Mark Little is in a buoyant mood. Months of preparation and due diligence came to a close this week, as Kinzen announced it had been acquired by Spotify. “It happened gradually, and then all at once,” is how Little describes the sale, paraphrasing the novelist John Green’s famous description of falling in love, or Ernest Hemingway’s slightly more famous description of going bankrupt. Kinzen had raised €2.4 million in seed funding to date, had several household name big-tech platforms signed up as clients, and was planning to raise again next year but when the Swedish suitor came knocking, plans changed. …