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Oxford Building a Business Series - Raising capital, doing deals

Education — Henry Davis, Senior Associate, Index Ventures, gives a talk…
Educationest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 16 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 16 probesavg response 1530 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
podcasts.ox.ac.uk
edge
direct origin
server
Apache
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Oxford Building a Business Series - Raising capital, doing deals's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Harvard Innovation Labs' The Other Side - Maria Thomas, former CEO of Etsyeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
XI Micro Economicseducationsimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
Presentiouseducationsimilar75%40.0+9.6● live
English Attack!educationsimilar75%42.60.0● live
Notededucationsimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
Livewire eLearning Solutioneducationsimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
YC Startup School graduateseducationsimilar75%46.40.0● live
Polygon Videoeducationsimilar75%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:34Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache2628alive
2026-08-19 13:49Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache792alive
2026-08-11 00:26Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache1482alive
2026-08-08 06:17Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache1000alive
2026-08-05 18:38Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache1142alive
2026-07-30 17:52Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache1286alive
2026-07-22 09:43Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache482alive
2026-07-17 09:25Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache4579alive
2026-07-10 10:47Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache576alive
2026-07-04 09:38Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache1594alive
2026-06-23 13:55Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache868alive
2026-06-21 10:48Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache1150alive
2026-06-20 00:39Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache1931alive
2026-06-18 22:55Z200podcasts.ox.ac.ukApache1908alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Oxford Building a Business Series - Raising capital, doing deals · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/oxford-building-a-business-series-raising-capital-doing-deals · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.