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7th August 2020
Foresight completes funding of €4.5 million for Italian street lighting
Foresight Group LLP has to announced the completion of a €4.5 million top-up to the Project Bond issued in January 2019 by Pagano & Ascolillo S.p.A. and listed on Borsa Italiana, for the installation of LED street lights on behalf of the Foresight Italian Green Bond Fund. The top-up will support four further street lighting projects to retrofit c.7,235 street lighting points across four municipalities in the Centre and South of Italy. ...
7th August 2020
Application for the 3rd Swiss Market Entry Bootcamp starts
The new application phase for the 3rd Swiss Market Entry Bootcamp has begun and lasts until 1 September. ...
6th August 2020
Tech businesses will emerge from crisis stronger, with EIS investments surging
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3rd August 2020
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Ingenion Medical
31st July 2020
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27th July 2020
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21st July 2020
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Stephen Kelly, Chair of Tech Nation comments on the Bank of England projections on the future of the UK economy:
6th August 2020
“We cannot be reliant on sectors that will inevitably fluctuate until there is a vaccine to...
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Silicon Valley Bank Report shows recovery taking shape
4th August 2020
To say the world has been shaken in the past four months is an understatement. ...
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Are offices still relevant in a post-covid world?
3rd August 2020
With the arrival of Covid-19, the vast majority of us have been working from home for the p...
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Under the Hat of global markets with Clive Hale
28th July 2020
Clive Hale, Chief Strategist of Albemarle Street Partners, looks under the h...
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Green Angel Syndicate completes deal with Good Club
31st July 2020
Green Angel Syndicate has completed an investment in onlin...
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Spotta, a pest-spotting AI company, raises more than $1m seed
30th July 2020
Investors have rewarded the commercial success of Spotta’s smart pest systems with a $1.18 ...
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Green Angel Syndicate closes deal with StormHarvester in €2 million raise
28th July 2020
Belfast-headquartered green technology firm StormHarvester is announcing the co...
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Angel-backed Bowimi expands team to support the recuperation of the hospitality sector
22nd July 2020
Following investment from a number of former industry leaders, tech platform Bowimi has gro...
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Maven VCTs lead £2.7 million investment in Quorum Cyber
22nd July 2020
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Maven VCTs lead £3.5 million funding round in Bright Network
2nd July 2020
Maven Capital Partners has led a further investment in Bright Network, a media tech...
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Unicorn AIM VCT £25 million offer fully subscribed
1st July 2020
Unicorn AIM VCT has closed its latest offer having raised the full £25m of availa...
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Edge appoints Advisor Panel to drive opportunity and growth for the UK’s creative economy
30th June 2020
Edge Investments, the leading growth investor in the UK creative economy, has appointed an Adviso...
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Foresight Williams increases stake in eco-tech company, Salvalco
6th August 2020
Foresight Group, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity invest...
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Biotech company raises £2.25m for new spinal treatments
24th July 2020
A biotech company which is developing new treatments for p...
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Jenson SEIS Fund invest in eTEU Ltd
28th May 2020
Jenson Funding Partners have completed an investment in eTEU Technologies Ltd, which is a technol...
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Blackfinch invests £550,000 in water purifier network Spotless Water
27th May 2020
Blackfinch has invested c.£550k in Poole-based company Spotless Water, founded in 2016. The...
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New Partners at Amadeus
28th July 2020
Global technology investor, Amadeus Capital Partners, has announced the promotion of both A...
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Online training platform launches with chance to win £2k of finance training
27th July 2020
To celebrate the launch of its new financial training platform, Yorkshire-based finance managemen...
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IGF appoints BNP Paribas Adam Bradbury as ABL Business Development Director
24th July 2020
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading indepe...
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Silverfleet appoints Dr. Christian Süss as Partner
21st July 2020
Silverfleet Capital, the pan-European private equity firm, is pleased to announce the appointment...
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Greater Coordination between private and public sector to address Growth Capital Gap
7th August 2020
Urgent action is required to close the UK’s growth capital gap, according to a report...
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Tech businesses will emerge from crisis stronger, with EIS investments surging
6th August 2020
Tech-led businesses, whose models have been further validated by the Covid-19 crisis, have ...
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Western Europe tops global private equity performance tables
3rd August 2020
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Inve...
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BGF announces continuing investment momentum in H1 2020
31st July 2020
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in the Growth Economy, has backed 24 n...
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Gendius’s smart diabetes platform hits 250,000 downloads
20th July 2020
Leading digital health start-up Gendius has raised £250,000 on leading crowdfunding p...
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Good Governance and the number and role of Directors
17th July 2020
James Murdoch looks discusses Good Governance and how it relates to the number and role of Direct...
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Coconut hits 350% of its crowdfunding target
16th July 2020
Coconut, the smart banking, accounting and tax tool aimed at entrepreneurs and small busine...
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SEIS/EIS Relief...it's that time of year again
17th June 2020
James Murdoch considers the challenges for investors around the timely collection of EIS and SEIS...
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Construction technology company set for growth with £600k MEIF package
30th July 2020
Corby-based Green Life Buildings Ltd has received a £...
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Homeware wholesaler Fifty One Percent raises £250k from MEIF
6th July 2020
Luxury homeware wholesaler, Fifty One Percent Limited, has received a £250k finance package...
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Development Bank of Wales backs Cariad Glass with micro loan
26th June 2020
Stained Glass artists Cariad Glass have seen a boost in online sales during lockdown after develo...
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FW Capital invests £20m to support Greater Manchester-based businesses
22nd June 2020
FW Capital has invested £20 million to support Greater Manchester-based businesses through ...
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Foresight completes funding of €4.5 million for Italian street lighting
7th August 2020
Foresight Group LLP has to announced the completion of a €4.5 million top-up to the Pr...
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NorthEdge Capital backs Orbis Protect’s acquisition of Optosafe
6th August 2020
Private equity-backed property, site and people protection specialist Orbis Protect has mad...
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Legaltech scale-up Clarilis raises £6m to fuel expansion
5th August 2020
Clarilis, the high-growth legal technology business, has&nbs...
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£5M Series A secured by TaxScouts to build a pan-European tax service
5th August 2020
TaxScouts, the company making tax preparation effortless fo...
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Application for the 3rd Swiss Market Entry Bootcamp starts
7th August 2020
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Invenio rebrand signals significant growth acceleration
6th August 2020
Technology consulting firm Invenio Business Solutions has completed a rebrandin...
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Foresight injects further £2 million into Envair Technology to support acquisition of TCS
5th August 2020
Foresight Group LLP, a leading private equity and inf...
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DSP acquires Explorer UK, creating database services group
4th August 2020
Enterprise IT managed services organisation DSP and Leeds-based Explorer UK, an Oracle cons...
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Great Point Media backs new production company
15th May 2020
A year after the worldwide sales success of the Channel 5 film ‘Agatha and the Truth of...
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UK Creative Content EIS Fund backs Maze Theory
13th May 2020
The UK Creative Content EIS Fund has invested in Maze Theory, a digital entertainment studio...
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Great Point Media invests in Camden Productions
16th April 2020
Great Point, the UK’s leading independent media investment firm, has...
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Octopus Ventures exits stake in We Got POP
4th March 2020
Octopus Ventures, part of Octopus Group and one of the largest VCs in Europe, has exited its inve...
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Humanloop raises funding to teach AI to learn from humans
31st July 2020
Humanloop, a game changing UCL spinout, has attracted investment from UCL’s Technology Fund...
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Techstart Ventures leads £1m funding in Machine Labs
13th July 2020
Machine Labs has raised a Seed Extension round of £1 million ($1.25 million) lead by Techst...
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Par Equity leads £1.1m investment in AI startup BrainWaveBank
13th July 2020
BrainWaveBank Limited, an artificial intelligence (‘AI’) company focused on developin...
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Octopus and MMC lead SLAMcore's $5 million fund raise
18th June 2020
SLAMcore, a UK company developing spatial AI algorithms for robots and drones, has secu...
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Liopa receives Innovate UK financial award during the Covid crisis
3rd August 2020
Liopa has successfully achieved funding from Innovate UK in ...
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Biotech company raises £2.25m for new spinal treatments
24th July 2020
A biotech company which is developing new treatments for p...
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Neurovalens raises more than £5 million to advance approvals of neurostimulation technology
20th July 2020
Neurovalens, a global healthtech company headquartered in Belfast and San Diego, has raised &poun...
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Gendius’s smart diabetes platform hits 250,000 downloads
20th July 2020
Leading digital health start-up Gendius has raised £250,000 on leading crowdfunding p...
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NatWest backed credit control app launches with aim to tackle UKs late payment epidemic
5th August 2020
Research has shown that UK 1 sma...
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£5M Series A secured by TaxScouts to build a pan-European tax service
5th August 2020
TaxScouts, the company making tax preparation effortless fo...
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Mergermarket releases 1H20 Global M&A report
9th July 2020
Mergermarket, the leading provider of M&A data and intelligence, has released its 1H20 report...
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Economic Intelligence Wales reports early effects of pandemic on Welsh Businesses
3rd July 2020
Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Wales have been significantly affec...
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Hobs Group attracts US buyer for Anexsys
7th August 2020
Anexsys Group, which provides technology and consultancy services for law firms, corporatio...
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Genius Group’s latest acquisition creates world’s largest entrepreneur education business
24th July 2020
Genius Group has completed the acquisition of Entrepreneur Resorts Ltd, comprisin...
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Withers tech advises on $20M Series C investment round in Ravelin
20th July 2020
Withers tech has represented Draper Esprit, one of Europe's leading VC funds, on the Series C fun...
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Playfair Capital leads £1m funding in employee benefits provider Heka
6th July 2020
Playfair Capital backed Heka (previously GoSweat), confirms the launch of its new website and ben...
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Launch of global competition for post COVID-19 customer travel solutions
31st July 2020
The Aviation X Lab, situated in AREA 2071 within the Dubai Future District, is an aviation initia...
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Guernsey hosts sustainable Finance Week in June
28th May 2020
Guernsey, a leading global centre in green and sustainable finance, is hosting an array of intern...
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Volunteers from the UK’s tech community come together to create Meals for the NHS
19th May 2020
Meals for the NHS, ...
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The AngelNews wine column - If you keep playing with it…
18th March 2020
The latest AngelNews wine column from Caspar Bowes of Bowes Wine looks at the effects of experime...
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