The British Business Bank has published Future Fund data that gives a detailed picture of the 1,236 companies that have been approved for £1.20bn (£1,203.7m) worth of Convertible Loan Agreements since the scheme was launched on 20 May.

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 during the crisis through schemes delivered by the British Business Bank.

Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, reveals that since opening offices in Newcastle and Durham in 2017,

GP Bullhound, the leading technology advisory and investment firm, has released a new report charting the growth and progress of tech impact investing.

Impact investing and the rise of sustainable tech has revealed a record year for investment and M&A activity for impact technology companies.

Data shows that impact technology companies are receiving a fast-increasing amount of private equity investment. As the sector matures, those raises are becoming larger and focused on later-stage companies.

Renewable power investors continue to outpace fossil fuel investors across the globe, signalling a broader structural trend of decline for fossil fuels, according to new report from the Centre for Climate Finance & Investment at Imperial College Business School.

Tech Nation, the leading scaleup accelerator, has released its annual Tech Nation Report, the ultimate state-of-the-nation report on the UK tech sector. 

Research commissioned by Parkwalk shows that while 2020 saw an increase in funding for academic spinouts, this was not the case for deeptech scaleups 

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 to solving climate change and transforming healthcare. The UK’s deeptech sector is a critical part of the Government’s post-Brexit ambition for the UK to become a global ‘Science Superpower’. 

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 to solving climate change and transforming healthcare. The UK’s deeptech sector is a critical part of the Government’s post-Brexit ambition for the UK to become a global ‘Science Superpower’. 

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 Adzuna.

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 gathered across 38 waves of interviews since 2011 and are based on more than 160,000 interviews with SMEs.

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 the pandemic. This new survey sought to understand how COVID-19 has changed the investment landscape since early 2020, while also inquiring about investment plans in 2021. A significant number of respondents identified as angel investors (49%) followed by venture capital firms (32%), along with a smattering of corporate venture and family offices. The vast majority invest in the seed stage (75%), followed by Series A (58%) and pre-seed stages (56%).

The British Business Bank has published its Small Business Finance Markets 2020/21 report which highlights a surge in applications for external financial support, including government and local grants, among small and medium sized businesses (SMEs), with almost half (45%) of all SMEs surveyed saying they applied for external financial support in 2020, compared to 13% in 2019. At the same time, gross bank lending (excluding overdrafts) to smaller businesses rose to £104bn in 2020, 82% higher than in 2019, driven by use of the government loan schemes.