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NEW YORK: The final numbers are in, and 2024 was a very successful year for New York Angels (NYA). Asserting itself as one of the most active angel inve...
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British oral care brand Waken is shaking up the industry with a major new signing: much loved TV and radio broadcaster, podcaster and number one bestsell...
Flock Mobility, the UK cleantech startup transforming how organisations run shared transport, has secured £1 million in funding to fuel its next phase...
Grid Edge, a UK company whose AI-powered software helps reduce carbon emissions and energy costs in commercial buildings has raised over £2.8m from the...
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Ryft, a PSD2 and FCA-approved decentralised payments innovator, has successfully raised £5.7 million Series A funding for the development of technology that...
Dealstack has closed a $5.5 million seed funding round, with participation from current and former professionals at industry-leading...
Insurance giants are facing a critical shortage of risk engineers - 40% are set to retire in the next five years, creating industry-wide backlogs, lost business, and rising costs. Today, risk engin...
UK-based startup Matoha, manufacturers of AI-powered material identification scanners, have completed a first phase of Seed funding which will enable them to solve...
Neuranics, an award-winning Scottish deep-tech semiconductor company pioneering the future of human-machine interaction, has raised $8 million in seed funding t...
Damisa, the next-generation payments platform co-founded by fintech entrepreneur Jordan Lawrence, has announced the successful close of...
An opportunity to invest in Broski, one of the fastest growing Whisky brands of 2004, to support its continued expansion. This is an HMRC EIS approved investment offering 14.3X returns with...
The buzzing Cambridge Wide Open annual event returns in June, this time as a week-long interactive festival showcasing Cambridge's pioneers, the ...
Lifted Ventures has backed an angel investment round for WAC, the UK's number one app designed to empower hourly-paid workers by ensuring every minute of work is ac...
Returnal Ltd, a tech-driven platform enabling retailers to take ownership of their secondary markets through seamless trade-in solutions, has successfully ...
Ireland's population of angel investors is on the rise with 290 new members joining the Halo Business Angel Network. More than €25m was inve...
England men's football captain and Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane has become a shareholder in Seat Unique, the premium ticketing platform on a mission to...
Phlux Technology, a Sheffield-based infrared sensor startup, has raised £9 million in a Series A funding round led by ...
AI-native AML compliance platform Flagright has closed a £3.3m seed round to further develop Flagright solutions and fund international expansion. The...
HSBC Innovation Banking has published its latest ...
MarTech startup POCKLA has raised £1.6 million to scale its proprietary AI-powered content strategy and creation platform in a seed funding round led by ...
Castlemere (DK) Limited is a fast-growing Private Residential Real Estate Developer already responsible for several successful projects. It creates aspirational and affordable modular penth...
Bioniq, which is renowned for its personalized nutritional supplements based on blood biomarker data, has signed up football star Diogo Dalot, right-back for M...
Qlarifi, a fintech start-up transforming credit reporting for Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL), has completed a pre-seed funding round backed by a combination of Hon...
UK agritech startup Elaniti has closed its recent funding round with participation from early-stage biotech investor biotope by VIB, Planetary Impact Ventures...
Komodo Energy, the Cambridge based software company tackling the energy grid challenge of electrifying heat, has raised £340,000 from investors who deeply...
Bolt Cover, a pioneering insurtech company, has successfully raised £380,000 through FundMyPitch (FMP), mar...
ET Capital is launching a new investment fund designed to make investing in Cambridge's thriving startup ecosystem more accessible to investors, particular...
Healsgood, the pioneering healthtech company behind Flexzo AI, has successfully closed a £1.5 million funding round to revolutionise staffing and operatio...
Rival, a startup that develops technology to enable millions of users to create and share 3D content, has come out of stealth and announced it has raised a $4....
The highly effective sales coaching platform developed by MySalesCoach has netted the company a furthe...
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Reactwise has secured $3.4 million in pre-seed funding, including a competitive Innovate UK grant, to enable AI-driven robotic laboratories and speed up pha...
Vouchsafe, the next-generation identity verification platform dedicated to solving global ID poverty, has announced the successful £1m close of their overs...
Edinburgh-based biotech company Lentitek Ltd has secured £700,000 in private funding from Equity Gap, a leadi...
Oxford Innovation Finance's EIS Growth Fund and OION Angel Network have invested £350,000 in Study Hall...
Health and Care Innovations (HCI) has secured a £375,000 equity investment from the British Business Bank's South West Investment Fund via appointed Fun...
Studio Pictures Ltd is an exciting British Film & TV production company currently raising funds via KickStart Capital's platform. Clic...
Finalrentals has secured a six-figure Pre-Series A i...
MISSION , a natural energy drink and performance tea company, has successfully extended its equity fundraising round to £2 million, including a...
YAi, a platform helping marketing agencies and brands create, evaluate, and improve AI-generated content at scale, has raised £250,000 in Seed Enterprise I...
StimOxyGen, a spin-out from Ulster University, has raised £1.5m, led by DSW Ventures...
A pioneering angel investment initiative, fhunded angels, has been officially launched by Lancashire County Council (LCC). Part of LCC's highly successful fhun...
CapRelease, the UK's first logistics-embedded finance platform, has secured £1.7 million in pre-seed funding to redefine how eCommerce retailers acce...
WEARABLE tech start-up UNA Watch has secured more than £300,000 investment from SFC Capital as it prepares to tak...
Noxus, a startup helping enterprises build their own AI workforces to unlock business-changing productivity, innovation and growth, has raised $1.5m in pre-Seed ...
Lant Medical has secured £500,000 investment from Innovate UK, the UK's innovation agency, and two angel investors from the ...
adeus, a registered trademark of Mankind Technologies Ltd, has closed a pre-seed funding round, raising £295,000 from a global network of angel investors ...
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Approxima Srl has closed the first part of a Series A financing round securing €7.3M. The round was co-lead by...
CRESS, a pioneering pre-loved school uniform platform, has successfully raised £234,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by ...
Notify Technology, a UK-based Safety Tech company whose clients include McDonalds, Siemens and the NHS has raised a further £1.5m from Calculus...
Hands In, a fintech innovator in split payment solutions, has successfully raised over £1 million in its latest funding round. This investment will acce...
Prorizon, a Manchester-based health and sports tech start up, has raised £400k in a pre-seed funding round, with GC Angels ...
Bower Collective, a leading sustainable home and personal care product brand has secured equity funding from the British Business Bank's South West Invest...
Lifted Ventures has invested in Anya, a pioneering force in AI-driven women's healthcare. As a key partner in Anya's l...
Just Move In, a leading home setup service provider, has successfully raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by EOS Ven...
Check out the latest investment opportunity from KickStart Capital. Maxwellia is a fast-growing, female-founded consumer healthcare company revolutionising access to medicines. They convert...
FundMyPitch, the investment platform connecting angel and institutional investors with early-stage businesses, has secured a significant pre-seed funding ...
Atria AI, a pioneering provider of generative AI solutions tailored for the legal industry, has completed a £720,000 pre-seed funding round led by ...
Alfa, an AI recruitment start-up, has secured over $625,000 placing them at a $6 million valuation. The round was led by ...
Cambridge University's impulse programme alumni is leading the charge in battery innovation. WITH the world racing to f...
Monument Therapeutics, an innovative neuroscience company applying digital biomarkers to psychiatric drug development, has secured £850k in further fu...
The Royal College of Art (RCA) - via its Design & Innovation S/EIS Fund hand - and Infinity Asset Management LL...
UK fintech innovator Bourn has closed a £1.5 million seed round with a mission to transform the SME finance landscape with its Flexible Trade Account (FTA). Th...
Haatch Ventures has made a pre-seed investment in Leafr, a marketplace connecting mid-market businesses with vetted independen...
Augmetec, the legal tech startup founded and led by Kritin Sundaram, today announces that it has raised over £2m in seed funding to turbo charge its growth...
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OneID®, the UK's only provider of bank-verified digital identification services, has secured new funding led by ACF Inves...
FLIT, an engineering company that builds folding electric bikes for urban commuters, has raised £1.2 million in new funding with participation from ...
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Fuel Ventures, a leading UK venture capital fund, has co-led a £300k funding round in PlanningHub, an innovati...
IMPOSSIBREW® is a team of London-based beer lovers who are harnessing tech to create en...
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Aura Funerals, the digital end-of-life planning and funeral service, has announced a successful £750,000 funding round through ...
Big Business Intelligence, trading as Distil.ai, has successfully secured a £350,000 equity investment from the ...
The University of Sussex Business Angels (USBA) group has announced the latest investment by its local business angels in a pre...
Air Aware Labs, a London-based tech start-up tackling the global health crisis caused by air pollution through personalised data, has announced the first...
Dorset Business Angels (DBA) kicked off 2025 with its first pitch event of the year on February 3rd at the Carlton Hotel in Bournemouth, introducing an innovative new ‘Meet the Founder' sessi...
An innovative Scottish company looking to revolutionise the way buildings are insulated has secured a substantial six-figure investment. Sisaltech has s...
GRYD Energy, a solar tech startup and developer of the UK's first true solar subscription, has raised £1 million to fund its national expansion. Investors in the pre-seed round includ...
CareLoop, a digital therapeutic platform and University of Manchester spinout that focuses on tackling severe mental illness has closed a £1.8m funding ...
Astral Systems, the ambitious deeptech firm pioneering multistate fusion (MSF) technology, has closed over £4.5M investment led by ...
Aston University launched its Enterprise Strategy to an audience of industry executives, entrepreneurs and local leaders at John Cadbury House in Birmingham c...
The highly anticipated Athena VC Festival is set to take place on 13 May 2025 at Nexus, Univ...
SFC Capital, the UK’s most active seed-st...
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Soource, a startup founded in 2024 in Bolzano by former European diving champion Maicol Verzotto (pictured) together with Nazareno Mario Ciccarello,...
Lithium Salvage ("Li-Sal") UK Limited has secured significant funding to scale production in a new facility in Sunderland, Tyne & We...
BOW, a robotics software company, has secured a combined £4 million seed round investment led by Northern Grits...
Fuel Ventures has invested £2 million in Prosper, a wealth management platform targeting high net worth indiv...
Financial services AI platofrm Serene has successfully raised £930,000 in pre-seed funding to improve how financial services detect and support customer...
Oxford Innovation Finance, the home of OION and Oxford Innovation EIS Growth Fund, has launched its first independent SEIS Growth Fund. This...
Yavrio, a London-based Open Banking fintech, has raised $2.4 million in seed funding to accelerate the fast-growing firm's mission to transform the enterprise res...
Cult Mia, the London-based online fashion marketplace that is redefining luxury retail, has announced a significant milestone following its latest Seed Funding in...
Shopblocks, the Stockport-based business that is a pioneer in digital commerce, has raised £2m from NPIF II - ...
The North of England has some of the most exciting innovations in healthcare, but finding funding to develop and commercialise many of these ground-breaking ideas can often be very difficult. ...
SFC Capital, the UK's most active early-stage investor, has made its 500th portfolio company investment, marking a significant milestone in its mission to supp...
Lupa, the AI-native veterinary practice management platform, has closed a $4M seed from top investors including firstm...
Atelerix, a Newcastle University spinout that is transforming the way that biosamples essential for drug discovery and pharmaceutical research are stored a...
Web security company Almanax has secured $1 million investment which will enable the company to accelerate its growth. This funding round brings o...
Kodesage, a pioneering startup specializing in AI-powered solutions for legacy software modernization, has raised €2.3 million in pre-seed funding led by ...
LifeArc Ventures, which invests in innovative early-stage life science companies as part of LifeArc, has announced significant progress in 2024, with thre...
The Royal College of Art (RCA) and Infinity Asset Management LLP have invested...
TalentMapper, a London-based company whose platform helps identify and develop the skills within an organisation, has raised £2m from Mercia Ve...
British Business Investments has p...
Oxford Capital and Fuel Ventures have co-led a $1 million pre-seed funding round in Egregiou...
4T2 Sensors, a Birmingham-based company developing real-time fluid analysis technology, has secured £800k in seed funding. The round was led by the ...
Unum has announced the completion of an over-subscribed funding round, backed by existing shareholders, including ACF Invest...
VitVio, a London-based startup at the forefront of integrating AI into healthcare, has raised €1.8 million in pre-seed funding to transform surgical opera...
A government programme that was founded half a century ago has reached a milestone at Aston University. ...
Northstar Ventures has led a £750,000 investment round into OnHand, the innovative social impact pl...
Dorset Business Angels first pitch event and investors' dinner of 2025 will be held on February 3rd at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel. Five ...
Building on the success of the inaugural and second-year Seed Capital Investment Fund, The ...
CANADA: Aspect Biosystems, a biotechnology company pioneering the development of bioprinted tissue therapeutics as a new category in regenerative med...
Three young entrepreneurs have secured their first investment thanks to the Development Bank of Wales and M-SParc's Angel Network. The investment marks the ...
Black entrepreneurs are invited to prepare to be inspired, empowered, and equipped for success as the UK Black Business Entrepreneurs Conference (BBEC) return...
TRIBE, the natural energy snack brand, has raised £2.4m in a funding round led by Mercia Ventures and including Yeo V...
Gateshead-based Wordnerds' innovative AI customer insight analysis tool has gained the company £720,000 of investment from ...
Dyneval, the pioneering fertility technology company, has raised £515,772 in a new round of investment to advance its flagship product, the Dynescan. T...
The Scottish women-led angel investment group, Mint Ventures, has added to its portfolio by investing in Hampshire-based legal case management platform...
Wellhub, the leading global corporate wellness platform which provides employees with the best benefit plans for fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, a...
ABU DHABI: Hub71, Abu Dhabi's global tech ecosystem, has unveiled its Angel Investor Support Package, a strategic initiative designed to foster the growth of an...
A Scottish start-up looking to net its share of Europe's £9 billion seaweed market has secured a substantial six-figure investment. Kaly Group has succes...
Groundbreaking new technology capable of generating power without emitting carbon will be developed in Durham, Edinburgh and Aberdeen following a major investment deal. ...
Mulder, a UK-based, female-led, and minority-owned MedTech SaaS startup, has raised £500,000 in its rolling pre-seed round. Led by ...
mplement AI, a fast-growing innovator in managed AI agent solutions, has raised £250,000 initial seed investment from SFC Capital, the UK's leading s...
Dog-welcoming coffee shop business with premises across South Wales and South-West England is set to grow following a £1.7 million investment from the ...
Conwy-based Dragon Fire Doors is scaling-up the maintenance and fitting of commercial fire doors following a £35,000 investment by the ...
A new report, launched in Parliament by The Entrepreneurs Network, a think tank, and the Invest in Women Taskforce, an initiative to boost investment...
Waken Mouthcare, a next generation oral care brand creating innovative, award-winning mouthcare products, has closed its latest funding on ...
A mid-Wales-based start-up which plans to make DNA testing technology as easy to use as a smartphone has been backed with a £350,000 equity investment from the ...
Synthavo has secured a €4 million seed investment co-led by Samaipata, the pan-European venture capi...
The Bettii Pod Ltd, a pioneering FemTech start-up founded in 2021 by CEO Elaine Galston, has successfully raised &poun...
AI Simulator, a world-first technology that uses AI to replicate the private investment market, is set to join the ...
The Investment Fund for Northern Ireland (IFNI) has deployed £5.95m of equity investment in its first year of operation, leveragin...
The established premier pitching competition of the West Midlands is back, with a closing date for applications at 9.00 am on 6th January 2025. The ...
Axial3D, a leader in creating AI-powered 3D medical imaging algorithms, automated planning and patient specific 3D solutions, has announced the completion of a ne...
Wilder Sensing, a developer of software for biodiversity monitoring using audio and Artificial Intelligence (AI), has secured a £300,000 equity invest...
Business research and development (R&D) investment in the UK has fallen, according to new data. In r...
MADRID, Spain: Dcycle, Spain's leading ESG data management platform, has closed a €6 million Series A round led by Sama...
Seneca Partners, the North West-based private equity and investment manager, has successfully exited its investment in ...
carbmee, a leader in AI-powered carbon management software, has completed a €20 million funding round. The round was led by CommerzVentures, the ...
Oxford Innovation Finance's EIS Growth Fund and OION Angel Network have invested over £315,000 in ...
Partful, the Manchester-based manufacturing aftersales technology solution provider, has raised £5 million Series A funding to develop its 3D SaaS platform ...
Netacea, the cybersecurity specialist that helps companies prevent online fraud by protecting them against bot attacks, has raised a further £4m from ...
Business angels from the FSE Investor Network, in collaboration with investment funds and funding escalators managed by The FSE Gro...
Resalis Therapeutics, which received investment...
Dorset Business Angels (DBA), the region's leading angel investment network, hosted its final pitch event of 2024 on Monday, November 25th at the C...
Scottish bio-tech Biotangents has completed a £2.3 million investment round led by Eos and B...
Animal Health Angels, group of veterinary and animal health professionals committed to advancing innovation in the animal health industry, has inv...
France. Pathway, the data company that builds live AI, has raised $10 million seed funding to build live AI systems that think and learn in ...
Wexler AI, the AI-powered legal fact intelligence platform, has completed a $1.4 million pre-seed funding round led by Myriad Venture Partners, with support fr...
Newcells Biotech - whose laboratory models help speed up drug development and reduce reliance on animal testing - has raised a further £1.2m from...
Bleap has announced a £1.8 million pre-seed round to launch a self-custodial payments app enabling customers to spend stablecoins 1:1 with a debit car...
Carbon utilisation company Barton Blakeley has raised £2.4m in a funding round, with £1.7m of this coming from ...
Stackfix, the AI-powered software comparison platform, has raised $3M in Seed funding to speed-up software buying for small businesses globally. ...
Qminder has secured €3 million in seed funding led by Practica Capital - its first investment in Estonia fro...
The Invest in Women Taskforce has secured over £250 million of funding to support female entrepreneurs in the UK. This milestone exceeds ...
Northern Gritstone has led a £4 million seed investment in Sheffield University spinout Exciting I...
Virtue Drinks, the UK's fastest-selling clean energy drink, has closed a £2m investment round, bringing its total funding to over £5m. This l...
Eden AI has raised €3 million in its latest seed round. This funding, led by Galion.exe with participation from 50 Par...
Chiron Health AI, a health-tech startup which provides a breakthrough model in chronic disease management, has announced the successful completion of its pre-se...
In a vibrant display of entrepreneurial spirit, SETsquared highlighted the investment potential of university start-ups and spinouts at its Investment Fu...
Bevvy.com has completed a further £1 million funding round led by Scotland's most celebrated rugby icons, including Pierre Schoeman, Duhan van Der Merwe, Hami...
Scotland's first all-female business angel syndicate, Investing Women Angels (IWA), and its sister organisation ...
Black & Beech, a Cardiff-based online sustainable fashion retailer is expanding with new ranges of ethically sourced clothing and eco-friendly accessori...
Salesfire - a Middlesbrough company whose platform helps e-commerce stores to increase sales - has raised a further £2.75m from NPIF II - Mercia Equ...
Little Journey, the healthtech company transforming the delivery of paediatric care through personalised psychological support, has raised £6m ...
Naturbeads, a startup company founded by University of Bath researchers, has received new funding to build a new factory to increase production of its plan...
MintNeuro, a pioneer of scalable, low-power semiconductor technology for minimally-invasive neural implant applications, has raised £1 million in a fund...
Research Grid, the AI startup that helps medical research institutions automate back-office admin for clinical trials, has raised a $6.5m seed round. The company w...
Bristol start-up, Good Boost, has secured a £150,000 investment from British Design Fund, as part of...
Northern Gritstone has led a £4 million Seed extension into the Manchester digital X-ray technology company ...
Peter Cowley, celebrated entrepreneur and serial investor, passed away peacefully at his home in Cambridge on Saturday November 16, surrounded by his family. He was 69. In private, Peter wa...
Opportunity to invest in fast growing whisky brand Broski - an HMRC Approved Investment with projected 382% profit. Broski has become one of the fastest growing whisky brands in 2024. ...
Scotland's tech showcase, EIE25, will co-host the Tech Tour's Growth Deeptech event next year, bringing later-stage companies and investors from across the...
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Oxford University Innovation (OUI), the technology transfer office of the University of Oxford, has launched its ...
LaennecAI, a pioneering medical AI company based in Cardiff,has announced the successful completion of its pre-seed funding round. The company has secured investme...
BindEthics, an innovative company dedicated to the development and commercialisation of sustainable adhesives for engineered wood products, has secured inv...
Dorset Business Angels will host its next pitch event on November 25th at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel where investors will hear pitches from five...
Angel Academe has been named as a finalist in 2 categories at The Growth Investor Awards with winners bei...
Castlemere (DK) Limited is a fast-growing Private Residential Real Estate Developer already responsible for several successful projects. We create aspirational and affordable modular pentho...
Following its successful debut in 2023, SETsquared's Investment Futures event returns on 19 November with a brand-new line-up of deep tech start-ups and spin-outs ...
Climate insurtech startup Artio has raised £550k to pioneer insurance solutions for early-stage carbon removal projects through its proprietary risk...
Lifted Ventures is proudly celebrating its first year of activity, working to proclaim the North of England as the go-to destination for female-founded b...
The University of Sussex Business Angels (USBA) group has backed a significant £1.1m fundraising round for cyber security...
Birmingham-based venture capital firm Midven, in partnership with The 51% Club, has ann...
AllFocal Optics, the deeptech startup pioneering nanophotonic lens technology for always-in-focus images, has raised fresh $5.3million funding, compris...
ReneuralTM has raised £200K in a pre-seed funding round led by SFC Capital, with an additional £275K in suppor...
AI KAT, a pioneering brand-building company using AI technology to revolutionise brand creation and management, announced that it has secured £290,000 in f...
EBAN has announced its newly elected EBAN Board at EAIS24. Jesper Jarlbæk has been elected as President and expressed his excitement by saying: "It is a great honour to have b...
Addlington-West Legal (part of...
EBAN proudly celebrated its 25th anniversary at this year's European Angel Investment Summit (EAIS24). The two-day event brought together angel investors, startu...
UK startups need more support in understanding an increasingly complex early stage funding process. A new survey from Angel Investment Network (A...
South East Angels, a prominent angel investment network, has announced a strategic partnership with prestigious law firm ...
Scalpel AI, a London-based medtech transforming the management of surgical tools and implants using computer vision, has raised &poun...
FRANCE: Eco-friendly booking platform GreenGo has raised €3 million in funding. The funding round was led by impact investment pioneers ...
ALGIERS:African Export - Import Bank's (Afreximbank) Angel investors participating in a pitch session at the just-concluded ...
Nicholas Hyett, Investment Manager at Wealth Club comments on what the Budget means for the UK's venture capital schemes. Venture Capital Trusts...
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The British Business Bank has welcomed the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s announcement at Wednesday's Autumn Budget confirming over &poun...
FRANCE: Fungiball, the revolutionary fantasy tennis platform, has announced a €2.2 million PreSeed funding round, by a combination of private b...
Green Angel Ventures has made a new investment in Lineat, an innovative sustainable technology in the carbon fibre ...
The Emirates Angel Investors Association, usually known as Emirates Angels, recently held its elections, resulting in the selection of a new board of dir...
Investing Women Angels (IWA) will back a series of investment rounds over the next four months raising more than £4.5m for four female-founded ...
measurable.energy, the UK tech company that designs and manufactures AI-powered plug sockets that reduce electricity costs and carbon emissions in offices b...
adCAPTCHA, a new specialist security verification platform, has launched with £1m funding to tackle the ‘bots epidemic' and protect organisations ag...
Behind every successful entrepreneur is a good business mentor. That’s why, on National Mentoring Day (Sunday 27 October), Virgin Start...
The 14th edition of the Global Green Finance Index (GGFI) evaluates green finance offerings...
FRANCE: Aenitis Technologies, a pioneer in acoustic-based cell manipulation, has successfully closed its equity financing with the ...
The SETsquared Partnership universities and leading regional investment firm QantX have announced plans for a new &pou...
The number of private investors who say they consider ESG when investing has dropped for the third year in a row, according to the annual ESG Attitudes Tracker fr...
Siloton, the Bristol-based health technology start-up, has secured £860,000 to progress the commercial roll-out of its groundbreaking eye imaging chip t...
Shift Bioscience is a biotech company using generative AI models to understand how activation of different genes can reverse the aging process. This r...
New independent research conducted on behalf of Handelsbanken Wealth & Asset Management reveals a significant year-on-year increase in ...
European intellectual property law firm, Mathys & Squire, has become an official partner of British D...
Kaydiar, a Welsh business using pioneering technologies to create an innovative range of footcare products has received the backing of a group of angel inve...
A holistic metabolic disease management start-up, Dia Beta Labs Ltd has been named the overall winner of the ...
A young entrepreneur whose AI social enterprise will help medical professionals save time, money and lives has won £20,000 after wowing the judges at a hotly contested funding competition at ...
USA: Vytala, a US-based food technology company dedicated to advancing nutrition, has announced its launch and the initial close of its pre-seed financin...
USA: Singulate, a generative AI marketing platform, has raised a $2.3 million pre-seed round of funding from angel investors and venture capital firms. The ...
SPAIN: Anyformat, the Spanish startup aiming for a new era of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence, has raised €520,000 in a pre-see...
clock.bio, a healthspan biotech, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding led by LocalGlobe, with participation from...
The Development Bank of Wales has taken an equity stake in Cardiff-based Llusern Scientific as part of a substantia...
DSW Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of DSW Capital, has led a pre-seed investment into TheNextLevel, a Manches...
Nesti, a platform designed to equip sales development teams to exceed their targets with personalised outbound videos at scale, has secured £250,000 in a c...
Medtech startup Corryn Biotechnologies Ltd has secured a £150,000 investment from British Design F...
Anaphite, which specialises in production technology for battery electrodes, has raised a $13.7 million (£10.4 million) Series A round. The funding was...
With the FemTech market set to be worth $1 trillion by 2027 (McKinsey & Company), impulse, the University of Cambrid...
ITALY: Inventio.ai has closed a pre-seed round of €555,000 led by the business angels of the Club degli ...
Carlo Tassi, president of ...
NETHERLANDS: Plumery, a digital banking experience platform for true customer-centric banking, has announced it has secured $3.3M in additional funding from ...
Revolution-ZERO has secured £1 million equity from the ...
Morphose Capital Partners has c...
Playfair's Female Founder Office Hours (FFOH) event, which aims to tackle the gender funding gap, lau...
Paris: Phacet, a pioneer in personalised artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has raised a seed round o...
USA: Platformatic, the cloud-native Node.js application platform, raises $4.3 million in its latest seed funding led by ...
Last week, investors from 48 venture capital firms from the UK and Ireland ascended on Belfast for Catalyst’s annual Inbound Investors event. ...
Crowdcube founder Darren Westlake and co-founder Paul Rose have raised £150,000 from 230 retail investors, along with four angel investors who ‘cornerstoned' the round, for ...
Quin AI has raised £1.5 million in seed funding led by Blackfinch Ventures with support from ...
Challenger Credit Reference Agency, Infact has raised a £4 million seed funding round after securing FCA authorisation to establish the first real-time credit...
Green Angel Ventures has completed a new investment in Deakin Bio-Hybrid Materials, whose technology creates...
PARIS: Inbolt, the pioneer of real-time robot guidance solutions, has secured a €15 million Series A round. ...
Aura Life, a provider of funeral services and funeral plan sales, has secured a £350,000 equity investment from the ...
The Department for Business and Trade has published its annual Investing in Women Code which finds tha...
Anglia Capital Group (ACG) is holding a female Angel investing seminar and pitching day at The EpiCentre, near Cambridge, on Friday 27th Septembe...
Polish pet sitting and pet care startup Petsy has raised more than €1.1 million in funding from business angels. It is estimated that around eig...
Compliance-AI startup Falco has been announced as the winner of the South East Angels Kent roadshow. Founde...
WeDonate, a reward platform for blood donors to encourage participation and Bluco, a WhatsApp-based app to make job applicatio...
COREangelsMEA, a member of COREangels International, has invested in Plain Tiger, an innovative startup transforming the B2B hospitality sector. This inves...
Morphose Capital Partners, a London-based firm specialising in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and finance, has completed an oversubscribe...
Evelyn Partners, the professional services group, has teamed up with impact investment platform, Ethical Equity, t...
NanoSyrinx, a synthetic biology company developing nanosyringes as a novel platform for targeted intracellular delivery of biologic therapeutics, has closed ...
PhoreMost Ltd, a leading UK biopharmaceutical company unlocking the next generation of drug targets, has added USD $12 million to its Series B financing, br...
London-based investment firm Outward VC has reached the first closing of its Fund II at £51 million. The fund has received a cornerstone investment of &po...
SOLASTA Bio, a leading agri-biotech company specialising in the next generation of green insecticides, has completed an oversubscribed $14 million Series A fun...
Optalitix, the specialist finance software provider, has raised ...
The University of Strathclyde's Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation has a new name and a new...
A syndicate of 20 business angels led by lead investor Simon Bell has invested £250,000 in Menna.ai, the first small business finance assistant powered by...
PlantSea, an emerging biotech start-up from St Asaph is turning the tide on plastic pollution, having successfully closed a significant funding round totalling...
Viability, a pioneering PropTech startup, formerly known as Hesti LTD, has raised £535,000 in funding. This significant investment comes from a consortiu...
Fundmypitch has supported a successful £350k pre-seed fundraise for Stratiphy, an AI-...
Northern Ireland science and technology hub, Catalyst has opened appli...
Sustainability startup Signol, which uses behavioural science to reduce emissions in shipping and aviation, has raised £2.5m from leading industry-focused i...
Dorset Business Angels will hold its next pitching event on 30th September, its fourth such event this year. It has confirmed the five comp...
MILAN: HR tech startup Skillvue has announced a $2.8m funding round for its AI platform to boost better talent allocation, higher capability to anticipate job ...
EBAN has revealed details of the interactive roundtables which will be part of the Past, Present, and Future of Angel Investing discussions taking place at the European Angel Investment Summit on O...
USA: Since 2015 SWAN Impact Network has been dedicated to uniting angel investors and visionary entrepreneurs to drive significant change by tackling the world...
MONTREAL: ReliON, a pioneering provider of management and maintenance (O&M) solutions for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure based in Mont...
MONTRÉAL: Workstaff, a Montreal-based provider of workforce management tools for businesses that manage temporary and flexible staff, has closed $1.6M CA...
University spin-out Awen Oncology has secured a substantial equity investment from the Development Bank of Wales and co-investors Start C...
Award-winning Mallows Bottling is ramping up production with a significant seven-figure equity investment by the Development Bank of Wales that will more...
Pioneering semiconductor company, Nanusens, is set to revolutionise next generation mobile phones with more sensors to make them smarter plus new antenna tuner technology to handle more data. ...
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Qardy, the first digital lending marketplace in Egypt and the MENA region for financial institutions to fund MSMEs (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises), ha...
Angel-backed company WineFi, the innovative p...
Following on from a second round of funding with its venture capital partner...
Evelyn Partners, the professional services group, has teamed up with impact investment platform, Ethical Equity, t...
Munich based VoiceLine has closed its Seed Funding Round marking a significant milestone in its journey to revolutionize how field teams work through Voi...
The identity verification startup Onfido has announced its acquisition by US payments giant Entrust with SFC Angel Network...
Birmingham-based supply chain risk management company Bendi Software Limited, has secured a £815,000 seed funding round to support the development of its AI-po...
Julie Cunningham, Founder and CEO of Portend considers how investors can harness technolog...
Shuffle, a start-up hospitality investment platform, is committed to investing an initial £2.5 million into Manchester’s hospitality industry to ...
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British Business Bank has commited a record £2.3bn in smaller business finance to the market in 2023/24, but reports unrealised loss due to short-term fall in valuations. 2023 activities ar...
Following a recent investment round of £1.5 million, Boundless...
LCR Angel Network, the prominent angel investment network operating in the Liverpool City Region, has rebranded to Gateway Angels. The new name a...
Fundmypitch has announced the appointment of David Hall, Executive Chair of private equity group YFM, as their new Non-Ex...
New analysis from the O3 platform, an AI-powered venture classification platform developed by the University of Oxford and ...
Caerphilly-based SPORTTAPE is gearing-up for global growth following a £1 million investment by the Development...
Deeptech Labs, a specialist in catalysing cutting-edge early stage deep tech companies and building regional ecosystems, has announced a partnership with ...
Sofia, Bulgaria: Nasekomo, the leading biotech innovator dedicated to advancing the insect industry, has announced an upgrade to its neonate ...
South East Angels, a prominent angel investment group, has been honoured with the ‘Most Active Investor in th...
Rome, ITALY: Rent2Cash, the first Italian start-up to bring "rental advance" services to landlords, offering upfront payouts of up to 3 years' rent, has clos...
British Design Fund has been selected as an official investment partner to deliver Innovate UK...
Stairpay, a platform that simplifies the customer journey of shared ownership to help more people achieve their dream of owning a home, has raised £750...
Chromacity, a Scottish laser technology business, has secured over £1m of new funding from existing investors - ...
Fundmypitch has played a pivotal role in the recent successful fundraising campaign of Exact Comms, which has secure...
A female-focused investment network is on a mission to establish the North of the UK as the premier investment capital for women. ...
Women are starting and running new businesses at virtually the same rate as men for the first time, while one in five entrepreneurs are non-white, according to new analysis of entrepreneurship acti...
Wealthbrite, an award-winning company whose AI-powered accelerator programmes enable businesses to build financially savvy teams, has closed a pre-seed ...
Pioneering audio technology company Submix has closed a $1 million funding round. This investment will drive Submix's mission to enhance remote collaboration fo...
Tech1M, a recruitment intelligence platform, has raised $750K in pre-seed funding to revolutionise the talent acquisition landscape. Led by co-founders Tommie Edwa...
INQDATA, a data solutions company which hails Northern Ireland as a global centre of excellence when it ...
4D Medicine – a UK company whose innovative biomaterial has potential to be used for a wide range of 3D printed implan...
Scottish Enterprise’s new risk capital market report indicates that despite challenging market conditions, Scotland ...
The winner of the Wales Technology Awards 2024, Optimise-AI has secured a significant six-figure investment led with equity of £300,000 fr...
Investment funds managed by Mo...
Global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company has acquired Aparito, the Wrexham-based med-tech business set up by D...
London based Permia Sensing, an agritech startup on a mission to sustainably increase productivity on palm plantations, has secured a £150,000 inves...
Cubbit, the first geo-distributed cloud storage enabler, has closed its $12.5M funding round. With this new funding...
LegalFly, a pioneering legal AI platform, has raised over €15 million in Series A funding led by Notion ...
The Development Bank of Wales has led a £1.75 million round in a biotech company currently working on demonstrating a new type of drug to treat ca...
Yond, a revolutionary travel planning app that will transform how travellers explore the world, has secured £150,000 in a pre-Seed round led by early-stage ...
Edit Cloud, a new cloud based, AI-fuelled editing platform has secured £2m funding to empower collaboration in...
Educational Intelligence, an innovative B2B/SaaS company specializing in online adult learning, has successfully closed its seed round at £750k – ...
Amber Therapeutics (Tx), a start-up involving the University of Oxford, has just completed a ...
Akcela Ventures, Norwich’s only startup incubator, has been awarded a £110,000 grant. The funding has been secured as part of the Ecosystem Par...
BetaDen, the award-winning Worcestershire-based organisation providing support for innovative technology-based businesses, has welcomed the first intake of s...
Catalyst has announced the finalists of INVENT 2024, the leading competition for aspiring innovat...
NALA, a leading UK fintech company has raised $40 million in Series A funding to support its global expans...
Unum Aircraft Seating, a UK-based manufacturer of business class seats, has raised £3.5m with participation from ...
Saltroad, a new online platform which aims to tackle the waiting list backlog for accessi...
NTU Enterprise has launched its new Angel Investor Network Programme, funded by the UK Share...
Animal Health Angels has invested in MI:RNA Diagnostics, t...
The UKBAA Angel Investment Awards took place on 3rd July at Illuminate at the Science Museum in London. The evening saw 400 key players for the early-stage ecosystem come ...
Supercede, the leading reinsurance technology platform, has completed a $15 million Series A funding round. This significant investment, led by Alven with con...
USA: Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) has announced the closing of its first investment of the year, with an investment over $500,000 in ...
Edinburgh-based 1nhaler, which is backed by Archangels, has appointed two experts in inha...
Brainspark games has secured £1.4m in angel investment and its 7th Innovate UK ...
Over 750 young people, with a passion for innovation, took part in Catalyst’s free work experience programme, ...
Veridian Ventures, a leading London-based angel syndicate, has made an investment in ...
Zedify, the UK’s largest cargo bike delivery network, has secured a further £4m investment from ...
Heidi, a fast-growing online tour operator specialising in flexible ski holidays, has raised £5.6m in a funding round led by ...
The inaugural Athena Festival is set to take place at Nexus Leeds, bringing together female founders and investors in a groundbreaking event designed t...
Over 100 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and universities have collectively underscored the vital role of SME and university collaborations in a new report from the National C...
London based startup Cryogenx, whose portable body cooling device offers a rapid response for heat-related illness, has secured a £150,000 investment f...
Vertus Energy, a Waste-to-X* industrial biotech startup specialising in advanced control of bacteria behaviour, has closed a €8.75 million seed...
OSS Ventures, a leading industrial start-up studio in France, has raised €8.5 million, led by Tikehau Capital...
The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) has appointed Joanna Jensen as its new Chair. Joanna has extensive experience as one of Britain’s most s...
The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) has announced the winners of the 2024 EISA Awards at the House of Lords, Westminster. The awards, which recognise the outstanding achieve...
Nanomaterial producer iGii has raised £8.8 million of new funding to accelerate growth. The Stirling-based company, formerly known as Integra...
Sussex-based angel investment group South East Angels has invested in ...
Henley Business Angels (HBA) has announced a new strategic sponsorship partnership with NatWest, one of the UK’s largest retail and commercial ...
USA: Proofs, which uses AI agents to dramatically accelerate the proof-of-concept phase in software sal...
Wave Photonics, a Cambridge-based deep tech start-up, has received £4.5M to develop onchip photonics designs for quantum technologies, sensors, a...
Floreon Technology, a cutting-edge bioplastics firm which was spun out of a successful partnership with the University of Sheffield is set to receive a £...
The University of Liverpool has become a founding shareholder in a spin-in company which has been formed to take forward technology for use in the insurance and financial sectors....
ESG360°the technology platform that helps businesses comply with regulations and mitigate ESG risks has secured an investment round led by ...
OGI Bio, a leading Scottish biotechnology company, has secured follow-on funding of £650,000 in a deal led by ...
Adventuro, the innovative marketplace platform dedicated to adventure sports, has closed its latest funding round with the support of esteemed angel i...
Fuuse, the UK’s leading electric vehicle charge point management platform, has secured substantial funding to propel its next phase of growth in the UK and Ire...
atmio, the operating system for effortlessly finding, fixing, and reporting methane emissions has raise...
VoltShare, a leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions designed specifically for the hospitality industry, has secured £500,000 g...
Social entrepreneurs with transformative enterprises are being urged to enter a new funding competition which will culminate in a glamorou...
Canada: Toronto-based nanotechnology startup ...
Five of Northern Ireland’s most inspiring entrepreneurial teams have each been awarded £10,000 proof of concept (POC) grants from Techstart Ventures...
Rockfish, the South West seafood restaurant group, has secured £1.25 million in equity financing from the British Business Bank’s South West Inv...
Investors at the recent Dorset Business Angels pitch event were presented with a diverse range of companies seeking angel investm...
Evoralis Ltd is one of the first company to benefit from the programme and its investment portfolio will be managed by ...
The Royal College of Art's RCA Design & Innovation S/EIS Fund and Infinity Asset Management LLP has in...
The Royal College of Art's RCA Design & Innovation S/EIS Fund has invested in Revive Innovations +, a med-tech b...
Dublin-based tech firm Overcast HQ has raised an $1.2 m bridging round to help the world’s largest brands and broadcasters manage te...
Iris.ai, a provider of a world-leading and award-winning AI engine for scientific text understanding, has raised €7.64m in its latest funding round. This investm...
The 2024 EBAN Annual Congress in Tallinn, co-organised with Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN), has been a rounding success, bringing together 600+ angel investors and entrepreneurs, 50+ sta...
During the EBAN Gala Awards Dinner, angels from across Europe celebrated those who have made the greatest impact within the community. This year EBAN announced awards fo...
The creation of a new angel network, SWEBAN Network (formerly Nordic Angels) was formally announced a...
The Development Bank of Wales has invested £250,000 in a £440,000 a funding round for Hestia whose AI-powered technology is helpin...
EMV Capital, a VC investor specialising in high-growth deep tech companies, has led a c.£3.4m investment round into its portfolio company ...
West London startup, Aeropowder, whose innovative solutions made from surplus feathers offer a sustainable alternative to single use plastics and other har...
Oxford University Innovation (OUI) has appointed Dr Mairi Gibbs as its news Chief Executive Officer. Mairi has a track record of more than 20 years ...
KYMIRA, a smart garment company developing specialist infrared technology to aid recovery in athletes, has again received investment from two ...
GP Bullhound has announced the release of its Titans of Tech 2024 report. For the tenth year in a row, GP Bullho...
USA: S2N Health, Inc. has successfully secured seed funding to fuel the growth of the company’s RepSignalTM...
FRANCE: En Carta Diagnostics, a deeptech start-up developing rapid Point-of-Care (POC...
Sussex-based angel investment group South East Angels has announced its recent investment in Skyverse ...
The startup led by the Raiola brothers and supported by IAG and ...
DENMARK: Copenhagen-based fintech startup, ...
Lola Cares, a pioneering health tech company, has announced the successful closure of its first funding round, raising £250,000 from ...
Medi2data, whose suite of digital products and services aim to simplify the process of transacting medical data quickly and securely, has raised £...
Angel-backed fine wine investment platform WineFi has appointed Oliver Thorpe as their Operations Director. Thorpe, who previously led operations at Sequoia-backed start-up Nomio, previousl...
The record-breaking results of the 21/22 tax year were always going to be tough to trump in this year’s data. However, the figures for the tax year 22/23 indicate some green shoots of growth ...
Digital Catapult, the UK authority on advanced digital technology, welcomes eight new companies onto the ...
Prova Investments has continued to grow its European portfolio of early-stage businesses operating at the forefront of cleantech, sustainability ...
D2N2 LEP Chair Elizabeth Fagan launched D2N2 LEP’s Early Stage Angel Investment Fund at the UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKRE...
Salar Pursuits, a Scotland-based company that has developed permeable lice and algae/jellyfish bloom shields that fit inside net pens, has been given a fi...
Ada Ventures has unveiled 10 new angel investors for its inaugural European angel investing...
Zero Carbon Capital (ZCC) has closed a £20 million fund to invest in European pre-seed and seed-stage companies developing transformative scientific s...
Northern Ireland’s independent, non-profit science and technology hub, Catalyst has announced Bank of Ireland, EY and AVEV...
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Purple Dot, the pioneering e-commerce pre-order and waitlist platform, has closed a $10 million Series A funding round. The round was led by leading Euro...
Sona, the next-generation, intelligent workforce management platform for front...
A syndicate of 15 female investors from Women Angels of Wales (WAW) is helping to improve recycling rates of single-use plastic with an equity investme...
Carbon13, the Venture Builder for the climate emergency, has announced new investments in six ventures through it...
Oxford Innovation Finance’s EIS Growth Fund 3 and OION Angel Network have invested in ...
The Angel Investor Summit hosted by South East Angels is set to take place in the vibrant city of Brighton on 6th June. Offering a unique platform f...
Midlands-based travel demand management platform You. Smart. Thing. (YST) has secured £1.2 million in f...
Semiconductor manufacturer Kubos is set to bring its revolutionary new compound semiconductor material to South Wales, with a £670,000 equity investment ...
Angel Academe has made its 50...
Where You At ("WYA") an app which uses indoor mapping and offline bluetooth positioning to allow users to precisely locate and contact friends in spaces...
The Scaleup Landing Pad Hamburg - an initiative launched by the Hamburg Invest business development organisation and the City of Hamburg - has selected five highly promising high-growth companies f...
Superfy, the AI-powered social networking platform catering to Gen Z, has raised a furth...
Firenze, a Manchester-based fintech has raised £750K in a pre-seed angel round. The investment will be used to accelerate its mission to democratise a...
Dubai, UAE - Lune, a leading Emirati Financial Data Analytics company, has successfully concluded a seed funding round of $1.5 million. Thi...
The Estonian Business Angel Network (EstBAN) has published its annual report for 2023, showing that members invested €13.32m into startup companies during the ...
The Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN) reports a significant decline in angel investments in Finnish startups during 2023, with funding dropping from €37 ...
The Czech startup landscape stands a significant chance of strengthening this year, as investments in technology companies are expected to increase markedly following a leaner last year. Fu...
Rubedo Life Sciences Closes $40M Series A Financing Led by Khosla Ventures and Ahren Innovation Capital. Series A financing to advance clinical development of lead candidate RL...
Pollen Careers, a job platform on a mission to transform the entry-level job market into a more inclusive and equitable space, has rai...
Symbe, an AI-powered platform that helps sales teams win more deals by automating the creation of tailored business cases, has raised a £1.2m p...
South East Angels has invested in Blue Skies Space - a startup on a quest to enable the world’s re...
ITALY: Club degli Investitori has invested in Glaut’s $1.4 million pre-seed round. ...
Relevic, a web personalisation SaaS platform, has secured £150,000 in a pre-Seed round led by early-stage venture capital firm ...
The British Design Fund has opened its sixth fund, and first Evergreen Fund, to investors . It will seek to continue championing the ver...
Fundpath, the critical data and business intelligence service for the wealth and asset management industry, has copmpleted a £2 million funding round with ...
Dorset Business Angels will hold its next pitch event on 20th May. It has already confirmed four pitching companies who are seeking funding an...
Insurtech PeppercornAI has raised £3.25 million in its latest funding round. The funding, of which ...
Startup* companies are falling into insolvency at the fastest rate in a decade. What does this mean for founders and their angel backers? ...
Cornwall is set to develop its own angel investment network to foster the growth of local businesses. The Cornwall Angel Network is a joint initiative from the Cornwall Chamber of Commerce ...
A new University of Liverpool spin-out company, ...
THREE businesses who have turbo-charged employee growth are featured in a prestigious list of the UK’s fastest growing businesses le...
The British Business Bank has appointed Kristen McLeod CBE as its new Chief Strategy Officer, effective from September 2024. ...
Clean Growth Fund has invested in the £10m seed round of Oriole Networks, a new ...
Edinburgh-based biotechnology firm Calcivis, has secured £5m in funding to roll out its cutting-edge dental technology. The firm's patented system ...
Animal Health Angels has made its first investment in Marleybones, a female founded business which is a fresh do...
Onfido, an innovative start-up created by students at the University of Oxford which uses artificial intelligence to verif...
Investment and pension provider Prosper is establishing a back office at Capital Quarter in Cardiff following an investment of £520,000 from the ...
Ready2Scale is an EU funded project that is providing 25 digital and deep tech startups with €1.5 million of funding through 60k equity-free grants. The...
Ingenion Medical has been awarded a CE Mark for cymactive™ 2.0R, its novel indwelling catheter designed to mimic natural urination, a key milestone for the...
Clyde Hydrogen, a University of Glasgow start-up that is set to revolutionise the hydrogen energy sector has raise...
Bridgend-based AI technology firm Clinithink is helping to improve patient care, relieve workloads for stretched clinicians and deliver sign...
New data shows the alarming impact that financial pressures are having...
Empirical Ventures is targeting a £10M fund to lead pre-seed and seed investments for deep science startups in the UK. Founded by two scientist...
DUBAI: Gingo Partners, an Investor Outreach Service and Startup Community, has completed its fundraising campaign, securing $350k in capital from a gro...
The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), a cornerstone of the UK's entrepreneurial ecosystem, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Since its inception in 1994, the EIS has played a pivotal rol...
AB Akola Group has signed an agreement with Brite Drinks Ltd, a UK functional drinks start-up, to invest 450 t...
South London-based start-up, B-Corp rated MOMO Kombucha has announced a £1million fund raise. The brand is also rolling out to ...
The EdTech company, founded by Salisbury mum-of-three Kirstin Coughtrie (picutred, right), has gone through its biggest growth quarter to date – with both significant new angel investments, a...
British Business Investments has announced that it is providing a £15m facility to Performance Finance Limited. The transaction will b...
Veremark, a global background screening company, has secured $3 million in a Pre-Series B round led by Sa...
Ingenion Medical has been awarded a £182,890 grant to support its £406,000 development project, to complete development of its next novel device to address chronic urinary control issue...
Meysey, a fraud protection startup...
LCR Angel Network has made investments in two of the region’s most exciting start-up businesses follo...
Pioneering UK-based bio-tech business Clean Food Group hasraised £2.5 million from Clean Growth Fun...
Scaleup Finance has raised an $8million (£6.4million) pre-Series A round to ‘solve the challenge of financial management’ for startup an...
A new assessment of British Patient Capital’s Future Fund: Breakthrough reveals that the programme is successfully increasing later stage capital investment into deeptec...
JOINRS, a start up AI based job board that puts the university students and junior profiles in front of the big corporations, has receieved its latest ro...
East Kilbride plumbing startup, Water Kinetics, has secured a £150,000 investment from ...
350 PPM LTD is an incubator and accelerator which provides investors with a gateway to invest in...
Lithium Salvage UK Ltd uses a&n...
The SETsquared Partnership has been ranked as the 3rd leading start-up hub in Europe and the top entry from the UK and Ireland by the Financial Times and...
Winefi, a UK-based start-up building a nextgeneration wine investment marketplace which successfully raised £400,000 from ...
Anima, the next-generation care enablement platform, has completed an oversubscribed $12 million Series A funding round, led by ...
CryoLogyx, a University of Warwick spinout redefining cell technology through cryopreservation, has closed an oversubscribed seed funding round. The &po...
Science and technology hub Catalyst has has launched its Open Innovation service, des...
Greensphere Capital, a leading specialist investment adviser, has raised £66.3 million in conditional capital for its...
Arrow Risk Management, a specialist managing general agency (MGA) underwriting platform that provides brokers and carriers with real-time data across the in...
Oxford University Innovation Chief Executive Dr Matt Perkins will stand ...
Investment into tech firms in Northern Ireland has reached its highest level ever in 2023 at £143.2 million, according to the latest data from ...
New data released by the&n...
Solivus, a pioneering developer of lightweight solar solutions has been awarded a 3-year contract for the engineering, procurement, construction, and installa...
Following on from the success of last year’s partnership, Catalyst and Techstart Ventures are teaming up again...
PORTUGAL: Vawlt Technologies, the visionary start-up in the global long-term data storage market, today announced that it closed an additional €2.15 millio...
Funding London, the successful early-stage institutional investor bridging the funding gap for London-based SMEs, is announcing the end of the investment period for its fund of funds, ...
Newcastle University spinout Jetbio is introducing 3D bioprinting products in the global multi-billion-dollar 3D bioprinting ...
Oxford University Innovation proposes a new target to increase the proportion of women founders or co-founders from 15 per cent in 2015-16 to 50 per cent ...
Catalyst, the independent, non-profit science and technology hub focused on creating opportunity for all through world leading innovation and ent...
E2E, a leading organisation dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and innovation, has appointed Bassim Haidar to its advisory board. Haidar, a highly suc...
Here's something I bet you didn't know. ThingThing’s Fleksy® keyboard technology is has made it a 2 times Guinness World R...
Newcells Biotech – whose laboratory models are used in drug development and reduce reliance on animal testing – has raised a furt...
Dragonfly Insulation, an advanced materials manufacturer, has raised £935,000 in an investment round led by the North East Innovation Fund...
Catalyst’s 2024 INVENT competition has opened for applications with a top prize of £25,000 up for grabs for the overall winner and six new categorie...
ITALY: The Investors Club has invested in the 10 million euro round of Resalis Therape...
Asterias, the London-based technology startup, has announced the successful closure of an oversubscribed £600k Pre-Seed round. Led by ...
Nuke From Orbit, a fintech startup based in the UK, has raised £500,000 in a pre-seed round to take its product to market. The startup, which aims to revolutio...
Jenson Funding Partners, a leading early-stage Venture Capital fund manager, has announced a strategic collaboration with Simon Andreas Hofmann and Mitul Ruparelia, f...
An overview of reactions to UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Spring Budget Paresh Raja, CEO of Market Financial Solutions, said: "In his attempt...
London-based Cogna has raised £3.76m to transform how traditional industries solve unique, difficult problems. The funding round was led by ...
Arksen is launching its first public equity round of up to £6m to continue its growth and expansion to the US and other key markets. ...
Mint Ventures as invested in the UK’s best-selling bone broth brand, Freja as part of their £2m f...
London startup, Koalaa, whose world-first soft prosthetic arms are aiding independence for individuals with limb differences around the world, has clo...
Circadian Lighting Limited, trading as Circadacare, has raised £1.3 million led by the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the European Region...
Northstar Ventures has appointed a new board member, Judith Hartley, former CEO of British Business Investments and Interim CEO of British Patient Cap...
Yurtle, a London-based insurtech helping workplaces combat caregiver burnout, has closed a Seed funding round of £1.37m co-led by ...
Validient, a Newport-based tech business that is helping the professional services sector to keep up with increasing regulatory compliance, has secured a s...
Graide, a University of Birmingham spinout whose assistive AI-based platform helps teachers mark student homework, has raised £...
HACE: Data Changing Child Labour, has raised £450,000 in its pre-seed funding round, beating its initial target by 20%. The Tech for Goo...
Sonichem, an East Midlands-based startup that converts low-value forestry by-products into high-value, renewable biochemicals, has secured £1.2 million in ...
TSL Professional Products is a broadcast & media technology company delivering advanced, integrated hardware and software solutions in audio monitoring, control and power distribution...
Newly launched angel network, Lifted Ventures, is on a mission to drive change in the female founder space. Start-up funding is quo...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has released a comprehensive report on the ownership of investment companies. The ...
OX Delivers, UK-based emobility start-up, has received a £1.2 million funding grant from Energy Catalyst...
MIP Discovery, an innovative developer of non-biologica...
A café operator who set out to find an alternative to single-use coffee cups has helped to develop a new re-use system that claims to be the most simple and cost-effective to date. A...
GameCentric, the region's newest gaming platform at the forefront of connecting brands with gamers, has raised $1.5 million (AED6 million) in capital from a Dubai-based angel investor, Bilal Mercha...
Angel Academe has made its 49...
Oxford Innovation Space, which already runs 32 centres in the UK and Ireland, have come on board to run and operate the ...
Cambridge-based Infersens has launched Cortense®, its first commercially available solution to transform Legionella risk management and dramatically cut...
After growing to support a membership of 200 Angel Investors in the last five years, the Newcastle Angel Hub has relaunched as the ‘...
Seedrs’ January 2024 Highlights Seedrs participated in 13 primary equity campaigns, secondary campaigns and pri...
The United Kingdom’s score in the National Entrepreneurial Context Index (NECI) continues to fall, according to the ...
Coenseo Ventures has announced the launch of FundIQ, a groundbreaking platform designed to transform the early-stage investment market in the...
Focused on fostering the equal opportunity for all within innovation and education, Catalyst has launched its free work experience program...
BugBiome, a biotech harnessing nature’s microbial defences for pest protection to benefit human and planet health, has successfully closed a pre-seed fundi...
The team behind Scotland’s flagship event for business founders and investors has launched a ...
Global digital video consumption grew 24% in the previous year, according to a recent report [1], and now accounts for 82% of all Internet traffic according to Cisco [3]. Meanwhile, investment in a...
London startup, Koalaa, whose world...
Clue Software, the leading provider of software for investigations and intelligence management, has raised £4 million funding led by ...
Algor Education has received investment from the Investors Club...
London-based startup AudioStack has raised a £2.5 million pre-Series A round led by Quadri Ventures to revolutio...
Manchester-based The Insights Family, a global leader in kids, parents, and family market intelligence, has announced a significant £5.6 million investment round led by BGF...
SQCDP, a Newcastle-based SaaS startup, has successfully raised £200k to increase manufacturing efficiencies and support workforce engagem...
Dorset Business Angels received 27 expressions of interest from investors at their most recent angel investing pitch event held at the Bournemouth ...
PulmoBioMed - a ...
Northern Ireland science and technology hub Catalyst has appointed Pauline Timoney as its new Head of Entrepreneurship. ...
London-based angel syndicate, Veridian Ventures, completed a £150,000 investment in Maji, “a ma...
HDM Solar, one of the UK's fastest-growing wholesalers of renewable energy products, has announced a major £10.2m funding boost led by a multi-million ...
AI audio content pioneer Wondercraft has raised a $3m Seed round to scale its ‘Canva of audio’ platform in a round led by ...
Newly launched TCR company ALKemist Bio has closed a €6.9 million funding round to develop first-in-class TCR Cell Therapy for ALK-Positive Tumors....
Italian Angels for Growth (IAG), the leading investor network in Italy, has strengthened its presence in the U.S. territory and on the West Coast, wh...
Sixth Wave Ventures, a UK-based investment group, has revealed new plans to develop its Angel Investment Fund in 2024. Operated via Si...
The second co-founder of GaN Systems, Girvan Patterson, has joined his fellow co-founder, Geoff Haynes, as an advisor at QPT, an independent power elec...
Shalini Khemka CBE, the visionary CEO and founder of E2E, takes a moment to look back on a remarkable entrepreneurial journey, sharing insights and lessons...
Steve Holt is Director of ...
WineFi, the fine wine investment platform, has appointed Jonathan Keeling (pictured) as their Chief Commercial Officer. Keeli...
Metris, the first AI-powered solar energy platform for commercial property owners, has raised £2 million in a pre-Seed funding round led by ...
The British Business Bank has announced that the third iteration of its Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS) has supported £1bn of finance offers ...
Nicolas Barthalon, Principal at Ventech VC, asks to what extent changing market conditions should influence VCs&rsquo...
Sheep producers will be able to improve their flock’s efficiency thanks to Innovate UK and Defra funding towards developing a field based automated system to monitor lamb growth and in ...
Angel-backed spinout About:Energy, a world-leading innovator in battery developme...
Female founders of science, digital and technology businesses based in the South are invited to take part in a women-o...
Did you know that 45% of the world’s electricity is used by electric motors? QPT is a next generation power ele...
Oxford Innovation EIS Growth Fund has made a follow-on investment in the latest funding round for ...
Northstar Ventures has launched its first...
BULGARIA: Nasekomo, the European scale-up focused on insect bioconversion for sustainable high-quality protein production, has closed a Series A financing round...
NumberEight, a London-based startup using on-device AI to deliver ‘privacy-first’ identity solutions for the advertising industry, has raised $2.7 ...
Recraft, the professional AI graphic design generator, has closed a $12 million in Series A funding in a round led by Khosla Ventures and former GitHub CEO, Na...
MADRID: Harbiz, the leading technology platform for fitness professionals, has closed a €5 million funding round to strengthen its intern...
As markets hope for interest rate reductions in 2024, some investors may well be considering how to invest for income and capital growth over the long term. The ...
HutanBio, a bio-tech company founded by scientists from Cambridge University, based in Cambridge (UK) and in Malaysia, has secured a £2.25m investment from...
Calculus, a leading provider of tax efficient investments, has announced the launch of its HMRC-approved Knowledge Intens...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced an investment by Low Carbon Innovation Fu...
Mesenbio, a Univer...
Oxford Innovation EIS Growth Fund 3 and the OION Angel Network have invested in Deep Planet, a...
SFC Capital, the UK's most active seed-stage investor, and the University of Birmingham's Precision Health Technologies Accelerat...
The Venture Capital Trust Association (VCTA), which campaigns for the vital role played by Venture Capital Trusts (V...
Edinburgh-based investment syndicate, Archangels, invested more than £13.8m during 2023 in eleven of Scotland’s best early-stage tech and l...
FA Bio, the British bio-tech company with a vision to protect natural ecosystems by identifying superior microbial bio-products that will improve soil health and b...
Furbnow, a new UK climat...
Dorset Business Angels will hold its first pitch event and investors' dinner of 2024 on February 5th at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel. ...
2024 could be the year of recovery after UK venture capital turned a corner in H2 2023 according to new analysis from ...
Spotta, the smart pest detection tech company, has raised a £3 million growth investment round led by The...
Seedrs participated in 21 equity campaigns, secondary campaigns and private deal room deals1, in rounds totalling over &...
Quebec: Myni, a pioneering company in ecological cleaning products for the body and home, has announced the conclusion of a major round o...
Artemest is an online platform that connects art and design lovers with talented Italian artisans.&...
Sussex-based angel investment group South East Angels has announced its recent investment in ...
Obu, the angel investment platform, has announced the closure of the first two female-founded businesses to raise funds on its ...
Hope Macy, the FCA authorised UK Fintech, has obtained £1.5m in seed investment from the Development...
In a demanding economic environment, international expansion remains a major challenge for many startups. However, Lyko is the exception, with over 70% of its business already based abroad. An exce...
With 2023 approaching its end, UK Investment platform, CMC Invest, has released new data showing investing behaviours throughout 2023. The ...
Wealthtech platform Prosper has closed its first crowdfunding campaign, raising over £1 million and topping up the £3.2m already raised from ...
Seedrs, Europe's leading private investment platform, has released its 2023 Portfolio Report, one of the mos...
BirdsEyeView, a European Space Agency-backed insurtech startup, has closed an investment round led by the Euro...
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EBAN President Janne Jormalainen shared his insights on angel investing at the recent 4Angels Finland event....
New analysis reveals a robust resurgance in university-business interactions since the pandemic, according to NCUB's State of the Relationship report 2023....
Sunsave,the UK’s first solar subscription service, has raised £5.4 million seed funding for its missi...
Maven Capital Partners, a leading private equity and alternative asset manager, has completed the acquisition of ...
Spinout About:Energy and Eatron Technologies have been ...
In a recently conducted member study with over 250 responses, FiBAN mapped the activity, interests, and demographics of its members, painting a detailed image of Fi...
EBAN presents the EBAN Annual Statistics Compendium for 2022, Europe’s most extensive annual research on the activity of business angels and business angel...
Harriet, the first full-stack AI solution designed to get companies’ internal ...
QuantumDiamonds, the quantum sensing company, has raised €7m in seed funding led by IQ Capital&...
1nhaler, a Scotland-based drug delivery device developer, has raised £2 million to develop its unique single-use dry powder inhaler (DPI), led ...
Scotland’s first impact investor, SIS Ventures has released its inaugural Im...
Catalyst has formally launched its new inclusive innovation project ...
BELGIUM: Security, a developer-first so...
Green Angel Ventures has completed an investment in LIND Limited, a pioneer in alternative battery storage ...
SETsquared has held its 20th investment event – an annual high-prof...
Lakmal Walawage, a Partner specialising in intellectual property at JMW Solicitors, looks at the impa...
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Crossip, a Suffolk business creating a stir in the growing non-alcoholic drinks sector, has received investment from ...
Renovos Biologics, a biotechnology company that is developing a proprietary nanoclay gel carrier system to precisely deliver therapeutic agents for regenera...
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The Development Bank of Wales and a syndicate of nine business angels are backing Academii, a Cardiff start-up with an equity investment of &p...
Winefi, a UK-based start-up, has successfully raised £400,000 to build a nextgeneration wine investment marketplace. Despite having an impressive ...
London robotics startup, Samudra Oceans, has secured a £150,000 investment from Bri...
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Biotech start up Mitra Bio has been named the winner of South East Angels hosted London Start...
SAN DIEGO, USA: Digital health company has CARI Health formed an Advisory...
British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of British Business Bank plc, has published its ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to private markets, and a part of ...
Wave energy pioneer Mocean Energy has raised £2.2 million new equity alongside a £500,000 grant to drive the commercialisation of its wave energ...
Following the success of last year’s inaugural Seed Capital Investment Fund, ...
DN Capital, the leading European early-stage venture capital firm, and health-tech VC, YZ...
Kelvin Capital, the Scottish based investor in early stage globally disruptive technologies, has appointed a new senior Advisory Bo...
We spoke to Sarah King, CEO & Co-Founder of Obu Invest, about how and why she founded Obu and asked her to share her views on angel investment and why e...
Early-stage investor community South East Angels has invested in Uhubs, a SaaS platform helping revenue leade...
Firglas is a seed-stage company focused on the production of microalgae for use in the aquaculture, cosmetics and nutraceuticals sector....
Winefi has announced its upcoming platform launch, poised to revolutionise the landscape of fine wine investment, making it an accessible mainstream asset c...
New wealth-tech platform Prosper, which plans to revolutionise how we save and invest, has raised a £3.2 million angel round. ...
Oxford Innovation Finance’s Angel Network (OION) has invested in the latest funding round for ...
Eilla AI, a generative AI platform designed to assist M&A, venture capital (VC), and private equity (PE) professionals with financial research, analysis, and doc...
Portaire, a UK-based startup, has successfully raised £550,000 to build a workflow platform for interior designers. Portaire is creating the fu...
Virtuall, a Danish FashionTech startup, has raised €829k pre-seed funding to bring fashion brands to virtual spaces. Th...
A new Angel Investor Programme launching in the Great South West is set to play a pivotal role in driving economic growth....
Investment Futures 24, a new event taking place on 28 November in London, is set to explore the landscape for in...
LawBite, is a fast-growing lawtech enterprise is solving the issue for SMEs in to get access to affordable, good...
Airponix, an agri-tech company providing systems that allow the growth of high-quality produce with no soil, 95% less water and lower energy consumption, has rec...
Fantix , a no-code federated learning infrastructure that allows companies to collaborate on training and building AI models and without s...
Shop Circle, a scale-up focused on the creation and acquisition of e-commerce applications and tools which was founded in 2021 in...
Covesta has launched its new digital platform which enables different angel groups to collaborate on, and easily manage, startup investments. Develope...
Artus Air Limited has raised a multi-million-pound investment from BGF and leading venture capital firm ...
Leading pet health-tech platform company VidiVet Limited has raised a six-figure investment from ...
Despite the number of women starting businesses in the UK rising to record levels, female-led startups continue to receive just a fraction of the equity investment male-led companies do, according ...
FINLAND: Finnish Earth observation company Kuva Space...
Green Angel Ventures has completed an investment in PES Technologies, which claims to be "The Futur...
San Diego, USA: Digital health startup CARI Health has been awarded an SBIR Fast Track grant from the National Institute on Drug Abu...
For the second consecutive year, the United Arab Emirates has participated in CEATEC Japan 2023, reinforcing its commitment to nurturing innovation, technol...
Henley Business Angels investee company, ...
The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA), representing entrepreneurs, advisers and investors providing early stage investment for many of the country&r...
Geovation, a community of innovators and collaborat...
Seedrs, Europe's leading private investment platform, is now officially licensed under the new EU regulation for equity crowdfunding providers. Seedrs wil...
GERMANY: Oxolo, a pioneering AI startup with its headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, has successfully raised €13 million to propel its mission of transfor...
GC Angels, Manchester’s early-stage investment vehi...
Huddersfield based startup, Holdson, has secured a £150k investment from British Design Fund, as it gea...
Ahead of the Government review of the UK spinout landscape, Oxford University Innovation (OUI) has published...
Scottish insect genetics business Beta Bugs Limited has secured &...
Catalyst has launched its Co-Founders programme, inviting people with passion, drive and ambition to come toget...
South East Angels has appointed Sue Walter as Non-Executive Director joining Alex Cowell and Founder Kristina Pereckaite on the bo...
As always, the Summit was a glimpse into the future of angel investing. Here's what you missed from the 2023 event! See you at #EAIS 2024 in Tallin. ...
PARIS: Zygon, the cybersecurity solution for protecting enterprises from the risks brought by the uncontrolled spread of Software-as-a-Service applications am...
Creative tech and green tech businesses in the South West are set for a boost this Autumn with two new programmes of spe...
Panoramic Growth Equity and Maven Capital Partners, through its professional client investment platform, Maven Investor Pa...
Haia, the cutting-edge virtual and hybrid events platform ...
TEXAS, USA: Yotta Energy, a leading provider of innovative solar+storage solutions, has announced a successful $8 million funding round led by ...
Carbon13, the Cambridge-based venture builder for the climate emergency, is announcing their...
BILRS, a dynamic and innovative startup specializing in cross border bill payment solutions, is thrilled to announce its investment from ...
A Sheffield IoT start-up that helps manufacturers to maximise productivity and reduce energy use has raised £1.8m from ...
VIENNA: raicoon, a climate-tech company and world leader in autonomous solar operations, has announced a €4 Million seed funding round to tap into...
Edinburgh based startup FC Labs has secured a £150,000 investment from British Design Fund, for its inno...
Vector, a UK startup at the heart of a rapidly growing retail media landscape, has launched this week, with over half a million pounds in investment from a...
The British Business Bank’s third annual Nations and Regions Tracker, published this week, finds the use of external finance a...
The Turmeric Co. has closed a Series A funding raise, after attracting investment for growth from a number of high-profile investors ...
Zixty, a new insurance company helping cover people on their journeys with on-demand, flexible eco-friendly insurance products, is seeking £500k for product development & customer growth....
In anticipation of the European Angel Investment Summit 2023 (#EAIS23), we had the privilege of sitting down with astronaut an...
The British Business Bank has supported more than £12.4bn of finance through its core programmes and met its objectives, but reports a loss for 2022/23 due to falls in ma...
Green Angel Ventures has completed an investment in heata, a home heating innovation coming from data centres. Hea...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced an investment by Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 (LCIF2) in ...
The British Business Bank is launching its new £150 million Investment Fund for Scotland ...
The Government has appointed Stephen Welton CBE as the new Non-executive Chair of the British Business Bank. ...
The final of the Business Angel of the Year Award has just ended: Roberto Marsella is the "Best Angel Investor of Italy 2023". The award ceremony took pl...
The OnePlanetCapital Climate Change EIS fund has led a £1.7m round into the groundbreaking technology company ...
The Gower...
Northstar Ventures celebrates the milestone of investing over £95m into small and medium-sized businesses and social enterprises across the...
Renew Risk, a London-based clean-energy risk analytics SaaS startup, has raised £1.7 million seed funding to im...
StudentCrowd, a company which aims to be the ‘Tripadvisor of higher education’ has raised over £2.5m through the ...
Kelvin Capital, the Scottish based investment syndicate, has closed the first half of 2023 having concluded record investment tota...
Nearly 7 in 10 (69%) SMEs say that recruiting and developing adequately skilled staff is their biggest barrier to growth, a think tank has revealed. The Soc...
Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV), in partnership with HSBC Innovation Banking UK...
Cleantech for UK, a coalition designed to lead the policy debate for climate change investment, has invited ...
Bristol based health tech start-up, ...
Laverock Therapeutics, established in 2021 to commercialise the gene editing induced gene silencing (GEiGS...
Catalyst’s Inbound Investors event has welcomed investors from more than 50 venture capital firms based in the UK, Ireland, and the US to Bel...
Pioneering driverless car company Conigital...
Navenio, the UK location tech scaleup, has announced its £5m million investment to help revolutionise healthcare efficiency wor...
Three North East based investment funds have combined forces with a biotech industry specialist to support Newcastle University’s latest spin out company,...
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A new independent report released by UKRI underscores the pivotal role played by UK researchers and innovators in tackling the pandemic. Conducted by Tec...
AngelAcademe has made a follo...
A new independent report published by Warwick Economics and Development at ...
PARIS: Retail Robotics Solutions (RRS), a pioneering French startup specializing in AI-driven self-service checkout solutions, has successfully raised €0...
The landscape of angel investment has experienced a remarkable evolution over time, and at the heart of this transformation lies the insightful journey of Anthony Clarke. His experiences offer a pr...
Dorset Business Angels has announced its next pitch event which will take place on October 9th at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel where th...
Welsh businesses showed resilience in the face of a difficult financial year, with a strong increase in exports and growing business confidence. Economic Intelligence Wale...
Delio, the financial technology firm that digitises the private market strategies of leading fin...
With Q-Bot’s advanced insulation installed in over 200 homes every month and following a 60% increase in revenue over the past 12 months, Q-Bot has secured a n...
Treefera, a pioneering AI-powered data platform that revolutionizes forest data and conserv...
Kuano, a Cambridge-based drug discovery company combining quantum mechanics with AI to design the next generation of medicines, has closed a £1.8m seed fun...
British cybersecurity company Goldilock has secured investment and support from members of two well-known investor groups – ...
Nottinghamshire startup, Zak Mobility, has secured a £140k investment from the ...
OneID, the UK's only provider of bank-verified digital identification services, has secured £1 million in new funding from ...
Science and technology hub Catalyst has officially been certified as a Great Place to Work® following an extensive culture audit and excellent empl...
Waterspring Ventures, an award-winning early-stage venture capital firm b...
Back in May AngelNews embarked on a small but important project designed to help connect entrepreneurs and start ups with angel investors across the UK. Well, that seed of an idea ...
In an exclusive interview with Janneke Niessen, a founding partner at ...
Dundee based startup, SolarisKit, creator of the world’s first flat-pack, self-assembled solar water heat...
The Venture Capital Trust Association (VCTA) has published new data gathered from over 600 early-stage companies that have benefited from VCT funding, which shows...
TURKU, Finland: Videobot, a Finnish SaaS startup, has successfully raised €2...
FiBAN’s June startup survey results collected answers from 90 startups that have sought funding through FiBAN. According to the results, networks, a...
Are you a startup or scaleup looking to secure funding and connect with some of the top business angels in the world? Look no further than the ...
Join the European Angel Investment Summit taking place in Brussels on October 10-11! #EAIS23 is where a...
Clean Growth Fund, the UK clean tech venture capital fund, has led a £3.6m investment in Kamma, a UK pr...
GC Angels, has joined forces with NorthInvest to spearhead the execution of ...
Industrial heat pump startup Futraheat has secured £689,000 from Innovate UK to develop and deplo...
Splint Invest has partnered with the innovative, UK-based automotive investment platform TheCarCrowd. This new s...
PROSPECT 100, a UK-based startup, has successfully raised $750,000 to build the go-to platform for co-creation; a digital space which allows brands to connect...
Money.co.uk Business Loans research into UK Kickstarter campaigns for the past five years has revealed that women are more successful at hitting...
Integrated drug formulation and clinical trials company, BDD has secured a further round of investment for £2M to aid the company’s expansion in...
Steven Mooney, Founder of FundMyPitch, looks at what startups need to look like to attract investors ...
Oxford Innovation Finance’s Angel Network (OION) has invested in the latest funding round for ...
Brighton-based startup funding group South East Angels has invested in Toolbox, a r...
Smaller Scottish businesses, which often struggle to keep pace with big financial institutions when it comes to harnessing the latest growth-enabling technologies, will soon be able to benefit from...
Oxi-Tech, a company that has developed ground-breaking, clean-in-place disinfectant technology using water and electricity, has received the largest ...
To keep pace with its rapid growth, Kore, the RegTech Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that enables large financial institutions to fast track regulato...
The Development Bank of Wales has completed a further six figure investment in Reel Label Solutions...
Seattle, USA: Wavely Diagnostics, Inc., a digital diagnostics company developing smartphone-based apps to bring accurate, data-driven virtual pediatric care...
London-based supply chain startup, Kavida.ai, has secured a further £900k investment to enhance its platform with artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT....
Cytomos, an Edinburgh-based life science company that has developed a proprietary new approach to analysing cells, has secu...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced an investment by Low Carbon Innovati...
Archangels, a leading business angel syndicate investing in early-stage Scottish life sciences and technology companies...
Béa Fertility, the pioneering fertility tech startup making clinical-grade fertility care available at home, has raised £2.5m/$3.2m to release i...
ITALY: 1000Farmacie has announced the completion of the second tranche of its Series A round, raising an additio...
Remedial Health, a healthtech startup that develops solutions to make Africa’s pharmaceutical value chain more efficient, has secured $12 million in an ...
Seedrs - Europe's leading private investment platform - has revealed the results of its 2023 Investors Survey, one of the most comprehensive surveys of retail in...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to private markets, and a part of BlackRock,...
Are you a startup or scaleup looking to secure funding and to connect with some of the top business angels in the world? Look no further than the ...
ScaleUp Group client eflow Global has secured £7 mi...
thymia, a healthtech startup building gamified AI tools to revolutionise how we ass...
Space DOTS, a startup developing miniaturised in-situ testing for advanced materials in any space environment, has secured $1.5m in pre-seed funding....
The British Business Bank is working with Mint Ventures – Scotland’s wom...
Beep has created a unique digital campus card, allowing university students to gain door and facilities access around campus via a smartphone. ...
The Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation of American University of Ras Al Khaimah is gearing up to host innovative technology s...
Rasha Almasri of Fastercapital looks at the fundamental...
tem. – the startup taking aim at the systemic failings of the energy sector by reimagining how renewable energy is bought and sold – has raised a &...
QVentures has invested in Intanify...
Prof Norbert Morawetz...
Two in five (40%) small and medium sized enterprises have had to stop or pause an area of their business because of a lack of finance over the last couple of years – a significant increase fr...
A new University of Birmingham spinout, Delta g, has raised £1.5 million in its pre-seed investment round to ...
Huq Industries, the mobility intelligence company that provides highly-accurate data on footfall and visitor frequency to local councils, retail businesses and real es...
Thalia, a UK-based company whose software platform enables semiconductor businesses to develop new products using existing chip designs, has raised £2...
South East Angels, an active and growing angel group based in Brighton, has surpassed £1 million in investments into startups. Since b...
We have been busy building up our map of angel networks around the world - and it's certainly true that the...
Here is an opportunity to invest in the next generation of social media. HI-YA, a new platform where users create and share customised c...
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London startup BoxxDocks, whose world-first tech logistics boxes offer a smart solution to improving efficiency and reducing carbon footprints in shipping, ...
Within the space of a week, Green Angel Ventures has been named winner of the two prime categories for early stage investment in the UK. ...
Female founder-focussed Angel network ...
The British Business Bank has launched the £200m South West Investment Fund aimed at fostering growth and prosperity ...
Renewabl, a London, UK-based climate-tech software company, raised £...
Anglia Capital Group has invested into mobile technology company easology. Through their innovative s...
Archangels, has appointed Daniel McKiddie as investment manager to join its executive team, led by joint Managing Directors Niki McKenzie and David Ovens...
Craft Gin Club, the UK’s biggest gin subscription service, has successfully completed...
MSIF has appointed Katie Nicholson as Director of the Liverpool City Region Angel Network.&...
Sustainable Ventures, alongside several angel investors, has completed an investment into Windscope, which h...
Henley Business Angels has been selected by Innovate UK to become one of their Inves...
Arda Biomaterials’ mission to transform waste into a valuable, animal and plastic-free leather alternatives has just received a major boost with &poun...
London-based consumer health startup ...
Ready Burger, a plant-based fast food brand, has closed ...
Green Angel Ventures has followed its original investment in...
Distil.ai – a customer data platform that helps e-commerce businesses to understand customers’ behaviour and boost sales – has raised a f...
MIPISE, a Fintech-Regtech specialized in development of “end-to-end white-label” solutions for the digitalization of fi...
Recent research from the British Business Bank found there has been no improvement in the value of investment deals to all-female founder teams over th...
Germany: SQUAKE, a climate tech startup...
A move towards AI as a trusted ‘advisor’; the impact of the cost of living crisis and a move away from ethical investing are just some of the key findings published from the ...
SFC Capital has been awarded the prestigious 'Best SEIS Investment Manager' and 'EISA Impact Award' at this year's EISA Awards. ...
Green Angel Ventures has made a follow-on investment in an early stage venture produci...
Wales’ first all-female angel investor syndicate has marked its first investment into a new business intelligence platform, supported by the Developme...
The increased use of heat pumps in line with the EU’s REPowerEU plan will create 3 million net additional jobs by 2030. The reason: GreenTech heating is much more energy-efficient than fossil...
Statement, the platform comparing card payment providers for small businesses, has launched in the UK with £1.5...
Haia Communications, a leading online and hybrid events platform, has announced its remarkable success at the esteemed ...
Helsinki: Algorithmiq, a scaleup developing quantum algorithms to solve the most complex issues in life sciences, has raised $15 million. The Series A rou...
NewComma, a groundbreaking social media platform empowering African and Black creatives, has successfully closed its pre-seed funding round in partnership with ...
Mike Lebus, co-founder Angel Investment Network, considers the key trends in the angel market. ...
Eos Advisory, an impact investment firm based in St Andrews, has received a £10 mil...
USA: Eze, a wholesale marketplace for used and new electronics, has secured $3.7 million in seed funding to develop its technology infrastructure, b...
Oliva, a healthtech platform offering specialist, on-demand mental health and wellbeing support to employees, has announced a €5 million fundraise in a ...
Ten of the most promising start-ups in Northern Ireland have each been awarded £10,000 proof of concept (POC) grants following their involvement in Cataly...
Green Angel Ventures has completed an investment in ...
A new fintech platform is shaking-up angel investing in the UK by aiming to address the current gender gap. The Obu Angel Investmen...
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Canigou is a global leader in renewable energy, providing bespoke financing, project management, development, construction and operation,...
Claire Lewis, CEO of Baltic Ventures, considers the key role that angel investors play in the early stage ecosystem. There is much debate over what ...
Jay & Joy, the leading organic plant-based creamery in France, has raised €2 million led by César Augier and supported by renowned investors....
Spinout About:Energy has closed a seed investment round with funding of £1.5 million with participation from ...
Manus that it has closed a £2.6m funding round to support the commercialisation of its innovative NeuroMotor Pen™. ...
InnovationRCA, the Royal College of Art Accelerator and home of AngelClubRCA, hosted a showcasing and networking event “Celebrating...
South East Angels investment ...
Sixteen startups will promote their innovative technologies to an audience of influential investors and business ...
The alt format, eco-friendly, Italian wine brand When in Rome has closed its latest round of investment, exceeding its fundraising target. The funds wil...
The Halo Programme, from local angel investment organisation, Anglia Capital Group, aims to support locally based companies at the very start of ...
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Here's something I didn't know....only 30% of people on Earth today have access to functional sewers... Innovative sanitation company Loowatt Ltd is trying to do something to change all tha...
The 2023 EBAN Annual Congress in Thessaloniki brought together 500+ angel investors, entrepreneurs, and industry ex...
Grow Lab Organics (GLO), a British cannabis company headquartered in the Isle of Man, has closed a £1m seed round from investors including Saul Milt...
The ten finalists have been announced for INVENT 2023, the premier showcase for aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs. From an inclusive, purpose-driven fas...
“Funding for startups can be a tough game, and it's getting tougher,” says Grubby Founder Martin Holden-White. “Investors are less active than ...
Dorset Business Angels (DBA) will hold their Summer pitch event on June 19th at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel. The event will serve as a platform f...
Green Angel Ventures h...
Green Angel Ventures has invested in ...
Northern Ireland based technology solutions company GoReport is set for further expansion after receiving new investment from ...
The utopian dream of traffic free, zero emission cities may not be just a dream after all. Companies like ...
Clinical trials of an easy-to-use home therapeutic treatment for SARS-CoV-2 (coronaviruses), developed by Cardiff based Ha...
Deployed has raised $4M in a seed funding round co-led by Amrock Ventures and M12...
SWEDEN: The Swedish health tech company Encare has secured funding of EUR 1.5 million to support the company's continued expansion, product development, and entran...
MILAN: Roomless, a proptech startup based in Milan, has raised 1 million euros in the form of convertible financing. Th...
Scaling is a multifaceted phenomenon with a steep path to hypergrowth that only a few European companies are able to climb – in fact only 1 in 10 firms are able to scale more than 10% annuall...
XONAI, a cloud optimization solution helping organizations reduce data infrastructure costs, has closed $3.5 million in Seed funding. ...
StarWolf Media Ltd, an international media and finance company supporting empowering films and streaming content, is raising &pou...
Angel Gambino is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, and a keynote speaker at this week's&nbs...
Experienced product designer and entrepreneur Fiona Bennington has been appointed as the new Director of Entrepreneurship at ...
Green Angel Syndicate, the UK’s largest network of specialist ...
Fiona Hudson-Kelly, author of ‘Grow and Sell your Startup', identifies some of the main issues which female entrepreneurs face in scaling their businesses and offers her perspective on how to...
Angel Academe, has made a fol...
Signaloid, the computing platform allowing companies to understand real-time uncertainty for autonomous decisions, has raised a seed round of £3 million l...
Berlin: zero44, a SaaS startup for CO2 management of merchant ships, has raised €2.5 million. The round is led by early-stage investor Atlantic Labs....
QVentures has led a pre-seed funding round in CareerPaths, one of the world’s largest career mentoring platfor...
In March 2023, Ambrose Healthcare launched a £1 million Founders Round share offer and is rais...
Last week saw the re-launch of HBAN, the All-Island Angel Investment Network. The network is now managed by Dogpat...
The GM LEP backed GC Angels, a UK’s leading early-stage investor, has made total investments in Greater Manchester startups...
Following its latest funding round, Rosa Biotech ...
Cornerstone Partners has...
DSW Ventures, the venture capital business of the Dow Schofield Watts Group, has closed its debut ...
Sticky, the technology company solving companies’ inefficient and often unprofitable physical spaces, has raised £1.5m in seed funding from prominent UK...
EBAN Congress - taking place in Thessaloniki, Greece, on May 24-26 - will feature 37 handpicked startups and scaleups, 20 from...
Green Angel Syndicate has completed a new investment in a technology innovation for cleaner water worldwide. This vitally important breakthrough has ...
Bethnal Green Ventures has launched a research project looking into angel investments in tech for good businesses. If you're an angel act...
Treekly, an app which encourages people to walk and help the planet, has secured funding from Anglia C...
Heero Technologies, a high-growth clean tech software and data company based in Dun...
Spend intelligence platform Spendkey has raised £358,000 in pre-seed funding from early-stage investors Fu...
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Archangels, has appointed Professor Adam Stokes as its Academic in Residence. Professor Stokes, Co-Lead of The National Robotarium and Deputy Director of the Edinb...
Eos, the St Andrews-headquartered ...
Angel Groups has supported Habitude, an SaaS workflow management platform for Multi Academy Trusts, with the...
Two of southern England’s leading angel investment networks – the University of Surrey's S100 Club and the ...
We have had a great response to our Angel Networks map and we have already added a few that we had missed (sorry about that!). Due to popular demand we are s...
Tesel, a platform created to simplify the process of ESG assessments for buyers and suppliers throughout the supply chain, has raised £320,000 ...
Italian Angels for Growth , the leading Network-Powered Venture Capital investor in Italy, announces participation in a SAFE investment round of $2,270,000 ...
Green Angel Syndicate has led a pre-seed round into innovative carbon-negative insulation materials. The round raised for Bristol- and Lisbon-based c...
EBAN interviewed Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps and angel investor in Canva, ahead of his keynote talk at the EBAN Congress 2023. Read on to see what he has to say about entr...
Caroline Sai, head of Angels Sant&eac...
VentureWave, an Irish-based venture private equity group committed to impact investing and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs, and ...
CANADA: St. John’s-based trophi.ai has raised a $3.3 million seed round led by Halifax venture capital fund ...
Investing Women Angels (IWA), Scotland’s first all-female angel investment syndicate, has led a circa £200K equity investment round into ...
M and M Film Productions is an award-winning film production company that develops, produces, and finances films and TV product...
Vertical Farming is a fast growing market and GrowPura is at the forefront of it...changing the future of verti...
MADRID: Bullnet Capital, an independent Spanish venture capital investment firm, has led the first round of investment in ...
An online branded series presented by Innovate Finance has launched on BBC.com, highlighting the g...
New research from the UK’s leading insurance premium finance company, Premium Credit, shows nearly five times more SMEs expect to see growth in re...
There is still money out there, but less appetite for risk and greater demand for faster returns, says Sarra Mander, CMO of Small Robot Company (SRC...
Norwich-based tech business Homemove has secured funding through Anglia Capital Group as part of a £350...
Founders Forum Group (FF Group), a global community and group of businesses supporting entrepreneurs at every stage of their journeys, has formally acquired ...
Green Angel Syndicate has made a significant investment in one of the most important recycling breakthroughs this year. ...
HydRegen, the Oxford-based biotechnology company enabling sustainable chemical manufacturing, has secured a £2.6 million investmen...
Centuro Global, the one-stop-shop for businesses looking to expand overseas, will expand its offering as a cost-effective alternative to larger consulta...
Get ready to elevate your angel investing game and expand your network at the EBAN 2023 Annual Congress in Thessaloniki, Greece, from May 24-26!...
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Canopey, an online marketplace for environmentally sustainable and eco-conscious brands, has secured investment from two leading technology executives. ...
Green Angel Syndicate portfolio companies have announced that Zedify is to partner with ...
As the energy crisis continues to paint a bleak picture across the economic landscape, London-based residential energy services provider Hometree has secur...
SOLASTA Bio , a UK agritech specialising in the next generation of green insecticides has secured a further round of investment totalling £4 million to s...
Scottish technology firm Bioliberty has secured £2.2 million in funding to develop a unique soft robotic glove which can restore upper limb mobil...
Oxford Innovation EIS Growth Fund alongside OION angel investors, have invested in the £1.2 million oversubscribed funding round for ...
Blackfinch Ventures has completed investment deals valued at £11m in...
Dorset Business Angels (DBA) hosted its quarterly pitch event at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel and welcomed entrepreneurs based a...
Vulse.co, whose groundbreaking AI technology is reducing content creation times from hours to seconds, has secured a pre-seed round of angel investment worth £1...
London-based startup Spotted Zebra has secured USD1.8m in seed funding in a round led by Playfair Capi...
University spinout About:Energy has announced the launch of its battery design software platform, ...
A Newcastle-based company has raised over £ 1.85 million of funding to help its quest to save more lives through better testing for prostate cancer. The funding includes £500,00...
Leading biotech company MiAlgae has officially launched its omega-3 product NaturAlgae to market thanks to recent expansion of its commercial production site ...
Taylor & Hart, the digital-first bespoke jewellery business, has raised £3.5 million in funding from ...
Twelve years after his initial investment, Lord Alan Sugar, 76, and Susie Ma, 34, have ag...
o2h group, the creators of innovative SciTech communities, has launched the Cambridge Wide Open Day, offering a unique...
Dorset Business Angels (DBA) will host its inaugural Angel Investing Workshop on April 17th, at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel. The workshop will ta...
In recent years, there has been a growing focus on gender diversity in the investment world, both in the venture capital and angel investment spaces. As the President of ...
Glopal, a cross-border e-commerce software solution that enables brands to develop their international sales, has announced a €20 million ...
Germany: Flagship Founders, the first European venture studio focused on maritime technologies, logistics and shipping, has closed its €3.5 million f...
UK-based Legislate has added $3.6M in funding in a round led by Parkwalk Advisors, with participation ...
OION Angels has invested in the latest £1.5 million funding round of Arma Kar...
Chris Morling, one of the UK's most successful tech entrepreneurs and the CEO and co-founder of Online Education Agency ...
The SABI has successfully closed its pre-seed investment round, securing €150,000 from a group of industry focused investors. The company's pre-see...
Reskube Ltd, the British start-up responsible for an innovative re...
London-based clean heat technology start-up, Futraheat, has closed a £1.5 million seed round led by Clean Growt...
Tim Pryce chair of biomaterial start-up Cellexcel, looks at how to get a business from the Univeristy R&D lab into th...
Dorset Business Angels is gearing up for its next pitch event on 17th April where a number of exciting businesses will be pitching for investment f...
In 2022, Finnish angels invested €37 million in 248 growth companies, says the latest study conducted by the Finnish Business A...
Within a year after its first funding, Connect Earth closes a $5.6 million seed round to grow its API-first environmental data offering that drives sustainable finance. The r...
Finland: Carbonaide, a spin-out company from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland...
New research* from Pragmatic Semiconductor has revealed that more than three in five (61%) UK science and technology business leaders surveyed agree** B...
A syndicate of 10 business angels led by Angels Invest Wales lead investor Ashley Cooper has...
Silicon Microgravity (SMG), the disruptive technology company developing innovative Inertial and Gravity sensors, closes the first stage of its £2.8 mi...
Having received and carefully evaluated dozens of expressions of interest, Tech Nation confirms that it has entered into discussions with ...
QV Bioelectronics, creators of an innovative surgically implanted Electric Field Therapy (EFT) device for the treatment of brain...
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cleantech water business WET Global whose innovative water enhancing technology provides sustainable, waste-f...
Patch, a company on a mission to reignite UK high streets by empowering thousands of people to ...
USA: San Diego Angel Conference (SDAC), a ...
GERMANY: METYCLE, an online trading platfor...
Almost half of retail investors in the UK do not have a good understanding of the taxes they must pay on their investments, new research from Shojin has...
Antiverse Ltd, a biotechnology company developing a computational antibody drug discovery platform, has closed a $3 million investment round that will enable...
Founded in 1992 by Mike Rutterford and Barry Sealey, Archangels is considered to be the oldest, continuously operating business angel syndicate in the...
Green Angel Syndicate has made a further investment in flexible energy marketplace Piclo to support its positi...
Green Angel Syndicate has closed its Climate Change Fund fifth round with a record amount that is almost twice the size of its previous round, raised ...
Not-for-profit, Virgin StartUp, has an...
Grid Smarter Cities is fundraising, seeking £2.5 million growth funding to support its mission to help reduce CO2 emissions and provide better air quality for a cleaner and smarter city. ...
The SoHo Juice Company is a multi-award winning non-carbonated soft drinks in 100% recyclable cans. The company is seeking investment of &po...
FrontM, an “Intelligent Collaboration. Anywhere®” platform for the maritime industry, has raised $1.5 million in a pre-Series A funding round led b...
The RCA has launched a new Seed / Enterprise Investment Scheme (S/EIS) Design & Impact fund inve...
Following its initial investment in 2021, Oxford Innovation EIS Growth Fund alongside OION angel investors, has made a follow-on investment ...
Businesses led by women accounted for a record 45% of the funds raised by companies at tech incubator SETsquared Bristol, according to their 2022 imp...
Connectd, the lea...
London startup Phare Labs, who is reimagining the design and capabilities of domestic fire alarms, has secured a &...
Vector Homes, a cleantech company which is developing new techniques and materials for affordable and sustainable modular housing, has closed its seed i...
Eventum Orthopaedics, medtech company which has developed a device that could improve the success of knee replacement surgery has raised £2.5m in a Series A funding round. ...
Venture capital investment in Northern Ireland firms reached an all-time high in 2022 with the overall number of deals also surpassing previous record fi...
EIS investment opportunity in Morgan Goodwin, creators of Edge Combined Trading Platform, which combines 7 essent...
USA and ITALY: Electra Vehicles, Inc., the B2B electric vehicle AI...
Venture Capital firm, QVentures, has announced its latest pre-seed fund investment into Presentient Technologies, ...
Belfast-based cancer diagnostics company GenoME Diagnostics has closed a £1.4 million funding round with investment from ...
Online sustainable grocery-delivery service Modern Milkman, which received a £2.25m investment in July 2022 from ...
Archangels-backed dental imaging technology company Calcivis is settin...
Angel Academe has made an inv...
Gyroscope has raised $4.5M in seed funding to build Gyro Dollars (GYD), a decentralized stablecoin featuring a novel all-weather stablecoin de...
Fact360 utilises leading-edge machine learning technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to detect anomalies in organisations. In particular, within the fraud, f...
If you are interested in environmental tech, take a closer look at Verv Energy, AI specialists on a mission to create market leading te...
Rype Office is raising ...
CanSense - a Swansea company which has developed a blood test that aims to save lives by diagnosing bowel cancer at an early stage - has raised ...
YFM has led a £10m investment into healthtech company DrDoctor along with Ananda Impact Ventures and ...
Oxford Innovation EIS Growth Fund 2 invests in the innovative coloured advance materials company ...
South East Angels, Brighton’s most active business angel investment network, has launched a new initiative to t...
The British Business Bank’s Small Business Finance Markets 2022/23 report shows £35.5bn of bank lending came from challenger and s...
Robin AI, the generative AI startup, has raised $10.5m led by Plural, with participation from Episode 1. Other investors in the round include angel investor ...
Devyce, a UK SaaS company that provides digital phone numbers to multinational businesses, has closed a $2.7 million (£2.2 million) seed fund...
A design engineer and TV presenter, skilled in creating space-saving architectural innovations for the home, is feeling flush after securing £160,000 backing from the ...
The Flywheelers, a specialist comms agency for high-g...
Sourcerie, which is building a community-driven data platform and personalisation software for the beauty industry, closed a £1.8m pre-seed round last year...
Studio Pictures is fundraising. Your chance to invest in an exciting new independent UK production company dedicated to quality British film and television productions. Click ...
Investment Opportunity: Drop Wine, a personalised virtual wine cellar delivering quality wines on-demand to doorstepsand in person across the UK, is fundr...
Quell, the UK-based fitness gaming developer and publisher pioneering the future of fitness gaming technology, has announced the completion of a $10m Series A f...
Wealth Club has led a £4.5 million investment round raising £2.35 million, or 52% of the total raise, under the Enterprise Investment Scheme ...
eTEU, a SaaS platform that removes the need for physical shipping paperwork, has secured a new round of funding from early-stage focused venture capital firm Jenso...
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Innovative health app, Holly Health, marks a £1.5 million investment milestone with supp...
Gigged.AI is set to scale its HR tech as companies address hiring freezes and staff retention. The company has also secured its latest investment, a &p...
Smart electricity storage company Powervault has closed a scale-up investment round of £3.8 million from existing and new investors, including ...
Cydar Medical, a global, cloud-based surgical software company, announces it has successfully completed a £9.3 million Series A funding round. ...
Just when you thought mineral water couldn't be exciting.....check out this opportunity to invest in NEUE Water, a...
The National Enterprise Network (NEN) has released its report ‘Adding Value Across Enterprise’ calling on the government to prio...
NIGERIA: Curacel, Africa’s leading insurance infrastructure provider, has raised $3 million in seed funding to roll ou...
SPAIN: Snab, the Spanish payment platform that allows payments and transfers be...
Catalyst’s INVENT 2023 competition for aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators has opened for entries, with a top pri...
SPAIN: Innitius, the Spanish startup focused on improving diagnostics for women's health, has closed a €1.8 million financing round led by ...
A clean investment opportunity to consider....Something Co, which produces sustainable, high performance hygiene and cleaning products, is raising EIS capital f...
Clean Growth Fund has co-lead a £2.4m investment alongside Foresight WAE Technology (FWT) Funds into ...
A spin-out company based at The University of Manchester that is developing a breakthrough water filtration technology, which ...
Hut Six Security, the Newport-headquartered developer of software-based information security training products has completed a third f...
Evonetix, the synthetic biology company bringing semiconductor technology to DNA synthesis, has completed a USD $24 million ...
Proud Ventures, a UK collective of LGBTQ+ investors and investors, has released a new data ...
Green Angel Syndicate has invested in pioneering seaweed company, Kelpi as part of the £3 million seed roun...
Sitehop, a Sheffield based compnay which has developed a new encryption solution for telecoms and data networks, has raised over £1 mi...
Optimise Health, an innovative new medtech company, has launched its latest SEIS*/ EIS qualifying fund...
ITALY: The close of a fundraising round of over EUR 10 million for UNGUESS, Italy's leading innovative crowdsourcing platform, has been announced. The lead...
ITALY: Wora, the Milanese startup that offers same-day delivery services by appointment, dedicated to e-commerce and ret...
ITALY: MgShell, a MedTech that aims to revolutionise the treatme...
Report shows investment in startups with a strong focus on sustainability and food security is growin...
If you are interested in EIS but want exposure to more mature businesses, take a closer look at ...
Vev, a company founded by former Apple employees, has raised €5m from Notion Capi...
Agritech firm Zayndu, which has created the world’s first ‘activated air’ seed processing system that boosts productivity yields by up to 25%, ha...
Fubar, Britain’s biggest uncensored online talk-radio platform, is seeking funds of £4 million to support its amb...
Early-stage company entrepreneurs are hamstrung by a lack of information on how to access the external funding needed to support their growth plans, according to new research published today by the...
A venture capital firm focused on supporting direct to consumer (DTC) entrepreneurs, Fearless Adventures, has invested a significant six figure s...
Fiona Hudson-Kelly, author of ‘Grow and Sell your Startup’, shares her insights.... ...
A new report by ...
After a decade as a government-backed organisation serving the UK scaleup tech ecosystem, Tech Nation will be closing its doors from 31st March 2023.&...
Healistic, an innovative HealthTech mobile app and the first pharma-based speedy delivery service in the UK, has ...
Businesses must tackle late payments to unlock growth for the UK’s small businesses, according to campaigning organisation Good Business Pays. ...
Fluffy, the pet care app helping owners to raise healthy and happy pets through training, vet care and insurance has announced its pre-seed round, a total ...
Cambridge University’s spinout and technology founders have contributed significantly to the UK retaining the #1 tech sector spot in Europe according to a ...
EU: Opening a company to external investment can increase its value by 6.5%, new research from Vlerick Business School has found. Dr. J...
pH3 Capital Ventures has launched its Beyond Blue Accelerator p...
Finalrentals, a Cardiff-based global online car rental web-application business has secured the backing of a syndicate of four business angels led by lea...
Eco-friendly clothing care business, Clothes Doctor, has secured £1million of investment to fuel growth of its business, as consumer ...
Rising losses from extreme weather are driving a global surge in investment in climate risk digital solutions, a new report from leading independent research...
Blackford Analysis, one of the leading strategic imaging Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform and solutions provider, has announced its acquisition...
Hike SEO, a Leicestershire-based start-up, has raised £675,000 of funding in an investment round led by ...
There’s a reason why FinTech continues to attract so much airtime with investors. The market is huge and there are so many segments within it which are ripe for disruption. New so...
Nigeria: Releaf, a technology company that makes it easier for consumer goods manufacturers in Africa to access high-quality ingredients for their factor...
Invest Europe, the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, today launched a new microsite, the...
New research published today reveals that the UK’s class of small, fast-growing entrepreneurial businesses are looking to raise an a...
Kuai Commerce has closed a Pre-Seed Round, raising $2.4m to build its social commerce solution for D2C brands looking to sell in the world’s larges...
EnsiliTech, the award-winning biopharmaceuticals company has raised £1.2 million in pre-seed funding to aid the development of a pioneering refrigera...
University of Nottingham spinout, Scintam Engineering, has developed an innovative technology that uses electricity to help relieve a major problem faced within...
More than 30 of Wales’ most successful female entrepreneurs and business leaders have united to form ...
Seedrs has launched its 2022 Sector Report which reveals the sectors that filled investors with conv...
Hilltop Leaf, the company behind one of the UK’s first medicinal cannabis cultivation and production facilities, has raised £2m from ...
Following the launch of The RCA's first Design & Impact S/EIS Fund, a £5 million multi-sector fund investing in early-stage Roy...
Asset managment tech firm Maanch is raising up to £3 million to drive growth, deliver tech integrations and become the leading interoperable solution for asset management....
Fast-growing UK wine business Brose is seeking equity investment. Rosé wine is currently the fastest growing and strongest trending wine category globally, and the market is fo...
Fast-growing UK wine business Brose is seeking equity investment. Rosé wine is currently the fastest growing and strongest trending wine category globally, and the market is fo...
EBAN board member Dr. Nicolas Rouhana (PhD) is cur...
One hundred Northern Ireland companies have now benefitted from investments totalling over £42M through Co-Fund NI since the programme began in 2011....
New data by Innovate Finance, the industry body representing the FinTech community in the UK, reveals the global FinTech investm...
QV Bioelectronics, creators of an innovative surgically implanted Electric Field Therapy (EFT) device for the treatment of brain tumours – has secured &...
Zero Carbon Capital has announced an investment in ...
Clean Growth Fund has invested £...
Oxford Innovation EIS Growth Fund and OION Angels invest 14% of Qkine’s latest £4.3 million fun...
Par Equity invested £38m in early-stage technology businesses across the North of the UK in 2022, up from £25m in 2021, making it one of the mos...
HR tech company Huler, whose platform has attracted a host of blue-chip clients within its first year has raised £2m from Mercia’s EIS funds, t...
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%. ...
Made in Britain and the ...
Since Dorset Business Angels was founded almost a decade ago, its USP and appeal to entrepreneurs, investors and the business community has been co...
USA: CyberCube, the market leader in cyber risk analytics, has announced $50 million in additional growth capital from investmen...
Fact360, a cyber-security SaaS platform that specialises in detecting fraud, financial crime and compliance anomalies within businesses, has received investment fr...
Two leading doctors who developed a new health coaching platform after the untimely death of a colleague have raised over £1m in a funding round led by private equity firm ...
Edinburgh-based investment syndicate, Archangels, invested £13.4m during 2022 in some of Scotland’s most promising early-stage tech and life ...
James Murdoch considers a reduction in sales from his portfolio during the financial crisis. It is January, the the season to be jolly fades into the season to finalise ta...
Finance and technology heavyweight, Dominique Cerutti (pictured), has given his backing to London based early stage fintech, 1fs Wealth, and its innovative platfor...
CheMastery has raised a seed round led by Science Angel Syndicate, the deep science investor group, and ...
Jellagen, an innovative biotech company and leader in biomaterials derived from jellyfish, has closed a successful £8.7m Series A equity investment round...
Elizabeth Humphrey, Financial Crime Researcher at Themis discusses the issues around mangaing financial risk due diligence and why it is such an imporant...
USA: The Launch Place has announced its $250,000 investment in ...
An innovative British start-up, Collective Equity, has launched the UK’s first equity pooling fund to give liquidity to founders...
Foresight Group has provided a £400,000 growth capital investment into TextureJet Limited from the ...
fruitcore robotics, pioneer of intelligent robotics and automation s...
Irish cybersecurity start-up Vaultree has closed a $12.8m Series A funding round led by ...
EMV Capital, the deeptech and venture capital specialist, a wholly owned subsidiary of NetScientific plc, the international life sciences and sustainable technology in...
A new independent report which has been published today by Warwick Economics and Development estimates that companies supported by the ...
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....
Cardigan-based green tech company Harvst has successfully closed a funding round with ...
In its 16th year, GP Bullhound’s ...
Healthtech startup, Virtue Health Group Limited, has secured £1 million in seed funding in an investment round led by the ...
Manchester-based green tech start-up enee.io...
Duppy Share, the London-based Caribbean rum brand has just completed a fundraising round of £2 million, recruiting a new stellar set of investors ...
Belgium: Classified Cycling, a Belgium-based company developing innovative technology for the cycli...
Rita Sakus, co-founder of the Lithuanian Business Angel Network (LitBAN) & board member of th...
FRANCE: Pathway - the female-led deeptech startup unlocking the power of real-time data - has announced it has made its machine learning platform free and open t...
To understand the barriers facing high-growth female founders, the Female Founders Forum has brought together a panel of the UK’s most ...
EcoSync, an Oxford University start-up offering innovative dynamic, room-by-room energy management solutions for commercial buil...
Hearing Diagnostics, the Edinburgh-based healthtech company, is eyeing commercialisation in the domestic and US markets following a £1.1m fundraise. ...
A collaborative new partnership between Catalyst and Techstart Ventures is offering 10 entrepreneurial teams who take part in ...
A HR Tech company, which helps organisations design and structure jobs that improve diversity and skills-based hiring, has raised £1.75m in a funding round led by ...
Maven Capital Partners and YFM Equity Partners, have announced the completion of a £6.5m Series A investment for ...
Sustainable shopping platform Greenr.co.uk has raised £260k supported by Anglia Capital Group...
Plant-based food brand Huel has closed a $24 million funding round led by Highland Europe, welcoming SAG-winning act...
Climate tech start-up IPG has secured £1 million investment following a successful crowdfunding campaign on equity funding platform ...
Entelechy is the world’s first EdTech/HRTech platform that enables the development of the Character Qualities that unde...
France: Biomemory, a start-up focused on DNA data synthesis and storage, has closed of a 5 million euros seed investment for the development of its tec...
France: Guy Gourevitch (pictured, right), President of Defense Angels...
USA: The Angel Capital Association publishes the Angel Funders Report annually to increase awareness about angel investor activity and bu...
A Leeds-based tech company whose advanced remote working software is used by the Home Office and the NHS has raised £400,000 from ...
London-based Period care and sexual health brand Here We Flo has raised £1.7m in an angel funding round, supported b...
In light of the recent Theronos fraud case, as reported in the Times this weekend, James Murdoch considers the question of whether crowdfunding platforms have a particular issu...
The British Business Bank’s second annual Nations and Regions Tracker, published today, finds usage of externa...
Market Dynamics, a pioneering fintech start-up on a mission to democratise systematic trading for retail financial traders, has moved its operations to Br...
Two student start-ups supported by the University’s B-Elevate incubator have been honoured by their founders’ inclusion in a prestigious listing of UK-based women shaping the future of ...
Extend Robotics, a business that has developed an immersive software interface which allows the use of consumer virtual-reality headset to interact wit...
Chairman Don McQueen and the Board of Dorset Business Angels Network (DBAN) have welcomed a new director to the Board, the DBAN Marketing Manager,&...
EU: EBAN recently published its "Manifesto For a...
The Development Bank of Wales was among a number of global backers which supported international fintech startup AGAM in ...
The Angel Investor Foundation (AIF) has securred a $300,000 pledge to its Seed the Future capital campaign f...
Canada: East Valley Ventures-backed agtech company Picketa Systems&nbs...
Faradai, a London-based net zero intelligence company, raised $2.4M Pre-Series A to expand its carbon & energy analytics solutions globally and to develop furt...
Enterprise Loyalty Cloud platform, Antavo, has successfully closed its Series A round at €10M led by Euroventures ...
University of Birmingham spinout ChromaTwist Ltd has secured £487k of equity investment to develop its new class of fluorescent dyes for the flow ...
Boodil, a Manchester founded open banking payments and consumer engagement app that makes it more rewarding, simpler and safer for consumers to pay online, has...
More than £4m has been injected into eight innovative Northern businesses thanks to the collaborative efforts of three Angel networks to bring investors and opportunities together. &nbs...
Untap, a UK start-up that has developed a device capable of detecting and monitoring the spread of infectious diseases in sewage, has just secured a £...
GrandNanny, a new intergenerational childcare service supporting mature job seekers into work and providing vital childcare for working parents, has closed i...
A syndicate of nine business angels has joined the Development Bank of Wales and M-SParc in backin...
Thoughts on yesterday's budget from a range of perspectives in the private investor ecosystem. David Ovens, Joint Managing Director of ...
Blnk, a fintech startup that enables instant consumer credit in Egypt, has raised $23.7 million in equity and debt funding, and $8.3 million in securitized bond i...
Finland: The Finnish Business Angel Network announced its Angel Awards for 2021, recongising work of exceptional angel investors. Since 2011, FiBAN has...
Mid Atlantic Bio Angels Group (MABA) has made an investment in The Shape Sensing Company (TSSC). TSSC joins a pr...
Queen City Angels (QCA) has announced the closing of an investment in C360, a Pittsburgh-based computer vision SaaS ...
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 ...
Something and Nothing, a London-based premium drinks company, has raised a total of £2.5M in an investment round that included ...
London-based renewable energy investment platform ...
Pembroke VCT has invested £1.5 million, alongside a number of angel investors, into accessible womenswear brand ...
Worldr, the zero trust architecture for the world’s most popular collaboration and communications platforms, is announcing that it has raised a total of $11 ...
Julia Elliott Brown, founder of Enter The Arena and author of ...
British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a commitment of up to £15m to ...
Howbout, a London-based startup that makes it easier for groups of friends to make plans, has raised a total of £1.92 million from investors including ...
TOffeeAM, the software company using artificial intelligence to design the super-green machines of the future, has successfully raised £5 million in ...
Cyber intelligence platform Lab 1 has announced a £1m funding round supported by MMC Ventures Co-Founder & Chairman and invest...
The call for public nominations has officially opened for the next prestigious Bold Woman Awards, celebrating incredible ...
A company based at Queen’s University, Belfast which has developed a potentially life-saving new cancer treatment is to invest almost £8m to take its first anti-cancer drug through a fi...
Log my Care - a fast-growing company whose software platform enables care homes and social care organisations to ‘go digital’ - has raised £3.25m in a funding round led by ...
The Startup Investor Accelerator has unveiled the six compa...
Fund Her North is celebrating its second birthday, having successfully closed 14 deals leveraging a total of £4.5m for female founded businesses, a...
Berlin: Apheris, the platform for creating collaborative data ecosystems, has raised €8.7m to further develop its u...
The tenth edition of the Global Green Finance Index (GGFI) evaluates the green finance offering of 84 financial centres. The GGFI serves as a va...
Nix and Kix, a low-calorie carbonated soft drink brand with a focus on natural, vegan ingredients, has received investment from one ...
EBAN has announced that yet another very successful edition of the European Angel Investment Summit was c...
Swedish electromobility and industrial tech startup STILRIDE has raised &...
Fast-growing consumer insights business Vypr has received an additional £3m of in...
Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on backing early-stage businesses led by exceptional founders and man...
Tech Nation, the UK’s leading growth platform for tech scaleups, has published its Climate Tech Report 2022, to she...
The CarCrowd is seeking £500k in angel investment. Please click here to see full information about this investment opportunity ...
The founders of Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi are new investors and advisors to one of social media’s most promising new stars, Supernova. ...
Electric vehicle subscription business Voltric has opened offices in Newport ahead of a seed fundraise. Established by chief executive Julian Mensah and...
UK-based gynaecological health startup Daye, which is known for having invented the CBD tampon that is now used by over 60,000 women in the UK, has completed a &...
Award winning, early stage Healthtech company, BlueSkeye AI Ltd, has secured £3.4m in funding to pursue its mission to improve people’s quality ...
Book Salon, a payment and booking service provider specializing in hair, bea...
Early stage businesses in North Wales are set to benefit from a new collaboration between Angels Invest Wales and busi...
Leapfunder is a Europe-wide, online angel club which aims to disrupt the long-standing models we are used to. We asked CEO Tienko Rasker to tell us more. ...
The British Business Bank has published a list of 67 additional companies in which the Future Fund holds an equity stake, taking the total to ...
Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS), a provider of highly realistic virtual reality healthcare training, has raised a further £2.1 million in a ...
New insurtech Peachy has raised $1.6m seed round from a number of angel investors from the insurance world, reflecting both the strength of Peachy...
Hedgehog, the fractional investing app making real-world investments accessible to a wider audience, has completed its crowdfunding round on Seedrs ah...
Archireef Limited, which is supported by Emirates Angels, an NGO focusing on angel investing and tech startups, is a Forbes Asia...
PBD Biotech, a Nottingham company which has devised a blood test that could revolutionise management of tuberculosis (TB), has raised a further £2.4m to ...
Two major research bodies will join a Development Bank-led research partnership to provide new insights and data-backed perspectives on the Welsh business environment. ...
Nova Pangaea Technologies, the Teesside-based Clean Tech business, has raised £5.25m in a funding round led by Mercia Asset Management Plc, ...
Smart Kiwi, the data intelligence platform for shared mobility companies, has raised £250k in a pre-seed round led by ...
Manchester based Versori has been funded by world-famous accelerator Y-Combinator for it's In...
Enhanc3D Genomics, a functional genomics company unlocking the full potential of the human 3D genome to transform therapeutic developmen...
Dorset Business Angels recently hosted their quarterly pitch event at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel. In a ‘Dragons type De...
The Development Bank of Wales has confirmed its third equity investment in Wagonex, the UK’s leading mobili...
Neil Cunningham, founder of MatchPoint Hospitality Group, has been appointed to the board of the world’s longest continually running investment syndicate, ...
Financial wellbeing platform Blackbullion has announced a £2.5m investment round to accelerate financial wellbeing for students. The new funding rou...
British technology company, Sunstone Systems, has ...
EBAN has launched the Manifesto For a Gender Balanc...
Net Purpose, a platform for sustainable investors, has raised £10 million in a Series A round led by ETF Partn...
Düsseldorf-based technology startup iFactory3D has announced the successful completion of a financing round on the investment platform ...
Bristol Private Equity Club is one of the leading investors into Bristol based tech startups, according to a new report from ...
Round 4 of the Green Angel Syndicate EIS & SEIS Climate Change Fund opened on Friday 1st July and closed on 22nd September, having exceeded its mi...
Archangels, the world’s longest continually running investment syndicate, has generated up to £1.4 billion Gross Value Added (GVA) for the Sc...
Catalyst is inviting budding entrepreneurs across Northern Ireland to apply to their Co-Founders pro...
Lawhive, the AI and data-driven Legaltech platform, has successfully raised $2M in seed funding to increase transparency and democratise...
Sküma Water has raised £300,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by early-stage focused venture capital firm...
Acurable, an award-winning wearable medical devices company, has announced an €11m investment as a result of its Series A funding round. The funds will be u...
Open banking-powered fintech Currensea has secured £2.4m from leading Venture Capitalists Blackfinch Ventures...
Building on its recent launch and in line with its growth plans for North America and Europe, KYP has announced the closure of its pre-seed funding round with total ...
Edinburgh startup, Gecko Glazing, has created an affordable, easily-installed al...
BVA BDRC's latest quarterly SME Finance Monitor findings shows that rising costs, the economic environment and climate change are contributing a stall in ...
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Innovate UK KTN has chosen 13 startups of ...
Pembroke VCT plc, the venture capital trust f...
Lisburn-based engineering company, Rock Extraction...
Signum Surgical, the medical technology company developing innovative solutions to tre...
Ronspot has raised €1.1 million in investment funding. The news follows the recent d...
Capital Pilot's Boost Fund 1, the first automated, high-volume fund for UK-based startups, has now reached its halfway milestone by completing the first ...
TRIB3, the fast-growing global boutique fitness franchise, has seen significant further investment from its board-level backers to expedite its expansion across t...
Investor James Muroch shares some thoughts on how the mini Budget this week is likely to affect seed funding in thre UK. I was wondering h...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network) a...
White Motorcycle Concepts (WMC), a Northampton start-up that has designed a unique hybrid motorcycle and is already grabbing the attention of UK p...
Aegiq, a start-up developing solutions to enable wide-scale adoption of quantum technologies around the world, ...
Kaiko Systems, a Berlin-based software startup digitizing maritime shipping, has completed a seed financing round of € 2 million....
Catalyst has announced a new partnership with global IT service provider Fujitsu, which has become its latest Platinum Partner. The two organisations plan t...
The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA), representing entrepreneurs, investors and ad...
AMPLY Discovery Limited has raised £900,000 in a mix of equity and grant funding to develop new drug products using its proprietary AI-driven drug di...
Swiss techbio company Hedera Dx, founded in 2021 by veteran healthcare entrepreneurs and executives, has raised €14m to ...
Cello has raised €2.3m in pre-seed funding, in a round led by byFounders, with participation from Tiny VC, Possible Ventures and Notion Capital;...
Female angel investors have helped drive more than £2bn of investment in companies across the UK in the past decade, a new study reveals today, a new study reveals today. ...
British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has an...
Catalyst has appointed three experienced non-executive directors to its board to help oversee the implementation of its new five-year strategy and further st...
Optalitix, the SaaS, data analysis and AI company that enables insurers to turn their legacy excel-based processes into online systems, has received £4m in a funding round led by ...
British Design Fund (BDF) is an early-stage investment fund that supports innovative, purpose-driven, British product businesses. Following the cl...
Par Equity has invested in a £2.2 million ...
Jobbatical has announced a €11.6m funding round, led by experienced Nordic VC Inventure, to meet the demands of the ann...
We chat with Susie Fisher, Investment Director at Kelvin Capital...
blinkwall, a business that has created and patented a digital multi-display solution that is powered by a mobile app and integrated into the smart-home ecosys...
Motorists in one of London’s biggest boroughs are set to benefit from a multi-million pound investment in on-street, residential, electric vehicle (EV) charging spaces. Barnet will see the in...
Body armour start-up Vikela Armour has been named as the winner of this year’s ...
Mindset AI - which helps businesses within the knowledge economy to ...
Wealth Club has announced realisations from two investments arranged by Seneca in the space of a month, r...
As part of its mission to tackle to UK funding gap for female-led UK businesses, Women Angels of the North, the all...
Radiology technology start-up Hexarad has completed its Series A funding round with an additional raise of £2.2 million. This is in addition to £2...
A Birmingham company which has developed a nature-based wastewater treatment solution has raised a further £2.3m to help establish itself as the technological leader in ‘circular’...
It is done! The press release on the completion of Republic’s purchase of Seedrs can be found on Angel News ...
Back a fast growing UK tech company. NewPath is seeking £500k from angel investors following a £1m equity fund raise. ...
Software company, Modern Democracy has secured a £700,000 investment round to facilitate further growth in the UK and international markets. ...
Bristol-based Anaphite, which is developing new technology to improve batteries for electric vehicles, has raised just under £1 million from ...
Economic Intelligence Wales has published its ...
Mavenoid, the leading hardware support platform, has secured $30 million in a Series B financing round led by Smedvig Capital. Previous investors, Creandu...
Thalamos, a platform digitising the Mental Health Act has raised a $1million (£900k) Seed Round, backed by ...
Ryft, the revolutionary PSD2 compliant payments system, has raised a large seed round, led by SF...
Emotions have a strong influence on purchasing decisions. Because of the growing popularity of assets with a strong focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals, scholars decided to lo...
Republic, the U.S. based private investment firm which operates the Republic investment platform, has announced the successful completion of the acquisition of ...
Ahead of the Accelerating Investment & Innovation S...
MiAlgae, an Edinburgh-based biotechnology start-up, has secured further investment of £2.3m to help drive the next stage of its growth journey. ...
Home entertainment and hospitality platform, HOMETAINMENT, has announced it has raised nearly £400,000 (£390,000) in funding through a crowdf...
Roleshare, creator of a unique job sharing marketplace and management platform, has announced a $1.2 million seed round from a notable slate of investors. R...
Since establishing in 2002 Invest NI has provided 66,000 offers of support to almost 15,000 businesses, and helped to create 125,000 jobs, with over two thir...
The British Business Bank thas announced new ENABLE Funding facility to Propel, one of the UK&rsqu...
In 2013 David Cameron supposedly ordered aides to ‘get rid of all the green crap’ from energy bills in a drive to bring down costs. Far from reducing fuel costs, this ensured the ...
A newly launched series of business support tailored to the needs of aspiring female entrepreneurs has been launched by MENTA Business Support across Norfolk...
2021 was a record year for investment for businesses at every stage of funding, from those going for the first round of funding to those seeking much later stage investments. The year closed out wi...
DrinkWell, the low-calorie alcohol retailer, has secured £1M investment from a private investor to fuel its ambit...
Occupational therapist Martina Tierney from Limavady has been named the Catalyst Impact Award Winner 2022 for her exceptional work with ...
The company behind a fast-growing online recruitment platform is planning to double in size after raising a further £2m in investment. ...
Insolvency figures released for July 2022* by the UK Government’s Insolvency Service showed corporate insolvencies at 1,827, up 67% compared to the same month last year (1,827 in July 2022 an...
Live and social shopping SaaS solution provider LiSA has raised €2.7 million investment in a seed round led by TechVision Fonds (TVF). The investment...
Seedrs, the leading private investment platform with over £2BN in investments recorded to date, has today launched the inaugural ...
GAS welcomed QLM to its portfolio in Spring 2021 and has now invested in a £12 million Series A funding round ...
Zero Carbon Capital has made a seed investment in ClimateCrop Ltd, an Israeli company using state-of-the-...
The British Design Fund is delighted to welcome two experienced investors to its Investment Committee. Meeting regularly to select the very best B...
Cambridge University spin out, GamGraPhic has raised £813,475 from Wealth Club clients through...
A proptech company which aims to be the ‘Airbnb for shared living’ has raised over £500,000 in additional funding from existing investors. Worceste...
Old Street Digital has closed a $2.8m Seed funding round led by Draper Associates. OSD is building an institutional ass...
VascVersa, an award winning, early-stage regenerative medicine spin out from Queen’s University in Belfast, has c...
Joshua Wohle is a EdTech/Learning enthusiast, advisor, investor. He was previously CPTO & co-Founder of SuperAwesome, the largest kidtech company in the world and is curr...
The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (The NSI Act) came into force on 4 January 2022. The act strengthens the UK Government’s power to scrutinise transactions on grounds of national ...
New data from Tech Nation reveals that nearly a quarter of UK tech companies are making it to Series C or an exit in 2022, but warns that these large liquidity ...
A specialist business support organisation is celebrating after leveraging more than £25m in investment for North East companies in the last three years. ...
Spotting the next ‘big thing’ in the UK’s $1.6 trillion commercial property market is no mean feat. Rising to the challenge, ...
Clean Food Group - a pioneering UK-based food-tech business developing cultivated food, has announced that it is one step closer to producing a viable yeast-b...
Gatenox, the UK-based provider of corporate client verified credentials, has raised a seven-figure amount from ...
The British Business Bank has published a ...
The Bank of England has put interest rates up from 1.25% to 1.75%, the biggest increase in rates for years. It is the...
As the fourth round of the British Design Fund comes to a close at the end of July it has welcomed two experie...
In this final part of our series, we asked our five investors about the most important lessons they have learnt along their crowdfunding journey, what they see happening in the futu...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment...
Interest rates may be edging upwards, but the average interest rate on a savings account is still less than 1% according to MoneySupermarket.com. ...
Hypetex, the world’s first manufacturer of coloured carbon fibr...
BGF has appointed Andy Gregory, current Chief Investment Officer, as Chief Executive Officer, effective on 1 September 2022. Stephen Welton, Executive Chair, will step up to Non-Executive Chair eff...
New data released by Innovate Finance, the industry body representing the FinTech community in the UK, reveals t...
Passionfruit has raised $4.3m with the support of firstminute Capital and ...
The latest figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) show that inheritance tax receipts received by HMRC increased by £300 million to £1.8bn in the three months pe...
Revolutionary synthetic diamond production business, Dyman Advanced Materials, based at the ...
WiseWorks AI, the communications intelligence platform, has secured a $1.2m investment to build a one-stop solution for financial institutions to analyse surging...
Demand for funding from early-stage businesses in Northern Ireland remains strong, with more than 20 co-investment deals closed in the second quarter of this year, according to the managers of the ...
Investors with an interest in space innovation recently joined representatives from across government, industry and academia, at a special event held in Norfolk showcasing the developing area of 'S...
Hintsa Performance, a global leader in high-performance coaching ...
The tech sector was not what it is today when most angel investors graduated from university. This is why, in the UK especially, the majority of angel investors have backgrounds in traditional indu...
University spinouts [1] that emerged from research council investments and receive funding from both the British Business Bank and Innovate UK are more likely to have better business and emplo...
The 2022 awards recognise the outstanding achievements of early stage investors and the busi...
In part 3, our five investors share what they have learned about risk and reward approach, use of funds and asset allocation. Knowing your limitations – whether they are finan...
Investment Opportunity: With population projections of 10 billion by 2050, crop yields will need to increase by over 60 per cent to meet future food demand. ...
Zeed, the first-ever investment platform that uses short-form video to empower Gen-Z investors in Europe, has secured £205,000 in pre-seed funding led by SF...
Further, a London-based startup has launched its investment platform, designed to connect retail investors with high-quality venture capital funds, at sca...
This month we talked to Jonathan Matlock, a serial investor in deep science and founder of Science Angel Syndicate, about the ...
In the second part in our series about what makes crowdfunding investors tick, our five investors reveal more about their investment strategies, including the platforms they prefer to use...
Virtual event and communities platform SCOOCS has raised €1 million from business angel Sebastian Loh. The funding will be used to develop the platform further...
PhysioMedics is poised to scale its commercial operations after securing growth capital from investors led by Archangels, the world’s longest conti...
Birmingham-based smart-EV and energy storage startup ...
Konsileo, the commercial insurance broker and risk management adviser, has completed a £4.7 million Series A funding round. The round was led by ...
About:Energy, a spinout founded from battery research at Imperial College London and the University of Birmingham, has closed its pre-seed funding round tha...
Magical Mushroom Company, the sustainable packaging challenger harnessing the magic of mushrooms, has raised &...
SFC Capital, the UK’s most active seed-stage investor, has received a further £5 million commitment from British Business Investments to invest int...
Beanstalk, the family app that invests for your kids, has exceeded its crowdfunding target with new investments taking the company into overfunding ahead of...
Manchester based early-stage investor Praetura Ventures has announced an additional £5m funding commitment from ...
Entrepreneurs, founders and adventurers are being given the chance to live pitch for investment and sponsorship available at the Blue Earth ...
Data Access Governance software firm Torsion Information Security has closed a £1.1 million funding round co-led by Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund, Juno ...
Cytomos, an Edinburgh-based life science company that has developed a proprietary new approach to analysing cells, has secured £1.6m funding t...
More and more people are turning their hand to crowdfunding these days. Some do it for fun, some see it as an important part of their overall investment portfolio and others see it as a good ...
Pembroke VCT plc, the venture capital trust focused on backin...
Par Equity has supported 12 high growth technology companies in the first quarter of 2022 and has made record investments in the past year of £31.4m, ...
Insurtech startup BirdsEyeView has closed a seed funding round led by SFC Capital, with the funds match...
Startups across the UK are being invited to enter a competition to practice their pitching skills, get connected with investors, and win prizes worth more than £10k plus a money-can’t-b...
Journee, the online tour operator that matches people with experiential trips to mystery destinations, has secured £1.75 million in...
Equity investment in the UK’s smaller businesses increased by 88% in 2021 to £18.1bn compared to the previous year, the highest yearly amount since the Beauhurst data series began in 20...
SithSwap, a next-generation automated market maker (AMM) on StarkNet, has successfully raised $2.65 million at a $25 million valuation in a seed funding round le...
London and Malta based fintech CityFALCON closed an equity fundraising campaign on Seedrs of £1...
Calculus has invested in Riff Raff Entertainment (RRE), co-founded by BAFTA Award-winning and Academy Award®-nominated actor Jude Law and cr...
Sonrai Analytics, an emerging global innovator in AI Cloud Data Analytics, has announced a ‘seed plus’ funding round of £2.175 million t...
Spirea Limited, a Cambridge company created to advance a new generation of antibody drug conjugate (ADC) therapeutics, has announced that it has secured fundin...
The team behind REAP Bikes has received widespread support from the cycling community reaching their initial crowdfunding target of £300,000. ...
Sky is anchoring a new £100m ‘operator-first’ venture capital fund powered by Founders Factory that will champion early-stage entreprene...
With more than 4 million companies registered in the UK and over 500,000 new companies incorporated each year...
Hiphops, which automates the complex business of releasing code, has raiseda $3.5 million pre-seed round co-led by f...
Rayon, the space design software ...
An increase in the overall volume and value of deals coupled with high levels of co-investment in Welsh businesses has resulted in a strong performance by the ...
Machine learning-led decarbonisation platform Ecolibrium has today launched its revolutionary sustainability solution in the UK, as the race to reduce carbon...
Sharesy, an organisation revolutionising the venue-hire marketplace platform for community spaces, has received investment from ...
Merge, has raised $9.5 million in a seed round to develop its API-based banking and payments platform, bridging the gap between fiat and crypto ecosystems....
Let’s Do This has raised $60 million Series B funding, bringing its mission to 'inspire people across the world to come together to exper...
Ten start-ups from Northern Ireland have each won £10,000 proof of concept grants to further develop their innovative ideas after successfully completing ...
Kita, the world’s first carbon insurer, has raised a heavily oversubscribed £350k pre-seed round led by Ins...
The first-ever online marketplace for allotments – AllotMe – has unveiled plans for rapid expansion after securing more than £250,000 inve...
African business leaders are expecting the entrepreneurial spirit to take off across the continent over the next three years on the back of an improved environment ...
A Stamford entrepreneur who aims to disrupt the dry-cleaning industry by installing automated drop-off points in shopping centres and railway stations has raised £550,000. ...
Louis Taylor has been appointed CEO of the British Business Bank, the UK’s economic development bank, and will take up the role from 1 October. Louis Taylor is currently CEO of UK Export Fina...
Smile Plastics raised £980k from Green Angel Syndicate members, the GAS ...
UK-based space services startup, Gravitilab, is on a mission to make conducting research in space more accessible and affordable. The company...
Stamp Free Limited, the digital postage company, has raised £600k in an oversubscribed funding round as the business progresses towards the commercial...
Kapaga, the UK-based cross-border payment platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has announced a £1.5m funding round led by ...
GivePenny Technologies, a West Midlands company which has developed a unique charity fundraising platform has secured £1.25m in investment to ...
Aramune Technologies has raised £800,000 of new equity funding to develop an industrial-scale process for manufacturing its first product. ...
DNA-based biodiversity monitoring company NatureMetrics has raised $15m in new funding. The investment is led by urban sustainability-focused VC fund ...
Flexa Careers, the platform bringing transparency to the hiring market, has raised a £2...
Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, has announced a £1m funding boost to the LCR Angel Network in a bi...
SFC Capital has made a new investment in ...
Oxford Drug Design Limited (ODD), a biotechnology company with a proprietary computational and machine learning platform, has raised ...
Challenger bank, Recognise Bank, will benefit from £8.7 million in new capital following the latest successful round of fund raising by the City...
James Murdoch reviews how his investments have fared in the last 12 months. My first investment on Seedrs was in 2013, some 9 years ago. In 2017-18 I extended my investments to Syndicate Ro...
Biotangents, a Scottish biotechnology business, has secured £2.2m of new funding made up from £1.6m from the UK Government’s Innovate ...
Green Angel Syndicate has backed a £2.5m funding raising in Salford Valve Company Ltd (Salvalco), alongside ...
Three University of Birmingham students who developed a software platform that cuts the time taken by teachers to mark maths and science papers have raised £800,000 to help them commercialise...
Catalyst has unveiled a new strategy for the next five years which it believes will generate significant economic benefits for Northern Ireland by enabling ...
Cyscale, a graph-based cloud security analysis company, ha...
Archangels, the world’s longest running business angel investment syndicate, based in Edinburgh, has appointed Ian Macleod as the new chair of its...
Mayku, an organisation that is redefining the manufacturing industry for small businesses with their platform to allow creators to access machines, materials and...
Green Angel Syndicate has received a further £5m commitment from British Business Investments, bringing i...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network) syndciates have led a €1.925M investment in Galway-based start-up, ...
Process Vision, a technology company developing specialist pipeline monitoring solutions to detect contamination in the...
Guider has raised $3M seed inves...
FourJaw, whose manufacturing data analytics platform is unlocking five-fold increases in shopfloor productivity, has secured a second round of angel investment an...
A Birmingham company which has developed a novel dry powder coating technology that opens up new possibilities in pharmaceutical manufacturing has completed a £1m funding round led by DSW Ven...
Green Angel Syndicate has been awarded the Green Finance category of the Better Socie...
The British Design Fund, which is dedicated to supporting, mentoring and investing exclusively in early-stage purpose-led pro...
Mustard Kick is the family office of successful entrepreneurs Chris Lord and his business partner to make ange...
RideTandem, a mobility-as-a-service startup providing affordable and reliable transport solutions for people affected by “transport po...
Nossa Data, the fintech start-up that is helping corporates to streamline their ESG reporting, has raised a £1.2m seed r...
tell.money, the fintech platform that delivers innovative and rapidly deployable Open Banking solutions for banks and other account providers, has closed its g...
The One Planet Pizza team first pitched to the Anglia...
A record £1.3bn value in UK agri-tech deals was reached in 2021*, showing sustained interest in technologies that offer solutions to the challenges of rising input costs, food security and en...
Tim Mills, Managing Partner of ACF Investors, about the ups and downs of angel investing and the important role that angels continue to play in backing a...
Quin AI, a predictive AI startup founded by two sisters, Gonca Gulser and Gulsah Gulser, has raised £582K funding led by ...
Bluezone, an insurtech reinventing life insurance for people with chronic illnesses has announced a £1.5m seed round led by ...
Oliver Woolley of Envestors makes the case for becoming an angel investor and why now is a good time to jump into the pool. Data suggests Brits are resigning at the highest rat...
Panthera Biosciences (Panthera) has secured £10 million of investment from BGF and ...
MitoRx Therapeutics secures investment from Science Angel Syndicate to develop its first-in-cl...
Science Angel Syndicate co-founders, Dr Ben Miles and Dr Johnathan Matlock will be joining the Advisory Board of ...
The number of first-time funding rounds into UK seed-stage startups remained flat in 2021, despite venture capital overall seeing another record year of fun...
Fearless Adventures invests in D2C (direct to consumer) startups, and its co-founder is ...
Employee benefits platform Juno has raised $4m to transform outdated ‘work perks’ schemes by empowering employees to choose benefits...
52 North Health, a UK and US-based med-tech start-up, has raised £1 million in its first round of funding from leading UK and European specialist inv...
Gannon's Catherine Ramsay asks "what are the key issues and pitfalls encountered where a company is reorganising and it has subsisting enterprise management...
Wait… wait… wait… waaiiit… Buy!What is inflation going to do to the angel investment market, or the VC market for that matter?The smart mon...
ETAP, an insurtech startup that makes it easier to buy and claim insurance, has secured $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to grow its team and drive the ado...
Arbor Steel has raised £200,000 in a pre-seed funding round from angel investors to bring its digital identity citadel to customers. ...
Scotland’s leading impact investor, SIS Ventures, has secured £1 million for its pioneering investment fund – Impact First - from ...
Green Angel Syndicate, the UK's largest network of specialist investors fighting climate change, has invested in a £3.8m investment round into ...
SETsquared Bristol member LatchAid, an award winning breastfeeding and early parenthood support in...
Since 1994, Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) have been an important tool in the investors’ kit, but many potential investors worry that EIS-eli...
It's Easter, and James Murdoch wonders if perhaps it's time for investors to think of being kinder to failed entrepreneurs. “A book...
By Peter Finnie, partner and patent a...
Turning car finance on its head putting consumers in the driving seat, ...
DBIC Ventures has led a €1.6M funding round in industry cloud CRM company, C...
State-of-the-art start-ups came face-to-face with influential investors at an innovative pitch event filmed by University of Essex students. ...
A start-up inspired by an adventurous granny and co-designed by a team of retirees has raised £1.1m in funding to tackle the loneliness epidemic amongst older people. ...
Catalyst has announced a new partnership with all-island female entrepreneurial community, ...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has made a £150k investment in ...
UK law firm Shoosmiths has sponsored the 2022 Gender Index report, with fi...
Northern Ireland investors must commit to doing more to support female led businesses and encourage entrepreneurship among women if they want to ensure t...
Capital Pilot Advisory has launched its Boost Fund 1 to invest in high-growth UK startups using a unique automated selection and completion process....
Green Angel Syndicate Founder and President Nick Lyth asks whether the monetary cost of reaching Net Zero is just too much to bear. ...
Patrick Pichette, a partner at Inovia Capital and an active environmentalist through his directorship of the Kenauk Institute, shares his views on what entrepre...
Biomedical startup Adapttech has raised £2.25&n...
Climate change investor, Climate VC, an 80% angel backed fund which launched only last week, has made three new investments. ...
Olivia Sibony is Head of Impact and International Partnership at Angel Investment Network (AIN), the largest angel investment community i...
Koolen Industries, the clean energy investor headed by Kees Koolen, has invested in ParkBee, the leading tech p...
Oliva, an advanced workplace mental health platform founded in 2020, has raised £4.84 million seed funding. The round was led by Stride VC, a see...
Lawyer-free UK divorce services company amicable has secured a further £1.2m in funding, led by ...
Monterosa has raised £3.5m ($4.5M USD) of growth capital to accelerate development of its Real-time Engagement (RTE) platform and drive the company&rsq...
The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 raised concerns that it would result in a collapse in business angel investing causing the loss of an entire generation of early-stage companies....
BeamUP, Ltd, the AI platform that designs and manages enterprise building systems, has launched with a $15M round of seed investment led by Israel-based StageOn...
Two of Green Angel Syndicate's portfolio companies have been nominated for this year’s prestigious ...
The Clean Growth Fund, a venture capital fund investing in the most promising early-stage UK clean technology ventures, has closed its first fund with...
Climate change investor, Climate VC, has launched to exert a gigatonne scale impact on climate change in the next decade and influ...
The London Technology Club (LTC), the leading community for investment opportunities in the technology sector, has launched LTC Dubai, its first ...
Sano Genetics, co-founded by three University of Cambridge genomics postgraduates, has raised $11M in a Series A funding round led by ...
East Kilbride based FreeFlow Technologies (FFT), which has developed a light power to weight e-Bike motor, is moving into production following th...
A technology company that specialises in developing software for the renewables industry has secured new investment to accelerate its product development. Bristol-ba...
Innovatium, a Scottish technology business focused on reducing the carbon impact of industrial processes, has secured over £900,0...
Lune, which aims to change this by offering an API and s...
Anglesey-based online events platform, Haia celebrates this week with the announcement of significant investment deals from early-stage funder ...
On the 16th March, UK Government made the following announcement: "New, long-term environmental targets have been announced by the government today. The proposed targets are a cornerstone of th...
Global Data from ...
Wastewater treatment and bioenergy company, WASE, has raised £400,000, to be followed by a further £300,000, following closure of th...
James Murdoch investigates the use of secondary markets as a risk management tool. My articles advocate spreading risk i.e. not putting all the eggs into one basket. Hence...
Gabriel Investments was founded in 2012, with the aim of helping entrepreneurs make the leap to first-stage funding by creating disciplined, high-growth bus...
Award-winning hybrid studio and digital fitness platform BLOK has secured £3.75m in a funding round led by ...
Experienced equity investor Duncan Gray has been appointed as Technology Venture Investments Director following a successful period of growth in the Develop...
CorkBIC will host an all-Europe angel reunion at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork, on 18th and 19th May in the presence o...
Par Equity...
Green Angel Syndicate, the UK's largest network of specialist investors fighting climate change, has welcomed Glaia to its portfolio. Glaia, the start...
Green Angel Syndicate, the UK's largest network of specialist investors fighting climate change, has invested in ...
Par Equity has announced their continued support...
Beep, which has created a unique digital campus card, allowing university students to gain door and facilities access around campus via a smartphone, has sec...
Tonic Health, a natural healthcare company that combines all-in-one vitamins, minerals and plants into a drink that fuels the immune system to help end unn...
WAPG is seeking £3 million - £6 million for its Pioneer Life Sciences EIS Knowledge Inten...
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, Judith Hartley, CEO of British Patient Capital, comments on the need for more diversity wi...
Solivus, a pioneering clean tech firm, has closed a £2.3m raise on Crowdcube...
Investment in Northern Ireland tech firms reached its highest level ever in 2021, hitting over £100m, with the number of deals and a...
Angel Academe has made a significant follow-on investment in Provenance, the leading tech platform to tackle greenwas...
An award-winning entrepreneur has raised a further £1.3m for her software platform which helps companies manage complex rebate and price incentive schemes....
WellFish Diagnostics, a new spinout company from the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is set to trans...
Just three months after its pre-seed round, an impressive group of Europe’s leading food tech entrepreneurs, startup founders and investors have joined Berlin food tech company, ...
Konstantin Sidorov, a long-time angel investor and the Founder and Chief Exec of the London Technology Club (LTC...
Ingenion Medical Limited is seeking investment of up to £2 million to support its ongoing product development and commercialisation of its 1st...
Green Angel Syndicate (GAS), the UK's largest network of specialist investors fighting climate change, has led a £1.9 million funding round in s...
Fast growing Edtech startup Vygo has raised £1.5m in a pre-seed funding round supported by ...
British Business Bank's Small Business Finance Markets 2021/22 report highlights a surge in equity investment into smaller UK businesses last year. £14bn was invested over the first three qua...
Fox Robotics, an agritech company specialising in the development, manufacture and sale of autonomous robots in agriculture, has received investment from mult...
Financial Crime Intelligence startup Schwarzthal Tech has raised £150,000 in a pre-seed funding round from SFC Capi...
Wave power specialists Mocean Energy have secured major new investment to accelerate the commercial roll-out of their ground-breaking wave energy technology...
Delio has raised a further $8.3m to enable angel networks and fellow financial institutions to create greater investor access to alternative assets such as...
Our member and University of Bristol spin-out, FluoretiQ, has today announced the completion of a £1.1 million, pre-series A i...
Detected, the critical infrastructure component for global KYB compliance, has raised an additional £1.5 million in just three weeks, adding ...
The Oxford Innovation EIS Growth Fund 2 is open for investment until 31 March 2022. It offers the opportunity to invest in a portfolio of high-potential scienc...
Are you looking for financial returns, benefit from excellent tax breaks, and have a positive impact on society and the environment? Impact investment firm ...
Gigamine, a UK start-up, is developing technology and solutions to provide lithium-ion battery recycling that will deliver a step chan...
Wild Cosmetics, a design-led personal care start-up who pioneered the UK’s first plastic-free refillable deodorant in 2019 has...
Umazi, the due diligence platform automating enterprise identity verification, has secured $1m investment from ...
Semarion Ltd, a University of Cambridge spin-out company from the Cavendish Laboratory...
Backbone, a platform powering game streaming and core gaming on mobile d...
Babbu, an early development ed-tech company that has launched an online nursery app to support the parents and guardians of children...
SpaceBands, a company that creates wearable technology solutions to make workplaces safer by tracking social ...
Modwenna Rees-Mogg considers the storm clouds gathering across the angel market. Should you buy a helmet made of gold or heave to with the ...
James Murdoch shares insights on the performance of his investments A year ago, I looked at my new Syndicate Room Access EIS Fund and it is time to look at its perfor...
Envestors, the marketplace for early-stage investing, has published the results of its research into the Real Returns of Angel Investing. ...
A young British business owner who was declared “Britain...
John Deane and Alex Kennedy of Gannons e...
A Northumberland-based AgriTech firm has secured a six-figure investment and received innovation grant funding to transform how farmers and rural landowners m...
A doctor who has developed an app to help reduce anxiety in children undergoing surgery has raised £1.5m from NPIF – ...
Gabriel IS has completed an exit deal with Scottish biotech business ...
Atelerix, a business at the forefront of cell preservation with aims to revolutioni...
Angel Academe has made its latest investment is in&n...
Chris Trotter from Clarendon Fund Managers sheds some light on why Northern Ireland's tech sector is attracting the attention of investors - from angel...
CybExer Technologies, a NATO-awarded cyber range company with global customers spanning international defence organisations, financial institution...
Nous (to rhyme with ‘house’) a London-based fintech start-up, has raised a $9m seed financing round to build out i...
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Investment Opportunity: Kynder, the worlds first percentage based fundraising platform, is seeking s £250,000 to support its expans...
Oskare Capital is seeking investment for the first ever EIS and SEIS fund targeting the Medical and Pharmaceutical Cannabis sector....
GreenTribe, a seed fund for companies making a positive impact to our environment, the planet and society, is raising up to £10m. Join the gre...
The entrepreneur behind a new property management platform COHO has raised £275,000 to establish it as the ‘Airbnb for shar...
AI-driven cancer detection platform C the Signs has raised £5,000,000 in Series-A funding from MMC, Ataraxia an...
As aisle-3 prepares its early consumer launch, founders of the London-based eCommerce start-up have confirmed they are accelerating the rel...
Intelligent energy management and storage technologies specialist, Verlume, has received a £2.5m investment from a consortium led by ...
Dorset Business Angels have hosted their quarterly online pitch event where members hear from five businesses looking for funding. ...
Achille Traore, CEO of White Label Loyalty discusses the important role that international investors can play in he...
The team behind the UK’s first female urinal have raised £250,000 in their first funding round, as they strive to pioneer ‘pee-equality’ for women and make...
A new social app built for sports fans, Sportening, has officially launched out of beta stage after raising £5.3million in seed funding, with a significa...
Green Angel Syndicate (GAS) is the UK's largest network of specialist investors fighting climate change. Since it was launched in its prese...
The Quantum Group, a leading fintech investment incubator, delivering regulated financial solutions through a range of core products, including state-of-the-art security ...
Cauldron was labelled one of ...
Britain’s new wave of entrepreneurs need to avoid falling into the trap of entitlement in our online era says Jeb Buckler, the founder...
Climate-Tech innovator AgriSound has secured funding through Anglia Capital Group, a leading group of busines...
REHAUS, a marketplace dedicated to matching pre-owned designer furniture with new owners, has announced the launch o...
The Allergen Neutral™ skincare brand, Oodee has raised £700,000 supported by ...
Green Angel Syndicate has closed the 3rd round of its EIS Climate Change Fund, more than 50% ahead of its target – setting a new fundraising record for the Fund. Its...
Before the pandemic struck, 2019 had been a high point in the angel investment market in Scotland, with a record number of deals and a record £86 million invested. The market slowed i...
Vertical Future Limited, , which grows crops without soil and with artificial light, has successfully completed a £21m Series-A Equity Fundraise f...
Smartia, the leading UK industrial intelligence technology company, announced a £1.7m investment, led by 24Haymarket...
The UAE-based company Takalam has raised $1 million in funding that was led by Emirates Angels members. A group of Emirates Angels’ members have invested along with Nowaisi Investments, Plug ...
DSW Ventures, the venture capital business and a partner in British Business Investments’ £100m Regional Angels Programme, has opened a new office in Manche...
Streetwear mystery box start-up HEAT has closed a multi-million dollar seed round with investors including global venture capital investor ...
The former director of Digital Catapult in Northern Ireland has joined Catalyst as its Director of Strategic Business Development, a new role created to hel...
Skiller Whale, the online live training platform that marries skills assessment with small expert-led classes tailored to upskill tech teams, has raised a $2...
Sustainable delivery pioneers, Zedify, have raised £1.2m to support their growth into cities across the UK, in a round led by ...
While 2021 may have been defined by survival, 2022 presents an opportunity for growth. Jordan Dargue, co-founder of ...
Online education company FourthRev has raised $8 million. The lead investor is ...
Nick Lyth, Founder and President of Green Angel Syndicate – the UK's largest specialist network of investors fighting climate change – takes an in-depth look at carbon markets. ...
Par Equity has more than doubled its annual investment into innovative technology businesses, from £12m in 2020 to £25m last year. This was in a...
1Password, the leader in human-centric security, has closed a $620 million (USD) Series C that raises the company’s valuation to $6.8 billion. Led...
A ground-breaking female-led business network has defied the pandemic and helped more than 130 businesswomen launch disruptiv...
Swedish technology and design startup STILRIDE has raised £2.5m to produce sustainable electric motorcycles and scooters using a ground...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active growth capital investor, has led a £2.5 million investment round into sustainable female underwear brand, ...
University of Sheffield spinout company Aegiq has secured seed investment from an investor syndicate led by...
Nick Lyth, Founder & President of Green Angel Syndicate asks if the news about the closure of impact investment firm puts other similar investment companies under the microscope. Yester...
HBAN, the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment and a joint initiative between Enterprise Ireland, InterTradeIreland...
BDO LLP has advised on the acquisition of HPCi Media, a leading B2B publisher, specialising in cosmetics, b...
Cognism, the globally compliant international sales intelligence provider has secured $87.5 million in funding led by new investor ...
Vienna-based GoStudent, which provides one-to-one video-based online tutoring, raised €300M in Series D funding led by new investor P...
Inflexion Private Equity Partners supported 97 new investment opportunities for its portfolio in 2021, helping to d...
Deepbridge Capital portfolio company AlgaeCytes has secured €16m of funding to develop a commercial plant...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor, has announce details of its 2021 investment activity that mark a record year for the firm and underline it...
Green Angel Syndicate (GAS) has sold Zeigo, a climate tech platform that helps as many businesses as possible gain ac...
Innovative automation focused mining equipment manufacturer Tribe Technology Group has closed a substantial Series A funding round which will be used t...
A strategically differentiated supplier of premium mountain bike and crossover brands, Silverfish UK Limited, which supplies some of the most desi...
Arctic Shores, the psychometric assessment pioneers, have received £1.5m in venture debt funding from Silicon Vall...
LoopMe, a leading brand-focused mobile advertising platform, has announced Mayfair Equity Partners, a leading tec...
A Middlesborough-based vinyl pressing company, Press on Vinyl, is set to disrupt the growing vinyl record market after raising £475,0...
Innovate Finance, the industry body representing the UK FinTech sector, has kicked off 2022 with a further strengthening of its Board, including the appo...
Ian Connatty, Managing Director, Co-investment and direct investments at Brit...
Software specialist Carebeans Limited has established an office in Monmouth, Wales, having secured a significant six-figure equit...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has agreed the sale [1] of Ca...
KYND, a leading provider of pioneering cyber risk management solutions for the insurance industry, has announced a &p...
Foresight Group LLP has made a £4m investment into Newsflare Limited from its VCT funds, together with an...
A ground-breaking female-led business network has defied the pandemic and helped more than 130 businesswomen launch disruptive tech companies in ...
Circularity Capital LLP, the specialist private equity firm supporting growth stage European SMEs in the circular ec...
Private equity firm Palatine has announced a raft of promotions reflecting the team’s contribution over the past 12 months, which saw ...
Sanctus, one of the first organisations in the UK to offer proactive mental health support through 1-2-1 coaching for employees in the workplace, has closed a &pou...
ProVerum Limited, an Irish medical device company developing a minimally invasive solution to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in the doctor's...
Myzone, the global manufacturer of wearable fitness tracking technology, has secured a 17.2 million dollar investment from BGF...
CONXAI, the first No Code AI Platform for the AEC industry, has raised €2.7m ($3m) in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Earlybird and Pi Labs, Europe&rsq...
Two sport and exercise scientists who established ART Health Solutions, an app to improve employee wellbeing and performance have raised £80...
Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) investment manager Deepbridge Capital has now deployed over £100m of capital via the Deepbridge Technology Gr...
Vala Capital, the entrepreneur-led venture capital firm, ...
Brainomix, the AI-powered medtech solutions company, has closed a series B financing round, raising £16M ($21.2M) to fund its expansion into new marke...
Hypi, the London-based SaaS platform that makes no-code app development accessible to ever...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £5.5 million funding round for Liftango, a cloud-based technology platform...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and a joint initiative of Enterprise ...
Plastron UK Ltd, a specialist in safe operations for the NewSpace industry, has signed up to the national SPRINT (SPace Re...
After an impressive pitch to the Angel Investors from Anglia Capital Group, WATR successfully secured funding fo...
Praetura Group, the North West-based debt and equity capital provider to small and medium sized businesses, has celebrated a record £253m year as demand ...
MMC Ventures, the leading UK Series A investor, has promoted three individuals to its senior leadership team, and added a partner, following a record year in 2021 &nda...
Connection Capital, the specialist private client alternative investments business, saw its highest ever levels of demand from private investor cl...
Onoco, the parenting app designed to help organise families through planning, documenting infant care and tracking their development, has raised...
Scalpel, a healthcare services company that automates surgical protocols using sensor-driven event detection technology, has received investment from ...
Future Fertility, a fertility technology company developing AI-enabled and non-invasive fertility solutions to optimize clinical decision making in fertil...
Foresight Group, a leading listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has announced a £3.5 million investment into ...
The Association of Investment Companies has launched a new guide to investment companies...
Bristol-based technology start-up, Matter, has just completed a successful Pre-Series A investment round securing $0.5m of new funding from ...
24Haymarket, the London and Edinburgh-based private capital group, has secured a £10m commitment from ...
Livingbridge has invested in UK-based Quorum Cyber, a lead...
Cognomie, the Mental Fitness start-up, has raised £385,000 in its firs...
Richard Hope, Managing Director and Head of EMEA at Hamilton Lane, says 2021 set sector records and the big challenges for private equity in 2022 will be...
Guernsey Finance has strengthened its Strategy & Technical team, appointing Henry Freeman as Strategic Advisor....
The application window for Sheffield Hallam University’s latest ...
Experienced investor, lender and adviser Stephen Murray has joined YFM Equity Partners, which has offices in Bir...
Edinburgh-based angel syndicate, Equity Gap, has reached a £25m investment milestone following its most successful year to date. ...
£100m of private funding has been made available to a new-generation internet service provider on a mission to provide hypersonic broadband access to 1,...
ape2o, a company that is looking to eradicate bottled water waste by setting up a network of sophisticated vending machines for ‘on the ...
A Newcastle-based entrepreneur with ambitions to disrupt the online dating industry has raised £225,000 in a bid to create a dating platform with user safety at it...
Fast growing, international web hosting business, Miss Group...
To help founders navigate the complex world of fund raising Oliver Woolley of Envestors has provided an overview to help ...
MedKitDoc, a German telemedicine platform, has raised 7 mi...
Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel investment group, led investments totalling a record £23.7m in prom...
Two London entrepreneurs who pivoted their mobile phone charging business into a successful mobile order and pay app and hand sanitiser network as the pandemic hit, generating ...
Silverfleet has announced that Arcline Investment Management has undertaken t...
A UK business which aims to transform industry with its internet of things software platform has raised £2.1m to accelerate its international expansion....
One of the UK’s largest independent Oracle partners, DSP-Explorer, a database and cloud managed services provide...
Leading insurance software solutions provider, Genasys, has announced a major investment of £12.25M from leading software Scale-Up investor, ...
Global venture capital firm Antler is set to enter 2022 in robust health, having closed its new UK fund beyond its initial target of $30m. This update follows t...
Talion, a leading cybersecurity specialist that provides services for some of the UK’s bi...
Warwick Acoustics – the Midlands-based company which aims to disrupt the delivery of entertainment within the next...
QVentures has made an investment into Alectro, a Virtual Sustainability Officer...
Pirum Systems, a leading provider of post-trade automation and collateral management technology for the global securities finance industry, announces that ...
Inflexion Private Equity Partners has launched a Healthcare Advisory Board to help shape its investment strategy and drive value across healthcare investmen...
UK-based auto fintech startup Bumper has raised $12M in Ser...
Stoke-On-Trent business Wade Ceramics, has secured a £400,000 investment to help safeguard its...
Seedrs and Republic, the major US private investing platform founded in 2016, have on 2 December 2021 announced Republic’s purchase of Seedrs. Repub...
Karmacist, the world’s first nutrigenomics-based wellness supplement, has closed a £700k pre-seed investment led by ...
After a very busy year for the angel market in the UK, Modwenna Rees-Mogg asks what there is to look forward to in 2022? The angel market is changing or perhaps has already changed. T...
BGF has made a £8 million investment in Operational Solutions Ltd (OSL), a leading counter drone tech...
Circularity Capital has continued to build its portfolio of European growth-stage businesses enabling the circular economy, with an £8m investm...
The national SPRINT (SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology) business support programme has been awarded additional funding worth £200,00...
Atom Learning, the fast-growth adaptive learning edtech platform, announces that it has raised $25m in a Series A round led by ...
The Startup Race Accelerator has launched a call for submissions for its hackathon, a new opportunity in advance of its £10,000 Startup Race, wh...
Autentica, a disruptive tech start-up has raised over £150,000 of investment – and is set to make 20 key hires by the end of 2022 &ndas...
gigl, a video-based job platform on a mission to solve the UK hospitality staffing shortage, has closed a $1.5m round. gigl’s mo...
Salisbury-based LENA Space, an SME chemical rocket propulsion product development company, has signed up to the national SPRINT ...
Glucose Republic (GR) has raised a £500,000 investment round from leading equity investors Deepbridge C...
Oxwash, leading on-demand laundry service provider, which closed a £500,000 crowdfunding capital raise last month, has announced that they are aimin...
Leading digital training solutions provider, WELL Training (WELL), has secured £625,000 funding from ...
The renowned University of Cambridge Impulse Programme, created to nurture the brilliant minds of international academia, business and...
Easol, the leading experience commerce platform, is announcing an investment of $25 million from Tiger Global with participation from existing investors Notion Capi...
Investment into the UK’s property technology (‘proptech’) sector has reached record levels in 2021 and more than quadrupled since last year, as the growing sector matures. ...
The UK based FinTech group, SPG that owns and operates Shieldpay and ...
Landscape, t...
The ‘creator economy,’ decentralized finance, supercharged supply chains, ARM-based chips, and the metaverse virtual playground are among ten key trends that will drive digital transfor...
Angel Investment Network (AIN), the world’s largest online angel investment platform, has seen significant annual growt...
lool ventures, an early stage investor ba...
Beechbrook Capital has achieved a first close on its third UK ...
Philippe Thomas, CEO at ...
NPIF - Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) h...
WATI.io (WhatsApp Team Inbox), a comprehensive WhatsApp customer engagement tool for small businesses, has raised $8.3Mn in Series A led by Sequoia Capital India ...
Antler, a global early-stage venture capital investor, with 350 portfolio companies across 17 cities across the world, has officially put out a call to founders...
Inflexion has made a minority investment in WithWise, a software provider for logistics delivery firms serving th...
Syntaxis Capital Group, a leading provider of private credit in Central Europe, and Goodhart Partners LLP...
UK-based technology company Hinterview has raised £3m in Series A funding. The award-winning video platform for the recruitment sector has experien...
Learnerbly, the SaaS-enabled marketplace for workplace learning and development, has secured $10m ...
Vinehealth has raised $5.5m in seed funding. The round was led by Talis Capital, with participation from pr...
As the UK experiences record waiting times for diagnostic imaging, Digital Health startup, National MRI has raised $2.5m seed led by ...
A Blackpool-based automotive spare parts platform is poised to shake up the automotive industry after raising over £150,000 in investment. E4-3D has c...
Stitched, a digitalised platform providing curtains and blinds to customers using a combination of 3D customisation and augmented reality, has secured &pou...
ARIE Capital Technology EIS Fund seeks £350,000 to £10,000,000. For more information go to https://www.fundingforentrepre...
DataQube Global Ltd, developer of the world’s first standalone edge data centre module, has acquired a €26 million Series A funding from ...
Neurovalens, a global leader in non-invasive neuro-technology, has secured new funding towards the development of mental health treatments that target General...
AP Taylor Ltd has secured a £750,000 funding package from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), for the East...
Ultraleap, the world leader in interface technologies, hand tracking and ...
Eatron®, a fast-growing scale-up with its unique ‘intelligent automotive software’ platform for the edge and the cloud has raised $11M in its Serie...
Despite lingering anxieties about the pandemic and a variety of economic and commercial issues, the majority of SMEs believe it is now imperative to begin building back from the crisis. They are re...
US$464.7 billion worth of deals were announced globally during November 2021, 22% more than the value recorded during the same month last year and the highest November total since 1999 according to...
A London based contemporary hair care brand has secured £550,000 from the Greater London Investment Fund to support its range expansion. The funding will enable...
Preservica, a market leader in Active Digital Preservation software, has announced $6.8M (£5M) in investment funds from ...
Mindstone, an edtech platform rethinking online education to help people learn faster and remember more, has raised £1.44 million through ...
The Private Equity team at Foot Anstey LLP has supported and advised Access UK Ltd, on its acquisition of Legal Br...
UK equestrian start-up, Armaros, which has developed an innovative new type of flexible body armour for horse riders, has secured a £100k investment from...
All-in-one charge point and EV-friendly energy tariff comparison service Rightcharge, has raised £70...
The number of acquisitions made by private equity-backed businesses across the UK shown signs of stabilising after a buoyant period, according to Rickitt ...
A food & drink producer based across Lincolnshire has secured £250,000 to upgrade its production facilities, create eight jobs and service its growing customer base. ...
An independent evaluation of the British Business Bank Enterprise Capital Funds (ECF) pro...
GP Bullhound acted as exclusive financial advisor to SALESmanago, the leading no-code omnichannel customer enga...
Infrastructure and construction veteran Haydn Mursell has been appointed as chair of fire protection specialist ...
Sophie Weavers-Wright has joined Haatch Ventures as Head of Platform, from Quotient (previously Elevaate) where she led Self Serve Tier 1’s within the Sponso...
The growth equity investor Gresham House Ventures has sold its stake in Vian Marketing, the holding company for successful stand-up paddleboard owner...
Cerbos, a new open source software startup helping tech scaleups and other companies manage user permissions more efficiently, has raised a $3.5 million seed round...
Coadjute, the blockchain network for the UK property market that aims to transform the ease and speed of home purchasing, has announced a £6m investmen...
Metaview - the pioneering Interview Intelligence platform - has announced its $6 million seed funding round, bringing t...
NatWest, the UK’s biggest business bank, has launched a new free support scheme for business owners who want to problem solve and gain insi...
British Patient Capital has made a €30m commitment to Partech Growth II, which has announced its final close at €650m. ...
METCLOUD, the innovative cloud and cybersecurity provider, has secured £1,000,000 funding from ...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has invested in Switchd via ...
ARC Marine has secured £2 million in funding during its latest round. The deal was led by the FSE Gro...
NOS 5G Fund, created by NOS and managed by Armilar Venture Partners, and Triple Point Ventures, have co-invested ...
The World Business Angels Investment Forum has appointed Gagan Arora, Founder & CEO of Vertex Group as Senator for India. Senator...
Vauban, the platform that provides venture capital fund managers with everything they need to raise a fund ...
FYLD, the London-based, AI-driven digital platform designed to revolutionise the safety and efficiency ...
British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary within the British Busines...
British Patient Capital has participated in Quell T...
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of t...
Guernsey Finance has resumed a permanent presence in London with the appointment of Jo Kitcat as UK Representative. Jo’s role will b...
Guy Rigby and David Murray will shortly attempt to become the oldest pair ever to row across any ocean as they prepare for their Atlantic crossing in this year’s...
Latest British Business Bank market research finds that higher company valuations, combined with strong exit activity in 2020 and 2021, has cont...
Green Angel Syndicate (GAS) is preparing for its next phase of growth with several si...
Following the publication their latest White Paper, Brian Moretta of Hardman & Co delves into the tricky question of how investors should decide...
Dent Reality, the London-based start-up behind a pioneering AR platform, has raised £2.5m ($3.4m) in funding to expand its pioneering work acr...
Primary school children throughout the UK are being inspired to develop their enterprise skills with the help of a syndicate of 15 business angels who have completed a £400,000 investment in ...
R&S Tonks, a Stoke-on-Trent-based joinery company has secured a £200,000 funding package to create new jobs and expand its operations....
Delio, the private markets technology specialist, has launched Ventures, a new initiative that will see them f...
SME funding specialist One Stop Business Finance (OSBF) has further strengthened its finance brokering and operations management expertise with the appointment o...
Haatch Ventures and Wealth Club have led an investment round of £1.67 million into ...
Experienced tech sector executive Kieran Dalton has joined Catalyst as Head of Scaling, a new role that has been created for the purpose of helping ambitiou...
YFM Equity Partners has completed an investment from its Buyout Fund II into Cooper Software, a Scottish-based Enterpr...
The call for public nominations will close on Friday for this year’s prestigious ...
Disruptive bleeding-edge tech companies have secured a staggering £16.1m of funding in just 18 months after being supported by the ...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced its 13th deal for the Low Carbon...
North west-based multi-family investment office, Arete, has announced it has led a £3m investment into experience analytics platform, ...
High-end online travel agency, Luxury Cottages, is set to create a significant number of new jobs after securing a substantial investment from the ...
Payhawk, the payments and expense solution with offices in London, Sofia, Berlin and Barcelona, has raised $112 million just three years after its inception, valu...
Shield-IoT, a leader in mass-scale IoT and IIoT network cyber security and operational monitoring, has closed a $7.4 million Series A round of funding. The Serie...
Exus Management Partners, a leading expert in powering sustainable investments through operational excellence, has continued its global expansion by anno...
YFM Equity Partners, has once again seen the offers for its two managed Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) fully subscribed in a matter of weeks. After launching on 22&n...
Continuity, the company using AI to help insurers improve underwriting for SMEs, has raised €5m from ...
A TECH start-up that eases the administrative burden left with bereaved families has set its sights on rapid expansion, after receiving support from a team of North East innovation experts. ...
Award-winning medtech firm, Glyconics© has secured £1.5million in an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) funding round ahead of a series A round next ...
Pixie, a UK-based startup creating a simpler approach to practice management and workflow automation for small accounting and b...
Palatine has unveiled a major rebrand to reflect its leading position in driving and delivering sustainable business growt...
Seneca Partners, the specialist SME investment business based in the North West has announced that EIS portfolio c...
British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of British Business Bank plc, has published its ...
Charco Neurotech, a medical technology company that develops solutions for people with Parkinson’s, has raised $10m seed investment round, co-led by...
Smart ink technology company Siltech Limited is seeking funding. Find out more at https...
Independent think-tank, 2° Investing Initiative (2DII), has launched its retail investment platform, MyFairMoney, which aims to provide transp...
Stephan Gueorguiev, Investment Director at Foresight...
Eskuta Limited has received a total of £1m worth of funding from The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), W...
Sleek.com, a leading platform providing incorporation and accounting services for SMEs and entrepreneurs, has raised $14 million in Series A funding led by ...
Putting a sustainable spin on laundry, Oxwash, a UK-based startup backed by Twitter co-founder B...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has completed an investment in Kubrick Group...
Clue, a SaaS platform for managing investigations has raised growth investment of £5 million from ...
High growth IT group, Kick ICT, has secured an £8.7 million investment from ...
Parkwalk, the UK’s most active investor in world changing technologies from UK universities and research institution...
The North East Business and Innovation Centre’s (BIC) Social Enterprise T...
Nottinghamshire-based halal baby food manufacturer, For Aisha Baby Foods (For Aisha), has received a £400,000 investment to develop ne...
Adludio, the London-based adtech company that is a leader in the field of mobile advertising, has secured a £4m investment from ...
James Murdoch assesses the performance of accelerator funds on Seedrs. Sustainable Accelerator (SA) are launching their fund’s 5th round on Seedrs with a launch...
£51 million of loans and equity investments have been made into 220 Welsh businesses by the Development Bank of Wales during the six-month period ...
Mimica, a software company b...
It's tough out there and competition for investors is fiercer than ever. Modwenna Rees-Mogg shares her top tips of what fund raising entrepreneurs need to think about when planning ...
Alex Kennedy from Gannons explores the latest trends in how companies are financing their litigation costs. In the covid and post covid world, the n...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has acquired ...
Growing artisan pizza business, Birtelli’s, has secured £500,000 funding fro...
Gentronix – the UK-based contract research organisation (CRO) that is a leader in the field of genetic toxicology – has raised £700,000 in a...
Bristol-based technology start-up, Matter, has just secured a £150,000 investment from ...
NVM Private Equity has invested £14.8 million into The Salocin Group to fund the acquisition of customer data specialist...
Fast-growing IT services company Acora has made a third bolt-on acquisition since the investment by Palatine in ...
Customer data and marketing platform Ometria has completed a $40M Series C round, led by InfraVia Growth, with particip...
Oliver Woolley from Envestors considers at what information really matters when you are courting investors for funding. When your business needs an inje...
Stressfreecarrental.com, a new challenger in the online car rental market, has raised £534,000 in a funding round led by ...
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, a...
Kernel Capital portfolio company B-Secur Ltd, a Belfast-based health tech company, has completed a total ra...
Honeycomb Network, an Imperial College London spinout developing smart charging and storage infrastructure for e-s...
BGF has appointed Roshni Bandesha to the role of head of ESG and Sustainability. In her role at BGF, Roshni will be responsible for embedding its sustaina...
A radical overhaul of business education is coming as some of the world’s most influential investors and business leaders from the world of tech, entrepreneurship and education, invest £...
Oxford University, through Oxford Universtiy Innovation has created 31 new companies over the past year, setting a new record for company creation at the ...
ARIE Capital has launched its new ARIE Tech EIS Fund. The ARIE Capital Group is a significant tech investor, with £500 million of assets under ...
A Wellingborough-based paper honeycomb board manufacturer has secured £750,000 to expand its product range, create jobs and enter new markets. The Alternative Pallet...
Guinness Enterprise Centre (GEC), a top global incubator in the heart of Dublin City – in the presence of Leo Varadkar TD, Tánaiste and Minister for E...
Foresight Group, a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has made a £749,000 growth capital investment into ...
Global co-investment platform Shojin Property Partners has secured the junior funding element of a £7m student accommodation scheme in Leicester city c...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £2.1 million investment in FodaBox (formerly BoroughBox), a provi...
A London-based entrepreneur has launched SQI, a brand new e-commerce clothing startup. The company, which champions multi-use, diverse, and sustainable winte...
Clutch Space Systems (CSS) has signed up to the SPRINT business support programme to design, develop and test an experimen...
Female Invest, an EdTech platform and community which, ...
Experienced private equity and venture capital finance director Marcus Karia has joined fast growing YFM Equity Partners as chief financial office...
Equity Gap, the Edinburgh-based angel investment syndicate, has announced key board member and advisory appointments, as it looks to expand its relationsh...
Cardiff-based Smallspark Space Systems will collaborate with the University of Southampton on a new project to design, manufacture and test fir...
FinTech platform Zeti has been contracted by the ...
Bitcoin could hit fresh all-time highs this week, which will bring upside to other cryptocurrencies, particularly those directly involved in fintech development. This is the bullish predict...
BGF, the UK & Ireland’s most active investor, has added two new high-profile names to its clean growth advisory board, which was set up earlier this y...
A vision to feed Britain in a more resilient and sustainable way lies behind multimillion-pound plans to create the world’s largest vertical farm, which has been launched by green energy expe...
Scottish radio technology company, Sofant Technologies, has received significant financial backing (€7.3M) from the ...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a new £5m commitment to green economy investor, ...
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of £6.5 million to a seven-member consortium led by sureCore ...
Chepstow based health tech firm Forth is set to capitalise on the growth in the female science and technology market as it has secur...
Anna Morrison, a Senior Director of Private Markets at bfinance...
Proptech startup Evo has secured a £1 million investment round via the GroVentive investment platform, suppor...
Arcmont Asset Management, a leading European private debt asset management firm, has announced the successful completion of the fundraising of its Senior Loan Fun...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £2.5 million funding round in Power Roll, a developer of ultra-low-cost and ligh...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor, has expanded its Central Scotland team following the appointments of investors, John Devine and Chris Nixo...
Luke Davis, CEO of IW Capital, discusses why he sees the UK's small business community as a vital source of inspiration in reaching net...
Amadeus Capital Partners has expanded its deep tech investment team with the appointment of Dr Manjari Chandran-Ramesh as a Partner in its Early Stage ...
VU Compare, a revolutionary vehicle finance and insurance comparison site, has secured £70,000 in pre-seed capital to support product development and marke...
Palatine's Impact Fund has made its first exit with the sale of Estio Training to global education provider BPP Education Group. Estio is a specialist provider of NVQ level 3...
Closed Loop Medicine, the global leader in the development of single prescription drug plus digital therapy (...
Foresight Group has sold Selazar Limited, a logistics management software platform, to an independent global inve...
A landscaping usiness which maintains sites nationwide for leading supermarkets and utilities companies has secured a significant investment from Mercia’s ...
Dr Louise Rix, a former VC at Forward Partners, is stepping into the start-up world ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UKs most active investors in growing businesses, has invested £3.25 million in London-based ...
Startup investment bank for the emerging markets JPIN VCATS has completed a significant fundraise for Koovers, India's...
SETsquared has secured an additional £2m of funding from Innovate UK to run a...
Coalville-based children’s clothing business, Tiny Explorer Apparel, trading as the Töastie Kids brand, has secured a £300,000 investment to develop a new...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a &po...
Par Equity’s investments in high-growth technology businesses have smashed through the £100m mark. The milestone was passed when the compa...
The renowned University of Cambridge Impulse Programme, created to nurture the brilliant minds of international academia, busine...
Forensic Analytics, a digital forensics company whose communications analysis software is used by police forces throughout the UK, has secured a &...
Permutive, an audience platform for publishers and advertisers, which enables media to be traded in a privacy-safe way, has secured $75M in Series ...
Ripe Thinking Limited (Ripe), a UK-based digital underwriting and insurance distribution platform, has entered into a definitive agreement for ...
AutoFill, a Dutch deep tech company revolutionising inspection workflow processes for the automotive and rail industries, has secured €2.6 million i...
Scottish AI software company Aveni has announced the appointment of ...
UK-based Unlock, a SaaS-enabled marketplace to build culture among remote teams, has raised a $2m seed round. ...
After an impressive pitch to the Anglia Capital Group Angels, Fox Robotics successfully re...
Global venture capital firm Antler has invested in eight new portfolio companies as part of its Stockholm cohort....
DeHaat, the technology-based platform offering end-to-end agricultural services to farmers in India, has raised $115 million...
The London Technology Club has invested in Cogniac, a leadi...
Market research platform Attest has raised $60 million in Series B funding, to continue its mission in helping brands be truly cu...
TAINA Technology, an award-winning regulatory technology company, has announced that it is closing a substantial funding round, welcoming onboard ...
Sphere Fluidics, a company that has developed and is commercialising single cell analysis systems underpinned by its propr...
SimScale, the SaaS platform making high-fidelity simulation technically and economically accessible to engineers worldwide, has raised an additional €25...
HUBX, a deal syndication platform for banks and brokerage firms, has raised over $1.5 million extension led by M...
Admix, the leading In-Play monetization company that bridges the gap between gaming content and brands, has raised USD $25 million in a Series B ...
More than one in eight (13%) claims for Entrepreneurs’ Relief were for gains of more than £1 million in 2019/20 with the average claimed at just over £627,000, new analysis* from ...
PALATINE the leading mid-market private equity investor has made a successful partial exit from ...
Climate Solutions Exchange Ltd. has received an initial £500,000 investment from Maughan Capital, a str...
A majority (62%) of private capital fund managers in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia will increase the amount of automation and new techno...
A number of experts have submitted comments on yesterday's budget; a selection of them is below: Stephen Welton, Executive Chairman of ...
Green Angel Syndicate Climate Change Fund 3 is now raising between £500k and £2m. Visit Funding for for Entrepreneurs...
The EU lags behind both the US and China in its number of high growth entrepreneurial firms (HGFs). These firms play a critical role in economic development as sources of innovation, investment and...
NorthEdge-backed Altia has acquired VeriSaaS, a f...
The digital insurer Getsafe received its insurance licence from Germany's financial regulator, ...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced a follow-on investment by ...
ACF Investors, the UK venture capital fund that works alongside sector expert business angels to invest...
Female founders raise only 15 per cent of all equity funding, which is a shortfall of £1.6bn per year, according to a report published by the ...
Pharmacierge, the healthtech company t...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor, has announced a successful exit from ...
Traced, a SaaS company that delivers cybersecurity powered by artificial intelligence for mobile devices to protect businesses fro...
Xergy Group Limited has announced the closing of a £4.25 million Series A+ fundraise to significantly scale-up ...
Market-leading private market digital platform VALK is building for expansion after achieving $4 billion-plus in assets and deals managed on its platform in a y...
Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on backin...
Managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, NPIF - Maven Equit...
The British Business Bank has announced that the Recovery Loan Scheme has passed a significant milestone, wit...
A UK company that provides an ethical alternative to the ad tracking techniques used by tech giants such as Facebook and Google has raised a £1.5m investment t...
Aiven, a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure, has announced a $60M Series C extension at a $2B valua...
The Embark Investor Confidence Barometer has revealed that the majority of investors believe that it is their responsibility to invest in a way that...
Par Equity has made a multi-million pound investment in Artus, the designer and supplier of innovative HVAC (Hea...
Form Ventures has reached the final close of a £30m ($39m) Fund II at its target fund size. Form invests in startups at pre seed and seed stage in s...
Oliver Woolley from Envestors asks 'What budget do you need for a fundraise?' ...
Leading online investment platform, Seedrs, has launched Seedrs Private Deal Room, a new feature to improve professional investor access to ang...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alt...
A UK company whose software platform helps businesses to understand their customers’ behaviour and identify buying signals has raised £400,000 investmen...
The eighth edition of the Global Green Finance Index (GGFI) evaluates the green finance offering of 80 financial centres. The GGFI serves as a v...
Intelligent property search portal property.xyz has secured a seed round of angel investment of £268,000 from eleven, experienced investors in th...
GP Bullhound, the global technology advisory and investment firm, has revealed the 2021 Northern Tech Awards Top 100 shortlist, recognising the faste...
British satellite scale-up Satellite Vu, founded in 2016, has successfully raised £15 million ($20.7 million), as it looks to ramp up its plans to launch seven thermal and infrared imaging sa...
Flexciton, an optimisation technology company that has developed a unique solution to radically improve the efficie...
Northern Ireland startups and scale up companies have been given the opportunity to meet and pitch their companies to more than 80 venture...
Primer has closed a Series B funding round that values the payments infrastructure startup at $425 mill...
The British Business Bank reveals today that, based on its estimates, smaller businesses[1] account for...
The Funding Atlantic Network for Blue Economy Technology Transfer (FANBEST) has identified a worrying lack of adequate funding opportunities to help conserve the w...
Alorsfaim, a Paris-based e-grocery company specializing in authentic and high-quality Asian food, has raised €4M in seed funding, enabling the fast-gro...
The corporate team at national law firm, Foot Anstey LLP has advised ...
Birmingham-based Hollywood Monster has secured a £250,000 loan enabling it to safeguard 40 employees whilst crea...
SoMo, one of the UK’s leading specialist lenders, has set itself a target of lending £250m over the next 12 m...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor, has appointed industry veteran Nicol Fraser (pictured) to lead its investment team in London and the South...
James Murdoch draws some conclusions and poses some questions from his experiment in investing in the Future Fund through Equity Crowd Funding. During Autumn 2020, &...
A new survey of 1,479 UK-based investors has revealed how they have responded to the financial disruption caused by the pandemic, as well as their outlook for the year ahead. It found: ...
TrustedHousesitters, the world’s largest pet-sitting network, has secured $10m in Series A funding ...
BGF – the UK and Ireland’s most active growth capital investor – has announced its ...
Calculus portfolio company, CloudTrade, has been acquired by ...
3DEO, whose new interactive 5D mapping platform that makes it easier to monitor and manage complex infrastructure has raised £750,000 from t...
DSW Ventures, the venture capital investment business of the Dow Schofield Watts group, has promoted Eleanor Boardman to Investment Manager in a period of significant g...
The first automated RPA management platform, RPA Supervisor has raised $5m in a Seed round led by ...
Founders Factory and the innovation agency Nesta have joined forces to create new commer...
The national SPRINT (Space Research and Innovation Network for Technology) business support programme has selected eight UK universities to joi...
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Aceleron, the UK company which is pioneering sustainable battery technology, has raised a further £2.5m as it continues to expand its global...
A report published by NatWest sets out the potential opportunity that exists for the UK economy from the transition to net-zero, finding that SM...
Borrower wellbeing app, ilumoni ha...
Materials Market, founded in November 2020 by Co-Founders Samuel Hunt and Andrew Haehn, has raised £1.5m to grow its digital building materials mark...
Lotanna Ezeike, co-founder of XPO, considers the increase interest amongst investors in opportunities in ...
Velobici Ltd, a cycling apparel manufacturer, has secured a £500,000 investment to fuel expansion and strengthen its position in global markets. ...
General Electric (GE) has announced a five-year, $3.5 million (£2.5m) investment in the UK as part of its global Next Engineers...
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Luke Davis, CEO of IW Capital, discusses why small businesses and the support given to them will be key to continuing this growth. ...
QVentures portfolio company Go Instore has been acquired by...
72 countries celebrate the World Business Angel Investors Week, 18 – 24 October 2021. World Business Angel Investors Week is envisioned as a gr...
WatchMyCompetitor (WMC) has secured £2 million in an investment round through Blackfinch Ventures a...
Innovation in North West England, already home to 14 ‘unicorns’ companies, received a major shot in the arm today as Fearless Adventures ...
Tech Nation, the UK’s leading growth platform for tech scaleups, has announced the 31 mid-stage scaling tech companies that have been accepted into Upscal...
On Thursday 24th November, 2021, Playfair Capital and 120 of the world’s leading venture capital funds, including Accel, Amadeus, Atomico, Balderton...
Par Equity has won Best EIS Manager at the prestigious 2021 EISA (Enterprise Investment Scheme Association) awards. ...
Circularity Capital LLP, the specialist private equity firm supporting growth stage European SMEs in the circular ec...
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Zouk Capital has committed an initial £30m investment to launch a new public EV charging company called Zest, s...
The world’s most entrepreneur-friendly cities have been revealed in a new report by the personal finance experts at money....
North west-based multi-family investment office Arete, has led a £1.6m investment into Travel Seen, an ear...
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) has unveiled its annual list of the 50 most ambitious,...
Getsafe, the digital insurer targeting millennial buyers in Germany and the UK, has expanded its Series B funding round to $93M. The ...
Imophoron, the developer of a novel, next generation rapid-response vaccine platform, ADDomer(TM), to combat pre...
More than four in ten businesses in the UK were using external finance in 2021 but a lack of local investors means economic potential continues to be wasted across ...
JPIN Venture Catalysts Ltd, a world-leading startup investment bank, has joined Cambri...
Rapidly growing biomass fuel manufacturer ...
GP Bullhound has announced that Fund V has closed oversubscribed at the hard cap of €300m. ...
Foresight Group, an award-winning listed alternative investment manager, has provided a senior secur...
Bowers Electrical Engineering Services Ltd has secured £250,000 from Maven Capital Partners ...
Entia, a medical technology business, which recently announced a commercial partnership with Pfizer UK, raised $12 millio...
EquiTrace, a unique app for horses that combines identity, GPS and medical records data using a scanner, a microchip and a mobile phone, has signed an investmen...
Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on backing early-stage businesses with exceptional founders and manage...
Maven Capital Partners has agreed a joint venture with Taggart Homes, the award winning housebuilder, to develop 150 new-build family homes in Mansfield, Nott...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has released the report, ...
Andrew Aldridge, Partner at Deepbridge Capital, considers the key things investors must do before making an investment. ...
Digital soccer coaching platform coachbetter has announced the close of its seed funding round,...
London-based conversational media platform Octaive has raised £500k in an ange...
techspert.io, the AI technology innovator connecting businesses with experts for domain-specific industry insights, has closed a $12 million investment round...
Tech Nation, the UK’s leading growth platform for tech scaleups, today announces the 30 companies who have been accepted into Fintech 4.0 - the fourth iteration of Tech Nation’s sector-...
Chantelle Arneaud of Envestors looks at the potential pitfalls for angel investors One of the greatest appeals of angel in...
Stim OxyGen, an innovative cancer treatment technology company has been named as the overall winner of the 2021 Northern Ireland ...
Tax efficient investment manager Deepbridge Capital has announced that it has exceeded £200m of funds deployed across its EIS and Estate Plann...
Luke Davis, CEO of IW Capital discusses the cuts and reliefs that could benefit the UK economy: This week, Prime Minister...
Fundraising by existing investment companies (known as secondary fundraising) has bounced back strongly this year, with £8.71 billion raised so far.[1]...
Investment non-profit NorthInvest has appointed senior business leader, Jordan Dargue, to its Board of Dir...
Nick Berry extolls the benefits of using equity to empower staff, differentiate from the competition and accelerate success in small b...
Gannons recently presented a webinar on the important topic of what it takes to successfully sell a business. The webinar focused on giving fou...
A new University of Birmingham spinout, Salinity Solutions, is partnering with the mineral exploration and minin...
Modwenna Rees-Mogg considers the challenge angel investors face in valuing companies and offers a solution…. Angels invest in tech, but they have ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor, has successfully exited its investment in HeleCloud, a leadi...
Method Grid, providers of an enterprise-level connected assurance platform for regulated sectors, including engineering-construction and consultancy, with plan...
Redrock Entertainment offers tax benefits to investors. For more information, visit Funding for Entrepreneurs ...
Goldman Sachs veteran Sheila Patel has joined the board of Antler, as...
The latest diversity report from FinTech recruitment company ...
Digital and tech start up investment network NorthInvest has extended its strategic partnership with law firm Gordons...
Richard Horwell of Brand Relations looks at the reality of the...
TransferGo, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, has secured $50m in a Series C funding round. This latest fundr...
Heydoc, an integrated clinical operating system and electronic health record (EHR), has closed a $8.3m Series A round led by ...
A company that restores and resells luxury handbags to clients worldwide has raised £800,000 from the ...
Aviva, the UK’s leading insurer, has announced a £10 million investment and a five year extension to its innovation partnership with ...
The corporate team at national law firm, Foot Anstey LLP has advised on two major deals for Air IT, the award-winnin...
Leading multi-channel garden furniture retailer Moda Furnishings has agreed a new £17m funding package with ...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has supported Pryme Group to secure a transformation...
Profian, a Confidential Computing platform focused on bespoke open source solutions, has secured ...
The Finance Durham Fund, established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham, the business support service for Durh...
Downing has completed an investment in Spaghetti Bridge Ltd in the UK, which is improving the lives and d...
Tax efficient investment manager Deepbridge Capital has completed an exit for investors i...
Tech Nation, the leading scaleup accelerator for UK tech companies, has announced the 30 companies joining its newest growth programme, Libra, which is designed...
Pitalia Capital, the North West-based investment firm, has backed Bolton-headquartered CCM Motorcycles with a signi...
Research by Yoppie reveals that European companies with female-only founders receive less than 1% of all VC capital investment despite the number of female-le...
The Imperial College Innovation Fund (ICIF) has led a £1 million seed investment round for UK energy storage startup, ...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced its 12th deal for the Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 (...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has inv...
Sanome, a European health start-up, has raised £2m as its first round of funding from a number of leading UK and European HealthTech specialist investors. The round was led by ...
Book Salon, a Finnish payment and booking service provider specializing in hair, beauty, and wellness companies, has announced the successful closure of a...
AIM-listed Hardide plc has secured a £250,000 funding package from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) East &am...
Vuealta, the connected planning specialist, has secured a multi-million pound investment backed by YFM Equity partners, which...
NorthEdge and The Belfield Group have completed the sale of Usleep, a specialist mattress manufacturer, to ...
Maidenhead based company, Made for Drink, has secured a £300k loan from the ...
James Murdoch uses some examples to illustrate both the full potential of success but also the reality of risk from companies in his portfolio. A serial Equity Crowdfunder will hopefully be...
Invest Europe, in partnership with the European Investment Fund (EIF), has published ‘The VC Factor - Pan...
A London-based, textile brand which promotes, social, ecological, and cultural development has secured £250,000 to further develop its products and recruit additional senior ...
Sunamp, the thermal storage technologies company, has received a 6 million-pound ($8.3 million) convertible loan note investment from ...
Poor mental health has grown to be a global crisis, with 1 in 5 people experiencing common mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression in any given year...
Angel Investment Network, the world’s largest online angel investment platform, has launched its Private Equity and Ven...
Tax efficient investment manager Deepbridge Capital has announced an exit for investors in its Deepbridge Renewable Energy Enterprise Investment Sch...
Marketplace ‘super seller’ and tech startup, Boulevard, h...
AIM-listed Hardide plc (“Hardide”) has secured a £250,000 funding package from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (“MEIF”) Ea...
As the spotlight shines on the UK tech sector for the second day of London Tech Week, Tech Nation, the UK’s leading growth platform for tech scaleups, has...
Motive Partners, a specialist private equity firm focused on control-oriented growth equity and buyout investments in software and information services c...
London-based Wiserfunding, a leading provider of credit risk assessment for SME lenders, has announced it has...
cheqd – a start-up whose technology could drive widespread uptake of digital IDs – has secured a £1.9m investment to support the launch of its ...
Gerard Grech, Founding CEO of Tech Nation, comments on The Global Startup Ecosystem report from Startup Genome: ...
Birmingham-headquartered Antser, a leading innovator in social care, has announced an £8.5 million investment from growth capital investor, ...
German-based drinks technology, air up, has successfully closed its latest funding round having raised over EUR 40 million. This is after completing their...
British Business Bank is managing £89bn of finance support to 1.77m businesse...
Fintech business lender MarketFinance has announced a £280m debt and equity fundraise and its accreditation under the...
Futures Factory, a marketplace for selling sneakers, that merges both the physical and digital worlds through Augmented Reality (AR) and NFTs, has rai...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a new £15m commitment to ...
A crowdfunding bond in partnership between leading rewilding charity Trees for Life and ...
Tyk, a London-based global tech company, has closed a $35M growth equity funding round led by new investors Scottish Equity Partners...
The number of UK deals announced so far this year has increased 49% to the highest year-to-date tally since our records began in 1980, driven by a 54% increase in the number of deals targeting UK c...
Civo, the first pure-play cloud native service provider, and THG plc (THG), a global technology platform that specialises in taking brands direct to consumers, h...
Bowmark Capital has further strengthened its portfolio management and value creation team with the appointment of Ben Hollowood as a portfolio director. ...
EGYM, a leading global fitness technology developer, has received 41 million US dollars in a Series E financing round from ...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has made several promo...
Luke Davis, CEO of IW Capital, discusses what can be done to encourage Unicorn creation, including extending ...
Tech Nation, the UK’s leading growth platform for tech scaleups, has announced 32 climate tech companies who have been accepted into Net Zero 2.0 - the se...
Legitify has experienced a peak in demand for its Remote Online Notarization solution. After launching a Beta solution early this summer, Legitify is cur...
Essentially Yours, a Kidderminster-based skin care supplier, has secured £200,000 from the Midlands Engin...
London-based startup, BEPPS Snacks, are all about their pea, pulse and grain snacks, whilst hero’ing the...
Print and Digital media business, Country and Town House, based in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, has secured a £400,000 lo...
Pictet Alternative Advisors (PAA), the alternative investment specialist of the Pictet Gro...
Belfast-based livestock monitoring technology company, CattleEye, has completed a $2.5m seed investment. The funding round was a syndicate led by ...
Doccla, the healthtech startup pioneering virtual ward technology to ease pressure on hospitals, has s...
Ionoptika Ltd and the University of Surrey have be...
Crypta Labs has completed its SPRINT (SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology)-funded project, in coll...
A platform that helps parents and students to find online tutors has raised a further £3m investment amidst a boom in business following the pandemic. ...
PassFort, the SaaS RegTech provider whose platform automates financial crime and compliance processes, today announced the close of its Series A funding, which...
London-based llluma Technology, a contextual advertising company which uses AI to expand online campaigns by reacting to live browsing behaviour, has secur...
Fintech infrastructure platform Integrated Finance has raised £2 million in Se...
London-based Kick Game, a luxury sneaker and apparel retailer, is on track to grow revenues to £50m in 2022 following a £3.5m injecti...
For angels and other investors interested in space, Rémy Astié, CEO of Vauban has advice o...
Cardiff University has become the sixth partner of SETsquared, the world’s top-ranked university-business ...
Vala Capital, the entrepreneur-led venture capital firm, has launched a new tranche for its EIS portfolio – targeting f...
Bambino Mio, the UK’s most popular reusable nappy brand, has announced a £13m investment by ...
Independent advisory firm Dow Schofield Watts has expanded its debt fundraising arm with the launch of a n...
Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, has announced the launch of two new accelerator programs in Paris and Stockholm. The laun...
The number of venture capital ‘megadeals’ in the UK has increased tenfold over the last decade, according to a report by leading UK law firm ...
Gresham House, the specialist alternative asset manager, has agreed to acquire the Venture Capital Trust (VCT) business (&po...
The independent Iberian alternative assets manager GED Capital has added three new te...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent commercial finance provider, has app...
Plend, the UK’s first social lending marketplace, has secured £700,000 of investment from early-stage VC’s...
Lower mid-market private equity firm NorthEdge has backed the primary management buyout of ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has led a £4.4 million investment in ...
Research conducted by the EIS and SEIS representative organisation, the EIS As...
Worcestershire-based Sustainable bag-in-box wine brand, When in Rome, has secured £375...
The winners for the MSDUK Awards have been announced. From one of the largest c...
The number of acquisitions made by private equity-backed businesses in the UK hit record numbers in H1 2021, with 286 transactions completed during the first six months of the year, ...
Bloc Ventures, the venture capital company focused on ...
Two of the UK’s most well-respected business brains – Guy Rigby, founder and now Chair of the Entrepreneurial Services Group at Smith & Williamson, and his fellow crew member, entre...
A green robotics company slashing the cost of maintaining wind turbines is flying high after securing £1.6million in its latest funding rou...
Revaia, formerly known as Gaia Capital Partners, has announced the final closing of its first growth fund, Europe's largest female-founded VC fund, ...
PetMedix™ has announced the completion of an oversubscribed $37M (£27M) Series B financing round that will be used to advance it...
Southwark based technology platform business, Landmrk, has received a £225,000 loan from the Grea...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has invested in ...
New data released by Innovate Finance, the industry body representing the UK fintech industry, reveals the share split in the SME lending market betwe...
contextflow, a leading provider of artificial intelligence for medical image analysis, has announced a EUR 6.7 Million Series A funding round. ...
Elvie, the global health and lifestyle brand developing iconic products for women, has announced an exten...
Manchester-based technology business Culture Shift has secured £1.5m investment in a funding round led by ...
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) in the North West is continuing to grow with the appointment of portfolio director Gav...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active SME finance providers, has provided a substantial debt funding package to ...
Yorkshire-based entrepreneur, Tim Whitworth, of private equity house TIM Group Holdings, has backed an exciting new digital marketing start-up. ...
A company whose software helps hospitality businesses to boost sales has raised £500,000 from...
Veremark, the global pre-employment screening service that helps companies verify employee credentia...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active growth economy investor, has exited its investment in ...
GoKwik, an e-commerce enablement company on a mission to democratize the shopping experience and increase GMV realization...
Jordan Dargue, Head of Access to Finance at Innovation SuperNetwork ...
OLIO, the community sustainability app, has announced a $43million Series B round to fund its f...
Recognising the critical need for scalable, innovative technology in creating a more sustainable, greener future, ...
Pollinate, the global fintech that partners with banks to help business customers succeed and grow, has announced the winners of “...
Gavin Heys of Envestors Private Investment Club looks at the ins and outs of becoming an ang...
Trill Impact has closed EUR 900 million in commitments for its inaugural impact mid-market buyout Fund from prominent institutional investors globally, ma...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor, has announced a successful exit of The Clearway Group, a vaca...
An entrepreneur who invented 3D printed personalised gummy vitamins tailored to people’s nutritional needs, lifestyles and goals is just one of the high...
BankiFi, a fintech business specialising in payment processing and financial administration services for SMEs, has secured a ...
Responsibly, the supplier data platform for r...
Seneca Partners, the specialist SME investment business based in the North-West, has ann...
Lead generation technology company, ROI Media UK, has acquired Norwegian digital marketing business, Effective Marketing. This...
BGF, the UK & Ireland’s most active investor, has invested more than £316 million across nearly 80 businesses in the first six months of 2021. Exit activity reached record levels du...
Having delivered growth beyond expectations, digital martech innovator, Modo25 has secured a fourth six-figure investment round for its award-winning BOSCO&...
Olsam Group, a company which buys and scales category leading e-commerce businesses, has successfully raised ...
The QUBIS Innovation Fund has been established specifically for university spin-out and start-up companies operating in the ...
PALATINE Private Equity has exchanged contracts for the sale of its stake in V...
Gary Stewart, founder and CEO of FounderTribes, ...
Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has advised the shareholders of Go Geothermal L...
Early-stage businesses in Northern Ireland are attracting larger equity funding rounds than in previous years but could raise even higher amounts if more external investors were aware of the qualit...
BGF – the UK and Ireland’s most active growth capital investor – has announced a £14 million investment...
Foresight Group, an award-winning listed alternative investment manager, has provided a senior secur...
Vectornator by Linearity – the vector-focused platform revolutionising how people design – has raised $20 million of funding led by ...
Versarien PLC, an advanced materials group, has commissioned the University of Gloucestershire to carry ...
Abtrace, a healthtech start-up which uses machine learning to transform how chronic and long-term healt...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has invested in ...
North west based multi-family investment office, Arete, has announced it has led a private investment into business s...
Musiversal, a global platform designed for making music creation and prod...
Whilst nations around the world have adopted net zero commitments, there is still much debate about how to balance growth and sustainability in emerging ma...
As dentists worldwide begin to tackle the backlog of patients whose tooth decay may have worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic*, Edinburgh-based dental technology c...
The Digital Commerce M&A sector registered 1,037 deals in the first half of 2021 – a 25 per cent increase from 787 deals in the same period last year &nda...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has invested in leading social media pu...
Gannons' Commercial law expert Alastair Manning looks at creative solutions for cancelling shares in a private company...
Nadine Campbell, of the ...
For those thinking about starting a business in the UK, research from ...
BurdaPrincipal Investments (BPI), the growth capital arm of media and tech company Hubert Burda Media, has invested in UK-based ...
The news, as reported in The Times on 24th August, that US VC investment in the UK hit £4.5bn in 2020 is significant. That is mo...
SnapDragon Monitoring, an online brand protection business, has raised £1.2m in its latest funding round - bringing the total raised to just over &pou...
Chantelle Arneaud of Envestors looks at how networks can best connect with investors and companies. ...
The UK Government has published its first Hydrogen Strategy, in a Policy Paper which has been greeted with a fanf...
Echion Technologies is a leading developer of next generation materials for Lithium-Ion batteries. Its products deliver a un...
DataMilk, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool which autonomously optimizes E-Commerce websites to improve the customer experience and drive increased s...
Lime Global Ltd, the UK’s leading pr...
Estelle Blanks, CEO at Innovation SuperNetwork, has more than a levelling up agenda...
Howard Town Brewery has secured a £150,000 funding package from the Midlands Engine Investmen...
Exus Management Partners, a leading expert in powering sustainable investments through operational excellence, has facil...
Wolves Summit, the largest startup technology conference in the CEE (Central and Eastern European) region has announced its most exp...
Leading cash handling supplier Volumatic has released a new white paper sharing the research t...
Seneca Partners, the specialist SME investment business based in the North West,...
QVentures has announced their latest fund investment into Semeris, a legal AI startup tha...
Due to the Covid Pandemic, the economy and SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises) are suffering and they need help. Which means money. There is a large pool of equity money locked up that can be freed and...
New Office for National Statistics (ONS) statistics show the number of UK workers on payrolls rose by 182,000 between June and...
BVA BDRC has published its latest quarterly SME Finance Monitor findings. The largest and most frequen...
The British Business Bank has announced a further £62.4m of financing to ...
What makes a winning business? When it comes to awards and entering them, a question we regularly get asked is – what makes a winning business, what do t...
The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA), in conjunction with Capital Pilot, has launched an investment pla...
Excellerant Inc., a technology focused investment holding, has appointed Mr. Marco von Pfetten as Chairman of the company, w...
Liverpool FC has welcomed global online trading broker, ThinkMarkets, as its new Official Global Trad...
Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping service, has decided to exercise its stock options in UK InsurTech, ...
Mafic, a leading UK construction technology company, has secured a major investment in its innovative Safeguard Internet of Things (IoT) solution for the construc...
Trojan Energy, the clean energy company, has secured a late seed round investment of £2.2 million to roll out its unique, flat-and-flush on...
Matt Roberts, founder of the company alignment and growth software platform ZOKRI, looks at how to acheive useful growth. We are a...
After a very strong 2020 and a continuation of this high level of activity in 2021, Polaris has further expanded its team. ...
Paul Reeves, Managing Director, Restructuring Advisory, at Kroll looks at pre-pack administration. ...
The YFM Equity Partners-backed passive fire protection specialist Check...
Reactive Technologies, the UK and Finland based grid technology company, has announced a new group of investors as part of a $15M fundraise &nda...
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and pa...
The corporate team at leading UK law firm Shoosmiths have made a record-breaking start to the year, increasing its ranki...
Palamon Capital Partners has announced that its portfolio company, connected insurance service provider ...
Lovehoney, a leading e-commerce retailer, manufacturer and distributor of pleasure products and accessories, and ...
Commenting on quarter on quarter GDP rising 4.8%, Ian Warwick, Managing Partner at Deepbridge Capital, said: ...
Ryde (formerly Ryders), the SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for last-mile del...
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capita...
The EQT Mid Market Europe fund has agreed to sell Utimaco Verwaltungs GmbH to ...
Forefront RF, a Cambridge-based fabless semiconductor company, is set to change the way global s...
Ultrafast laser manufacturer Chromacity has completed a growth funding round of £1.2 million. Contributors...
Global early-stage VC Antler announced that it is launching in South Korea. The firm is present in most major startup ecosystem...
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Finnish startup Innomost has raised €5M to bring their birch bark innovation into new markets as a s...
Manchester venture capital investor Praetura Ventures has unveiled a £15m commitment from ...
Kroo Ltd has raised £17.7 million in a Series A funding round led by tech entrepreneur and founder of ...
A company with a unique software pricing tool has secured a further £250,000 funding from NPIF – Mercia ...
SEED Innovations Limited, the AIM quoted company investing in fast growing and industry leading businesses with a focus on investing with...
Karshare, the community car-sharing app, has announced a £3milli...
Leading podcast publisher Auddy Limited, has announced the acquisition of Radio Wolfgang, p...
A Coventry-based trampoline park has received a £300,000 loan for the purchase of additional equipment and a new inflatable park section. ...
Walking on Earth is coming out of stealth to tackle the rising issue of workplace stress exacerbated by the COVID pandemic and remote working. The digi...
LawtechUK has ...
International web hosting business, Miss Group has acquired Spanish-based ...
Equality Check, the crowd-sourced employee review platform, ha...
Legislate Technologies, a legal technology company pioneering the use of knowledge graphs for...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout inv...
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Fast-growing financial super app Curve has appointed Renata Sumskaite as CEO and Head of Curve Lithuania, in a move that cements its growth...
Leading digital marketing agency Brainlabs has acquired Canadian programmatic agency ...
Partnerships looking to address climate change and social issues, or improve the UK economy with bleeding edge R&D and innovation, will be celebrated once again...
Green Angel Syndicate has welcomed Qualis Flow to its portfolio of companies that are fighting Climate Cha...
A consortium led by Sunderland-based North East Business and Innovation Centre (BIC), has...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) West Midlands Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners,...
A company that converts old videos and tapes into digital format has secured a £250,000 investment from ...
Simon Harryman, Senior Business Development Director at Ingenious argues that performance matters ...
Gresham House Ventures - a growth equity investor specialising in software and digitally driven businesses in the ...
Praetura Group, the Northwest-based debt and equity capital provider to SMEs, is expanding with the launch of a new financial ...
Oxto Energy has secured a £300,000 loan from the Enterprise M3 Short Term...
Circular economy business CauliBox, which is the UK’s first tech-enabled reusable container scheme has sec...
Gresham House Ventures, a specialist growth equity investor providing development capital to innovative consumer, he...
NatWest has launched its Expert in Residence...
Despite seeing growth significantly impacted during the pandemic, the vast majority of UK startups are now confident about the next 12 months. This was a key finding of a survey of startup opinion,...
Kitche has become a recipient of £68,000 in UK government funding under the ...
Growth capital investor, BGF has announced a successful exit from J&B Recy...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has invested a further £500,000 in ...
Purchases of investment companies on adviser platforms reached £368m in the first quarter of 2021, setting a new quarterly record, accordin...
Excellerant Inc., a technology-focused investment holding company, has announced the appointment of Mr. Mirsad Devic as CEO as the company ramps up its invest...
PALATINE-backed Construction Testing Solutions (CTS), a leading provi...
BGF-backed Evoke Creative Ltd – the leading specialist in kio...
BGF – the UK and Ireland’s most active investor – is reporting a strong outlook for 2021. Throughout the las...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has announced investment in North ...
One of the UK’s leading apprenticeship and adult education providers which secured private equity funding to become an independent business last year has significantly improved...
Hannah Waters is an investor at BGF, with her role seeing her working across all areas of the i...
Mayfair Equity Partners, the leading tech and consumer growth investor, has completed an investment in Tangle Teezer, the category-defining British haircare b...
Venari Security, the defender of encrypted networks, has raised a Series A funding of £4.2m with a post money valuation of £14...
Global early-stage VC, Antler has announced that it is launching in Canada. The firm is already present in most m...
eFront has released its Fourth Annual Global Private Equity Performance Series showing the top-performing regions globally for...
Diginex, the disruptive impact technology company helping to solve the world’s most pressing ESG and sus...
Vira Health, a digital health company focused on improving long-term health for women, has raised £1.5M in seed funding from ...
Foresight Group has sold Poppy & Jacks Limited...
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4D Biomaterials, a medtech company which has developed a new biomaterial used for 3D printing medical implants, has...
Patchwork Health, the healthcare staffing platform founded by doctors, has raised £3.5m to accelerate thei...
Insect-based snack company Small Giants has closed a new investment round of more than £400,000, after raising £130,000 i...
Maven Capital Partners, debt fund manager for the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), has been approv...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced its tenth deal for the Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 (LCIF2)...
CPI Enterprises, the investor engagement and ventures arm of CPI, has made its f...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has acquired Wonderbly, the world&rsqu...
Business angel group HBAN Ulster, as part of the Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN), announced today its members have invested £8.5m into 38...
Tulipshare is a brand new activist investment platform that empowers individuals to make a positive change within some of the biggest household...
Legal technology start-up Robin AI has raised $2.5m seed funding from Episode 1 and a number of leading angel investors ...
Edinburgh’s largest plastic free grocery store, The Refillery, has been nominated for the ...
My Lads, a leader in AR Sports Engagement, signs with some of the most known international football teams on the planet. The four mega clubs ...
Elvie, the revolutionary global health and lifestyle brand developing iconic products for women, has comp...
BGF's North West team has invested a further £2.1 million investment in Yorkshire-based digital mapping company, Gaist...
The SPRINT (SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology) programme has secured major funding from ...
Aberdeen-based EBar is raising a glass after closing a £670,000 equity round that will accelerate the roll-out of their self-service drinks dispensing te...
Tech Nation CEO, Gerard Grech, comments on Innovation Strategy announcement. "Innovation is indispensable in any economy, but it...
A start-up with a platform that trains robots to recognise images has completed a £2.3m funding round to help it build its team in Yorkshire and expand sales of its product worldwide. ...
Gravitee.io – The open source API management platform that gives businesses and their developers unprecedented control over their entire API ecosys...
Palatine Private Equity has exchanged contracts for the sale of national independent financial adviser ...
GraphCMS - a Berlin-based company whose pioneering content management platform enables enterprises to seamlessly deliver better ...
Leo Cancer Care is an innovative start-up company that is set to change the face of Radiation Therapy forever. They recently completed their Ser...
Cardboard Bedding Ltd, trading as Green Mile, is relocating to Prees in Shropshire after securing £180,000 from the ...
A new investment initiative has been launched by ACE Entrepreneurs to support and fund early-stage black-owned businesses. The ...
Percent, the fintech innovator with the mission to put good into everyday financial transactions, has closed a $5M venture round led by ...
The AI Accelerator is back! Applications are open until 8th of August so there’s still time to ...
The FSE Group has been accredited as a lender under the Recov...
Calculus Capital and Foresight Group have together announced the successful sale of ...
New data released by Tech Nation, the UK’s tech scaleup experts, and Dealroom analyses the UK’s posi...
Elestial Limited, an Oxfordshire-based start-up company, has signed up to the national SPRINT business ...
A new technology platform designed to generate long term royalties for artists and venues will be launched this August by Kasabian drummer Ian Matthews and his long-time friend and tech entrepreneu...
Edison Group, the leading international research and investor relations consultancy, has announced the appointment of Paul Miller as CTO an...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout1 investments, has entered into an agreement to se...
Foresight Group LLP, an award-winning listed infrastructure and regional privat...
GP Bullhound acted as exclusive financial advisor to Bliss Point Media on its sale to ...
Data self-sovereignty is fundamental to a company’s resilience and yet communication platforms, like Whatsapp and Signal, are not sufficient for organisations compliantly handling sensitive i...
Ntropy, a company removing data barriers to understand financial transactions, has announced a $3.2M seed round led by Q...
The successful close of the second round of the GAS EIS Climate Change Fund on 15th July suggests that investors are waking up to the s...
As organisations struggle with unprecedented strain on their employees’ mental health, they still lack a dedicated solution to support their people. Whi...
Bowmark Capital has further strengthened its investment, portfolio and origination teams with six new appointments. ...
Claire Alvarez has been promoted to Partner by Foresight Group, the leading listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager. Claire, who joined...
Viracoat, a subsidiary of Viracorp set up to develop and produce PPE that begins killing COVID-19 and other viruses on contact, has raised £2million ($4million Australian dollars) to fund fin...
Doktor.se has secured €29.5 million (300 million sek) in funding from Tencen...
The Calculus Creative Content EIS Fund, together with other funds managed or advised by Calculus, has ...
AD Williams – a leading accident repair group – has received a multi-million-pound investment from BGF. The f...
London-based startup, BEPPS Snacks, has raised £400,000 investment from early-stage venture capital investors, Ascension Ventures, who seek ...
Multi-family investment office, Arete, has made a significant investment as part of a multi-million-pound deal in North West based, ...
Alex Kennedy of Gannons looks at how to deal with the next phase of Covid regulations Employers are thinking about how to manage their emp...
Remy Astie, CEO and founder of Vauban, makes the case for joining forces...
Karen Dunne-Squire from Elation Experts shares her five key steps to ensuring the change you want to embed in your business succeeds. ...
Modwenna Rees-Mogg looks at the Future Fund statistics and asks just how helpful they really are? I recollect that this time last year the Future Fund was just getting going. Amidst the cha...
The number of first-time funding rounds into UK seed-stage startups declined for a second consecutive year in 2020, to 36 per cent below the 2018 peak for such deals, according to new research comm...
Bower Collective, the sustainable consumer goods business has raised £2.1 million i...
A biotech company with a product that helps to heal eye injuries and could revolutionise treatment of other wounds has raised a further £1.8m. Nottingham-based ...
Situated in the London borough of Westminster, technology company Dragonfly AI has secured a £250,000 loan to expand its...
Three quarters (76%) of IFAs believe that their use of Business Relief propositions will increase over the next two years, with less than 2% saying they saw their u...
A business that is on course to transform the food allergy diagnostics market has secured £2.9m investment in a funding round led by Praetura Ventu...
QVentures has announced their latest fund investment into Wildpoint, a marketplace that...
The audio app Anyone has been one of the most talke...
Livingbridge has announced its investment in AJM Healthcare, the leading provider of NHS wheelchair services...
Eka Ventures has reached the final close on a £68m ($95m) fund, making it the la...
Fast growing facilities management company, ...
John Davies has joined Pitalia Capital to launch a new investment fund in response to increased demand for capital and support from small to mid-sized b...
The Edinburgh-based business investment group, Archangels, has led investment of £12.4m in innovative Scottish tec...
Scotland-based HV Systems (HVS) has secured a £5 million capital injection from Beehive Equity Limited, a ...
Climate X, a London-based purpose-driven startup, has completed its pre-seed raise of £1.1M – ushering in a new era of climate intelligence that...
IW Capital has made an investment in e-pharmacy company SimplyMeds...
Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK FinTech, today publishes details of the record-br...
The Greater London Investment Fund (GLIF) will seek to commit at least £20 million of its capital to businesses led by female, ethnic minority or disabled entre...
Maven Capital Partners has raised £6.26 million to fund Oak Meadows, a new-build family home development consisting of 61 homes in Middleton St George, ...
detected, the global mark of trust for eCommerce, has completed its latest funding round of £900k. This newe...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has agreed to sell U-POL, a leadin...
GingrTech, developers of the award-winning ROCKET Serious Games platform for experiential learning, has announced that games industry legends Philip and Andrew Oliv...
Pharmaceutical business Remedi Pharmacy Solutions has secured a £250,000 loan to support the development of its latest software ...
Arborea – which is industrialising photosynthesis to expand the world’s food supply – has completed a funding round led by ...
A fast-growing company that delivers high-speed internet connectivity to sites that lack the usual infrastructure has secured a further £500,000 investment from the ...
When you think of traditional investment opportunities you’d be forgiven for not including music amongst the likes of gold, art and technology. However, the past five years has seen huge grow...
Maven Capital Partners has led the £2.6 million investment in cloud-based internal communication and employee engagement platform ...
Unibuddy, the number one peer-to-peer university recruitment platform that has helped 770,000 students from over 180 countries make better decisions about their ...
Video-software company mmhmm has raised a $100 million B round led by ...
BGF and the ScaleUp Institute have released a seven-point plan based on key outcomes from the inaugural ...
Kuano.ai, a software platform for rapid, cost effective quantum modelling of enzymes, has raised £1 million in seed fundin...
byrd, the tech-driven digital logistics and fulfilment platform, has raised a €16 million Series B funding round. The round wa...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor, has announced a successful exit of its investment in ...
It has been a record first half of the year for VC investment into London’s fintech sector, with new research from Dealroom.co and...
Foresight Group, the award-winning listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has announced a £...
CAPZA, an independent management company and leading player in private investments in European SMEs – has invested in the French HR Tech ...
Toqio has announced a seed round of €8M from Seaya Ventures, Speedinvest and...
After a year of record growth, national courier company Speedy Freight has announc...
The British Business Bank has published data that gives a final comprehensive picture of how the Future Fund ...
Nottingham-based Boditrax Technologies Ltd has received a £500,000 loan from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) East & South East Midlands De...
Fair By Design & GC Angels have backed death tech start-up Guardian Ange...
QV Bioelectronics – a medical device start-up pioneering a first of its kind electric field therapy implant for the treatment of the most common and agg...
A company that designs products for many leading consumer brands has raised £750,000 from ...
Traveltech startup Byway, the world's first flight-free holiday platform, has announced £1.1 million of fundi...
Funding London talked to expert investors and shares their advice for entrepreneurs on how to raise funds in the Post-Pandemic Era. Some...
Invest Europe, the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, has pu...
OpenBlend, the SaaS platform transforming the way companies and their employees think about performance management has taken additional funding and appointed Da...
Greenbackers Investment Capital has revealed the identity of 26 climate technology start-ups who will be taking part in an innovative six-month programm...
24Haymarket, a private capital firm focused on growth equity and venture capital investments in the UK, and Forward Partners, an early-stage investor focused ...
MediSieve Ltd, a biotech company which has developed an innovative blood filtration device, has completed a £1.8m investment, led by ...
Cornerstone Partners has led a seed round into boxing inspired fitness studio and digital content platform, Boxx....
E-commerce start-up Haru has secured just under half a million pounds of investment from the ...
MSDUK, an organisation that champions the inclusion of ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) and founders in corporate supply chains, has partnered with ...
Deep technology company VividQ, a leading software and IP developer for holography, has announced a seed extension round of £11M. The Cambridge head-quarter...
Specialist M&A advisory firm Ciesco has confirmed that Chip[s] Board, which develops bioplastics ...
Private equity house WestBridge has promoted Peter Barkley to director. Barkley joined WestBridge i...
Pembroke VCT, the the venture capital trust focused on building the brands of tomorrow, has invested £1.75m into ...
Your FLOCK, a remote work tech startup that helps increase employee engagement by discovering a team’s core values, has secured &p...
Digital training platform Virti has raised $10m in a Series A to further its goal of improving human performance using world-class interactive technology. The round...
The Emirates Angel Investors Association has launched the Business Directory on their mobile app. The directory will include a list of tech startups, m...
Private equity firms invested in a record 566 companies in Central and Eastern Europe in 2020, as the industry supported dynamic SMEs and start-ups that will fuel the recovery from the impact of CO...
Translated, an Italy and US-based company that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence to support professional translators, announces that the worl...
Thymia has raised a £780k/$1.1m pre-seed round to scale its platform to assess for and monitor depression. The Thymia tec...
NPIF - Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Inve...
BGF, the UK & Ireland’s most active investor, has announced the creation of a specialist advisory board to accelerate...
Fast-growing private equity house YFM Equity Pa...
Diversity VC has announced that Ladi Greenstreet and Daisy Onubogu have taken over the leadership, as CEO and COO respectively. The...
Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK FinTech, has welcomed ...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has invested in ...
BGF – the UK & Ireland’s most active investor – has announced a successful exit...
Distill Ventures is committed to increasing diversity within the drinks industry through a range of global initi...
Callum Rummer, founder, By Bits, gives some useful advice to startups on securing investment during COVID The pandemic has hit al...
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Epipole, the video retinal imaging specialist, has started work on a €1.1 million collaborative project to develop a technology solution for the diagnosi...
James Murdoch discusses his reduced appetite for investment these days and analyses some of the reasons behind this decision. Ihave been investing less. For the last few y...
Evie Mulberry, MD, Astia asks whether the start-up ecosystem’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic had a positive impact on women entrepreneurs. The current Covi...
Checksteps, the UK startup providing advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) products for contextual content moderation to social media and en...
UK-based agency Wooshii, which provides video content and software tools for blue-chip companies around the world, has received additional inves...
Insurtech platform Nayms has announced a new cohort of investors who have subscribed to a future listing of the project's native token, NAYM. This new cohort include...
Haatch Ventures launched their first SEIS Fund in March to complement their flagship EIS Fund. The new SEIS Fund was oversubscribed within 2 weeks, showing how pop...
M40 Offices has received a £250,000 funding package from the East & South East Midlands (ESEM) Fund, managed by Ma...
CEMEX Ventures, the corporate venture capital and open innovation unit of CEMEX, has increased its participation in Mo...
DAPV Ltd, trading as Boulevard Online, a Worcester-based e-commerce business has secured a funding package of up to £600,000 to help...
Solihull based RoadHow, an app designed to help drivers to become safer and more aware on the road, while potentially saving them money on their insurance, has ...
BGF, the UK & Ireland’s most active growth capital investor, has completed a cornerstone investment in Th...
House of Insurtech has secured £400k in a seed round led by SFC Capital a...
YFM Equity Partners is continuing to support the growth of innovative Scottish software business ...
Foresight Group has invested 3 million of growth capital into NorthWest EHealth Limited, providers of software and ser...
Putting a sustainable spin on laundry,...
Squire Patton Boggs continues to expand its Financial Services Practice Group with the appointment of Steven Ward as partner in the firm’s L...
GoStudent, the Vienna-based Ed-Tech scale-up which provides video-based online tutoring in 1-on-1 format, has hit unicorn status in less than 2.5 years si...
Navenio, the UK company that has pioneered indoor location-based artificial intelligence to revolutionise workflows and can double the throughput of hospital team...
Foresight Group, a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has announced a £300k growth capital investment from the ...
UK-based healthtech firm Kiteline, formerly known as Liminal Health, has secured £370,000 in funding to meet the demand for support for those liv...
Palatine Private Equity has acquired a majority stake in Routes Healthcare, one of the North’s leadin...
F C Laser Limited has received a £1.5 million loan from Maven Capital Partners through the ...
Puma VCT 13 – the thirteenth Venture Capital Trust (VCT) launched by fund manager ...
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Gannons Employment Law expert Alex Kennedy delves into the world of the gig economy and highlights some of the big issues that employers often face. ...
Jenson Funding Partners has appointed Martin Punt as Portfolio Development Manager. Martin will be working alongside Lisa Matthews and the team supp...
Nick Berry from BB Strategy reflects on the acceleration and acceptance of remote working as a legacy of Covid but conside...
It is almost 20 years since the new framework for angel investment was enshrined in the Companies Act. Combined with the FCA’s rules on Financial Promotions, the industry has had a work...
George Pennock, partner at Four Seasons Ventures, suggests that how an SME business responded to the Covid dow...
A student start-up developing technology that will slash food waste in the education sector has won £10,000 to develop their idea. UK schools, colleges and universities throw away ...
BGF has announced a successful exit from Cennox – a leading provider of services t...
SearchSmartly, the smart match-making property search platform that provides hyper-personalised property searches in minutes, has raised £1.25milli...
The UK tech sector reaches new heights with 100 UK tech companies valued at $1bn or more, according to new data from Dealr...
Parcel2Go, the UK’s largest parcel delivery marketplace and e-commerce shipping platform, has announced the introduction of ...
The Maven UK Regional Buyout Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has invested in ...
State Street Corporation has released new ...
Tech Nation has launched the Diversity & Inclusion Toolkit; a comprehensive guide to address di...
British Patient Capital comments on the British Business...
Clearco, the world's largest e-commerce investor and the company revolutionizing the way founders grow their businesses, has announced ambitious international ...
Gresham House Ventures – a growth equity investor specialising in software and digitally driven businesses in the consumer, healthcare and serv...
Ochre Bio, a biotech company developing RNA medicines for chronic liver diseases, has raises $9.6M seed financing led by ...
New research [1] from investment holding company MBH Corporation shows SME bosses are worried that access to finance will become harder over the n...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active investors in growth businesses, has invested £2 million in London-based ...
Episode 1 backed car buying comparison leader, carwow has acquired used car buying platform,...
A Midlands software company which uses the power of video games to help businesses manage and motivate their sales teams has raised a further £600,000 for expansion....
YFM Equity Partners-advised funds have sold their shareholding in ...
Polaris has intensified its sustainability work and published its first annual sustainability report, outl...
The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF), supported by the Europe...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout1 investments, has announced the signing of an a...
Hertility Health, the new women’s health start-up revolutionising the world of hormone and reproductive health, has announced the clo...
NorthEdge has sold a majority stake in Orbis Protect, a leading provider of critica...
GP Bullhound has announced a new investment into Lingokids, a leading educational pl...
Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on building the brands of tomorrow, has made an initial investment into ...
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Beyond HERizons, a new initiative from London & Partners’ Silicon Valley comes to the UK (SVC2UK)...
Isomer Capital has reached the first close of “Isomer Capital Opportunities”. The new co-investme...
Equity investment in the UK’s smaller businesses increased by 9% in 2020 to £8.8bn, the highest amount since the Beauhurst data series began in 2011, reveals the ...
Immersive Labs, the company empowering organizations to measure and improve cybersecurity skills across technical and non-technical teams...
The world's key challenges - smarter cities, more responsible manufacturing and cleaner energy to name a few - can't be solved by software alone. Hardware innovation, and therefore hardware early-s...
Circulor, the leading provider of supply chain traceability and dynamic CO2 tracking, has closed $14m in Series A funding to accelerate the company’s r...
The ‘UK Immersive Tech: VC Investment Report’ features 31 highly innovative, fast-growing immersive tech ventures that have already raised significant amounts of VC and Angel inve...
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Iceni Diagnostics, a specialist carbohydrate chemistry company based in Norwich, which raised funds in November 2020 from ...
In a year dominated by Covid-19 and Brexit, the Development Bank of Wales has worked with and supported a broad range of businesses across the Welsh eco...
The North East Development Capital Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund (“ERDF”) has invested £...
TreasurySpring, the London-based financial technology company that operates the world’s first Fixed-Term Fund platform has secured more than $10m of ...
Fuel Ventures, the early-stage VC focusing on tech-enabled businesses, has launched a new £45 million investment fund. The funds will be d...
Fertility Focus, the manufacturers of the OvuCore and OvuSense Pro family of leading fertility monitoring solutions, with class II medical device classifi...
A LEADING North East provider of business support is encouraging those aged 50 and over to consider self-employment, after it saw enquiries for start-up support ...
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has sold its stake in FourNet, the award-winning digital ...
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund has in...
A Birmingham-based machining company has secured a £400,000 loan to help safeguard its 65 employees as well as creating 10 full time new jobs and apprentices over the next two to three years....
Foresight Group is to sell Ixaris Group Holdings Limited, a leader in travel payment technology, to ...
Alantra has reached a first close with more than €80 million of commitments in their ...
VenueScanner, the UK’s largest online venue booking platform, has secured a $1.5 million funding round led by Rianta Capital and ...
A software platform that helps businesses to connect with staff is aiming to double in size after raising a £780,000 investment. WorkBuzz has secured the funding from ...
Inverleith LLP, a Scottish-based consumer brands investor, is celebrating the listing on AIM of its portfolio company, ...
Iksuda Therapeutics, the developer of a new generation of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) with raised therapeutic index, has completed a US $47 million (circa...
Kavida.ai – a supply chain resiliency startup, founded in 2020, has secured £300,000 ($425,000) in pre seed capital from strategic investors. The co...
Private equity house YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has offices in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, is continuing to Invest in its team with the promotio...
SENTZ, a new range of naturally fruitful British hard seltzers for people who want to live life guilt-free, has received investment from Henley ...
Green Angel Syndicate, one of the largest active angel syndicates in the UK and the only one specialising in the fight against climate change, has mad...
Clir Renewables (Clir), a company dedicated to maximizing project returns from renewable energy assets, has announced the closing of its CAD$27 ...
Seneca Partners, the specialist SME investment business based in the North West has announced that EIS portfolio company, Manchester-based ...
Commenting ahead of World Environment day, Alessa Berg (pictured), founder and CEO of Top Tier Impact, comments on why we must encourage worldwide aware...
Teemyco, the Swedish online office provider, has raised $3.2m from German seed fund 42CAP, who led the round with participati...
The Danish robotics upstart, WeldingDroid, is adding Thomas Visti to its ...
CFOs across the UK warn that cashflow and overspending are the main barriers to their organisation's financial recovery. The ...
Analysis by DSA Connect, an IT asset disposal company which specialises in the permanent deletion and destruction of electronic data, reveals nearl...
BGF, the UK & Ireland’s most active investor, has broken the £100 million investment milestone, backing more t...
GP Bullhound has announced that entries for the 2021 Northern T...
Divido, the world’s largest whitelabel platform for retail finance, has raised a $...
Atos and Huma, the digital health innovator, have announced a 5-year strateg...
Heja, the vertical social platform for Team Sport communication, has scored a $4.2m seed round led by Amsterdam-based ...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Busin...
Satellite Vu has raised a £3.6m (US$5m) seed round led by Seraphim Capital to launch the wo...
Cultivo, a new way to invest in nature at scale, has launched its service to connect landowners ...
Wealth at Work Group Limited, a UK-based specialist provider of workplace financial education, guidance and regulated financial advice for in...
Dutch artificial intelligence company Sentinels has raised £4.9 million (€5.7 mill...
Cognigy, a global leader in omnichannel Customer and Employee Service Automation with its Conversational AI platform Cognigy.AI, has raised $44 million in Ser...
Ingenious has announced that Ingenious Real Estate Fin...
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End-of-life admin service Settld has closed its initial seed funding round with &pou...
NEO KUMA Ventures, the UK’s first investment fund dedicated solely to psychedelic healthcare, has announced its investme...
HealthyHealth Group, a company focused on transforming the life and health insurance underwriting journey through digital data, has announced the closing ...
After a turbulent 15 months for businesses, entrepreneurs and investors, Roger James Hamilton, Founder and CEO of Genius Group...
Malt, the leading European freelance consulting marketplace, has entered into exclusive negotiations for a new funding of 80 million euros, led by...
Automated digital content platform LivePreso (formerly known as SalesPreso) has posted a record quarter after landing several new international c...
Dividend hero investment companies have grown their dividends to shareholders well ahead of inflation over the past five years, according to new data from the As...
ikigai, the new premium fintech bringing self-care to personal finance, has closed its successful Crowdcube campaign rai...
A company which has designed a software platform that helps businesses optimise online recruitment has raised £630,000 to support its growth plans....
North West-headquartered Tactus Group, a specialist in the development of consumer technology products, has expanded into th...
The Top Tier Impact (TTI) Group has announced the launch of its inaugural ...
Palamon Capital Partners has partnered with the management team of IDH Group to enter into a binding share purchase agreement to acquire The Carlyle Group&rsq...
Port Talbot-based Deer Technology has secured equity investment...
Intelligent AI has secured £400,000 in seed funding led by ...
Private equity house YFM Equity Partners, which has offices in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, has promoted David Wrench to equit...
Just a few weeks after their merger, Keensight Capital portfolio company Sogelink and ...
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Limitations on wind turbine design lifetimes are hampering efforts to manage costs in asset lifecycles, reducing the effectiveness of long-term decision making and disrupting the effectiveness of o...
Qualus, the leading provider of sustainable solutions to the leather industry, has secured £1 million of financing in a round led by ...
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Owner managed businesses coming out of the third lockdown are still struggling with the impact of Covid-19 and an uncertain economic outlook: 11% ...
Marlin Equity Partners has signed a definitive agreement to complete a growth investment in iBanFirst SA, a cloud-ba...
Invest Europe, the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, has publish...
Penfold, the pensions challenger making saving for the future easier today, raised a £6million investment round ...
Curve, the fast-growing financial super app, has closed the largest ever equity raise on Crowdcube, breaking mult...
Asset Class, a fintech company headquartered in Dublin, with offices in New York and London, announces a strategic investment from Angel Oak Ventures, the ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active growth capital investor, has reported record-breaking results and surging growth in its 2020 Annual Report and Accou...
Deepbridge Capital, the UK venture capital investment manager, has announces that it has secured a £15m commitment f...
A syndicate of significant Welsh investment angels has completed a £950,000 investment in Swansea-based Marine Power Systems....
Warwickshire based manufacturer of energy storage solutions, Off Grid Energy, has secured a £1.25m investment to scale-up its operations, furth...
Bright Star Studios has secured over $2 million in funding from multiple investors for its forthcoming free-to-play MMORPG (massively-multipl...
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has sig...
Foresight Group has made a further investment into Fresh Relevance, following on a record quarter of...
NorthEdge-backed Lights4fun, one of Europe’s leading e-commerce retailers of decorative lighting, has appointe...
Maven Capital Partners is to be acquired by leading UK wealth manager Mattioli Woods plc. The deal will allow Maven t...
Keensight Capital, one of the principal private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout1 investments, has reached an agreement to inves...
eleXsysEnergy has raised £640,000 through Angel Invest...
Nearly three-quarters (74%) of entrepreneurs and investors say they have witnessed discrimination within the startup community, harming the growth of many ea...
ICAS World Ltd (ICAS), a leading global provider of mental health and employee wellness services has acquired the NHS-commissioned mental health tech startup, ...
London-based soft prosthetics company, Koalaa, is celebrating after securing investment from British Design ...
PALATINE Private Equity has successfully exited its investment in TTC Group, the leading driver risk management ...
As part of its activity to support Scale Up Week (18 – 21 May), NatWest has today launched a new flagship programme open to all SMEs...
Green Angel Syndicate has invested in environmental DNA pioneers NatureMetrics. The Ser...
Foresight Group, an award-winning listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, announces the first close of the Foresight Regional Inves...
Oliver Woolley of Envestors shares his thoughts on the impact that Covid pandemic has had on investment. 2020 was a tum...
Companies in the digital, media and internet sectors have taken advantage of the open public markets, with no fewer than 18 IPOs completed in the first quarter of 2021, up from just one the previou...
With an initial pre-seed investment of £25k as part of a larger £150k SEIS seed round raised through team members, angels and friends, the ...
Leading commission-free brokerage platform, Stake, has successfully raised US$30M from Tiger Global and partners of D...
Oceanium, the UK-based seaweed processing and food & material innovation business has announced the first close of a Seed II Round worth £2m led by ...
The value of venture capital raised by UK companies surged to the highest quarterly total in Q1 2021 according to research from Refinitiv Deals Intelligence...
Ankorstore, the curated marketplace connecting independent brands with the most loved local retailers, has raised $100 million in Series B funding le...
Venture Capital investment firm JPIN VCATS has completed a £1.5million raise to drive forward the development of the world's largest investment corridor bet...
Maven Capital Partners has led an investment round into Horizon Technologies for an undisclosed amount. The UK a...
Stoke-on-Trent-based The Supply Register (TSR), has secured further funding from vent...
Churches Fire, a Southampton-based provider of fire safety and security compliance services, has secured a significant £75 million refinancing pack...
BGF has completed a £5.2 million investment in Odro, a Scottish-headquartered technology business that provides...
In December 2021, Guy Rigby & David Murray will be bravely setting off 3,000 miles as part of ...
Velocity Capital Advisors, a leading UK EIS/SEIS investment fund focussed on consumer technology, has launched a new transformative growth capital product...
A report issued this week paints a bright future for Midlands-based businesses and showcases the opportunity for investment in what appears to be a...
Ivan Hoo, co-founder of Inverse, shares his golden rules for entrepreneu...
John Deane, Partner in charge of the commercial contracts team at Gannons, looks at the importance of unde...
SETsquared has released data which shows that a record level of investment was raised by its member companies in 2020, despite the pandemic. Investment f...
A boom in the construction industry created unprecedented demand for the Target Group which specialises in digger, dum...
The Robot Exchange has secured a significant £500k investment from leading private equity investment firm, ...
As we begin to open up the UK, it’s a time look forward, but perhaps you will allow me a few words on the past year and what it has taught the angel and other related private company investme...
IW Capital has announced the completion of a successful investment in LAT Water Ltd...
The vast majority (81%) of businesses that carry out research and innovation work in the UK reproted delays or stoppages to research activities during the pandemic, according to a survey of 500 R&a...
Handshake, the largest early career network, has raised $80 million of venture financing and is set to invest a tranche of the funding in ...
Revolutionary synthetic diamond production business, Dyman Advanced Materials, based at the ...
Hypervolt is a leading UK provider of smart electric vehicle (EV) charging, is seeking £1.5 million growth capital to scale existing products, develop new ones and open US distribution. ...
AberInnovation’s BioAccelerate has been incubating some of the most promising bioscience companies in Wales for three years now. Previous successes h...
Spearvest, the global wealth management firm, has hired two real estate professionals to its senior team to help spearhead a new real estate strategy. In 202...
Keensight Capital is to sell its stake in Linkbynet, a leading provider of cloud, Devops and cyber secu...
Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK FinTech, has named Louise Smith as its ...
NPIF - Maven Equity Finance has invested over £7 million in dynamic growth businesses across the Northern Powerhouse regi...
ilumoni, the start-up app that aims to help people to borrow well, has raised ...
Money Alive, a regulatory technology business based in Bedford, is set for further growth following a £749,000 fin...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has successfully raised £1.2bn for Livingbridge 7, ahead of its fi...
ILC Therapeutics, a UK-based biotechnology company and pioneer in the discovery and development of a new class of interferon drugs, has announced the ...
Airkit, the world’s first low-code Digital Customer Experience platform, has raised an additional $40M Series B investment led by ...
Yoto, the audio platform for kids behind the critically acclaimed and award-winning Yoto Player, has raised $17 million Series A funding to help facilitate it...
To support ambitious early-stage entrepreneurs developing technologies with the potential to shape the future economy, SFC Capital,...
Praetura Group, the Manchester-based debt and equity capital provider to northern SMEs, provided more than £75m of funding to SMEs in the first quarter o...
Brighton based augmented reality technology startup Percept Imagery has raised £300k in its latest funding round to fur...
New alternative lender Blazehill Capital has announced the appointment of Jake Hyman as Business Development Director, signalling its commitment to sourcin...
Matt Dickens, Senior Business Development Director at Ingenious discusses why investors should act sooner rather than later ...
Cron AI, a leading DeepTech company building a 3D Data Edge perception platform, has raised $4 million as part of its Series A funding. The round was led ...
Cambridge based biotechnology company, Phico Therapeutics, has announced it has received £7 million in funding from a consortium of investors. ...
The global early-stage venture capital firm Antler has closed their first Nordic fund. Following strong interest, Antler’s Nordic fund was oversubscribed,...
Financial Services Capital, the private equity investor dedicated to the European financial services sector, has appointed Kevin Cunningham, ...
Scottish Equity Partners has completed a significant growth equity investment in FundApps, one of the world's most successfu...
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BGF and the ScaleUp Institute have launched a major new nationwide initiative, Scaleup Week: The Business...
Environmental fintech Tred has successfully cleared its target of £400,000 fundraise on Crowdcube, overfunding to more than £1 mi...
Sylvan Enterprises has received a £500,000 loan through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) ESEM...
Kerv, a Cloud Centric Managed Service and Infrastructure Transformation Provider, has acquired cloudThing, a marke...
CyberHive, a UK cybersecurity company, has secured a £1.8m investment, co-led by 24Haymarket and Mercia Fun...
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Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced its eighth deal for the Low Car...
670 initial public offerings have been recorded globally so far during 2021, more than double the number recorded during the same period in 2020 and the highest yea...
Inflexion has sold its investment in Reed & Mackay, a premium corporate travel management and events business,...
The world’s first live sports streaming and advertising platform built specifically for commercial venues, Scre...
On-demand and Elastic™ software talent startup Distributed has secured £5m in a Series A funding round led by ...
James Murdoch shares his assessment of a year in Equity Crowdfunding. The excitement of the failed Crowdcube/Seedrs has passed and Crowdfunding returns to its new normal. It's time to make ...
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US$1.77 trillion worth of M&A deals were announced globally during the first four months of 2021, more than double (+124%) the same period last year and the highest year-to-date total since the...
Nanotechnology business Figura Analytics has raised £180,000 seed funding from private investors and the UK’s leading early stage inves...
Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) have made an investment into ...
Toy innovator and distributor Wow! Stuff...
Par Equity has led an investment of £2m in Datactics, a leader in the field of data managem...
Charlotte Arneaud of Envestors looks at parallels in consumer spending with angel investor decision-making. ...
UK-founded marketing technology platform ContentCal has secured $6.2 million in Series A investment from Fuel Ventures ...
Mogrify Limited, a biopharmaceutical company aiming to transfohas completed rm the development of ex vivo cell therapies and pioneer a new class of in vivo...
NorthEdge has launched its first ESG report in which it reviews the progress made by the firm in 2020...
Percival Menswear, a London-based contemporary menswear fashion brand, has secured a further £3m investment from growth capital investor ...
A new report from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, shows that holding periods extended in 20...
YFM Equity Partners is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the launch of its first Venture Capital Trust. After listing British Small...
Bilal Gokpinar, Professor of Operations, Technology and Innovation at the UCL School of Management, looks at the benefits of Equity Crowdfunding beyond the ...
PortalOne, the world’s first hybrid games platform, has raised $15m in an oversubscribed total seed funding rou...
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Sesamy, the startup allowing people to purchase audio and ebooks online for any kind of device, has announced that it has raised €4 million in a major seed fu...
Innovative Scottish start-up, QuickBlock, has received more than £250,000 in seed funding that will create four skilled jobs and accelerate growth of ...
David Holden-White, Co-Founder & Managing Director of techspert.io ...
Alton based In-Space Missions, is the latest company to secure funding from the ...
Following musicMagpie’s successful admission to AIM, NVM Private Equity has generated proceeds and retained value ...
NorthEdge portfolio business Altia has been named a Queen’s Award for Enterprise winner for International Trade. ...
GP Bullhound has published its latest quarterly market reports. Read all about the CEOs and the key trends they see in the Software, Digital Services, Fin...
Jenson Funding Partners have completed an investment in The Neighbourhood Kitchen who are respons...
Poke House, a leading fast casual poke brand in Europe, has announced the acquisition of London-based restaurant chain ...
Pure Pet Food, a Yorkshire company which manufactures personalised pet food using only natural ingredients has secured a multi-million pound investme...
Following being named among the twelve 2021 BNEF Pioneers last week1, identifying it as one of the most impactful and original technology innovati...
UX-Republic joins Smile, the leading group recognized for its unique expertise in open source technologies, and also known through its brands Neopixl, the...
Maven Capital Partners has acquired a 28,000 sq ft building in Nottingham city centre for £3.7 million from a South African-li...
University of Birmingham spinout ChromaTwist Ltd has secured £300k of seed funding to develop a new class of fluorescent materials for use in bio-...
Research from Yoppie, the pioneers of personalised, organic period care delivered through your letterbox, has found that while remote working ha...
Welsh-based start-up, Yimba, a multimedia and marketing platform that enhances bank digital wallet integrations, ha...
YFM Equity Partners is continuing to expand its team with the appointment of Tiffany Young as investment manager, based at its London o...
Two of Wales' leading entrepreneurs have been announced as non-executive directors of the Development Bank of Wales. The appointments take place with ef...
Foresight Group has made a £1.25 million growth capital investment under the Scottish Growth Scheme into FUR...
Ecommerce startup aisle 3 has completed a successful follow on funding round, raisi...
Growth capital investor, BGF has exited its investment in Nottingham-based life sciences incubation business, BioCity. ...
Cornerstone Partners, a leading angel network focused on investing in exceptional black and diverse founder led businesses across the UK, has releas...
Osprey Flight Solutions, creators of the most powerful resource for supporting aviation risk management in the industry, has closed a ...
The UK’s first online marketplace for building supplies is relocating to Wales having completed a seed...
o2h Ventures, a UK based fund manager through investment in its SEIS and EIS human health funds has made an investment into Stingray B...
Bristol-based entrepreneurs, who have developed techniques to incorporate graphene into Li-ion batteries to improve battery life and charging times while reducing their cost, have raised roughly &p...
NorthEdge has made a series of appointments and promotions across its Manchester and Leeds offices. The lower mid-market private equit...
Bowmark Capital has announced a series of promotions. Antonia Cheong and Tom Elliott bec...
Jenson Funding Partners has completed an investment in Paperound.com, a marketplace for busy business owners to...
Seraphim Space Camp today reveals the startups that are participating in Mission 7 of its accelerator, the UK’s first dedicated ...
Committed Capital has sold its equity interest in Fairstone, the acquisitive full-service wealth management and chartered financial planning firm, ...
Financial Services Capital, the private equity investor dedicated to the European financial services sector, has completed $1...
The month of March proved to be an extremely successful one for Newable Ventures, the UK’s leading early stage investment ...
Oxitec Ltd, the leading developer of insect-based biological solutions to control pests that transmit disease,...
Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) and managed ...
One of the UK’s leading building insulation manufacturers, YBS Insulation, has received a £250,000 loan to progress its growth plans.  ...
Dublin-based Nory has raised a pre-seed round of $2m to help restaurants manage the full-suite...
Feel, the UK-based digital health company, is on a mission to clean up the ‘dirty’ world of nutrition...
George Pennock, partner at Four Seasons Ventures looks at the challenges of choosing the right no...
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed a $25 million growth equity investment in Ba...
A group of leading entrepreneurs and investors have joined forces with the sector body for British brands to reach first close for a £50 million venture capital fund that will support some of...
A team of top scientists from the University of Bristol have announced the formation of a new biotech company that is developing ground-breaking and newly patented potential...
A recruitment platform which allows haulage operators to reduce costs has raised a further £300,000 to support its expansion plans. ...
The West Midlands has cemented its place as a strategically significant hub for levelling up FinTech in the UK with its appointment to the FinTech National Network – the UK’s first netw...
Odore, the beauty tech start-up working with global brands including Guerlain, Clive Christian ...
Payhawk, the platform for payments and expense management, has raised $20 million. The Series A round is led by the US-based fund ...
Manchester-based independent debt fund Tosca Debt Capital (TDC) has appointed Mat Deering as a partner to further develop and grow its investment port...
Beyond Animal, a digital platform accelerating the growth of the animal-free economy, has launched a funding service that matches investors with pre-ap...
BGF has made a £10 million investment in Polar Technology Management Group, an Oxfordshire-base...
SomaServe Ltd, a pioneer in nanomedicines for crossing biological barriers has completed a highly successful, oversubscribed Series A funding of £2.1m....
MunchFit, healthy food provider to luxury gym Equinox...
The Gateshead team that has backed thousands of UK entrepreneurs with more than £100 million has launched a free training course to help others start up successful businesses. ...
RGE Services, a fire and electrical compliance services provider primarily working with the public sector, has funded its primary buyout by securing an equi...
Praetura Ventures, the venture capital investor, has appointed four industry heavyweights as it evidences its more than money approach. ...
We are now past the end of the tax year. So now is a good time to mull over what you will be doing as an angel investor over the next twelve months. Here are a few things the AngelNews team t...
George Pennock, partner at Four Seasons Ventures looks at the challenges of choosing the right non-executiv...
Jennifer Wall of Gannons Solicitors considers the main element of due diligence investors should carry out before inves...
Muzinich & Co. has reached the third close of the Muzinich Pan-European II Private Debt Fund (the Fund), at €342m. The Fu...
Growth capital investor BGF has invested £14 million in Bloom (Bloom Procurement Services), based in the North East ...
Fast-growth international web hosting business, Miss Group, has strengthened its seni...
An HR software platform which helps companies to manage remote workers has raised a further £1,275,000 to fund its rapid expansion. ...
CareLineLive, the homecare management software that increases efficiency, capacity, compliance and communication between managers and carers ...
The University of Surrey’s S100 Club, the only established angel investment network in the SETsquared Partnership...
Venture capital investment manager Deepbridge Capital has seen a record year of Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fundraising, with £29.4 mil...
Finch Capital, through Nomu Pay...
Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK FinTech, has released Q1 investment figures for the UK FinTech sector in 2021 that reveal a robust recovery following a tough pand...
A new study by Freetrade has revealed the “gender investment gap” in the U...
Foresight Group, a leading private equity and infrastructure investment manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, has announced an equity investment ...
Private-Equity backed Access Partnership is set for a period of sustained expansion by acquisition following an undisclosed investmen...
Addition Capital, the London-based family investment office, has completed a control investment into Be-A Education Ltd...
Live streaming sponsorships platform inSTREAMLY has raised a €1.1m seed round led by ...
Europe has returned to a ‘buyer-friendly’ environment, after the COVID-19 pandemic created more risk-averse attitudes. As a result, CMS’ late...
Following the publication of its Springboard to Recovery report, NatWest has relaunched its ...
Ingenious has announced that Ingenious Real Estate Finance LLP has completed two ne...
Skin & Tonic, a skincare and wellbeing brand founded in Hackney, London, has secured &pou...
A company whose technology can detect subsidence from satellite data has secured £1.5m from ...
Circularity Capital LLP has announced a follow-on investment in consumer technology subscriptions expert G...
The Baronsmead Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs), managed by Gresham House, have successfully raised £65m this year. The fundraising round, which clo...
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CFE Finance, Investment Banking boutique specialised in niche credit strategies and trade finance, strengthens its team in the United Kingdom with tw...
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) is continuing to expand its team with the appointment of Tiffany Young as investment manager, ...
Ensono, a leading hybrid IT services provider, and KKR, a leading global investment firm, has ...
Haatch Ventures quietly launched their first SEIS Fund in March, with a target raise of £1.5m. This figure was reached within...
London South Bank University (LSBU) is donating £150k to ‘Reskilling the Recovery’ which is creating new apprenticeships for low-paid ...
AND Digital, the British tech consultancy accelerating digital delivery for businesses, providing ac...
Nottingham-based, Lazy Flora, has secured £500,000 from venture capital firm, ...
Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) and ma...
Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital and mobility arm, InMotion Ventures, has invested in Battery R...
Four companies Contea, Jysk Pension, FinPro and ...
Non-bank or direct lending recorded the highest number of deals ever in the final quarter of 2020, according to D...
Luke Davis, CEO of IW Capital discusses how SMEs will help boost the nation’s recovery and future...
Maxwellia, a business that is poised to transform the UK’s self-care market has secured a £3.2m investment in a funding round led by ...
Following the initial investment in 2019, IW Capital has led the second round of funding to support the exciting development of this fast-growing business. Ov...
Pembroke VCT has achieved a record fundraise, selling out of the £40 million offer, wi...
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JPIN Venture Catalysts Ltd, India’s No. 1 co-investor network has partnered with an industry l...
Global syndicated loan volume totalled US$969.1 billion in 1Q21, a decline of 7.2% compared to volume recorded for the first quarter of 2020 according to ...
Commodities & Natural Resources is the top-performing investment company sector over the past year with an average return of 116%, following two years of negative returns.&n...
Deepbridge Capital, the UK Venture capital investment manager has announced the appointments of Steve Shallcross (pictured) as Chief Information and...
The UK’s first online marketplace for building supplies is relocating to Wales having completed a seed funding round with £500,000 secured from the Development Bank of Wales and BSKG Ho...
Chia-Jung Tsay, Associate Professor for UCL School of Management talks about why thinking about the visual side of investment pitching is critical to securi...
Maven Capital Partners has led the £3 million funding round for Atterley.com, an online fashion retailer which e...
In response to the increased volatility in the global financial markets created by the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
QVentures has invested in Béa Fertility, bringing at-home fert...
Wysdom Dental Technologies has received £200,000 from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, East & South East ...
Cyclr Systems Limited has secured over £2 million in new investment led by Blackfinch Ventures...
One Utility Bill - the Newcastle-based business which simplifies the utilities experience for consumers, landlords and letting agents - has raised a further...
Oxford Endovascular, a pioneering British MedTech company and spin-out from Oxford University, is developing a treatment for brain aneurysms, that will o...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has published the amount of money raised by VCTs for the 2020/21 tax year. During the pandemic and at...
Forward Partners and Landscape VC have revealed that the majority of founders believe their investors failed...
Halal Angels Network is among the first to penetrate the $5 trillion Halal consumer market and has teamed up FasterCa...
Scottish bio-tech company, BioCaptiva, has developed a novel next generation “liquid biopsy” technology device that could revolutionise the early diagnosis and monitoring of difficult t...
Mid-market private equity firm NorthEdge has acquired Correla, an innovative technology and data services business that a...
Circularity Capital LLP has continued to build its portfolio of European growth stage businesses enabling the circular economy by le...
Quarter 1 report from Equity Crow...
Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK FinTech, has announced that Charlotte Crosswell will step down from her position as Chief Executiv...
Chris Wiles, Senior Investment Manager, Foresight, discusses the importance of Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) benefits in the ...
CyTAL – a specialist provider of cyber-security product assurance services – has closed a significant equity funding round led by ...
Developing nations are missing out on a wave of investor interest in climate change and sustainability. To get in the game, these countries will require a significant overhaul of their debt capital...
Blackfinch Ventures has completed on 12 new investment deals totalling in excess of GBP11 million ahead of the tax-year-end deadline in a move which &lsqu...
Baseimmune, the early-stage UK biotech startup, is combining big data and biological expertise to predict ...
Worldwide M&A activity totals US$1.3 trillion during year-to-date 2021, up 93% compared to the same period last year according to ...
The Recovery Loan Scheme, a new scheme to support access to finance for UK businesses as they recover and gro...
Silverfleet Capital, the European private equity firm, has invested in the fast-growing, SaaS provider, ...
Luke Davis, CEO of IW Capital looks at the shift in sentiment and the sectors most attractive to investors this year. Following one of t...
A former Teacher whose passion for upcycling led her to launch her own business two years ago is set to go full circle, with ambitions to launch dedicated workshops later this year to tea...
Reckitt’s London-based purpose-led venture arm, has announced a new strategic partnership between heritage clothes care brand ...
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Advantage Business Angels has raised £580k from its members as part of a £2.5m seed round for ...
Proptech company Cubic Lease secures early stage funding...
Collectia, a Silverfleet Capital portfolio company, has completed the acquisition of the Danish operations of Kredinor...
NatWest has announced that it will offer SMEs up to £1million of cashflow funding through its digital overdraft alternative ...
GP Bullhound has made a follow-on investment into Glovo, one of the world’s leading multi-category delivery play...
The company was founded in 2019 to support creators including musicians, developers, podcasters and designers and had a goal of raising £150,000 to e...
Leading mid-market private equity firm NorthEdge has launched a dedicated app to fa...
More than four-fifths of investors in VCTs (81%) feel the pandemic has made supporting smaller UK businesses more important according to new research from the As...
Haatch Ventures has recruited Jeremy Luzinda as Investment Associate after an exciting 12 months that has seen Haatch Ventures invest in 13 new companies an...
Sogelink and Geodesial Group, two leading providers of software solutions for infrastructure, construction and proper...
As part of its commitment to remove barriers to enterprise and help the economy build back better and stronger NatWest has published the...
GoStudent, the Vienna-based e-learning start-up, has completed a Series B round led by new investor Coatue together wi...
Sorted, the global delivery experience pioneer, has raised $15m in growth capital after another consecutive record...
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Maven Capital Partners has led a £1.5 million investment in Boiler Plan (UK) Ltd, a market disruptive onl...
The British Business Bank has published Future Fund data that gives a detailed picture of the 1,236 companies that have been approved for &pou...
Jenson Seed EIS Fund 1 & EIS Funds&n...
Gamestop lessons for investment networks: financial advice on social media has consequences, says Envestors' Oliver Wooll...
Calculus Capital portfolio company ActiveOps has completed a successful Initial Public Offering on the Alternativ...
The government has published new statistics that show businesses across the UK have to date benefitted from 1,630,155 government-guaranteed loans worth £75.1bn to support their cashflow durin...
A University of Nottingham spin-out which has developed a rapid test that could be a ‘game changer’ in combatting tuberculosis (TB) in livest...
Circular economy parenting app YoungPlanet has raised £500,000 through an “Equity f...
Caristo Diagnostics, the medical imaging company, has completed a multi-million-pound investment round. The round was led by BGF, the UK’s most active gro...
New staycation holiday specialist Caledonian Leisure Ltd has secured a multi-million-pound investment fro...
nPlan, a company that uses machine learning to forecast the duration, risks and opportunities of construction projects, has secured an $18.5 million investment r...
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Immersive communications platform PixelMax has secured £2m investment in a funding round led by ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses reveals that, since opening offices in Newcastle and Durham in 2017, it has in...
CAPSLOCK Education, a cyber-security education institute based in Manchester, has secured £540,000 in a pre-seed funding round from ...
£100 million has been invested in Midlands' small businesses through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF). ...
PhoreMost Ltd., the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to ‘Drugging the Undruggable®, disease targets, has completed an...
Stratford-upon-Avon-based Fenix Rail Systems...
Aiven, a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure, has announced it raised $100M in its Series C...
Oxford Medical Products (OMP) has raised £1.2M in seed investment to develop a safe and affordable weight ...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has committed £10m to Co-Investm...
Incode, the next generation identity verification and authentication platform for enterprises in the world, has raised $25m Series A funding, led by ...
LawtechUK, the government-backed initiative within Tech Nation ...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, is backing Higher Ed International,...
A programme that has already nurtured the bright ideas of 200 regional businesses is to be extended by the North East Business and Innovation Centre (BIC).&n...
Scottish Equity Partners portfolio compnay Insightful Science, a leading software provider serving the global...
An e-commerce software business which allows retailers to sell through multiple online channels has undergone a management buy-in led by an award-winnin...
Deepbridge Capital investee company, VoxSmart Ltd., a global leader in communications surve...
Sellforte, an AI-powered marketing optimization platform, has raised €4 million i...
Biomedical startup Adapttech has raised £2 million in a new vent...
Knowledge is power and the world’s leading companies in the UK alone spend $60bn a year on using outside expertise to drive their business forward, but rarely retain or repur...
QVentures has invested in Kortext, the UK’...
Signal Capital Partners Limited, the London-based private asset management firm, has held a final closing for a new €900m fund targeting European c...
Ian Sayers, Chief Executive of the Association of Investment Companies (AIC), has decided to step down later this year. Ian was app...
Memory innovator Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies Ltd has closed a £1.35m seed funding round led by investors ...
A group of successful entrepreneurs from the Bristol area have set up a mechanism to provide seed-funding for early-stage start-up businesses in the South West. It is a new venture for the ...
Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on building the brands of tomorrow, has made ...
Catherine Gannon of Gannons Solicitors comments on the benefits presented by Freeports and how you can best take advantage of the opportunity. Freep...
Have you thought abut what will happen to your Angel Investment portfolio when you are no longer around? Modwenna Rees-Mogg considers this question and discusses some of the options that ...
The word on the street is that the angel market is quiet. Perhaps this is not surprising given the financial and practical strains on the average (is there such a thing?) angel in the last ye...
BGF has completed a £5.7 million investment in Source BMX, the world’s leading omni-channel BM...
Enthuse, the donations, fundraising and events platform, has secured £3.5m investment in its Series A funding ro...
Bowmark Capital has agreed to sell its stake in Oxford International Education Group, the leading internati...
Nyobolt, the original founders of ultra-fast charging niobium-based battery technology, has appointed top ranked Bernstein Asia analyst, Mark ...
GP Bullhound, the leading technology advisory and investment firm, has released a new report charting the growth and progress of tech impact investing....
Renewable power investors continue to outpace fossil fuel investors across the globe, signalling a broader structural trend of decline for fossil fuels, according to ...
Pollinate, the global software business that partners with banks to help them deepen and extend relationships with thei...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor, has completed a £10.5 million minority investment in ...
CareLineLive, the all-in-one home care management software that increases efficiency, capacity, compliance and communication of both manag...
Albion Capital has made a successful exit from its investment in three high-end care homes managed by Berkley Car...
Andrew Aldridge, Partner at Deepbridge Capital, discusses why the life sciences sector is now back in favour with investors. ...
A Launchpad start-up has received backing from several angel investors which has unlocked further funding, sending the company into the next phase of expansion. ...
Anthesis, the largest group of dedicated sustainability professionals globally, and one of the UK’s fastest-growing private companies [1], has sec...
IW Capital has completed the leveraged buyout and growth equity investment into ...
Inovia Capital has announced the closing of its second growth fund with US$450M in committed capital. As part of ...
Leading globally compliant prospecting solution, Cognism, has raised $12.5 million in funding led by AXA Venture Partners...
Small Pharma Ltd and Unilock Capital Corp. have announced the closing of the brokered private placement of subscription receipts of Small Pharma Financi...
Lead generation technology company, ROI Media UK, has acquired Copenhagen-headquartered Firstborn Capital...
Fy!, the next gen home, living and lifestyle retail platform for today’s modern shopper, has announced a £5 million funding round led by...
Tech Nation, the leading scaleup accelerator, has announced the release of its annual Tech Nation Report...
MML Growth Capital Partners Ireland has successfully closed its second private equity investment fund at €135 million. The MML Growth Capital Pa...
Edtech marketplace, Preply, has secured an additional USD $35 million of funding, a sum that exceeds the platform’s cumulative fundraising effor...
Sunway RE Capital and MBU Capital have forged a transcontinental partnership to ...
Haystack, a Newcastle-based tech startup, has raised £1 million in seed funding. The funding enables Haystack to expand their territory reach and with ad...
Transreport, a socially-minded technology company set to transform the travel experiences of those with reduced mobility has secured £2.3m in a fundin...
The number of private equity buy and build transactions in the UK soared by 35 per cent during 2020, as private equity houses looked to bolster their portfolio during the Covid-19...
Research commissioned by Parkwalk shows that while 2020 saw an increase in funding for academic spinouts, this was not the ...
Stamp Free Limited, the digital postage stamp company, has launched its Stamp Free Digital Postage Solution™. Initially targeted at postal and logistics ...
NatWest has launched MentorDigital, a free new digital advice platform for SMEs, ...
The past year has demonstrated how important deeptech innovation is to solving some of the greatest challenges faced today, from finding vaccine candidates for the Covid-19 pandemic through t...
The UK Tech sector is driving growth in youth employment with 1 in 6 openings in the digital tech sector suitable for entry-level jobseekers, according to job search engine ...
London-based venture capital and financial services firm Arie Capital has announced that two of the companies from its current portfolio of technolog...
Ben Jones of AberInnovation (Aberystwyth Innovation ...
Seneca Partners EIS Portfolio Service, the generalist EIS specialising in the provision of growth capital and strategic support to ambitious SMEs,...
Sukhendu Pal considers life beyond lockdown. A year ago, the switch to working from home (WFH) was abrupt for both companies and employees. Fo...
Diamond Whites Aligners, the rapidly growing at-home teeth aligner business, has raised £550,000 in Pre-Series A funding from ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor, has completed a multi-million-pound investment in Stark, ...
QVentures is thrilled to welcome Congenica, one of Britain’s fastest-growing genomics companies, int...
NVM Private Equity has completed a £10 million MBO of Trust Systems, a provider of networking consultancy and ma...
James Murdoch looks at his SyndicateRoom (SR) Access EIS Fund in comparison to his Equity Crowdfunding Portfolio and to the market - enabled by the new Co Investor UK Platform. Syn...
Legislate Technologies, a legal technology startup building a SaaS platform to enable small businesses and land...
Rebel Energy, a startup energy supplier, has raised more than £220,000 in crowdfunding in just seven day...
eXmoor, the expert cell and gene therapy (CGT) services company (Bristol, England), has raised an initial investment of £12m ($17m) from specialist ...
Livingbridge, a leading mid-market private equity investor with offices in the UK, Australia and US, has agreed the sale of thei...
Specialist lender Shawbrook has expanded its reach into the UK SME market by working with Caple. Caple&rsquo...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, has closed its 2020/2021 VCT top up offers earlier than scheduled and fully subscribed wi...
To support their growth ambitions, London based Taylor & Hart has secured a total of £500,000 in loan funding from ...
BVA BDRC has published its latest quarterly SME Finance Monitor report; the largest and most frequent study of its kind in the UK. Re...
Pembroke VCT, ...
500 Startups surveyed 122 investors to explore COVID-19’s impact on early-stage investment, serving as the third installment in a series started at the onset of ...
Antler has appointed Orson Stadler as a Partner who will be co-heading its London operation. Stadler formerly held the position of Senior Principal at Mustard S...
BGF has released the first ever report into the attitudes of female leaders at growth economy companies. According to a survey of 152 female executive...
Foresight Group has made a £2.35 million investment into RF Brown Limited, a shipping container hire, con...
Niklas Holck, the former Chairman of Nordic Eye Venture Capital, has launched his own boutique VC firm, based in Singapore....
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed a significant growth equity investment in AutoRek, a leading provider o...
A North-East based fintech firm has been launched with the aim of digitally transforming the way private equity firms, venture capital funds and angel investment networks currently manage the end-t...
Circularity Capital, the specialist private equity firm supporting growth stage European SMEs in the circular economy, has announced the divestment o...
BGF, the UK’s most active growth capital investor, has invested in secure lock and hardware supplier, ...
The British Business Bank has published its Small Business Finance Markets 2020/21 report which highlights a surge in applications for external financial support, includin...
Livingbridge has sold disguise, the glob...
BGF has successfully exited its investment in Setfords, a leading tech-enabled legal services provider, following its ...
Ian Sosso, winner of EBAN’s "best European early-stage investor award" in 2019, is the founder of Monte Carlo Capital (MCC...
Despite the global growth of women-led businesses, funding continues to be a significant challenge. Having gathered multiple data and research, Workplace Specialists ...
Maven has now provided over £43 million to the region’s businesses as part of its work delivering finance through the Midlands Engine Investment F...
TiG, one of the UK’s leading Cloud, Data Analytics and Managed Service...
BGF has invested £7.5 million in Lancashire ecommerce logistics and tech company, Fulfilmentcrowd. ...
Cofinitive’s #21toWatch is a successful campaign and awards that celebrates the outs...
Cutover, the first enterprise-wide work orchestration and observability platform that enables seamless human and machine collaboration, has announced a $35 mi...
All-in-one HR, payroll and benefits platform, Employment Hero, has announced it has raised £25 million in a Series D funding round to...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active investors in smaller businesses, has led a £1.54 million funding round for ...
BGF has invested in Northern Building Plastics to support its growth ambitions. Northern Building Plastics ...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has released an educational video introducing venture capital trusts. ‘Venture Capital Trus...
Scott Haughton from Envestors looks at how investment opportunities in China are becoming easier to access. China is experiencing unp...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has agreed to sell its stake in Node4, a leading provider of hybri...
YFM Equity Partners opened its two managed Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) for non-prospectus top-up offers in early February, and both are now fully subscribed, ahea...
IgniteNI has revealed the 10 game-changing start-ups selected to participate in its renowned accelerator programme for growing techno...
The Funky Appliance Company has partnered with London based Forster Chase Ventures...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor has invested £15.5 million into ...
Downing Ventures' Healthcare team argues that now is a great time to invest in the sector. As Covid-19 continues to do...
Mid-market private equity firm NorthEdge has completed its investment into Distology, a leading specialist cyber security distributor. Founded in 201...
Countingup, the business current account with built-in accounting software, has announced the close of a £9.1 million Series A investment round, le...
Tim Mills, Managing Partner of ACF Investors commente...
UK-pump specialists, Hydromarque Ltd, is set for significant expansion following its acquisition by a specialist private equity backer. ...
Continulus, the Glasgow-headquartered online video-learning platform for health professionals, has secured £0.5m of equity investmen...
US$698.7 billion worth of deals were announced globally during the first two months of 202...
The new Conduit E...
Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), whose equipment automates the final stage of the 3D production process, has raised £2.5m secured funding f...
GP Bullhound has announced a follow-on investment into wallapop, Spain’s leading classified...
GeniusU, valued at $202 million, has raised $1.4 million from 63 investors in its latest seed investment round, closing...
Nyobolt, a cutting-edge battery company, defining a new category of ultra-high power technology, has secured $10 million in Series A funding, led by ...
FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics, a tech spin-out whose cloud based data capture and analysis technology is unlocking ...
Foresight Group has made a £2 million follow-on investment into Spektrix, to support further growth opport...
The British Business Bank publishes Future Fund data that gives a detailed picture of the 1,140 companies that have been app...
BGF has exited its investment in CHS Healthcare, a provider of outsourced services for the NHS and social care,...
Growth capital investor VGC Partners has provided £150,000 funding to VozLab, the creator of a self-serve development pla...
The Learning and Development (L&D) sector has reached a critical stage; with four key areas open for disruption and emerging new innovators, according to a new green ...
Monument has raised over £28 million, significantly ahead of expectations and successfully completing one of the largest Series A funding rounds in fint...
London-based investment fund RLC Ventures led Alloxentric’s ...
Cox Powertrain, a leading British manufacturer of high-powered diesel outboard engines for the global marine industry, has raised £9 million from exis...
Luke Davis, CEO of IW Capital, discusses how scale up finance was key prior to pandemic, and why now it is of critical importance for recovering businesses....
The government has published new statistics that show businesses across the UK have to date benefitted from 1,593,620 government-guaranteed loans worth &...
The UK’s flair for turning adversity into opportunity has helped a company reach a major milestone well ahead of forecasts. Transmit Sta...
The age-old investment debate about ‘cheap’ value stocks versus ‘expensive’ growth stocks shows no sign of going away. Whilst there is no doubt that growth strategies have b...
Birmingham-based Linear Diagnostics has secured £800,000 from the...
Maven Capital Partners has invested £1m into Fintech platform, Pockit Ltd as part of Pockit’s £15m Ser...
Finding Roots, a subscription delivery service for those living with limited outdoor space in inner cities is run by entrepreneur Lili...
2150 has announced the first close of its flagship €200m fund. Based in London, Copenhagen and Berlin, the fund will back technology companies that seek t...
Vivacity Labs, the London-based tech company which uses artificial intelligence to improve traffic insights and safety, has secured £5m of Series A fun...
Green Angel Syndicate (GAS), the UK’s angel investment syndicate specialising in the fight against Climate Change and Global Warming, has announ...
StorageOS, a leader in cloud native storage management, has closed a $10 million Series B funding round to build on growth, which has seen mo...
Soccer Manager – the UK-based online soccer management game – has secured a further £3m to support its continued gr...
Reflaunt, a disruptive Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) technology company empowering global fashion brands to embrace circularity, has announced that it has secur...
James Murdoch talks us through the ups and downs of the annual 'Spring Clean' of his investment portfolio. I have been waiting for the CMC verdict on Crowdcube and Seedrs ...
Burleighs Gin, a Leicestershire gin distiller business has secured a £250,000 investment to scale-up its operations and create new jobs. ...
Worker tech start-up Orka...
Market research and online consumer intelligence veteran Richard Thornton has been appointed to the board of fast-growing Manchester-based consumer insights busines...
Paddy Willis, CEO of Mission Ventures, discusses how large companies can learn from innovative and fast-moving start-ups witho...
There has never been a better time to re-visit using shares to attract employees With many businesses sadly folding for those who survive, the time maybe ripe ...
Yesterday the team behind the Funding Index agreed to go live, so you can now see one reason why I have been rather quiet in recent months! (There are a few more, … but that is for another d...
The University of Birmingham has announced a three-year research project with Bentley Motors to deliver a sustainable source of rare eart...
Catherine Ramsay from Gannons Solicitors looks at the options around offering shares as an incentiv...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Peak has raised a $21 million Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Oxx...
Acceleris has invested in Power Roll, a developer of a game-changing, ultra-low-cost and lightweight flexible fil...
GP Bullhound acted as exclusive financial advisor to Byte, a marketing technology agency focused on fast-gro...
The value of venture capital raised by UK companies surged to the highest quarterly total during Q4 2020 according to research from ...
Funding London - the Mayor’s early-stage investment vehicle - has supported 131 overlooked founders over the past six years. Th...
Despite the economic turmoil, one sector has seemed immune to COVID concerns and continued to deliver remarkable gains. The performance of technology stocks has been eye-catching across the market ...
NVM Private Equity investee company QV Systems has announced its latest partnership with the Licence Bureau. This partnership ...
Ally.io, a h...
Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) has raised $9.5 million in Series A funding. The investment was co-led by...
StateUp, a world-leading insights and advisory firm for the ...
Intelligence Fusion has secured a £400,000 investment from a number of sources to continue its ...
ZEDRA, the fast-growing global specialist in Active Wealth, Global Expansion and Fund Services, has acquired Inside P...
Private capital funds face growing demands for transparency as mainstream investors increasingly turn to the sector to chase the higher returns it offers, new research* from ...
Wellbeing startup Psychological Technologies (PSYT) has raised over £1.7m, supported by ...
Mobile authentication platform tru.ID is exiting stealth mode having secured a £3m funding round from investors including ...
Foresight Group has successfully sold Hedges Direct Group Limited, a market-leading ecommerce business in ...
Drug discovery and development company, Blueberry Therapeutics, is announcing a £3.6m extension to its previously successful £10.8m ...
CorrosionRADAR – whose technology can detect and predict corrosion in pipelines - has attracted funding from the Middle East’s largest oil ...
Outpost VFX, a fast-growing UK-headquartered film and TV visual effects company, has secured a multi-million pound investment from funds managed by ...
Cricket Betting, one of the world's most prominent specialist cricket blogs, is set to expand its global reach having secured a significant funding round....
New research* by money.co.uk has crowned Google as the most succe...
Offshore crew transfer specialists High Speed Transfers, based in Gorseinon Swansea, are closer to their zero emission dream after securing a &po...
Indra, the fast-growing electric vehicle and smart energy technology company developing innovative charging and energy storage solutions for home and commerci...
The Technology Venture Investments team at the Development Bank of Wales is expanding, as the Development Bank of Wales seeks to further support Welsh technology businesses. Helen Kuhlman j...
Steel manufacturer, Hi-Tech Steel Services, has secured a £8.75M funding facility, which&n...
The British Business Bank has appointed Elizabeth O’Neill as General Counsel and Company Secretary of the British Business Bank plc, eff...
A Cambridge University programme has produced a fleet of the UK’s ‘next generation’ entrepreneurs and world-class in...
BGF has announced the exit of its investment in Olive Communications, the Buckinghamshire-based managed cloud commu...
Narcissists have the most crowdfunding success, research reveals. Entrepreneurs that...
Ai Build has raised $1m in a funding round led by SuperSeed, a London based VC that ...
BGF has exitedf its investment in Arcinova, the U.K.-based multis...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £1.75 million investment into marketing technology company, Leaf.fm Ltd. The innov...
Invenio Business Solutions and LSI Consulting – the market leading SAP solutions providers – ar...
A new report by the British Business Bank reveals how p...
Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on building the brands of tomorrow, has made...
Curve, the London-based fintech that combines multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, has named Anj...
Hoxton Farms has raised £2.7 million funding to cultivate animal fat and solve an urgent issue for the rapidly growing m...
Additive Manufactured mountain bike company Atherton Bikes has raised £385,000 through Angel I...
A Stamford based chocolatier business has secured a £250,000 MEIF loan to help meet increasing demand for its products from the UK and overseas. This is alongside boosting its marketing campa...
Two West Midlands businesses are set to pursue new growth following funding packages totalling over £1.7m. The duo of deals includes Birmingham-based insurance services firm, Parke...
Turin-based e-mobility and advanced materials venture Tau has secured an investment of a consortium of two leading Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, the ...
Funds advised by Hilltop Credit Partners, a specialist funding partner for SME residential developers, have comp...
Astia, the Silicon Valley headquartered organization dedicated to leveling the investment playing field - and redefining the traditional venture capital lan...
Wombat, the UK’s first thematic & curated fractional investment platform, has closed a £2millio...
DynaRisk announced an extension of their seed funding round, bringing total funding to over $3m. This round of funding was led by ...
Specialised chemical manufacturer, FIS Chemicals...
The 2021 shortlist for next month’s coveted #21toWatch Awards includes some of the most inspirational entrepreneurs, startups and innovatio...
Jack & Bry, a producer of plant-based meat alternatives, has secured £1.25 million in seed funding. The round was led by ...
BGF, the UK’s most active investor in growth economy businesses, has successfully exited its investment in ...
Following the launch of BBC Maestro in October 2020, Downing Ventures has announced that it has led the seco...
Limitless, the AI-driven gig customer experience platform, has raised $10 million in financing. The Series B investment is led by ...
London-based Vamstar, which is creating the world's first A...
AttoCore, the developer of scalable and flexible 4G and 5G core network solutions is pleased to announce a strategic investment from Lansdowne Investment Com...
The Imperial College Innovation Fund (ICIF), an early-stage investment fund...
Antler, the global early-stage VC, has announced it will launch in Copenhagen. The goal is to attract and support 70-100 highly specialised founders on an annua...
Woodall Group, the owner of Midlands house builder Woodall Homes, has received a £4.25 million investment from ...
DSW Debt Advisory – which advises businesses on raising a wide variety of debt funding and is part of the ...
Angel Investment Network, the UK’s largest online angel investment platform, has revealed its latest ‘State of the Angel Inv...
Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on building the brands of tomorrow, has made...
CybSafe, the behavioural security platform that’s transforming the way organisations manage human cyber risk, has raised £5.6m ($7...
SujiBFR, a health and fitness startup based in Edinburgh, has received a six-figure investment to support the development of a smart fitness device th...
Squire Patton Boggs has further expanded its Global Corporate Practice in London with the appointment of partner Julian Thatch...
Research by regional mid-market private equity firm YFM Equity Partners has revealed a growing focus on culture and working practices, rather than simply valuation,...
A Bristol-based technology business which manages household bills for students has received vital early-stage investment from Bristol Private Equi...
The British Business Bank has published Future Fund data that gives a detailed picture of the 1,055 companies that have been approved for...
ETIQ, a startup that helps financial companies identify and eliminate bias within their algorithms, has raised £585,000 in pre-seed funding. The funding inc...
Antler has appointed Karl-Christian Agerup as a Partner, focusing on the company’s investment operations and strategy globally. ...
Rockley Photonics, a leading integrated optics solutions provider, has closed an additional $65m round of growth capital from both new private funds and ...
Slingshot Simulations, the Leeds-based start-up...
Tech Nation, the scaleup network for entrepreneurs, has launched its inaugural ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performan...
BGF – the UK’s most active investor, backed 61 new companies in 2020 whilst continuing to actively support its portfolio. During this period, total ...
Ingenious' Real Estate Finance LLP has agreed a £19m loan facility with property developer Citu...
LoveCrafts, a leading online crafts community, with millions of users across 140 countries worldwide, has secured an additional $22m funding and has ...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a &po...
Investors have taken some blows during the pandemic and financial turmoil of 2020, a new UK report reveals. ...
Foresight Group has sold FFX Group Limited, one of the UK's largest independent suppliers of high quality...
NatWest has announced an additional £1 billion in funding to help support female-led businesses in the UK recover from the coronav...
Westbridge has completed its fourth transaction in seven months with an investment of £10m to support the MBO of London-based ...
BondAval has secured $1.64 million (£1.2 million) in seed financing led by Insurtech Gateway ...
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Deborah Harris, founder, director and strategist of The Grow CFO Co., based in Australia, has been awarded runner up in the global Wealth...
Esme Learning Solutions, a leading digital learning platform, has closed a $7.5 million Series A financing round led by ...
Beckley Psytech, a private company dedicated to addressing neurological and psychiatric disorders through psychedelic medicine, has received Clin...
Sproud, the Swedish maker of a range of plant-based milks has raised £4.8M from growth capital investor, ...
Digital marketing veteran Chris Underhill has been appointed as chair of Leeds-based Force24, the award-winning marketing automation platform. The appointme...
BGF has made a further £4 million investment in fast-growth, lead generation technology business, ROI. ...
Cleantech company Social Energy has received funding that will allow the business to pursue rapid growth in the UK and Australia, while opening opp...
A Warwickshire-based manufacturer of fertility monitoring products, Fertility Focus, has secured further investment from ...
ACF Investors (formerly the Angel CoFund) has launched the Delta Fund, a fast-track investment fund that provides equity or convertible loans...
Footwear wholesaler, D. Jacobson & Sons Limited,...
Quirk, a consumer fintech startup that uses unique personality testing to deliver tailored financial advice to...
Grafton Capital, a growth investor in Europe’s leading technology companies, has appointed Tom Morrell as its Chief Financi...
Foresight Group has invested into Titania Group Limited, a cybersecurity automation software business. The invest...
Keysource, a specialist in data centres and critical environments, has successfully completed a management buyout (MBO), led by Stephen Whatling. The tran...
Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK FinTech, has released investment figures for the global FinTech sector in 2020 that reinforc...
Subsea technology firm, Rovco, has completed a £3.9 million Series A investment from Foresight group via the ...
BGF has invested $11 million in Genflow, a London & LA based Influencer brand building agency with a unique ec...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, has completed the sale of its stake in full fibre broadband operator ...
Personio, the all-in-one HR platform, has completed $125 million of new and preemptive Series D funding in an investment round that values the business at $1.7...
Skyqraft, an AI-driven powerline inspection solution-provider from Sweden, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding. The latest fundraise was led by Subvenio ...
The boardroom gender gap is finally beginning to narrow, but women entrepreneurs still have a chasm to cross to catch up with their male peers. Changing that will not only massively improve equalit...
A group of successful Bristol-based entrepreneurs has invested £192,500 into a research and development project in the city that is searching for faster diagnosis and treatment of Sepsis, whi...
Perchpeek, the AI-powered relocation agent, has raised £2 million, led by early-growth experts ...
PPC Protect has launched its annual Global PPC Click Fraud Report&nbs...
HNB Construction Services Ltd has secured a £225k loan from the Midlan...
Insurtech startup Nayms has closed a £1.5m seed round led by XBTO, alongside other top investors across insurance, capital ...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has agreed the sale of Broadston...
For investors, it’s an incredibly unsettling time. Uncertainty continues to sweep the...
RevGlue, a platform that enables affiliates and online publishers to easily monetise their websites, blogs, mobile apps and social channels, has secured inves...
Foresight Group has made a £4.5 million investment into iMist Holdings Limited, a manufacturer and installer of w...
British premium low-alcohol spirits startup, ...
British Business Investments (BBI), a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has completed...
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Quendoo, a digital platform that allows property owners to take back control of their property bookings, payments, marketing and availability, has launched af...
Chatting to an entrepreneur I have got to know the other day, who is on the hunt for an angel investor, I yet again found myself pointing them to the notorious table 8.5a on the EIS statistics publ...
Seedrs' investors in Senta will see up to a 120x return on their seed investments after t...
Foresight Group has made a £5 million investment to support the buy-in management buy-out of Plantexpan...
Shippeo, the European leader in real-time transportation visibility (RTTV), has raised $32 mil...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has announced that Elisabeth Scott has been voted Chair of the AIC. The membership of the AIC has elected Sapna Shah and Mick...
UK-based EdTech gaming studio, Kuato Studios, has raised £4.5m in a round led by ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active fund managers, has further strengthened its East &...
IgniteNI has revealed the 20 start-ups that will be participating in the renowned 2021 Propel Pre-Accelerator programme which...
South East Angels have launched their Brighton investor group, set to be the most active angel network in the local area. With a focus on providing va...
Mid-market private equity firm NorthEdge has invested in Helios Medical Communications, a full-service, independent, ...
Weezy, the UK’s leading on-demand superfast supermarket that delivers groceries in only 15 minutes, has r...
Exus Management Partners (Exus), an independent investment and asset management firm focused on the renewable energy sector, has significantly expand...
Orbus Software, a global market-leading provider of Enterprise Architecture software, has announced that...
Fast-growing consumer insights business Vypr plans to strengthen its sales and marketing operations as it invests in its team...
Poptop – the Newcastle-based events booking platform – has raised a further £440,000 to pursue its global...
Award winning Digital life insurance provider DeadHappy has completed a £4.75M investment from new investors ...
The pandemic has inspired a new wave of social entrepreneurs who are developing business ideas to support their Covid-stricken communities, experts say. T...
433 Equity Crowdfunding campaigns successfully raised £332 million in 2020 up from 403 campaigns in 2019. This is the highest number of campaigns ever and th...
Birmingham-based tele-optometry manufacturer Eyoto,has secured funding from the ...
James Murdoch takes a considered look at how his food and restaurant investments have performed in recent months. An active experienced Equity Crowdfunder was talking, a f...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has published its list of the 20 most viewed investment companies on its website...
Buy and build Investment group Tristone Capital - through its care division Tristone Healthcare – has acquired North Wales-based care business, ...
Albion Capital is seeking to raise up to £45 million through top up offers for five of its venture capital trusts. The fundraising ...
OnePlanetCapital, a new sustainably driven investment house, has launched a specialist sustainability EIS Fund to invest in businesses tacklin...
BGF has completed a multi-million pound investment in Cirrus, an award-winning provider ...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has bolstered its leadership team with the appointments of James Titmuss...
Liva Healthcare, a European market leader in scalable digital health coaching, has secured a new funding round of EUR 24.5 million, led by ...
Scale Up Group has completed a £3.8 million 'Series A' growth capital investment into its client IMMJ Systems Lim...
Parkwalk has launched one of the first HMRC Approved Knowledge Intensive EIS Funds to open to retail investors, offering an opportunity to invest in grou...
In a year that has seen scientists heralded as heroes and the future of protein-based medicine has sat at the coalface of a pandemic, one startup is looking to increase the pharmaceutical industry&...
Luxtripper, the fast-growth luxury travel business, has closed its latest investment round at £1.2m. The funding, raised from high-net worth indivi...
Very few industries have been untouched by the COVID-19 crisis. With unemployment rates hitting an all-time high, many seasoned industry professionals who have built a corporate career for years or...
Genius Group, the world’s leading entrepreneur education group, has today announced it has signed an agreement...
Par Equity, the Edinburgh-based investment manager that specialises in early-stage technology businesses with high growth potential, increased its new investment activity to a record £12.4m i...
Industrial electrical engineering contractor, Process Control Services (PCS UK Ltd) has secured a £1 million ABL facility from Independent Growth Finance...
BGF, has invested £6 million in world-renowned global animation studio, Snipple, to support its ambitious...
Angelini Pharma, an international pharmaceutical company which is a part of the private Italian Angelini Group – and ...
JP Morgan analysis shows that 2020 saw the largest ever outperformance of the FTSE All Share by Investment Companies - With the FTSE Equity Investment Instruments Index (FTSE EII) producing a total...
Blackstone Resources AG has announced that Current Direct, a new research and innovation project funded by the European...
GIBIE Home Furnishings Ltd. today concluded its pilot equity crowd funding campaign on CrowdCube platform. In this campaign,...
Funds advised by Hilltop Credit Partners, a specialist funding partner for SME residential developers, have comp...
Private equity firm WestBridge has promoted three members of its team as it prepares for another successful year. Edward ...
Roei Samuel, CEO and Founder, Connectd, looks at how diversity can be achieved within the angel i...
Mayfair Equity Partners, the leading tech and consumer growth investor, has announced the management buy-out of ...
Pacific Current Group Limited, a global multi-boutique asset management firm, has entered into an agreement to purchase a minority stake in ...
Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, led investments ...
Superfast wireless broadband provider Wildanet has secured £50m investment, which will allow the company to continue to expand its b...
Liberis, a leading global embedded business finance platform, has secured £70m in financing from long-ter...
Genius Group, the world’s leading entrepreneur education group, has completed the acquisition of New Ze...
A healthtech platform has raised £825,000 investment from ...
C-Link, a property procurement start-up founded in 2015 by Paul Heming and Chris Barber, has successfully raised a six figure investment fro...
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The call for nominations has officially opened for this year’s prestigious awards, celebrating incredible...
David Mott, Founder Partner at Oxford Capital reflects on the themes that have shaped this year. Looking back at 20...
IgniteNI, the leading accelerator in Northern Ireland, is now welcoming ...
Marcus Rashford MBE and the Child Food Poverty Taskforce have launched a new website (...
Maven Capital Partners has led the £17 million management buyout of Envitia Group plc, an established data a...
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The Zero Carbon Fund has made an investment in the pre-seed funding round of Phycobloom, a UK-based bio-...
OKKO Health, a digital eye care company, has received investment from seven Henley Business Angels (HBA) me...
Private equity firm WestBridge has backed the senior management team at construction software company Eque2 to acq...
Innovative Scottish-based drug delivery company, Bio-Images Drug Delivery Limited (BDD), has positioned itself for rapid growth with a further round of inve...
Alderley Park-based proteomic-data science and diagnostics company, Kinomica, has secured £3.9 million in funding for pioneering technology that could ...
Birmingham-based travel technology business, You. Smart. Thing. Limited (YST) has received £250,000 from the Midland...
Recycleye, the intelligent waste management start-up, has secured £1.2 million in seed funding, led by venture capital investors ...
Fintech start-up Hi55 Ventures has secured the backing of a global investment firm with over $50 billion of assets under management for a unique pilot project tha...
Zokri, a company that provides a ‘software as a service’ platform for businesses to create and track objectives and key results, has received investment...
Crowd Data Systems (CDS) has secured funding to further develop the next generation of treasury management systems. Founde...
.Poncho, a digital startup backed by ...
Renewable energy has proven a particularly resilient asset class throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, with the exit from this crisis increasingly defined by demands for a green recovery and grea...
Xiatech, a UK Headquartered system integration and data analytics specialist, has agreed a growth capital investment with ...
The founders of London-based ecommerce startup aisle 3 have bounced back after being made redundant at the start of the pandemic to successfully ...
Solihull-based executive recruitment firm, Quantum Group Solutions Limited, has secured its first round of investment, totalling &poun...
Gusto, a drink company which funded successfully via Crowdcube, has launched two new functional drinks: Super DC Blood Orange and Super DC Blackcurrant & E...
Orbex, the innovative European space launch company, has secured $24 million in a funding round led by BGF, the UK's most active investment company, and Octopus V...
BGF, has appointed Jim Strang, MD & EMEA Chairman of Hamilton Lane, and Kris Isherwood, CFO of Eight Roads, will...
On the back of new quantum algorithm breakthroughs, quantum software company ...
Creator Fund, the university-focused venture capital fund making strides to unearth startup innovation within European universities, is now focussing o...
Wonder, the company revolutionising virtual space, has completed a $11 million seed round led by EQT Ventures, with parti...
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Summize, a Manchester-based developer and provider of software for the legal sector, has secured an additional £1m investment in a funding round led...
Green Angel Syndicate, the UK’s angel syndicate specialising in the fight against climate change and global warming, has just launched the ...
As an interested observer of the unquoted UK funding market, I have long been curious about what is really going on around the symmetry between fundraising entrepreneurs and investors, be they crow...
Stakeholderz Venture Relations Manager Megan Snijman explores the opportunity and sheer value being lost to investors as female entrepreneurs contin...
Aqua Digital Rising, the Fintech company developing tradable indices based on human performance and achievement, has completed its Bnk to the Future crowdfun...
Outfund, the fintech company changing the way online businesses raise funds, has closed a £37million late seed round of capital, includi...
C-Link, a property procurement start-up founded in 2015 by Paul Heming and Chris Barber, has successfully raised a six figure investment ...
Steve Richardson, Sales Director at Reparo Finance, gives his perspective on why Government-backed COVID-19 loans aren’t necessarily helping ...
Vala Capital, the entrepreneur-led venture capital firm, has launched the Vala Sustainable Growth EIS targeting sm...
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BGF has made a further substantial investment in the expansion of Yorkshire-headquartered bakery business, Coopla...
Karakuri, the world-leading food robotics company, is bringing the future of food to life as it lifts the lid to unveil the world&rsquo...
Derbyshire-based fleet management software provider has secured a £1.5m funding boost to develop its cloud-based product and create 20 new skilled jobs. Nathan Grace Holdings Limit...
A Leicestershire based food safety technology business has secured a £500,000 investment to scale-up operations and boost their ambitious growth plans. N...
BioInnovation Institute (BII), a Novo Nordisk Foundation initiative incubating and accelerating world-class life science research, has identified...
Valloop, founded to empower employees and management to buy the companies they work for, has emerged from stealth read...
London may lead the pack when it comes to business start-ups in Britain, but the latest research from Instant Of...
Updraft, a part lending, part credit report, and part financial planning app designed to tackle escalating consumer borrowing, has secured £16m in fundi...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has invested in 8power for the Low ...
Living Map, the digital map and data platform, has completed an £850,000 funding round led by existing in...
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Infogrid, the artificial intelligence technology company that automates facilities management and makes any building smart, has raised $15.5m ...
EclecticIQ, a global threat intelligence, hunting and response technology provider, has raised €20million ($24 million) in Series-C financing, led by ...
BVA BDRC has released additional SME Finance Monitor data, covering the period to the end of September 2020. With data going back to 2011, it's the largest s...
The third annual edition of the KPMG Private Debt Fund Survey in collaboration with the Ass...
Three start-up industry experts have joined together to launch Connectd, a new smart-matching platform for start-ups, investors and Non-Ex...
Catherine Gannon of Gannons Solicitors looks at what SEIS/EIS can offer to investors. The new world definitely brings new opportunities. Opportunities...
Primer, the low-code payments infrastructure and online checkout API, has announced a £14 million Series A funding round led by A...
Retail expert Dr Gordon Fletcher, of the University of Salford Business School, looks at what has gone wrong for the former titan of ...
UK-based biotechnology company ILC Therapeutics has announced that it has secured significant investment from its first global investor ...
Two former Newcastle University students who developed a unique range of alcoholic tea drinks have raised £1.4m from investors to help them further expand their business. ...
Swiss SaaS start-up GUURU Solutions Ltd has closed a $5M Series A extension, which brings the total Series A financing to $7.9 million. The funds w...
Research technology company uMed has raised £3.7m in ventur...
Small business specialist investor IW Capital has completed a £3.7million investment into Rockwater Hove, a comm...
NVM Private Equity has sold its stake in Agilitas IT Solutions Limited to the international private equity investor Perwyn...
FreeFlow Technologies (FFT), the developers of the world’s lightest power to weight e-Bike motor has secured £1.85m from a heavily ov...
Newable Ventures and Bristol Private Equity Club (BPEC) have secured £10m in new funding f...
Mauro Moretti, the founder of Three Hills Capital Partners, has set up Atypical Partner, a digitally led mul...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced its fifth deal for the Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 (LCIF2)...
Funding Focus, the social enterprise seeking to level the playing field for female and ethnic minority entrepreneurs, returned on Wednesday 25 Nove...
Envestors' Oliver Woolley discusses why angel investing should be considered by HNWs in a negative interest rate environment. ...
Navenio, the UK healthcare scale-up, has announced a $1.1 million investment from Future Planet Capital to help...
Private equity firm NorthEdge has backed the primary management buyout of ...
Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialised in scaling businesses d...
The pan-European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital has agreed to sell its majority stake in ...
Entrepreneurial Champion & Atlantic Rowing Philanthropist Guy Rigby has joined ScaleUp Group to #GrowGlobalChampions. Entrepreneurial Champion Gu...
M Squared, the photonics and quantum technology developer, has raised significant new financing of £32.5m as it expands its backers to support its grow...
IP Investment Management, a Hong Kong-based boutique real estate investment manager and Maven Capital Partners, a ...
Icelandic airline software vendor Dohop has raised an undisclosed growth equity round from Scottish Equity Partners...
BGF has completed a multi-million pound investment for a minority shareholding in a Teesside-headquartered Engineering Information Management (EIM) software com...
Elmtronics, the leading independent provider of charging points, has raised £1.5 million funding from the ...
Downing Ventures has le...
Performance marketing technology provider Envolve Tech has successfully closed its latest funding round for a total of £720,000. The vast ma...
TransferGo, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, has received £4m in financing from ...
The digital healthcare consent platform, Flynotes, has successfully secured funding from ...
YFM Equity Partners has boosted its growing portfolio of high-growth technology businesses with an investment into award-winning marketing automation platform, ...
Hams Hall Sustainable Energy Ltd has secured an £800,000 loan from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by ...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has agreed the sale of Giacom, a ...
Opteran, the Natural Intelligence company, has raised £2.1 million in seed funding. Opteran will use the funds to pioneer its radical lightw...
RB's (Reckitt Benckiser) new purpose-led venture arm, RB Ventures, has backed space-age laundry and dry-cleaning startup, ...
Reflecting the growth in tech for good companies in the North of England, Bethnal Green Ventures and Leeds-based investment non-profit NorthInvest ar...
Entrepreneur Alicia Navarro has closed a £1.2 million pre-seed investment round to fund her latest venture,&...
Stephen Kelly, Chair of Tech Nation, comments on the Government’s 10 point plan for a Green Industrial Revolution: ...
Private equity firm NorthEdge has supported the management buyout of Lights4fun, one of Europe’s leading e-com...
Cambridge-based agritech company KisanHub has raised £1.12m for its seed to sale connectivity platform that is accelerating the pace of digital transfo...
DefiniGEN, a provider of human cell products and services, has raised £3.25 million to accelerate its next phase of growth. This includes £...
NatWest has integrated with global small business platform Xero, which will allow its users ...
Seneca Partners EIS Portfolio Service has returned £2.8million to investors following the takeover of ...
Alphagreen, Europe’s leading marketplace for CBD and alternative healthcare products, has s...
BGF has invested £8 million into Midlands-headquartered UK Flooring Direct to support its ongoing growth...
Wave power specialists Mocean Energy have secured major new investment to accelerate the commercialisation of their ground-...
Bdeo, the leading insurtech company in Spain and Latin America, has just closed a Series A round of funding worth €5 million. The fundraising was led by ...
The outperformance of the tech sector during COVID-19 has never been far from the headlines. But some of the fastest-growing technology companies fly under the radar, as they are not quoted on publ...
Ingenious has announced that its Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service has invested £787,000 in Igloo V...
TIME Investments, a specialist real assets investment manager focused on secure income strategies, has appointed Tony van Gool to support its distributio...
British predictive analytics platform, DragonflyAI, has completed a £625,000 ($1m) seed funding round. ...
Direct.me, the social media platform that connects audiences with influencers’ content, has raised a $2.6m seed round...
A ‘fintech for good’ start-up which has developed a banking platform for credit unions and community banks has completed a £1.75m funding round. &nbs...
Maven Capital Partners has realised its VCT investment in Edinburgh-based Symphonic Software (Symphonic) through...
New research from behavioural finance experts Oxford Risk reveals that during the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis when stock markets fell sharpl...
Nozzle.ai, an eCommerce and advertising optimisation platform for Amazon, has raised $2.6 million (£2 million)...
Paid has launched to help enterprises transform supplier management with its next-generation procurement platform. Paid raised £...
Translation platform TAIA, has raised a further €1.2million in seed funding from venture capital fund ...
Fintech business lender MarketFinance has appointed The Rt Hon. Baroness Susan Kramer and entrepreneu...
Judith Hartley, CEO, British Patient Capital said: “The latest report from the ...
Fourteen of Sweden’s leading companies have come together to form Restart the Future, a one-year initiative to help build 1000 new companies, in ord...
Paul Beach, Head of Executives and Entrepreneurs at Arbuthnot Latham gives his perspective on the leading role entrepreneurs can play in d...
A group of leading figures from the hospitality industry are urging the Chancellor to use EIS tax relief to encourage investors to support the hospitality industry through the pandemic and beyond....
Situated in Southwark, South London, Hinterview has secured a £500,000 growth loan from the Greater Lo...
ilumoni, the fintech startup helping people to borrow better, save on unnecessary interest and time in paying off debts has raised $450,000 pr...
Online product discovery platform, Product Guru, has secured funds of £330,000 to disrupt the traditional retail buying process by re-inventing ho...
James Murdoch, an experienced investor in Equity Crowdfunding, asks what is at stake in the Seedrs and Crowdcube Merger. Both management teams have been proactive in communicating via many ...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a new...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has backed the management buyout of Babble fr...
Key highlights include: A record year of 15 commitments totalling £547m, including to nine new delivery partners ...
Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on building the brands of tomorrow, has made ...
Latest market analysis from the British Business Bank finds early stage venture capital funds have the potential to generate higher retur...
Angel Investment Network (AIN), the world’s largest online angel investment platform, has announced impressive growth, with annual reve...
SICCAR has received an investment of £1.3m led by specialist technology investment house, Par Equity...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has announced its investment...
A trio of Oxfordshire day nurseries have been acquired by a fast-growing independent education provider. Chatsworth Schools, which is itself headquartered in Oxfordshire, has purchased ...
Integrated Graphene Ltd, the Scottish-based tech company, has fired the starting pistol on scaled production of its unique breakthrough 3D gr...
Whiterock Finance has made its first ever equity investment by backing specialist recruitment business Arte...
Private equity house, Chiltern Capital, has completed an investment in a leading waste management incinerator manufacturer with support from a multi-mil...
Ingenion Medical Limited has been awarded nearly £100,000 in grant funding from ...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, welcomes Iain Leigh as the newest member o...
In a significant boost for both the German and the wider Central European start-up ecosystem amidst ...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has made one promotion...
Mind Foundry, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company that spun out of the University of Oxford’s Machine Learning Resear...
Purple Dot, the ‘worth-the-wait’ payment option for fashion brands, today announces its seed round of £1.35 million, led by ...
QVentures made an investment into Opsly, a platform that a...
Downing Ventures has completed a $35 million Series B funding round in Ayar ...
Bright Instruments, a&nb...
ArmaUrto, an innovative provider of protective cycle wear, has secured a £150k equity investment from the Cornwall &...
EXM Insight, the next-generation solution for portfolio monitoring and value creation for the Private Equity ind...
BiVictriX Therapeutics has completed a &...
20 scaleups from 10 countries (4 from the UK) compete in the finals of Europe’s flagship scaleup competition in digital to win int...
MIME Technologies, a med-tech spin-out from the University of Aberdeen, has received £248,000 in funding...
Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have invested £1.05m into ...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced ...
Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has announced that its technology investment partnership with Foresight Group has...
flypop, the UK’s only international long-haul low-cost airline, has secured significant investment from the UK Government’s Future Fund and is&nb...
Buy & build activity in first half of 2020 shows resilience in the face of Covid-19 according to Silverfleet’s European Buy & Build Monitor for H1 2020. ...
NorthEdge-backed Catalis Group is expanding its North American footprint with a second bolt-on acquisition completed...
Mills & Reeve has advised Delta Financial Systems Limited on its £23 million acquisition by Bravur...
Navenio, the healthcare scale-up whose location-based technology has been shown to double the throughput of hospital teams, has secured a £400,000 grant...
Two regional investors have agreed a new strategic partnership to provide enhanced support for early-stage tech firms in the Northern Powerhouse region. DSW Ven...
New research from The Entrepreneurs Network, in partnership with...
In its second year, British Patient Capital has continued to deliver strongly against its business plan with total commitments over ...
Employee engagement SaaS solution secures funding after enjoying strong growth and doubling revenue in the last 12 months. £1.75 million funding round includes £500,000 inves...
The Creative Industries Federation and Creative England have annou...
Triple Point has announced that Solihull Metropolitan Borough Councilhas successfully secured £6,5...
A spin-out from Cranfield University whose technology can detect and predict corrosion in pipelines has raised a further £900,000 to expand its global client base. ...
Downing Ventures has led an investment in BBC Maestro, a new e-learning service designed in partne...
Malvern-based D-RisQ, has secured £360,000 from the Midlands En...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity managers in the UK, has invested £2 million in ...
Europe’s tech sector is worth four times what it was five years ago as the leading generation of companies and founders give back to the next wave of ambitious tech firms – signal...
British Business Investments (BBI), a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has committed...
Alternative fund manager, Frontier Development Capital (FDC), has announced the first close of its latest fund, the FDC Debt Fund (...
Over the last few years, cutting-edge technology, a globalised market and changes to the supply chain have radically transformed the shipping industry. The interest ...
Private equity firm Grafton Capital has invested £7 million into ...
Pembroke VCT has made an initial investment of £2 million into Eave, a UK-base...
Mo, a london based SaaS company, has secured £3 million investment led by Calculus Capital, alonside continu...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has backed the buy-out of Totalmobile...
A new report released by BGF and academic Sir Anthony S...
Palatine Private Equity has completed the sixth investment from its Impact Fund, with the acquis...
Psyomics Ltd, a UK-based healthtech and University of Cambridge spin-out, has closed a £1.5 million funding round from existing and new invest...
Eagle Genomics, a pioneer in applying network science to biology – particularly linked to the microbiome – ha...
With half of its population under the age of 35 and a rapidly expanding middle class, Vietnam is one of the most dynamic frontier economies. ...
Diageo has announced it has reached agreement to acquire BGF portfolio company ...
To coincide with National Mentoring Day on 27 October, NatWest and Be the Bus...
New research from Tech Nation and Dealroom reveals that investment into UK impact startups increased 9.5x between 2014 and 20...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has appointed...
Relying on guidance from historical returns is the number one investment mistake made by millionaires, reveals a new global survey. The survey was carried out by ...
£50mn raised by Future Fund campaigns accounts for a quarter of all money raised by the crowdfunding industry in last 5 months. ...
NatWest is to set this year’s National Enterprise Challenge &ndas...
British Patient Capital has committed $35m to The Evolution...
VG, one of Jersey’s largest independent and privately-owned providers of fiduciary and administration solutions, has appointed Steve Langan as a Director of V...
Foresight Group LLP and Island Green Power have formed a joint venture (JV) to develop ...
Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialised in scaling businesses driven by technology, customer insight or service excellence,...
The University of Liverpool has formed a new spin out company - Robotiz3d Ltd – to take forward new technology that has the potential to radically tran...
DSW Angels, the venture capital investment business of the Dow Schofield Watts group, has changed its trading brand to DSW Ventures to reflect the increasing scale and...
A new report released by BGF and academic Si...
Irish data driven VR simulation company ...
Disease Screening and Diagnosis startup, Occuity has raised more than £1m, supported by ...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has backed the management buy-out of Ten10, a le...
Personify XP, the world’s first anonymous digital analytics and AI personalisation platform, has closed a £550,000 pre-seed round. Investors in...
In his latest podcast (transcribed below), Seneca Investment Director, ...
CRUX, the British-Israeli startup that has developed the world’s first Knowledge Quantification platform, has announced a...
European start-ups received 127% more growth capital than in 2016 and, according to a new ...
UK-based technology company Hinterview, the award-winning video platform for the recruiting & talent sector, has raised £1.47m in venture ...
The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund and manage...
By Brian Williamson, serial entrepreneur and chairman of Glasgow-headquartered 4icg Group. Note: This article expresses an independent opinion and the views expressed m...
A surge in deal activity over the next few months is being predicted by private equity house WestBridge, as business owners seek to realise and de-risk t...
Flexa, a job and employer brand platform, has successfully raised £250,000 from a consortium of international and domestic investors, including renowned an...
Convertibles have become more popular on the Equity Crowdfunding Platforms. In this second article on the topic, James Murdoch shares more thoughts about investing in Convertibles....
An innovative new system that has the potential to revolutionise hearing tests globally has received financial backing from Scottish business angel investment syndicate, ...
Black business owners and those from Asian and Other Ethnic Minority backgrounds face persistent disparities in business outcomes, with systemic disadvantage playing a key role. This i...
MMC Ventures, the research-led venture capital fund, has become a certified B Corporation through...
CPI, an independent technology innovation centre and founding member of the UK Government’s High ...
Pimloc, the visual privacy and security company, has closed £1.4M in new financing in a seed funding round led by Ama...
Detected, the world’s first agnostic business verification platform, has closed its pre-seed funding round at £250,000. This first tranche ...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has appointed Jo Johnson as a new Board Director. ...
Iventis, a company whose events software platform is used by organisers of international sports competitions has raised £400,000 to support its furt...
NPIF Maven Equity Finance has led a £250,000 funding round for fissara, a software...
Gresham House Ventures has invested £5 million in eConsult Health. The £5m investment, made on behalf of the ...
NatWest and ITV have today announced the launch of a new com...
GC Angels’ Jess Jackson (pictured) has joined 28 of the North’s most high-profile female investors from Northern Investment f...
Oliver Woolley, CEO of Envestors, talks about why incubators, accelerators and networks matching investors and startups need to be regulated and the grey areas such organisati...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, announces the 32 companies that have been selected to join the Applied A...
The Running Channel, the YouTube channel and content brand for a global audience of runners, has raised over £1 millio...
Ori Biotech Ltd (Ori), a leading innovator in cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing, today announced the successful close of a $30 million ...
Praetura Group, the Manchester-based debt and equity capital provider to Northern SMEs, has announced a series of organisational and board c...
JAXJOX, the global fitness technology company known for its innovative workout equipment and platform, today announced...
Ed Stevenson, investment manger at SFC Capital looks at ...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent asset-based lender, has so far provided £65 million of new lending since lockdown began. IGF wa...
Two advertising executives who quit their jobs to develop their own 3D software have secured over £450,000 in investment to help them launch their product. ...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, announced its ...
Duff & Phelps, the world’s premier provider of governance, risk and transparency solutions, has announced the launch of its Equity Match ser...
New figures highlight the resilience of the software sector throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with a rise in capital raises during the lockdown period. Global ...
The continued strong interest and engagement from the investment community in the UK’s independent network sector must be sustained if the UK wants achieve status as a gigabit nation, the ...
A businesswoman whose software platform helps companies to manage rebate and incentive schemes has raised a further £950,000 from investors. Leanne Bonner-Cooke MBE, who founded the ...
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More than eight in ten income investors (83%) are concerned about a potential loss of income from dividend cuts caused by COVID-19, according to new research from the ...
Fit Cloud Technology Ltd, trading as Membr, a fitness focused management software platform that operates in 23 countries worldwide has secured significant investmen...
Ada Ventures has launched a new £250,000 angel investor programme – Ada’s Angels – which has been set up to help discover a new ge...
Pictet Alternative Advisors (PAA), the Pictet Group's wholly-owned alternative investment business line, has launched its first themat...
Edgify, a company building AI training frameworks at the edge, has secured a $6.5m seed funding round backed by Octopus V...
John Auckland from TribeFirst discusses the proposed merger between Seedrs and Crowdcube. When it comes to equity crowdfunding, the go-to platform for any European investor, young company o...
Two construction experts who aim to revolutionise the industry through the use of digital technology have raised £250,000 to bring their smart building software to market. ...
AI chatbot specialists, We Build Bots, has set its sights on global growth with the announcement that international technolog...
Resilience and Recovery, a new repo...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report, sho...
Humley, a company which develops conversational assistants capable of manning helpdesks and answering technical enquiries, has raised £700,000 to hel...
Antler has welcomed ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has appointed Liam Pursall as an investor and Georgie Stratton in direct origination...
British digital health start-up Clin-e-cal has raised over £130,000 on leading crowdfunding platform ...
Condense Reality, a virtual reality startup developing technology to transform how viewers watch live entertainment and sports, has raised...
An innovative Scottish software business that provides a comprehensive booking platform for the leisure travel sector plans to launch a suite of data technology products designed to help travel age...
Downing Ventures has appointed Joe Raffa as a Venture Partner as it scales up for global expansion and sector specialization. Joe i...
Rockley Photonics, a leading integrated optics solutions provider, has closed an additional $50m of growth funding from leading deep-tech VCs, strategic ...
Great Point, the media investment business run by Jim Reeve and Robert Halmi, has entered into an agreement with the ...
BioAccelerate, AberInnovation’s flagship accelerator programme for early-sta...
Simply, the non-bank SME lender, has raised a fourth financing tranche from the British Business Bank to...
London startup, Jelly Drops, has launched in the UK to help boost the water intake of the elderly and...
Spoon Guru, the London-based AI powered food search and discovery technology start-up, has secured a Series A funding round with ...
Seedrs and Crowdcube are to merge, in a move that will accelerate their shared plan to create the world’s larges...
A new study published by Foresight Group into the resilience of infrastructure to global pandemics reveals that renewable energy, telecoms and primary c...
Foresight Group and Elgin Energy have formed a joint venture to develop a pipeline of greenfield solar projects across the UK. The JV aims to de...
A major investment in Lightning Fibre, a community-oriented full fibre network provider, will see hyper-fast fibre broadband rolled out in East Susse...
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of financial advice business owners and wealth management chief executives do not trust the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to deliver fair outc...
Nu Quantum, the quantum photonics company, has raised £2.1 million in Seed funding in a round led by Amadeus Ca...
Immune Regulation Limited, a US and UK based clinical stage biotechnology company, has closed a Series B funding round led by Boston based ...
Piper has invested £11.5m investment into Wattbike, the world's first smart indoor bike brand, joining the impress...
Award-winning health tech company DrDoctor has raised £3,000,000 Series A investment from venture capital firms Ananda I...
A £10 million funding package from the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) will help to scale ...
LawtechUK, the government-backed initiative within Tech Nation, whose aim is to help transform the UK legal secto...
Preservica has announced an additional $3.8 million* investment from Mobeus Equity Partners. De...
HomeDoctor, a Warsaw and Amsterdam-based digital healthcare provider has announced a €3,7m Series A funding round led by ...
YourParkingSpace, the UK’s leading provider of peer to peer parking and intelligent parking solutions, has secured investment from ...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced a £350,000 investment in ...
Bamboo Systems, the Arm-only server vendor, has announced that it has secured a new, significant round of $7 million USD in funding. This new infusion is...
The UK’s £4bn gaming sector is predicted to almost triple in value within the next 3 years to £10bn, with the current 27,000 employed by the sector expected to also triple within ...
Cornelis Networks, Inc.,&nbs...
Palatine Private Equity has completed the maiden investment from its fourth buyout fund (Fund IV) with the acquisition of a majority shareholding in ...
Elspeth Kinder, Partner and Head of Family Law, JMW Solicitors considers the value of prenuptial planning for entrepreneurs. Getting venture c...
Scale-up FinTech TotallyMoney, which is backed by Elliott Advisors and Scottish Equity Partners, following a £29 million investment in January...
Huboo, an e-commerce fulfilment and storage company, has rasied a further £14m investment as the pandemic triggers a rapid increase in online shopping.&...
CCC Holdings, a holding company based in Italy focused on the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) industry, has raised €18 million from Italian Energy Efficiency F...
Lumenisity® Limited, which has developed ground-breaking fibre optic and cabling technology, has closed a £7.5 million funding round from a consort...
Global digital consultancy Appnovation has received £6.8M in follow...
Oakham-based machinery and vehicle dealer, C&M Retail Group, is embarking on a major expansion programme which will create up to 20 new jobs after agreeing a funding deal to enable the developm...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies, has appointed four new Directors joining the Board, including the Audit Committee and...
Riskbook Ltd, an independent provider of reinsurance technology, announced today that it had received new investment of £2m to further de...
ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank, has been named the Investment Bank of the Year by Environmental Finance at their IMPACT Awards 202...
Kindred Capital has closed its second seed fund at £81m. Through its ‘Equitable Venture’, the firm gives exceptional seed-stage entrepr...
Ian Connatty of British Patient Capital comments on new data from Tech Nation ...
The world’s most awarded non-alcoholic spirits company, ...
HOWZAT Partners and ennea capital partners are joining forces as HOWZAT ennea Group to create one of Europe’s l...
Panthera Biopartners has completed a Series A funding round with Gresham House Ventures as a major invest...
Panthera Biopartners has completed a Series A funding round with Gresham...
Mountain Technologies has secured investment from a group of HBAN angel investors. Ballymena-based Mountain Technologies will use the funding to market a...
A new study by Merchant Machine finds the top countries, states and industries for the fastest-growing companies in Europe and the US. The ...
According to new research by PwC, VC and corporate investment in startups developing technology enabled solutions to climate change, and the transformation to net zero emissions, grew at a faster r...
Playfair Capital and Tech Nation have joined forces to expand their nationwide initiative t...
Fintech business lender MarketFinance has been awarded a £10m grant from the Capability and Innovation Fund (CIF), announced by Bank...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, announces the 31 tech companies that have been selected to join the ...
Finance Durham Fund has invested £250,000 in Power Roll, a developer of ultra-low-cost ...
Investment banking fees generated in the UK total £3.3 billion so far during 2020, 5% less than the value recorded at this time last year and the lowest year-to-date total since 2016 accordin...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has launched an online resource for prospective investment company directors, which aims to encourage a wide and diverse group of candidates to find ou...
Research from Red Flag Alert, released six months after the UK’s lockdown, shows 4,058 businesses have failed in this period across bars and restaurants, construction, retail, logis...
Finch Capital has published its latest annual research, The State of...
Dublin start-up FoodMarble has raised €1.2M in a funding round which included HBAN business angels from the MedTech sy...
A Northern Ireland start-up which appeared on TV's Dragons' Den earlier this year has successfully closed a £350,000 funding round with local business angels to bring its innovative new insul...
Bounce Back loans, the most popular HM Treasury support measure, used by SMEs are running low, finds the latest insights [1] from fintech business lender ...
28 September marks 25 years since the launch of the first VCT. From humble beginnings in 1995 the sector has grown to back winners from Zoopla to Secret Escapes an...
Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on building the consumer brands of tom...
Deepbridge Capital and Boundary Capital backed diagnostics firm Glyconics® has been awarded an internationally recognised quality certificati...
Ceryx Medical, a bioelectronics startup working towards the world’s first curative therapy for heart failure, has secured a £...
The Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre (ATTC) network has been awarded a total of £9.5 million to fund an additional 12 months of the programme. £6.5 million has been granted from the Go...
Global venture capital firm 500 Startups released new survey findings that reveal how startup investors are responding to the new challenges brought on by COVID-19 and...
Booking.com CEO Kees Koolen has invested more than €4 million in Holidu, one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide, from his personal fun...
The Insights People, the Manchester-based company which is a global leader in kids, parents and family market intelligence, has secured a £500...
AccelerComm, a Southampton University spinout supercharging 5G, satellite and other wirele...
Praetura Ventures, the VC fund that targets high-value sectors in the north of England, is investing £1m in a tech company that helps businesse...
Tribosonics, a Sheffield company whose smart sensing technology helps industry to reduce costs, has raised £1.1m from...
Lincolnshire-based cyber security firm KryptoKloud Limited is pursuing new growth following a £500,000 investment from ...
British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a new £30m subscriptio...
BGV's Paul Miller explains why now, more than ever, the case for investing in Tech for Good is so compelling. This piece was first published in the August issue of BGV's monthly investor ne...
Global technology investor, Amadeus Capital Partners, today announces a major expansion of its investment team. Edward Kliphuis and Kai ...
The British Business Bank, the UK’s national economic development bank, has published its 2020 Annual Report and Accounts for this, its sixth year ...
Crista Galli Ventures, a new early-stage healthtech fund that offers patient capital and deep healthcare expertise, has launched this week. Crista Galli Venture...
Finance Durham Fund has invested £750,000 in ...
Pitchbook Data recently published their Q2 2020 Global League T...
UK-based start-up Skin Analytics has raised £4 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by ...
British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made its fourth commitment through its £500m Managed Funds P...
BGV have launched their third Tech For Good SEIS & EIS Fund for high-net-worth and sophisticated investors. The Fund aims to deliver sign...
Following a period of sustained growth since launching Fund II in March 2019, Playfair Capital is bolstering its team in London with three new hires. ...
HR DataHub, the HR data benchmarking platform, has raised a £1m seed round led by the Angel CoFund&nb...
BGF, the UK’s most active growth capital investor, has invested £3 million into 365 Response, a Wakefield-bas...
Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc, a leading, clinical-stage gene therapy company dedicated to developing adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies for geneti...
ClinSpec Diagnostics, a university spin-out which has developed a way to detect cancer at an early stage using a simple blood test has completed a &po...
BGF is formally supporting The Diversity Project in its mission to accelerate progress in achieving a more inclusive culture in the investment and savings profe...
Medefer, the b2b virtual healthcare provider that is reimagining the old-fashioned outpatient system, has announced a £10m funding round ...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has today announced the launch of the Fintech Pledge with support from HM Tre...
WestBridge has appointed Katherine Bond as investor relations director as the firm prepares the pre-marketing of its third fund. ...
Three out of five business leaders worldwide (61%) predict growth over the next twelve months, according to a new study. Intertrust, a glo...
E-commerce platform Moteefe has raised $11 million during their latest funding round. The round was led by GBF with participation from existing investors,...
A healthtech business with an app that helps patients communicate with clinicians remotely has raised a further £2m to help expand its use. Advanced Digital Innovation (ADI) has raise...
QuadSAT, a Danish company that is revolutionising test and measurement of satellite antennas, has closed a €2 million P...
Yotta Capital Partners, the first French private equity team dedicated to Industry 4.0, announces the completion of the first closing of the Yotta Smart Industry fund at €101 million at the en...
Finnish venture capital firm Superhero Capital has announced the first close of its second fund at €30M. The fund will make seed...
London Tech Week today plans to definitively map the UK tech scene highlighting and promoting the best businesses, innovators and thinkers ope...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed new statistics that show the UK economy has grown by 6.6% in the month of July. This news will be we...
Riverside Europe, the European part of The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has inve...
ThoughtRiver, the market leader in automated contract review and pre-screening, has announced $10M (£7.5M) in Serie...
Warwick-based energy consultancy Utility Stream has obtained a significant investment from the ...
The Calculus Creative Content EIS Fund has invested in Home Team, a production company founded by Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee, it was announced by the Fund’s manager Calculus Capital ...
Premium crafting company, Stitch & Story, has received an additional £1 million investment from Pembrok...
Ian Connatty, Managing Director of British Patient Capital comments on the opportunities in venture capital and the challenge of attracting UK...
Mollie, one of the fastest growing payment service providers in Europe, today announced the closing of €90 million (US$1...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, announces the 30 scaleups that have been selected to join the new Net Zero programme. Ann...
Bristol-based tech startup Geollect is one of 10 companies chosen to take part in a special mentoring programme being run by the UK’s intelligence, sec...
AppyWay, the leading kerbside management and smart parking technology firm, has launched a £20 million Series B funding round. This will be used to support ...
Small- and mid-cap stocks (SMIDs) are currently more vulnerable to the COVID shock than markets have already priced in. A capital chasm is set to emerge as the unprecedented conditions have left ma...
Funds advised by Hilltop Credit Partners, a specialist funding partner for SME residential developers, have completed a £360,000 pre-devel...
Squire Patton Boggs has appointed David Milne (pictured) as a partner in its Global Corporate Practice in Leeds. Mr. Milne joins from Eversheds Sutherland. ...
Data management software firm Azquo has appointed an industry heavyweight as its new Chairman. Rhoddy Swire, the founder of global fund of funds ...
ACT Genomics has announced the completion of the first closing of the latest round of equity financing from a group of strategic investors including ...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has launched itsUnlocking Global Tech report, assessing t...
Intertrust, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, has appointed Nick Maton as Luxem...
Mercuryo.io - a fast-growing Estonian startup that bills itself as a European leader in cryptocurrency payment processing solutions closed a €2.5m seed funding...
In a first phase of this funding round, Climeworks announced, in April, the successful raise of CHF 73 million (USD 75 million) in...
British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British ...
Jaisal Pastakia, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management shares five learning points from the pandemic ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, invested £15m into ...
AIPUT (Aberdeen Standard Investments’ Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust) has announced the completion of two new lease tra...
Advanced Digital Innovation (ADI) has raised funding from ...
Turquoise, the London-based merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced its latest investment thro...
Enigma Holdings has invested £500,000 seed funding in Crowd Network, a ...
Humatica, the leading private equity specialist advisor for portfolio organisational effectiveness, has announced its cooperation with ...
Reachdesk, a direct mail and corporate gifting software platform for B2B companies, has announced a $6 million funding round led by ...
Private equity-backed soft drinks manufacturer Clearly Drinks is to invest in a new canning facility at its Sunderland headquarters following support ...
Moteefe, the ecommerce platform providing infrastructure, customisation and global fulfilment for re...
A key stage in the commercial development of quantum computers has been reached with the successful UK trial of a high-performance, universal operating system. In Deltaflo...
Intertrust, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, has reached a binding agreement to acquire the corporate ser...
Half of companies do not have adequate cybersecurity provision to allow for 100% remote working. And whilst 58% of tech hiring managers list info-security as their most required skillset...
In November last year, Porky Whites, a premium British sausage b...
Leading online investment platform, Seedrs has announced the next evolution of its seconda...
A global total of 241 initial public offerings have been recorded so far during the second half of 2020, marking the fastest start to the second half of the year since 2007, according to figu...
The British Business Bank has announced that it has a...
Humatica, the leading private equity specialist advisor for portfolio organisational ...
Following the news of ...
Sheffield-based Electric Vehicle (EV) tech start-up Mina has successfully secured significant seed investment during the lockdown period supported by investme...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity managers, has invested £1.5 million ...
After a global search, Isle of Man craft spirit producer, The Fynoderee Distillery, is proud to announce the appointment of Berle ‘Rusty’ Figgins Jnr...
A global total of 241 initial public offerings have been recorded so far during the second half of 2020, marking the fastest start to the second half of the year since 2007. Proceeds ra...
INSTANDA, the leading customer and policy management platform for the insurance industry, and...
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Redis Labs, the company behind Redis, the most popular open source database and the provider of&nbs...
As organizations’ strategic priorities change, business survival emerges as the number one reason to invest in emerging technologies. ...
As Ventureburn will be hosting their first-ever webinar series focusing on Section 12J, they have decided to unpack several success stories of investee companies of Kalon Venture Partners. ...
It August, holiday season, things traditionally shut down for August but this year it feels a little different. Many of us are on staycation, some trying to k...
Novosound, the award-winning novel thin-film ultrasound technology company, has appointed Dr Derek Mathieson, former Chief Marketing and Technology Off...
Having climbed the career ladder in the world of banking and consulting, working with so many interesting, intelligent and energetic women, Alexandra Tymann and Anna Rauch left their careers ...
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Infront ASA (INFRNT) today announced its interim results for Q2 2020. Operating revenue was EUR 28.4 million, an incr...
An online game developed by a start-up business in response to the recent Covid-19 lockdown is now being used to train the Artificial Intelligence (AI) component of its new legal contract man...
According to research1 released by dental health startup Floe Oral Care...
The number of professional vacancies in London paying over £40k and over saw a steady increase in July, edging closer to pre-lockdown levels. That’s according to new research from...
Funding has increased by a staggering 940% for UK cybersecurity start-ups since the beginning of lockdown - with £496m being raised in the first half of 2020, almost outstripping the 20...
The past few years have seen many traditional taboos broken and developments in the workplace have reflected this, from the introduction of shared paternity leave and the increasing conversat...
Investors selecting the income paying option in ...
A £3.5 million project loan facility from the Development ...
Award-winning investment syndicate, Equity Gap, this month celebrates 10 years as one of Scotland’s most successful angel inve...
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Stephen Kelly of TechNation responds to Barclaycard’s SME Barometer data “Despite the Q2 barometer showing the impact on SMEs has been...
Innova Capital, a leading private equity fund in C&EE, has signed a definitive agreement with Kingspan Group to...
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eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Pr...
Panta Capital has announced the launch of its Private Equity Co-Investment Service and its seed investment of EUR 500,000 in fertilise...
QVentures has announced their latest ...
Solidatus, the leading provider of innovative metadata management software, has announced a strategic investment from ...
Jason Jefferys, Co-Founder and CEO of Fetch looks at the challenges for new FinTech ventures The past few months have been diffic...
Kemp Little has advised Thomson Reuters on its acquisition of Cas...
Beckley Psytech, the psychedelic medicine company, has appointed a series of respected figures from the psychiatric and psychedelic research field...
The British Business Bank has published Future Fund data that gives a detailed picture o...
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The UK’s 2 million plus landlords are facing a property management problem with no true oversight on the financial health of their rental properties. ...
Nova Pangaea Technologies, the Teesside company which has f...
Some 1.7 million small-scale farmers in Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan will soon receive personalized agricultural advice through their mobile phones as a means to improve thei...
UK SME’s are at risk of 65,000 cyber security attacks daily – with around 4,500 of these being successful – and the figure could be much higher since the beginning of the Covid-19...
As workforce strategies make a dramatic shift from hours-based to output-based performance metrics as Covid alters business models, investing in the right technology will be the crucial lever...
Final figures have been published by the Development B...
Angel Academe has closed its investment in ...
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Abrado, the industry leader in the surgical removal of multiple casing sections downhole, has appointed Jason Broussard as Pre...
Job opportunities for the professional sector – including sectors such as IT, professional services, life sciences, finance, marketing, HR and engineering, have continued to improve, with Jul...
The UK Creative Content EIS Fund has invested in ...
Bone Therapeutics, the cell therapy company addressing high unmet medical needs in orthopedics and bone diseases, today announces it has been ...
According to the National Association of Estate Agents Property Mark, the housing market is booming. In June, properties sold for over the asking ...
Gaming quality assurance and testing firm Testronic, part of the Catalis Group, has acquired...
Russia aspires to become a world leader in the hydrogen sector, and the state sees great potential for European exports in particular. Gazprom estimates that the EU market will be worth &euro...
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Edtech startup BibliU has raised £500,000 as part of a Series A extension funding round, supported by Angel Investme...
Circularity Capital has continued to build its innovative portfolio of European growth-stage businesses enabling the circular economy, l...
NorthEdge Capital, which manages over £650m of private equity funds aimed at the North and Midlands regions, has r...
Glennmont Partners, one of Europe’s largest pure renewables fund managers, has adopted Greenbyte’s moni...
The Insights People, the Manchester-based company which is a global leader in kids, parents and family market intelligence, has secured a £500...
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By 2022, an operational stock of almost 4 million industrial robots are expected to work in factories worldwide. These robots will play a vital role in automating production to speed up the post-Co...
Omnipresent Group has raised $2m in a seed round led by Playfair Capital and ...
The independent Iberian management company GED Capital has entered, through its Conexo...
A new investment summit with the aim of bringing national policy makers together with equity investors, fund managers, big business, and Innovative SMEs will take place this autum...
A new crowdfunding initiative has been launched by ACE Entrepreneurs to support early stage black-owned businesses. The ...
New data published has revealed the regional distribution of loans under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme and the Bounce Back Loan Scheme. The data, published by the ...
The new application phase for the 3rd Swiss Market Entry Bootcamp has begun and lasts until 1 Septe...
Anexsys Group, which provides technology and consultancy services for law firms, corporations and the public sector, has been acquired by private-equity-back...
Urgent action is required to close the UK’s growth capital gap, according to a report released by Innovate Finance, the ...
Foresight Group LLP has announced the completion of a €4.5 million top-up to the Project Bond issued in January 2019 by ...
Tech-led businesses, whose models have been further validated by the Covid-19 crisis, have seen unprecedented demand from investors in the last three months, according to tax-efficient platfo...
Technology consulting firm Invenio Business Solutions has completed a rebranding process to cement its preparation fo...
Private equity-backed property, site and people protection specialist Orbis Protect has made its first acquisition following a strong pe...
Foresight Group, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, and ...
YFM Equity Partners is continuing its focus on growth stage investment, particularly in the technology sector, with the appointment of venture capitalist and e...
“We cannot be reliant on sectors that will inevitably fluctuate until there is a vaccine to drive the UK’s recovery. The Bank of England’s prediction ...
Clarilis, the high-growth legal technology business,...
Research has shown that UK 1 small and medium businesses are owed as much as £50bn in late payments at any one time, with the situation only likely to get worse in the current ...
TaxScouts, the company making tax preparation effortless for the UK market, has announced a Series A inves...
Foresight Group LLP, a leading private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has announced a further £2 million&n...
UCL Technology Fund, managed by AlbionVC in collaboration with UCL Business ...
Bramble Energy, the world’s most scalable hydrogen fuel cell company has raised a £5m Series A round. ...
Enterprise IT managed services organisation DSP and Leeds-based Explorer UK, an ...
The Great Lockdown caused a global output shortfall of $12.5 trillion. Governments have reached deep into their coffers to inject relief into shocked economies. We've seen companies bolster b...
With the arrival of Covid-19, the vast majority of us have been working from home for the past few months. Far from being a huge disaster, working from home has led many of us to question the...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest annual ...
Symetrica, a manufacturer of radiation detection products for military and homeland security applications, has c...
Liopa has successfully achieved funding from Innovate UK...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in the Growth Economy, has backed 24 new companies in the first half of the year whil...
Humanloop, a game changing UCL spinout, has attracted investment from UCL’s Technology F...
Green Angel Syndicate has completed an investment in online, sustainable grocer, ...
The Aviation X Lab, situated in AREA 2071 wit...
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Investors have rewarded the commercial success of Spotta’s smart pest systems with a $1.18 million seed funding round. ...
Aceleron, the UK developer of sustainable and reusable battery solutions, has announced a £2m million equity investment with £1.45m from ...
Corby-based Green Life Buildings Ltd has received a £600k funding package from the ...
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NatWest have announced a partnership with Synalogik, a member of their Entrepren...
Closed Loop Medicine, the London based therapeutics and health tech company secures a £250,000 COVID-19 Innovate UK Continuity Funding a...
Cowboy, a leading manufacturer of the beautifully-designed, connected electric bike, has completed its Series B funding round, tota...
Belfast-headquartered green technology firm StormHarvester is announcing the conclusion of a €2 million investment round, and is laun...
NEOS Surgery, a company that researches, develops and m...
Global technology investor, Amadeus Capital Partners, announced the promotion of both Amelia Armour and Pierre Socha to Partner in the Early Stage...
Clive Hale, Chief Strategist of Albemarle Street Partners, looks under the hat of global markets ...
To celebrate the launch of its new financial training platform, Yorkshire-based finance management specialist Mellor Financial Training is offeri...
Cologne-based SoSafe GmbH closed a substantial seven figure Pre-...
British Patient Capital announces its participation in Quantexa’s series C fundi...
Closed Loop Medicine (CLM), the London based therapeutics and health tech company has secured a £250,000 ...
A biotech company which is developing new treatments for patients with serious spinal conditions has completed a £2.25m funding round led by Mercia Asse...
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Genius Group has completed the acquisition of Entrepreneur Resorts Ltd, comprising luxury resorts and lodges, b...
Takarék Venture Capital Fund I. managed by Dutch-Hungarian VC company DBH Investment has invested EUR 2 million into Budapest-based AerinX in a Pre-Series A round. The company develops and p...
Green Angel Syndicate has completed an investment in online, sustainable ...
Atos SE, a global leader in digital transformation, and ...
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By Stephen Kelly, Chair of TechNation In recent months the UK government has made one of the great strategic i...
Creator Fund, the university-focused ven...
Following investment from a number of former industry leaders, tech platform Bowimi has grown its development capabilities to expand in the hospitality se...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has led an investment through its managed VCTs, alongside the ...
FLX Distribution, the first and only professional network technology platform bringing together asset management firms and independent distribut...
The Universities of Birmingham and Warwick have created a new spinout company, 4D Medicine Ltd, to commerci...
Silverfleet Capital, the pan-European private equity firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Christian Süss as a ...
British Patient Capital announces a cornerstone commitment of $65m to ...
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The Coronavirus lockdown decimated economies all over the planet, but while some stock markets are showing signs of recovery, the UK’s FTSE 100 is taking longer to bounce back. Since falling...
Neurovalens, a global healthtech company headquartered in Belfast and San Diego, has raised £5.1 million in funding, led by ...
Withers tech has represented Draper Esprit, one of Europe's leading VC funds, on the Series...
Leading digital health start-up Gendius has raised £250,000 on leading crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, ...
Private equity firms invested in a record 464 companies in Central and Eastern Europe in 2019, with investment increasing by 7% year-on-year to €2.95 billion, as the industry strengthened its ...
I was struck by the contrast of two conversations on a single day, a couple of weeks ago: In the morning I was talking to a number of experts in Angel Investment and start-ups and one obser...
The Coronavirus lockdown decimated economies all over the planet, but while some stock markets are showing signs of recovery, the UK’s FTSE 100 is taking longer to bounce back...
Norgrove Building Supplies, based in Kidderminster, has secured a...
NatWest has announced the appointment of Solange Chamberlain as Chief Operating Officer for its Commercial Banking arm. Ch...
Drover, the European leader in car subscriptions, announces a £20.5 million investment. The investment has been co-led by new ...
Coconut, the smart banking, accounting and tax tool aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses, has raised over £2.4m in its latest crowdfund - bea...
Covid-19 has disrupted every aspect of human life. This global threat has spurred us to reconsider priorities and heightened the importance of social justice and preservation of the planet. B...
Opinium today unveils the Top 100 Most Connected Brands in the UK. Now in its third year, the ranking is the first ever Index to be compiled...
Plastometrex - a Cambridge-based company that develo...
CyberSmart has raised £5.5 million in a heavily oversubscribed Series A funding round led by VC firm ...
Macomics Ltd, an immuno-oncology company with world-leading expertise in macrophage biology, launches today with a £3.2 million seed financing round led by transatlantic ...
SDG500, a pioneering USD$500 million investment platform dedicated to helping achieve the Sustainab...
By Charlie Parker, Managing Director, Albemarle Street Partners "Whilst the virus con...
TOffeeAM, an Imperial College spin-out that optimises product designs for Additive Manufacturing - a...
Foresight Group LLP, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has announced a £1...
Leading property technology company Goodlord has announced that it will be joi...
Loss adjusting and claims management specialist GHG Limited near Southampton has funded its primary buy-out by securing a £7m equity invest...
The cryptocurrency market is heating up with significant growth in 2020 and a new wave of potential crypto investors ready to join in. But there is just one thing keeping them fro...
UK-based startup ...
Johnathan Ransom, CEO & Co-founder of Square Mile Farms, looks at recent experiences. Post-2008 financial crisis, internet technologies an...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has reinforced its portfolio ...
London-based ETF Partners has closed its third Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF3) at £167m, to grow the most innovative companies in the UK and ...
Machine Labs has raised a Seed Extension round of £1 million ($1.25 million) lead by Techstart Ventures alon...
BrainWaveBank Limited, an artificial intelligence (‘AI’) company focused on develop...
The Development Bank of Wales has further expanded its technology investments team with a new hire. Colin Batt...
Astrosat has signed up to the national SPRINT business support programme to develop a new software tool that will autom...
Luke Johnson, the entrepreneur, investor and Sunday Times columnist, is investing in the British Design Fund and wi...
British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced t...
Traplight, the Finnish mobile game studio focused on highly accessible mid-core games, has announced the global launch of its new mobile gam...
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) has published new research[1] which reveals that the COVID-19 crisis has fuelled the appetite of insurers fo...
Mergermarket, the leading provider of M&A data and intelligence, has released its 1H20 report with league tables. According to the new research,...
An angel network that is among the first to penetrate the $5 trillion Halal consumer market has teamed up with UK fintech Delio to digitise the Halal ...
A new study reveals that over half (54%) of financial intermediaries believe that infrastructure is seeing the biggest surge in investor demand among all asset classes in response to the COVI...
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Investment in Northern Ireland tech companies increased by over 50% last year, with both the number of deals and average value of each investment rising, according to new data published by ...
Nearly four fifths (79%) of private equity fund managers expect investors to demand more transparency in reporting on portfolio company performance over the next 12 months, reflecting growing conce...
Kelvin Capital backed ProFactor Pharma Ltd (PFP), has ...
A team of healthcare experts who developed a fast and low-cost way to protect carers working with Covid-19 patients has raised a £100,000 investment. Mat Campbell-Hi...
The Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, has led investment of £3.3 million in innovative Scottish companies during the...
Zedify, the network of first and last mile delivery operations across the UK, have recently raised over £300,000 from a group of private investor...
Draper Esprit has participated in the latest £25m Series C funding round in Cazoo, the UK's leading online car r...
TAINA a market leading, computer science led provider of flexible and efficient FATCA, CRS and Chapter 3 solutions ...
ThingTrax, a provider of smart technology solutions for the manufacturing industry, has announced the close of a $1m seed round led by ...
British Patient Capital, a subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a cornerstone commitment to ...
Europe’s leading R&D and electric battery production company, InoBat Auto...
Luxury homeware wholesaler, Fifty One Percent Limited, has received a £250k finance package from the Midlands...
Investors and experts predict that in 2020 this will reach a record figure, boosted by an interest in the sector after Covid-19. Life sciences and healthcare start-ups and companies in Cata...
The SidebySide Partnership has expanded its management team with the appointment of James D’Mello as Head of Business Development. ...
Heka (previously GoSweat), confirms the launch of its new website and benefits platform on the 24th of June. Fit for the Covid-19 era and beyond...
Willa, the fintech startup dedicated to helping freelancers get paid on time without the ...
Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Wales have been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the second annual report published by ...
Specialist technology investor Par Equity has led a consortium that has invested £800k in Publisher Disc...
Nanotechnology business, MIP Diagnostics, has completed a £5.1m funding round to accelerate its global expansion. The co-investment has come from ...
Growth capital investor VGC Partners has promoted Andrew Lister to partner. This promotion further strengthens VGC’s leadership team in order to support inve...
Maven Capital Partners has led a further investment in Brigh...
Envestors has secured £2m in funding to grow its digital marketplace for start-up investment, The marketplace, powe...
6 Bit Education, a company spun out of the University of Birmingham, has received investment to pilot an AI-b...
The British Business Bank has approved six new lenders for accreditation under the ...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the Future Fund is being expanded to accommodate businesses that contribute significan...
The Angel CoFund has appointed Dr Olivia Nicoletti to the team as Senior Investment Associate. Joining from Cambridge Enterprise, where she worked o...
Beckley Psytech, the psychedelic medicine company, has raised £3m of Series A funding to develop a pipeline of psychedelic drugs into licensed ph...
As of 1 July 2020, the Aston Lark Financial Institutions team will join the Protean Risk brand, making the c...
Since its launch in May 2019, the Greater London Investment Fund (GLIF) has invested £12.5m in 33 early-stage and high-growth companies through its equity and l...
Unicorn AIM VCT has closed its latest offer having raised the full £25m of available capacity ...
Thierry Baudon, 2019-2020 Chair of Invest Europe, is to continue as Chair, following the sudden and unexpected death of Roderick “Rory” Macmillan ...
Mia & Ben, the innovative kids' food brand sold nationwide in Sainsbury's, Ocado and Abel & Cole in the UK, as well as Dunnes Stores in the Republic...
One year ago last week the UK’s 2050 net zero target was announced. Mike Jackson, Entrepreneur Success Director, Tech Nation comments: “The UK&rsquo...
Edge Investments, the leading growth investor in the UK creative economy, has appointed an Advisor Panel to provide specialist industry expertise and advice to as...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growth businesses, has invested in ...
Downing Ventures has appointed Warren Rogers as a Partner to its 14-strong team. Prior to joining Downing Ventures, Warren was a Ventures Partner at...
Loopster, the online platform which closes the loop between the use and reuse of second-hand clothes, has secured a six-figure seed equity funding round le...
Recruitment platform Tempo has secured £5 million in a Series A funding round led by the Adecco Group, a For...
Foresight Group's Nick Mettyear, an Investment Manager responsible for the £100 million Foresight East of England Fund, has been...
With a 53% growth in the last three years, an active fundraising scene, and a 20% surge in-demand during lockdown, fintech has become the poster-boy for how an industry can be in a position to resp...
A venture backed Cambridge startup, Better Origin, has launched the X1, the world’s first ever insect mini-farm to convert local waste into high-qual...
British Patient Capital comments on the British Business Bank&rs...
The £3.5m SHAKE Climate Change Programme has announced its first three investments. Energy from manure, tools for smarter ...
Reactec, the Edinburgh-based tech company that recently launched its innovative SAFE-DISTANCE device to enable social distancing among workers, has completed ...
Stained Glass artists Cariad Glass have seen a boost in online sales during lockdown after developing a fun make at home glass mosaic kit to give crafty...
Oxford Capital portfolio company, Cambridge-based UltraSoc Technologies Ltd, has signed an agreement to be acquired by Siemen...
Equity investment in the UK’s tech businesses increased by 27% in 2019 to £4.0bn, the highest amount since the series began in 2011, reveals the ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has invested in Bayfields Opticians an...
Epipole, the video retinal imaging specialist, has secured £1.5 million in new funding to prepare for introduction into the United States ophthalmic imagi...
Covid-19 has made investment prospects bleak in many sectors, but a new report by Ceuta Group reveals confidence in consumer health, wellness and personal ...
Kaelo Limited has secured a £350,000 growth loan from the Greater London Investment Fund (GLIF) which is managed by ...
Nottingham-based Far-UK, a specialist manufacturer of composite material-based products, has signed up to the national SPRINT ...
The startup ecosystem will take a year or more to fully recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, with economic and political risk representing the biggest barrier to innovation in that tim...
So far this year, Antler has invested in 58 startups across seven countries. The companies funded represent over twenty sectors, ranging from fintech and deep t...
Velox, the future of front office technology, has secured $2.5 million in strategic funding from ETFS Capital.&...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, delivered by British Business Bank, has made 66 investments in 47 York, North Yorkshire & East Riding based small ...
Epidarex Capital, a transatlantic life science venture firm, announces that it has closed Epidarex Capital III UK LP at £102.1 million. The Fund will bu...
An overwhelming majority (88%) of private equity investors plan to step up their efforts to manage and measure ESG performance in their portfolio companies over the next two years yet almost half (...
Agamon, a healthcare AI startup, announced today a $3M seed round, led by ...
London-based VGC Partners is launching its £1m Technology Seed Fund IV, headed by Parminder Basran, which looks to invest in early stage, tech companies whic...
In the world of work, the effects of social measures that governments are being forced to take have proven to be incredibly challenging for businesses and employees. However, for many business lead...
Trojan Energy, an Aberdeen-based green tech start-up, has secured a £4.1 million of seed funding. The funding round includes £1 mil...
Cornerstone Partners has invested £170,000 growth capital investment into East Yorkshire based Coordinat...
FW Capital has invested £20 million to support Greater Manchester-based businesses through NPIF - FW Capital Debt Finance which launched in 2017. ...
Middlesbrough-based games developer SockMonkey Studios has secured a £250,000 investment from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) to fun...
Hoxton Ventures has announced the final close of Hoxton Ventures II L.P., an early stage European venture capital fund building on the firm’s reco...
Bamboo Capital Partners, an impact investing platform which provides innovative financing solutions to catalyse lasting impact, has announced the formation of...
It took a global pandemic to accelerate remote working to where the world is today; nobody could have foreseen the profound impact that COVID-19 would have. For ...
HYCM has commissioned an independent surv...
Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. (LDC) has launched its corporate venture capital program, ‘LDC Innovations’, as an element in LDC’s strategic plans t...
Matt Weston, Managing Director of Robert Half UK, comments: "We are now starting to see the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the jobs...
SLAMcore, a UK company developing spatial AI algorithms for robots and drones, has secured $5million in a ...
Bubo.AI, a start-up which aims to revolutionise the way companies price their products has raised £650,000...
The UK Defense and Security Accelerator (DASA) innovation scheme has awarded a triple-figure contract to ...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has invested in Chill Insurance, one...
A new survey by Intertrust1, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, reveals how COVID-19 has impacted the ...
Growing fears of a no-deal Brexit will prompt an increasing number of British and international investors to move their financial assets overseas out of the UK, believes the CEO of one of the world...
James Murdoch considers the challenges for investors around the timely collection of EIS and SEIS Certificates. It’s that time of year; the most common question I see on post investme...
The Development Bank of Wales has reported a record 457 investments totalling £103.3 million in the financial year ended 31 March...
IQ Capital, the deep-tech venture capital firm based in Cambridge and London, has appointed Simon Hirtzel as General Partner. ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest research on LBO and VC performance...
Ikarovec, which is developing novel gene therapies to treat major ophthalmic indications, has been awarded £458,740 by ...
London based cleantech company Powervault has secu...
The anger and frustration unleashed by the appalling murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis is simple to understand - Black Lives Matter - no exceptions! Whilst some of the issues are straight forwa...
Quotevine helps brokers give SMEs faster access to vital COVID-19 recovery finance - with new Quickst...
EQT Ventures has appointed a new deal partner, Rania Belkahia, to its new team in France. Joining EQT Ventures’ team of former founders and operat...
The British Business Bank has announced that it has approved a new lender for accreditation to the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS), five new le...
Zelluna Immunotherapy, a T Cell Receptor (TCR) cell therapy company, has completed a fundraise to fully focus on the development of its proprietary TCR gu...
Vintro, a new digital, global marketplace of business decision makers, is opening its platform to entrepreneurs and innovators who are see...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has launched its new Net Zero growth programme. The programme is designed to support tech compa...
Ten technology rich early stage businesses in Wales are a step closer to developing their innovative products and services having secured equity investment from the ...
No women in private equity report that they see starting their own firm as part of their future ambitions, according to Investec’s 10th editi...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has invested in TitanHQ, a fast-g...
Following the launch of Blackfinch Asset Management, investment specialist Blackfinch Group launches four Adaptation Funds. The new multi-asset unit trus...
The coronavirus pandemic has hit the housing market hard but this does not mean that developers looking for financing are out of options, says ...
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Richard Davies, Chief Operating Officer at Revolut, just spoke at ...
Spectrum Logic has been awarded an Innovate UK grant to develop a novel Weste...
Catherine Lewis La Torre has been appointed Interim CEO of the Government-owned British Business Bank and will take up the role from 1 Septemb...
Daisy Onubogu, Head of Networks & Communities, Backed VC and Anu Adebajo, Investment Manager, British Pat...
One in seven small business owners (14%) say they are transitioning towards becoming fully or mainly online enterprises since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, according to new resea...
Redwigwam, the UK’s leading provider of flexible workers, has secured investment from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund to fuel the next phase of its expansion. ...
Enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor, My Digital Accounts, has appointed Nic Scott, former CEO and co-founder of Fairsail, as its chairman wit...
A £250,000 loan for the Welsh Mountain Zoo ...
An overwhelming majority (92%) of private equity fund managers expect to see a rise in the volume of distressed fund transaction activity over the next 12 months. Says ...
By Duncan Grierson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Clim8 and Andrew J Scott...
Qkine, a specialist developer and manufacturer of proteins for s...
SilviBio, a company developing a ‘survival capsule’ that will improve the survival of tree seedlings by 40 per cent in drought conditions, is the overall winner of the ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UKs most active private equity managers, has invested an undisclosed amount in Zing Dev Limited...
RiskIQ, the world leader in attack surface management, has announced an investment from Natio...
Foresight Group, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has announced that its Foresight Global Real Infrastructure...
DSW Debt Advisory, the new service launched by Dow Schofield Watts group just before the lockdown to help companies raise debt funding, has attracted anot...
Prime Advantage Capital Partners has participated in a fundraise for North-East based impact sensor developer HP1 Techn...
Start-ups faced with an entirely new trading environment are being encouraged to use the next 100 days to carefully align their shifting commercial goals with an effective approach to IP or risk be...
NodThera, a clinical stage biotechnology company developing a new clas...
Oxford Flow, the flow control equipment specialist, has raised £8.45m to fuel the company’s expansion across the utility and industrials market...
Flusso, a semiconductor company spun out of the University of Cambridge, has raised a $5.7 million Series A funding round to scale up production of the world&rs...
ROI has secured a £3m investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, to support...
The number of businesses with a positive outlook for the next 12 months exceeds the number with a negative outlook for the first time, in the clearest sign yet that...
The Danish workspace management startup Good Monday has just entered London following a $4M capital injection from the UK early-stage VC firstmi...
British Business Investments Ltd has committed up to £40m to Columbia Lake Partners Fund II - CLP ...
BGF has invested £6m in Amdaris, an industry-leading software developer and digital transformation...
Industrial services and waste management firm, Harpers Environmental, has secured £2 million of funding from ...
Tilney and Smith & Williamson have agreed a revised transaction structure for their proposed merger. T...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has strengthened its team wit...
Navenio, the healthcare scale-up whose location-based technology has been shown to double the throughput of hospital teams, has...
Business lender Reparo Finance is further strengthening its team with the appointment of Daniel Jones as business development manager covering the Sou...
Climeworks has successfully raised CHF 73 million (USD 75 million) in equity from private investors. This is the large...
Following the launch earlier this year of a further £40million MEIF Debt Fund by the ...
Tech Nation, the UK’s leading growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has appointed Stephen Kelly as the new Chair. Stephen Kelly succeeds E...
Service Robotics Limited, a health and wellbeing business focusing on supporting the vulnerable and elderly through innovative technology, has raised &...
Aberystwyth based Agxio has completed a £750,000 equity investment round to support the development of advanced data science and AI solutions in agri-tech...
Inflexion has sold Glide, the UK’s leading provider of infrastructure to difficult to serve markets, like high...
Lenders have approved £27.5bn of emergency finance to businesses during the coronavirus crisis with most coming from the bounce back loans scheme, government figures show, according to a ...
While economists sought to rejig their models following the financial crisis, adjusting for a pandemic, the likelihood of a cure and a whole range of science and tech related variables in between p...
BGF is to make donations totalling £100,000 to support local community-based charities across the UK & Ireland following the onset of Coronaviru...
In my annual review of my portfolio last month, I focussed on an analysis of what had happened in "normal time" any effects of current, more challenging times, had not yet come through. But what is...
DSW Angels - the business angel network focused on UK regional scale-up companies - is planning £10m of new investment over the next 12 months t...
Poplar has closed a $2.1million investment, led by Fuel Ventures...
Caerphilly based X4 Software Limited has secured follow-on investment of £175,000 from the Development Bank of Wales and the backing of business a...
The Silicon Valley Bank’s Future of Robotics Report, which ...
The value of venture capital raised by UK companies rose to its highest first quarter total on record according to research from Refinitiv. UK compan...
Fintech investment in the UK has exploded by 500% in the last three years, compared to 170% for the USA and 133% for Europe. Since 2018, the UK fintech market has be...
Red Rock Power Limited, a renewable and sustainable energy company, has selected Greenbyte’...
Jenson Funding Partners have completed an investment in eTEU Technologies Ltd, which is a technology platform that...
Prism Corporate Broking has advised the shareholders of Orion Future Technology Ltd (Orion FT) on its sale...
Guernsey, a leading global centre in green and sustainable finance, is hosting an array of international speakers for its first ...
A Coventry biotech business has raised £1.2m for a new hand-held device that allows paramedics and emergency doctors to quickly diagnose patients who are having a stroke. ...
Blackfinch has invested c.£550k in Poole-based company Spotless Water, founded in 2016. The company offers...
New tech roles in banks has increased by a staggering +46% in the last three years – making traditional banks the most prominent recruiter for tech professionals. ...
Jenson Funding Partners' 2019/20 EIS Fund has invested across six of its existing portfolio companies providing follow on funding to facilitate the ...
The UK’s leading provider of Start Up Loans for business is toasting it 6,000th customer – its local pub in Gateshead. T...
Birmingham-based language technology firm, Learning Labs Limited...
INSTANDA, the leading customer and policy management platform for the insurance industry, has today announced the appointment of Steven Haasz as Partnerships and...
Future VC 2020, Diversity VC’s programme that helps people from backgrounds that are unde...
Continuum Industries, which provides AI tools for engineering professionals to rapidly design linear infrastructure projects and reduce their costs, has ...
Ambitious new route map points the way to £1 billion for nature conservation. Nick Lyth, Founder and CEO of Green Angel Syndicate, is a member o...
European VC-backed companies raised $8.8B across 923 deals in the first quarter of 2020according to the latest ...
After a year in Beta, Mole Valley Asset Management (MVAM) launches its new Yorkshire T20 portfolio. The portfolio is made up of 20 handpicked, listed c...
Triple Point Heat Networks Investment Management, in partnership with the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), has announced i...
A Newcastle tech company whose software allows businesses to create their own mobile apps has raised £1.2m to further develop its product and expand its team. ...
Urgentem (formerly Engaged Tracking), one of the pioneering companies in climate risk management, data and analytics space, has raised £500k from ...
COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on businesses across the globe but it has also been a catalyst for digital transformation. Much of the media attention has been drawn toward companies li...
Technology company Sennen, whose bespoke software enables safer and more efficient renewable energy operations, has won a major new client. ...
An Agri-Tech Lookbook, to feature the sector’s most progressive companies, is being developed by the Department of International Trade (DIT) in association with ...
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Navenio, the healthcare scale-up behind a location-based platform which has been shown to double team throughput, has announced £9m in series A funding l...
A company which has developed an eco-friendly water treatment system that can reduce pollution levels has raised £550,000 to help roll it out to the water industry. &n...
MGB Biopharma, the Glasgow-based biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of anti-infectives, has announced the suc...
Silicon Valley Bank UK Branch (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and their investors, has appointed Patrick Flynn as Chief Operating...
Over £64.8 million has been invested into 257 businesses by the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), with new data revealing its regional impact just ...
Expert cycle insurance provider Bikmo has secured its first venture capital funding of £1.8 million (Series A funding). The investment is led by ...
Meals for the NHS, a non-profit organisation set up t...
Port Talbot-based Hybrisan has joined the fight against the Covid 19 pandemic having secured £500,000 equity investment from the ...
Clim8 Invest, the app that offers everyone the opportunity to have a positive impact on climate change through sustainable investment, has raised £1.5 m...
Maven Capital Partners has completed a £1 million investment in Boiler Plan (UK) Ltd, a market disruptive on...
Blackfinch Group has launched Blackfinch Asset Management, offering adviser firms expanded capabilities and increased support....
Private equity and venture capital fundraising hit €109 billion, up 6% in 2019, and the highest total over a decade, according to new data from Invest Europe. In parallel, the total equit...
Parabellum Investments, an international investment firm specialising in the mid-market, has teamed with operational investors T...
A leading Welsh medtech company has received significant equity funding from The Development Bank of Wales and Wealth Club to develop the ...
A London based, food brand, has secured a £600,000 expansion loan from The Greater London Investment Fund...
Praetura Ventures, the Manchester-based investor that backs quality businesses in high-value sectors, has launched the Praetura EIS Growth Fund as it...
There are some classic bear traps that new business angels should avoid if they want to get beyond that early exciting stage, and closer to the money making stage... #1...
A year after the worldwide sales success of the Channel 5 film ‘Agatha and the Truth of Murder’, the North Yorkshire-based husband and wife team behind it – Emily and Tom...
UK Innovation funder Rocking Horse has announced a multi-million-pound partnership with London-based specialist investment firm ...
Smarterly, the digital wealth platform for the workplace, has secured £7 million investment to support its continued growth as it brings innovation ...
Qadre, a high-growth fintech trusted by leading institutions to deliver certainty with blockchain technology, has announced ...
Xona Space Systems, a San Mateo-based startup creating a secure and precise Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) satell...
British Business Investments, the commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank,...
Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine, has awarded a 'MegaGrant' to Polystream, a deep-tech startup and th...
The digital staffing service, Zenjob, has successfully secured a Series C funding round of $30 million. The lead investor is ...
Intertrust, a leading global provider of tech-enabled corporate and fund solutions, has appointed Derek Ramage (pictured) as Head of Fu...
While the initial shock of lockdown was evident in early April with some deal processes being postponed or even falling away entirely, the surprise has perhaps been the speed of the bounce back in ...
Edinburgh-based Reactec, has repurposed its proven system for monitoring workers’ exposure to health risk to create “Safedistance...
The transformation of a Victorian railway building into an entertainment and business complex is nearing completion having secured a £2.9 million investment from the ...
The UK Creative Content EIS Fund has invested in Maze Theory, a digital entertainment studio focusing...
Financial firms need to adopt a digital-focussed working environment if they want to survive beyond current lockdowns, says Arches Capital. The Amsterdam-based...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest ...
Insulation and fire protection expert ...
Blackfinch Group has launched the #ISOLATIONINTERN platform in partnership wit...
Countingup, the business current account that automates your accounting, has received the backing of leading fintech investors. The London-based startup has ra...
Business angel syndicates in Scotland participated in deals which invested over £100m in young entrepreneurial companies in the financial year to end March 2020. This is ...
BGF has exited Direct Online Services (DOS), the UK’s leading ecommerce retailer of kitchen wo...
A new survey by Intertrust1, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, revea...
StaffCircle, a communications, performance and culture platform that enables companies to manage employees across many locations, has raised new funds fro...
Sukendhu Pal talks about the impact of Coronavirus on London's start ups and offers advice on what they can to help mitigate some of the worst impacts on their businesses. The coronavirus p...
BGF reported strong investment and financial performance in its 2019 Annual Report and Accounts, remaining the number one growth capital investor in the world by ...
Against the backdrop of a challenging market environment, Amati AIM VCT latest fundraising has reached its targeted £25 million capacity.&n...
Newable has completed a £120,000 equity investment in Echion Technologies. This is the second Echion investment...
One in ten British businesses face a high risk of entering insolvency as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This equates to more than half a million (591...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published a retrospective analysis of private equ...
A Coventry-based manufacturer responsible for producing all electric black taxis - ‘Hackney Carriages’ - approved by Transport for London has secured a £1.25m loan. The...
Zeitgold, the intelligent software platform for small business accounting automation, raised €27 million in Series B funding. The round was led ...
Scoota , the leader in automated omni-channel digital branding technology, has raised £2 millino from Notion Capital, th...
Peanut, the leading social network for women, today announces the closing of a USD $12M Series A funding le...
Oxwash, the space-age laundry and dry-cleaning startup overhauling the traditional laundry service, has rasied £...
A Carmarthen carpenter has led his management team to complete a multi-million management buy-out of the double glazing company that he set-up in 1989. Funded by the ...
A Newcastle tech start-up whose software helps sales staff to find and close new leads has raised £400,000 to further develop its product and expand its team. ...
Turnaround investor Jon Moulton has described the Covid-19 environment as the biggest disruption he has seen in his 40-year business career. Mr Moulton, who liv...
New research released from venture capital fund MMC Ventures, shows that while 2...
Cardiff based fintech company Yoello has joined forces with non-profit organisation FOR Cardiff to launch a campaig...
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) is continuing to expand its team with the appointment of Laura Sisson as investment manager. ...
Intertrust, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions to clients operating and investing in the international business en...
A Liverpool-based chemical technology company that is helping in the fight against dementia, cancer and respiratory illnesses has secured £2.25m in a funding round led by the VC firms ...
QVentures is to lead the funding round in Glean.ly, a scalable repository for user experience research and insights. ...
TransFICC, the specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has closed its...
The proportion of UK small businesses predicting growth has plummeted from 39% to just 14% in the last three months - with 31% of business owners scaling back their businesses and 30% saying they w...
Lifebit Biotech, a leading innovator in bioinformatics and cognitive software solutions, has closed its Series A funding round of US$7.5M (£6 million) led by...
A Newcastle-based company which provide the UK’s fastest-growing text donation service has secured a second round of investment funding worth £350,000. Tech-for-good firm ...
Expa, a company founded by serial entrepreneur and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp to help entrepreneurs create and launch new companies, has hired ...
UK deal making has plunged to the lowest monthly total in almost 35 years according to research from Refinitiv. Deal value invol...
Social impact investor Nesta Impact Investments (NII), part of Nesta, and London-based investment manager, ...
Bot-Hive, a digital marketplace for robotics and AI solutions has successfully completed a six-figure equity funding round. Bot-Hive is...
The world's leading online Karaoke channel, Sing King, has raised £550,000 via...
Kluster has received a $1m investment from VCs Newable and SuperSeed, alongside ...
Figures from Plexal and Beauhurst released today show there was £663 million of investment in UK companies over the lockdown period between March 23 and ...
Stress in the financial markets is prompting a growing number of people to make extreme investment decisions that could ultimately hit their wealth, warns Nigel Green, CEO of deVere ...
The British Business Bank has allocated an additional £23.7m to Maven...
Leeds-based investment non-profit NorthInvest supported three investment rounds in the first quarter of 2020. The investment facilita...
Littledata, a SaaS company that connects and automates ecommerce analytics for its customers, has received investment from a member of ...
Innovative law firm Muve has completed a £1.1 million equity funding round to finance its further aggressiv...
Skills for leadership are natural, learned and require continual refinement. New skills are forged in times of crisis. Conversely leadership as a position starts at a point in time, often when some...
Manchester-based sustainable and ethical marketplace, Know the Origin has received a £300,000 investment from GC Angels...
Silver Cloud Investments has been launched by founder and CEO Joe Stelzer, formerly managing partner at the UK’s leading sell-side M&A house Cavendish Corporate Finance. Silver Cl...
LGB Corporate Finance has advised Whalar Ltd, a multinational advertising and media business, on the establis...
Brikk, a modern ‘3.0’ estate agency platform that serves its customers online, has received investment from three ...
The British Business Bank has announced that it has approved four new lenders for accreditation ...
Acceleris Capital portfolio company Reacta Biotech has completed its largest funding round to date, involving...
LGB Corporate Finance has arranged a £20 million Medium Term Note (MTN) programme for Simply Asset Finance, a leading privat...
Aberystwyth headquartered Phytoponics has raised £500,000 equity finance to undertake large scale commercial trials of ...
Alastair Bathgate has become the 29th Member of ScaleUp Group, following the announcement that he is stepping down as ...
A new revenue finance company has pledged £20m of funding for online business by the end of 2020. The revolutionary venture funding firm, ...
Prime Advantage Capital Partners has completed a successful fundraise for Tonic Nutrition, a vitamin drink that’s making headlines. ...
Acceleris client, Vertical Future has completed an additional £1.1 million of equity investment from ...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has announced the completion of the ...
585 businesses across Wales have been awarded funding totalling £36 million by the Development Bank of Wales since the Covid-19 Wales Business Loa...
Peak, the pioneer of the enterprise AI System, has completed a $12 million extended series A funding round led by existing investors ...
Ingenious' Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service has led a $4m A-series investment round in Shoreline. ...
Rooted MilQ, a Reading based food and beverage company that is developing plant protein-based milk from quinoa and tarwi, has received investment from a member of ...
One Utility Bill – which simplifies utility billing for tenants, landlords and letting agents - has raised £1.7m to further develop its platform...
Foresight Group has successfully exited its investment in Clubhouse Golf, the UK’s largest independ...
British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a new commitment under its £100m Regional Angels P...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent commerc...
Shepherd, specialists in property performance management via data analytical and remote monitoring solutions, has secured follow-on funding. ...
New research from global communications agency ...
Maven Capital Partners has completed a £2.5m investment in Precursive, a software as a service (SaaS) com...
IW Capital has announced the completion of a £2 million investment in GPDQ, providing a welcome boost to healthcar...
According to new research conducted this month from proSapient, a machine learning executive research platform, over half (57%) of UK start-ups said they only h...
Leading distributed solutions specialist Applied Blockchain has completed a £2 million funding round lead by Hong Kong based venture capital fir...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a new £15m commitment to ...
QVentures has announced that it will lead the funding round for articulate.xyz, a digital app-based service for thos...
79 SME property developers have benefitted from investments totalling £100 million for 112 property development projects according to the latest figures published by the ...
The Covid-19 Wales Business Loan Scheme is fully subscribed after more than 1,500 applications were received in just over one week. ...
GrowthDeck has completed a £650,000 fundraise for Teacher Booker, the online network of high-quality supply ...
Albion Capital has refinanced Albion Community Power, the £105 million renewable ener...
YFM Equity Partners has appointed David Wrench as an investment director as it continues to expand its investment team. David is joi...
Funding Circle, the small business loans platform, has today been approved for accreditation by the ...
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Green Angel Syndicate has invested alongside Triple Point Impact EIS Fund and ...
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Yes, that is an impossible question to answer on many levels. All any of us can think about is ‘when this is over..’ ‘once I can get back to normal…’ &lsq...
UK-founded marketing technology company ContentCal has secured a £2.5 million investment from early and growth stage investor ...
Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have made a £540,000 investment from Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into ...
Zeigo, an innovative energy tech platform which connects corporate energy buyers with renewable energy generators and suppliers, has closed a £800,000 Se...
Blackfinch has invested c.£630,000 in Glasgow-based company Candidate.ID, founded in 2015. Candidate.ID o...
Maven Capital Partners and Guinness Asset Management...
Great Point, the UK’s leading independent media investment firm, has invested in ...
Countingup, the number one banking and accounting app in the UK, has launched a free ...
The British Business Bank has announced that it has approved four new lenders for accreditation under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Lo...
Igloo Vision, the Shropshire-based immersive technology company, has raised an additional £...
Leading US universities including Harvard and Arizona State University have engaged British tech start-up StageClip to f...
Experts from the University of Birmingham's Medical & Dental School, Health Technologies Institute, and ...
Cohesity has completed a $250 million Series E funding, led by DFJ Growth, ...
Innovate UK has launched a £20m competition looking for business-led innovation in response to global disruption, closing...
Almost a third of businesses in the Midlands and the North of England are at high risk of collapse due to COVID-19 impacting on their supply chain, according to a recent report from ...
James Murdoch takes a considered look back over his portfolio performance from the last year and shares his observations on the ups and downs of equity crowdfunding. ...
Jenson Funding Partners has completed an investment in Survey54, a business SaaS platform for consumer surveys i...
Jenson Funding Partners has made investment in Not In The Guidebooks, providing local, authentic, ...
Maven Capital Partners has led an investment in Nano Interac...
Capital on Tap has revealed the world’s most sustainable corporations and startups, analysing where they ar...
Dr Maria Rana, expert in economics and finance at the University of Salford Business School, looks at how the UK economy is coping so far und...
The Craftory is the first UK-based investment company, investing exclusively in purpose-led consumer goods, to achieve B...
Blossom Capital, the record-breaking VC led by investor Ophelia Brown, has launched Cultivate, an angel investment program that will bring together Europe&...
YFM Equity Partners has closed its Buyout Fund II, ahead of target, with £80 million of committed funds and a wave of new high net worth and entrepreneurial i...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s 3 April announcement that financial support for the vital mid-tier sector is now available for businesses with up to £500m turnover should be welcomed. This is ...
Demand for stocks and gold has topped the numbers of the 2008 financial crisis by as much as 335%, as can be seen on a new ...
Launched on 23 March, the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) has now been significantly expanded along with changes to the scheme’s features and eligibility criteria. ...
Data streaming platform Ably has raised $7m in Series A funding, led by MMC Ventures, with ...
Board evaluation and board development specialists Better Boards has secured a £250,000 equity investment from the Development Bank of Wales and £125,000 from a panel of four angel...
Foresight Group has made a £800,000 growth capital investment into Substantive Research Limited, a ...
Kickstart, one of Europe's largest innovation platforms, is welcoming applications for the fifth iteration of its annual B2B scale-up pr...
Tony Fish gives his perspective on the leadership skills needed in a senior team to create and map the direction ahead. ...
The Prince’s Trust and NatWest have announced the launch of a £5million fund...
Gerard Grech, Chief Executive, Tech Nation Latest tech sector response to ...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has announced COVID-19 Response & Community Support initiatives that stem...
InvestSuite has raised a seed extension round led by PMV with participation from existing and new business angels, management and employees. This €2 ...
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Brookfield Asset Management, through its Strategic Real Estate Partners III Fund, has acquired a 50% stake in Harw...
Mergermarket has released its Global M&A roundup for the first quarter (Q1) of 2020, including its financial ad...
The North East Business and Innovation Centre (BIC) has launched the region’s first social enterprise incubator – designed to nurture entrepreneu...
Blackfinch Group's Blackfinch Spring VCT has raised over £3.3 million to invest in a portfolio of technology and technology-enabled companies, since...
Smart Separations, a leading specialist in innovative microfiltration (MF) technology, has signed up to the national SPRINT business support programme. ...
The EIS Association is collecting evidence to replay to the Government to show them the affect current situation is having on small businesses who are s...
Big Society Capital and Guy’s and St Thomas’s Charity have partnered t...
A syndicate of investors including Banque des Territoires, ...
Gilde Healthcare has closed its $450 million venture and growth capital fund Gilde Healthcare V. The new fund, which was oversubscribed, targets grow...
With vast swathes of the world in lockdown, the one question on everyone’s minds is how long will it take to develop a vaccine against COVID-19? The Association of Investment Companies (...
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Symvan investee, UnderPinned...
Yorkshire based SME funding specialist One Stop Business Finance has expanded its client servicing team with the appointment of Carey Scargill as Business Develo...
Kernel Capital through the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Funds II and Infinity Capital have led a €1.2m investment in ...
Air Doctor, a technology platform providing a global medical outpatient network that connects travelers with local doctors, has raised a Series A funding round of ...
Iconic British ceramics brand Emma Bridgewater has secured an £8m investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland...
QVentures has launched a petition to the UK government to increase tax reliefs for the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Sche...
Added Value Solutions (AVS) Ltd, a world-leading designer and developer of bespoke equipment for large science and research infrastructure, has signed up to the ...
Marion Surgical, which works with surgeons from around the globe to build a next generation suite of surgic...
A new medical device supplier which aims to offer UK hospitals the latest innovations from around the world has secured a £650,000 investment from ...
James Murdoch looks whether Convertibles benefit the founders or the investors in Equity Crowdfunding. ...
The Link App - software designed to facilitate communication between law firms and their clients - has received significant investment from ...
Jenson Funding Partners have completed an investment in LogistCompare a marketplace platform for wareho...
Lanistar, a new banking alternative fintech company, has launched...
VoxSmart, the global leader in communications surveillance technology for Financial Markets, has completed a strategic funding round of £5.5m ($7.2m) f...
Advice on fundraising during the CoronaVirus pandemic from TechNation. With a global pandemic underway, and economies still reeling, we understand ...
Foresight Group LLP and Belltown Power Limited have formed a joint venture to develop Belltown’s pipeline of gr...
Jenson Funding Partners has completed an investment in ZEUS a property valuation app which allows property own...
Symvan Capital's Kealan Doyle predicts that will almost certainly be a further downward stage, probably centered in the United Sta...
Andrew Aldridge from Deepbridge Capital urges investors not to loose their nerve and why is important for us to carry on investing. ...
Funding London – the Mayor of London's investment vehicle – is being supported by several iconic mentors. Entrepreneurs and investors ...
New data reveals that 33 per cent of UK businesses say they lack the technology infrastructure to manage long-term remote working during the Covid-19 crisis. ...
In December 2019 Backfinch invested c.£500,000 in London-based company Auro. Founded in 2016, Auro offers a fitness app t...
AstronauTx Ltd, a biotech company developing new medicines designed to restore the normal behaviour of astrocytes for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases...
Global financial markets will use China’s recovery as a sentiment tracker, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and services organizations....
Notify Technology – the Newcastle-based health and safety software business – has completed a £370,000 investment r...
Following the announcement of its dividend heroes last week, the ...
During 2019, Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd) made new investments and commitments amounting to €133m. Tesi gave commitments totalli...
Announced by the Chancellor at Budget 2020, the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) is open for applications and can provide facilities of up to £5m ...
The Turnaround Management Association UK has appointed BTG Advisory partner Paul Davies as president of the as...
Lord Howard Leigh of Hurley, Senior Partner at Cavendish Corporate Finance & Deputy Executive Chairman at finnCap Group plc, has told the House of Lords...
Just under half of firms in the UK (46%) and US (45%) predict their country will go into recession in 2020, according to research by trade finance provider ...
LawBite, the UK's leading legal-tech platform, looks at some of the ways in which SMEs can help themselves to weather the current storm. ...
Oddbox, the London company behind the UK's first sustainable fruit and vegetable box delivery service, is planning to expand nationwide after securing a &pou...
YFM Equity Partners-advised funds have sold their shareholding in GroupBC to Bentl...
Beauhurst takes a closer at the high-growth companies operating in Northern Ireland in its latest report, 'Mapping out the most ambitious businesses ...
Through its two funds, the London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF) and the Greater London Investment Fund (GLIF),...
Glasgow-based Visual Management Systems (VMS), a leading provider of bespoke Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) solutions, is work...
In conjunction with its recent annual Tech Nation report, Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has announced the high-growth s...
BVA BDRC has published its latest quarterly SME Finance Monitor report. The largest and most frequent study of its kind in the UK, research findings have been ...
Peter Jones CBE, known for his role on Dragon’s Den, and BGF have joined forces to support two high-growth tech b...
RLC Ventures has made an investment has led a £500k seed round in Labworks. Labworks are Europe's leading vo...
Glasgow-based Swipii has secured funding of £1 million into its cashback ap...
The latest AngelNews wine column from Caspar Bowes of Bowes Wine...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has released its annual Tech Nati...
Growth Capital Ventures, a growing North East financial technology company has hit a series of milestones as it celebrates i...
Watersport and sailing enthusiasts will be setting sail from Lydstep when the Pembrokeshire Performance Sailing Academy opens a second centre this Easter. ...
DSW Angels, the business angel network, is celebrating a milestone after receiving its 1,000th application for funding within two years of its launch. ...
YFM has completed a significant investment in West Midlands-based Innovative...
Crowdcube, the leading equity crowdfunding platform, is partnering with Episode 1, backers of Zoopla, Shazam, carwow...
The national SPRINT business support programme has formed a strategic partnership with Knowledge Transfer Network's Geosp...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has published the latest list of its 21 dividend heroes, the investment companies which have consistently incre...
A Manchester-based technology business that has created a platform for people to confidentially and safely report workplace harassment has secured a £1...
Assetz Capital has become the ...
Despite the strides that have been made towards workplace equality in recent years, women in businesses are still feeling largely under-represented and underpaid. Re...
Skyports, the urban air mobility infrastructure provider and drone delivery operator, has extended its Series A funding to now total £6 million ($8 m...
LSP, the leading life sciences investor in Europe, has held its final close of LSP 6 at the $600 million hard cap. This is the largest fund ever raised in Europ...
The latest IT & Business Services M&A market report from Hampleton Partners, the international technology mergers and acquisitions advisor, outl...
AI insurance pricing solution Akur8 has raised €8m in its Series A round from BlackFin Capital Partners and ...
EBAN, the trade association representing business angels, seed funds and early stage market playe...
Last year, Beauhurst published its Female Entrepreneurs report on the state of gender d...
Green Angel Syndicate has invested in The Scottish Bee Company, which is leadin...
Space Talos, a specialist in space radiation technology, has signed up to the national SPRINT business support programme to...
VC firm Boundary Capital has launched a new Impact investment fund for private investors called the Impact Life Fund. The fund’s purpose is to &...
Speaking at Leyton UK event, techUK Director of Policy, ...
John Glencross said: “There is a lot in this budget that is positive for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The big change is in entrepreneurs’ relief, which enables business owne...
Moray Wright, CEO, Parkwalk Advisors "Today’s sur...
As the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak begins to directly impact more businesses, NatWest has outlined the initial support it will pr...
The UK Creative Content EIS Fund has invested in Raindog F...
QVentures has invested in start-up Kitche, a free app to reduce food waste and save money. With food waste receiving...
Instanda, the leading customer and policy management platform for the insurance industry, has completed a $19.5m Series A fundraising round, the company has anno...
Sure Ventures plc, a London listed venture capital fund that invests in early stage software companies acro...
The Development Bank of Wales has now worked with over 900 women involved in the ownership of companies in Wales. This includes female-fou...
Property technology company Goodlord, which provides software and services to ...
Imperial College London has launched its first Innovation Fund to invest in early-stage, high-growth, knowledge-intensive companies spun out of the world t...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has purchased a significant minority stake in Focus Group, a lead...
YFM Equity Partners has appointed Roux Brits as Portfolio Director. Based in the London office, Roux will focus on actively managing YFM’s Growth and Buy...
Intertrust has appointed Frank Hattann as Global Head of Sales. Frank, who will report to Intertrust’s Chief Com...
246 angel investors shared a major payday this year with the €363 million sale of Irish chip-maker Decawave to US Apple supplier Qorvo. Founded ...
Ethical travel gear brand Tropicfeel has surpassed expectations by raising £1 million through crowdfunding platform ...
Loughborough-based Previsico has signed up to the national SPRINT business support programme to work with the ...
Just Play Golf has received a £50,000 micro loan from the Development Bank of Wales to help buy...
London-based TechApp Consultants (TAC), a specialist in bespoke antenna solutions, has signed up to the national ...
Enhancing diversity and inclusion is a top priority for over a quarter (28%) of business leaders, as companies seek to improve workplace culture in a competitive hiring market. ...
Inotec AMD, a Cambridge based, fast-growing medtech business that has developed a novel device capable of healing complex chronic wounds, has secured ...
Coutts, the Private Banking arm of NatWest, together with BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing ...
The majority of advisers have a very positive view of the importance of ESG in portfolio construction, according to a new study[1] among financial ad...
Scotland’s leading female-founded, organic and sustainable whisky distillery, Nc’nean, has successfully raised more than £1.7m in a new fundin...
Symvan Capital's Kealan Doyle explains why EIS investments should generate ‘alpha&rs...
Analysis of global startup hubs by ...
Marco Art Ltd, one of the first wide-format print centres in the UK, has secured £3.3 million in working capital from ...
BVA BDRC has published the fourth Women in Business report, based on data from the SME Finance Monitor. This report, covering the period up to and in...
BGF has exited its minority stake in Vysiion Group, a communications infrastructure and outsourced IT service provider....
Octopus Ventures, part of Octopus Group and one of the largest VCs in Europe, has exited its investment in FilmTec...
Following his landslide election victory in December, Boris Johnson announced plans for significant government spending in regions around the UK including the North, the Midlands and Wales. The pla...
Guernsey Finance, the promotional agency for the island’s finance industry internationally, has appointed Rupert Pleasant as its new Chief Executi...
Livingbridge, a leading mid-market private equity investor, has announced four new appointments to its investment team as well as a new Head of Marketing...
In his latest article for AngelNews, James Murdoch discusses reasonable investor expectations of equity crowdfunding platforms responsibility for disclosure and managing investments. ...
Following a successful 2019 and a strong start to 2020, Finstock Capital has now deployed over £12m into early stage businesses, supporting the ...
Whitham Group, an assembler and supplier of waste recycling systems, has completed an MBO which has enabled investors introduced by ...
Montane, the UK outdoor clothing and accessories company founded over 25 years ago, has received investment from Edinburgh-based specialist consumer brand i...
QVentures has made an investment in SaaS start-up Smartia, which provides artificial intelligence solutions to i...
Insurance platform Collective Benefits has closed a £3.3 million seed round led by U.K.-based Stride.VC, alon...
HISBE Food CIC, a social enterprise and sustainable supermarket, has now raised its full target of £450,000 ...
The o2h Therapeutics and AI Fund, has invested in Neurofenix, an innovative digital health company empowering stroke s...
Aventus, the London-based B2B insurtech business and insurance operating system originally created for the MGA Homelyfe, has closed a £2.6m inve...
The Accelerator Network, in partnership with ...
The o2h Therapeutics and AI Fund, an early stage S/EIS fund investing in biotechnology therapeutics and related AI opportunities, has invested in ...
UK companies raised a record amount of venture capital in 2019 – the highest in Europe – according to research by Refinitiv. ...
The British Business Bank’s 2020 Small Business Finance Markets report highlights significant long-term growth in alternative f...
Manchester-based entertainment brand Vistavenus, has received its first angel investment of £200,000 from renowned businessman David Walter, giving Vista...
Speedinvest, a European venture capital fund with offices in London, Berlin, Vienna, Munich and San Francisco, has raised €190 million for its third fl...
AND Digital has secured an £11m equity investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland&rs...
Foresight Group has made the first investment from its East of England Fund, supporting the Buy-in Management Buyout of ...
In February 2020 Henley Business Angels hit the landmark of over £1 million invested by its members and guests. Since first being ...
The o2h Therapeutics and AI Fund, an early stage S/EIS fund investing in biotechnology therapeutics and related AI opportunities, has made an investment in ...
Award winnning Active Needle Technology is seeking £150,000 for market entry. For more information about this investment opportunity, please...
The exit plan needs to be part of the decision whether to invest. That’s the advice for business angels looking to invest in start-up and early stage businesses. New research identifi...
Capgemini and ISAI, through their joint investment fund ISAI Cap Venture, have made their first minority investment in ...
Montis Biosciences announced its launch with €8.4 million in seed financing from an international investor syndicate to investigate interactions be...
BGF has successfully exited its investment in fast-growth web hosting company, ...
Fox Robotics seeks £400,000 to fund the commercial development of its innovative Autonomous Mobile Robots. For more information about this investment opportunity, please register via ...
PetMedix has been voted best start-up in the global Animal Pharm Awards. The UK-bas...
From 2020 to 2022 almost 2 million new units of industrial robots are expected to be installed in factories around the world. New technology trends and market developments enable companies to react...
Last week, Beauhurst launched ...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), which is delivered by British Business Bank has invested...
Appointments follow investment by pan-European private equity fund manager, capital D. ...
Process Vision, a leading business in preventing pipeline contamination and pipeline failures in the oil and gas industries, has received investment fro...
At the 93rd International Selection Panel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the international jury of the non-governmental o...
Inotec AMD, a fast-growing medtech business that has developed an innovative device to heal and treat complex chronic wounds, has secured £7m in...
It’s no secret that the world’s oceans are rapidly becoming unrecognizable as the impact from human activity strips them of marine life....
British Patient Capital, a subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has...
The Supply Register which is based in Stoke-on-Trent has secured a significant inv...
Triple Point Investment Management has announced a £10m facility into WeFlex...
Newly formed Manchester based property developer Northern Property Consortium (NPC) has embarked on its maiden project after agreeing a key short term finance deal ...
Leading marine and automotive insurtech Concirrus has announced that it has closed a $20 million Series B funding round led by ...
The Development Bank of Wales has invested £200,000 to support the leasehold purchase and refurbishment of the ...
Online sales are driving rapid growth at a Bristol-based father and son beachwear business. ...
Inc & Co Group has acquired the operations of Laundrapp, the U.K.’s largest on-demand laundry service. Laundrapp p...
New research by SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk analyses how neobanks are on the rise and why they’re so popular amongst consumers compared to...
Livingbridge investee company Brainlabs has made two investments – in online marketing agency ...
Electric vehicle charge-point maker, Pod Point, which raised funds three times on ...
Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious tech entrepreneurs, has revealed the 10 early-stage scaleup winners of its nationwide competition, Rising Stars. ...
Silverfleet Capital, the European private equity firm, has acquired a majority stake in Collectia A/S, a credit management services provider based in Denmark. The terms of the transaction were not ...
Crowdcube, Europe’s leading crowdfunding platform, has achieved its eighth record-breaking quarter in a row, as revenue for 2019 surpasses the £8m...
John Auckland, founder of TribeFirst, shares his predictions for alternative finance in the 2020s. The radical increase in alternative finance options has sent shockwaves through the tradit...
Praetura Ventures, the Manchester-based investor that backs early-stage businesses in high-value sectors, has successfully closed its second EIS fund...
The Development Bank of Wales has appointed Rhys Jones as a non-executive director. Rhys, 36, is a co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of SportPursu...
Leicestershire-based European Thermodynamics, an SME developer and supplier of thermal management components to the electronics, medical, telec...
The latest Fintech M&A market report from Hampleton Partners, the international technology mergers and acquisitions advisor, reveals that 2019 shift...
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Beauhurst has published The Deal - a review of publicly-announced equity fundraisings in 2019. The report shows a record breaking £12 bil...
Unmind, the workplace mental health platform, today announced it has raised 10 million dollars in a Series A funding round. Led by B...
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund has in...
The winners of the ‘Welsh Innovation of the Year Award’ at the Welsh SME Business Awards 2019, Forth, are set to turnover £1million ...
Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world's most innovative companies and their investors, today released the 11th edition of its ...
The Angel CoFund (ACF) has made two appointments to the team and board. Experienced investor an...
The Development Bank of Wales has invested £250,000 in Yimba, a f...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyo...
European proptech VC A/O PropTech has launched after raising €250m permanent capital to invest in technology companies disru...
Start-ups are twice as likely to succeed if mentoring is involved, as opposed to those who try and build their venture on a good idea and funding alone*. It is why ...
Yorkshire-based SME funding specialist One Stop Business Finance has completed a major investment programme at its HQ to increase office space and facilitate its...
Foresight has made a £500,000 growth capital investment into Novel Technologies Holding Limited, developers of anti...
The top 50 fastest growing private equity-backed businesses in the Midlands have a significant impact on the region’s economy, growing revenues by almost £1 billion sin...
Collision Management Systems (CMS), the connected vehicle data specialist, working with insurers, fleets and remote worker organisations to reduce employee risk, h...
Latest update from Beauhurst January has been a record breaking month in terms of megadeals, with six equity fundraisings worth over £50m se...
Squire Patton Boggs has expanded its Global Corporate Practice in London, adding significantly to its international private equity (PE) team, with...
Angel CoFund-backed LivingLens, the video feedback platform, to humanize feedback and bring the voice of the cu...
Par Equity, the leading Scottish EIS Fund Manager, has appointed two new team members. Tom Croy joins as Investment Manager and Alastair Orr Ewing as Portf...
Schroders, along with Johan H. Andresen through his investment h...
Ingenious has invested in TeraView, the pioneer and leader in terahertz technology and solutions, as part ...
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Equity Gap, the Edinburgh based business angel syndicate, reports its 2019 performance, which saw the firm deliver 23 funding rounds, add ...
NURVV, the biomechanics innovator using British science to disrupt the global wearables industry, has closed its first venture funding round, led by ...
Family run plant nursery will use the funding to accelerate growth plans, diversify its customer base and take advantage of new market opp...
BLEND Network, the leading property investment platform specialising in funding low-cost, accessible housing developments has announced the completion of the...
One of the world’s fastest-growing marketplaces, which has created a fair and transparent global platform for both buyers and sellers, has received £3 million in VC funding after finali...
Westcott-based start-up company, Protolaunch has signed up to the UK SPRINT programme to support the developmen...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a commitment of £50m to ...
Convelio, leading digital freight forwarder specialized in fi...
Newport-based early years education technology specialists Kinderly has secured a £300,000 investment to help give children a great start in life, regard...
Dixa, the Copenhagen and London-based startup that offers a customer service platform delivering the best customer and agent experiences, has closed ...
Direct to Consumer brand Wild Cosmetics has raised £500K of seed capital from Angel investors to disrupt sustainability in the bathroom with the imminent la...
Blackfinch has led a funding round of over £1m in Edozo which closed in December 2019. Founded in 20...
Foresight Group has made a further £1.1 million growth capital investment into portfolio company Tudor Group Limited...
Rimilia, the leading SaaS-based fintech company, today announced it has secured $15 million in growth funding. This funding round includes participation from e...
Healthcare investment vehicle Impel Healthcare Catalyst has made an additional seven figure investment into its portfolio business ...
A new salary study, exploring C-suite compensation in high-growth tech ventures, has found that the East of England is the highest paid UK region. The report, published by...
A new University of Liverpool spin out company, CageCapture, has secured £300k funding from ...
Symvan Capital has completed the first tranche of an up to £1 million investment in Custodiex...
Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious tech entrepreneurs, today reveals the 30 companies joining its prestigious Upscale programme...
Oak Intranet has raised £2.1 million additional seed funding round led by existing investors Maven Capital Partners. ...
An innovative funding arrangement is helping to accelerate the growth of an award-winning housebuilder and fast-track property ventures across the North of England. ...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and an initi...
Angel Investment Network (AIN), the UK’s largest online angel investment platform, has revealed its latest ‘State...
Since being appointed by the British Business Bank in 2017, to manage two debt funds on behalf of the ...
Foresight Group has made a £500,000 growth capital investment into Selazar Limited, a logistics management soft...
Over one quarter (28 per cent) of UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are expecting a revenue bounce in the first three months following the UK’s official departure from the Eu...
Informatics Ventures, which has been supporting technology entrepreneurs since 2008, has announced the cohort ...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) has appointed a new fund manager and made £40 million available to invest in the region’s small business...
Unigestion, the independent specialist asset manager, has launched Unigestion Secondary V, its latest secondary...
BGF-backed Kids Planet has raised new funds to support its next growth phase and has acquired North West...
Brand management platform Frontify has raised a $22.3 million Series B funding round led by the EQT Ventures...
A rapidly growing healthtech start-up on a mission to solve the NHS staffing crisis and bring flexible working to thousands of clinicians has secured £3m in a funding round led by ...
Eleven fast growing businesses have secured £2m of funding from HBAN (Halo Business Angel ...
Thrive, the Belfast-ba...
Half of UK firms (51%) expect geopolitical tensions, such as Brexit, to have a positive effect on their business in 2020, according to new research released today by trade finance provider ...
Barclays has launched of a new cashback scheme for term loans to el...
Blackfinch has invested c.£650,000 in Oxford-based company Cyance, founded in 2007. Cyance hel...
Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have made a £1.5 million investment into enterprise collabora...
proSapient, the Expert Network a...
BGF is to appoint Stephen Welton, founder CEO of BGF, to the new role of Executive Chairman. Stephen has been responsib...
Glasgow based investment syndicate Kelvin Capital has seen a 19% increase in its total investments in 2019, compared to 2...
Foresight Group is supporting the MBO of Signature Private Finance Holdings Limited from private equ...
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Private equity firm WestBridge has promoted Tim Whittard to partner. Whittard joined the firm as Investment Directo...
Placed, a mobile recruitment matchmaking platform fo...
24Haymarket leads £1.1m investment in MWS Technology, a leader in the apprenticeship technology spac...
HBAN recruited more than 100 business angel investors last year – significantly higher than its projected 75 new angels. The organisation is now aiming to ...
Seneca Partners have appointmented Siobhan Pycroft as Investment Executive in their expanding Growth Capital Team as they target new investment of £...
Edinburgh-based bioinformatics company, Fios Genomics, which helps pharmaceutical and biotech companies to analyse the large amounts of data generated du...
Intertrust, a global leader in tech-enabled corporate and fund solutions, has signed a strategic agreement with ...
Oxford Investment Opportunity Network (OION) and Oxford Angel Network (OAN),...
Antler, the global startup generator and early-stage venture capital firm, will today reveal the thirteen companies that were foun...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active SME finance providers, has invested £8.5 million in nine dynamic growth businesses across the ...
In its 20th year, MMC appoints two new partners alongside another four promotions within the team. 2019 was a...
QVentures, manager of 29PP Pre-Seed Fund, will be leading the funding round in Ocyan, a cloud operating system for enterpris...
Free Spirit Fund managed by Sanford DeLand Asset Management (SDL), home ...
Philanthropic food and drink start-up accelerator, The Seed Fund will open for entry on Saturday 1 February, with 12 spots up for grabs on its game changi...
Elder, a leading care home alternative, has raised another £8.2m funding round as its technology-enabled live-in care service gains nationw...
FeedStock, an AI-driven SaaS business that leverages the latest natural language processing technologies to enable financial services companies to meet both the...
Coniq has secured £6.4 million of growth equity to meet the growing demand for its award-...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, closed its 2019/2020 VCT top up offers earlier than scheduled after existing and new shar...
Par Equity had a record-breaking final three months in 2019, securing one exit, battery technology expert ...
Simon Blakey gives us the benefit of his 20 years experience as an Angel Investor. 1st January 2000:...
Withers tech, working with experienced VC legal teams in France, Germany and Switzerland, has carried out the first analysis of how...
Dataseat – a London-based tech startup, helping mobile app advertisers to manage programmatic media buying ...
Ingenious's Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service has led a £2.3m A-series investment round in 3D Repo, the p...
Funds advised by YFM Equity Partners have backed a £5.6m investment into Unbiased EC1 Limited to support the continu...
NatWest has launched a new partnership with Soldo, a pre-paid company card provider for small bu...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performan...
The membership of the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has elected Gay Collins (pictured) and Francesca Ecsery to the board of the ...
James Murdoch considers whether Accelerator/Incubator Funds are a good option for crowdfunding investors. &...
Dazzle, the automated conversation platform, has closed its first seed funding round raising £2.3m from global corporates, government accelerators and individuals including Telefonica and Fin...
BookingLive has secured £1.31 million in new investment from Blackfinch Ventures and ...
Photek, a Sussex-based specialist manufacturer and global supplier of vacuum-based tubes and camera systems for photon detection, has signed up to the national ...
Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund has i...
Clean energy solutions provider, Logan Energy, has secured £1 million investment from Kelvin Capital...
Work on the third phase of Glan yr Afon Industrial Estate in Aberystwyth has begun with confirmation of a commercial property loan for developers Ellis Development Company (Wales) Ltd by the ...
Leading Global Tech Executive Duncan Tait FRSA is adding his remarkable global experience and connectio...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has appointed Roy Mani as a partner. Roy has over 20 years’ e...
BGF has invested in The Chemistry Group (TCG), the London-based disruptive HR consultancy. ...
Kuber Ventures is holding its next Manager Showcase event on 6th February 2020 in London. Now in its fourth year the Kuber’s CPD qualifying ...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has provided ...
Investment manager Downing LLP has sold Nightjar Sustainable Power Limited and Guillemot Green Energy Limited, the final exits by its EIS funds from a serie...
You & Mr Jones, the brandtech group founded by former Havas chief executive David Jones, has invested in ethical v...
Foresight Group has invested £3.9 million investment into disruptive subsea surveying company Rovco Ltd....
YFM Equity Partners has appointed Aaron Lowery as Investment Manager. Based in the Leeds office, Aaron will focus on supporting YFM’s new investment acti...
Great Point Media, the London-based media and investment group, has appointed Jamie Lowe as Head of Institutional Distribution. Lowe will oversee the s...
More than five new tech startups launched every hour in 2019, contributing to a record 681,704 new business formations over the year – a 2.8% increase from 2018. These are some of the finding...
Two-thirds (66%) of alternative investment professionals have a good understanding of the benefits of fund finance but cite negative perceptions among LPs as the biggest challenge to its wider adop...
Foresight Group has sold Flowrite Refrigeration Holdings Limited to ...
Funds advised by YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity fund manager, have banked a healthy return multiple of 2.25x within two years of their initial i...
Mixergy, the award-winning Oxford University cleantech spin-out company, has raised £3.6m in Series A financing to fuel its next stage of growth in de...
Abris Capital Partners, the leading private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe, has announced the promotion of Paulina Pietkiewicz (pictured),...
Just under half of firms in the UK (46%) and US (45%) predict their country will go into recession in 2020, while the Chinese economy is expected to maintain a solid 6-7% growth rate, according to ...
Cowboy, the designdriven electric bike company, has hit an impressive £3.7 million with four days of its crowdfunding still t...
GP Bullhound, a leading technology advisory and investment firm, has acted as financial exclusive advisor to EcoVadis...
Livingbridge is re-investing as a minority shareholder in Sykes Holiday Cottages, the UK’s leading in...
Ori Biotech Ltd, an innovator in Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) manufacturing, has successfully closed a $9.4M (£7M) seed round which will be used to bring ...
Calculus Capital has sold their investment in London-based marketing agency Once Upon a Time (OUAT) in a ...
London Business School (LBS) and QVentures, a leading private network for sophisticated investors, have launched an exclus...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent commercial finance provider, appoints ...
BGF has experienced a year of growth across its Yorkshire and North East portfolio, having invested £275m into 29 businesses to date to support the region&...
Blackfinch has invested c.£500,000 in London-based company ...
Edinburgh-based biotech startup MiAlgae has received an investment of £1 million to focus on the commercialisation of its revolution...
Coffi heads are enjoying a new experience in Cardiff Bay following a refurbishment and extension of Coffi Co’s Mermaid Quay store. ...
Worcestershire’s first-of-its kind technology accelerator is searching for its third cohort. BetaDen is now accepting applications for its 9-month ...
DPL, the London-headquartered data tech start-up that enables clients to automate the application of artificial intelligence and behavioural science insights to impr...
Foresight Group has made a £7.5 million investment into Roxy Leisure Limited, a social entertainment bar group operating sites under the Roxy Ball R...
Livingbridge has announced a raft of promotions, including those of Amy Yateman-Smith and Dave Kirby to Partner. These promotions fu...
Skylight IPV Limited, the experienced independent price verification company, has secured significant investment from ...
BGF has now invested £411m into 50 businesses in the Midlands, with £57m of that total invested in the past 12 months in new investments and follow-o...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank for innovative businesses, enterprises...
BGF’s North West team has now invested £311m across 34 businesses in the region with £59m of that total invested in the past 12 months. ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest research, showing that infrastruct...
With 2020 expected to see major growth in compliance, leading testing, inspection and certification authority, Bureau Veritas, has revealed that a focus...
InMotion, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital and mobility services arm, has invested in blockchain technology firm ...
A Cambridge University programme, originally created to nurture the brilliant minds of academia, is now giving businesses and research organisations a unique opportunity to develop high-potential, ...
New research released by BGF has highlighted for the first time how growth economy companies are responding to Covid-19. Accord...
Direct Online Services, the UK’s largest online retailer of kitchen worktops, has announced a record year of sales and profits, and a &poun...
Scotland’s leading business angel investment group, Archangels, has sold its 25% shareholding in Bellshill-headquartered document outsourcing speci...
A popular hotel in a Pembrokeshire beauty spot has secured a bright new future after being bought by new owner Robert Jones and hotel manager Matthew Pugs...
Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels has recorded another active year of support for the Scottish tech and life sciences sector...
My Bespoke Room, the tech-enabled interior design service, has closed £700K angel investment as it reports 104% annual revenue growth. This brings...
Whirli, the toy sharing subscription service, has raised a £4m Seed funding round led by Octopus ...
British Business Investments (BBI), a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced...
ZeroAvia, the leading innovator in decarbonising commercial aviation, has secured £12.3m ($16.3m) in Government funding through the ATI Programme to de...
YFM Equity Partners has made a £3.75m investment into ARRACO Global Markets, the award-winning and disr...
The latest research from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments. ...
Snowdrop Independent Living has opened a new mobility aid showroom in Cardiff. Taking over Hearing and Mobility’s Cardiff bran...
Blackfinch Group has launched the Blackfinch Spring VCT, an investment portfolio of technology and technology-enabled companies, which have already raised ...
ABAKA, the London-based digital retirement solutions provider, has completed its Series A funding round with a joint investment of $6.5 million from Thames Trust, ...
CurrentBody, the online retail specialist for home-use beauty devices, has now reached £10m in funding with BGF this week joining NVM Private...
During recent meetings with angel friends of mine, I discovered some common ground between them of which I was previously unaware. It seems that many angel investors are also pension fu...
Young British SaaS company Cyclr has announced £0.5million of new investment, led by Juno Capital....
Bamboo Capital Partners, an impact investing platform, has announced that Elec...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has made a profitable exit from Pr...
Birmingham-based Zipabout Limited has secured a £650,000 investment from the ...
NVM Private Equity has invested a further £3 million of growth capital into leading indoor climbing business ...
Sorted, the global delivery experience platform, is toasting a landmark year after the value of goods it has shipped to date reached the £1billion mark. ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has appointed James Marshall to its Manchester investment team, covering the North We...
Octopus Investments, part of Octopus Group, has led a £3.6 million funding round, alongside Calculus Cap...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made its second cornerstone commitment this year through its £500...
NNAISENSE has concluded its Series B financing round, with a number of high-profile industrial partners having invested i...
Great Point Media, the London-based media and investment group and MC Credit Partners LP, the US based institutional...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has appointed Amit Karna as S...
Foresight Group has invested £2.0 million investment as part of a £3.3 million round into award-winning novel thin film ultrasound technolog...
Crowdcube is announcing a record-breaking year for overseas businesses raising funds on Europe’s leading equity crowdfunding platform. Despite Brexit ...
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The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in ...
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund UKI2S), ...
Financial technology, or fintech, is the buzzword on everyone’s lips that has continued to inspire conversation and innovation. But fintech is more than just a buzzwor...
The AIC's December edition of Compass looks at the election result, how the UK is the one ...
THE VAST majority of peer-to-peer lending platform executives feel optimistic about the new rules that came into effect this month and their ability to comply with them, an exclusive ...
Foresight Group, a leading infrastructure and private equity investment manager, continues its growth trajectory in renewable energy infrastructure, bre...
HealthTech startup PinPoint Data Science has successfully raised over £1m as part of an early stage funding round, with support from ...
Kindred, a new platform that digitises word-of-mouth recommendations on social media, has raised £2.25 million in seed c...
Funding from national SPRINT programme provides access to Earth Observation data analysis expertise from University of Leicester ...
Waracle, one of the UK's largest mobile apps and digital products developers, has received a £4.8m investment from BGF, ...
A survey by Intertrust reveals that 69% of CFOs and COOs expect levels of dry powder to increase next year with 31% predicting it will become slightly...
The AIC has published its 2019 sector round-up. Technology & Media was the top-performing investment company sec...
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Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering has made a £1.6 million investment into Oxford University spin-out ...
Ada Ventures has raised a $34m (£27m) fund. At present, 92 in every 100 dollars invested in Europe goes to all male teams (1)...
Kevin Monserrat of Consilience Ventures takes a critical look at the traditonal investment model Do you know venture cap...
Robert Crowter-Jones, Head of Private Equity at Saranac Partners gives his market update and 2020 predictions. This will be my l...
The Invested Investor has released a new book, centred around the challenges entrepreneurs face along the start-up journey. Titled Founder to Founder...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £600,000 investment in military grade security and intelligence platform, ...
The most important question you need to ask yourself when joining a start-up is why. Some people do it because they hate their current jobs. Some people do it because they want to get rich. Oth...
NVM Private Equity has invested £11.6m in supporting the management buy-out of Merseyside-based Knowsley Contractors Limited, trading as ...
The Senior Managers & Certification Regime that has just come into effect is a positive step for the financial services industry – but its failure to include Appointed Representative Firm...
Mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge has appointed Mihir Patel and Joseph Evans as investment managers. Mihir (picture...
Aptus Utilities Limited, one of the UK’s leading providers of multi-utility services, has secured a £12.8m investment private equity fir...
Manchester Investor and SME Advisor, Patrick Molyneux, has been invited on a trade delegation to San Francisco with the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of the City of London (Alderman William Russe...
Governments that invest in businesses, but then have no say on any decisions made by company managers, are much more likely to see their investments be a success, according to new research by ...
Jenny Tooth OBE, CEO of the UK Business Angels Association, provides commentary on this decade of devolution and what is next for SME investment. ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest ...
Israeli agritech startup ...
Aberdeen Standard Investments’ AIPUT fund (Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust) has si...
European Buy & Build activity in the first half of 2019 reach...
Invest Europe has teamed up with the European Investment Fund (EIF), the EU’s leading venture capital (VC) invest...
Tel-Aviv based venture capital firm ...
WSR Medical Solutions Limited (‘Rothband’), a specialist manufacturer and distributor of x-ray protective equipment for use in radiology environm...
DeckSender.com, the startup platform that aims to democratise access to investment has analysed the gender div...
New regulations being introduced by the FCA later this year will restrict individual investors new to the property investment platform sector to investing a ma...
KALEAO has become Bamboo Systems, a provider of transformative ARM server architecture designed to power the next generation of sustainable data centers....
The UK Creative Content EIS Fund, launched this summer by ...
Kuber the pioneering alternative fund investment platform offering access to EIS, SEIS & BR portfolios and funds has appointed James Ramsay as MD a...
Women-led companies have more success with Crowdcube’s crowdfunding platform than with any other method of equity financing. Out of 760 UK start...
Ethical investment platform SeedTribe has relaunched as a new UK-focused impact hub. The ...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has provided Black Country b...
Esme Loans, the SME digital lender backed by NatWest, has achieved £100million of lending to UK SMEs. ...
Sheffield-headquartered Independent Forgings & Alloys, one of the UK’s leading independent aerospace and industrial forgers, has acquired Don...
Hundreds of businesses, entrepreneurs, investors and experts descended on St James' Park, Newcastle last week for Venture...
Mercia Asset Management has announced its intention to acquire the management of the three Northern Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs); Northern Venture Trust PLC, Northern 2 VCT PLC and Northern 3 VCT ...
The prevalence and severity of cyber-attacks/breaches has damningly increased over the last few years. This year alone (2019), 55% of UK firms have alrea...
Charity Bank, the loans and savings bank owned by and committed to serving the social sector, has announced both the successful raise of nearly £5 milli...
NatWest is partnering with Moneypenny, the world’s largest and highest rated outsourced communicat...
Caspar Bowes of Bowes Wine investigates the 2018 vi...
Independent games studio and virtual reality developer XR Games has secured a £1.5m funding round, led by ...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund Debt Finance, managed by ...
Tech Nation, the UK’s leading network for ambitious tech entrepreneurs, has revealed the 33 regional winners of its nationwide competition. Rising Stars r...
Iotic has secured investment of €7.5million to accelerate growth and meet increasing demand for its pioneering digital twin technology. Iotic enables e...
With the general election fast approaching, the UK's major political parties have now launched their manifestos. For the first time, policies around the environment and climate change have been pla...
With all the uncertainty around Brexit, and the General Election, business leaders can be forgiven for wanting to hang up their gloves and taking December off....
MMC Ventures has backed Cloudsmith as the team build for the next stage of software development. Cloudsmith’s Softwar...
ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank, has helped MyKindaFuture, the leading expert in ...
Gresham House Renewable Energy VCT 1 plc and Gresham House Renewable Energy VCT 2 plc have made a new investment of £1.2 million...
Economic Intelligence Wales has published its latest report on medium-sized firms and Welsh busi...
EBAN, th...
Linton Hydro Ltd has successfully raised £3.3 million through the Triodos impact investment cr...
Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world, today announces it has raised £17 million in further inv...
BGF has welcomed the Australian Government’s announcement to establish an Australian Business Growth Fund that will help boost the growth of small and medi...
A new ethical loan fund has been launched to help grow businesses who find accessing finance difficult has been warmly welcomed by the FSB as a way of disrupting the market. The fund, deliv...
MJ Hudson Allenbridge has publishd the inaugural edition of its ...
European venture capital activity saw €5.9 billion invested across 296 rounds during the third quarter of 2019, the strongest quarter on record according to research by ...
Blackfinch has invested in London-based company Movebubble, founded in 2014. Movebubble offers an app that lists prop...
The UK Business Angels Association is hosting its annual Future Forward event to highlight some of the key ...
UK investors are turning to traditional assets as a result of the political uncertainty currently facing the country, new research from ...
Foresight Group's award-winning Foresight Capital Management Team has raised £500 milli...
On 29th November 1994 Kenneth Clarke, the then Chancellor, announced in his Budget “an imaginative set of measures aimed at generating equity inves...
IW Capital has invested £2 million in Impact Recycling Limited. The investment will be used a...
Independently owned corporate finance adviser, Castle Corporate Finance, is a proud sponsor of the Scale-Up category at the Lloyds National Business Awards. Cast...
On doing my 2018/19 tax return I sensed that the number of SEIS investments was lower than previous years and the proportion of EIS had grown. Was this true? Apart from the fact that the SEIS allow...
Financier and author David Horne will launch the first Funding Focus Conference on 25 November at the London Sto...
After only two months since launching, the ‘China-ready’ investment programme for UK and European companies increases by $3 million (£2.330 million), opening up new market segment...
GP Bullhound acted as exclusive financial advisor to Croud on a £30 million minority investment from private equity...
ScaleUp Group has supported exclusively its client Active Navigation, a leader in Data Privacy & Governance...
Co-founders Julien Sevaux and Tarek AbuZayyad have launched Eighteen48 Partners, a research-led private investment office addressing the nee...
Beechbrook Capital, the leading SME private debt fund lender, has appointed Conor Molloy as chairman of its new Irish SME fund which has made its fir...
Following the release of the latest Atomico report looking at The State of European Tech, Russ Shaw, founder of ...
Startup Funding Club has led a £250,000 seed round into fintech company Ember. The accounting software startu...
The Management team of Professional Music Technology has completed a Management Buyout of the business, with financing provided by ...
Celonis, the market leader in AI-enhanced Process Mining and Process ...
ABN AMRO's Digital Impact Fund (DIF) has doubled its assets under management from EUR 50 million to EUR 100 million and will continue its activit...
Capitolis, the innovative FinTech company reimagining and reshaping how the global capital markets operate, has announced the successful completion of its S...
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) has revealed its annual list ...
Social impact investment company Resonance has won the Impact Inv...
Rory Stewart, Nick Jenkins and Henry Blofeld are amongst the top speakers at today's VCT & EIS Investor Forum at the Leonardo Royal Hote...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s leading SME finance providers, has strengthened its portfolio team with the appointment of Simon Robb and Ben Greg...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, has announced the first close of its new asset-backed private equity fund, Albion Real Assets F...
A survey of financial advisers1 on Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) has found that the level of use has been consistent despite concern that rule changes brought in by the government ...
Foresight Group LLP, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has announced the successful sale of ...
World-class leaders from LEGO and Harvard Kennedy School will join over 700 delegates from the Scottish SME commu...
Headstart, the HR tech company using data science to remove bias when hiring, has announced a $7million seed investment round, led by ...
A six-figure investment from the Development Bank of Wales will enable a waffle company to expand its current productio...
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The shortlist for the North East Innovation Awards has been announced. The North East Innovation Awar...
Sixteen coveted trophies covering every aspect of business life have been presented to the winners of the 18th ...
Paul Newsome, Head of Investment Solutions - Private Equity at Unigestion offers his market insights in the secondary market. ...
Calculus Capital has appointed Dominic Harris as Portfolio Management Director. Harris was previously an Investment Director at Valtegra, a private eq...
Snaffling Pig, the UK’s leading pork-based snack business, has received investment from multiple Henley Business Angels members, who contributed ...
The ScaleUp Institute has appointed successful scaleup entrepreneur Adam Hale as its new Chair. He takes over from Sherry Coutu, co-founder...
Envestors has announced that the banking giant Santander has acquired a 50.1% controlling stake in Ebury for £350m. This has provided several member...
EIT InnoEnergy, the world’s largest sustainable energy accelerator, has issued its first ever global ...
Funds advised by YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity fund manager, have backed a £4.5m investment into Sha...
Snowplow Analytics, the company that helps businesses to collect and own their customer data, has closed a £4m fun...
Bioplastics company Teysha Technologies has successfully raised £1.2m of investment, supported by A...
Beauhurst this week launched The Scaleup Index 2019. This report, in partnership with The ScaleUp Institute, examines the 5,456 unique visible scaleup bus...
Foresight Group has made a £749,000 growth capital investment into Promethean Particles Limited...
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UK small and medium-sized businesses are holding record levels of cash as uncertainty surrounding Brexit persists – and it is costing them billions of pounds a year, new analysis reveals....
Shopblocks has raised funding from the Greater Manchester Combined Authori...
CapitalRise, the prime property investment platform, has secured the backing of ...
Foresight Group has made a £3.0 million investment into Biotherapy Services Limited, a biopharmaceut...
Warwickshire-based Oneskee has secured a six-figure investment from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), Equity Financ...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investment, along with ...
Balderton is launching the fund against a backdrop of unprecedented momentum within the European tech ecosystem. The number of Series A rounds in Eu...
Visionable, the healthcare technology company providing a single video collaboration platform that enables clinicia...
Angular Ventures has closed its debut fund at $41M for early-stage deep technology enterprise companies with global expansion plans based in Europe an...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has appointmened Rebecca Osman as investment director and Nick Mann...
Octopus Ventures, part of Octopus Group and one of the largest VCs in Europe, has released a new in-depth study identifying the universities that are...
BGF has invested a further £11m into Molson Group, the UK’s largest independent distributor of capital eq...
Foresight Group, a leading independent private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has appointed Matt McLoughlin to join the Private Equity Tea...
Private equity house WestBridge has further expanded its team with the appointment of Rebecca Sinclair as Investment Executive. ...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and an initi...
Bolt, the leading European on-demand transportation platform, has launched a dedicated environmental impact fund with seed capital of €10 million aimed at init...
US and Israel-based cybersecurity company ...
Swiss startup Optune has successfully closed the first close of its seed rounds with Bexio founder Stefan Brunner and a UK family office, as well as with e...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative businesses and their investors, today announced that it has established a presenc...
The average small and medium-sized business (SME) in the UK estimates that it will spend £160,000 to fill the skills gap in their organisation in the next 12 months, according to recrui...
Immersive Labs, the world’s first fully interactive, on-demand and gamified cyber skil...
Swansea based Medical Connections Limited has successfully completed a management buy-out. The medical imaging so...
Birmingham-based Linear Diagnostics Limited (LDL) has secured £2m of investment from MEIF and othe...
GP Bullhound acted as exclusive financial advisor to Jellyfish on the strategic investment by ...
Flarin Holdings Limited has completed its first round of fund-raising by IW Capital. Flarin Holdings was recently demerg...
Thoughts from Caspar Bowes of Bowes Wine about the ever-expanding universe of grape varieties ...
Santander has bought a majority stake in UK-based Fintech company Ebury for £350m. The bank now holds 50.1 pe...
Foresight Group LLP has opened its fifth regional UK office, located in historic George Street in Edinburgh. ...
PRIVATE equity house WestBridge has further expanded its team with the appointment of Rebecca Sinclair as Investment Exec...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has exited its investment ...
Israeli precision agriculture startup Agritask, which has been operating in bootstrap mode till recently, has completed an $...
Oxford Drug Design Limited (ODD), a biotechnology company with a proprietary computational and machine learning platform...
New research from Nucoro, a B2B fintech providing Wealth Management as a Service Solutions, reveals 57% of wealth managers are hav...
Tracey Davidson has been appointed to the new role of Deputy CEO of Handelsbanken plc, Heartwo...
New data from leading global insights platform, Atheneum, has revealed that only one in four ...
Mafic, an innovative information company based at the Surrey Technology Centre near Guildford, has won a grant from the national ...
A total of £1.28 billion was raised in October through secondary fundraisings by investment companies, marking an all-time record fo...
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Despite a cloudy global economic outlook and rising political uncertainty, the venture ecosystem remains robust, according to Silicon Valley Bank’s latest ...
The Management team of Professional Music Technology has completed a Management Buyout of the business, with financing provided by ...
My first six articles looked at my experience of investing in individual companies; one of the conclusions I had come to was that, at least for the passive investor, the right strategy is to divers...
Cervest, the leader in Earth Science AI, has closed a £3.7m investment round to fund the launch of a revolutionary real-time, climate forecasting platf...
Some 63% of real estate professionals believe the secured property debt market is currently attractive for investors.* The research*, commissioned by secured property lend...
Dow Schofield Watts Angels, the business angel network, has expanded its team with the appointment of Ellie Boardman as Investment Executive. ...
British Business Investments (BBI), a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced...
Life has gone full-circle for technology venture investment specialist Mike Bakewell who has joined the Development Bank of Wales. ...
CorrosionRADAR, a Midlands business that has found a way to detect corrosion and prevent leaks in assets such as pipelines through a network of remote ...
AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital, has appointed Jessica Bartos as an investment manager....
Next month’s flagship innovation conference, VentureFest North East will bring over 800 businesses together to hear from a we...
Midlands Engine Investment Fund Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has provided ...
TotallyMoney has announced new growth funding from Silicon Valley Bank that will provide the credit experts with an ...
Keith Morgan has announced that he will be standing down from the role of Chief Executive of the Government-owned ...
A Cardiff-based business owner has been able to revamp his hair salon and expand chair rental opportunities for other stylists thanks to a micro loan from the ...
va-Q-tec AG, the pioneer in highly efficient vacuum insulation products and solutions in the thermal insulation and TempChain logistics has announced that the ...
NatWest’s asset finance arm, Lombard, has launched a new digital service that allows businesses to receive instant agreement to f...
New research (1) from Nucoro, a B2B fintech providing Wealth Management as a Service solutions, reveals wealth managers...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has exited its investment in 3sun Group L...
SPOKE, the fast-growing direct to consumer menswear brand, has raised £8.5m of new equity cap...
Par Equity, the leading Scottish EIS Fund Manager, has appointed former Olympic skier Andrew Noble as a Partner. A serial angel investor in technolo...
Specialist eCommerce platform Online Poundshop Ltd has secured ...
New investment company Impel Healthcare Catalysts has announced its first deal by acquiring a majority stake in pioneering ostomy company...
Aston Lark has acquired Lloyd's broker Protean Risk, a specialist Lloyd’s insurance broker focusing on the ...
Engineering design consultancy Hydrock has announced its acquisition of Yorkshire-based MRB Consulting Engineers, as the...
GP Bullhound has invested $10 million in RavenPack, a leading provider of alternative data and insights for finan...
KPMG's Q2 Enterprise Venture Pulse report for 2019 has been published and shows European VC de...
An innovative new investment vehicle to provide funds to support UK property deals – commercial and residential – has been launched by one of the UK’s leading private equity firms...
Launched by Britbots earlier in 2019, the British Robotics Scale-Up Fund is soon to close, rai...
Sukhendu Pal has worked with some of the iconic leaders of our generation. In this interview he talks about the unique qualities of these legend...
Matt Weston, Managing Director of Robert Half UK, looks at the latest ONS Families and the Labour Market stati...
Creative England will inject £24million of growth finance into the creative industries. The scale-up finance will be...
Victoria Maby of Envestors looks at the wider effects of Crowdfunding Data from our survey of 200 scale-ups reveals that one of the driv...
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Latest market analysis from the British Business Bank finds that, contrary to widespread misperceptions, UK Venture Capital produces similar re...
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63% of UK venture capital firms have no women at all in senior investment positions, according to a report released in Diversity VC back in July. m...
In a time when we’re struggling to give pay rises or bonuses more employers are investing in employee benefits to encourage retention and loyalty as well as maintaining a...
Cybersecurity company for connected vehicles Upstream Security has announced that a prominent syndicate of investors, including some of the world’s la...
Children are naturally creative, but these entrepreneurs capitalised on their ideas by creating huge businesses from scratch. Comparethemarket.com ha...
Disperse, the leader in AI-powered construction transformation systems, has raised $15 million of...
Foresight Group has made its thirteenth investment from the Foresight Williams Technology EI...
The conversation on private markets is changing among Wealth Managers, according to a recent report by Delio. ...
Healthcare entrepreneurs Richard Anderson and Spencer Kerry have launched Impel Healthcare Catalysts, an investment company designed to be...
SmartWorking startup Abodoo is set to accelerate its UK expansion following a successful crowdfund. The Co. Wexford based business, on a mission to change the ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance re...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £5.3 million funding round in E-Fundamentals, a leading eCommerce insights platform....
Speechmatics, the leader in machine learning and automatic speech recognition, has raised £6.35m in Seri...
Beechbrook Capital has appointed Paul Whitehouse as investment director to head up deal origination and execution activity across the Midlands. With o...
British Patient Capital has established itself as a major player in UK venture and venture growth markets after investing in 12 funds with...
Nu Quantum, a quantum photonics company, has completed a £650,000 pre-seed investment round. The over-subscribed round was led by ...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has announced the final closing of its third digital fund at €350m, having surpasse...
An international non-fiction book club aimed at open minded thinkers has not only reached, but exceeded its £100,000 crowdfunding target as they continue on their journey to grow the existing...
Luminous Group, the Newcastle company which is one of the UK’s leading mixed reality experts, has raised over £400,000 to support the laun...
Process Mining software provider Minit has raised €7 million in a Series A funding round, led by ...
Livingbridge has closed its Livingbridge Enterprise 3 fund with total capital commitments of £334m, an increase of 50% on its predecessor fund, Liv...
Ingenious's Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service has invested in ...
ProFinda has received £1 million of funding from Nesta I...
Unprecedented volumes of data and advances in AI are transforming the marketing services industry, according to a report released today by leading technology advisory and investment firm ...
MIME Technologies, a med-tech spin-out from the University of Aberdeen, has raised a combined £255,00...
The University of Warwick has received one of its largest donations from an individual to establish a new Fintech research centre. The £3 million d...
YFM Equity Partners has backed a £4.5m investment into SharpCloud Software Limited to support the continued growth and...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has appointed Sylviane Guyonnet, COO of Idinvest, and Eric Gallerne, Co-Head of Private Debt Stra...
A wealth of local, national and global experts in innovation will come together in central Newcastle next month with the aim of inspiring over 800 busine...
Triple Point has appointed Jennifer Ockwell as Partner and Head of Institutional Sales. Jennifer’s career spans over 20 years in the ...
Technology company, Sennen, whose software increases the reliability and productivity achieved by renewable energy owners, has secured financial backing from i...
A new Guernsey Green Fund has been launched backing the wind farm sector in the UK and Ireland. Resonanc...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £4 million investment in language understanding business, Relative Insight Ltd...
British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of British Business Bank plc, the UK’s national economic development bank, has publish...
Apadmi Ventures has invested in studentnannies.com, an innovative new childcare platform...
Invest Europe has appointed Eric de Montgolfier as new CEO to lead the world’s largest association of private capital providers and investors. ...
Mogrify Ltd, a UK company aiming to transform the development of life-saving cell therapies, has announced the...
Livingbridge has appointed Andy Harrington, Robyn Smith and Tom Smith as investment managers, alongside two further hires in the business. ...
BGF has successfully exited its investment in landscaping and grounds maintenance company, TCL Group. TCL has been...
Deutsche Handelsbank has welcomed Jens Munk and Dr. Frank Schlaberg as Co-CEOs and plans to accelerate its growth. Jens Munk (52) and Dr. Fran...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has made a £15 million investment in ...
Law firm Ashfords LLP has bolstered its Financial Services team with the hire of Legal Director Cynthia Ma. Cynthia joined the firm’s London off...
Quantum machine learning company Rahko has raised a £1.3m (USD1.6) seed round led by Balderton Capital, Europe’s...
Browne Jacobson’s corporate finance team has advised Impala on its successful $11 million investment round....
Codacy, the Lisbon-based startup whose platform automates and standardizes software quality to...
A report from the Female Founders Forum – with a foreword from Rt Hon Liz Truss MP – reveals that while th...
IW Capital has launched their innovative new EIS Portfolio Service, allowing access to investment into the UK’s wealth of high-growth SMEs through the E...
MJ Hudson has signed for a multi-year sponsorship of Harlequins. The firm is the first official partner of Harlequins Women, which currently c...
Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) and Landsker Business Solutions have been appointed by the Development Bank...
Angel Investment Network (AIN), the world’s largest online angel investment platform, has announced strong growth, with annual revenues...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has appointed Hannah Waters as an investor in its Cardiff office. Hannah join...
When George Jones' son developed terrible eczema as a child, she was unable to find any products that didn't aggravate his condition so she set out to create her own by launching ...
Moorgate Benchmarks, the index company driving change, has closed its Series A funding round, securing a significant investment from ...
BLEND Network, a leading property investment platform specialising in funding low-cost, accessible housing developments outside of London has announced its l...
Par Equity has concluded an £800k investment in Kibosh Ltd, designer of the world’s fastest leaking-...
On the first birthday of the Great Point Ventures (EIS) Fund, we spoke to Da...
Inflexion Private Equity has agreed to acquire Pharmaspectra, a leading global provider of medical affairs data to...
The winners of the 17th annual Investor Allstars Awards were revealed last Thursday, at an award...
Vertical Future, a London-based food technology company, announced the completion of its Seed Round, raising £4m of equity finance, with further ...
Tutorful, a platform that connects students with tutors across the UK has secured a £3.2 million investment from NVM...
Growing East Yorkshire based alternative funding specialist for SMEs, One Stop Business Finance, has strengthened its operations...
Foresight Group LLP has announced a further £749k equity investment into Footfalls and Heartbeat...
The independent Iberian alternative assets manager GED Capital has taken a further step in the development of its multi-product strateg...
There are many reasons why investors might want to avoid Europe. Slowing growth, political crises and the ongoing Brexit uncertainty present several challenges and could make investors think twice ...
An entrepreneur who set out to help save struggling high streets has raised £325,000 to deliver his idea. Chris Reed has secured investment from the ...
Launching the #MeTooPay campaign, more than 100 of the UK’s most successful women seek to end pay discrimination. Fronted by ...
Augusta & Co., a specialist financial adviser to the renewable energy industry, has successfully overseen the sale of the 211.4MW Piiparinmäki onsh...
New data released by the Office for National Statistics shows a continued decline in the number of sole traders and partnerships. Mark Halstead, partner at busines...
The phenomenal increase of scaleups in recent years has seen the UK make great advances in support of high-growth businesses. In light of this, John Duckwor...
DeckSender.com, the startup platform that aims to democratize access to investment, announces it’s 1 ...
Momentum Global Investment Management (MGIM), the specialist investment manager focused on outcomes-b...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by ...
Deepbridge Capital, the tax-efficient investment manager and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) provider, has announced the exit of its holding...
New research from Mactavish, the leading expert on commercial insurance placement and disputes, reveals many private equity firms are not placing enough fo...
The average UK SME faces a skills gap that would impact total revenue by £145,000 in the next year, rising to £318,000 in the next five years, according to new independent research [1]&...
With many fund managers already fundraising and more expected to join them, it has never been more important to understand the market. At this year's&...
The phenomenal increase of scaleups in recent years has seen the UK make great advances in support of high-growth businesses. In light of this, John Duckworth, Managing Director at ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has led the £12 million investment in ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing companies, has appointed Daina Spedding as an investor in its L...
IW Capital - an EIS-specialist Venture Capital firm in London - has unveiled a nationally representative report revealing the sentiments of a popul...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest annual Global Private Equity Performance...
QVentures, manager of 29PP Pre-Seed Fund, has led the funding round in Rosecut Technologies, a digital wealthmanager. ...
Hardman & Co has published its latest report, The Truth About What Lies Beneath, has been written to coincide with the launch of the Hardman & Co ...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund Debt Finance, managed by ...
Triple Point, a leading UK alternative investment manager, has appointed experienced financial services professional Jack Rose as Strategic Sales Directo...
Maven Capital Partners has hired Carolyn McEwan to the property investment team as Investment Manager. The strengthening of the team reflects Maven’s con...
Growth and funding ambitions have strengthened amongst SMEs over the course of 2019, according to the latest report by ...
Community interest company ‘Community Mentoring and Support’ (CMAS) is the latest social enterprise to receive investment of £250,000 ...
Crowdcube has helped fuel the growth of three out of 16 of the UK’s active unicorns - or 19% of the herd. The three are BrewDog, Revolut and Monzo. Har...
GP Bullhound and Bonhill have revealed the shortlist for the 17th annual Investor Allstars Awards 2019, fea...
Crowd2Fund has been formally granted their Advanced Assurance from HMRC for the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) tax relief. This means that now up ...
Shoosmiths has advised NVM Private Equity on its recent investment of £2 million into Duke & De...
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The Seedrs Secondary Market (SM) is a mechanism by which, once a month in window lasting one week, investors may offer their Seedrs shareholding’s for sale via the Seedrs Platform at the pric...
BEAT81, one of the fastest growing fitness tech companies in Europe, has raised a €6.4m Series A funding round, led by E...
EIS Fund Manager Par Equity has realised its 17th company exit with the sale of the market-leading videogame data analysis firm, ...
VCT & EIS Investor Forum platinum sponsor GrowthInvest invites you to join its award-winning ...
BGF has expanded its Reading team with the appointment of Guy Pope as an investor. Guy joins BGF from BCMS Corporate, where he specialised in all aspects of mid-...
ShieldIOT, an IoT security company, offers service providers network-wide cyber protection, increasing revenue streams and securing millions of connected devices...
London-based Lifted has raised £1.5m in seed funding to transform the home care sector. The...
The first half of 2019 has seen automotive technology deal-making news led by major tech giants challenging traditional OEMs for ‘ownersh...
The Financial services industry has entered into a period of unparalleled opportunity as our nation enters what many are calling the inheritance economy. The inheritance economy represents ...
The latest research from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments...
Orbital Education has received a minority investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growin...
Ometria, the customer marketing platform for retailers, today announces that it has raised $21m in Series B funding to further innovate its AI technology which ...
Savers in defined contribution pension schemes are missing out on higher returns due to a lack of investment in some of the UK’s fastest growing an...
Deepbridge Capital investee company Afin Technologies (forme...
Cambridge China Centre (CCF) has arranged an exclusive pitching event with 14 of China’s top investment firms signalling the continued ...
The Riverside Company has signed a definitive agreement to invest in German cycling e-commerce speci...
Hampleton Partners’ latest global IT & Business Services ...
A fast-growing clothing brand with a mission to become the ‘Levi’s of the women’s outdoorwear market’ has raised £350,000 in a funding round led by ...
Edge Performance VCT, the creative industries VCT managed by leading creative economy specialist Edge Investments, has exited its investment...
Lookiero, the online personal shopping service for clothes and accessories, has closed a $19 million funding round led by venture capi...
Leading European social media management platform ...
In a week that saw the announcement of CMR Surgical as the latest UK company to be valued at over $1b, there is hardly a more appropriate time to examine the state of the UK's unicorn herd. These c...
Origin Capital has invested in Cyclops Marine, a specialist provider of load measurement instrumen...
Learning with Experts has just completed a latest funding round above target, raising £800k with an impressive group of High Net Worth (...
Law firm Ashfords LLP has announced the promotion of IT and technology specialist Suzie Miles to its partnership, in the firm's Bristol of...
Israeli startup ...
The workplace is busier than ever before due to an ‘always-on’ culture that is leaving employees and managers with burnout. New research from global health service company ...
Red Sift, the cognitive data platform that provides cloud-based email security solutions, has closed a $8.8m investment round from research-led VC ...
British Business Investments (BBI), a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a new £25m commitment to Cheshire-based asset fi...
Triple Point, a leading UK alternative investment manager, today announced a top-up of its Venture Fund, a share class in the successful Triple Point VCT...
Customers are at the heart of most businesses. With that in mind, environmental fund manager Earthworm has made two key appointments in its client services...
Negative sentiment towards the economic outlook for the UK over the next 18 to 24 months amongst the UK investment community has increased sharply from 49% in 2018 to 67% in 2019, according to the ...
At the end of the second quarter of this year, more than 150,000 lenders were invested in 321,483 loans facilitated by Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) platforms – a record level of i...
Snaffling Pig, the category leading porky snack brand, has reached its £750,000 crowdfund target in just seven days. Hosted by ...
Wagonex Limited, the car subscription marketplace platform is delighted to announce a significant...
GrowthInvest and Partners Wealth Management have launched a strategic partnership between the two or...
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Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), the leading supplier of predictive Advanced Process Modelling (APM) software and services to many of the world’s ...
Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK, has launched four sustainable multi asset funds designed to make ...
Symvan Capital, an EIS fund manager, has announced that B.heard, a pioneer in the monetisation of the European persona...
Hardman & Co is leading a new initiative to support (S)EIS funds entering the investment market. It has brought together a wide range of professional...
This month’s Start-up Spotlight, in partnership with The Invested Investor, features an interview with entrepreneur Iris Barcia.......
Echopoint Medical Ltd, a spinout company from UCL, has raised £2.8m to develop optical sensing technology to help heart disease patients in a g...
Karan Bilimoria, better known as Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea, the Indian born founder of Cobra Beer, will officially open the Festival...
NVM Private Equity has completed the management buy-out of Mobius Networks Limited (MNL), a ...
Spark EV Technology has completed extensive trials of its electric vehicle (EV) range prediction technology with Hyundai. Carried out as part of ...
Spirable, the next generation of personalised video marketing automation, today announced it has closed a £6M Series A investment round led by ...
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The EISA's Summer 2019 edition of Zeitgeist discusses the tricky question of risk and what it really means in relation to EIS investments. Risk. ...
Entrepreneur and investor Nick Jenkins, who founded moonpig.com and is a former star of BBC TV's "Dragon's Den", is to be the opening keynote speaker at this year's ...
Ventures Director at Blackfinch Ventures, Dr Reuben Wilcock, discusses his top-tips for start-ups seeking investmen...
Green Angel Syndicate has successfully led a £520k investment round into AirEx, the IoT-enabled smart vent...
NVM Private Equity has completed the management buy-out of Leicestershire-based Secure Retail Limited&nbs...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a new comm...
A businesswoman has achieved her dream of opening a shop in Cardiff to sell clothes that combine fashion with traditional spiritual values with the help of a loan from the ...
Eric Tveter, former Central Europe CEO of Liberty Global, has become a major investor and the first Chairman of London-based start up ...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, and ...
Home security tech specialist, Boundary, has secured £1.22 million investment from Equity Gap and the ...
The Insurtech M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisors, ...
High Net Worth private investors are increasing their exposure to alternative assets to achieve greater portfolio diversification in an uncertain economic climate, reveals research...
Albemarle Street Partners (ASP), the specialist discretionary investment manager and in...
PrimaryBid, the award-winning FCA-regulated online platform connecting publicly listed companies with everyday investors for discounted share issuances,...
The founders of a specialist price comparison website have secured £500,000 of seed-stage investment and are now ready to disrupt the UK car leasing market. ...
Voxpopme, a Birmingham-based leading video feedback and analytics company, today announced that it has closed a £7.5m Series A1 equity financing led b...
Managed office platform Kitt has raised £2 million in seed funding and appointed former Fitness First CEO Oren Peleg as Chairman. The funding round w...
Arctic Shores, the Manchester-based psychometric assessment provider, has announced that it has secured a $5.5m Series A investment to accelerate its inte...
Scribeless, which fully automates and personalises h...
London-based start-up Koru Kids, has raised £10 million from its Series A round led b...
Maven Capital Partners has strengthened its UK investment team with a senior appointment in the South of England. Luke Matthews joins Maven as an Investm...
Praetura Ventures is raising money for its second Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund, the Praetura EIS 2020 Fund. The company plans to raise up ...
Ahead of launch later this year, Desana, an Edinburgh and London based startup that gives subscribers access to a UK-wide network of quality workspace to use wh...
Blackfinch Ventures has appointed Dr Nic Pillow, co-founder of tech start-up Rhizome Live, as Ventures Manager. Since the appointment of Dr Re...
The Riverside Company has invested in TOOLPORT, the...
Stefano Maifreni, Founder of Eggcelerate, a B2B growth experts for British SMEs, shares his insights on how small comapnies can operate effectively ...
Wayland Additive Limited has raised a £3 million Series A funding round, led by ...
Three in 10 office workers (29%) are considering moving jobs in the next year, driven by the demand for a better work-life balance, higher remuneration and flexible working hours. ...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made its first cornerstone commitment through its £500m Managed F...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £750,000 equity investment into innovative ecommerce platform, Aero Commerce Ltd...
Elliptic, the leading provider of crypto-asset risk management solutions for crypto businesses and financial institutions, has raised $23 million in a Series B...
A Teesside business which has developed a new way to generate fuel and chemicals from waste biomass has secured a further £2.3million investment to commercialise its technology. ...
London-based dairy free cheese producer, Kinda Co. has been named as The Seed Fund’s 2019 champion, picking up th...
Invenio Business Solutions, a global provider of business-focused technology solutions and consulting services, has acquired Prov...
Duke & Dexter (D+D), an award-winning footwear label has secured a £2m investment from NVM Private Equity ...
PRIVATE equity house WestBridge has appointed a new Investment Director to open its new Manchester office and lead investments across the North of Englan...
Ortho Solutions, a specialist orthopaedic design manufacturer, has secured a £2 million funding facility from ...
European companies raised a record-breaking €10.6bn of venture capital during the first six months of 2019 according to analysis by Refinitiv. ...
A new indoor climbing centre has opened in the old boathouse in Llandudno, thanks to a £50,000 loan from the Development Bank of Wales. ...
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By James Murdoch I had not planned to write an article in the holiday month of August, but time for reflection has given me the impetus to highlight my key conclusions. These have perhaps b...
Crowdcube, the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, had several of its records smashed by fintech pioneer ...
Technology sectors in the UK are thriving and have thus brought about an increased level of awareness to the public consciousness. The government-driven Digital Economy Coun...
Equiem, the global leader in tenant experience technology and services for commercial real estate, has anno...
Foresight Group LLP, a leading independent infrastructure and small cap private equity investment manager, is launching its fifth regional private equit...
Kare Plus National Limited has received a £910,000 loan from ...
Recent events have illustrated that the closed-ended structure of investment companies is particularly well suited to investing in unquoted companies. ...
The majority of smaller businesses do not seek advice when applying for external finance to grow their business, despite the fact that having access to the right information can make the difference...
MGB Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of anti-infectives to address the major global problem of antibiotic...
HeleCloud, an AWS Advanced Consulting and Managed Services Par...
Trak Global Group, one of the world’s leading telematics technology companies with operations in the UK, Europe and North America, has announced...
London-based technology startup Augnet, which is set to revolutionise the SMS and messaging space, has appointed well-known information and communicati...
Five-time FIA Formula One World Champion, Lewis Hamilton is collaborating with hospitality organisation The Cream Group and investors including UNICEF Ambas...
Residently, the UK startup that is building the global rental platform, has secured £7m in seed ...
Goldex has named Nina Amin as an Advisor to the Board alongside the announcement that the UK India cross-border fund of Unicorn India, the ...
Paul Munn, Partner at Par Equity reflects on the impact of Brexit on EIS ...
International Investor has announced its recognition of excellence in all industries and at all levels, across the globe. At a time of shift ...
PRIVATE equity house WestBridge has appointed a new Investment Director to open its new Manchester office and lead investments across the North of...
PIMFA, the trade association for investment managers and financial advisers, has launched the ...
The Digital Security Exchange Nexthash is investing £2.5m of growth capital in Skills Matter, the network pub...
Blackfinch Ventures has invested £540,000 into innovate start-up Kokoon...
This weekend saw the world's leaders come together to discuss a number of problems facing the planet, from fires in the Amazon rainforest to global economic instability. But while the Prime M...
Esme Loans, the standalone digital lending platform for SMEs and scale up businesses, has now lent over £70million to UK businesses. &nbs...
A Birmingham-based wholesale supplier of quality products to the food and drink industry has secured £1.5m from ...
Nomanini, the pioneering fintech platform for the informal retail ecosystem, has today announced a $4m funding round l...
Dr Kerstin Braun, President of Stenn Group, a global provider of trade finance, comments on the Yuan at its weakest level since 200...
Following the recent acquisition&nb...
Whilst most of us are no strangers to the concept of crowdfunding, what most people don’t know is how to create a successful campaign that hits your funding target! Founder a...
Clyde Biosciences Ltd. has raised a £2 million ‘Series A’ investment led by Epidarex Capital, a leading...
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP and Envestors, the fintech for fundraising company, have announced a j...
Proving to investors that your company has the legs to offer them a significant return on investment down the line is no small task for any entrepreneur, but is especially impressive for thos...
A Brexit deal now appears more likely than a U.S.-China trade de-escalation - but global financial markets are still to remain volatile in the near term, meaning investors should revise their...
PredictImmune, developers of pioneering prognostic tools for guiding treatment options and improving patient outcomes in immune-mediat...
Maybe Solutions, an e-commerce platform developer that helps businesses, towns and cities analyse and engage with social media conversations has secured a s...
50 of the leading investors from across Europe will be arriving in Edinburgh next week looking for attractive startups to invest in at Turing Founders...
The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund (NI) has led a £2m investment in Belfast-based ...
Two female tech entrepreneurs who have developed the UK’s first software as a service (SaaS) platform to help companies manage rebate and pricing schemes have secured £950,000 from inve...
Three fintech mega-deals totalling $87 billion set the scene for a record-breaking $120 billion in disclosed transaction value for the sector in a ‘white-hot’ first half of 2019, reveal...
QueryClick, an Edinburgh-based digital marketing consultancy that aims to transform how effectively advertisers invest in digital marketing, is to embark...
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The UK tech sector has attracted more foreign investment in the first seven months of 2019 than it did during the whole of last year, ...
Private equity fundraising for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) hit the highest annual level in a decade in 2018 with €1.8 billion, according to new data from ...
Scottish biotech company, and the market leader in gene therapy control technologies, Synpromics, has been bought by AskBio...
As the talent dilemma continues, UK businesses are ramping up their focus on retaining and upskilling their existing workforce. New research [1] from recruitment spec...
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Beauhurst has published its overview of the high-growth ecosystem in Scotland. There are almost 2,000 active ambitious companies in the country, most of which are buoyed by fairly different methods...
Maven Capital Partners has invested £160,000 in data analysis business, Innotech Insights, on beha...
The organisers behind the prestigious MSDUK Innovation Challenge have announced their finalists for 2019. After a full day of pitches f...
Leading global delivery software business Sorted Group has raised £15 million in a Series B funding round led by ...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has backed the management buy-out of Hanson Wade...
MoA Technology Limited, the crop protection discovery company, has secured £6.3m ($8m) Series A round to develop its unique crop ...
In this article, Beauhurst highlights the top fund raisings this year by companies that were founded in the same year. ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has invested £2 million in high-growth FinTech provider ...
Appnovation has received £9.3m in equity financing from a joint partnership between the ...
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BiVictriX has announced that Dr Michael Carter has ...
BDO LLP has advised the management team and shareholders at Sukhothai on its recent recapitalisation.&nbs...
A growing number ofUK and global investors will move their assets overseas as Britain stumbles towards an economic abyss, affirms the boss of one of the world’s largest independent financial ...
Keller Williams, the world’s largest estate agency, has entered into a partnership agreement in the UK with start-up ...
Panoramic Growth Equity, a leading equity investor in fast growing, ent...
By Charu Lahiri, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK. According to the emotively-named ‘Miser...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent commercial finance provider, appoints Dave Pickup as ABL Director for the Thames Valley. Investment i...
Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Wales have higher levels of confidence than their UK counterparts, despite challenging business conditions and increasing uncertainty of UK and global economic...
With widespread disruption from new and emerging technologies facing companies, the financial services sector is still lacking in CEOs with a background in technology, according to recent analysis ...
In 2018, Enterprise Research found that almost half (45.3%) of startups don't surv...
There are ambitious companies at all stages of evolution that are looking for growth capital. Private Equity and...
As more businesses invest in surveillance technology to monitor and track employees in the workplace, questions are raised around whether the benefits override growing concerns around digital ethic...
Kantox, a leader in foreign exchange (FX) management solutions, has partnered with ...
AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital, has appointed Paul Lehair as an investment manager. Paul joins Albion...
innogy Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of innogy Innovation Hub, has invested in ...
PRIVATE equity investments into UK-based small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been highlighted as a potential cure for market volatility, according to ...
Green Angel Syndicate has invested in BuyMeOnce, the destination website for long lasting products of all sort...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), has invested £150,000 to support ProGen Services Limited as it se...
NPIF - Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund has invested...
AndWider, a worker engagement company ...
Innovative wave energy technology developer Bombora has secured a seven figure working ca...
Pamplona Capital Management has completed its acquisition of Loparex from funds managed by Intermediate Capital Group...
Foresight Group has made a £1.5 million investment from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fun...
Kemp Little has advised private equity house Apse Capital in a deal with intelligent transformation provider Ultima ...
For entrepreneurs to be able to find the ‘right’ investors, and vice versa for funders to select the ‘right’ founders is still very important...
Investment manager Downing has exited from two freehold gastropub investments managed by Upham Group. ...
This autumn Brexit will again dominate the minds of businesses and traders, but UK's SMEs should continue to plan ahead and look to export as a way of mitigating risk and increasing global sa...
France Invest, the French private equity and venture capital association, in partnership with Deloitte, and with the ...
Fleetondemand, one of Europe’s leading mobility technology providers, has acquired Buckinghamshire-based vehicle management company FleetEurope fo...
This November, the Growth Investor Awards will turn five. Since 2015, this event has sh...
Wellington Partners has announced the final close of its fifth-generation fund Wellington Partners Life Science Fund V (WPLS-V). The fund close...
More than a third of small business owners (38%) say they won’t be having a summer holiday this year – a problem peaking among those with larger families (45%) and young children (45%) ...
FNA has closed a $5.5m Series A investment round led by IQ Capital, with participation from ...
Commenting on the number of electric car models in the European market set to more than triple within the next three years, Harry Merrison, Investment Manager at ...
The investment capacity of the Baby Boomer generation is undeniably the most powerful across the UK. According to the Office for National Statistics in 2016, Baby Boomers owned...
Kernel Capital has led a £1.6m investment in Belfast-based Automated Intelligence, in syndi...
CyberSmart, a GCHQ Cyber Accelerator alumni, has secured £1.3 million in new financing led by deep-tech investor ...
Thriva, the proactive health company, has secured a £6M Series A funding round. The funding will support Thriva as it builds towards it’s ambitiou...
The Animal Health Laboratory within the Colorado Department of Ag...
It’s been serving the Anglesey community delicious gelato for the past 10 years. Now more and more locals and visitors to North Wales ...
Bluegem Capital Partners, the European mid-market fund focused on consumer brands, has announced the acquisition of ...
One Stop Business Finance, the Yorkshire based alternative funding specialist for SMEs, has strengthened its senior management team to help fulfil its growth pla...
Bluecrest Health Screening, a leading provider of affordable health checks, has secured a £17 million investment arranged by pri...
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven and p...
MPC Capital has acquired a 6.5 MWp solar PV project under development in El Salvador. The project has ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has invested £6.25m into ...
Astarte Capital Partners LLP, an alternatives co-investment platform, has appoint...
Six-in-ten (61%) financial advisers believe there has been insufficient industry focus on decumulation solutions despite an overwhelming majority (86%) expect...
A new summit connecting emerging technology fund managers with investors has been launched in London by early stage VC firms, ...
PredictImmune, PredictImmune, developers of pioneering prognostic tools for guiding treatment options and improving patient outcomes in immun...
Catley Lakeman Securities (CLS), the market-leading provider of defined-return invest...
Sometimes I watch Dragons’ Den and the impression it leaves me with is that of hopeful Entrepreneurs asking for £80,000 for 5% percentage of their Busin...
Beauhurst has analysed every publicly-announced equity fundraising in H1 2019 to spot emerging trends and patterns in the market. Their ...
Minerva Business Angels, part of the University of Warwick Science Park and one of the most successful busi...
British Business Bank has supported over 89.000 businesses with £6.6bn of finance, an increase of 27%, according to its 2019 ...
The FSE Group, the Camberley based fund manager that provides loan and equity funding for small ambitious growing businesses, has announced that Paul Marst...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading European Growth Buyout&nb...
Standard Cognition, which is building the next interface of retail, has raised a $35M Series B funding round led by the ...
Machine learning start-up Futr. has secured £2.4m in seed funding in a round led by VC firm Praetura Ventures. T...
New research(1) from fast growing Shearwater Aero Capital, the global corporate aviation finance specialist, reveals the trend for family office...
New evidence shows that the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) has increased the availability of finance in the region and this is already making a pos...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout[1] ...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), delivered by British Busine...
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Deepbridge Capital has announced the appointment of two new Business Development Managers (BDMs) covering both the North West and North East...
Lingua Custodia, the specialist in Machine Learning applied to financial translation, has closed a ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performan...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £900,000 investment in supercomputing technology specialist,...
UK SMEs must create a tech-friendly culture to attract and retain top tech talent, according to a new white paper from ...
LGB Investments, whose offering includes secured high yielding investment opportunities fo...
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Broad Street Investment Management, a subsidiary of Broad Street Asset Management, the bespoke, independent wealth management business, has appointed An...
Workshare, the document comparison and transaction management specialist for the legal sector, has been acquired by Chicago-headquartered Litera Microsystem...
Graphite Capital, the leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has recognised the contribution of members of its investment team with the foll...
Bluegem II LP, a European mid-market fund focused on consumer brands, exited from its participation in Liberty,...
Foresight Group has invested a further £4 million growth capital investment into portfolio company ONFAB to...
MEIF Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has provided Advance Tapes Internat...
Zegami, the augmented intelligence company helping businesses unlock their data potential through visual data exploration, has raised £1.25M in equity fundin...
Asabys Partners, a Pan-European Venture Capital firm specialized in investments in the life sciences and health sectors, and Alantra, an investment banking and a...
Beauhurst H1 2019 Equity Market Report analyses every publicly-announced equity fundraising in H1 2019, to spot emerging trends and...
NVM Private Equity (NVM) has appointed Oliver Wildig as an Investment Manager. He will be based in Manchester within the buy-out team with res...
Ashfords has advised WhiteHat on its recent $16 investment by Index Ve...
Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has provided a six-figure invoice finance facility to H...
QuoteOnSite has announced a cash injection to facilitate aggressive growth over the next 12 months thanks to investment from the ...
FibreCRM, a Penryn-based software company, has secured a £250,000 investment from the Chelverton Investor Club...
SteamaCo, a UK-based technology supplier to utilities in Africa and Asia, has completed a $5m Series B equity financing. This latest round of funding supports the c...
UK-founded graphene-based electronics technology company ...
Deep-tech venture capital firm IQ Capital has launched a new $125 million Growth Opportunities Fund and closed its third venture fund, IQ Capital Fund III, at ...
North East entrepreneurs developing industry-changing innovation have taken to the stage in the first of a series of new pitching events delivered by the recently launched ...
Maven Capital Partners, has led a £650,000 investment in Manchester-headquartered passenger transfers booking platform ...
This month’s Start-up Spotlight from the Invested Investor features an interview with the Head of Access to Funding and Finance at the ...
Crypta Labs has completed a £2.7 million (US$ 3.4m) funding round led by Bloc Ventures and ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has committed £2 bi...
A British games and Jukebox entrepreneur, Alexander Walder-Smith, has acquired ...
Luminous Ventures has made a £1million investment in ...
End-to-end sales acceleration platform Cognism has raised $10m in Se...
The Royal College of Art’s incubator InnovationRCA has won ‘Acce...
Tyk Technologies Ltd, creators of an industry-leading API gateway and management platform, has secured £4m in Series A f...
eFront data shows that, despite improving performance, fewer than 4 in 10 VC funds ...
A fast growing manufacturing firm based in Merseyside has received an initial investment of £7.5m from ...
The Qube the capital’s coworking studio complex for creativ...
Master of Business Administration (MBA) and accountancy are the top qualifications among the UK’s CEOs, according to the annual ...
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Green Angel Syndicate has backed NatureMetrics, a pioneer in sampling, sequencing and analysing Environ...
Aergo, a company that has developed a responsive posture support system which empowers wheelchair users, has completed an equity funding round with the help o...
Envestors, the fintech fundraising company, has announced its community of connected sophisticated investors has grown to 11,000. Envestors’ &...
The new board of the Greater London investment Fund (GLIF), who will support the Mayor’s vision to grow and support the SME ecosystem in the ca...
Maven Capital Partners has completed a £2.5 million investment to support the continued growth of pioneering software developer ...
Non-profit organisation Diversity VC has published ‘Diversity in UK Venture Capital 2019’, a report which analyses the gender, ethnic, education, ...
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By Tom Hopkins, Business Development Director at Parkwalk The latest international university league tab...
Funding London interview with Peter Briffett Peter Briffett is a serial entrepreneur with a difference. Not only did he l...
A data pipeline management company set up by Google alumni and supported through its early days by Y Combinator, has...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has completed an investment in Compana, a German provider of ...
BAFTA Cymru award-winning, multi-platform production company ie ie productions is focusing on strengthening its female leadership team following a loan from the ...
Main Capital has made an investment of nearly 50 million Euro in GBTEC, a leading player in Business Process Management. With a...
New research from secured property lender Fitzrovia Finance reveals a lack of understanding of some of the fundamental risks involved through investi...
Maven Capital Partners has funded manufacturer and supplier of homelifts, Stiltz Limited, with a £1m loan facili...
LGB Corporate Finance, which provides M&A advisory and capital raising services to companies, entrepreneurs and financial sponsors, has raised £7...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has achieved £100 million client funds in use through funding UK SMEs. The company’s audite...
Unquote Data’s preliminary figures for Q2 2019 show that activity in the European private equity markets continues to cool after a strong year in 2018. ...
Astarte Capital Partners LLP, an alternatives co-investment platform, has ...
Six inspiring young entrepreneurs have overcome fierce competition to impress the country’s business leaders with their innovation and business capability and...
Simulation software developers Simul Software Ltd, has received a £150k investment from ...
Many UK tech startups are beginning to move well beyond their venture capital funding phases to more established stages of growth. As they’ve expanded into new markets, they’ve looked t...
Law firm, Ashfords LLP, has appointed Chris Sutoto-Haywood as an Associate in the firm's Intellectual Property Team. ...
MEIF Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners has backed pop-up retail specialists, Rapid Retail Limited, with...
Stuffstr, the game-changing solution to consumer waste, has raised a total of $2.9 million in its seed funding round, led by ...
Now more than ever it is essential that income-seeking investors diversify their portfolios. This year has been a challenging environment with global economic uncertainty, volatile equity markets a...
Mergermarket, the leading provider of M&A data and intelligence, has published its 2Q19 report that shows a reluctance among companies to acquir...
Blackfinch Ventures has invested £700,0001 in innovative tech start-up Warwick Analytics....
Maven Capital Partners has led a £3 million funding round in Manchester-based ...
As part of its contribution to London’s climate action week, Guernsey Finance has published findings suggesting the political backdrop is encourag...
The fintech startup Joko has carried out its first fundraising with top-tier investors — Partech, ...
By Will Mason of Liquidity Club One of things that can be overlooked by businesses (particularly...
Ascension Ventures, the London-based investment firm, had an eventful evening at the annual UKBAA Angel Investment Awards. Throughout the ceremony an...
GeckoLabs, an Edinburgh company whose software platform helps universities to engage and recruit students, has secured £1.8m investment from ...
By Peter Cowley, The Invested Investor As an angel looki...
Partech is augmenting its Growth Equity team due to continued expansion in its portfolio of investments. The Fund has completed five financings in high-growth disruptive c...
Maven Capital Partners has exited from GEV Group Holdings Limited. The exit attracted significant interest from several private equity buyers; the sale to Bri...
AlbionVC has led a £2.6m Series A investment round in Clear Review, the UK HR technology scale-up. AlbionVC inv...
Earthworm Group welcomes four new hires to its expanding team, coinciding with the move to its new head office at Milton Park, Abingdon. Jo T...
As outlined in the British Business Bank’s Equity Tracker report of 2018, the proportion of equity in the UK going to companies with at least one female founder has declined to 18% from 20% i...
Ingenious has led an investment round into Over-C Limited, a London-based analytics company focused on opera...
Panoramic Growth Equity, a leading equity investor i...
The British Business Bank has appointed Warren Ralls as UK Network Director, South and East of England....
The Harwell Space Cluster has added 14 new companies to its impressive roster, now comprised of 92 organisations including the UK and Euro...
Qualis Flow, the environmental management platform that tracks, monitors, and predicts project environmental risk, has raised £725,000 in seed funding. T...
Across the nation, British businesses in the regions are suffering heavily from ensuing disparities in investment. According to the independent report by the UK 2070 commission, the UK i...
Machine Labs has announced £800,000 equity funding received from Techstart Ventures, the founders, angels in...
During the first half of 2019 YFM Equity Partners (YFM) completed £230m of deals and raised £100m of new funds.&n...
Vesalius Biocapital III , the specialist life sciences venture...
Private capital is growing in significance as a source of funds for private equity funds, ...
WeGift, the digital rewards platform, has secured £4 million in Series A funding, led by&n...
Foresight Group LLP has announced a £4 million growth capital investment into Ten Health and Fitness Limited, a...
NVM Private Equity has invested £7 million in Chemigraphic, a leading provider of Electronic Manufactur...
UltraSoC plans to substantially grow its worldwide operations to address emerging opportunities in the cybersecurity, high-reliability and safety-critica...
London-based investment manager Downing LLP has appointed Tom Moore to lead its asset management capability. Prior to joining Down...
With a huge shift in emphasis towards regional funding support, the Connected Investing event series, hosted by the ...
Poplars Forge, a traditional ironwork business is gearing up to move premises, improve productivity as well as teach the next generation of blacks...
Pharrowtech, the designer of chip and antenna solutions for high-speed wireless applications, has raised more than €6 million for its Seed investment...
Following a £6.3m equity investment in 2018, pioneering airspace developer Apex Airspace has secured a further £3million equity invest...
The North East Development Capital Fund (“NEDCF”), supported by the European Regional Development F...
A consortium of leading scientific research and academic institutions has teamed to identify innovative solutions to tackle climate change linked to the agri-food sector. ...
Our resident wine expert, Caspar Bowes of Bowes Wine, looks at challenging terroir and resultant unique taste of single grape wines ...
London-based investment manager Downing has appointed six new senior team members across its investment, venture capital, asset management, a...
Europe represents 30% of the global market for smart manufacturing and factory automation, according to a new ...
Foresight Group has made a £5 million growth capital investment into Fourth Wall Creative Limited, a...
Sukhendu has been a CEO for thirteen years, Managing Director for four years, Sen...
Thames Technology develops, manufactures, personal...
Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world’s most innovative businesses and their investors, has led a £50 million senio...
London-based bakery, Orée, has raised £425,000 through Angel Investment Network (AIN) the ...
North West-focused Praetura Ventures has backed fertility startup Dr Fertility in a ...
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and Funding London CEO, Maggie Rodriguez-Piza, have announced the appointment of three new additions to the Funding London...
The latest MarketInvoice Business Insights (1)...
Symetrica, the global leader in radiation detection and identification, has secured a further £3m of growth funding from existing investors to sup...
HBAN, the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment and a joint initiative between ...
The British Business Bank has welcomed Edward O’Hara as its new Chief Risk Officer. As the UK government...
Venture capital firms with a track record of working together by investing in the same venture are more likely to produce a successful venture, but working together repeatedly will eventually have ...
Token, the turnkey open banking platform, has complete...
Swoop, a FinTech solution that supports SMEs to access funding, has been awarded £5 million (€5.6 million) by the UK’s Banking Competiti...
In his latest article, James Murdoch discusses the importance of regular company reporting and post investment communication for equi...
Augnet, a London-based technology start-up set to revolutionise the SMS and messaging space, has announced it has been selected to receive much sought after ...
BlockClaim, the first hybrid artificial intelligence and blockchain technology solution developed for the insurance industry...
In recent years, Alternative Finance funding channels that exist outside of the traditional finance system have revolutionised how small and medium enterprises are able to operate. The rapid ...
Technology advisory and investment firm GP Bullhound’s Fund IV holds its final close at EUR113 million, continuing its successfu...
By Jörg Rocholl, President and Professor of Finance at ESMT Berlin In recent years, international crowdfunding markets have s...
This week Beauhurst has published the third instalment in its series of short reports on some of the UK's most exciting tech sectors. The SaaS Brief takes an overview of Software-as-...
London-based investment manager Downing LLP has appointed Richard Lamb to its growing Property Finance investment team. Richa...
London-based insurtech firm Zego has raised $42million in one of the largest funding rounds for a European insurtech start-up. The proc...
Marine bycatch prevention company Fishtek Marine has netted its full £900,000 impact investment crowdfunding via the ...
London-based STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and maths) learning pioneers OKIDO and OjO, have raised £18,800 on Kickstarter, exceeding their target of £15,000. ...
UK SMEs are losing out to big tech in the battle to recruit top tech talent, according to Robert Half UK’s new report, ...
The level of P2PFA platform lending has continued to increase during the first quarter of 2019 – with more than £850 million of loans facilitated...
In London Tech Week, Tech Nation reveals rising worldwide demand for UK tech visas 45% rise in applications for th...
the UK alone, wellbeing issues affect one in four people, which in turn costs the economy over £57 billion a year in lost productivity, but just last week on its first birthday, ...
YFM Equity Partners has appointed Helen Villiers as Investment Manager. Based at YFM’s London office, Helen will be focussing on supporting YFM’s new in...
A new senior executive leadership team has been put in place at Montezuma’s following investment from Edinburgh-based private equity firm, ...
The Ticket Fairy, a growth and sales channel partner for the live events industry, has announced the official launch of its cloud-based eve...
QuarterOne, the sales forecasting software start-up for SMEs, raises first major investment from ...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout...
Inzura.ai the UK based global InsurTech has raised a further £1m in a pre-A funding round. This follows a seed investment round in early 2018 and rapid growth...
UK boards are seriously lacking non-executive directors with skills and expertise in technology, new research from Russell Reynolds Associates a ...
Specialist property peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has hit two more major milestones after fully funding the 92nd project on the CrowdProperty p...
With a huge shift in emphasis towards regional funding support, the Connected Investing event series, hosted by the UK Business Angels Association, wil...
Palamon Capital Partners, a European growth buyout private equity firm, has signed an agreement to sell Il Bisonte...
Funderbeam, the global funding and trading platform, has raised US$ 4.5 million in Series A funding, led by UK-based ...
Nexeon, the company developing and supplying battery materials for rechargeable Li-ion batteries, is leading a new project to optimise coating technolog...
Funding Options has appointed David Keene to its senior leadership team as Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, David will be responsible for leading...
YFM Equity Partners has completed the first close of its Buy-Out-Fund II with £60m of investment committed. This follows the £45m raised...
Maven Capital Partners has invested a further £750,000, in disruptive car insurance platform, Honcho Markets Ltd. T...
The diversity of investor types in the UK contributes to the success of the nation's high-growth scene, as different companies have varying requirements from their backers. In Part 1 of a new blog ...
The amount of equity invested in smaller UK businesses rose 5% to £6.7bn in 2018, the highest amount recorded, reveals British Business Bank...
Ocado has announced a £17 million investment into the vertical farming industry, including an investment into ...
AI data extraction start-up SuccessData, formerly known as sc.io, has closed a £600k inve...
Tonkotsu, the Emma Reynolds and Ken Yamada-founded ramen restaurant group plans expansion after partnering with investment firm ...
Digital livestock production, smart plants and 24/7 indoor salad production are some of the ways the digital revolution is driving rapid growth in the agri-tech sector. Start-ups ...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent commercial finance provider, today announces the appointment of John Allbrook as Non-Executive Chairm...
Downing Ventures, part of London-based investment manager Downing LLP, has appointed James Nettleton as Principal of its 12-strong venture...
Funds advised by YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity fund manager, has backed a £3.6m investment into Wooshii Li...
In partnership with The Invested Investor, this month’s Start-up Spotlight features an interview with Sarah Turner, a technologist, en...
Business to business (b2b) telecoms provider Challenger Mobile Communications is targeting growth after a management succession buyout supported b...
Kernel Capital and Par Equity have led a £1.2M investment in ...
finnCap Group plc, a leading adviser and broker to ambitious growth companies, is delighted to anno...
The London-based Venture Firm, Hambro Perks, has appointed Andrew Noyons...
European Buy & Build activity reached its highest recorded level in 2018 with a total disclosed deal value of £9.5 billion, according to Silver...
To coincide with London Tech Week, global investment platform Funderbeam and Sensor City are co-hosting “Th...
Immedis, a specialist provider of enterprise technology solutions for global payroll and mobility ta...
Investor Allstars, the "Oscars" of the European entrepreneurial and investor community in Europe and the US, will return for its 17th edition this ye...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing companies, has bolstered its Quoted team with the appointment of Simon Blackaby as an...
Praetura Ventures has closed its 2019 Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund at £15m, making it the largest-ever maiden EIS fund. It will use ...
London-based Q-Bot, an EMV Capital portfolio robotics company that has developed a solution to remotely apply underfloor ins...
Foresight Group has invested £500,000 into Oomf Limited through the Midlands Engine...
Research by Funding Options, the UK’s leading business finance marketplace, has revealed that half (51%...
BGF, a leading investor in high-growth UK businesses, has invested £10m of equity in Extentia Group, t...
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Augnet Limited, the London-based technology start-up set to revolutionise the SMS and messaging space, has announced that ...
Deepbridge Capital has led a $2m (£1.52m) funding round in Thalia Design Automation, with re...
The latest research from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has thrown into sharp relief the d...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has acquired La Galvanina S.p.A, a fourth g...
Dan Perkins, a Director at Great Point, the UK’s leading...
Groovy UK Limited, a wholesale and giftware business, has received a £250,000 loan facility from the Midlands Engine ...
Award winning patisserie business La Crème Patisserie has acquired new premises near Newport following a £500,000 loan from the ...
British Patient Capital (BPC) has appointed Hazel Moore, OBE as Non-Executive Director to the boar...
Augusta & Co, a specialist financial advisory and investment firm for the renewable energy industry, has today...
Calculus Capital and Stargrove Pictures have launched a new EIS fund in association with the ...
The Electrospinning Company, first established in 2010 as a spin-out from research undertaken by the UK Science and...
Foresight Group has successfully exited its investment in Nottingham-based Mercia Power Response Limited ...
Westbridge Capital has closed its latest fund, WestBridge II, having raised £140m in fund commitments and associated earmarked co-...
The UK workforce is becoming increasingly held back by mental health problems such as stress, depression and anxiety. According to research (1) ...
Vala Capital, the venture capital firm, has added accomplished technology entrepreneur and investor John Swingewood to its investment committee. After...
Foresight Group has launched the FP Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (“GRIF” or “the Fund”). The Fund, which has received FCA regulatory approval, will be actively ...
An overwhelming majority (94%) of UK-based financial services industry decision-makers believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the most potential t...
Product Guru, an online platform described as ‘Tinder for retail buyers and product suppliers’, has secured a £300,000 investment....
Silverfleet Capital, the leading Pan-European private equity firm, has agreed to acquire ...
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MMC Ventures has launched the £52 million MMC Greater London Fund as part of the Mayor of London’s new initiative - the Greater London Investm...
Sorted, the global delivery experience company, today announces it has secured £15 million in a recent funding round led by ...
Suir Valley Ventures, the entrepreneur-led venture capital fund launched in partnership with Shard Capit...
Awen Collective has secured seed investment through Startup F...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has partnered with ACTINEO, the leading German ...
The rising trend of private capital investment is being well serviced in Guernsey due to the global finance specialist’s flexibility to meet investors’ sophisticated requirements, secto...
Social impact investment company Resonance has launched their latest Social Impact Tax Relief (SITR) Fund in the North West. ...
autologyx has announced that it has raised an additional £1 million to rapidly expand its foothold in legal, RPO and insurance se...
Foresight Group LLP, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has won this high-profile award in recognition for...
yulife, the life insurance company which puts wellbeing at the heart of its insurance offering, has announced that it has secured £10 million in Series A...
Israeli startup ...
Global Tech Advocates (GTA), the international private sector network connecting tech hubs around the world, has launched ...
Finance Durham, managed by Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active SME finance provid...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has closed its ISIA Fund (Idinvest SME ...
Following recent expansion in Singapore, London based RegTech firm ClauseMatch closed its first venture debt funding r...
Maven Capital Partners, has led a £500,000 investment in back & posture care product specialist, Handsome Limite...
Domain Therapeutics has announced that it has secured a €3.5M ($3.9M) investment from existing shareholder ...
Enlaps, the inventor of the Tikee timelapse solution, has announced that it has closed a funding round of €3 millions from business angels including Fa...
Albemarle Street Partners (ASP), the specialist advice and investment management...
Theresa May’s departure demands that UK and international investors move to mitigate risks to their wealth, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent fina...
Government statistics released l...
Rockstart, Europe's premier startup accelerator, has published th...
As “on demand” services expand into more industries and market places,Trukkin is leading the way in digital lo...
IW Capital - the debt, equity and EIS investment specialist based in the heart of Mayfair - has announced its latest milestone of growth with the cl...
Streamline Press, a leading commercial printer specialising in lithographic, digital and large format print services, has secured £250,000 funding ...
Parkwalk and the UCL Technology Fund are leading a £750k investment into Phasecraft, a pioneering quantum com...
The FitTech company, Revoola, has confirmed that its application to join the leading business incubator SETSquare...
Minerva, the University of Warwick Science Park’s Business Angel Network, has played a vital role in helping Lincoln-based te...
Syncona Ltd has founded Quell Therapeutics, a new cell therapy company, with a £35 million commitment in a Series A financing...
YFM Equity Partners has invested £3.5 million in Elucidat Limited, an...
The Development Bank of Wales’ first full year has helped even more Welsh businesses to grow. ...
Angel backed novel diagnostic developer PBD Biotech has appointed new CEO Mark Hammond to drive the company’s expansion. The success of the company’s...
A new initiative to support Business Angels looking to invest in the North East was launched yesterday at FinanceCamp, the region’s annual investme...
In partnership with AngelNews, this month’s Start-up Spotlight focuses on the experienced, dynamic and philosophical serial investor...
Great Point, the UK’s leading independent media and investment firm, has invested in ...
Triple Point Venture Fund has led a £1.3m investment in UK-based messaging company Augnet Limited. Triple ...
Immense Simulations, the intelligent mobility software provider, has announced that it has secured $4.6m in Series A funding. The investment will aid the continu...
An on-demand removals marketplace aiming to bring on-demand technology to the removals and deliveries sector has secured investment from leading London-based ...
Panoramic Growth Equity, the leading equity investor in fast growth, entrepreneurial companies has sold its portf...
Blu Wireless has raised £12.7m ($16.6m) in a growth funding round led by existing investors Arm, C...
NVM Private Equity has fully realised its investment in international marketing communications group MSQ Partners fo...
Deepbridge Capital, the tax-efficient investment manager, has appointed Samantha Piddington as its new Head of Corporate Finance. Deepbridge has als...
Stephen Kelly has 35 years’ unique leadership experience in both the private and public sector. He has held CEO positions with three successful UK & USA public technology companies, as we...
SEIS and EIS are incredible tax benefits and Equity Crowdfunding democratises them, potentially making them available to a much wider population than the super-rich. You might be led to believe tha...
In 2018, 70% of equity deals were not announced to the public, and although these deals are often much smaller than those that are announced, they can be just as (if not more) interesting. ...
The global biomedical market is in the midst of a period of stable growth and Catalonia, one of the most dynamic healthcare hubs in the world, is also enjoying this trend. 2018 was a positive year ...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has agreed to sell Aston Lark, a leading independent insurance b...
Calculus Capital has made a £2.5m investment in Wazoku. Wazoku’s main product is Idea Spotlight, an i...
By Estelle Blanks, Executive Director of the Innovation SuperNetwork According to research by Beauhurst, UK businesses...
The British Business Bank’s ENABLE Guarantee programme is now accepting applications from new types of lenders, with the aim of increasi...
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund has invested in Bolton-based eLearning company, ...
Rich Brits and wealthy international investors fear a Corbyn government more than Brexit, with an increasing number considering moving their wealth overseas. This is the assessment of Nigel...
Scaleup tech investment 2.5x higher than expected based on the relative size of the UK economy in 2018 UK leads Europe and fourth in the world for scaleup ...
Hampleton Partners’ latest analysis of the Artificial Intelligence M&A market reveals that over 150 deals were disclosed in 2018, up from ...
CogX, the world’s leading festival of AI and emerging technologies, today announces the headline speakers for its...
Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have made a £2 m...
Quotevine, a provider of SaaS solutions for the asset and automotive finance industries, has received £2.2 million in funding from private-equity fir...
Octopus Investments, part of Octopus Group and the UK’s largest Venture Capital Trust (VCT) manager1, today announced the launch of a new ...
A Greater Lincolnshire-based horticulture producer and supplier has secured a £200,000 debt funding package from Maven Capital Partners and the ...
Edison Group, the leading investment research, investor relations and consulting firm, headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Europe and Asia-P...
Triple Point has invested nearly £1 million of funding to back the latest two companies in their Impact EIS Investment Fund. The fund targets fast...
Digital disruption has heightened the need for technological experience amongst leaders of the UK’s biggest businesses, yet broader boardroom diversity is failing to progress, according to ne...
Hardman & Co has introduced a new panel service which will help advisers cope with what it calls the “…the greatest financial planning o...
Maven Capital Partners has led an investment, alongside existing shareholders Par Equity and the Scottish Investment Bank, in Edinburgh-based ...
The British Business Bank has appointed Dharmash Mistry as non-executive director (NED) ...
Par Equity, the Edinburgh-based multi-award-winning venture capital firm, has led investments totalling £3.2m in two Northern Irish software companies...
Global fintech, The ID Co., has has received $2m seed funding from global technology investor Amadeus Capital Partners...
The Portuguese company 360 onlineprint, founded in 2013, is expanding its sales territory and is now also active in the United Kingdom. This strategic...
Mobeus has sold Plastic Surgeon, the surface repair and restoration specialist, to ...
Weengs, a smart logistics startup that partners with ecommerce businesses to get online orders to their customers reliably and efficiently, has secured &poun...
Masabi, the company bringing ...
Private investment and alternative finance specialist IW Capital announces a £1.83 million loan for Inglenook Inns and Taverns Limited. The loan represe...
Leicester-based Furnley House Limited, a firm of independent financial advisers and mortgage brokers, has received a £200,000 investment from the...
The Instant Group, which was backed by Bowmark Capital last year, has acquired ...
Investment from European funds into the UK’s thriving tech ecosystem reached a record high of £1.89bn in 2018 (up from just £1.66bn in 2017), according to a new report published b...
How and what we eat in restaurants or on-the-go is changing thanks to new robotics startup Karakuri and its £7 million seed inv...
Cherwell Software a global leader in service managemen...
Investment manager Downing LLP has announced the successful exit from a series of freehold pub investments managed by award-winning Oakman Inns and Restaura...
Biotangents, a Scottish medical diagnostics business, has secured £1.5m of new investment following the completion of a second fundraising round....
Insurance startup, Urban Jungle has announced a £2.5 million seed funding round with participation from a range of new and existing ...
It’s been serving the community of St Clears with traditional, tasty fish and chips for more than 50 years. And now Neil’s Fish and Chip shop has new owners Ricky and Hanna J...
An adventure skin care start-up Toddle, based in Wrexham, will be launching its child-friendly skin care products this summer following a £200,00...
Tutor House, an online and in-person tutoring agency that aims to give all students access to affordable tutoring, group retake courses and educational...
Naming advice from Grant Polachek, Director of Marketing at Inc 500 company Squadhelp.com, ...
A Nottingham company which has developed a new platform to help pharmaceutical firms manage clinical trials more effectively has raised almost £1m from investors to help it launch its product...
Sonae Investment Management (Sonae IM), has announced that it has concluded an equity investment in Cellwize, a global l...
Award winning British content company Somethin’ Else is castin...
With a line-up intent on shaking up the shopping basket, The Seed Fund has announced its Class of 2019, revealing the 14 food and drink start-ups that have b...
Oriient, pioneers of high-performance indoor GPS, announced today the closing of $4m in seed funding from F2 Capital...
Wales’ share of the volume of equity deals in the UK is 3% and relatively close to its share of the UK’s economy, says research unit, Economic Intelligence Wales (EIW) in its latest ...
En Primeur tastings in France For the second year running, I eschewed the annual en primeurs tastings ...
Nivo, the Manchester-based instant messaging and identity verification platform, has announced the close of a £2m funding round fr...
The London based venture firm, Hambro Perks, have recently launched a ...
23 per cent of London’s tech companies have experienced investors deferring investment decisions as a direct result of Brexit, according to new research released by ...
Established North West capital finance advisory firm Acceleris Capital has announced a return to Greater Manchester as part...
Synthesia, a UK based startup developing video synthesis technology, has raised $3.1 million to continue their mission of helping brands and ...
Sure Ventures plc, a London listed venture capital fund which invests in early-stage software companies across...
London-based Venture Firm, Hambro Perks, has appointed ex-Morgan Stanley’s Svenja Grundmann as Investment Associate. ...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), delivered by ...
Workbooks, a British cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and marketing automation vendor, today announces the arrival of Alex Bradley as head ...
MUSO, the global authority on digital piracy data, has raised £3.5m in an extension to its £2.5m 2017 Series A with ...
Ongoing uncertainty makes it increasingly difficult to predict what the UK business ecosystem will look like or which cities will thrive post-Brexit. Despite this, business owners are keeping their...
A consortium led by Sunderland-based North East Business and Innovation Centre (BIC), has received £1m from Innovate UK to support the growth of local ...
Innovative medtech company Odin Vision is to scale up its pioneering cancer detection technology thanks to an investment round led by the ...
LONDON-based venture capital firm, Luminous Ventures has strengthened its advisory board further with the appointment of expert sales strategist, ...
A company which helps universities to commercialise academic research by initiating new collaborations with industry has secured a £950,000 investment. The funding includes £750,000 fro...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has agreed to sell CARE Fertility, the UK’s leading fe...
By James Murdoch Over 5 years, I have built up what I am told is a significant number of investments in start-up via the platforms and AngelNews has invi...
Edinburgh’s tech sector will go from strength to strength after a partnership between Informatics Ventures and the Data-Driven Innovation Initiative was announced at the annual international ...
The UK is a global centre for socially responsible technology innovation, according to new quantitative and qualitative analysis prepared by...
Masthaven, the UK specialist bank, has completed a strategic £60 million investment by ...
A new British-South Asian low-cost long haul airline, flypop, has completed a Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) funding round of £80,000 with ...
EMV Capital has acquired a controlling stake in Bay Area-based Vortex Biosciences, and a further investment pa...
Research conducted by Foresight Group LLP, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, highlights...
Seneca Partners, the SME focused investment firm has announced that it completed seven new growth capital investments in Q1 2019 into fast growing UK bas...
Weedingtech, the world-leader in supplying herbicide-free systems for controlling unwanted vegetation, has received an investment from environmental ...
Great Point Media, a UK leader in entertainment development, production and distribution, announced it has invested in three UK companies from its rec...
High-flying firms across the UK will benefit from a further £200 million of government support to ensure that innovative British firms can access the finance they ne...
Fasteners and tools company Spotnails Ltd has new owners after the Development Bank of Wales ...
Imandra Inc, creator of the Imandra cloud-native automated reasoning engine, has completed a $5 million Seed investment led by A...
West Midlands business leaders, entrepreneurs and investors have welcomed the launch of a new angel investment network for the region. ...
By Hasna Haidar at Carphone Warehouse Whether you are a start-up owner or a business leader, your mind ...
Kantox, a leader in FX management solutions for businesses, has just closed its second venture debt financing deal with Silicon V...
Cytora, a provider of AI-powered solutions for the commercial insurance industry, has completed a £25 million Series B funding round led by the ...
London-based growth capital investor, VGC Partners, has appointed Andrew Lister as Investment and Portfo...
Credit Kudos, challenger credit bureau and leader in commercial applications of...
This week will see fifty high-growth potential data-driven tech companies pitch for funding at the annual flagship Engage Invest Exploit (EIE)...
Award-winning Mexican quick-service chain Chilango is celebrating one of the most popular alternative investment offers of rece...
Specialist property peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has closed a £1.1m ...
Newable, a leading provider of professional services, financial support and property space to UK businesses, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with t...
Guardian Angel, a free and private online platform that simplifies the bereavement process;...
Chelverton Asset Management Limited, a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quoted equities and...
Rockstart is almost ready to close its first fund of €15 million for its AgriFood domain accelerator and fund. S...
EMV Capital announced the acquisition and investment into Wanda Inc, a San Francisco-based digital health company commerci...
NVM Private Equity continues to expand the VCT team with the addition of Alex Wilson and Stephen Johnson. NVM’s recruitment strategy has been to build...
PTP Funding Limited (“Welendus”), a peer to peer (P2P) lending platform focusing on short term loans, has recently raised funding from the ...
This week sees entrepreneurial icons flock to Scotland as the second edition of CAN DO Fest, Scotland’s festival of impactful...
Astarte Capital Partners has established a £400m investment platform with a focus on transformi...
Leah Hutcheon, founder and CEO of the Edinburgh-based software company, Appointedd, and former EIE participant, shar...
The Newable Ventures Scale Up Fund 2 has completed its year-long investment cycle having invested £1 million into a diverse ...
Touch Biometrix has received a £2million investment from Deepbridge Capital. ...
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has sold its portfolio of onshore wind farms to Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) for an enterpr...
Following the publication of research suggesting that women are more successful than men when it comes to crowdfunding for scientific research, Juliet Eccleston, co-founder and CEO of ...
The Midlands Engine investment fund, through Maven Capital Partners, has provided Aurelius...
Ingenious, the leading alternative investment manager that specialises in the Media, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Education sectors, has expanded...
Foresight Group has made a £5 million growth capital investment into Northern Ireland’s largest private healthcare business, ...
Great Point Investments, the UK’s leading media production and investment company, has acquired a minority stake in ...
Shedul.com, the world’s fastest growing booking platform for salons and spas, has announced a Se...
Limitless Technology, the London-based inventor and p...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance r...
Jon Hughes, Commercial Director of leading independent ...
Mayfair-based alternative finance house IW Capital has invested in PlayMoreGolf. PlayMoreGolf is the first flex...
For investors, the need to know what occupiers want, where they want to be and what they need to thrive are crucial factors to help seek out areas where performance could be maximised. Saul Western...
The latest funding round of €10m for ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has invested £6m in BB7, the high-growth f...
BEX Capital, the first investment firm focused exclusively on fund-of-funds (FoF) second...
The Invested Investor interviews Jon Bradford. Want to hear the inspirational journey of an entrepreneur, investor and VC and who ...
Berlin-headquartered investment firm Target Global...
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London Food Tech Week - the world’s largest week-long festival ...
Green Angel Syndicate has announced that its members have backed a revolutiona...
CleverTap, the customer lifecycle management platform, has announced it has raised a $26 million Series B funding round, led by ...
More than 800 London students have had their hard work and creativity celebrated by leading industry names after they were asked to devise soluti...
Organizers of MRO Americas, one of the leading professional conferences of the aircraft maintenance industry worldwide, have selected the AR-based technology of AerinX among the TOP 10 most promisi...
Philanthropic start-up accelerator, The Seed Fund has revealed a growing trend for new food and drink businesses to be run b...
This year, London will be home to just as many fintech ‘unicorns’ as current global leader San Francisco – according to a ...
Jenny Evans started her luxury homeware brand, Jenny Kate, whilst studying Textiles at Cardiff Metropolitan U...
Intermediate Capital Group’s Europe VII Fund has announced it has, in partnership with Mérieux Equity Par...
After more than 23 years as Managing Director, and then Managing Partner of Albion Capital, Patrick Reeve has become Chairma...
BGF has successfully exited its minority stake in care service provider, The Good Care Group, alongside all...
Ahead of EIE next month, one of the investor panellists, Deborah Magid of IBM Venture Capital ...
This month’s Start-up Spotlight from The Invested Investor focuses on the co-founder of Cambridge based CRFS...
Green Angel Syndicate is investing in a £600,000 funding round for Entomics Biosystems, a Cambridge-based technology company at the forefront of the rapidly growing insect protein sector....
A start-up company that has discovered a safer, smarter way to tackle corrosion has secured a cash injection of £1m; which will support ambitious plans to become the industry standard i...
Crypta Labs, an innovative Internet of Things s...
AI-based technology startup Liopa has completed a very successful fund-raising campaign on the SyndicateRoom ...
New research by SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk has revealed how much CEOs earn compared to their employees around the world. ...
Simudyne, a simulation technology company, has announced that it has closed a $6 million Series A fundraise, led by Barclays alongside a distinguished set of...
Nauta Capital, a pan-European VC investing in capital-efficient B2B software companies and lean consumer plays, has announced the closing of a new €55M fund dedicated to backing its exist...
A British entrepreneur has seen his company achieve its £500,000 crowdfunding target, giving it the green light to roll-out technology to reduce the 16 million metric tonnes of Nitrous Oxide ...
The commercial magic of the Spice Girls remains as strong as ever, as Emma Bunton’s ethical baby product business Kit & K...
Nikki Howes is Investment Associate at Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm ...
Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious digital tech entrepreneurs, has revealed the 24 dynamic, fast-growing, late-stage technology companies ...
Quilam Capital, which provides both debt and equity solutions to companies in the speciality finance sector, has announced its seventh investment since ...
Maven Capital Partners has provided a £450,000 debt funding package to Reed Thermoformed Packaging Ltd (trading as &ldq...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative businesses, enterpri...
Astarte Capital Partners, a specialist alternatives co-investment platform with a focus on value-add real asset strategies, has made two appointments to its L...
Sanford DeLand Asset Management, the multiple award winning investment boutique specialising in Business Perspective Investing, has announced the appoi...
Latest research from eFront demonstrates impact of Brexit vote on private equity capital commitments and distributions...
Acre, the next-generation mortgage, protection and general insurance platform, has announced an exclusive arrangement with ...
Intertrust, a global leader in providing expert administrative services to clients operating and investing in the international bus...
Intechnica, the Manchester-based technology business, has closed a £2.85million funding round led by investment group Mercia. ...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has named Karsten Langer as its new Managing Partner for the Riverside Europe Fund (REF). ...
True, the retail and consumer sector specialist investor, has invested in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions based company F...
Over 40% of Scotland’s tech start-ups and scale-ups are targeting the US market for growth but have found access to finance the biggest barrier to their ambitious plans. ...
Partnership will support collaboration between five SPRINT universities and high growth SpaceTech start-ups. ...
Sceenic has raised its seed round through Startup Funding Club to continue expanding its “Watch Together” SaaS solution ...
Beechbrook Capital, the specialist direct lender, has established its first office in Germany.and has appointed Peter Gottron as Investment Director,...
Cyberhawk Innovations Limited, the world leader in delivering drone inspections and asset visualisation software for energy infrastructure, has been acquired...
The UK Bioindustry Association (BiA) has published its quarterly financing update for December 2018 to February 2019 showing: ...
Mobility aids specialist Snowdrop Independent Living has new owners after a management buyout (MBO) team ...
Pure Pet Food, the award-winning manufacturer of dehydrated and freeze dried pet food has secured a £2m investment from ...
Growth capital investor VGC Partners has announced the close of Fund II at £50.25m, to target UK-based consumer, media and ...
Cavendish Corporate Finance, the UK’s leading mid-market M&A firm, and part of the finnCap Group, has advised ...
According to new research by Master Investor Ltd., 85% of investors are actively looking to invest in the...
Maven Capital Partners has led the management buyout of CMS Window Systems, a leading end-to-end provider of premiu...
CroíValve, a medtech start-up providing a safe and effective treatment for tricuspid regurgitation, hasannounced that it has secured ...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has completed the take-private of AIM-listed Tax Systems Plc, th...
WestBridge Capital has acquired a majority shareholding in and provided growth capital to Wilcomatic Limite...
G3 Comms, the business communications provider and network integrator, has secured investment from private equity firm ...
The “HBAN Business Angel Syndicate” has been formed by HBAN - Halo Business Angel Network - to bring private investors together to back high potenti...
Maven Capital Partners has completed the final close of the Maven UK Regional Buyout Fund LP, which has received total commitments (including from co-investmen...
Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity fund manager have backed a significant investment into ...
Startup Funding Club has made an investment of £100,000 into luxury lifestyle media brand The J...
A bond offer in Dove Renewables, which operates two hydro schemes in Ashbourne (Derbyshire) and in the River Teign in Devon, has raised £1.1 million on the ...
Beauhurst has released a new series exploring regional trends in the UK's high-growth ecosystem. Starting with London, which is home to a staggering 30% o...
Comparethemarket.com has compiled profiles for 13 of the most successful entrepreneurs born in the 2000s. Their companies oft...
Luminous Ventures, has appointed John Spindler...
The innogy Innovation Hub, which identifies, funds, and mentors game-changing technologies and ideas, has closed a seed investment round in ...
Following the widely reported news of Tengai, the latest robot allegedly developed to remove bias from hiring processes, ...
Beauhurst has released a new series exploring regional trends in the UK's high-growth ecosystem. Starting with London, which is home to a staggering 30% o...
BlackCurve, a pricing optimisation company, has today announced the closing of a £1.5 M funding round, led by ...
People suffering with communication difficulties are benefitting from a new speech therapy service that has been developed by Caerphilly-based Cog-Neuro Speech...
The number of active UK biotechnology businesses in the field of research and experimental development has soared by 65% in just over three years as the sector attracts record levels of funding, ac...
Bristol Wood Recycling Project (BWRP) is celebrating having successfully raised the funds through a bond offer on ...
As it reaches the second anniversary of its launch, the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is celebrating having directly invested £100m in 385 N...
Ozo Innovations (Ozo) announces that it has secured over £600,000 project funding from the Department of Business Energy Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator (I...
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Startup Funding Club has been named the #5 Most Active Angel & Seed Investor in the world in PitchBook ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active SME finance providers, has invested £150,000 in cloud-based project management system, ...
London-based VC fund Fuel Ventures has expanded its portfolio of early-stage companies and invested £1 million in C...
Deepbridge Capital, the tax-efficient investment manager, has announced the appointment of Anjali Roberts as Strategic Partnerships Manager. ...
WarDucks, the Dublin-based augmented reality (AR) game development studio, has announced a €3.3 million funding round. Lead investor ...
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Fast-growing international investment and corporate advisory group Mayfair 101 has added leading business figures from ...
UKCloud, the multi-cloud experts dedicated to making transformation happen across UK public sector, today announced a significant £25m investment from ...
By Caspar Bowes, Bowes Wine Something came to me over breakfast yesterday; two things, in fact, in quick succession. The first was a rather spe...
Marketplace lending hit a record £6.1bn in 2018, according to Link Asset Services’ inaugural Marketplace Lending Index, powered by ...
Leading estate agency comparison business GetAgent has closed a £2.2m super-seed round from a consortium of investors led by Marchmont Ventures, back...
Private investor Rcapital has completed a Franchisee-led Buyout of Cash Generator, a successful and well e...
Luke Davis, CEO and Founder of IW Capital: &l...
Specialist property peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has secured the backing of a major financial institution to...
Praetura Ventures is raising money for its first Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund, as part of its mission to bridge the estimated £...
Belfast-based health tech company, Neurovalens, has secured one of the largest ever Series A investments generated by a Northern Irish technology company....
Tim Mills, Management Director of the Angel CoFund has made the following comments on the Chancellor's Spring Statement and its focus on science and tec...
Tim Allan is joining the board of Archangels, the leading angel investor group specialising in early stage technology and life sciences companies in Sc...
A new investor network has launched with the goal of building an ecosystem of entrepreneurialism and investment around the University of St Andrews. ...
Bowmark Capital is backing the buy-out of Pirum Systems, the leading provider of post-trade market infrastructure technol...
AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital, today published a new study which establishes a clear link ...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, ...
BGF has invested £11.6m in Invenio, a UK-headquartered and global provider of business focussed technology ...
London and Tel Aviv based HR tech platform Hibob has raised $20m in Series A+ funding, led by existing investors Bessemer Venture P...
As the tax year draws to a close, the Downing FOUR Venture Capital Trust (VCT) Healthcare Share Class remains open for end of year tax investments as part of...
By Sophia Matveeva, CEO and Co-Founder of Enty Last week saw the International Women’s Day launch o...
Glasgow based investment syndicate Kelvin Capital has moved into its tenth year of business by completing its biggest investment year yet. ...
Disruptive Automotive AI start-up Cazana.com has closed its crowd-fundraise at £1.56 million, nearly 160 percent of its or...
London-based VC fund Fuel Ventures has expanded its portfolio of early-stage companies, investing £2 million in ...
Leading online investment platform Seedrs announces the highly anticipated launch of full customisation in its pioneering AutoInvest product. From today, inves...
BVA BDRC has published its quarterly SME Finance Monitor. The largest and most frequent study of its kind in the UK, research findings have been gathered ...
Draper Esprit has led a £7 million investment in Hadean, the London headquartered deep tech company . The roun...
Beanuhurst marked International Women's Day by highlighting the continuing gender imbalance in the UK's high-growth sector. In its ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, today publishes its first LP Proficiency Survey – the...
Foresight Group has invested £249,000 in Usheru Limited, the firm behind a pioneering technology platform ...
London-based investment manager, Downing, has appointed John Pollington as Investment Director, and Oliver Pettafor, as a Loan Servicing Analyst, to its gro...
Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious digital tech entrepreneurs, is revealing today the 10 early-stage tech startup winners of its Rising Stars competition...
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Vala Capital expects to invest all the capital raised by the Vala EIS Portfolio before the end of this current tax year on April 5. ...
Angel Investment Network (AIN) the UK’s largest online platform connecting angel investors with startups has launched a new platform co...
In this month's Startup Spotlight Invested Investor speaks to Ramona Liberoff, an exper...
Deepbridge, the tax-efficient investment manager, has appointed Alison Maughan as Investment Manager in the Life Sciences team. ...
innogy Innovation Hub, which identifies, funds, and mentors game-changing technologies and ideas, today announced it ...
Beechbrook Capital, the specialist direct lender, has reached the first close of its second UK SME Credit Fund, with commitments of £128m. The ...
P2PFA platforms facilitated loans worth nearly £3 billion during 2018, with more than 288,000 current borrowers during the fourth quarter, as further e...
Melanie Goward, Investment Director, Maven Capital Partners...
Clyde Blowers Capital (CBC), Duplomatic Motion Solutions (Duplomatic) and ...
Godwin Capital, the fundraising and investment arm of Godwin Group, has recruited senior debt funding consultant Stan Lersch. ...
VenueScanner has raised £1 million to roll out its sharing economy marketplace for booking venues. VenueScanne...
Draper Esprit portfolio company Trustpilot, the leading independent platform for companies to build trust with ...
Investment manager Downing LLP has completed the acquisition of Funding Empir...
With a portfolio of 150 start-ups of all stages and from all over the world, Partech is at a perfect observation post for the projects implemented by corp...
A report released from venture capital firm MMC Ventures...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £7 million investment in Northumberland based AVID Technology Group, a leader in the ...
On International Women’s Day, female representatives of Mercia’s investment team argue that whilst there are shortcomings in the VC industry,...
Specialist property peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has...
Revolutionary heating specialist Koleda has overfunded it's latest funding round on Kickstarter which is more than 700% funded. The funding r...
Growth in the UK private sector remained stagnant in the three months to February as momentum in early 2019 remained subdued, the latest C...
New research(1) from Revolution.Aero, the global meeting place for people who are reshaping, rethinking and re...
London-based veterinary tech business, Felcana, has received an early stage venture capital investment from Global Ventu...
Belfast-based ECG biometrics innovator B-Secur has closed a follow-on funding round worth £4 million, from investors, including Accelerate...
Beauhurst has outlined the ...
Harwell Campus, the UK’s science and innovation hub, has secured £110 million funding from Santander Corporate & Commerc...
Swipii, the loyalty card app, has secured investment of £1.9m via a funding round led by award-winning Scottish venture capital firm ...
Since opening offices in Newcastle and Durham in May 2017, Maven Capital Partners has invested a total of £10 million in dynamic, high growth businesses...
London Co-investment Fund's Flavia Richardson comments on why we need to change the landscape for female entrepreneurs. This week we ar...
Inflexion Private Equity has acquired Times Higher Education (“THE”) from ...
With the backing of an equity investment package of £500,000 from the Development Bank of Wales and a further £600,000 from private investor...
Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths are key to the innovative small businesses that are set to make up a significant proportion of the Government's futur...
AdoRx Therapeutics, a UK based drug discovery company, has announced that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC* a...
The British Business Bank has announced the accreditation of Robert Owen Community Banking Fund (ROCBF)...
Vortex IoT, a Swansea-based Internet of Things (IoT) company has received a six-figure investment from the Development ...
The Angel CoFund backed energy technology company Limejump is to be acquired by Shell*. With this de...
The next generation of innovators met TeenTech patron HRH The Duke of York KG at Buckingham Palace to share their bold inventions, designed to make life &lsqu...
Two in five (40%) private equity industry professionals believe that a change in UK government is the biggest risk to their investment appetite in the UK, compared to 20% who selected a no deal Bre...
London-based investment manager Downing LLP has appointed Torsten Mack as Investment Director to its growing healthcare investment team. ...
Aston University and University of Birmingham Enterprise have teamed up with Miner...
Nivaura, a regulated FinTech company focused on automating the issuance and administration processes for financial instruments, has closed a strategic funding...
SyndicateRoom's EIS fund, ...
YFM backed ACC Aviation has acquired global aviation consultancy Aerotask and has been r...
The CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations has acquired Credence International, a UAE-based wealth management and advisory company. ...
Richard Theo, fintech envoy for Wales and co-founder and CEO of digital investment service Wealthify, will reveal his predictions for the fintech sector and the opportunities it presents for Welsh ...
Find out why Paul McNabb from Episode1 Ventures believes Ori’s edge cloud is enabling the...
Simon Hopkins, CEO of Milltrust International, believes the university tech start-up sector has never been so exciting. Read on to find out why....
Two niche property law firms, Equilaw and Thomas L...
StoryShare, a leading SaaS Mobile Employee Experience Platform (EXP), has raised £1.15 million in growth fina...
Luxcara, one of the leading asset managers for renewable energy investments, has acquired the Finnish wind power project Välikangas,...
ThousandEyes, the company that provides actionable intelligence into digital experience for the cloud, Internet, and enterprises, has announc...
Women have long been under served by the financial advisory sector - but this is now changing. This is the assessment of deVere Switzerl...
New research from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alterna...
Specialist property peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has reached three major landmarks after fully funding th...
The rapid pace of innovation, new technologies and the digitalisation of almost all segments of the economy pose a huge recruitment challenge for companies all over Europe. The number of job vacanc...
Alastair George, Chief Investment Strategist at Edison Investment Research gives his view on global earnings: ...
British technology company Rotolight, which specialises in creating advanced LED lighting for the photography and filmmaking industries, h...
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The Growth Stage, the world’s first and only regulated, membership only funding platform for institutional investors and growth-stage privat...
AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital, has hired Jay Wilson to the role of investment manager. Jay’s appoint...
A leading SaaS video management platform which holds both current and archive footage for major sporting organisations and news outlets, including Premier League, World Tennis Association and the B...
The UK’s BGF has been named the world’s most active investor in businesses seeking growth and expansion funding in ...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most...
FLOWERBX, the online, wholesale, flower-delivery service, has announced it has closed a £4.2m ($5.5m US) fundraising round. The new funding will pave t...
The Growth Company has been awarded a £56.5m contract package as a result of bidding for ESF from the Education and Skills Funding Agency. This European ...
Albemarle Street Partners (ASP), the specialist advice and investment management consultancy for advisers, has announced a merger which wil...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has made a significant investment in ...
Mobeus has announced that Matt Mead has joined the team in the newly created role of Venture Partner working across its VCT investments. ...
Senseon, the next generation AI platform for cyber defence, has announced the completion of a seed funding round of $6.4m. Leading the investme...
Gradtouch, a Manchester Based job matching business, has received a funding boost of £150K from GC Angels, the angel investment arm of the Growth Company...
UK-leading meal kit company, Gousto, has raised another £18m in equity funding, bringing the total raised since launch to £75m. Attract...
A recruitment business specialising in the financial sector has experienced rapid growth after developing a solution to a classic problem for SMEs. ...
ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank, has announced that it has appointed Gill...
Octopus Investments, part of Octopus Group and the largest provider of venture capital trusts (‘VCTs&...
FrontM, which provides business ICT applications for enterprises operating in areas with little or no standard telecommunication infrastructure, such as Airplane...
The British Business Bank’s 2019 Small Business Fi...
MMC Ventures-backed Growth Intelligence has raised £1.7m funding,...
ThinCats, the fintech lender for mid-sized SMEs, today welcomes a new £20 million funding commitment from British Business Investments, a commercial su...
Catering management software company Spoonfed is planning major expansion in the US, following £575,000 of development funding from ...
Jenson Funding Partners has announced an investment in Col8 Ltd, a technology company that provides video managemen...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has today announced the final closing of its second capital growth fund (Idinvest Growth Fund...
Deepbridge, the Chester-based tax-efficient investment manager, has announced a further increase in its yearly funding to an increased range of comp...
By Graham Bishop, Investment Director at Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK, whether the UK is stockpiling ahead...
ChargedUp, the UK’s first mobile charging network, is applying the bike-sharing model to mobile device charging, after closing a &...
Angel-backed peer-to-peer tasking app Pinga has announced its expansion across Central London, following a successful launch in Hackney last year. ...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, today announces the appointment of Bao Dinh as Investment Director in the Venture Capital team. In...
Jenson SEIS and EIS Fund 2018/19 has invested in VANUSE Ltd, an on-demand mobile marketplace app designed for the cour...
Vala Capital, the UK venture capital firm, have appointed Jane Holland, ex-Financial Director at investment company The Ingenious Group, as the firm’s new COO...
The latest British Bank Business Report[i] paints a worrying picture of the risks small businesses take to secure finance for their business. ...
Investors have pumped £300,000 into the company behind operations and issue management software used at golf’s Ryder Cup and athletics’ European Championships. ...
Praetura Asset Finance Group (PAF Group), an asset finance lender based in Manchester, today announces it has closed a £75m securitisation facility wi...
General Motors is taking a 35% stake in wejo, a Chester based 'connected car' start-up, originally backed by regional SME specialist, ...
BGF portfolio company MorphCostumes, the manufacturer and online fancy dress retailer behind the legendary...
Fuel Ventures is offering entrepreneurs with their sights on Dragons’ Den the opportunity to pitch for investm...
Silverfleet Capital, the leading Pan-European private equity firm, has strengthened i...
Award winning, social enterprise Memory Matters CIC, which runs the Moments Café in the heart of Plymouth, has received investment of £100,000 to franchise its innovative training pack...
Wine Vault, the company behind WiV, a blockchain-based trading platform for fine wines, has made a significant step towards long-term viability by attracting investment from Singapore-based ...
Kuber Ventures, the alternative investment platform specialising in EIS and SEIS, is announcing the addition of three...
Maven Capital Partners and NVM Private Equity have completed a £3.25 million equity investment in UK fintech star...
NVM Private Equity has invested £2.25 million of growth capital into Edinburgh-based software business Adm...
Foresight has made a £5 million growth capital investment into Spektrix Limited, the UK’s leading pro...
Par Equity has be awarded ‘Best EIS Investment Exit’ at the EIS Association Awards 2019. The win completed a hat-trick of awards ...
Two tech entrepreneurs aim to transform cybersecurity with a new software platform that allows businesses to monitor the whole of their cybersecurity from one easy-to-use dashboard. ...
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ASTI Mobile Robotics is partnering with Keensight Capi...
The latest Fintech M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisor, Hampleton Partners, reveals that 2018 witnessed...
Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious digital tech entrepreneurs, is seeking 20 startups with the potential to go head to head wit...
The value of private equity business in Guernsey reached its highest-ever level the end of September 2018, according to the latest fund statistics from the Guernsey F...
Angel-backed company PBD Biotech has had its novel Actiphage® testing technology...
Kuber Ventures, one of the UK’s most innovative fintech platforms used by financial advisers has been shortlisted for the WealthBriefing ...
The Clwyd Pension Fund has confirmed a £10 million equity investment in the £25 million Wales Management Succession Fund. This is the first time an institutional equity investor has bac...
Earth Capital has successfully exited from the UK Energy Efficiency Investments Fund, through the sale of the Fund’s assets via a £100m IPO.&...
Redag Crop Protection Ltd, a UK agrochemical discovery company, has sold its discovery and early development division to ...
Innovative biometric tracking service, Forth, which helps people to navigate their way to better health using simply at-home finger-prick blood tests,...
Jaisal Pastakia, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK ...
Newquay Community Orchard, which was built by the community for the community in the heart of Newquay, has received £100,000 inve...
HBAN plans to recruit 75 new business angels in 2019. The new investors will have a combined total of at least €15 million available to invest in start-ups based in the island of Ire...
Goji, the specialist direct lending investment manager and platform, has launched its 25th platform technology client, enabling 25 direct lending investm...
Smith & Williamson has launched the Dream Bigger Hall of Fame, a brand new gallery showcasing ...
Intertrust, a global leader in providing expert administrative services to clients operating and investing in the international business environment, ...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) has provided two debt packages, committing a total of £410,000 to support l...
The SidebySide Partnership, the London venture capital firm founded by technology veteran John Bailye, has launched a technology EIS fund to...
Storytellers Entertainment have defied the odds by hitting the $25k target for its first solo RPG ‘Imperium Omni’ in just 24 hours. The ...
Edge Investments, the leading creative industries specialist, has invested £3.5m into Festic...
Helena Murphy started investment consultancy Raising Partners two years ago and runs the business with her partner Duncan Di Biase. The business has so fa...
Foresight Group has announced the €17.3 million arrangement and subscription of a Project Bond issued by Pagano & Ascolillo S.p...
Female start-up founders are missing out on billions of pounds of investment, new research has found. The UK VC & Female Founders report found that for every £1 of venture capi...
Vala Capital, the UK venture capital firm, is looking to shake-up fees in the EIS industry with the launch of its ground-breaking EIS fund. ...
'It is a great honour to announce that H.E. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, President of Croatia, will be attending the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) 2019 World Congress of Angel Inv...
Beauhurst's latest edition of The Deal 2018 shows that deal numbers dropped from 1,744 in 2017 to 1,572 in 2018, and amount invested fell from £8.6b to £7b respectively. But this ...
Foresight Group has made a £2.15 million growth capital investment into Sportlabs Technology Limited, trading as ...
One of Asia’s leading fintech companies has invested £2 million into the development of a UK-based trading platform, demonstrating confidence in a post-Brexit Britain. ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has promoted Colin Anderson and Andrew Whiteley from Maven’s special...
NVM Private Equity has committed £2.2 million of growth capital into London-based recognition, employee reward, and ideas platform business, ...
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Philanthropic start-up accelerator, The Seed Fund opened for entry on Friday 1 February, offering 12 places on its sum...
State Street Global Exchange has released the results of the State Str...
Level39, one of Europe’s largest technology hubs, has launched a new campaign recognising the diversi...
LSN Diffusion (LSN), a high-tech metallurgical business has secured a further £1.25m loan from ...
AI is already being implemented in businesses around the world, and while worries persist over whether robots will be taking over the workplace, some are predicting that it will actually improve an...
Uncertainty around Brexit has hit UK markets and raised questions about the UK’s economic prospects, but what effect is it having on the UK’s sma...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF) report finds businesses ‘bullish’ about future despite 90 percent highlighting Brexit challenge 71 percen...
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A look at the year ahead from YFM 2018 was a year that confounded predictions. We had predicted a year where Brexit and general ...
A new trend in investment explained by Thomas Sheils of ...
In this 4th episode of Series 3 of The Adviser Hour, GrowthInvest explores the wider drivers behind the growing popularity of “alternati...
Milltrust International, the award-winning investment group, has highlighted the commercial potential of spinout companies from the UK’s leading univers...
Angel Investment Network (AIN), the UK’s largest and first online angel investment network has revealed its first ...
The Resonance Real Lettings Property Fund² (RLPF²) has r...
By Flavia Richardson, Portfolio Manager at the London Co-investment Fund The investment community commends its ability to monitor, interpret ...
Newable Private Investing syndicate including the LBA EIS Tracker Fund 4 make greater than 5x return following Hallmarq Veter...
Beringea has led a £6.5m investment in Exonar, a leading data discovery and management software firm. Downing Ven...
2019 is set to be a ‘buyers’ market’ for the UK’s top professionals, as the nation’s war for talent intensifies. Ne...
Resonance, a social impact investment company, with a head office in Cornwall, worked with Smile Together as advis...
Venture Capital firm Boundary Capital has invested £200,000 in Torsion Information Security, a disruptiv...
Palamon Capital Partners, one of Europe’s leading growth private equity firms, has announced that it has elected Philippe Arbour (pcitured) to the Partne...
The latest HMRC ISA Bulletin confirmed that ISA subscriptions cannot be held with eMoney providers. Goji, the specialist direct lending investment manage...
Firefly, a suite of school learning tools used in 40 countries and first developed by co-founders Simon Hay and Joe Mathewson while preparing for their GC...
By Caspar Bowes, Bowes Wine We’ve been in the throes of the latest burgundy offering of late, not only visiting the re...
Beringea has led a £9m investment in AccessPay, a Manchester-based fintech firm. The funding round, backe...
BGF has expanded its investment team covering the West Midlands with the appointment of Tom Horton, who will be based in the Birmingham off...
InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture cap...
The Dream Corporation has secured $1.1 million of investment to introduce a new leisure and hospitality concept with immersive entertainment...
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Foresight Group has made a £1.25 million growth capital investment into Fertility Focus Limited, a l...
Par Equity, the venture capital firm, has closed five investments worth £4.85m in just two days. The firm was lead investor and partnered with the&nbs...
Aberdeen-headquartered SPEX Group Holdings Limited has secured a multi-million pound follow-on investment from its management team and ...
Growth Intelligence has announced the successful close of a £1.7m investment round. The company received multiple offers with the round being...
NVM Private Equity has exited from Warwickshire-based Lanner Group, a leading provider of predictive simulation ...
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Startup Funding Club (SFC) has recently closed an investment into state-of-the-art eBike company Swytch...
MEIF Maven Debt Finance has provided Validair Monitoring Solutions Limited, a technical services and environm...
BGF has completed a further investment into The Prezola Group to deploy new technology pla...
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Charu Lahiri, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management, the asset manageme...
Hubble, the online platform for flexible office space, has secured £4 million in Series A financing from a group of industry-leading invest...
Farewill, the UK’s fastest growing will writing service has announced it has raised £7.5 million to disrupt the dea...
Equity Gap, Scotland’s most active business angel syndicate, is preparing for further expansionafter completing its biggest investm...
Hundreds of books and articles have been written on leadership – most are written by academics based on surveys and by people, who neither held penultimate leadership roles in sizeab...
The British Business Bank has appointed Paul Jones to a new position as Senior Manager, UK Network for the South West. ...
Private equity chief financial officers (CFOs) reported another year of unprecedented growth of their firms but are still struggling to overcome opera...
Alastair George, Chief Investment Strategist at Edison Investment Research discusses his outlook for 2019 in the attached s...
Fintech business lender MarketInvoice has announced it has raised £26m in...
Silverfleet Capital, the leading Pan-European private equity firm, has acquired a majority stake in STAXS&...
The British Business Bank has appointed Steve Aslett to a new position as Senior Manager, UK Network for the South East. ...
Following the heavy Government defeat on the Brexit withdrawal motion, PIMFA, the trade association for the personal investment management an...
KPMG UK Tech Monitor Index Political uncertainty and global trade frictions have dented client confidence, but buoyant staff hiring and capital spending p...
BGF has made its fourth life sciences investment in the last few months, providing Nottingham-based business incubator Bio...
SimplyCook has announced that it has secured a £4.5m Series A funding from ...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has appointed Simon Adcock as a partner and head of portfolio management. ...
QuadSAT, the drone-enabled antenna testing company, today announced it has closed its £700,000 seed round, led by the Danish Gr...
The British Business Bank has appointed Paul Sullivan to a new position as Senior Manager, UK Netw...
Over half (53%) of respondents to the survey believe financial services creates the most potential for value creation through technological innovation,...
Fuel Ventures, a leading London-based VC investment fund has launched a scheme to improve diversity and remove all unconscious bias from the investment proce...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, provided a record investment of almost £50m into AIM-listed companies in 2018, b...
A fast-growing online retailer has moved into a bigger warehouse in Glasgow after receiving financial backing from more than 700 vegans across Britain. ...
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Seldon, the machine learning deployment specialist, today announced a £2.7m funding round led by ...
Cycle.land, the bike sharing marketplace unlocking the assets of unused bikes, has announced that it has raised over £200,000, thanks to...
Alex Sleigh, Investment Director at Newable shares his thoughts on trends from last year, what to expect for 2019 and how the upcoming year will impact busi...
School Space, a leading platform for schools to generate extra funds by hiring out their spaces, has announced that it has secured £800,000 in equity fu...
Maven Capital Partners has, through its management of two regional funds, provided £1.95 million of...
BGF has announced the exit of its minority investment in Jumpstart, the UK's leading R&D tax credit spe...
The Board of Sanford DeLand Asset Management (SDL) has announced the appointment of Rex Orton as Chairman with immediate effect, following FC...
The latest Companies House data, as analysed by the Centre for Entrepreneurs (CFE), shows that business formations recovered from ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, ...
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Immersive Labs has announced that Goldman Sachs has led ...
Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK, has announced the rollout of its dynamic reportin...
By Robert Crowter-Jones, Head of Private Capital at Saranac Partners Families now tend to allocat...
Chronomics, a pioneering company in health-tech innovation, has just launched the world’s first consumer epigenetic testing kit. Chronomics has succe...
Foresight Group has invested £1.5 million from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into ...
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Superfood Bakery, a company that makes delicious gluten-free dairy-free baking mixes and snacks sold at over 100 retailers, have closed their £240...
Ingenious, the alternative investment manager that specialises in the media sector, has announced the launch of Ingenious Vision VCT. The focus of Ing...
Analysts, accountants and digital marketing specialists top a list of in-demand roles in 2019, as employers focus on navigating an increasingly digitalised business landscape and a shortage of key ...
The Unicorn AIM VCT plc has announced the intention to launch an offer for subscription to raise £15 million, through the issue of new ordin...
The UK’s leading peer-to-peer ethical investment company Abundance has started the year with the closing its largest fund raise to d...
LettUs Grow, creator of advanced aeroponic technology for indoor farms, has announced it has s...
BGF has announced the exit of its minority investment in Petrotechnics, a global leader of software solutions for hazardous industries, following its acquisitio...
Lein Applied Diagnostics, a company that specialises in innovative and precise optical technology, have closed their latest funding round, receiving investment from two members of ...
Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments, has closed an investment of £3.6 million into ...
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Volatility will persist throughout 2019, reflecting uncertainty as the Fed tightens monetary policy – but current stock market valuations will generate positive returns for investors. ...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, is seeking to raise up to £36 million through top up off...
Graham Bishop, investment director at Heartwood Investment Management, gives his insight on what we can expect in 2019 ...
By Benjamin Vedrenne-Cloquet, Chief Executive of EdtechX Holdings...
UK buyout investor, WestBridge, has promoted Tim Whittard (pictured) to director and Edward Minton to Investment Manager. ...
Crowdcube hit its best-ever figures across a range of measures in 2018, as crowdfunding continues to cement its popularity with entrepreneurs and invest...
UK infrastructure’s rapid transition from a niche to an increasingly mainstream asset class has been underlined by a new study, which reveals that over six-in-ten (62%1) financial ...
Healthcare venture investment in the U.S. and Europe reached a new high in 2018, according to Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world’s most i...
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Red Industries, the hazardous and non-hazardous waste management business, has secured a £39m funding package from ...
Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, believed to be the oldest in the world, led a record breaking £22.4m of invest...
Leading private equity investment platform Seedrs has announced a record-breaking year full of industry firsts, European growth and the highest level...
Mercia invested £59.7million in 2018, with over 90 per cent of the funding going to businesses outside of London and the South East. The figur...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel ...
Institutional investors – excited by greater regulatory clarity - are going to drive “considerable expansion” of the cryptocurrency market in 2019. Th...
Dymag Group, the British designer and manufacturer of carbon hybrid automotive wheels, i...
The Plant Hub, a brand-new space coming to East London in January 2019 is set to revolutionise the way we see, eat and...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has announced the closing of its new fund, Bowmark Capital Partners VI, ...
Impact investing platform Bamboo Capital Partners has secured additional investment following a successful funding roun...
Green Angel Syndicate (GAS) is delighted to announce its latest investment in state-of-the-art e-bike company ...
Sigmavision, which has developed an innovative tool to check the safety of vehicle tyres, has secured £1m funding to help roll it out to the global a...
Parklands Group, one of the largest independent care home providers in the north of Scotland, has received a £5m investment from ...
Credit Fintech provider TotallyMoney has agreed £29 million of funding from ...
Kernel Capital has announced that in March 2019, Andrew Graham is to take on the role of Managing Partner. He takes over from Niall Olden&nbs...
The general risks of unquoted investing Each of the Dow Schofield Watts Angels investment circulars states that you are significantly more likely to lose your money than to...
YFM Equity Partners has exited its investment in GTK Limited for £14.3m, to Volex Plc, generating a return of 3.4x original...
Limited partners in private equity funds should be wary of putting managers under pressure to deploy capital – that is the conclusion of new research published by ...
The economic contribution of the Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford Growth Corridor to the UK’s post-Brexit economy could reach £400billion by 2050, ...
Northleaf Capital Partners, Canada's largest independent global private markets fund manager, has launched an initial clo...
YFM Equity Partners has sold its stake in Gill Marine Holdings Limited for an undisclosed sum to the Myers fam...
Ascension Ventures, the London-based investment firm, re cent funding round will see the addition of 14 new ...
Bregal Milestone, a European private capital firm, has completed an investment into Greenstorm, an innovat...
London based Pinga...
An innovative treatment for those suffering from the effects of a debilitating medical condition is now a step closer after a significant investment from NorthI...
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Dorset Business Angels have been reflecting on their raising and facilitating of investments in excess of £2.5 million since the organisation...
Leading Sports and Media, a Cardiff based sports promotion and digital marketing company that provides commercial development for professional cycling races&n...
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Foresight Group has made a substantial investment into Caphan Trading Limited, trading as ...
Investment platform Downing Crowd has launched its first bond to offer investors an attractive fixed return of 7.5% p.a. plus the potential for added e...
EBAN has published the latest edition of its ...
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PEER-TO-PEER development loans platform Blend Network has secured £10m of funding from private investors. The late-seed round of fi...
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and ...
Giles Andrews OBE, co-founder of Zopa, the world’s first marketplace lender, will join Dynamic Credit&nb...
Fortum Pitchalong Shuttle is a new EV-taxi where sustainable and innovative startups pitch their ideas directly to Fortum’s executives. A moving electric v...
dott, the European micro-mobility company, announces today a €20 million early stage funding round. The investment has been co-led by the ...
YFM Equity Partners has sold its stake in Mangar Health Limited for an undisclosed sum to Winncare Group Ltd, a leading French medical device company, delivering a 2.7x return to investors. ...
Goldex, the first smart trading app that powers ethical pricing for retail gold investments today announced it has raised over £1 million i...
A Coventry-firm responsible for creating a web platform that provides online services for general medical consultations and prescriptions has received a £1million funding p...
Wandelbots, the company that is democratising robotics with demonstration-based teaching, has secured a €6 million Series A funding rou...
Maven Capital Partners has further expanded its investment t...
PopTopUK Limited, the UK’s leading online events marketplace, has secured a £615,000 equity investment from a syndicate led by ...
Angels Invest Wales has closed its second Wales Angel Co-investment Fund deal with a £400,000 seed investme...
The Riverside Company has signed a definitive agreement to sell DPA Microphones (DPA), a...
LNC Therapeutics, a French biotech company specializing in gut microbiome-based drug discovery, has expanded its Board of Directors, we...
Mid Europa Partners, the leading private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe, has entered into an agreement to acquire ...
In 2018, InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm backed six start-ups that could change the way we travel. In addition...
Total lending facilitated by P2PFA platforms passed £10 billion during the third quarter of 2018 with the sector’s contributio...
techspert.io has secured £1M in second round funding for its pioneering expert-finding and evaluating technology. ...
The British Business Bank has appointed Geoff Whiteland to a new position as UK Network Director, North of England and the Midlands....
In its latest interview Invested Investor talks to Bridget Connell, an Invested Investor who started investing four years ago and has completed five deals since....
iDefigo Group Ltd , which offers IoT (Internet of Things) solutions for the surveillance industry, has raised £1.5m as part of their latest round. T...
eHealth Ventures, the leading Digital Health technological incubator in Israel, has annou...
Emoov has gone into administration...
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Seedrs, Europe’s leading equity investment platform, announces that shareholders of portfolio company Oppo Br...
Foresight portfolio company, The Naked Deli, has opened a new city centre outlet in Grey ...
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European governments intervene in almost half of all venture capital investments for entrepreneurs, according to new research from emlyon business school...
Cellwize, a global leader in mobile network automation and orchestration, has announced an equity funding investment from DT...
New research by The Recruit Venture Group has uncovered the t...
Maven Capital Partners and the Scottish Investment Bank have exited from Incremental Gro...
Maven Capital Partners and YFM Equity Partners have exited their investment in ...
CrowdProperty has become the latest peer-to-peer loan originator to disclose their lending performance using ...
State Street Corporation has launched the latest findings from its Brexometer Index, a quarterly pulse survey of...
First study of its kind from eFront finds that larger LPs receive more information from GPs, and best practice in privat...
The majority (75 per cent) of the UK’s growth businesses would prefer to move forward with Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal than face further political upheaval, according to a poll co...
Private equity experts at UK law firm Shoosmiths have advised nGAGE, one of the coun...
The Stanhope Entrepreneurs Fund, a growth capital fund managed by Stanhope Capital, the global investment and advisory group, has completed its first investment. The SEF is the lead investor in a c...
Part I What is the big deal about AI chips? Training: algorithms analyse the underlying data and learn from it. In a neural network model, the...
Brexit remains the largest concern for small businesses in 2018, as uncertainty remains over whether a deal of any sort will be reached by the March 2019 deadline, says ...
MEIF Maven Debt Finance has provided Automotive Macliver ...
H.I.G. Capital, a leading global private equity investment firm with over €26 billion of equity capital under management, is pleased t...
9 companies reached their funding targets with ...
PIMFA, the trade association for wealth managers and financial advisers, officially launched the third in the series of their flagship Mille...
Influencer marketing has risen to the forefront in recent years, particularly when harnessed with live video trends on social channels. Many brands have looked to influencers to promote their produ...
The British Business Bank, the UK government-owned economic development bank, has today announced a £10.5m commitment to WhiteRock Capital Partners LLP’s new Growth Finance Fund. This i...
Four of Wales’ top entrepreneurs have been named as the first four lead investors for the Development Bank of Wales’ £8 million Wales Angel Co-investment ...
NVM Private Equity has strengthened its investment team with the recruitment of Sam Sinclair, Ishaan Chilkoti, Charlotte Clarke and Carmine ...
3 years on from saving the business from Administration in a £7.5m deal, Seneca backed Foodpack Limited...
Kudos, the award-winning service for maximising the reach and impact of academic research, has closed a Series A investment round led by ...
Capital Step has successfully funded the management buy-out of Brightwater, a leading independent recrui...
Kuber Ventures, the alternative investment platform specialising in EIS and SEIS, has announced the appointment of a new Head of Cli...
One of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations, deVere Group, is to launch a suite of mutual funds under it...
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Strategic land investment platform Intro Crowd is pleased to welcome a new member to their board of directors this week...
Rockstart has selected the startups for its 2nd AI accelerator program located in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Talented women and men from seven differe...
By Caspar Bowes, Bowes Wine I’ve just returned from a few days in Burgundy: a brief sojourn that offered (besides clear insights into th...
Custom Materials Ltd (“Moteefe”), a social commerce platform, has recently raised funding from the Unic...
Jaguar Land Rover's venture capital fund InMotion Ventures has announced its seed investment ...
Foresight Group LLP has announced a £249,000 equity investment into ...
ENTREPRENEURS who are part of an incubator designed to help companies grow and thrive in County Durham will now be able to access up to £10,000 of funding each. ...
PIMFA, the trade assoc...
Fielmann Ventures GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fielmann AG, has announced that it has subscribed to a capital increase fo...
With Private Debt becoming one of the cutting edge markets in the broader asset markets, The timely introduction of the DLX Direct Lending Index will give asset managers and analysts the informatio...
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The British Business Bank has announced a commitment of up to £150m for lending to UK small businesses through ...
NVM Private Equity has announced that it has raised £142 million for its debut Institutional Fund. NVM Private Equity Vintage III has received commitm...
Octopus Investments, part of ...
Three quarters (75%) of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) believe digitalisation will have a positive impact for temporary employees within the finance department, according to research1 f...
The British Business Bank’s Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) programme has now supp...
A prominent VC firm has kick-started a campaign to increase the number of applications for investment from female founders, after discovering only 4% of 4,216 pitch decks were from female founders....
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity firms, has led a £1m series B i...
Sunday's announcement that EU leaders have agreed to the draft Brexit deal, brought forward by Theresa May, puts us one step closer to the end of the road. Although backing of the deal i...
Michael Stanes, Investment Director at Heartwood Investment Management Global invest...
Maven Capital Partners has provided Mansfield-based Proskins Ltd, a manufacturer of sports and fit...
Neotas, a ‘digital intelligence’ business which provides enhanced due diligence and HR screening, has closed a funding round of over...
OMass Therepeutics, a biopharmaceutical company using structural mass spectrometry to discover novel medicines, has announced completion o...
HM Treasury has announced an action plan to increase the growth for UK SME's by aiming to spend £1 in every £3 with SMEs, directly or through the supply chain, by 2022, meani...
The UK online alternative finance market volume grew by 35 percent in 2017, to £6.2 billion (from £4.6 billion in 2016), as peer-to-peer business lending became an increasin...
VCT & EIS Investor Forum sponsor CHF Entertainment has anno...
Market Gravity, the proposition design consultancy, hosted its ninth annual Corporate Entrepreneur Awa...
Fluidic Analytics, a Cambridge-based life sciences business, has secured a £24m funding package to continue its research and developmen...
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Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has announced that its Private Debt team has financed three direct lending transactions as ap...
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The North East Development Capital Fund (“NEDCF”), supported by the ...
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Inverleith LLP, a Scottish headquartered private equity firm, has successfully closed its first institutional fund, Inverleith Limited Partnership, at its h...
Brightman, the IT transformation and change management experts, has launched a new white paper aimed at ad...
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CrowdProperty has been accepted as the first property development peer-to-peer lending platform to join th...
Durham County Council and Blaenau Gwent Borough Council have launched a call for technology businesses to develop innovative solutions that can capture and analyse data to transform Local Authority...
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Optoscribe, a leading supplier of glass-based integrated photonics components, has raised £2.8 million. This funding will facilitate an expansion ...
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Octopus Investments, part of Octopus Group and the largest provider of venture capital trusts (‘VCTs’) in the UK, today a...
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CupClub, a returnable packaging service for drinks cen...
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A leading Birmingham enterprise is celebrating after securing £100,000 of SITR (Social Investment Tax Relief) investment from social investment company Reso...
NVM Private Equity has invested £2.75 million of growth capital (with the balance of the £3.2m funding round provided by existing investors and ...
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Finnish SaaS company Screenful has raised €305,000 in seed funding to help companies improve the efficiency and delivery of collaborative p...
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Investcorp Technology Partners, a leading European lower middle market technology investor, has acquired Berlin-based ...
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IP Investment Management (HK) Ltd and Maven Capital Partners have sold a portfolio of two newly dev...
Phrasee, the London-headquartered marketing technology company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate optimised marketing copy, has closed a $4m Series...
Cardiff Indoor Market is now home to Smokey Pete and Sam Van Tân as award winning Ffwrnes opened their latest venture earlier this month. Established ...
Chevler, the UK’s leading manufacturer of baking cases, tulip muffin wraps, and a major printer of greaseproof paper has secured a six-figure funding package from the Deve...
Newport based communications company Talkative, is pleased to announce it has completed a Series A funding round, raising in excess of £350,000. Talkative is headquartered...
Investly has appointed seasoned working capital executive Wayne Hughes as its new Chief Executive Officer to make Investly the leading receivables financ...
The Danish/Swedish private equity firm Polaris and Falck have signed an agreement...
The scrapping of Entrepreneurs’ relief could discourage entrepreneurs’ from setting up businesses in the UK, say leading accounting, tax and adv...
Readly, the global digital magazine newsstand, has raised €10m in additional funding to drive the next stage of its growth. The latest round of funding com...
ibis Styles Glasgow Centre West has opened in Glasgow’s International Financial Services District following an £11.25 million ...
By Anthony Rose, CEO & Founder, SeedLegals Starting a company is a fine balance of risk and reward. You’ve most probably left a salaried job, and are using your s...
Kuber Ventures has produced a fifth in its series of CPD qualifying educational animations, which provides an educational insight into inheritan...
Howard Simms, Co-Founder of mobile technology group Apadmi and CEO of their investment arm Apadmi Ve...
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Shoosmiths has advised on the sale of specialist IT-provider Taylor Made Computer Solutions (TMCS) to&...
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Apperio, the UK-based legal tech start-up transforming the way companies analyse their legal spend, today announces that it has raised $10 million (£7.5...
The mindset of entrepeneurs is unique. Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman told me he considers them “less loss-averse and more optimistic than other people (…) a small an...
By Anthony Rose, CEO & Founder at SeedLegals When negotiating funding deal terms, invest...
A new pioneering investment app has been launched by one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations due to a “seismic shift in client expectations.” ...
UK's trade legacy is fintech charged, Brexit must be a springboard for international finance and trade or it could spell disaster, says Luke Davies, CEO and founder of ...
Private equity and venture capital investment into companies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) reached a record €3.5 billion in 2017, new data from ...
Ascension has partnered with India based Unicorn India Ventures to launch t...
The EU crowdfunding framework proposed by the European Commission will help to build a capital markets union, foster innovation and support entrepreneurs and SMEs across the EU, says the European E...
The self-proclaimed ‘leading payments authority’ New Payment System Operator (NPSO) is backing away from its responsibilities in delivering a &l...
While the future trading relationship with the EU remains unclear, the government’s ambitious new plans to support SMEs looking to export globally is welcome. SMEs ar...
Business owners are being warned to ensure their offices feature seven important elements if they want to maximise their employees’ productivity and efficiency in the workplace. ...
The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) has released a national and investor representative piece of research, gauging whether the British p...
UCLTF funded Orchard Therapeutics, a biotechnology company dedicated to transforming the lives...
Sapinda Holding B.V. has announced today that it has appointed Pascal Perrier as the group chief executive of ...
Online ads are seen as being more intrusive than TV and radio adverts, according to new research from instantprint, so how should this affect your marketing approach? ...
The Nigerian Agricultural Bank, Bank of Agriculture and the Afr...
Luxcara, one of Europe’s leading asset managers for renewable energy investments, will build the solar project El Salobral with ...
The next TechInvest event will present 10 of L...
Maven Capital Partners, has provided Serene Furnishings...
A Manchester solicitor who has developed an app to help law firms communicate more effectively with clients has closed a £344,000 investment round backed by ...
Rotageek provides cloud-based, data-driven scheduling technology to help multi-site businesses more accurately predict customer demand...
BGF has successfully exited its investment into Leicester-headquartered MPK Garages, an independent opera...
Keyword Studios, the international technical services provider to the global video games industry, has announced that...
UKBAA's Jenny Tooth has been interviewed by the HSBC Know...
The deVere Group's UK subsidiary, UK Workplace Solutions Limited, has received the required Approval Notice from...
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Following a significant loan from the Development Bank of Wales, a north Wales company will save salmon farmers millions...
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The enjoyment of wine is a purely subjective thing. But what are the things that affect one’s levels of pleasure when one has a glass of wine to hand? T...
The developers of a technology that helps clinicians and healthcare professionals to treat people suffering from sleeping problems more effectively has received two high-p...
Roomex, an ambitious global travel software business headquartered in Dublin, today announces it has raised €8 million series A funding, led by Draper Esprit. Co-founded by Jack Donagh...
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On the dot, the machine learning-driven last mile delivery start-up, and part of CitySprint Group,...
Novo Nordisk gains full rights to Ziylo’s early-stage glucose binding molecules in a staged acquisition with a potential deal value that could exceed 800 million ...
In its latest analysis of global Mergers & Acquisitions activity in Enterprise Software, Hampleton Partners reports that the sector delive...
Edinburgh based private equity fund, Inverleith LLP, has invested further into Braham and Murray ...
CrowdProperty has promised a pipeline of new loans to fund for the rest of the year as it approaches its fourth anniversary. ...
Benefex Holdings Limited, owner of the market leading employee experience platform OneHub, has announced that ...
The Greater Manchester Loan Fund, managed by Ma...
Triple Point, which provides innovative and compelling investment solutions for private and institutional investors, announces the first investment of i...
Electric autonomous vehicle company, the Academy of Robotics, has closed its latest funding round in under six hours. Inv...
BGF is to exit its investment in employee benefits firm Benefex, the first company to receive BGF funding when it la...
Private equity fund distributions have outweighed capital calls by a significant and striking degree over the past five years. Data from ...
Benjamin Matthews, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management, gives his views on the emerging biotech opportunities arising f...
Richard di Benedetto, the current President of Aetna International; one of the world’s largest health benefits businesses has been appointed as a director and non-executive chairman of ...
Following a new financing round earlier this year and Nesta’s Open Banking prize last year, London based invoice finance provider Investly has opened...
UK based e-learning specialist Candle Learning has announced the launch of their latest online to...
The British Business Bank has announced that it has accredited Lutterworth-based ...
Burgundy has long been regarded as not the sort of region one “visits” should bargain-hunting be on the agenda. In fact, many wine consumers have long since written it off as being out ...
As a business owner, tracking and keeping on top of company growth is a number one priority, especially in the early years of the business. But it’s important to focus on how those results co...
Venture capital firm MMC Ventures has announced the appointment of senior advisers to help guide the firm’s next phase of growt...
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Arix Bioscience plc, a global healthcare and life science company supporting medical innovation, has announced that its Group Busine...
Inflation is currently running at 2.4% yet the best easy-access cash savings rate currently available is 1.33% Almost two-thirds (66%) of savers...
Hazy, the London-based AI company enabling ethical, effortless and GDPR-compliant data sharing for responsible businesses, has announced an additional $1.8 million s...
Octopus Investments, part of Octopus Group and the largest provider of venture capital trusts (VCTs) in the UK, has announced the launch...
Mediolanum Asset Management, the Irish asset management company of the Mediolanum Banking Group, has appointed Astrid S...
Bovine TB is one of a group of diseases caused by mycobacteria that has devastated the agricultural industry worldwide. Now UK agri-tech start-up PBT Biotech...
While the rumblings and political discontent continues around Brexit and the purported 'turmoil' the UK is in, according to Donald Trump anyway, it is sometimes prudent to take stock of what we're ...
NVM Private Equity (NVM) has invested £3m of growth capital into leading indoor climbing business The Climbin...
Tech Nation has announced that five of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs and founders will join the Tech Nation...
ZOPA has raised £44m in the first stage of a new fundraising round, in the latest sign that the peer-to-peer lender is preparing to go public. Earlier this year, reports suggested tha...
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Profit with purpose food company Farmstand raises $3 million to continue its mission to make a healthier plant-powered diet accessible to all F...
HMRC have received a record breaking £5.2bn from inheritance tax for the 2017/2018 tax year, an eight percent increase, with London and the south east being the high...
Call for Startups - Apply to EBAN Winter Summit to Meet Hundreds of Business Angels, with Free Passes and Accommodation! The...
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YFM Equity Partners (YFM), the specialist private equity fund manager, has invested £4.5m from its managed funds into Collaborative Project Man...
We all want a secure financial future and to be able to fund the lifestyle we want for ourselves and our family. One way of ga...
Following hotly on the (kitten!) heels of Victoria Beckham, fashion icon Alesha Dixon, makes her own statement with fashion business littleblackdress.co.uk. The company has confirmed positive news ...
Crowd investors who invested in Revolut, Britain’s first digital banking unicorn, via Crowdcube, the world’s first and largest...
Ocean Polymers, a British recycling technology company, has announced its commitment to develop partnerships with companies which invest in technology an...
Calculus Capital, the award-winning Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) specialist, has invested £2m in ...
FloodFlash, an insurtech startup that offers a new way for customers to insure previously u...
UK holiday park operator Coppergreen has acquired Kenwick Park Golf Hotel and Spa and Lodge Park in Lincolnshire and Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, doubling...
The UK’s largest online car repair marketplace has secured £4 million from investors including Shell Ventures, Sir Trevor Chinn, Active Partners and Ven...
YFM Equity Partners has backed the MBO of DSP Database Managed Services, a leading provider of database and da...
High-growth Miss Group, a web hosting company, has received a £6.4m investment from ...
Foresight portfolio company, The Naked Deli, has opened its world-first airport ...
Funds managed by Foresight Group LLP have provided an additional £10 ...
Free snacks, flexible working hours and paid-for fitness memberships have been named as three of the most realistic job perks business owners can introduce to keep staff hap...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has sold Nexus Vehicle Rental (N...
Wine’s at a curious crossroads and the future is as foggy as an especially opaque Tyne morning. ...
Richard di Benedetto has been appointed as a director and non-executive chairman of ...
Innovative Finance ISAs (IF ISAs) have seen significant take-up in the first year of being widely available to customers, according to data published by the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (...
Molson Construction Equipment, the UK’s largest distributor of capital equipment, has received a £6.3m inves...
TransferMate, a leading cross-border B2B payments technology solution, is delighted to announce today a €21 million i...
The Berlin-based startup Grover, which offers pay-as-you-go subscriptions as an alternative to technology product ownership, has raised €37 milli...
Oddbox, London’s biggest independent wonky fruit and veg box scheme, reached its crowdfunding target in record time to enable it to expand its unique s...
Crowdcube, the world’s first and largest equity crowdfunding platform, has had its stronges...
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Below then I have outlined some thoughts (musings in some cases) as to how we could make our industry bigger and better. Some of them are sensible, some wishful thinking, some I s...
Symvan Capital has been shortlisted for the Best EIS Investment Manager and Best SEIS Investment Manager awards at the 2018 Growth Investor Awards. These prestigious awards celebrate the UK’s...
Maven Capital Partners has led the £2.5 million investment in Bright Netw...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of busine...
Esme Loans, the digital lending platform for SMEs and scale up businesses, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Pollen Street Capital...
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Calculus Capital has invested £2m in software company CloudTrade. Clou...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the next stage of the post-implementation review of peer-to-peer lending regulat...
snap40, an AI-enabled healthcare company with the mission to protect the health of e...
The curtain has long since been drawn on the 2017 Bordeaux primeurs campaign and merchants the world over are doing their damnedest to expunge all memory of it from their mi...
Office workers have been warned to get along with their colleagues by avoiding the ten top reasons for workplace arguments. New research by experts from ...
Sangamo Thereapeutics, Inc. and TxCell S.A. have announced that they hav...
Keywords Studios, the international creative and technical servic...
Following the fast-moving Brexit developments, ...
A surgical and high-precision engineering company that provides bespoke full jaw dental implant solutions in a day to patients has received a £4m inves...
Startup Funding Club has invested £570K into Blue Skies Space Ltd alongside the London Co-Inves...
Beauhurst presents its latest market update and analysis of all equity investment, ,which looks at every fundraising secured by the UK's high-growth businesses in the first half of 2018. ...
CrowdProperty, the property specialist peer-to-peer lender today funded a £925,000 residential property development project in 9 minutes and 51 se...
London’s economy has experienced strong growth over the past decade, according to Instant Offices. Their research found the three biggest bu...
The Resonance West Midlands Social Investment Tax Relief Fund (WMSITR Fund), launched earlier this year, has just received a boost from the ...
By Miles, the company offering drivers real time pay-as-you-go car insurance by the mile, has closed a £1m funding round led by ...
DYSIS Medical Ltd, the developer of the innovative DYSIS Ultra colposcope used in cervical cancer screen...
The UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) has released exclusive new research into the role that UK investors want SMEs to pl...
BGF has invested £5m growth capital in Alnwick-based pharmaceutical company Arcinova fo...
Dudley-based Carbon Fibre Preforms as raised £1.078m via the private investor network ...
Nexus Investments, a division of Harry Hyman’s Nexus Group,...
Property finance platform HiP has released key insights and their expert opinion into what to consider when thinking about real estate invest...
Mission Mars, the North West operator behind hospitality concepts including Albert's Schloss and ...
Tamworth-headquartered logistics firm, OnLogistics Ltd, is set to expand a number of its divisions, after receiving £350k from the Midla...
Re-hires make up nearly a third of all financial advisers who have this year joined deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent finan...
A UCL Technology Fund investment, MeiraGTx Holdings plc (Nasdaq:MGTX), a vertically integrated, ...
BlackFin Capital Partners has closed its BlackFin Tech 1 Fund at €180m at its final closing. Top-tier institutional investors have joined the existing ...
A fast-growing South Wales fintech company has closed a £1.25million funding round backed by Mercia Fund ...
Subsea services company, Rovco, is on track to rapidly grow its share of the global subsea market after securing angel investment. This will enable the...
PEER-TO-PEER lenders must extend their reach to businesses beyond London as the UK’s regions continue to be underserved by finance, according to the UK’s first small business commission...
PriceWaterhouseCooper's report...
City of London Group, the parent company of a group focused on providing finance to the SME sector and home reversion plans in the UK residential pro...
The manager of the highly rated Draper Esprit EIS funds is expanding its team. This is a great opportunity to join a fast-expanding business. The successful applicant will enjoy a clien...
Draper Esprit, a leading venture capital firm investing in and developing high growth digital technology businesses, hosted its Annual Gene...
From Dusty to Science – A Wine Journey Way back in a distant history shrouded in the mists of times past a solitary rip...
It's hard to say goodbye. A compilation of startup failure post-mortems by founders and investors. Of his many failed experiments, Tho...
Advantedge Commercial Finance, a provider of invoice finance to UK based SMEs, has acquired Newport-based Henry Howard Cashflow Finance. Since ...
Seatfrog, the technology company revolutionising rail and airline upgrades through liv...
Bean-to-bar chocolate company MIA is celebrating after exceeding its crowdfunding target of £100,000 on the Seedrs ...
Kernel Capital has led an investment into D...
PwC and CB Insights' Q2 2018 MoneyTree report highlights the latest tre...
SaleCycle, a high-growth behavioural marketing business whose clients include Tommy Hilfiger and Nike, has received an £11.5m investment from ...
NVM Private Equity has invested £3.1 million of growth capital into Midlands-based Clarilis, a high-growth tec...
Movebubble, London’s number one property rental platform, has raised just under £825,000 in funding, thanks to its successful e...
Matthew Rowell, Head of Partnerships at SeedLegals offers some timely advice to companies looking to raise finance before the summer holidays....
Christian Elmes, Enterprise Investment Partners When I think about investment portfolios, certain phrases spring to mind: hedge your bets; don&r...
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Investors must move towards diversifying their portfolio in light of tenuous U.S.-China relations, a Brexit deal that stands on the edge of a knife, and a looming shift in global markets, says...
Wistia, a video software provider for small and medium-sized businesses, today announces it has raised $17.3m in debt ...
HBAN, the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and a joint initiative of Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIreland, has been crowned Globa...
NN Investment Partners has released its full investor sentiment report looking at Alternative Credit. You can access the rep...
New research reveals advisers are missing chance to win inherited pots because they are neglecting under-45 segment of the market &...
Business owners are being advised of the top qualities to look out for amongst their workforce in order to recognise and reward their very best employees. The office exper...
NPIF Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), and ...
Leading equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs have announced a pioneering move for the sector with the launch of its new product ...
BGF has backed tech-focused Click Travel, Britain’s fastest growing business travel...
A new study has uncovered four strategies entrepreneurs use to cope with the fear of failure. Fail fast and often is the constant refrain of the lean start-up movement and many others...
Cryptocurrencies are now “undeniably part of mainstream finance”, affirms the boss of one of the world’s largest independent financial services organisations. The bold sta...
So, you’ve thrown everything at your pitch. Your pitch deck was concise and compelling. You managed to get in front of a VC. Y...
Investment proceeds will support commercialization of the company’s breakthrough biologics manufacturing technology Univ...
UK fintech scale-up Shieldpay has launched in the United States (US) with car classified site, AutoClassics.com ...
SilverStreet Capital, a leading investor across the agricultural value chain, has been awarded ...
Camtronics Vale Limited have completed a management buy-out with the support of a £400,000 loan from the Development ...
Economy Secretary Ken Skates has launched a new research unit tasked with addressing the gap in Welsh SME finance data. ...
Beringea, the international growth capital investor, has completed the sale of its s...
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Senior investment professional brings over 15 years’ investment and banking experience strengthening the expanding North East team...
Maven Capital Partners has completed a £2 million investment in Lending Works, a leading UK peer-to-peer lender. The total transacti...
Beauhurst publishes its 'Foreign investment in high-growth companies' report 2017 was a record year for foreign investment into t...
The British Business Bank has launched the £40m Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Investment Fund ...
Total equity investment increased by 89% to a record £5.9bn invested in UK smaller businesses in 2017 Investment va...
The British Business Bank has announced a new £300m ENABLE guarantee to help Barclays Bank increase their provision of flexible asset finance to smaller businesses looking to invest in vehicl...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and a joint initiat...
Lending Works, the leading UK peer-to-peer lender, has received a £2.8 million capital injection, a...
Tech entrepreneurs looking for investment in their early stage businesses need to pass the "grandma test" if they want to be successful. That's the view of Norman Molyneux, founder and CEO ...
Oura Health, the Finnish health technology company behind the Oura ring, has moved its total private funding to 12.5M€ after the closure of a round led by U...
The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA), representing the many companies and investors that have benefited fro...
Cybertonica, a fast-growth AI technology offering cross-channel real-time risk and fraud solutions, and fellow UK-based start-up Railsbank, h...
Social-commerce fashion app 21Buttons has raised $17M Series B funding led by Idinvest P...
Small British manufacturers expected to accelerate revenue growth to +2.2% in coming year, with financial services SMEs expected to grow +1.9% Q2 2018 SME Growth Track...
Trump’s escalation of the trade war is going to triggr a “chain reaction of negative events around the world,” warns the boss of one of the world’s largest independent finan...
From the statistics, it’s clear that businesses are putting on hold significant projects with fears of uncertainty due to Brexit. In this case, research and ...
Proposals put forward by the government on employment tax compliance and reporting obligations for those coming to the UK for short business trips do not go far enough and may adversely affect smal...
NorthEdge Capital has closed its NorthEdge Capital SME Fund I, LP at its £120 million hard cap. The Fund was raised from existing investors and enab...
Mediolanum Asset Management, the Irish asset management company of the Mediolanum Banking Group, has announced the appointment of Christophe Jaubert as its new Hea...
A 19th-century icon of the Welsh coast is being developed for the 21st century, thanks to funding from alternative finance provider ...
Keywords Studios, the international technical services provider to the global video games industry, today announces that it has made some key appointme...
Bregal Investments has announced that it has secured a €400 million capital commitment for Bregal Miles...
Guernsey has launched a world-first regulated green fund product. The move is part of Guernsey’s plans to become the ‘go-to’ international finance centre for green fina...
The London office of international law firm Winston & Strawn represented&nb...
Cutting Edge Solutions has acquired Majenta PLM to create the largest value-added reseller of Siemens c...
Paragon Group, the leading provider of customer communications, identification and graphics services, is pleased to announce the acquisition of ...
Atomico has been saying for some time that the European technology ecosystem is at an inflection point, but 2018 is the year Europe turned that corner. When Atomico started, very few ...
The publication of the draft Finance Bill 2019 marks a new approach to introducing tax legislation, following the revised timetable for the annual Budget, adopted by Philip Hammond last year, says ...
ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank, announced today that client capital raising activity has doubled since 2...
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EMEA Attracting Mega Deals: Aggregate capital deployed into EMEA totalled €40bn during our study period of April 1, 2018 through May 31, 2018,...
Mimica Lab, a business that produces award-winning technology designed to reduce waste in perishable products such as food and pharmaceuticals, have receive...
After launching an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, ...
Keywords Studios has announced that it has established Keywords Ventures which will make modest investments in innovative techn...
Booksy, the world’s largest and fastest growing booking app for appointment-based beauty businesses, has announced that it has secured $13.2 million (£...
Capitama, the global direct private investment platform for sophisticated and professional investors, has today announced that its members have exceeded £1...
NPIF - Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has com...
By Martin Sherwood, Partner, Enterprise Investment Partners Other than the contracted exit schemes which were abolished many y...
Before you invest your hard-earned savings into a peer to peer lender, here are five key questions that you should be asking to give you the best chance of seeing returns on your money, says Michae...
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UKBAA is working with Big Society Capital ...
Having introduced £15.3m of equity between 2010-2018, this represents a return of £42,686,301 for 50 members of the ENVESTORS private network and two introduced Funds....
CamBioScience, an e-learning company that provides intensive training courses in breakthrough life science technologies, has received investment from th...
To meet the growing international demand for its rapid, sensitive test for mycobacterial disease, PBD Biotech is to establish a Canadian subsidiary in Saskatoon to support its first overseas c...
A.I.-powered reputation management and decision support platform, Signal Media, has announced a $16 million series B funding round. The funding round...
Nasstar has announced that its Financial Director, Niki Redwood has today been recognised as part of the CEO T...
The UK’s tech industry is leading the way in the creation of billion-dollar businesses despite Brexit fears, according to research released today by technology investment bank ...
Nine companies backed by BGF are listed in the London Stock Exchange Group's 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain 2018, including Medigold&n...
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NVM Private Equity has invested £1.5 million of growth capital into Newcastle based hiPSC company Newcells Bio...
Draper Esprit and the Earlybird Digital West partner group have entered into a Strategic Partnership Agreement to share d...
easyCoffee’s plan to roll out 800 vending machines nationally in the next year have been given a boost following a £10 million investment by ...
By Andrew Aldridge, Deepbridge Capital Regardless of our profession or objectives, there are always problems to overcome and solutions to be ...
Silicon Microgravity (SMG), a spin-out from both BP and the University of Cambridge, has raised $7 million from IP ...
Livingbridge has sold its stake in Portman Dental Care, the fastest growing, privately led dental g...
Venture capital funds globally continued their strong run of performance over recent years in the first quarter of 2018, with a near-record return of 1.45x, according to data from ...
The UK is the world’s least-loved major market – but it’s not all Brexit’s fault, affirms a leading analyst at one of the world’s largest independent financial organis...
Rcapital, the private investment firm, has backed Scottish shopfitter Havelock, based in Kirkcaldy, Fife.&nb...
Manchester-based Ardenton Capital has backed PP Control and Automation in the...
iBAN, a UK-based company which raised funds on Seedrs in 2017, plans to launch iBAN Wallet - a digital alterna...
Other Mind, Inc. the first intelligent assistant that simplifies your digital life, has closed its seed funding...
UK plc debts hit all-time high of £390.7bn This is up 69% since the debt low point in 2010/11, an increase of £159.6b...
Aistemos, the leading provider of patent analytics software, has today announced it has secured an investment of £3m. Beringea, the international growth capital investor, led t...
Many people in the UK are currently unable to access investment advice because the minimum investment values are prohibitively high and the fees too steep. Munny...
Seneca provided a cornerstone growth capital investment to support the Gear4music IPO in June 2015. Since inves...
Companies only go bust when they run out of cash. That might seem like the most obvious statem...
Mercia Technologies investment, VirtTrade, has secured a partnership with Formula 1 to join its growi...
A Derbyshire industrial lubricants specialist has secured a £250,000 loan to support its growth from ...
BitSight, the Global Standard in Security Ratings, has closed $60 million in Series D funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $155 million...
By Lisa Best, Oxford Capital Building more homes in the UK is an urgent prio...
A North Wales company that is developing a world-first technology to recycle MDF waste has received new funding of £165,000 from a group of business angels. ...
Gigglebyte, a series of tech talks, workshops, panel discussions and events, will be part of the Shepherds Bush Comedy Festival from 24 - 27 July. The re-imagined festival will return this ...
Chargemaster is the operator of the UK’s largest EV charging network and the leading supplier of EV charging infrastructure. ...
Interview with Simon Acland, Founder, Green Angel Syndicate What is your background, before the world of G...
Specialist investment manager Oxford Capital has announced the launch of its Residential Development Bond. It is a co-investment alongside Oxford Capital managed funds, allowi...
A Hull healthtech start-up which has developed an award-winning device to enhance mental wellbeing has secured a £200,000 investment from ...
Growing investment portfolio supported by hire of senior investment professionals adds to Maven’s strong presence across the North of England with two recent...
Chelverton Asset Management, a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quoted equities and unquoted SMEs, has completed its third transaction of 2018 on beha...
SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk has compiled a list of the top 5 rising tec...
Ten years of investment, ten years of innovation: over the past decade, Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC) has made a string of succes...
The UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) has commissioned a new nationwide study to analyse the sentiment of investors towar...
Apex Housing Group, an innovative airspace property developer, has received a £6.25m investment from ...
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Innovate UK has offered £8 million to 13 businesses developing innovative solutions for the UK’s urban infrast...
YOOBIC, whose platform provides real-time monitoring of retail operations, has raised $25m (£18.8m) of new funding. The round was led by Insight Venture Partners, a...
A Doncaster engineering firm which made the steel walkways for the sports complex in the 2012 Olympics has secured a £150,000 loan from ...
Sam Quawasmi, co-founder of global equity crowdfunding platform Eureeca, is urging UK and European businesses to take advantage of Chin...
PIMFA, the UK wealth management and financial advice association and TISA, the investmen...
London and Cambridge occupy first and second places, with Oxford ranking eighth UK cities represent 5 of Europe’s top 20 dynamic...
State Street Global Exchange has released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for Jun...
The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), which is the pan-European community for the early stage investors covering over 150 member organizations...
Leading deeptech VC, IQ Capital, has held the first close of its £125m third fund, IQ Capital Fund III, at £92 million. The fund will invest at Seed ...
Louis Poulsen has developed strongly under Polaris’ ownership since 2014, generating considerable rev...
By Dr Graham Davies, Investment Director at Mercia With around 63,000 digital technology jobs, Manchester is now the single bigg...
By Tom Hopkins, Kin Capital Theresa May stood outside Jodrell B...
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Inflexion Private Equity has announced the appointment of Irina Hemmers as a Partner. Irina will lead the TMT team, building on Inflexion’s long h...
Triptease, a travel SaaS startup which helps hotels to get more direct bookings and bring hospitality online, has raised $4m of additi...
Pfizer Ltd has announced that Medopad, Perfect Ward and Inhealthcare have been selected to be part of the Pfizer Healthcare Hub: London. ...
TourRadar, the largest OTA in the multi-day touring market, announced today a US$50m Series C, led by TCVwith partic...
Celonis, the global market leader in process mining software, has raised $50 million in Series B funding from existing investors ...
uMotif, the data capture company putting patients at the centre of clinical research, has raised £2.4 million in its latest funding round led by ...
Lithuanian Business Angels Network (LitBAN), together with Co-Investment Fund “Koinvesticinis...
Maven Capital Partners has completed a £1.6 million investment in ...
Seedrs announces record levels of trading in its first year operating a secondary market and what’s next for the product. In the twelve months since laun...
Mobeus Equity Partners has led the £5 million Series B, investing £3.6 million, with participation from all MyTutor’s existing high-p...
MYCS, the European leader in personalised furniture ec...
By Angelika Burawska The journey from business concept to successful exit is long and full of obstacles. Even the best entrepreneurs...
The Community Interest Company ‘Led By Dreams’ (LBD) is the recipient of the third launchpad loan from the Health & Wellbeing Challenge Fund (...
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CW (Cambridge Wireless) announces the launch of its annual ...
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has appointed Link Asset Services ...
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BGF has appointed Sophie Birch to its Talent Network team, which helps BGF-backed companies gain unparalleled access to a group of more than 5,000 board-level no...
Labstep, the platform for researchers that captures real-time scientific data and connects lab groups enabling information sharing...
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A highways technology company which has amassed a huge library of data about the UK’s road network has secured a £2.7m investment from BGF to ...
Live Better With, a healthcare e-commerce platform founded by entrepreneur Tamara Rajah with the aim of helping people with long-term medical condit...
AdoRx Therapeutics, a UK based drug discovery company focused on the identification of new cancer therapeutics, today announced tha...
The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) has commissioned a new nationwide sentiment study to analyse those that constitute the future...
Business owners are being supplied with useful advice in order to help them keep the stress of relocating their business to a minimum. The team of commercial property expe...
BGF has invested £3m of growth capital into Cardiff-headquartered DevOpsGroup...
Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate, has been recognised as the UK’s Lead Angel Investment Syndicate of the Year by the UK Busi...
Rcapital has supported the MBO of CHS Engineering Services Limited from its former private equity i...
TravelTech company Sn-ap has raised £3.4m in a round led by ADV and Oxford Capital. Sn-ap is an intercity coach travel company, which allows passe...
Calverton Finance Ltd (Calverton), the Invoice Finance specialist, has become an accredited lender under the British Business Bank’s Enterprise Fin...
Polaris has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority shareholding in ProData Cons...
European venture capital investment rached its highest amount in a decade with €6.4 billion in 2017, according to Invest Europe. ...
Invest Europe announces that Nenad Marovac will be its Chair for 2018 to 2019. Founder and Managing Partner of global early-stage venture firm DN Capital, ...
Smith & Williamson study finds 47% of UK SMEs predict their turnover from exports will rise in the next 12 months, while just one in ten (12%) believe overseas revenue ...
QuoteMyEnergy Study illustrates how the latest smart technology can assist busin...
US estimates rising again while Europe and UK remain stable In our view developed market equities remain in a benign de-rating phase, moving only sidew...
Matr, the online teaching platform, has announced it has closed a £4.75 million Series A investment round led by the UCL Technology ...
By Kristina Skindelyte, Blue Oceans PR Social media waits for no brand. And just like everything internet-related, it changes fast. The Cambridge Analytica scandal, Mark Zu...
Maven Capital Partners has further strengthened its Midlands team with the appointment of senior investment specialists ...
UK Business Angel Market report published by the...
Transcend Packaging has been selected to produce eco-friendly paper straws for McDonald’s UK and Ireland. Transcend was founded as a ...
By Robert Whitby-Smith, Albion Capital The relentless pace of automation will increase in 2018. Whilst automation and technological inn...
To mark its first anniversary, Green Angel Syndicate asked Chris Stark, Chief Executive of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change, to present his organisation’s ...
Eight Advisory, a leading financial and operational consultancy firm specialising in transactio...
CoInvestor, the platform digitising alternative asset transactions for advisers, fund managers, and private investors, has integrated its technolo...
Rimilia, a leading global intelligent financial automation software provider, has announced a collaboration with Microsoft after being accepted onto the current cohort of the select ...
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Gospel Technology, a blockchain software startup that has been working with one of the UK’s biggest aerospace and defence manufacturers to develop a proof of concept to improve record keeping...
Imperial College Business School has entered the world’s top ten for the first time in today’s ...
Panaseer, a cyber security software company, today announced it has secured $10 million in Series A funding. The financing round was led by&nbs...
IW Capital - the debt and equity investment specialist - has launched their new nationally representative report revealing th...
Micrima, the Bristol-based breast imaging company, has raised £4.4 million in additional equity funding led by ...
Healios, the digital therapy company for mental health, has raised £2.2m ($3m) in its latest funding round, led by investors ...
Telemos Capital, an evergreen investment company, has completed its acquisition of a majo...
InvestCloud Inc, a global FinTech ...
Farmdrop has closed a £10 million Series B investment, at roughly five times the share price of the 2014 CrowdCube, in which the company ...
Rcapital, the private equity firm, has completed a hat-trick of deals across its invest...
Catalan biomedical companies attracted €102 million in investment in 2017, with €3.4 million per operation, on average. This will allow them to push...
Senior UK figures will join their counterparts from India for high-level engagements and celebrations of the bond between the two countries throughout the inaugural UK-India We...
Maven Capital Partners has led the £2.7 million investment in intranet software specialists Orchi...
Mubadala Investment Company of Abu Dhabi, is to create a $400 million fund to i...
Carpe is a new, all-inclusive car subscription service offering customers hassle-free access to brand new Jaguar a...
Check out this video of how the technology works: https://vimeo.com/183350499 ...
Healthy food retailer MuscleFood.com has been crowned specialist online food retailer of the year at The Grocer Gold Awards....
General Data Protection Regulation is a ‘game changer’ for the financial services industry and many small firms are unlikely to be fully compliant with the new...
The Greater Manchester Loan Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partn...
Manchester-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, ...
Agorai, an integrated marketplace for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and the data assets that fuel them, is announcing it has committed to invest £20 ...
When considering tax-efficient investments, advisers and clients should be fully aware that investments are in unquoted stocks which are therefore likely to be high risk and illiquid. Therefore, th...
Ascension Ventures and Unicorn India Ventures partner to launch the UK’s first cross border UK-India E...
CW (Cambridge Wireless) has announced the launch of a new Special Interest Group (...
Eight Advisory, a leading financial and operational consultancy firm specialising in transactions, restructuring and transformation, has hired former EY s...
Middle market companies across the globe are significantly more optimistic about business conditions and opportunities than last year, according to the findings of the annual ...
Furnished apartment search engine, Nestpick, has released a study revealing the first month l...
The International Business Festival is underway in Liverpool, with UKBAA as Investment Partner.&n...
Downing Ventures has recently welcomed Cambridge Touch Technologies and Masters of Pieto its portfolio. Downing has made its first investment in the virtual...
Emerging market private equity funds offer institutional investors diversification, differentiated return drivers and an exposure to sector and geographical areas not accessible through stock excha...
Trailblazing action sports protection brand Ruroc has received a £3m investment from ...
Foresight Group has announced an investment of £2 million supporting the management buy-out of the contract researc...
Workers that regularly endure the ‘Sunday Afternoon Blues’ and suffer nightmares about their jobs are being warned that it could be time to jump ship and find a new role. ...
Livingstone’s Media & Technology sector team has advised the shareholders of PEI Media, incl...
British Business Bank has launched a new interactive ...
The Development Bank of Wales has launched a new £20 million Wales Technology Seed Fund...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, today announces the appointment of N...
Michael Stanes, Investment Director, Heartwood Investment Management ...
The Invested Investor, a social enterprise aiming to increase the success rate of early-stage start-ups, recently in...
Soaring demand for specialist cross-border financial advice has prompted one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations to la...
By Arthur Krebbers How can you make your mind your biggest entrepreneurial ally? Mindfulness-pre...
Jenson has made an investment from the Jenson SEIS and EIS Fund 2017/18 in EBar Initiatives Limited. Jenson led an investment syndicate alongside Scottish investors including angel investor groups ...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has backed the buy-out of The Instant Gro...
Newable, the one-stop shop for growing businesses, has launched a specialist international trade consultancy to help small and medium-size...
The EIS sector has new rules, a new risk profile and still stands at the start of a new tax year so, believes, Tom Hopkins, now is the time to re-educate clients on growth E...
Browne Jacobson’s corporate team has advised on another InsurTech venture capital deal – assisting crowd insurance pioneer ...
The right business apps can benefit small business tremendously by making work more efficient, teams more aligned and information more organized. Cutting down on tedious and time-consuming tasks ca...
NACO has published the 2017 ...
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ABN AMRO Commercial Finance has delivered a £16m receivables funding line to national education, healthcare and soci...
Foresight Group has invested £2.5 million of growth capital into The Naked Deli Limited. Launched in 20...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s “steadfast yet proactive approach” on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies shows the sector is incr...
SIS Ventures is launching its first £5 million fund to back Scotland’s high impact enterprises. ...
In June 2016 the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (EU). Nine months later, in March 2017, the new Prime Minister Theresa May formally triggered the process by sending an Article 50 ...
MediSieve Ltd, the team behind an innovative blood filtration device, are happy to announce the company has received over £1.75 million in funding....
The UKBAA has announced the shortlist for its 2018 Awards. ...
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Technology-enabled homecare start-up Cera has raised $17m in Series A funding, just a year and half after launching. The funding – which was significantl...
By Siobhan Clarke, Episode 1 Over the past 3 blogs, we’ve explained: ...
TriSpan, a global Private Equity firm, is pleased to announce that Rising Stars, its dedicated restaurant platform, has acquired a majority investment in ...
Bidstack, the in-game advertising software company which raised £137,000 via Crowdcube in December 2015,...
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MiAlgae, a student-launched startup that aims to revolutionise the animal and fish feed industries with microalgae made from the co-products of whisky, has rec...
By Ilian Iliev, Managing Director, EcoMachines Ventures As locations of economic activity, big cities are of huge importance to the...
The University of Surrey’s S100 Club – the evolution of the Surrey 100 Club angel inves...
Acceleris has advised upon the completion of a £2.9m funding round into Power Roll’s novel energy creatio...
Flexioffices, one of the UK’s leading serviced office brokers, has secured £8.2 million of investment from N...
Kreston Reeves has strengthened its Corporate Finance practice and announces its merger with Surrey-based corporate finance boutique SamCorp and the app...
51 per cent of Private Equity and Real Estate managers are less than satisfied with their current level of cybersecurity Over half view investing in their own firm’s technolo...
Masters of Pie, a London-based early stage technology firm specialising in virtual and augmented reality software for manufacturing and...
Motorway, the UK’s first price comparison website for selling your car, today announces it has secured £2.75 million in seed funding. Lau...
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The Derivatives Service Bureau today announced the members of its newly formed Technology Advisory Committee (TAC). The mission of the TAC is to provide guid...
Paul Misener, VP of Global Innovation and Policy at Amazon.com is joining UKBAA's Global A...
Blackwood Seven, the Copenhagen based provider of real-time AI powered media planning software, today announces a fundraising round of &eu...
A revolutionary new wheelchair which is set to improve the lives of disabled people who need to go off-road, has secured a £25,000 loan from the Development Bank of Wales as working capital t...
Barclays has launched a new £500m growth fund* for small and medium-sized businesses in the North of England as part of the bank’s commitment to...
Companies in Northern Ireland (NI) raised £32.8m of equity capital in 2017 but are failing to attract larger rounds of investment, accordi...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and a joint ...
Hammersmith and Fulham is taking on the likes of Old Street, King’s Cross and Croydon as it establishes itself as London’s leading hub for tech, science and crea...
Proparco and FMO will provide the senior debt for the 51 MWp solar PV park. The project, majority-...
IW Capital - the debt, equity and EIS investment specialist based in the heart of Mayfair - has announced its latest milestone of growth with the launch of its fir...
The previously unknown start-up has navigated over £18million in early-stage finance, firmly earning a proud position as one of the UK's leading fintech ex...
TxCell SA, a developer of cellular immunotherapies based on regulatory T cells (Tregs) for inflammation, autoimmunity and transplantation, and Lonza Pharma & Bi...
One of the world’s largest independent financial services organisations has added Bitcoin Cash and EOS to its cryptocurrency exchange app, as a new global survey reveals ...
Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, managed by Maven Capita...
NVM Private Equity has invested £1.0 million of growth capital into Cambridge-based medical device company Ablatus Therapeutics Limited...
State Street Global Exchange has releas...
OnTruck, the haulage tech platform, has raised 25M€ from a group of investor...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, is backing the buy-out of ...
Modwenna Rees-Mogg has been interviewed in a podcast by Invested Investor Peter Cowley. This article was originally published on the Invested Investor website and the podcast and article ...
Ava, a medical technology company focused on innovations in women’s reproductive health and maker of the...
SEI has announced the newest group of start-ups joining Codify, its London-based RegTech incubator, to address technology s...
Leading British soft drinks company Cawston Press has announced that they have successfully raised &po...
Luxcara, one of the leading asset managers for renewable-energy investments, has officially opened a wind farm co...
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North Edge Capital has supported the MBO of engineering tooling supplier ...
ICEYE, an Earth observation company providing synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data, today announced €29 million Series B funding led by return investo...
UK business borrowing contracted slightly by 1.7 per cent in the last 12 months. However within industry sectors there was ...
TxCell SA, a developer of cellular immunotherapies based on r...
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Patron Capital, the pan-European institutional investor focused on property backed investments, has acquired ‘Le Magnum’, an office building ...
Apex Housing Group, an innovative airspace property developer, has rece...
Matthew Toms, Investment Associate at Heartwood It has been a tough start to 2018 for bond investors, with government and corporate bonds across the globe ...
We have had a cautious view on global equities for longer than has been comfortable. With Fed policy clearly remaining on a tightening track, we stick with our cautious vie...
InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, today announces its investment in ...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, today announces the appointment of Guillaume Santamaria as Investment Direct...
Triple Point, which provides innovative and compelling investment solutions for private and institutional investors, has announced the launch of its Imp...
Origami Energy, a technology company building a real-time marketplace for the evolving distributed energy world, was crowned the overall winner of the secon...
One of the UK’s fastest-growing parenting hubs, Channel Mum, has successfully secured £3.5 million funding led by venture capital firm&nbs...
Data from eFront, covering 4,000 funds globally, shows that Western European private equity funds showed the...
Strategic investors and private equity firms around the world turned to transactional risk insurance in record numbers in 2017 to reduce deal risk in a highly competitive merger ...
Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM), the specialist private equity fund manager have backed a £3m investment into Arcus Global Limited (...
New figures show that SETsquared Surrey’s ...
Acceleris have announced that they have advised upon the completion of a £2.9m funding round into Power Roll’s novel energy creation and storag...
Following research into the Key Information Documents (KIDs) being published by its members, the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) is calling on the ...
Ken Skates, Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport has formally launched a new £8 million fund that will encourage business angel inve...
The Amberside ALP team were delighted to sponsor the Great British Private Investor Summit run by Angel News. The level interest in their ISA qualifying bonds was overwhelming. ...
So you've made contact with a busy invested investor. How on earth do you get from that initial contact to an investment? In the last 36 hours, I have been sent 9 pitch decks. I i...
‘The Financial Cost of Fraud 2018’...
The number of scale-up businesses in the UK is rising fast and almost half (42%) have been founded by people aged 34 and under, according to a new report: ...
Ultromics, the UK start-up behind breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) technolog...
Three organisations are joining forces to run an industry-wide initiative which will build the first clear picture of the representation of women, and diversity more broadly, in the pipelines of UK...
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Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, has led a £6.5 million Series A investment round i...
JWS Cars Limited, trading as Coastline Coaches, has taken delivery of two new service buses as it prepares to begin two new service bus con...
Foresight Group has invested £3 million into Altrincham-based, DA Languages Limited....
CoInvestor, the platform digitising alternative asset transactions for fund managers, investors and advisers, has appointed Rob Ferguson as its Chief Operating Officer amid increasin...
Digital healthcare provider MedicSpot has received investment from a member of Henley Busine...
Draper Esprit has invested £10m investment in Aircall, a French cloud-based call centre software business. The London-headquartered ventu...
Finstock Capital has recently launched a bridging product to help fix the funding gap for businesses waiting for their research and development (R&...
Since 2016, female entrepreneurs received 44 pence in funding for every £1 awarded to men Data from a small business and startup finance provider has revealed that since 2016, f...
Leading creative industries specialist, Edge Investments, is pleased to announce it has invested in a significant shareholding in Ho...
Strabens Hall, the award winning independent wealth advisory boutique, has appointed Adam Benskin as CEO, John H...
Trailblazing action sports protection brand Ruroc has received a £3m investment from BGF, adding further firepower...
Joint report from UK Finance and Parker Fitzgerald views the safeguarding of data as core to sustai...
Morgan Lewis has appointed finance partner Paul Denham, who advises clients on a wide range of leveraged finance and banking matters. Mr. Denham, who arri...
1. What kinds of businesses do you invest in? Is there a “typical” business or something they all have in common? At Maven we see businesses at various stages o...
A new campaign shines a light on how fast-growing businesses across the UK need to deploy all forms of capital to achieve their growth ambitions. 100 Stories of Growth ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as the most frequently mentioned theme in discussions among the key disruptive technologies during the first quarter (Q1) of 2018 on Twitter, accordin...
Leading gold and silver coin online retailer, http://www.coininvest.com/ announced the launch of a special fine silver coin accompanied by SwarovskiÔ ...
Following its recent funding round and investment by Mayfair Private Equity, converged ICT Services Provider GCI has announced the appointment of Pat...
The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund (NI) ...
In light of Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, which is focusing on stress, online printer instantprint has coll...
The world’s economies are soaring at an incredible rate, with Asia on course to lead. Nowadays, start-ups can be on their feet and r...
The pitching process is often perceived as a one-way audition in which VCs pluck the lucky few from a procession of hopeful, eager entrepreneurs. At Episode 1 we very much see it as a two-way proce...
Spherium Biomed has disclosed the top line results of its Phase II clinical trial of Mucomel®, an oral gel for the prevention and treatment ...
The winners of the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) Shareholder Communication Awards&nb...
Green Angel Syndicate has announced the completion of its latest investment: Spinetic Energy Ltd...
A new programme from the SETSquared Partnership to enable some of the UK’s best tech scale-up companies to become the sector giants of tom...
London-based startup Maze has raised £350.000 in a round led by leading early-stage European funds ...
Mercia Fund Managers is expanding its equity team with the appointment of a new investment director, following the announcement of the ...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has today announced the final closing of its fourth direct lending Fund (Idin...
One of the world’s largest independent financial services organisations has added a further two digital currencies to its cryptocurrency exchange app due to public demand being “fuelled...
Ian Macleod has joined the board of Archangels, the prominent business angel investment syndicate, succeeding Geoff Ball, who has retire...
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It may be time for the Government to reconsider the requirement for shareholders to have a minimum stak in a company before they are entitled to favourable rates of tax, says the ...
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Glownet, a global market leader in cashless payment technology for the live events industry, has secured £2 million funding from venture capital firm ...
Specialist Fund Brokers, Greenbackers Investment Capital, today announced The Greenbackers Cleantech Fund, their first venture fund targeting t...
The Development Bank of Wales has published its results for 2017/18. Previously...
Furnished apartment search engine, Nestpick, has released a study revealing th...
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British Business Investments, the commercial arm of the British Business Bank, launches a new £500m Managed Funds Programme designed to increase access to l...
A vigorous debate is taking place about the impact of Brexit on the UK’s creative industries. The former Prime Minister Sir John Major recently made a speech to the Creative Industries Federa...
Fintech is the most popular sector among high net worth and professional investors, according to Capitama, the direct private investment platform. ...
As we head towards the UK leaving the EU there continues to be much discussion about what the UK economy will resemble in the second quarter of 2019 and beyon...
Calculus Capital has completed a further investment into a growth capital investment round for Mologic alongside ...
Investment manager Downing LLP today announces the successful exit by its funds from a Cornwall-based satellite station site, managed by Goonhilly Earth Station Limited. Downing has worked ...
The digital platform which has been specifically designed to help coaches and players deliver professional football coaching content set for growth following investment. ...
A doctor who has created an innovative software program to reduce waiting times in A&E has secured a £153,000 investment from ...
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NorthInvest’s Board Director John Fisher has been instrumental to the set up of the Grow MedTech Partnership. S...
App commerce company Poq has announced the completion of a £9.5 million Series B funding round, led by Smedvig ...
Astia Angels, an investment group that exclusively invests in women-led startups has announced its fourth exit, continuin...
To support Eagle Genomics’ growth plans, the company has raised $1m within 3 weeks of the launch of its latest investment rou...
Ashfords has been ranked as one of the most active law firms globally in venture capital deals for first quarter of 2018 according to Pitc...
BondMason’s Direct Lending in the UK 2018 provides an in-depth overview of the Direct Lending market and readers can ...
Until artificial intelligence is capable of identifying unicorns among startups by crunching data on entrepreneurs, markets and business plans, we will have to rely on the tried and tested route to...
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Quilam Capital, which provides both debt and equity solutions to companies in the speciality finance sector, has announced its fifth d...
BondMason has raised £1.85 million to drive the growth of the business and fulfil the company’s vision to enable more investors to access returns ...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) has invested more than £50 million across the Northern Powerhouse region, supporting over 260 small and me...
Angel Academe has invested in doppel, a wristband shown to reduce stress. It works by creating a silent vibration on the inside of your wri...
Atelerix, a Cambridge and Newcastle, UK-based spin-out from the University of Newcastle and creators of an innovative cell encapsulation techn...
An East Midlands life sciences company which develops synthetic alternatives to antibodies has closed a £1.5m Series A funding round supported by ...
GCI, the converged ICT services company, has been acquired by ...
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An Enterprise Investment Scheme that led to a world-first innovation in online learning has given investors a 75x return on their money in a little over five years....
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Recent fines by the FSCS to a few SIPP providers for exposing clients to certain high risk, non-standard investments are underst...
Foresight Group has appointed Ray Harris to its Private Equity Investment team, following Ben Dawson’s appointment earlier this y...
International law firm, Addleshaw Goddard has successfully advised on the sale of ICS Learn...
Imperial College Business School’s Full-Time MBA has been recognised by the Financial Times as the world’s top programme for female gradua...
Warren Buffett’s comments on cryptocurrencies highlight how he needs to be educated on the future of money, affirms the boss of one of the world’s largest independent financial services...
Kalray, a pioneer in processors for new intelligent systems, announced two new investors: ...
Have you ever wondered what investors are looking for when deciding whether to invest in an equity crowdfunding campaign? What makes the difference in their decision to invest or no...
InvestCloud Inc., a global FinTech firm, has announced Silicon Beach-based ...
Esme Loans, the digital lending platform for SMEs and scale up businesses launched by NatWest last year, has announced plans to grow its lending business fo...
A team of students from Imperial College Business School have collaborated to create and launch the School’s first student-led investment fund. The “...
C5 Capital, the investment specialist firm focused on cyber security, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, has announced that its led an $78 million...
Scale-up superfood brand, Creative Nature, based in Surrey and born out of the founder’s frustration at the lack of healthy and tasty...
CapitalRise has closed a £2 million seed funding round from the family of renowned bankin...
When you’re working amongst all the suits in the city you sit there and think about the world of startups. A world where everyone wears jeans...
Cumbrian-based Appleby Creamery, an artisan cheese maker has secured a £250,000 loan from th...
Private equity investment in European companies hit a ten-year high in 2017 at €71.7 billion, a 29% year-on-year increase, according to new data released by ...
A spinout company whose technology could save the lives of thousands of dialysis patients has secured £500,000 from ...
StorageOS, Inc. has announced the general availability of its software-defined persistent st...
A unique roofing tile system using recycled Welsh slate is set to revolutionise the global construction market. Penarth-based ...
The UCL Technology Fund (UCLTF), UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), alongside support from...
Nanotech Industrial Solutions, Inc (NIS) has completed a $12m growth capital round to accelerate sales and continue developing new applicatio...
Jellagen, a pioneer in marine biotechnologies based in Wales, has closed a £3.8m funding round led by ...
Crowdcube, the world’s first and largest crowdfunding platform, has had its most successful Q1 since its launch seven years ago. ...
Funds managed by Foresight Group have provided a debt facility of up to £25 million to indepe...
NearMeNow has secured an equity co-investment led by The Development Bank of Wales, who invested £150,000, with a further £60,000 obtai...
Technology business Intelligence Fusion (IF) is set to scale after successfully raising £487,000...
App commerce company Poq has announced the completion of a £9.5 million Se...
Do you know the megatrends that will change the world in the next 50 years? Shane Wall, CTO of HP, recently shared them at an event at the London School of Economic...
The investment will enable Concentra to accelerate its international expansion and support product development initiatives for its market-leading strategic human capital software solution...
Family business owners are more innovative than owners of non-family businesses but are restricted by limited financial resources, says Dr Roberto Flören, Professor of Family Bu...
The first spinout company set to emerge from the University of the West of Scotland has closed its seed investment round, raising £1.5 million. ...
Mike Bristow, business strategy consultant, formerly of strategy consultancies OC&C, Roland Berger and Hambalt, has been appointed CEO of leading specialist pro...
Kuber Ventures adds new high growth funds to its platform to mark start of the new tax year. New additions reflect the Chancellor’s calls for EIS ...
Hazy, the data anonymisation software developer formerly known as Anon AI, has won M12’s Innovate...
Cavendish Corporate Finance LLP, the specialist sell-side M&A firm, has appointed Derek Zissman, a senior corporate finance professional, as a partner an...
Cryptocurrency volatility should be treated like any financial market turbulence, and many investors will successfully take advantage of it, affirms the CEO...
Foresight Group has invested £1.58 million into MIRICO Limited from the Foresight Williams Tec...
Hutchinson Networks, an Edinburgh-based global technology business, has received a £2.2m growth capital investment from funds advised by ...
Nestlé Purina PetCare has acquired a majority stake in Tails.com, a direct...
Paragraf, the graphene technology development company, a recent spin out from the University of Cambridge, has closed a £2.9 million seed round to support t...
Jenson SEIS and EIS Fund 2017/18 has made an investment into myBaker (Homebaked Ltd), an online cake concierge ...
Jenson SEIS and EIS Fund 2017/18 has made an investment in Whitehall Finance, a new and innovativ...
Foresight Group announces a £3 million development capital investment from Foresight Funds into managed services provider ...
Andy Kaye, President of OurCrowd Where is crowdfundin...
The call is out from UKBAA to find this year's most innovative growth businesses and the investors that have backed them as nominations open...
A new competition from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult will, for the first time, enable innovative SMEs working in the offshore renewables sector to prove their technology and connect ...
Customers are Slayers and Kingmakers – they’ll kill off your start-up before it’s even begun or help to accelerate you into a stratosphere never before envisaged. Customer...
Shoosmiths has advised private equity investor LDC on its £13 million minority investment into Paladone, one of...
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TradeDepot, the innovative SaaS platform for FMCG distribution in Africa, announced today $3 million in funding. ...
Foresight Group has announced the £1.68 million investment from the Foresight Williams&n...
BGF has announced the exit of its minority investment in Brownhills Glass, one of the UK’s leading...
Revolut, which raised on Crowdcube in 2016 just one year after they launched, confirmed ...
International private equity firm Pamplona Capital Management announced that it has signed an agre...
As many will know, GDPR will strengthen data protection for individuals and give them clear rights to their personal data. No business should collect any personal data unless their is rationa...
Resonance has made another investment from its Bristol Social Investment Tax Relief Fund of £112,500 to Social Impact Bristol Ltd, a consortium set up by three charities – St Mungo&rsqu...
Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Grapeshot, a provider of brand safety and pre-bid contextual solut...
Current market activity indicates that cryptocurrencies are set for “another considerable surge in prices gains” in the near future and Ethereum’s price could reach...
NorthEdge backs £40m turnover fleet management specialist NorthEdge Capital has supported the MBO of Prohire...
The Clearway Group, a vacant property services business, has received a £23m funding package from BGF an...
Deepbridge Capital, the tax-efficient investment manager, confirms that it has fully deployed all Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) funds raised dur...
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Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund invests £1.6 million in Salvalco Innovative aerosol valve ...
Cognism, a London-based start-up which uses artificial intelligence to generate sales leads has closed a £2m funding round with the help of ...
Tufwell sale delivers strong return for Chelverton investors Chelverton A...
Student entrepreneurs and faculty entrepreneurs engage in different strategic behaviour in commercialising their inventions according to a new research from the ...
Augentius Compliance has appointed Andrew Shrimpton, a proven leader within the Compliance Consulting industry, as its Chairman. Andrew will spearhead further expansion of the business, following y...
New CBI analysis of data published by the Office for National Statistics has found that businesses paid £186 billion in taxes in 2017/18. The total business tax contribution amounts to 27% of...
Crowdfunding has gone beyond the early adopter stage, meaning most people have now heard of it. A recent survey by TribeFirst suggests that we are getting close to the stage where more people in th...
Mercia Fund Managers has announced that it has been awarded the £27 million Venture Fund to support businesses across the North East region as p...
Inflexion Private Equity has created Comparison Technologies, a multi-channel price comparison enabler in home services (energy, broadband, TV and telep...
BGF, the most active investor for growing companies and entrepreneurs in the UK & Ireland, has received the prestigious honour of a Queen’s Award for ...
New research by mobile investing app Dabbl has revealed a surprising lack of investment activity amongst millennials in the UK &...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has expanded its universe of investment companies. From 31 March 2018, non-AIC member UK Real Estate Investment...
Mobius Motors, a Kenya-based automaker who design and manufactures durable, affordable vehicles for Africa, has successfully closed an equity and debt fundin...
Basic economics tells us that markets are efficient when supply and demand are in balance. Too many goods brought to market, and prices fall. Too much demand for scarce supply and prices rise. Alth...
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As we close the doors on yet another eventful tax year, it was fitting that at the Spring Statement 2018, Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer should comment that the UK “a...
Barclays UK has launched a new unit that will focus on developing new business lines, promoting innovation and driving returns within Barclays UK. ...
GSK and Orchard Therapeutics, which is bakced by Albion Capital. have announced a strategic agreement, u...
Calculus has completed two follow-on investments into portfolio companies Weedingtech and Quai. These investments represent further fun...
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Founders fight. It’s how they fight that matters. Do they fight like a married couple (staying together), a married couple (wanting a divorce), siblings, in the primary ...
Diffblue, the Oxford-based world leader in AI for code, today announces that Jane Silber has been appointed Chair of the Board of Directors. Silber was most r...
Reality Zero One has secured £285,000 investment from startup funders and private investors including the ...
A new mission-led investment venture aimed at stimulating social entrepreneurship in Scotland has been launched by leading responsible finance provider ...
Quarterly data covering the period up to the end of March 2018, published today by the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA), reveals that cumulativ...
Maven Capital Partners has been appointed to manage the £27 million North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF), which will provide equity, debt an...
Tech entrepreneurs can expect to spend around £380,000 over the first year of a new venture according to new research from ...
Amberside Capital and CH1 Investment Partners have joined forces to launch an innovative cr...
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Touch Biometrix, a UK company aiming to change the way we interact with technology for user authentication are pleased to announce they have receiv...
LNC Therapeutics, a French biotech company specializing in research and development for gut microbiome-based drugs, has announced the appointment of Dr. G...
National law firm Shoosmiths has advised long standing clients Octopus Investments on i...
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Zelluna Immunotherapy, the biotechnology company specializing in T-cell receptor (TCR) immunotherapies targeting a broad range of solid cancers with a hig...
Triodos Bank, a global leader in sustainable banking, has raised over £7 million for five organisations delivering positive social...
Pharmacy2U, the UK’s largest NHS online pharmacy, has secured a further £40 million investment to support th...
One $100 million round helps push UK tally to exceed $1 billion in first quarter of the year Fintech on the top spot once again but other UK top transactio...
The Board of the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has appointed Susie Farnon as a non-executive director with effe...
eporta, a London-based B2B interior marketplace startup, has raised $8 million in a series A funding round led by US investor Canvas Ventures as it looks trans...
Seraphim Capital has published its analysis of the last quarters SpaceTech Venture Capital transactions. Every quarter it carefully monitors the investme...
iContract, the online platform connecting contractors with recruiters, closed its latest round of investment last week - after successfully raisin...
PingGo, a media engagement platform for high growth companies, has secured investment of £30K from the ...
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2018 earnings forecasts, Edison view: “Geopolitics will in our view continue to present headline risk for the rest of the year. The US/China trade détente has broken...
Geo-spatial powered property compliance platform GetRentr has raised over £500,000 from a group of strategic investors including ...
Middletons, accessible furniture and mobility specialists, plan to open new stores in Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham following a £3.8 million equity co-i...
Henley Business Angels are inviting applications from entrepreneurs seeking seed finance. If you are an entrepreneur or know of an entrepreneur who is a graduate of or is connected with Henley Busi...
Seraphim Capital has launched Space Camp Accelerator, the UK’s first dedicated accelerator programme for startups in the spacetech industry. Backed by both the UK and European space agencies,...
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Startup Funding Club (SFC), the award-winning network of Business Angels and early-stage Investment Fund, has closed the first tranc...
Office Space in Town, one of the UK’s leading award-winning serviced office providers, has led an investment group to acquire Burgh Island Hot...
Chelverton Asset Management, a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quoted equities and unquoted SMEs, has completed its first transaction of 2018 with a furth...
Family-owned Kids Planet has received a further £6.5m investment from BGF as it plans to double th...
Since Britain voted to leave the European Union in June 2016, it has been reported that the UK economy has received ever-greater levels of private investment into the capital. A record £2.99b...
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) cryptocurrency review will be one of the most impactful regulatory reviews in modern times and will shape the burgeoning crypto market for...
Leading small business finance provider Liberis has secured £57.5m in combined fun...
TrakCel, the industry-leading software developer for cell and gene therapy supply chain tracking and orchestration, announces today it will be the organization re...
Deepbridge Capital, the tax-efficient investment manager, has closed a £5.4m Series ...
Microsoft for Startups supports the launch of Stakeholderz, a unique investment platform for technology ventures Executive recruitment firm...
The Finance Durham fund, established by Durham County Council and managed by Maven Capital Partners, has invested £250,000 in pionee...
The Jenson SEIS and EIS Fund 2017/18 has invested into Enploy Ltd. Enploy teach entrepreneuri...
The European Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF) have launched a Pan-European Venture Capital Funds-of-Funds programme (VentureEU) to boost investment in innovativ...
Statistics collected by Finnish Business Angels Network ry (FiBAN) and Finish Venture Capital As...
CoInvestor, the leading supplier of integrated technology to the alternative asset sector, has been selected by Ox...
Spectral Edge, the image fusion technology specialists, has secured $5.3 million in further funding from existing investors ...
Birmingham-based Redbeard, a firm that develops code for Apple (iOS) apps has secured investment from the ...
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The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) has welcomed Calum Paterson...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has completed a £1.1 million VCT investment in WaterBear Education...
Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity fund manager have backed an investment into ...
The Association of Investment Companies (The AIC) has published the fundraising figure for Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) fo...
Chargifi, the foundational technology for scaling wireless power, announces that it has raised a £5 million funding round. The investm...
Mercia will receive proceeds of £10.5million (net of transaction expenses) and will recognise an immediate realised gain of £0.6million, compared with the holding valu...
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The number of new tech companies being set up in Scotland rose by 77 per cent in 2017 according to new analysis by RSM. In total, th...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has announced today the first close ...
European venture capital funds are often compared unfavourably to their US peers, but the latest analysis from eFront shows that this consensus has been ...
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I don’t normally write about politics, being just a VC with interests and/or experience of over 50 UK businesses over a long career. But an old ...
With the new tax year upon us, why not make some resolutions to be a better investor next year? 1. Get all your S/EIS paperwork into order so completing your next tax return will be a cinch...
Over the last few years Ukraine has seen its digital markets and innovation scene grow very fast. Ukrainian startups (or startups founded by Ukrainian entrepreneurs), raised $265 milli...
The region’s newest investment arm, NorthInvest, reports significant growth of across the North following a 25% increase in membership. ...
AngelNews is delighted to announce that Iain Martin, editor of Reaction, will be a keynote speaker at the Great...
Mobeus Equity Partners and Beringea have co-invested in a £5 million funding round for&nb...
Blackfinch has welcomed two new investment managers to its growing team: Jolyon Ridgwell and Stuart Tyler Lloyd. Both new hires bring extensive experience and ...
One of Europe’s leading mid-market private equity investors, Equistone, has agreed to acquire a majority stake in MMC’s portfolio company ...
Finnish digital health company Kaiku Health Oy, which provides intelligent patient monitoring software for healthcare providers across Europe, has c...
Invoice finance and asset-based lending in the UK stood at £22.2 billion at the end of 2017, up five per cent on the funds advanced at the end of 2016, figures published by ...
Liverpool ChiroChem (LCC), the specialist Liverpool based chemical intermediates company...
Zilingo has raised $54 million in a Series C funding, to grow further and expand internationally. This takes total funding raised by ...
Newsvoice, a news app that aims to change the way we read the news, raises 2 million SEK from private business angels and ...
Tikehau Capital, the alternative asset management and investment group, has acquired a stake in Filiassur to support the company&rsq...
Barclays Eagle Labs are a community resource that offer a range of resources including co-working space, expert mentoring, training workshops, a fully-eq...
The changes to the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) announced in the Budget have almost all now been settled in. Royal Assent was given o...
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Research carried out by the University of Glasgow a few years ago found there had been encouraging growth in the proportion of women business angels, rising from 3% in 2008 to 12% in 2014. ...
Ascension Ventures' fourth SEIS Fund, the ASCEND Fund IV, is now fully invested...
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Brexit has prompted one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations to launch in Munich.. deVere Group has expanded its deVere Germ...
Award-winning restaurant Stem + Glory has smashed its crowdfunding target so quickly, that it is closing its campaign two weeks early – a move that ...
Moneysupermarket.com has agreed to acquire BGF-backed Decision Tech following a period of ...
Selkirk-based Oregon Timber Frame Limited has completed a buy-out of its non-management shareholders, including the 15% stake in the business held by its larg...
The Invested Investor helps increase the success rate for entrepreneurs by sharing stories from those who have done it. The enterprise has announced its latest podcast interview, focusing on the ch...
The Finnish Business Angel Exit of the Year 2017 has been given to a business angel syndicate including seven business...
The award-winning Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland Social Entrepreneurs Programme, in partnership with the School for Social Entrepreneurs and...
Responding to the publication of the Green Finance Taskforce report, Paul Chisnall, Director of Financial Policy and Operations at UK Finance, commented: ...
Midaxo, the Finnish developer of the award-winning cloud M&A platform, has announced a €12.9m funding round comprising of &eur...
British tennis champion Andy Murray has backed two early-stage businesses as part of his strategic relationship with Seedrs, today investing undisclosed amounts into innovative UK f...
The AIC Board has announced that, following Sarah Evans’ retirement from the Board in January this year, Susie Farnon has been co-opted as a non-...
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Aster has announced the hiring of Jérome Joaug. Jérome Joaug, a serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Nymbly and Cambridge Nanosyst...
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Over the years I’ve known the teams at HM Treasury responsible for the EIS and VCT schemes and have been continuously impressed with the standards they have set in terms of engagement with th...
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There are signs of improved investor confidence in making large investments as higher value venture capital funding (VC) bands gain momentum, according to ...
Moore Stephens the top ten accounting and advisory firm, has carried out an in-depth survey amongst directors of ...
Eggplant (formerly Testplant), the provider of Digital Automation Intelligence so...
Three Hill Capital Partners has announced its investment in Sigma Retail Solutions. Sigma is a...
LetsGetChecked, the medical health testing platform that allows customers to access regulated laboratory testing ...
LendingCrowd has secured an external funding round of £2 million following a strong 2017 for the peer-to-peer (P2P) lender, ...
Growth Street, an alternative finance provider for UK SMEs, plans to inject £20m into growing Wels...
Breed Reply, a leading active operational investor in early-stage Internet of Things (IoT) businesses, has today announced investments in France-b...
The UK Business Angels Association has opened a new Angel Investment Hub in the heart of Cambridge. The Bra...
Business is booming across north Wales, with the latest figures from the Development Bank of Wales showing an increase in investment appetite across our...
Economic value of 22,074 high growth small businesses revealed in new report More than 3,000 new jobs created every week by these bu...
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Glyconics has signed an exclusive licensing deal with Ghent University in Belgium for its proprietary method for the measurement of Diabetes and Renal insuff...
State Street Global Exchange today released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for March 2018. ...
ELITE Club Deal, London Stock Exchange Group’s private placement platform for ELITE companies and professional investors, today announces the completion of...
2018 has so far proven to be fairly promising in terms of the aggregate value of announced angel investment deals targeting Western European companies, according to Zephyr, the M&A database pub...
Renephra, a medical device company, today announced that it has raised £231,000 fr...
All Bright has participated in a £3m Series A funding round into Tech Will Save Us, led by Ini...
Following the long-awaited launch of the Resonance's latest impact investment fund, dedicated to tackling poverty and disadvantage in the We...
Bitcoin will not become the world’s sole currency in 10 years - there will be many successful cryptocurrencies - and Ethereum is likely to take over B...
THE ROUNDUP The Facebook fiasco. “Shame if you missed it” tweeted billionaire investor Jim Mellon on Monday, talking abo...
Beechbrook Capital is supporting further expansion at Leathwaite, the global human capital specialist. The ...
Ruffena Capital has completed the management buyout of SGS Gases, a west country based business that has grown...
YFM Equity Partners joins Sap...
The Duncan & Todd Group, the leading optical provider in Scotland, has secured a £15m investment from the Scottish office of ...
Investors have a reputation for secrecy, and often put up a road block to founders. However, this does not need to be the norm. There are probably hundreds of fundraising fo...
Mobeus Equity Partners has led a £3.8 million funding round for ...
Mayfair based private equity firm IW Capital has completed its latest deal with ...
New research from the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) using Morningstar data looks at which investment companies have performed be...
Sheffield-headquartered Independent Forgings & Alloys, one of Britain’s leading independent aeros...
Cardiff-based Simply Do Ideas, the education technology firm that helps people build and test their ideas, has raised £550,00...
Streetbees, a global research platform that is being used by the world’s biggest consumer companies, has raised $5.1 million in Seed funding to date....
Hummingbird Technologies, the UK’s leading drone and satellite enabled data and imagery analytics business for precision agriculture, has announced ...
The G20 must work towards an agreement to adopt common regulations for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, says the boss of one of the world’s leading independent financial services organi...
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CoInvestor Connect, CoInvestor’s alternative asset investment platform for sophisticated private investors, has expanded its offering with t...
NVM Private Equity has invested £3 million of growth capital into Maidenhead-based branded food business The P...
Honeypot study analyses the gender pay gap in the OECD and EU technology industry, revealing the best opportunities for women....
Livingbridge, the mid-market private equity firm, has today announced the publication of its Ones to W...
The Centre for Entrepreneurs (CFE), the entrepreneurship think tank, has released a report calling on the UK to empower resettled...
Digital Reasoning, a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that understands human intentions and behaviors, has raised $30 million in new funding. BN...
Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate, the Scottish Investment Bank, ...
Inflexion has completed the buyout of Chambers and Partners, the leading global provider of legal ran...
A survey of 1,102 UK-based private retail investors by the online investment platform SyndicateRoom and FTI Consulting has shown that...
The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund (NI) has led a £1.2 million investment in Queens University Belfast (QUB) spin-out ...
Aberdeen Standard Investments and 21 Partners have announced the establishment of a new UK based 50:50 joint venture (JV) – 21 Aberdeen Standard Investments Limited (21ASI) – with the i...
Stellar has launched its Estate and Succession Planning (ESP) Portfolio Services as part of its ongoing commitment to provide greater choice, simplicity and transparency for investors to plan for t...
eFront’s latest quarterly private equity data shows that LBO performance reached a 10-year high in 2017, while overall risk levels redu...
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YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity fund manager has backed the MBO of Checkmate Fire Solutions Limited, ...
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In the febrile three weeks before the end of the tax year, when many investors will be looking for ways to use up some S/EIS allowance, the hunt for a deal, any dea...
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Patrick Reeve, Managing Partner, Albion Capital, comments on VCT changes heralded by Royal Assent of the Finance Bill: “The Finance ...
Responding to the publication of the SME Finance Monitor for Q4 2017, Stephen Pegge, Director of Commercial Finance, UK Finance, said: ...
Chancellor Philip Hammond told us on Tuesday that, come his November Budget, we should expect to see the taxation of digital companies, tax increases on single-use plastics (with the mone...
The Lithuanian Business Angel Network (LitBAN) launched on March 14th in Vilnius, Lithuania, and was an overwhel...
I remember the graduate dilemma well: “Work for a large firm, learn on someone else’s wallet!” was one option touted to me. Versus “Join a young organisation and get some re...
Hats off to HBAN who funded an angel deal just 48 hours after the pitch. How did this investment which is possibly the ...
Brodie McGhie Willcox was a shipbroker who, in the early 19th Century, teamed up with the sailor, Arthur Anderson, to found a shipping line called the Peninsular and Oriental Steam N...
We have all witnessed the evolution of the financial services sector over recent years. As the sector has become increasingly complicated, and it’s become impractical for advisers to be exper...
Tikehau Capital, the pan-European alternative asset management and investment company, and SPRIM Ventures, a worl...
Andrew Aldridge, Partner, Head of Marketing at Deepbridge Capital, said: "As an investment manager that utilises EIS to almost solely support ‘Knowledge Intensive&rs...
The Finance Durham fund, established by Durham County Council and managed by Maven Capital Partners has helped raise £850,000,...
YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity fund manager have backed an investment into Ncam Technologies Limited, a provider of innovative and leading Augmented Reality solutions for the en...
Edison Strategic Insight, 2018 earnings forecasts: "Despite the increase in equity market volatility, there has been little follow-through to economic fundamentals due to Brexit u...
63 per cent of CEOs are worried about the lack of digital skills among senior leadership, according to a report by PwC. A further 67 per cent are troubled about a lack of digit...
Airsorted, the world’s largest hosting management service, today announces the successful completion of a Series A funding round worth £5 million ...
“I studied in the States and began my career over there, working in banking. A few years in, I was lucky enough to be hired by a financial data start-up called Markit. In the 11 years I spent...
Augentius, the specialist global service provider to private equity and real estate funds, has appointed ...
A welcome proposal from the Government in relation to entrepreneurs’ relief which should be introduced with immediate effect, says Nimesh Shah, partner ...
NVM Private Equity has led a £5 million growth capital minority investment into Manchester-based ...
The founding editor-in-chief of Wired, established fintech leaders and a Silicon Valley investor are just some of the names businesses can...
BDRC has published its quarterly SME Finance Monitor. The largest and most frequent study of its kind in ...
Dow Schofield Watts Angels – the new Northern angel network – has completed its inaugural deal, with a £500,000 investment in Warri...
UK-leading meal-kit company, Gousto, has raised a further £28.5m additional equity funding from new and existing investors: Hargreave Hale, Angel CoFun...
Ascension Ventures has now fully invested its CENTAUR EIS Fund I . Across the 17/18 tax year, the fund invested in 8 EIS qualif...
The World Business Angels Investment Forum became an affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (...
The research-led venture capital firm, MMC Ventures, has launched a new podcast series, ‘Beyond the Hype: Artificial Intelligence&rs...
Six out of 10 people with currently no exposure to cryptocurrencies would consider including cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin into their investment portfolios, reveals a new global poll. Meanw...
Leading property company, Bruntwood is set to acquire Innovation Birmingham, heralding a new era of major expans...
“Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated by anything to do with the ocean. I ended up in academia, in marine chemistry, that’s where I made the connection between jellyfish a...
WiseAlpha, the UK’s first investment platform to give everyday investors and savers access to high yield institutional corporate bonds, has been...
GTR Ventures, the world’s first investment and venture-building platform spe...
A new Innovative Finance ISA which allows consumers to invest in British history The team behind Oaksmore ISA have launched more than 200 propert...
Lendingblock, the open exchange for cryptocurrency loans, today announces the appointment of Funding Circle co-founder Andrew Mullinger as an...
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New research1 from Citigate Dewe Rogerson, the international communications agency, among investors with investments in crypto-currencies, reveals 56% intend to buy more over the ne...
International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate women’s social, political, economical and cultural achievements worldwide, and also recognise the need to continually push for...
Private equity is well-placed to support the European Commission’s sustainable finance plan, but any further measures need to take into account the diversity of the industry, says Invest Euro...
Technology business Intelligence Fusion has broken through its £400,000 target and has gone on to raise over £486,0...
Leading venture capital firm Midven has been appointed to manage the £35 million equity finance portion of t...
The Week That Was is released every week by OFF3R. At OFF3R you can compare investments from leading ...
As early stage investors, in predominantly B2B startups, the team here at Episode 1 sees our portfolio companies wrestling with the many attempts to achieve Product Market Fit. We love backing very...
Thank you to everyone that joined us in person and online for Nick Ogden’s talk; truly it was a night to remember. For those of you wishing to listen to the talks again...
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Jimmy Leong has been appointed Managing Director of specialist global private equity and real estate fund administrator, Augentius, to drive business growth ...
John Glencross, Chief Executive of award-winning EIS and VCT specialist Calculus Capital, said: "The Treasury has made it very clear that this is the end of the road for tax-motivated, low-risk inv...
Property Investment site Brickowner experiences rapid growth hitting £1M invested by the public through the crowdfunding platform. In under ...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) has invested £31 million in 207 Northern-based SMEs during the first 12 months of operation, as the Fund c...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation r...
Albion Capital, the independent investment manager, has added three new recruits to its technology team as part of its strategic expansion in the sector. Catriona McDonald...
Labrador Ltd has announced its latest high-profile investor as Daily Mail and General Trust...
Deepbridge Capital comments on the likelihood of the Finance Bill receiving Royal Asset this month and its inclusion...
Industry leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) eclipses $1.1 billion valuation; validates RPA as a strategic imperative for digit...
Qured, the innovative, on-demand healthcare provider, which delivers a doctor to your door, reveals new brand, expanded team and increased services thanks to unprecedented support and demand. ...
Crowdcube is 7 years old! It was launched from a small office in the middle of Exeter. Today, it has grown the team across the UK and Spain, been named the No. 1 equity crowdfunding pla...
Pitch@Palace, the programme established by The Duke of York to guide and support Entrepreneurs in the development of their business ideas, today announces the 42 Entrepreneurs that have been select...
Research released by Knight Frank in the European Quarterly, Commercial Property Outlook (Q3 2017) proves a strong third quarter last year has put 2017 European investment volumes on course to beat...
Station 12 Asset Management, the specialist venture capital investor in media, entertainment...
Cellesce the cancer organoid bioprocessing and scale-up company has announced a successful six-figure funding round that will open up opportunities to introduce i...
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by ...
We recently published an article from John Auckland from Tribe First about HMRC’s new SEIS/EIS guidelines. Since we released this, ...
Westbridge Capital has appointed a new Investment Executive as growth continues. ...
The GM Co Investment Fund is a new approach to increasing the supply of capital to the pipeline of early-stage technology and innovation businesses coming out of GM. Developed by The Growth...
Inflexion Private Equity has backed the management buyout of Calco Group B.V., a leading Dutch provider of outsourced IT recruitment and training services to large blue-chip corporates, specificall...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, has closed its 2017/2018 VCT top up offers after successfully raising the &pou...
Origin Capital and Qi3 Ventures have realised their joint investment in pet health company Lintbells.Origin and Qi3 backed Lintbells at an early stage of it’s growth, in April 2012, at ...
UKBAA has revealed the first 13 speakers confirmed to join the line-up at the UKBAA Midlands Investment Summit, Tuesday 20th March at Millennium Point. The line up inclu...
Default forecasts across some of the main consumer peer-to-peer lending platforms have begun ticking up. At the same time lenders have faced pressure to keep borr...
Transparency Capital is the first and only world platform open to well-informed investors allowing them to access major European private e...
The Bank of England governor’s comments on the regulation of cryptocurrencies can be expected to help fuel a sustainable recovery of the likes of Bitcoin, Etehreum, Ripple, Litecoin and Dash....
Creating the world’s first crypto-complete wallet and universal personal data marketplace ...
Recycling Technologies, a specialist in the chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste, announces a major strategic £1m equity investment fro...
The changes to the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) announced in the Budget have been digested. Royal Assent is expected around 8thMarch 2018 and some...
THE ROUNDUP The moon might have better Wi-Fi than the Tube With so much snow and Brexit, you may have missed the fact that ...
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Baroness Michelle Mone OBE, co-founder of ...
EBAN has published its latest research report focused on understanding the reasons why angel investors choose not to invest in early stage SMEs. The report, titled “Why Busine...
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The end of the tax year is just one month away. Here are five things to do before then. 1. I guess you banked some profits at the top of the market, so with cap...
Peter Thiel made his money originally by working for Credit Suisse, before setting up his own Venture Capital Firm, Thiel Capital Management. Subsequently he has invested in many of the most famous...
Idinvest Partners has appointed Guillaume Cavalin as Legal Director. He will report to Sylviane Guyonnet, Partner and COO at Idinvest Partners....
A development partnership has adopted a new funding model to unlock the potential of a residential development site in County Durham. Durham-based Homes by Carlton has secured &pou...
Unigestion, the boutique asset manager that focuses on guiding its clients with risk managed investment solutions, has completed the final close of Unigest...
17Capital’s survey on Liquidity in Private Equity Funds explores the views of more than 50 Limited Partners (LPs) and General Partners (GPs) in Europe ...
Working with key partners in locations across the UK, Angel Hubs offers a new, physical focal point from which to build and connect the angel community. As well as free co-working, ho...
Peakon has raised $22 million led by Balderton and joined by EQT Ventures, IDInvest and Sunstone. The company will be using the ...
Invoke Capital, the technology investment fund dedicated to unlocking the potential of European technology, has announced that two of its portfolio compa...
Anyfin, a Stockholm-based startup that enables consumers to refinance their existing loans with a picture, has raised €4.8 million Series A investment led b...
Ed Lascelles, head of technology investment at Albion Capital, comments on the FCA/CFTC collaboration to support innovative Fintech entrepreneurs: ...
It’s the second largest investment company sector, with total assets of £14.5 billion (to 31 January) and strong long-term per...
Augentius, the specialist global service provider to private equity and real estate funds, has appointed James Watts to the role of Chief ...
State Street Global Exchange today released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for February 2018....
With the end of the tax year drawing near, time is running out for investors to make the most of this year’s £20,000 ISA allowance. With their str...
Software for surgeons performing implants, an innovative fish tank cleaner, and laser power to boost the lifespan of aeroplanes are among the business ideas devised by students from ...
Specialist property peer-to-peer lender, CrowdProperty is launching its Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA). The tax-free product will be open...
The London Co-Investment Fund – the Mayor of London’s early stage tech fund – has announced it is being supported by several successful tech gurus. Entrepreneurs and investo...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and a joint initiative of Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIreland, has m...
HBAN has announced its first overseas partnership with the New York-based Digital Irish Angels (DIA) Syndicate. The collaboration with HBAN, was officially launched at an event in the Residen...
Launched in 2015, equitable venture firm Kindred Capital offers exceptional seed-stage entrepreneurs the opportunity to co-own the fund that invested in ...
Dianomi, a native content marketing platform used by financial advertisers and tier one publishers, has received £6.3m patient capital investment to ...
Secretary of State Sajid Javid announced the launch of three funds providing up to £100 million of equity finance to redress a regional imbalance in SME funding options Launc...
Capitama, the direct private investment platform for sophisticated and professional investors, is publicly launching ...
Despite almost all major cryptocurrencies ending last week in the red after another highly volatile few days, one of the world’s largest independent f...
OurCrowd, a leading global equity crowdfunding platform, has made ...
The UCL Technology Fund has invested in MediaGamma, the predictive analytics software company, as part of a £...
Mobeus' VCT fundraising offers have reached their aggregate £80 million target, bringing the firm’s total funds under management to more than £430 million. Mobeus now advi...
British Business Bank to support up to £100 million of lending to small businesses through its delivery partners UK Finance confirms an additional multi-million-pound package...
Foresight Group has sold its investment in ICA Digital, realising a 2.4x return, through a trade sale to ASL Group. Fore...
Alastair George, Chief Strategist at Edison Investment Research, said: ...
Dragonglass, the first gamified cryptocurrency experience in the wor...
Mercia Fund Managers has been awarded a £23 million Proof-of-Concept and Early Stage Equity Fund, part of the Midlands Engine Investme...
The SETsquared partnership, a long-standing partnership between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey which specialises i...
Anglia Capital Group business angel investors and partners invested £335,000 into Developing Experts, an innovative ed-tech company that has dev...
THE ROUNDUP 1. London house prices are falling. Why? This week, Rightmove’s latest house prices index show...
Bluebox Corporate Finance has appointed Paul Casey and Prashan Vicneswaran to join the London office. Paul, a C...
Imbiba, the specialist leisure and hospitality investment group, has closed the Imbiba Growth Fund at its hard cap target of £50m. With an investment of £30m provided by the British Bus...
Social impact investment company Resonance has launched its latest ground breaking Fund – The Resonance West Midlands Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) Fund. The Reso...
eFront, the leading technology provider to alternative investment professionals, and PitchBook, the premier data provider for the private and public equity markets, announce today a strategic partn...
Cryptocurrency regulation is necessary, on its way, and the vital work being done by many international financial watchdogs and lawmakers must be championed, says the boss of one of the world&rsquo...
Facebook has announced the opening of LDN_LAB, its first in-house start-up incubator. Following the opening of their new London office in Rathbone Place, which will be home to 2,3...
Imperial College Business School is set to run its first Online Masters in Business Analytics programme from October 2018. Modelled on Imperial’s existing offline MSc in busines...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that it is seeking views on how technology can make it easier for firms to meet their regulatory reporting requirements and improve the quality o...
Investment levels have doubled in the past year as high growth technology sector in Wales attracts venture capitalists and corporate investors. Latest figures from the British Venture Capit...
Angelgroups, a connected network of angel investors across the North of England, has launched in York. Martin Avison, founder of Angelgroups, said: “I am delighted to bring such oppor...
Pireta has closed its investment round after raising £500k from OION members. The £500k investment exceeded Pireta’s original £400k tar...
Maven Capital Partners and IP Investment Management have continued their penetration into the UK student housing sector with their latest development, the construction of Stirling’s first pur...
Equity and alternative finance demonstrate strong growth while bank lending volumes remain relatively flat UK is a world ...
Changes in HMRC rules for EIS eligibility, the broader government re-focus on activist industrial policy, and the maturing of the UK startup investment scene are all contributing to a significant s...
Calculus Capital has been supporting smaller business for nearly 20 years. At the moment, we see over 500 investment opportunities and review over 100 business plans each year covering a variety of...
Exclusive research from online investment platform SyndicateRoom has revealed that investors in early-stage equities have enjoyed a seventh consecutive ...
Venture Capital firm Hambro Perks has launched a new Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund...
East Kilbride based SHE Software has secured a £3 million growth capital investment from NVM Private Equity as i...
AJ Bell has launched an active management versi...
We Got POP, the London-based FilmTech startup, has completed a fundraising round of £2m. This latest raise was led by Octopus Ventures with par...
One of the most charming angels on the planet is Candace Johnson. She has also built seven space technology companies. Immense charm meets incredible skill at being an angel investor in...
We will soon consume everything as a service ...
Evonetix, a Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to enable scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis, ann...
John Gilligan, a private equity and venture capital industry expert, has been appointed as Director of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford’s ...
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Around half in the industry have seen no real effect of Brexit, and investors indicate no change in their views on the UK as a destination for investment...
Experienced ad execs raise $1.5mn for independent blockchain ad platform set to transform global advertising and media buying market Fenestra will provide the $640bn* ...
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HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and joint initiative of Enterpris...
Green Angel Syndicate believes that moving from a world still largely powered by fossil fuels to one tha...
NorthEdge Capital has invested in leading stairlift designer and manufacturer ...
Kuber Ventures has announced that five new Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)/Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) funds have signed up to its platform, bringing the total number of funds avail...
THE ROUNDUP 1. Cryptojacking: The terrifying cyber threat none of us have heard of This week, it was revealed that ...
Zilico, part of the Deepbridge ...
The European Commission (under H2020 PSF), recently published a ...
Today heralds the start of the World Business Angel Forum in Istanbul, a 1,000+ strong gathering of the global business angel industry. It is fascinating bein...
National law firm Ashfords has received strong rankings in PitchBook's, 2017 annual global league table - a comprehensive ranking of private equity and venture capital (VC) activity worldwide. ...
Funding London – the Mayor of London’s SME investment organisation – has announced its investment into ‘Change Please’, a soci...
The Finance Durham fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), has completed a £650,000 investment in Consett-based biomass energy plant, SDS Inc Limited (“SDS”...
Established in a garden shed in 1989 by the current Chief Executive Askar Sheibani, Comtek Network Systems UK Limited has grown from a one-man-band computer...
Five new participants have joined Cdify, the London-based RegTech incubator of SEI. This newest group of companies has been selected based on their ambition to tackle technology solutions that addr...
SMEs are less optimistic than a year ago and cite finding skilled staff, red tape and political uncertainty as their biggest barriers to growth, accordin...
An overwhelming majority of people in the UK have no idea about whether the reputation of fintech is positive or negative, strongly suggesting a general lack of understanding o...
Cardiff-based software firm Paperclip has secured over £500,000 in their latest funding round. The round was led by existing investor the Development Bank of Wales, with additional funding fr...
Stakeholderz and Intramezzo will be hosting an exclusive networking event at Grant Thornton's London Lounge on the 27th February at Moorgate in London startin...
Blueliv, Europe’s leading provider of enterprise-class cyberthreat intelligence solutions, has announced it has raised €4 million in Series A fundi...
Patient capital investor BGF is set to open a permanent office in Wales as it continues to scale its operations across the UK & Ireland. BGF’s team coverin...
Rezatec, the leading provider of geospatial data analytics to the Infrastructure, Forestry and Agribusiness sectors, has announced completion of the second phase of a £2m financing round. Cap...
Informatics Ventures, Scotland’s technology entrepreneur sup-port programme, has picked 60 early stage companies for EIE18 at McEwan Hall, Edinburgh on Thursday 19th April. ...
The EIS Association Awards denote excellence in a number of EIS and SEIS fields. The Awards were presented to firms, advisers, companies, individuals and journalists that achieved outstanding perfo...
Foresight Group has invested several million pounds of growth capital from Foresight VCT plc into PowerLinks Media Limited. The investment completes a larger Se...
Leading equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs has closed the first trading cycle that has been open to all investors on it’s pioneering Secondary Market. The London-based early stage equi...
The latest Companies House data, as analysed by the Centre for Entrepreneurs (CFE), shows that 589,008 new businesses launched in 2017 – a drop from 657,790 in 2016. T...
Finnish fintech company Zervant, which provides online invoicing software for small business and entrepreneurs across Europe, has announced €6 million in funding. The investment was le...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, is backing the buy-out of ...
The lazy man’s analysis of European culture goes something like this. “You have the Northern countries: all hard working, serious types – discipline ingrained by their Lutheranism...
In 1993, women made up just 20% of the wealthiest 10% of the population. Whilst there have been a series of initiatives in both private and public sectors supporting the role women hold in th...
BGF has opened a permanent office in Belfast to help it build even closer connections to businesses and advisors in Northern Ireland and drive further investment. Located in the iconic Scot...
The London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF) – the Mayor of London’s early stage tech fund – made its 100th investment into early-stage tech businesses in early January 2018.The LCIF star...
The rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning among the startup community is hard to ignore. With applications ranging from cybersecurity to autonomou...
Bodle Technologies, an Oxford University spinout company, is aiming to transform how and where we interact with displays after att...
THE ROUNDUP 1. A bumpy week for investors, but stock market falls like that are no reason to panic Global markets saw a significant sell-off this week...
It’s a truism of investing that you should invest in great people. In fact, we believe it’s most importantly about investing in great founder CEOs. So like...
Award-winning not-for-profit investment platform, NorthInvest, has announced the launch of a n...
The calendar year 2017 saw the value of investment deals done by members of LINC Scotland, reach a new record. The members, who mostly participate through twenty or so structured angel grou...
Alex Blyth, who lost his mother to pancreatic cancer, has successfully raised more than £250,000 to develop a pioneering cancer treatment that shares people’s innate immunity to cancer ...
With the EIS and SEIS schemes probably settled for a few years, angels can take comfort that this element of their investing activity can be planned. Once HMR...
The Great Western Railway was built to allay the fears of Bristol Merchants who believed that their position as the second most important port in England would be taken over by Liverpool. In order ...
A study of more than 4,000 organisations across five countries, commissioned by specialist insurer Hiscox, reveals major shortcomings in cyber security readiness at nearly thre...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has published the results of its second annual study into the UK’s atti...
Quilam Capital, which provides both debt and equity solutions to companies in the speciality finance sector, has announced its third deal...
The Peer-to-Peer Finance Association has appointed Paul Smee as new independent Chair, succeeding Christine Farnish who is stepping down after a five-year ter...
Launched in 2009, the Venture Capital and Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index has shown practically no changes in the top three positions of the table in the past nine years: the US has tak...
Kernel Capital through The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Funds has invested in Dublin City University (DCU) spin-out ...
Demand for Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) in the 2017-2018 tax year has been extremely strong. From 6 April 2017 to 31 January 2018 VCTs have raised £483 million, more than double the £2...
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IW Capital's latest body of nationally representative data (2004 national respondents) analysing how investor intentions have transformed as a result of the sharp rise in emerging t...
There have been a few comments in the media recently about the nature of key information documents (KID), in particular how they relate to Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) products, with some pre...
A Nottingham regenerative medicine company which has developed a groundbreaking therapy that can help prevent sight loss has completed a £500,000 funding round backed by ...
So there we have it. Finally we all know our fate (or do we? More on that later). The Budget on 22nd November laid clear the future direction of EI...
Investment managers will support growth SMEs across the West Midlands, as part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), supported by the European R...
BYTON, an innovator of smart, premium electric vehicles, announced a partnership with Aurora, a leading self-driving technology company. The partnership will help BYTON incorporate Level 4 (L4) aut...
Isher Capital, the private equity firm for the contact centre industry based in Manchester and Hong Kong, is on the acquisition tra...
Alastair George, Chief Strategist at Edison Investment Research: “Perhaps controversially, we view the intellectual horsepower being consumed by the ...
This week’s stock market falls show a much needed market correction after a long period of strong performance, and little more. Global economic growth remains strong and there are no signs of...
Calculus Capital has invested £3m in Open Energy Market, an online platform that helps companies secure the best deal with en...
A Yorkshire inventor, who is developing a range of water heating products for off-grid energy markets, has secured a £400,000 investment from NPIF – Mer...
Beauhurst's The Deal shows 2017 as the best year on record for investmen...
Research by Tindall Perry shows that Finance Directors lack confidence when it comes to accessing certain forms of funding. ...
Symvan was one of eight fund managers presenting in Sandy Park,Exeter on 5th December on the joys of tax-efficient fund investing. ...
Doug Barrowman & Baroness Michelle Mone OBE have joined forces to launch their most ambitious business venture yet, EQUI. A new cryptocurrency-powered investment platform, EQUI opens up venture...
NanoFlex Limited, an early stage sensor design company, has secured £250,000 of funding from NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF). T...
Triodos Bank, a global pioneer of sustainable banking, has become the first bank in the UK to launch its own crowdfunding platform. The platform offers a range of crowdfunding opportunities en...
Penta, a bank account for startups and businesses, has raised a €2.2 million seed round one month after launching in Germany as its customer growth has gained pace. The thriving FinTech is als...
CognitionX has announced that SoftBank Investment Advisers, which manages the SoftBank Vision Fund, will be the headline sponsor for CogX 2018, the Festival for...
NVM Private Equity has backed a management buyout of Dale Power Solutions, one of the UK’s leading providers of re...
I came back to work (in the dark) after a spoiling sunny holiday in the southern hemisphere with an acute case of post-holiday blues. They feel stronger than ever now I have 4 kids because holidays...
The State Street Global Exchange Private Equity Index (GXPEI) closed the third quarter of 2017 with a solid performance of 3.85 percent with Buyout Funds continuing to ...
How do you try and identify a natural entrepreneur? You can make a good first guess by taking a quick glance at their fingers. A palmistry gimmick? No, the conclusion of an academic study b...
Investment team will support growth SMEs across the East and South-East Midlands, as part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), supported by the...
The UK’s leading multi-site crêperie brand has secured investment from BGF to accelerate its new site rollout. Crêpeaffaire, which operates 10 company owned sites and has a growin...
Shields Energy, a ground-breaking company in the burgeoning electricity management market has netted investment from the UK’s only specialist green angel syndicate. ...
Future Planet Capital has raised up to $200m for its inaugural fund, The Future Planet Capital Fund, from TW & Partn...
Despite cryptocurrencies tanking over the last month, demand for them will “sky rocket” in the next 12 months, Bitcoin could gain by 50 to 60 pe...
The details on the changes to the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) from the Budget were announced at the end of November and the details on the Risk to Capital c...
BGF has announced its investment figures and key milestones for 2017, detailing another year of growth for the company. BGF completed 48 new investm...
Dow Schofield Watts Angels - the network set up last year to bring together individual investors with promising Northern technology firms - has...
Smaller and growing businesses are struggling to hire the right talent, according to the most recent survey from Smith & Williamson, the accountancy, tax and investmen...
The Week That Was is released every week by OFF3R https://www.off3r.com/ ...
The developing robotics sector presents an exciting opportunity for investors. Back in 2015, companies spent £55 billion globally on robotics; this figure is expected to double to nearly &pou...
Angels love to invest in high risk “next big thing” opportunities. So, should you be investing in ICOs? For those not yet initiated an ...
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PricewaterhouseCoopers and CB Insights' 2017 MoneyTree report highlights the latest trends in venture capital funding globally. ...
£95m invested in startup, early and growth-stage businesses through Crowdcube in 2017 More than £10m more than its nearest ...
Jim Duvall has been appointed as Executive Director of The UK Science Park Association (UKSPA, networking science and technology parks, research and innovation sites, incubators and accelerators) a...
The P2PFA has published data showing that in the period ending in the fourth quarter of 2017, cumulative lending transacted through P2PFA member platforms exceeded £8 billion. Comment...
Calculus Capital, the award-winning Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) specialist, has announced a record year, with £30m in...
Busbud, the online marketplace that enables global travellers to shop for and book intercity bus tickets on over 1.4 milli...
Content marketing and digital strategy agency blueprint.tv has launched a new digital marketing tool that will cut the time it takes listed businesses to connect with potential investors by directl...
Specialist engineering business, Northern Escalator Installations, has secured a £6.4m investment from BGF to support its expansion in the UK and E...
THE ROUNDUP 1. Going skiing? Revolut launches geolocation travel insurance… And John Lewis starts offering loans ...
Deepbridge has announced three new recruits joining the business in both Investment and Business Development Manager (BDM) roles. ...
AlzProtect, a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease, announced 14 million euros in series B fun...
An innovative new app designed to reduce insurance costs for motorists will be launched following a successful crowdfunding campaign. The ...
Mobeus Equity Partners has invested £3.3m of development capital in Proactive Investors, the leading provider of investor media services to mid- and small-cap listed companies in the UK. ...
Foresight Group, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has appointmented Stephan Gueorguiev to the Private Equity team. ...
FRP Advisory LLP, the business advisory firm, has strengthened its restructuring team with the appointment of Phil Reynolds as partner based in the firm’s London office, bri...
2018 is likely to be a year of two halves for global equity markets. Initially, strong economic momentum and investor sentiment is likely to prevail over the nega...
A new online careers portal aimed at helping people access jobs and training has received £275,000 backing from the Development Bank of Wales, private investor Giles...
BGF has provided an investment of £10m to CHS Healthcare, a leading national provider of specialist services for the NHS. The funding will be used ...
Draper Esprit leads an oversubscribed Series B round, with Draper Venture Network funds, FirstMark Capital, C...
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The Association of Investment Companies’ (AIC) membership has elected Elisabeth Scott to the AIC board. Her appoi...
A Newcastle-based company which uses artificial intelligence to help organisations improve the performance of their sales team has secured a significant investment from ...
BGF has made a significant minority investment in London Middlesex-based Revital, a multi-channel retailer of supplements, beauty ...
Resonance has made its first “permanent capital” investment into Hollywell Housing Trust, a social landlord housing vulnerable people in the ...
Yoti, a UK based digital identity platform, has raised £8m of equity investment from existing angel investors and two of the compan...
Sofant, an Edinburgh based developer of smart antenna technology company, has closed an undisclosed investment round The investment round was backed by Newa...
AI driven lesson planning and assessment tool secures £300,000 to encourage uptake of STEM subjects in the UK M...
• capital D, a London-based private equity manager, acquires social media influencer-led marketing and product development company • Invin...
InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, today announces the appointment of Lars Klawitter as Executive Director Strategic ...
FRP Advisory, the business advisory firm, has further expanded its Forensic Services team with the appointment of Becky James as Director. Becky heads up t...
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed a £25 million investment in Redwood Technologies Group (Redwood), acquiring a minority stake in the UK-headquartered international provider of com...
OurCrowd Launches $100M Cognitiv Fund Fund to Focus on Tomorrow’s Cognitive Tech Category Mak...
Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm invests $3 million in self-driving taxi service Voyage Voyage has raised a total of $20m to date...
One of the North’s fastest growing small tech firms has received £2.0million funding from ...
Since 2013 researchers at the University of Cambridge have been tracking and analysing the development of the online alternative finance market in the United Kingdom. This is the fourth annual indu...
Britbots, the organisation dedicated to promoting U.K.-based ro...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation and joint initiative of Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIrel...
The Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) has welcomed Crowdstacker to the Association. ...
The UCL Technology Fund has invested in Anon AI, the data anonymisation software developer, as part of a £340,000 pre-seed round in partnership wit...
Drawing together hundreds of the world’s top business leaders, WBAF 2018 shapes the global agenda of the world early and post-early stage equity markets ...
A Yorkshire photography and video business whose clients include major supermarkets and food producers has secured £250,000 funding from NPIF – Mercia Debt Finance, which is part of the...
Capital raised via Maven’s Investor Partner network will finance the building of 129 starter family homes in key commuter areas with a total es...
Walker Precision Engineering, a high-precision component manufacturer, has secured a £4m investment from BGF to expand its operations in the UK and mai...
Talis Capital has co-led an additional funding round along with Credo Ventures into leading price management, optimization and CPQ SaaS provider, Price f(x). Price f(x) has...
Growth investor Rcapital has backed an MBO and made significant working capital funding available to Edinburgh based Capital Cooling to allow the business to grow its core business throu...
Financial backing indicates further confidence in Goji’s Direct Lending offering and strength of underlying asset class ...
BGF, the UK & Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has announced the launch of its East Midlands office in Nottingham as it co...
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HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, today announces its predictions for 2018. HBAN is forecasting a 17% incre...
ENVESTORS, the regulated corporate finance adviser with a network of over 3,250 sophisticated investors, announces that equity investments made th...
Funding will enable eSafe to further develop its sales and marketing resource ...
It’s a growing trend. Angels are emerging from behind their clubs and networks and possibly a phone number and email address, and going public on the web. The fi...
Justinian is remembered as an able administrator and conqueror, but perhaps his most significant act while in power was his acquisition of the knowledge of how to produce Silk. The Emperor in...
Paul is currently Chairman of Fredericks Foundation a charity he founded in 2001 and is currently a lender of last resort for people needing microfinance to establish their business. &n...
In support of our Hero of the Month's charitable endeavours, this month we encourage people wanting to donate to a good cause to consider The Fredericks Foundation. The Fredericks Foundation ...
The peak season for investment is now upon us, as we run up to the end of the tax year. Time will be of the essence in 2018 as Easter Sunday falls on 1st April so it is likely that you may be...
Whilst word of mouth is a common source of deal flow you never know what you might find from these high-quality angel groups. ...
UK achieves more tech exits than any other European country, with IPOs and acquisitions worth $40bn Another bumper year for VC ...
If the adage about waiting for a bus holds true then the last three weeks has been a purple patch for YFM as the firm has realised four investments for up ...
The recent Autumn Budget has confirmed that, once pensions and ISAs have been fully used, EIS and Seed EIS are now very much the third pillar of tax planning, writes Andrew ...
AUTO-LENDING has been ranked as the most attractive feature of a peer-to-peer platform, research shows. P2P analysts Robo.cash surveyed investors across 15 countries in Europe and found 79 ...
NHS Innovation Hub Health Enterprise East (HEE) has launched a separate medtech innovation development company called Medovate Ltd to boost the financial and techn...
The Development Bank of Wales is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Executive Director and Board member. David Staziker has been promoted to the post of Finance Director and will take up ...
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While the UK venture capital industry is digesting the ...
While there are some common themes in private equity across geographies as well as the various sub-sectors, there are also some major divergences within and across markets.&...
Invesdor has appointed Daniel Laurén to lead its Swedish operations. Stockholm-based Laurén has been involved in founding more than ten companies and in investing in startups both as ...
Online marketplace for car and bike parts raises £180k in 3 days from 119 investors on Crowdcube ...
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A high-growth software company headquartered in Belfast has become the first business to benefit from technology and investment as part of the strategic partnership between First Derivatives and BG...
Well the waiting is over and whi...
As part of its Half Year Results, ...
A UK games studio which has developed a unique real-time football game has closed a £600,000 funding round from Mercia Fund Mana...
“Show me the way to a New Silicon Valley” – is the cry of governments across the world. Countless schemes have been forged to bring some American pizzazz into a ...
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Senseye Limited, the leader in predictive maintenance software, today announced it has raised £...
Transaction is the 13th profitable exit for Maven investors since January 2014 Maven...
The company will push forward with its unique SaaS software offering for facilitating the discovery of innovative molecules &n...
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The P2PFA today announced revisions to the industry standards it sets for peer-to-peer lending platforms. The new Operating Pri...
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Rough sleeping scandal shames Britain and dooms the Tories ...
The CBI commented on the publication of a PwC report, which estimates the total tax contribution of the 100 Group (FTSE 100) in 2017 at £82.9 billion. This ...
Business is booming, despite Brexit uncertainty, according to entrepreneurs and scale-up leaders. Nearly 80% of respondents are planning for growth over the next twelve mont...
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It has been a busy second half of the year at Parkwalk: our proprietary access to deal-flow has enabled us to commit £78m to portfolio companies in 2017, with those companies raising a ...
TravelNest (www.travelnest.com), an advertising optimisation platform for holiday rental owners, has secured a £3m seed round f...
Foresight launches new Infrastructure Income Fund ...
Deepbridge, the tax-efficient investment manager, has today (29th November 2017) launched the new Deepbridge Innov...
A lot of talk but does this budget really ‘move towards change’ or ‘away from it’ ...
As anticipated the consultation response to ‘Financing growth in innovative firms’ is seeking to return EIS/SEIS investments back to how they were originally envisaged, and the ne...
“I welcome the fact that the Government intends to double Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) investment limits for knowledge intensive busin...
David Mott, Managing Partner at Oxford Capital, and Chair of the BVCA Venture Capital Committee On doubling of EIS limits for Kn...
Patrick Reeve, Managing Partner, Albion Capital, says: “The measures announced in today’s Budget recognise the valuab...
Mark Brownridge, Director General of the EIS Association, comments on today's positive budget announcements for the Enterprise Investment Scheme:...
Comment from David Galsworthy, CEO and Co-Founder of Techspace. “Today’s move by the government is critical for the gro...
The government is allocating a further £2.3bn in investment in research development and will increase the tax credit on R&D to 12%. Dominic Keen from Britbots, an organ...
"Action Plan to unlock over £20bn in new investment to UK and Knowledge intensive scale up businesses. Including a new fund in the British Business Bank seeded by £2.5...
"In summary, that was a Budget for Industrial Strategy. The doubling of the EIS limit for knowledge intensive companies is of course a welcomed revelation, as are the numerous initiatives set in pl...
“A long term vision and strategy to put the UK at the forefront of global digital innovation is absolutely critical for the long term welfare of the country. It is even more critical however ...
“We welcome the spirit of the measures that Mr Hammond announced today, specifically an additional £2.5 billion fund to unlock investment in emerging businesses and doubling the i...
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, announced a further £2.3bn in investment in R&D as well as an increase in the main R&D Tax Credit to 12% (from 11%). “What abou...
Overall this appears to be a budget focused on helping entrepreneurial knowledge-intensive comp...
Oxford Capital has led a £3 million funding round for Wrisk, an insurance innovator which lets customers buy and claim on their insurance using a sim...
Suggestv, the intelligent video discovery platform for publishers, has today closed its seed investment round, raising a total of $1m. The investment rou...
“Creating the conditions for success to enable businesses to scale should continue to be a cornerstone of economic policy,” said ...
Fund focused on industrial high-tech, energy, smart cities and resource efficiency investment opportunities in the UK...
The majority of Britain's tech founders expect to sell for £50m or less – but there is no ambition gap in the UK ...
Mercia Fund Managers, which manages part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), is celebrating a milestone, having invested over £5m from the fund to sup...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island group responsible for the promotion of business angel investment in Ireland and a joint initiative of Enterprise Ireland and Inte...
Private equity firm Calculus Capital has invested £2.2m in Brighton-bas...
Verv, a brand, which sits under machine learning experts Green Running Ltd, has successfully raised £1,234,500 on ...
Series A funding round led by Balderton Capital, with participation by Lifeline Ventures and Sunstone Capital Mojiworks finishes first year of operation as the leadi...
Now that equity crowdfunding is firmly established in the funding ecosystem the EIS statistics are getting more interesting to analyse – especially the table on the amounts ...
Between 1660 and 1675 he was the most famous Pirate sailing in the Caribbean. Some of his more famous exploits included leading 1700 Privateers upriver to Panama, there to burn th...
The star studded night is a regular in the BBC calendar and raises £10ms to help a variety of good causes and there is every reason for you to donate too. Charities across the UK are gi...
Mercia Technologies manages the RisingStars Growth Fund which invested £900,000 in Blue Prism in 2004. Blue Prism is a global leader in Robotic Process Automation, listed on AIM in March...
Pixey.io was founded by Sarah Stenhouse to enable broadcasters and publishers to obtain the digital rights to Instagram...
Nigel is responsible for Access to Finance at Innovate UK where he heads the organisation’s support for innovative SMEs in gaining access to business support and private sector funding to acc...
FinTech is in fashion as we all know. News that Karadoo Finance and CrowdRating have joined Milamber Ventures and VestDeck at www.fundingforentrepreneurs.co.uk in reaching out to the AngelNew...
Scale-ups are not the same as high growth firms. The difference is not just about scale of ambition, though scale-ups should be more ambitious than the "normal" high-growth company.&nb...
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Why is it almost all successful startups are American? Many would point to the country’s enterprising DNA, inherited from the trailblazing pilgrim fathers? ...
NVM Private Equity (NVM) has invested £4 million in Manchester based Hello Soda, a global text and big data analytics business. H...
78% of investors expect GPs to increase their focus on ESG Biggest obstacles are cost, resource constraints and evaluation ...
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed a significant investment in Dotmatics. The company, founded in 2005, is a leading glo...
The UK’s #1 rewards-based crowdfunding platform is collaborating with The Design Council’s Spark 2018 initiative, a support and funding programme designed to help turn...
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Startup Funding Club (SFC) has recently invested £300K in four British startups: Curamicus, Designed in Colour, icarusparts.com an...
Ex-PwC Corporate Finance Manager brings significant investment experience to strengthen the established North East team...
OurCrowd has over 2,000 accredited Australian Investors/ Raised over $100 million in the Region Helped raise $50 million “Our Innovation Fund” focused on Australian tec...
Deepbridge, the tax-efficient investment manager, has today (26th October 2017) set out a wish list of EIS/SEIS measures it would like to see the Chancellor, Philip Ham...
The amount raised by Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) has risen by over £100 million in a year. VCTs issued shares to a value of £570 million in 2016-17, a 28% rise...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) is pleased to announce that Rachel Beagles has been voted Chairman-elect ...
Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has exited its...
Ventilation systems specialist Monodraught has received a £2.65m investment from BGF to support its long-term growth plans. The High Wycombe headqu...
Draper Esprit (AIM: GROW, ESM: GRW), a leading venture capital firm investing in high growth digital technology businesses, announces a strategy to target up to £75m ($100m) of investment in ...
ENVESTORS are delighted to announce that we have successfully facilitated SOLARIS PHOTONICS to close its funding round of c. £600,000. The funds raised will be used: To test th...
ENVESTORS announces that since first meeting with SNAPTRIP in June 2017, it has steadily assisted a funding round raising £1M. Although SNAPTRIP have reached their minimu...
The social enterprise Charity Checkout has announced that it has successfully raised over $1m to accelerate its growth. The charit...
Dubbed the ‘Tesla on two wheels’, Bolt’s electric scooters aims to fully replace petrol scooters which are thousands of times more polluting than a small van ...
More than a third of UK companies (35%) with fewer than 250 employees are changing their business strategy as a result of Brexit, according to new resear...
The partnership will allow The Law Society’s members to access early stage investment opportunities through the Seedrs platfo...
The world’s first sports crowdfunding platform has hit its equity raise target more than three weeks ahead of schedule The offer will stay open until November 10...
BotSkill has secured a £250,000 investment led by the British Robotics Seed Fund (BRSF). The investment is the...
Chris Hulatt and Simon Rogerson, Co-Founders of London-based Octopus Group, were named ‘EY Entrepreneur Of The Year UK 2017 overall winner’ a...
The winners of the BVCA Responsible Investment Awards 2017 were announced today at the BVCA Summit in London as we celebrated the outstanding Environmental, Social and Co...
SyndicateRoom has supported Warwick Audio in a £2.2m funding round, as part of a larger financing a...
IW Capital leads milestone investment for the world’s first peer-to-peer currency exchange platform ...
Albion Capital Group LLP (Albion) announces the sale of its stake in Hilson Moran Holdings Limited (Hilson Moran), a leading engineering services group in the UK and Middle East, to...
Intertrust; a leading global provider of high-value fund, trust and corporate services, is pleased to announce its appointment as fund administrator to t...
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As it grows funds under management and pursues a broader investment strategy managing growth and buyout capital on behalf of retail and institutional investors, Mobeus continues t...
Funding will enable Cognitive to develop its pipeline of third generation petroleum geoscience software modules...
Nearly two thirds (63%) of small businesses are looking to big data to benefit their business, according to research by Smith & Williamson,...
Award-winning challenger law firm gunnercooke has today launched Operating Partners, a ...
BGF has announced the appointment of Andy Watts to its Talent Network team. Andy will provide support to BGF-backed companies by further expanding BGF&rs...
Mercia Technologies PLC, the national investment group focused on the funding and scaling of innovative technology businesses with high growth potential from the...
Yorkshire-based Nationwide Window Cleaning has received new investment of £1.5m from BGF to support its orga...
Roc Technologies, one of the UK’s fastest growing companies for IT services, has secured a £10...
Crowdcube celebrates a strong third quarter 70 pitches launc...
An Edinburgh-based startup enabling broadcasters and publishers to obtain the digital rights to Instagram photographs has secured almost £250,000 in seed funding. &n...
Acquisition adds a range of additional services and geographical reach to strengthen Indigo’s capabilities customer offering and market positi...
ZOA Robotics has secured seed investment from the British Robotics Seed Fund (BRSF). The £85,000 investment is the first of a series that have ...
YFM Equity Partners has backed a £1.5 million investment into e2E Engineering Limited (e2E), a leading technical consultancy opera...
Mercia Technologies PLC, the national investment group focused on the funding and scaling of innovative technology businesses with high growth potential from the UK&n...
Startup founders should be prepared to put their money where their mouths are if they want to secure investment from business angels, according to research from University of Edinburgh Business Sch...
Patience is a virtue.. or is it? Everyone has been talking about the Patient Capital Review, possibly the most ...
For the more sophisticated entrepreneur, crowdfunding can be a chore. Why strut your stuff in front of an uncaring public – who may throw $100 a piece at your idea - when yo...
Here are 10 trends to watch out for in the angel market this autumn. 1. Angels go public - see the Sunday Times for a profile of an angel each week...
Frederick William was King of Prussia between 1713 and 1740. He gained fame, or perhaps infamy, in Europe both for an austere lifestyle, and for his short temper (beheading his son’s ma...
How about this for an idea? Do you like me have endless coffee meetings? From today onwards I will donate £1 to Macmillan for every meeting I have where I am served or buy a...
Another exit to an overseas buyer provides yet more evidence of the Chinese desire for UK tech companies. BGF has agreed to successfully exit its minority stake in air...
Lucky for some! 13 investors in the Green Angel Syndicate have bought shares in the syndicate itself. This investment will support the marketing of the syndic...
To know Baybars Altuntas is not only to like him, but also to respect and admire him. I cannot remember exactly when I first met Baybars but by gosh I am glad I did. He is someone...
The deals that the Secret Investor sees tell us a lot about where entrepreneurship is heading. In particular it's noticeable that FinTech keeps on staying centre of interest...
Dealmakers seem to be adapting to a “new normal” in European M&A activity. Stefan Brunnschweiler, Head of the Corporate/M&A Practice Group a...
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What happens when your start up founder falls under the bus? Angels invest in people. Studi...
PEER-TO-PEER allows investors to put their money into all sorts of different loans, from those to individuals looking to buy a new car or kitchen to businesses looking to fund their expansion plans...
Rapidly-growing men’s online grooming business Cornerstone has received a further £3.5m investment, led by Calculus Capital. &...
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Capital Cell, the first pan-European equity crowdfunding platform dedicated to life sciences, has announced the launch of its first active UK campaign on ...
Startup Funding Club (SFC) has announced the launch of the Sta...
In an unusual departure for Green Angel Syndicate, a funding round for the syndicate has seen thirteen of its most enthusiastic members investing in equity in the syndicate itself.  ...
BGF has agreed to successfully exit its minority stake in aircraft seat manufacturer, Acro Aircraft Seating. The company will, subject to the satisfactio...
Newcastle tech firm with global footprint growing rapidly after 10 years in business ...
Hoop, the family app that helps parents discover and book what’s on for their kids, has secured £2.4 million in funding which will help to grow the business ac...
Britbots, the mentoring organisation devoted to supporting British-based robotics start-ups, has launched Britbots CROWD, the world's first ...
Funding will enable the construction of a dedicated pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in North Wales, creating 50 new scientific jo...
For the first time VCT investors will be able to submit their applications and payments online via a new dedicated application portal ...
The three Northern VCTs (Northern Venture Trust PLC, Northern 2 VCT PLC and Northern 3 VCT PLC) have launched a new joint share offer, to raise an aggregate of up ...
YFM Equity Partners (YFM), the specialist private equity fund manager, has invested in the £9million transaction into 4net Technologies Ltd (4net) to support the continued grow...
Durham-based distillery set for rapid growth aiming to become the North East’s ‘distiller of choice’...
Northwest-based investment group Seneca, has expanded its investment capability with the launch of its property investment business, Seneca Property. Joining as Managing Director of Seneca Property...
Redag Crop Protection , an agrochemical discovery company, has secured £1.3 million in funding from existing shareholders which include institutional ...
Volo Commerce, a leading provider of multichannel e-commerce technology, today announced it has raised £6.2 million in ne...
Crowdcube, the world’s first and largest crowdfunding platform, is pleased to announce that Enertor, the innovative insole compa...
Q-Bot, the UK’s leading developer of robots for use in the construction industry, has closed an investment round of £450,000...
The Association of Investment Companies’ (AIC) review of Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs), ‘Transforming small business’,...
Research commissioned by YFM Equity Partners (“YFM”), the specialist private equity fund manager, has established that shareholders consider the ability to support gro...
Crowdcube partners with America’s top equity crowdfunder ?...
VCT and EIS funds managed by Downing LLP have invested £5 million to support Exclusive Events Venues (EEV) to acquire and redevelop Chester’s...
- £450,000 will support further development of technology platform - Plans ahead for further national expansion in UK with student rentals live in 27 towns and cities Universi...
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Peak has announced their £2.5m series A funding round led by MMC Ventures, bringing the total amount raised by the company so far to £3.5m. ...
The Mobeus VCTs are opening new share offers to raise, in aggregate, up to £50 million, with over-allotment facilities to raise, in aggregate, up to a further £30 mill...
OfferMoments, the world’s most innovative advertising platform, has received a £1.5 million injec...
WBAF appoints 10 High Commissioners The entrepreneurial ecosystems of 10 more countries are now more connected with each other and the rest of the world, ...
Jenson Funding Partners, the highly innovative and successful financing and commercial support group for disruptive growth companies is delighted to announce that Piers Denne, industry veteran, has...
Scotland’s first dedicated pre-seed tech accelerator, Seed Haus, has launched in Edinburgh backed by a stellar line-up of&...
Intercity coach travel service, co-founded by ex-Chiltern Railways commercial director secures funding from Kindred Capital...
Ten years on since founding, LeapFrog’s portfolio of companies reach 111 million people across Africa and Asia ...
Foresight Group (“Foresight”) has invested £3 million from the Foresight Regional Investment Fund into the specialist engineering compa...
27,000 jobs created by current VCT investments Each VCT-backed business employs an average of 109 people...
Independent coffee shop chain Bob & Berts has become the third company in Northern Ireland to secure a major equity investment from BGF, the UK’s most active investor in small and m...
Albion Capital is proud to have supported four British companies included in the annual Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 league table ...
11th September 2017: Hobs Group has received a further £4m investment from BGF to continue the expansion of its 3D printing, reprographi...
Study of 4,000 small businesses in the UK, Europe and the US shows strong growth across the board – with younger entrepreneurs outperforming th...
The European Investment Fund (EIF), with the support of InnovFin Equity and COSME, is investing €20 million in ACT Venture Capital’s latest fund, ...
The CEO of education software specialist Gecko Labs has hailed an investment package of £1million that puts the company on a new level, as it rolls out an innovative new live c...
FiveAI, a start-up leading the UK’s charge to build technology for urban driverless vehicles, has closed a major £14M Series A equity financi...
Funds managed by Foresight Group LLP ("Foresight”) have provided a £40 million secured loan note facility for Reward Finance Group ...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, is seeking to raise up to £38 million through top up offers for its six venture capital...
With August having been a quiet month here at AngelNews we looked back to July to find a nice story about a successful exit. Altitude's sale of Gradwell Communications fits ...
With the recent Beauhurst report stating that companies that gain equity investment and grant funding have higher valuations it is interesting to note this recent investment by th...
After the long summer break, it’s now time to get back to work and turn your angel investing activity into a superlative experience. Here are 10 things that will help ...
The news that the Duchess of Cambridge is having another baby is just the fillip the country needs after a spring and summer of disasters (the election result, Manchester and Lond...
We’ve been going back a bit in time to dig out this year’s heroes of the month, but time only enhances their contribution rather than diminishes it. ...
Demosthenes is typically remembered as Democratic Athens’ last great orator, the man who started and lost a disastrous war with Phillip of Macedon (the father of Alexander the...
FUNDING Circle’s upcoming shift away from manual lending will soon mean the three biggest peer-to-peer lenders in the UK only offer auto-bid options, but there is still plenty of choice for i...
Executive summary US Q2’17 funding rises 27% from previous quarter Funding pushes up as deals slip: US VC-backed companies saw $18.4B ...
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Funds advised by Foresight Group LLP ("Foresight”) have invested £1.9m into Regency Design & Print Li...
Woodford invests £4 million into Seedrs, the UK’s most active equity crowdfunding platform. The investment follows on their &po...
The Greater Manchester Loan Fund (‘GMLF’) has completed three investments, committing a total of £885,000 to support local businesses. ...
Ski Solutions (www.skisolutions.com), the London-based luxury winter sports travel experts, has attracted over...
Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), a Cambridge-based investor in technology and healthcare companies, has led a £10 million Series A funding round for PROWLER.io, a co...
Brexit is the big undying risk story in the UK at the moment, but there are other bigger risks angels need to consider. But of course where there is risk there is also oppor...
WaveLIFT Limited today announces that it has secured funding of over £1 million t...
SMARTASSISTANT, the global technology provider for intelligent Digital Advice, has secured €5 million in Series A funding led by growth capital inve...
Foresight Group LLP (“Foresight”) announces the investment of £500,000 on behalf of the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund (“...
Want to increase a startup’s chances of getting bank financing? That Obama-inspired credo may help: “Y...
Stellar Asset Management halves annual management fees to just 0.75% on wrap platforms • Stellar AiM IHT Portfolio is available on four of the UK’s leading wrap platform ...
Mobeus Equity Partners ("Mobeus") has backed the management team of West Midlands based Arc Specialist Engineering (“Arc”) in a buyout of the...
BGF, the UK’s most active provider of long-term capital to growing UK businesses, has invested a further £7.3m in AdEPT Telecom Plc. (“AdEPT”). Hea...
Back in the cold days of February, HM Treasury (HMT) announced that it would be launching a Patient Capital Review with the objective of “strengthening the UK further as a pla...
Nearly four out five (78%) entrepreneurs are predicting growth over the next 12 months according to the latest Enterprise Index research by Smith & Williamson, the accountancy...
A Yorkshire company developing high performance linear motor-generator systems is set to target growth in commercial markets following a funding boost from ...
Prosperity Hub Community Interest Company (CIC) has today received an investment of £70,000 from the Resonance Health and Wellbeing Challenge Fund...
Following a successful international pilot tracking tuna through Southeast Asian supply chains, and a pilot project with the world’s largest ...
The first half of 2017 saw a record amount invested into UK high-growth businesses, despite deal numbers failing to recover from last year’s slump. Key findings from the last ...
Mobeus Equity Partners has provided £5 million of growth capital to Wetsuit Outlet, www.wetsuitoutlet.co.uk, one of Europe’s leading online retailers of technical clothing and equipment...
Puma Investments, the specialist provider of tax efficient investment solutions is delighted to be named as a finalist in three separate categories at the 2017 Growth Investor Awards. The awards ar...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses and manager of the £20m Finance Durham Fund, is open for business i...
The London Co-investment Fund (LCIF) – the Mayor of London’s early stage business fund...
Promise Gluten Free (‘Promise’ or the ‘Company’), a highly innovative bakery which entered the gluten free market in 2012, is delighted to announce that it has sold a majori...
(London, 24 July 2017): SuperAwesome, the technology company which powers the kids’ digital media ecosystem, has received new growth capital from Mayfair Equity Partners (&l...
UK’s first flatmate matching site helps flatsharers find better matches based on compatibility and living habits. Seed round ...
A new business angel network which aims to boost investment in the North’s technology sector has attracted over 50 potential investors and almost 40 companies within its fir...
National law firm Shoosmiths has advised Spence Johnson on its sale to world leading fintech company, Broadridge, in a deal that sees the creation of a unique single industry data...
Amadeus Capital Partners is delighted that its portfolio company Graphcore has received funding from Atomico and a group of AI pioneers. Graphcore's processor has the power to realise the...
Palamon Capital Partners (“Palamon”), one of Europe’s leading growth private equity firms, has announced the appointments of Oliver Hemsley and Josyane Gold to i...
Amicus Commercial Finance, the specialist lender of flexible working capital to small and medium sized businesses, today announces that it has provided a...
Kickstart Accelerator announces the startup shortlist for its second cohort comprising of FinTech, Food, Smart Cities and Robotics & Intelligent System...
British SMEs face uncertain funding future Thirty-five percent of small b...
Startup Funding Club’s network of business angels invests in Northern Irish startup Intupod Northern Irish startup ...
Maven Capital Partners announces £30 million VCT fundraise, reflecting a strong pipeline of opportunities to invest in high-growth UK private com...
Ariadne Capital Survey Uncovers Pain Points and Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in Europe and the Mediterranean ...
Altitude Two, a capital growth focused private equity fund, has been created to benefit investors with investments qualifying for two significant HMRC reliefs: Business Propert...
“The way in which London’s professionals meet, work and grow their networks is changing, increasing demand for flexible work space. The Clubhouse occ...
Northern Irish Start-Up of the Year set for accelerated growth ...
Entier, Scotland’s largest independent privately-owned catering company, is preparing to grab a bigger slice of international markets after BGF (Busines...
Draper Esprit (AIM: GROW, ESM: GRW), the leading public European venture capital firm, today announces that it has significantly increased its equity stake in Perkbox, i...
Funding package will enable Contego to drive growth by expanding product development, adding commercial resources and entering new markets...
Partech Ventures leads the round with participation from CME Ventures and Salesforce Ventures P...
Form3, the cloud-based, end-to-end, secure platform for global payments processing, today announced it has secured a strategic investment from Barclays, ...
An award-winning Hull-based video advertising start-up has secured funding from ...
Altitude Partners has sold its stake in VoIP provider Gradwell Communications to a management buy-in team with private equity backing. The exit has realised a strong 2.7x investme...
UK investors rally behind post-Brexit business, but have NO faith in Theresa May and the DUP ...
Summer is the time for having fun and relaxing, but getting these tasks in hand now will set your angel life for a successful autumn if you do them before you head off for sand an...
YFM Equity Partners (“YFM”), the specialist private equity fund manager has invested £3m into Friska Limited (Friska), a Bristol based chain of food-to-go restau...
£1m investment from GuanQun Investment, leading Chinese finance firm £20m successfully raised in Q2, t...
NorthInvest, the angel investor platform that supports and mentors businesses in the North of England, has been recognised as ‘one to watch’ at the UK Business Angel Investment Awards 2...
App commerce company Poq (https://poqcommerce.com/) has secured £3.5 million in its latest funding round, led by growth capital investor...
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NVM Private Equity (NVM) has invested £3m in London based Knowledgemotion the creators ...
Cwmbran-based technology company Hudman has been acquired by Advanced, the UKs third largest software and services company. The deal sees investor Finance Wales sell its s...
INVESTMENT COMPANY ACTIVITY H1 2017: SECONDARY ISSUANCE REACHES RECORD LEVEL, IPOs INCREASE TEN-FOLD, ASSETS HIT ALL-TIME H...
Day Lewis Pharmacy will acquire APM Healthcare’s 18 pharmacies, extending its network to 300 pharmacies across the country ...
Quill, the global leader in Primary Co...
Tranches of one, two and three year fixed rate term loans used to fund smart meters Bonds backed by long term rental agre...
DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BECOME A NORTHERN STAR? Tech North is on the hunt for the North’s most promising startups f...
Berlin-based startup Caroobi, a platform that allows users to book car repair services online, has concluded its Series A financing round led by BMW i Ventures (BMW’s ve...
Global banks, leading VCs and industry veterans bring total funding to $13m Investors suggest Curve will kic...
Foresight Group (“Foresight”) is pleased to announce the completion of a £3.45m investment into Mowgli Street Food Limited (“the Company...
Priscila Bala, ex-Director of the Mentor Network at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, joins Octopus Ventures ...
Pro Steel Engineering Ltd (Pro Steel) has won the contract to redevelop the iconic East Stand at Twickenham Rugby Stadium, to support the project they have received a six-figure working cap...
Global institutional investors looking to Europe’s experienced fund managers A-Z of start-up hubs across the continent leading innovation...
For longer than I have been in the angel industry, Stephen Pegge, currently Special Projects Director at Lloyds Bank has been loyally supporting the market. Arguably the angels' favouri...
Unicef: Building Young Futures Emma Sinclair, Unicef UK's first business mentor gave a rous...
Beringea has achieved its latest exit selling Third Bridge to private equity house IK Investments. Third Bridge provides primary research and market intelligence to over 300 financ...
Angels via Oxford Capital Partners, have been joined by serious venture capital in the latest funding round for Push Doctor (https://www.pus...
“Smile, make eye contact and always have a business card at the ready!” Helpful tips for the traditional networker, but of no use to the #networker. The most successfu...
Foresight Group announces the £2.25 million growth capital investment into Cinelabs International on behalf of Foresight VCT. ...
The importance of angel investment in the life sciences sector is becoming very apparent. The opportunity is large which explains why everyone from respected names lik...
Partech Ventures announces the final closing of its seventh venture fund at the €400M hard cap, thus completing a unique investment program spanning from pre-...
Selfridge started work at the age of 10, delivering newspapers. He had a genuine entrepreneurial spirit, starting his first business at the age of 12. Selfridge worked his way up th...
Locum’s Nest, a mobile first platform founded by doctors which is revolutionising the way staffing shortages are addressed in the NHS, has complete...
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed two new energy infrastructure investments from its ...
VCs have woken up and smelt the robo-coffee. A bottom up estimate* shows close to $2bn in VC investments for 2016, up from approximately $1.3bn in 2015. Yet clearly this is still ...
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European Buy & Build activity in 2016 reached its highest level on record2 with the largest number of deals in the UK & Ireland, according to Silverfleet Capital’s latest a...
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How ‘Mammalian Investing’ is taking the world of early tech investing by storm. It’s easy to see how e...
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Investment Round now open all year to shorten energy innovation journey from lab to launch ...
Octopus Ventures, one of the Europe’s leading venture capital investors, has announced that Stephe...
Beringea has announced it had sold its shares in Third Bridge - a firm that provides primary research and market intelligence to over 300 financial services clients globally. The exit is ...
The London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF) – the Mayor of London’s early stage business fund –has allocated more than £5.3 million into...
BGF has successfully exited its minority stake in North-East chemicals manufacturer Chemoxy International Ltd. The company has been acquired by a F...
The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) is stepping up efforts to support entrepreneurs and small businesses around the UK with a programme of regional funding information and advice wo...
96% of companies with a Gold Investment rating are still in business and showing demonstrable progress ...
The Peer-to-Peer Finance Association today launched a new category of membership, welcoming eight inaugural associate members who provide important profe...
Since inception the GMLF has provided funding for 28 local businesses enabling su...
UK-based Kuflink joins a select few P2P platforms offering a Property-Backed ISA ...
Intertrust has announced six senior appointments across funds, capital markets and corporate services, spanning some of its key jurisdictions. ...
Online investment platform SyndicateRoom today announces that two EdTech companies, Gooseberry Planet...
A total of €500k in funding for Fintech start-ups is available from Enterprise Ireland, the government organisation responsible for the development ...
A new care sector startup, backed by investors who exited to the likes of iZettle and Fanduel, has just opened a fundraising campaign on the crowdfunding site Seedrs. St...
UK's first online marketplace aims to be the “Amazon for building supplies” 34% of fundraising raised so far via Seedrs...
Driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Plum is on a mission to make millennials financially better off by helping them to microsav...
Mobeus Equity Partners has provided £8 million to back the management buyout of Ludlow Wealth Management Group (http://www.ludco.co.uk/), an independently owned financial planning business in...
MIP Diagnostics Ltd, a Midlands-based life sciences start-up that develops “plastic antibodies” for a variety of applications has received £300,000 of fo...
Startup Funding Club (SFC) has recently invested over £300K into three British startups: Curamicus, Dan Dan Digital, and Onkho. The early-stage companies op...
Zeelo, Wluper, Dovu and By Miles join InMotion’s Seed Programme Application process saw ov...
1068 investors backed the online corporate lending platform’s raise on Crowdcube in return for 16.7% equity ...
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Nearly half (45%) of small businesses don’t have a cyber security plan for their business according to research by Smith & Williamson, the accountancy, investment management and tax group...
A Hull company which specialises in high-end audio-visual systems and whose clients have included royals and celebrities has secured a £100,000 loan from NPIF - Enterprise V...
Silverfleet’s 2016 Buy & Build Monitor reported 5371 add-ons, making 2016 a record year for European add-on activity2...
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$22 million represents one of the largest Series A rounds for an AI company in Europe to date....
OurCrowd, a global leader in equity crowdfunding, today announced that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with LetsVenture, India’s largest marketplac...
Mobeus Equity Partners has appointed Amy Reyniers as Marketing Director. Amy will lead brand, marketing and communications for the business, as ...
Calculus Capital, a leading EIS and VCT investor, will invest £2.4 million as a cornerstone investor in a £6.6 million institutional and private investment round into ...
Funding to provide two additional care homes and further investment into the existing estate BGF has invested £3.85m ...
Since launch the GMLF has supported over 25 businesses to help them fulfil their growth aspirations ...
Mobeus Equity Partners has led a £3 million funding round for MyTutor (http://mytutor.co.uk?), the leading digi...
London-based private investment house IW Capital has provided a £626,000 loan to UK scale-up Discovery Yachts. This loan will be used to support the compa...
Tech businesses remain optimistic about their prospects over the next 12 months according to recent research from Smith & Williamson, the accountancy, investment management an...
Foresight Group (“Foresight”), the independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Port of Tyne 35MW battery storage project ...
· AllBright to host FoundHER, a six day long festival dedicated to f...
Voneus, a UK broadband provider, has secured a £4.8M Growth Capital loan from BOOST&Co alongside a £500k equity funding round raised by Jenson Funding Partners. Voneus makes super-f...
EnteroBiotix, a privately held Scottish biotechnology company focused on using the body’s own microorganisms to prevent and treat disease, has raised &pou...
HNW Lending, an alternative lender that provides individual loans of between £50,000 and £2 million to clients against their valuable assets,...
Octopus Investments (Octopus), a fast-growing UK fund management company and the largest provider of venture capital trusts (VCTs) in the UK¹, annou...
OurCrowd, a global leader in equity crowdfunding, today announced the launch of ...
Experienced life sciences investment manager Deepbridge Capital has announced the launch of Deepbridge Syndicate, an online investment platform created to facilitate investment by...
Obby, the community marketplace for people to list, discover and book learning experiences in London, recently closed a £250k angel funding round to help grow its class offe...
- Q1 purchases of investment companies second highest on record - Most popular sectors in Q1 were Sect...
Investing in Dismantling Poverty in Bristol – the First Year of Impact Social impact investment company Resonance has pub...
BGF (Business Growth Fund) has invested an initial £2m in Milk Visual Effects, an Oscar winning independent visual effects (VFX) company which creates innovative and c...
Graphite Capital, the leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, is pleased to announce a number of promotions and ap...
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National law firm Shoosmiths has advised LDC, the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investor, on its latest investment into Lucid Group Communications, a global special...
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The owner of a brand new data centre in Birmingham, GTP3 LLP, is raising £2.8m through crowdfunding platform, Downing Crowd, as the site enters its next phase of development. The proj...
Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s leading private equity houses, has today announced a £2.25 million investment v...
Online investment platform SyndicateRoom today announces the closure of two lift rounds, for Peptinnovate an...
The investments have been made in companies including Fasteat UK Limited, Hothouse Partworks, Rezurvit, Brainbroker, HiveWire, QRoutes, The Link App and BEUTiFi. See the website for more in...
The political arena is in turmoil (again!), the economy is facing a period of uncertainty and volatility and Brexit negotiations are set to begin ...
Optoscribe, a world leader and global supplier of glass-based integrated photonics components, today announced that the company has closed a series B inv...
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G.Network, the next-generation communications service provider exclusively focused on Central London...
Activate Capital, the Startup Studio, is sharing its business expertise with entrepreneurs as part of its second podcast season. With insightful and entertaining information, the eight ten-minute e...
Threats to the harmony in the United Kingdom have writ large in recent weeks. Political strife has been more intense than normal, but that will calm down in time and although the discord over...
Ian McGlinn wasn’t your typical angel, he didn’t have large sums of money to invest or any experience of investing more generally. Instead he made his money by buying ...
Investors using equity investment platform Seedrs have realised impressive returns as first secondary ...
James Bond enthusiasts can now invest in the “James Bond” bond The “James Bond” bond is available for ...
It is a shame that film investing has become tainted in the minds of many investors, although recent scandals explain and justify this attitude. However, now that film and similar...
Autologyx targets share of the $8.8bn RPA (Robotic Process Automation) market NowWeComply announces it has re-branded to autologyx. The re-brand follows the evolution of the company’s...
Cambridge Capital Group and its sister overseas chapter, CCG International, have invested more than £1.5m this year to date, in six new investments, with a seventh in legals. Sectors ...
There are so many ways Howard Flight has helped the angel and early stage investment industry that listing them would fill up several pages. One of the original financial se...
Eve Beds was only founded in 2014 and has rapidly grown its sales over the last two and a half years increasing them from £2.6m in 2015 to over £11m in 2016. Valued at £140m...
KYMIRA is an award winning sportswear brand founded by Tim Brownstone in 2013. Operating from the Henley Start-Up Business Incubator at the Science and Technology Centre, KYMIRA established a sport...
Not that I feel sorry for Mrs May for her desperate political miscalculation, I can empathise with what it feels like when something you hope for drastically does not happen. ...
YEAY, an m-commerce platform using video to redefine shopping, has closed i...
InMotion invests in Lyft...
Who needs sophisticated investors anyway? Raising money over the internet – once the domain of sketchy wire transfers to exotic princes – has been revolutionised by cr...
Albion Ventures, the leading independent investment manager with a long-term record of partnering ambitious business, has rebrande...
Octopus Ventures celebrates 10th anniversary Leading European VC now in...
Intertrust has announced the appointment of Ian Rumens as Global Head of Private Wealth Services. Ian is based in the Jersey office. Ian has been part of Intertrust's private wealth team as...
TWO of the biggest peer-to-peer investment trusts are finding better returns since shifting from traditional P2P lending or altering their strategy. VPC Specialty Lending Investments posted...
OurCrowd, a global leader in equity crowdfunding, today announced a partnership with Motorola Solutions, Reliance Industries and Yissum, to operate an innovation technolog...
BGF, the UK’s most active investor in growing companies, has expanded its investment team into the Republic of Ireland with the appointment of Leo ...
InnoEnergy, Europe’s largest sustainable energy accelerator, and EBAN, the European tra...
Startups can apply to be specifically matched with corporates in first phase of new model for business creation and acceleration backed up som...
UltraSoC today announces the completion of a £5m ($6.4m) funding round to drive continued deployment of its technology and realiz...
Pioneering manufacturing company honoured at BVCA Awards Edinburgh-based manufacturers of p...
InMotion Ventures, the venture capital business powered by Jaguar Land Rover, has partnered with global sta...
National law firm Shoosmiths has advised NVM private equity backed Kirton group on the disposal of its specialist seating division by way of sale of the en...
A new business angel network aims to boost the North’s technology sector by bringing together early-stage companies with experienced e...
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Draper Esprit announces that it has raised a further £160 million to invest in Europe’s best startups. ...
Reading University-based KYMIRA, a startup company developing energy-harvesting technology for perfo...
As the lead of the data team for Diversity VC, it gives me great pleasure to share our inaugural research report, Women in U.K. Venture Capital: 2017. When Diversity VC began this study in ...
The Go Beyond Investor report provides an update to the 2015 and 2016 reports ...
With all that has been going in the world of late, had you slipped away to a desert island for the last 18 months you might be tempted to think that invest...
NatWest Capital Connections offers business customers access to the best sources of alternative finance Seedrs joins 5 leading alternative finance companies as the only equity base...
Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has invested £1 million in ebb3, with the po...
Capital Cell has launched in the UK, with value adding angel network partnerships, strong life science start-up links, and a ...
Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, is pleased to announce a £2.5 million VCT qu...
The National Australia Bank (NAB) today announced an innovative collaboration with Israeli company OurCrowd, a leading global equity crowdfunding platform that will provid...
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A Manchester digital company which helps businesses manage high and variable website traffic demands for customers such as ao.com and Ted Baker, has secured a £900k ...
Nearly half (45%) of small businesses don’t have a cyber security plan for their business according to research by Smith & Williamson, t...
BGF has exited its investment in Statesman Travel Group...
Oxford’s research commercialisation office named best in the world while OSI’s David Norwood also celebrated in annual Global University ...
ProVen Legacy plc has completed deals with healthcare marketing agency Cogora and fintech company Celoxica ...
The new funds will support the company’s expansion into Latin America, the development of advanced software for doctors and m...
Offering an unrivalled energy and water savings consulting service, SaveMoneyCutCarbon works with businesses, organisations and homes to reduce energy and water consump...
Online investment platform SyndicateRoom today announces that independent UK film, Kat and the Band, ...
OurCrowd now the world’s leading crowdfunding investor in the healthtech sector Scopio is OurCr...
WiseAlpha, the UK’s first online lending platform that gives everyday investors access to ...
UK investors turn to property amidst BREXIT fears Traditional assets provide much-needed inves...
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Mark Brownridge, Director General of the EIS Association, comments on a Conservative election manifesto proposal for new Enterprise Investment Scheme incentives for digital busine...
The Conservative Manifesto commits to “help innovators and startups, by encouraging early stage investment and considering further incentives under our world leading ...
Mobeus is pleased to announce the latest closing of Mobeus Equity Partners IV LP (“Fund IV or the Fund”) taking total commitments to over £140 million and expects to complete fund...
Robocath, a medical robotics start-up that designs and develops innovative solutions for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, today announces ...
Fintech firm Growth Capital Ventures is set to help ambitious businesses in the North access capital to grow from a £57.5m investment fund. ...
IT recruitment platform talent.io is on the verge of further expansion after securing a major wave of investment into the business two years a...
Sugru, the world’s first mouldable glue, closed its second successful crowdfunding campaign at the weekend after ra...
Private equity fundraising for investment into companies across Europe hit its highest level since 2008 last year at €74.5 billion, a 37% year-on-year increase, accor...
The developers of a communication platform that offers secure digital access to healthcare services have received £200,000 of seed funding in a deal led by ...
Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, is pleased to announce the appointment of three ne...
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Footfalls & Heartbeats has achieved a strategic investment round of £1.25m with ...
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YFM Equity Partners (“YFM”), the specialist private equity fund manager, has closed its first buy-out fund, YFMEP 2016, at £45m, 50% above its initial target....
Investors include family offices and high net worth angel investors in both the UK and US ...
Patrick Thornton-Smith joins as a Non-Executive Director and member of Global Management Team Cult Wines ...
Innovation Birmingham Campus start-ups, Kaido and Quickcode Labs, have been announced as two of just three West Midlands businesses to top this year&rsqu...
A Midlands-based digital logistics platform that bridges the gap between publishers and resellers of video game content, plans to scale up after receiving a growth investment boost of £400,00...
Organised Health Technologies Ltd, a recognised company in the fast growing Digital Health startup market, has secured investment worth £150,000 and a multimillion pound valuation from ...
Downing-managed funds have invested £1.82 million in Populo Energy Ltd to acquire the entire share capital of C&G Renewables Ltd, which owns and operates...
In April Astia angels announced that it had sold Ceil Medical less than two years after it had made its investment. Ceil Medical had previously been incubated through the Astia Expert Sift Pr...
Monzo raised £2.5m on Crowdcube in April from more than 6.500 mini angels (crowd investors). The number of investors was double the previous record held by Crowd...
i have known David Grahame for a long time. This softly spoken Scot is arguably one of the most important people in the angel market globally, not just in the UK. He runs Linc Scotland ...
Exroid Technology is currently doing the rounds in the angel market to raise development capital. The 8 million people (including new mothers) who have suffered from haemorrhoids&n...
CHP innovation project secures €2.9m funding and proves performance in first year Biomass innovation consortium that can turn s...
The EIS Association (EISA) has produced a guide to the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS). ...
ONLINE investment platform, InvestingZone, has added access to the Seneca EIS Portfolio service to enhance its offering for private investors. The additi...
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has today announced the appointment of James Savage as Portfolio Director. Based in the London office, James will focus on actively managing YFM’s growth and buy-out...
ThoughtRiver, a developer of contract intelligence AI software, has raised more than $1m from a group of investors, including former Vodafone UK CEO Guy Laurence and Michael Findlay, chairman of Mo...
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The news yesterday that Seedrs will be commencing Trading Tuesdays with a limited secondary market opportunity for Seedrs funded businesses, following hot on the heels of Crowdcube’s buyers l...
Pharmacy2u.co.uk, the UK’s leading NHS approved online only pharmacy, has secured a further £7m of investment from B...
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EASY-ACCESS accounts are less lucrative and riskier for peer-to-peer investors, new research claims. A number of P2P platforms offer easy- or free-access accounts, which ...
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Peter Mountford, Chairman of Heropreneurs will be speaking at The Great British Private Investor Summit on 25th May in London, so ...
London, UK based tech start-up, Okappy, has announced the launch of its investment pitch o...
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MPP Global, a high growth technology business delivering digital monetization services to the media, sport and ret...
Enterprise Ventures, part of Mercia Technologies PLC, has expanded both its debt and equity teams with four new appointments in its Yorkshire offices as a result of the £108...
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Platform eyes European expansion to offer EU businesses access to Europe’s largest crowdfunding community ...
Oxford Capital has backed online market research platform Attest in a US$3.1m funding round. Oxford Capital and Episode 1 led the round, alongside ne...
The fund with the target size of €40 million will invest mainly in Finnish startups offering software to B2B customers. The investors are Finnish institutional investors, foundations, family o...
A business that specialises in the delivery and maintenance of software solutions for the domiciliary care industry has secured six figure funding from t...
Olympic Fixings Group – the Lancashire-based business which supplies hardware products to the merchant trade throughout the UK and Ireland - is all set for growth after a &p...
It can be tempting to assess a startup like a rock and roll band. Focus all your energy on the attributes of the lead singer, and remain oblivious to the musicians, backing v...
Results from the Smith & Williamson Enterprise Index Q1 2017 show the highest growth in small business confidence in four years.While Theresa May ca...
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Mobeus Equity Partners has appointed Josh Levy as Investment Executive to join the growth investment team. Josh joins from Mercia Technologies PLC where ...
Mark Brownridge, Director General of the EIS Association, comments on the 2015-16 Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) statistic...
Figures published by the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) today, covering lending volumes for its nine member platforms for the first three months of 2017, underscore the continued developm...
Winton Group (Winton), a global investment management and data science company, has invested £750,000 as part of a £1.25m investment round into Exonar Limited (Exonar)...
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Statistics released today [27/04/2017] by HMRC* demonstrate a near 20% decline in the amount rai...
Scotland’s entrepreneurs are set to benefit from a major new partnership between Cazenove Capital, the premier provider of personalised wealth...
GrowthEnabler has launched a Scoring System for the Internet of Things (IoT) market in the UK. The rating is revealed in the company’s new Market P...
Blockchain Startup Humaniq is launching an innovation office in Cambridge and co-organized the Workshop “AI and Blockchain for Social Good” at Judge Business Schoo...
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The latest OFF3R Index Report revealed that just over £40 million was invested in early stage businesses in March 2017 via some of the leading Equity Crowdfunding platforms in the UK....
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Mobeus Equity Partners has provided £2.9 million of growth capital to Buster + Punch (https://ww...
LoveCrafts, the creator of online crafts communities, with millions of users across 140 countries worldwide, today announces completi...
Over 180 investors and entrepreneurs will gather tonight (Tuesday, 25th April, 2017) to celebrate a quarter of a century of early stage investing by business angel synd...
While Theresa May can’t guarantee the support of the small business community, she can be reassured that its confidence in its own growth is the highest in four years, accor...
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Brexit: consumers rally behind Britain’s businesses following Article 50, with overwhelming confidence that UK companies will BENEFIT from Brexi...
A new global survey reveals that Internet users are increasingly concerned about their online privacy, and that 49 percent of users polled say lack of trust is their main reason for not sho...
Success of “all-star” bid from FiveAI, Direct Line Group, Transport Research Laboratory, University of Oxford and Transport for London me...
Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has completed the £6 million management buy-...
BGF invests in Waterford based Renegade Spirits Ireland Limited (‘Renegade...
Vehicle to pursue longstanding August strategy; LP base diversified August Equity, the UK lower mid-market investor, has raised £224m for its latest vehicle, August Equity Fund IV. Th...
Korean automotive technology firm invests in Connected Car leader Tantalum Corporation (“Tantalum”) today announces a significant investment by Korean automotive technology company Hand...
Innovation Birmingham Campus-based start-up, Liquidity Exchange, has announced a partnership with international debt collection firm, Atradius Collections. F...
Private equity fund manager Calculus Capital has invested a total of £3.5m in Scottish biotechnology company Synpromics via its Enterprise Investment S...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading players in European Growth Private Equity, to...
The Angel CoFund, launched at the end of 2011 with an initial Government-backed funding of £50m to support the UK’s angel market, today celeb...
NorthEdge exits Utiligroup Ltd to Energy Services Group LLC NorthEdge Capital has sold energy technology provider Utiligroup to Energy Services Group (ESG), a leading provider of technology solutio...
New research among 1,000 UK investors by IW Capital reveals how the beginning of Brexit and the new tax year have affected the risk profile of the UK inv...
Startup Funding Club has successfully closed the first tranche of its two 2017 SEIS/EIS Funds – the Startup Funding Club SEIS/EIS Fund and the E...
Ascension Ventures is pleased to announce its investment from the ASCEND Fund III into software start-up...
Global digital learning platform HowNow, which lets users learn anything from anywhere in the world over live interacti...
Tool manufacturer Keencut has secured investment funding from a new firm of investors as it pushes forward with ambitious expansion plans. The investment will allow the company to launch new ...
Crowdcube completes first on-platform secondary share trade as angel investors snap up crowd shares in Mettrr Technologies ...
Appetite for intervention – 88% believe that the UK needs a comprehensive industrial strategy Brexit clarity vs industrial strategy &ndash...
One of the UK’s leading equity crowdfunding platforms, Crowdcube, has announced anoth...
A report last year by leading educational technology conference EdTechXGlobal, highlighted key trends that will impact on the education sector over the coming decades. Globally, the educa...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has today published the Ventu...
NVM Private Equity has exited from Coventry based telecommunications and security systems integration provide...
Tenzo, the leading data-driven hospitality tech platform, announced today that it has successfully closed a seed investment of £600k led by Acequia Capital, Force Over Mass and angel investor...
Foresight has invested £2.15m from Foresight VCT PLC into Fresh Relevance Limited (“FR...
Equity round brings Small Pharma’s funds to £970k to develop its first product: a rapid-acting antidepressant ...
Intertrust has four new client-facing directors following a recent set of promotions within the firm. ...
The GM&C Life Sciences Fund, managed by Catapult Ventures, has led a £4m investment in Proveca, a European paediatric speciality pharmaceutical company. The inve...
Business as usual for many SMEs as those trading internationally report fewer concerns than in 2016 ...
UK investors will not allow Brexit to derail their investment plans, with two fifths ready to seize short-term opportunities...
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A novel antibiotic, which has been developed in Scotland for the treatment of Clostridium difficile, will take a step closer to being brought to ...
Record year for Irish angel investment in 2016: €13.6M invested in 50 start-ups Business angel research reveals: 80% of business angels...
The InterTradeIreland Seedcorn competition launches for 2017, to find upcoming business talent Early and new start companies across Ireland are encouraged to enter the 15th...
Foresight Group, a leading infrastructure and private equity investment manager, is pleased to announce the completion of a £3 million investment i...
Private equity fund manager Calculus Capital has closed its EIS fundraising after reaching its £20m target three months earli...
Repositive, the company that created the world’s largest portal for acc...
NVM is delighted to announce that it has strengthened its investment team wit...
Startup Funding Club has invested £200K into Future Mobile Money. The fintech startup has developed a virtual payment solution that enables customers to make payments from t...
With only 725 days to go until we leave the EU, there are things angels need to pop onto the to do list! As the UK is now leaving the EU here are some things think a...
Two of the finalists for the 2017 Birmingham Young Professional of the Year (BYPY) awards are entrepreneurs based at Innovation Birmingham Campus. Dan Ri...
The European technology venture and growth equity market continues to do well. As of the end of February, two months into the year, figures are up by amount invested (+23%), and th...
Mike made millions at Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel and retired at the age of 32. In 1977 he was approached by Steve Jobs and tempted back into work. Jobs came to him on the adv...
Lots of angels I know are keen cyclists and I am sure everyone recognises the need to support cancer charities. Therefore this month's Charity Shout Out is for The Sturgeon Ventures Chicks ride the...
It is good news to see a round of funding that includes not only angels and management but also seed, European technology and real estate investors. It is even better ...
Patient capital is the name of the game in our world. For some the patient capital is reserved for the most sick investments in a portfolio, but for the lucky few it bears another purpose. ...
In an industry where it is all too common for venture capitalists not just to think, but to say "what is in it for me" and for angels to stay under the radar, David Cummings is a breath of fr...
Air quality is one of the biggest issues of the 1st world. Mostly we hear about the issue in the context of particulants in the air in major cities - often exacerbated by particulates from di...
Millionaire Makers - whether angels or venture capitalists have many more characteristics in common than they might like to think. Here are the 10 mos...
It’s a puzzle. Venture capitalists get very excited by innovation and disruption when it comes to companies we invest in, but there isn’t much innovation of our own business model...
“Impulsive, impatient and hyperactive. I’m sorry to tell you Mrs Jones, but your son may prove to be a highly successful entrepreneur!” Businessmen with a (hypot...
Foreword from Juliet Rogan Head of High-Growth and Entrepreneurs Barclays In recent years, I have noticed two important trends eme...
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) is pleased to announce two new appointments to its investment team. ...
UK Bond Network, the alternative finance provider that specialises in structuring secured corporate bonds and...
Monzo has broken records once again on Crowdcube, one of the UK’s lead...
NVM has delivered a £3 million investment in ...
Scotland’s first dedicated pre-seed tech accelerator is to open in Edinburgh with a mission to trigger Scotland’s next billion dollar startup....
Airangel, the Warrington-based company which is the leading provider of ...
The IF-ISA (Innovative Finance Individual Savings Account) is a new category of ISA, which launched in 2016. UK crowdfunding experts Crowd for Angels has announced that a 2% ...
Low-carbon, clean-technology innovators due to exhibit at ...
BGF Quoted has provided Accsys Technologies plc with a £12m investment to support its ambitious growth strategy including the development of the world’s first Tricoya&...
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London-based hybrid systems manufacturer has taken funding from the Angel CoFund, former CEO of Barclay’s Corporate Banking, and a former board member, President and CEO...
National law firm Shoosmiths has expanded its Venture Capital (VC) offering with the appointment of corporate partner Steve Barnett to its London office, from international law fi...
Bethnal Green Ventures celebrates 5 years of accelerating tech for good with £1.3m investment ...
AccuRx has completed an SEIS/EIS round raising a total of £355,000 from a number of business angels including Anvil Partners LLP. AccuRx is developing software to help doctors reduce in...
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Entity Resolution and Network Analytics start-up plans further product development and international expansion ...
HIGHLIGHTS Notion Capital, Partech Ventures, Tribal VC, Enterprise Ireland ...
Catapult Ventures is delighted to announce the acquisition of Monica Healthcare, a leader in wearable digital foetal monitorin...
The world’s first online marketplace for professional florists throughout Europe Florismart connects florists an...
Oxford University Innovation (OUI), the research commercialisation company of Oxford University, has named its ne...
Highlights • Capital Cell’s crowdfunding campaign - Bionure - overfunds with more than €1M and becomes Spain’s largest ever life science equity crowdfunding campaign....
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New Goji proposition opens access to peer-to-peer and direct lending for financia...
Scottish-based business angel syndicate, Archangels, has appointed Shaolei McKie as its Investment Executive. ...
RavenPack, the big data analytics provider for financial services, is today excited to announce it...
French-American start-up Akeneo has raised £10,5 million from Partech and Alven Capital. Akeneo is the leading provider of open-source product information ma...
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Alternative Lender HNW Lending receives FCA approval to offer the new Innovative Finance ISA The...
BGF has £2.5bn in capital and is backed by UK’s five main banking groups BGF has backed Sentric Musi...
Finance Durham LP to commence investments from May 2017 and intends to support up to 70 companies based in County Durham ...
Appointment to support growth ambitions, double lending to £2bn ...
Startup Funding Club (SFC), the seed investment fund and most active network of business angels in the UK, and Spark10, the technology-focused Startup ...
Investment manager Oxford Capital has launched a new EIS, investing in the UK creative sector. The Oxford Capital Media EIS aims to achieve a tax-free return of up to 120% after four years, plus in...
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Members of Wild Blue Cohort, the London-based network of angel investors, have ...
65% of tech and telco SMEs forecast growth in the next two years Tech entrepreneurs are most likely to raise venture capital Finding skilled staff is their biggest obstac...
Marketplace for rental property completes second fundraising round in seven months ...
Rokk3r Fuel is a global $150M fund that will invest capital into early stage ideas that go through the Rokk3r Labs platform. Rokk3r Fuel will also ...
Jellynote, an AI powered Music Edtech Platform, announced today that it has secured $800K to drive user acquisition and production of exclu...
Startup takes funding from investors including Angel CoFund and the ...
MMC Ventures, the London-based venture capital fund, has announced significant senior appointme...
Online investment platform SyndicateRoom has announced the successful ...
Over £40m invested in to campaigns presented on the platform since launch in late 2014 85% of...
Freetrade takes away stock market entry barriers, by charging no commission on basic accounts, nor demands an account minimum - Members will only pay for premium services...
STREETBEES RAISES $5.1m SEED FUNDING TO ACCELERATE GROWTH OF WORLD’S INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM Streetbees provi...
“The Chancellor Philip Hammond presided over the his last Spring budget with a set of seemingly incremental and modest measures. The relatively neutral package of measures combining small tax...
Payfont, the UK’s next-generation cybersecurity innovator, is in early trials of its breakthrough solutions for online identity protection and data privacy. The company, headquartered in Edin...
Cloud.IQ, the conversion rate optimisation platform for e-commerce, announces a GBP£4M Series A funding round, led by London based pan European fund Nauta Capital and advise...
Technology breakthroughs announced for startups incubated by VN Capital Partners and supported by the UK government's SEIS and EIS tax reliefs for alternative investments...
Gas-fired power stations could again be profitable, with significantly lower CO2 emissionsVN-H Power Generation Ltd (VN-HPG), a UK energy start-up, today announ...
More Homes for Vulnerable People from Hollywell Housing Trust as Resonance makes its first investment from the Health & Wellbeing Challenge Fund...
Innovation Birmingham will host this year’s annual Blockconf UK event a...
The first commercial real estate debt product available on the BrickVest platform Confirm BrickVest’s capacity to be the single point of access for ...
Growth capital investor Be...
Strategic corporate partnership will target 5G Mobile Edge Computing and other high performance networking infrastructure applications Bristol, UK, – Bl...
From today, investors on Seedrs will be able to access their individual portfolio IRR for the first time in another pioneering firs...
Former Chairman and CEO of Capital Radio Group, David Mansfield, has been appointed as Chairman of the Advisory Board for Shadow Foundr....
Funding to be used to strengthen functionality, such as in-app payments...
First British Robotics Seed Fund High Growth Robotics Limited British Robotics Seed Fund closes for investment on 31 March 2017. Th...
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Crosslight Advice is an independent, client-focussed charity working to alleviate poverty caused by problem debt and lack of financial capability, primarily triggered by low...
Chelverton is a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quoted equities and unquoted SMEs, and also runs an Investor Club for angels looking for a managed service backing deals which ...
The Mattioli Woods investment in Amati Global Investors Limited is strategically significant. The VCT and EIS fund manager market was traditionally populated by specialist fund management firms foc...
I am not the only one who has immense repsect for Mark Payton, one of this other fans is veteran investor Neil Woodford. So I am in good company! Mark was already a successful serial tech i...
One finds interesting deals in all sorts of places, but it is nice to find one that tickled my interest close to home recently. Veteran financial media entrepreneur Gavid Oldham is raising funding ...
The asks are enormous of course. Our erstwhile Chancellor of the Exchequer has done a good act to date playing the role of sensible accountant at No 11 and the economic figures from GPD growt...
Sector still trading at a discount to NAV despite strong five-year performance; most LPEs are running a net cash pos...
Startup Funding Club supports the food & drink industry by syndicating £220K into early-stage companies Nom Noms and Arctic Power Berries. Startup Funding C...
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Since 2011, private equity investment has fortified its position as a catalysing force for private business growth. From seed and pre-seed businesses to leap companies pursuing an...
Titled ‘Insurance and Wealth Management Industry Trends’, the research highlighted that there needs to be greater understanding between wealth management firms and the insurance sector ...
The Business Model of Things The onset of the Internet of Things has unleashed a frenzy of new startup apps. In this cacophony of noise,...
It is often said that up to 80% of the value of a modern company resides in its intangible assets. Admittedly, this may well be an overestimation for companies owning a large number of physical ass...
In the shadow of Brexit, overall investment activity into startups has dropped in 2016, yet high-tech companies based on university research have bucked the trend. Oxford Univ...
Deal activity for 2016 drops almost a quarter compared to 2015 as investor caution skyrockets, but total annual funding remain...
VCTs are certainly in the limelight at the moment. With the changes to pension rules, including the reduction in l...
Company readies for production of wireless, cell-based management system for electric vehicle, industrial and grid ene...
Financial well-being app Squirrel will use capital to expand functionality and reach out to new demographics ...
Three quarters (74%) of tech entrepreneurs and business leaders are forecasting growth in 2017 according to recent research by ...
Investment, led by Archangels, will allow business to triple headcount, open new HQ and set up a team in London ...
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Secured funding from management, seed investors and European technology, real estate investors and business angels. ...
New research from the AIC shows the top 20 VCTs up an average of 141% and paid an average tax free dividend of 87p per share. ...
Hitachi Capital UK, the innovative financial solutions provider to businesses and consumers, has reinvigorated ...
Dealflo, the leading provider of end-to-end financial agreement automation services, today announced a £10 million investment round, led by ...
BGF (Business Growth Fund) is continuing to expand its team covering the South West of Engl...
Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has completed a £6.5 million management buy-out of Healthpoint Limited (“Healthpoi...
Members of the Co-Investor Circle (CIC), a private investor network, have completed a follow-on funding round into Push Doctor, Europe’s largest online GP marketplace. CIC members have ...
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London-based startup Banvard & James has received a £200K investment through Startup Funding Club’s award-winning network of international investors. The funds will be used to aid...
Investments masquerading as tech disguise the fundamental weakness of Europe’s late stage funding rounds. Only 20 real tech companies in Europe get crucial late stage f...
REalyse, the property analytics company, launches nationwide today having raised £500,000 in seed capital...
Moneyfarm, the digital wealth manager, today announces a 16% month-on-month average growth and another new senior hire as it celebrates its one-year anniversary of ...
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More money will be invested in small businesses, creating jobs and growth if The Chancellor makes it easier for people to invest through the Enterprise Inv...
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Meltwater, a global leader in media intelligence, is excited to announce the acquisition of ...
Greater optimism from UK population toward UK Economic outlook than European Economic outlook...
The British Business Bank has today launched its £400m Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), aimed at boosting the North of En...
POD Point, the UK electric vehicle charge point supplier, has launched a new £1.5m crowdfunding round, part of a ...
Chelverton Asset Management Limited (‘Chelverton’), a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quote...
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The UK’s first team of student venture capitalists are all set for their new role - scouting for businesses that could become the technology stars of the future. ...
Kernel Capital through the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds has participated in a €2.1m investment in OncoMark, a medical diagnostics company. The investme...
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SBRI contract awarded to snap40 for “game-changing technologies with the highest...
The Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2...
Nearly two million UK shareholders clueless on the value of their shares, ignored by the companies they back and trapped by lack of equity releaseNo tra...
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Online investment platform SyndicateRoom announces that millennials are twice as likely to embrace early-stage investing as a means of reaching their financial goals than those aged 51 and up. Over...
Fraud costing UK Plc £125 billion a year Latest research ...
London start-up targets accelerated product innovation t...
Foresight Group ("Foresight”) is pleased to announce on behalf of the Board of Foresight VCT, the completion of a £1.7m investment into Midlands-based Online Poundshop Limited ("Pound...
Bloom & Wild, the UK’s top rated online flower company, has taken £3.75m in a new round of funding with ...
London based action.ai, the developer of an advanced AI platform for the launch of high quality chatbots...
Advizzo, a B2B customer engagement software & Smart Home specialist, has closed a pre-series A investment round from LBA and other investors which included participation from the LBA EIS Roundt...
Beans Entertainment (Beans), the developer of Bean&Gone , a new interactive brand that delivers shared engagement experiences for children across digital and physical media formats, today annou...
Crowdfunding investment up 20% since EU vote ...
Angel Investment Network (AIN) are delighted to announce that they have recently completed four deals through their network. AIN helped Novastone to close off its last angel round which was oversub...
Startup Funding Club (SFC), the award-winning business angels syndicate and seed investment fund, has launched a new initiative for early-stage startups in partnership with experienced entrepr...
Edition Capital, one of the UK’s leading live entertainment and media investment specialists, today announces the launch of an exciting new EIS fun...
The Electrospinning Company, announces that it has secured a £650,0...
Oxford University Innovation’s management consultancy division to restructure as separate entity to scale up interactions and business on the world stage. Isis Ente...
Seed investor and former long-term chairman of King Digital (creators of Candy Crush) Mel Morris, has invested £3.8m in Audiense, a software-as-a-service developer which del...
“SPNV Ltd, trading as Space Net Ventures, is delighted to announce the launch of an (S)EIS fund, Space Net Ventures (S)EIS fund. The fund...
UK’s third-largest consumer peer-to-peer lending platform launches new IF...
Swiss based Netcetera leads investment in Cognism, UK based start-up with international team from UK, Switzerland, Macedonia and Croatia. Other notable investors include S...
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Amid political uncertainty, confidence remains 40%...
£2,200,000 raised for top Satellite Navigation App With over 26million downloads,...
Exonate receives Wellcome Trust funding to develop eye drop treat...
Refract, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) start-up based in Newcastle, has received funding of £0.5m from Mercia Fund Management and the Finance For Business North East Techno...
Campus Capital – the new and innovative UK venture capital firm – has signed up its second key university partner. The latest deal with the University of Manches...
First Derivatives plc (FD) has agreed a partnership with BGF, the UK’s leading investor in small and mid-sized companies. The partnership, ai...
Amati Global Investors Limited (“Amati”, the “Company”) is delighted to announce that Mattioli Woods plc has acquired a 49% stake in the Company. This is a strong endorsemen...
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BGF (Business Growth Fund) has appointed Fiona Gibson to support its growing portfolio in the South West of England. ...
In the US in 2016 there were 462 Series C and later rounds. The equivalent number in all of Europe in 2016 was just 36. While European Series A is 25% of the US total, Series C and lat...
A Scottish early stage company, whose expert system has the potential to revolutionise the way healthcare is delivered,...
CoInvestor platform evolves to include funds as business grows ...
https://www.off3r.com/news/id/38131-A-Record-Breaking-2016-for-Alternative-Finance...
Aislabie was the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1718-1720 and piloted several schemes through Parliament which vastly increased the value of shares in the South Sea Company (risin...
Another deal from the London Business Angels stable deserves attention this month. Jupiter Diagnostics has raised £1.6m from a syndicate including Angels In Med City. Jupiter's reader e...
The sale of Allinea, a specialist in high performance computing to ARM at a three times multiple to the latest funding round has returned significant volumes of cash to its investors. This wa...
Toby Lewis is a proven entrepreneur having gained enormous experience at Global Corporate Venturing. He is now leading the charge at Novum Insights which is the corporate innovatio...
Mark Boggett Mark is a talented and highly personable individual and a mainstay of the London early stage venture capital scene. With an 18 ...
The instinct of the average person when we are seeing so much global change is to hunker down, but angels are not average people. The rise of nationalistic fervour across the West means tha...
SOS Children's Villages looks after children orphaned and abandoned due to civil war, extreme poverty, natural disaster and pandemics are the world’s most vulnerable citizens....
UK-based startup Spoke, an online clothing brand making better fitting menswear, has closed a $1.8m funding round. The round was led by VC firm Oxford Capital, with Forward Pa...
The winners of the Enterprise Investment Scheme Association’s (EISA) annual awards, which recognise outstanding investment performance, excellent service and valued ...
Investors looking for tax-friendly Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) investments at the end of this tax year could be disappointed, as demand is likely to...
Calculus Capital, the private equity fund manager and Enterprise Investment Scheme and VCT specialist, has been named Best EIS Manager in the Enterprise Investment Scheme...
University of Edinburgh Business School has announced this year’s programme of events for Startup Festiva...
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The Virtual Technology Cluster Group (“The VTC Group”), which connects small innovative companies with blue chip organisations seeking innovation, is raising capi...
When you’re just starting out, being an entrepreneur can be lonely. The very fact that your job is the business that you have crafted and are passionate about means th...
It can be tempting to adopt a Luddite view of crowdfunding websites. “They can simply upload a flurry of presentations and see what sticks.” Yet these platforms have e...
On the 17th January, Prime Minister Theresa May outlined 12 objectives sought from a proposed “hard” Brexit. The point that really caught my attention, and that of Bri...
Smart technology company Camfridge have overfunded to £640,254.78...
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has partnered with the UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) to connect chemistry-using startups and scale-ups with potential investors. We are holding...
Scaling up and not starting up is now the biggest challenge for technology businesses, according to the CEO of Mercia Technologies PLC (“Mercia” or “the Group&rd...
New research* by CIL Management Consultants conducted amongst 100 high performing mid-sized businesses with sec...
BGF (Business Growth Fund), the UK’s leading growth capital investor, has invested £10m in Frontrow Energy Technology Group to support the company...
People aged 18-34 are four times more likely than over-55s to have money invested in a peer to peer platform One in four ...
UK Bond Network, the alternative finance provider that specialises in structuring and distributing investment opportuni...
Working for a living is something we all expect to do, but, technically, we also have to work for when we don’t earn a living anymore; also known as saving a pension for our...
Data published today by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) demonstrates continued confidence in the VCT sector. Fundraising for the 201...
Technology-enabled, transparent access to institutional grade real estate opportunities, without the high transaction costs or management commitme...
Angels in MedCity has supported London scale-up Jupiter Diagnostics to raise £1.6m to develop its reader, allowing anyone to perform quick, affordable blood tests. The company raised the inve...
Startup Funding Club is excited to announce that it has led an SEIS funding round of over £250k into Petalite Ltd and another of &poun...
Soapbox Labs has created a cloud-based speech-recognition technology platform specifically for young kids aged 4-10 with applications in education, gaming and beyond. Enterprise Ireland was among t...
Working with the management of Rentivo, MyVAN has helped fund Rentivo’s recent fundraise on Crowdcube, which overfunded by 30%. Rentivo is a vacation rental marketing platform that pr...
My 1st Years, the children’s gifts personalisation site, has secured £5m in growth funding led by venture and growth investor Beringea, and supported with funds managed by Hargreave Hal...
Two thirds of Millennial entrepreneurs predict their business will grow over 2018 Majority fear Brexit to hinder access n...
Oxford University Innovation launches 24 companies in 2016 with a combined £52.6m in early stage funding, setting a new record in spinout generation for the UK and Europe....
Mobeus is delighted to announce that Justin Maltz has joined the team as Portfolio Director, acting as a non-executive director on a number of Mobeus investee companies, and providing support with ...
Beringea joins TEGNA Inc., NBC Sports Ventures, Sky, and Emil Capital, taking total value of round to $27.5 million ...
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Leading venture capital firm Scottish Equity Partners has made a significant donation to a fund which invests in business ventures by members of the Univers...
Welcoming today’s publication of [Industrial Strategy], Stephen Welton, CEO of BGF, the UK’s leading provider of invest...
Following the publication of the Government’s 10 pillar plan for its UK Industrial Strategy, James Codling, Co-Founder and MD of scale-up financing platform, ...
The world’s prominent angel investors gather in Istanbul for the World Business Angels Investment Forum 2017 from 12-14 February 2017, bringing together key players of the equity market to de...
Thrive, a software company that develops mobile apps to empower people to manage their mental health independently, announced today that it has ...
Mercia Technologies PLC, the national investment group focused on the creation, funding and scaling of innovative technology businesses with high growth potential from the UK regi...
A strong Q4 for equity crowdfunding and P2P lending kept both sectors growing in 2016 according to the latest data from the OFF3R I...
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The disruptive mobile tyre fitting company TyresOnTheDrive.com today announces that i...
Richard says: "Yesterday, the PM outlined 12 objectives sought from a proposed "hard Brexit". Of particular interest to Britain's sc...
Investment manager, Oxford Capital, has appointed Miles Kirby as a Director to lead investments in technology companies and further strengthen its growth i...
• Funding from Octopus Ventures, Munich Re / HSB Ventures, and other follow-on investors...
Chesney’s, a designer, manufacturer and retailer of luxury fireplaces and wood burning stoves, has secured a growth capital investment from BGF (Bu...
New online service digitalises paperwork for tax relief around Enterprise...
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New SME research highlights traditional banking inefficiencies ...
Crowd finance data intelligence specialist, Crowdsurfer, is celebrating overfunding its latest funding round, which saw the company secure over £1m from leading angel investors....
National law firm Shoosmiths has topped Experian MarketIQ (Corpfin) 2016 UK & Ireland M&A league tables to become the UK’s leading legal advis...
● AllBright’s platform goes live with outstanding female-led businesses; Fluidly, Piccolo and Juggle Jobs, on the ...
Impact in the Bearpit The Resonance Bristol SITR Fund has made its fifth investment of £112,000 into social enterprise Bearpit Bristol, a community interest company focused on regener...
Government policy worries for small businesses ...
A designer, manufacturer and distributor of bathroom fixtures and fittings has received a significant investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund). Halifax...
BGF (Business Growth Fund) has announced its investment figures for 2016, detailing a record year for the company. In total, BGF has now invested in 165 ...
Mobeus Equity Partners has provided £2.5 million of growth capital to Tapas Revolution, a UK restaurant chain offering Spanish tapas cuisine that was founded by celebrity chef Omar Allibhoy....
Downing LLP is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Lewis as an Investment Director. Richard joins from Radius Equity, where he headed up the investment team which raised money from High ...
Startup Funding Club has successfully closed the second tranche of its two 2016 SEIS Funds – the generalist SFC SEIS Fund...
Flock, a Big Data-driven risk analysis platform for drone flights, has closed a 320k investment round from investors including LBA private investors, Venture Capital firm Downing Ventures, and the ...
The annual UKBAA Winter Investment Dinner returns on 22nd Februar...
Foresight Group (“Foresight”), a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, is pleased to announce the promotion of Minal Patel, Ricardo Pineiro and Matt ...
The Coalfields Growth Fund, which is managed by Enterprise Ventures, has achieved a significant return following the sale of ChargePoint Technology Holdings Limited, a leading man...
- QikServe’s platform addresses increasing demand for self-service technology...
UK’s young investors committed to Brexit Britain – with under 30s the driving force backing Britain’s businesses SyndicateRoom research shows tha...
Virtual1, a London-based cloud and connectivity service provider, has secured a £10m investment from BGF as it continues to pursue its growth strategy. ...
Private equity fund manager and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) specialist Calculus Capital has invested £3m in Orig...
Founded to facilitate access to drugs in development for physicians and their patients, myTomorro...
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Investment manager Oxford Capital has completed the sale of high performance computing (HPC) specialist Allinea to global computer processor giant ARM.&nbs...
Capable, self-operating machines are increasingly becoming available to help people reduce time spent completing tedious, repetitive tasks and improve le...
It's the presentation, stupid! Books shouldn’t simply be judged b...
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Film and television producer and financier Motion Picture Capital has teamed up with the iconic British production company Hammer to launch a new EIS offering. The Hammer Films EIS Fund 201...
Amati will be holding a series of breakfast seminars on "Smaller Companies as an asset class" during 2017. These presentations are designed to give advisers a better understanding...
Destia operates in the leisure sector, aiming to disrupt the travel sector but cutting out the tour operator. It tis responding to the changing behaviours of consumers who want to do it for t...
Hero of the Month - January 2017 - Guy Rigby ...
Brexit is on its way and “hard” rather than “soft” Brexit seems to be the direction of travel. There are arguments in favour of this approach. ...
There's nothing like having a good rest to get the creative juices flowing and through a mixture of holidays and illness I have not been out and about in the market anything like as much in the las...
John and Horace were prominent industrialists and entrepreneurs in Detroit in the 19th and 20th Centuries. The two brothers compl...
It's good to see that serious tech remains loved by angels! Late last year, Eagle Genomics, a Cambridge based bioinformatics specialist, raised £1m London Business Angels and other inve...
Although I suspect deals such as Maven's 9x and 5x returns from the sale of Regent Pacific and Nenplas might have given a greater return to investors, the news that Syndicate Room investors have ac...
Private equity fund manager and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) specialist Calculus Capital has invested £3m in cleantech firm We...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has agreed to sell Micheldever Tyre Services (MTS), the UK’s second largest distributor of car, 4x...
Molecular Products Group (MPG) and BGF (Business Growth Fund) today announced the sale of the business to Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, DC-ba...
NVM has completed a significant investment to support the management buy-out of Cheshire based Thyson Technology (“Thyson” or the “Business”) from ...
Virtual1, a London-based cloud and connectivity service provider, has secured a £10m investment from BGF as it continues to pursue its growth strat...
PrOXisense, an Oxford University spinout company developing sensor technologies, has secured £330,000 at launch in s...
National law firm Setfords Solicitors has secured a £3.75m investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund) to support its expansion plans. The fun...
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Ascension Ventures is pleased to announce its investment from the ASCEND SEIS Fund III ...