You’d think any savvy investor that almost quadrupled their money over 18 months would be shouting it from the rooftops. But not the country’s largest venture capital fund, that being Rick Baker and Niki Scevak’s Blackbird Ventures.

That firm, instead, is on a mole hunt, taking a leaf from English footballer Wayne Rooney’s wife Coleen to try to work out who gave a rundown of its investment in AI start-up Leonardo to this publication.