform Trumpet, alongside co-founder and chief executive Rory Sadler. The seed funding round led by London-based AlbionVC, which [...]

    Nick Telson-Sillett and Andrew Webster, who sold Designmynight for £25m in 2017, have raised £5m for new digital sales platform Trumpet.

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