A new independent report released by UKRI underscores the pivotal role played by UK researchers and innovators in tackling the pandemic.

A new independent report published by Warwick Economics and Development at SETsquared’s Future of the Economy event in Bristol estimates that companies supported by its Scale-Up Programme will contribute £1.3bn GVA to the UK economy between 2018 and 2030.

Welsh businesses showed resilience in the face of a difficult financial year, with a strong increase in exports and growing business confidence.

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 that deployment of capital into early-stage startups grew 8% year-on-year to £664 million, proving resilient in context of wider UK venture capital funding, which fell by almost a quarter (23%) in 2022.

Money.co.uk Business Loans research into UK Kickstarter campaigns for the past five years has revealed that women are more successful at hitting their crowdfunding targets. They are 16% more likely to succeed at raising the capital they need to start a business in comparison to their male counterparts. 

Seedrs - Europe's leading private investment platform - has revealed the results of its 2023 Investors Survey, 

eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to private markets, and a part of BlackRock, has released its latest eFront Insight Quarterly Performance Benchmark report, covering the period to the end of Q1 2023.

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.

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 the past decade. While the Small Business Equity Tracker 2023 found that 27% of deals went to teams with at least one female founder, the highest proportion ever, all-female teams accounted for 9% of deals in 2022 but only received 2% of funding, which reflects no improvement since 2011.

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 Investor Index - an annual study of UK investors.

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 fuel boilers. This will lower energy bills (with fair energy prices), enable spending elsewhere and benefit employment. This is according to a new study by the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA). 

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% annually. A new report from the European Scaleup Institute analyses the dynamic landscape of high-growth firms (HGFs) and reveals a multitude of growth paths across Europe.