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Talking Tech - Episode 23

Talking Tech - Episode 23

17 June 2025

Progressive’s George O’Connor and Ian Robertson catch up on events in and around the UK small and mid-cap listed tech.

London Tech Week – George has been out and about and is enthused about by the talk by Gary Turner and Steve Vamas of Xero fame.

More LSE departures – To read the eulogies you would think that Ricardo was the greater success story. Ricardo was just easy to explain and love. Spectris was a bit of an effort to understand but made the effort to grow. Few make the observation that WSP Global, the acquirer of Ricardo, was, not too long ago, a not-too-exciting Canadian small cap that simply had ambition, execution and its home market on its side.

Molten Ventures – the ~50% NAV discount persists. It’s complicated. It delivers NAV growth but it has a primary valuation driver, Revolut – and how do you value that?

GB Group – Whilst the revised management are getting to grips, will investors simply end up with a business model that the brokers could sell rather than one that works?

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