EU: Opening a company to external investment can increase its value by 6.5%, new research from Vlerick Business School has found. 

Rising losses from extreme weather are driving a global surge in investment in climate risk digital solutions, a new report from leading independent research and advisory firm Verdantix says.

Seedrs has launched its 2022 Sector Report which reveals the sectors that filled investors with conviction last year in the face of macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds. The Report, which analysed more than 324 campaigns, found that ClimateTech thrived with investment growing 154% from £15.7m to £40.1m, with 58% more businesses raising from 37% more investors. 

New data by Innovate Finance, the industry body representing the FinTech community in the UK, reveals the global FinTech investment trends in 2022. 

UK involvement M&A declines 38% from 2021 to 3-year low despite 2nd highest deal count on record; Lowest Mega-deal count in 5 years; Private equity-backed deals decline 25%.

New research from the British Business Bank finds that fund valuations for recent fund vintages have held up in the year to 31st March 2022.

According to the British Business Bank’s latest report, UK Venture Capital Financial Returns 2022, UK VC funds with a 2008 to 2013 vintage have generated a pooled Total Value to Paid In Capital (TVPI[1]) multiple of 2.20, which is 0.11 points higher than last year, demonstrating that UK VC fund valuations have so far been resilient to the adverse headwinds affecting global financial markets.

In its 16th year, GP Bullhound’s Technology Predictions report has established a reputation as an industry-leading analysis of the trends and innovations shaping the global technology sector with nearly 90% accuracy in the past five years and over 80% in the past decade.

The British Business Bank’s second annual Nations and Regions Tracker, published today, finds usage of external finance has fallen overall across the UK, as nine out of the twelve regions saw a drop in use of small business finance. In addition, 38% of smaller businesses were using external finance in the second quarter of 2022, down seven percentage points from 45% a year earlier. Core debt products remain the most used and widely available across the UK nations and regions.

Private equity in Central and Eastern Europe (“CEE”) is poised to enter a period of strong growth, overcoming geopolitical risks and macroeconomic turbulence, according to a new report from Bain & Company. 

Based on a survey of fund managers, the study tracks how the private equity ecosystem has developed over the past two decades and reports on how the economies of the 11 regional EU members will continue to expand faster than developed Western markets, describing how investors can benefit from this fundamental trend.

The tenth edition of the Global Green Finance Index (GGFI) evaluates the green finance offering of 84 financial centres.

EBAN has announced that yet another very successful edition of the European Angel Investment Summit was concluded on the 11th and 12th of October 2022.

Tech Nation, the UK’s leading growth platform for tech scaleups, has published its Climate Tech Report 2022, to shed light on the state of UK climate tech ahead of COP27 this month.