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Festicket, the world’s largest portal for music festival experiences, is announcing $10.5 million in Series D f...
We won’t know if the Brexit deal is good, bad or ugly for another 10 years. If you’re serious about creating, building and safeguarding wealth in the next dec...
An online photography marketplace has secured £500,000, less than nine months launching its new customer facing platform. ...
Healthcare entrepreneurs from the South West of England gathered at Exeter Racecourse to take part in a four-day workshop designe...
Kumulos, a Scottish software company which has developed a platform for managing mobile apps, has completed a £750,000 funding round backed by ...
At a broad level – pitching to VCs is a process over many months and at different levels of depth. ...
By Matthew Toms, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management Offering insight int...
CIL, the leading management consultancy, has unveiled its annual State of the Nation Survey of management teams, private equity investors, debt provider...
Pitch@Palace has hosted its tenth UK Event at Buckingham Palace, announcing BioSURE as the winner, w...
The Real Lettings Property Fund² (RLPF²), managed by social impact investment company Resonance and homelessness charity St Mung...
Albion Capital...
CEO of Private investment house IW Capital, Luke Davis, comments on the introduction of a new EIS fund that focuses on knowledge intensive S...
Maven Capital Partners and the Development Bank of Wales have confirmed a £3 million equity investment in ...
Braham and Murray Good Hemp, the plant based food and drink consumer brand which manufactures consumer brand products from hemp seed, including an a...
Montezuma’s, a company founded by Helen and Simon Pattinson in 2000, has received investment from Edinburgh-based private equity firm ...
A constant stream of funding success stories in the media, and the rise of more down to earth and approachable crowdfunding platforms, suggests it has never been easier to raise investment for your...
The term resilience has become synonymous for SMEs that can weather Brexit - but what does this actually mean in the context of one of the most seismic events to effect the UK economy and pri...
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GTR Ventures, the world’s first investment and venture-building platform specialised in trade and supply chain, has announced three new deals with ...
Helping people to find a co-founder would unlock the potential of UK entrepreneurship with millions more people likely to become entrepreneurs if they had someone to set up business with, new resea...
Kernel Capital and Suir Valley Ventures have invested €2.25 million i...
Bribes are some entrepreneurs’ best friends. Picture yourself as a struggling startup founder from an ethnic minority in a developing country. Seed money to grow your venture is...
BBC presenter Claudia Winkleman hosted the 2018 Growth Investor ...
FreeOx Biotech, a spin-out of Hospital Clinic Barcelona-...
A week on from an Autumn Budget that failed to address the differences in opportunities for women in compared to men, IW Capital ...
Scottish startup ...
AN INCUBATOR designed to help fledgling companies grow and thrive in County Durham has been launched at one of the region’s fastest growing business hubs. ...
Pioneering ethical P2P/crowdfunding platform Abundance equity raise on Seedrs is now ful...
Independent jewellery company Fenton & Co. has announced its launch into the UK market, challenging the lack of transpar...
Northern Powerhouse focused company NorthInvest has announced a new partnership with Leeds based consultancy ...
Rejuicenate, a small business run by Liverpool-based sibling trio Adil, Leith and Dina Taha has won British Business Bank’s inaugur...
Foresight Group announces the £1.5m growth capital investment into Inovo Robotics Limit...
Mercia Technologies PLC, one of the UK’s most active technology investors, announces that its direct investment ...
Europe’s attractiveness as an investment destination is on the rise compared to 2017, as the majority of global investors are more likely to invest in both the EU and the UK after Brexit, acc...
Maven Capital Partners has promoted five senior staff to partnership positions. The strengthening of its partnership base reflects Maven’s continued gro...
Kin Capital and Enterprise Investment Partners have announced the merger of their two businesses, subject to...
Alquity, the pioneering asset management business built on ESG principles, has released its first impact report, tr...
‘Start-up Spotlight’ by Invested Investor...
“I remember a visit to a domaine in Burgundy – Chambolle-Musigny to be precise – during which a question about oak opened the information fl...
InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital fund, today announces its in...
Aiden.ai, a London based AI analytics startup, announced today that it has raised a $1.6 million seed round to fuel the company’s rapid growth and the deve...
Foresight Group has invested £2.5 million to support the growth of North Wales-based software provider ...
Silicon Valley Bank has released its State of the Markets Q4 2018 ...
A pioneering actively managed cryptocurrency solution has been launched by one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations. ...
Goji, the specialist direct lending investment manager and platform, has announced it will be ...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, is intending to raise up to £36 ...
An online platform aimed at helping businesses improve employee referrals and reduce hiring costs has secured £275,000 from London-based investment fund, ...
CFP Composites, a manufacturer of revolutionary ultra-lightweight and cost-efficient heat resistant materials – used to replace heavy metal parts i...
Oxford Capital would like to extend an invitation to Angelnews investors to their Future of Mobility Investment Showcase on Thursday 15th November at the IET in L...
G.Network Communications Ltd, Albion Capital have closed an agreement with Cube Infra...
HBAN says it plans to recruit 50 new female business angel investors over the next three years. HBAN will r...
Shoosmiths has advised the intermediate capital team of Octopus Investments on its latest gr...
EOS Investment Management (EOS IM), an independent London based AIFM, has acquired Nero...
MEIF Maven Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has provided ...
Fluentify, an online language tutoring platform that enables learners to perfect their spoken English, has raised ...
11 companies have made their funding targets and closed their rounds on Seedrs in October: ...
Investment manager, Downing LLP, is partnering with Pivot Power to build a £25 million grid-...
Foresight Group LLP has announced the £2 million investment into Merseyside-based F...
By Siobhan Clarke, Episode 1 Ventures Over the years of working in sales and with seed stage startups focused on B2B software, we’ve picke...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent asset...
SWEN Capital Partners, a first-tier private equity firm, has announced that it has closed fundraising for its third infrastructure fund, SWEN In...
A TEAM of private equity experts at national law firm Shoosmiths has advised world leading GeoPrediction software...
New research from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Inves...
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Foresight Group LLP has announced a £1.9 million investment supporting the buy-in management buyo...
BEAM, the investment platform created by Bamboo Capital Partners,...
On the heels of a strong 2017, the European economy has suffered a disappointing 2018 so far. Stalling economic momentum in the first half of the year has be...
SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk has delved into exclusive data to highlight the extent of the UK gender imbalance disparity. The research s...
GTR Ventures, the world’s first investment and venture-building platform specialized in trade and supply chain, has announced an investment in&nb...
W2, a provider of SaaS, B2B software solutions and services has today announced it has completed a £3million Serie...
Ivan Sedgwick, Investments Director at LGB & Co commented on the 2018 Budget: ...
Bitcoin’s influence and dominance of the cryptocurrency sector will “drastically reduce” in its second decade, with the crypto market likely to expand by &ldq...
The British Business Bank, the UK government-owned economic development bank, has announced a second £51m tranche of funding for Hen...
Wahed Invest, the UK’s first halal online investment platform, has raised an additional £6m this year from existing invest...
Suffolk-based biotechnology company, PBD Biotech Ltd, has announced that its key technology patent has be...
Baird Capital, the direct investment arm of Robert W Baird and Co., has announced that it has acquired a minori...
With Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia named 3 of the top 7 most innovative EU member states, Lithuanian startup ...
Foresight Group LLP has announced a £375,000 investment into Equus Products and Servi...
Research finds the Entertainment, E-commerce and Media sector has the highest valued startups with companies such as Uber ($68 bil...
Klydo, the innovation research assistant that uses advanced machine learning technology to help consumer brands accelerate their product innovation,...
Comment by Mark Browridge, Director General of EISA The Modern Industrial Str...
British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of ...
Foresight Group has announced a £1.7 million investment from the Foresight...
Specialist provider of medical devices and equipment, IQ Medical...
Leading cyber security software specialist, ZoneFox, has been sold by its shareholders – including Scottish business angel investment syndicates, ...
Global technology investor Amadeus Capital Partners today announces the addition of two UK-b...
Two award-winning inventors with a mission to develop more sustainable batteries have secured £150,000 to help launch their latest product from the ...
Maven Capital Partners has led the management buyout of Acton Banks Limited, a market leadin...
UK dividends rose 4.1% to £32.3bn in Q3, breaking a third-quarter record, according to the latest UK Dividend Monitor from Link Asset Services...
Raremark, the leading patient-data platform in rare disease, has raised £3m in funding from investors, led by ...
Simon Murdoch, Episode1 Ventures When founders share the same vision, ambition and dedication for a great business...
The UK’s regional cities are competing head to head with Europe’s biggest capitals Oxbridge beats Paris and Berlin creating nine unicorns, comp...
Foresight Group has made a £1m investment into Nottingham-based Alpkit Limited on behalf of...
ADM Capital Europe LLP announces that its Cibus Fund, the global agribusiness investment fund, has been designated as a ...
Kindaba, a private visual messenger for families, has secured investment from Gareth Williams ahead of their CrowdFunding Campaign. Kindaba helps ...
IW Capital has announced senior loan funding of £1.1 million to assist in the acquisition of ...
Master Investor "Investing in the age of Longevity" takes place on 1st November 2018 ...
Maven Capital Partners, a leading UK property and private equity manager, has sold Marketgait Apart...
London-based investment fund, Fuel Ventures, has invested £500,000 in Manufacturingsource.com, an on-demand manufacturing platform...
CrowdProperty, the specialist property peer-to-peer lender, has now repaid over £10,000,000 to lend...
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Listening to investors at the start of a new business can make the difference between success and failure, according to new research from the UCL School of Mana...
Edison Strategic Insight: Market valuations improving in UK and Europe. There are risks, but valuation risk is slowly receding, with the...
A 2018 OECD report has shown that alternat...
Dow Schofield Watts Angels – the Northern angel network – has completed its second deal, with a £300,000 investment in Miribase Li...
Maven Capital Partners has exited from its investment in Cursor Controls Limited, a developer and manufacturer o...
The Midlands Innovation group of universities has launched the largest collaboration between university technology transfer offices in the UK, to ...
By Adrian Lloyd, Episode 1 Ventures ...
Further to an extensive national study commissioned by The UKBAA and The British Business Bank, nationwide data reveals clear regional disparity across the UK, with a stagge...
UK-based tech firm, ...
H1 2018 the third highest six-month fundraising period since 2007 VC investments surpassed €3 billion, the second highest ha...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performan...
Maven Capital Partners has completed a £2.15 million investment in Boiler Plan (UK) Ltd, a market disruptive pla...
Foresight Group has made an investment into Postworks Limited on behalf of th...
Mayfair-based alternative finance house IW Capital has invested in Eos Leisure. The Company manufactures and sells...
By Matthew Cushen, innovation consultant, entrepreneur and successful angel investor, and co-founder of ...
Shieldpay, the secure payments provider, has been awarded an Innovate UK...
By Gianluca Bisceglie, founder and CEO of Visyond ...
Seraphim Capital has revealed the startups that are participating in Mission 2 for ...
HeleCloud, an IT consultancy and managed services provider specialising in highly sophisticated Cloud strategy, implementation, migration and operation serv...
New research now offers a unique road map for all emerging and start-up hedge fund managers as they make their way to $1bn AUM. This has been achieved by analysing the path to growth and crucial in...
Forward Health, the app working to reinvent healthcare communication, has raise a $3.9m seed funding-round led by ...
Funding London interviewed Dr Steve Garnett before he gave a TELL (Talks on Entrepreneurial Leadership) at London Business S...
The team behind Lara Croft’s smile in the newly launched bestselling Shadow of the Tomb Raider video game are turning their technology sights on the customer service sector following a signif...
By Martin Sherwood, Enterprise Investment Partners...
Green Angel Syndicate has invested in Piclo (formerly Open Utility) in its latest round to f...
Edinburgh-based venture capital firm Par Equity has invested £1.3m in a rapidly growing stem-cell research company that is helping pharmaceu...
Foresight Group has announced the £2.5 million growth capital investment into Accrosoft...
Investment platform Downing Crowd is launching a ‘7-day access’ bond which will invest a further £2.5 million for renewable energy ge...
Maven Property, the property arm of Maven Capital Partners, has completed the £14.5 million ...
Deepbridge Capital, the tax-efficient investment manager, has confirmed its Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) and Seed EIS (SEIS) product ra...
A University of Oxford spin-out company which has developed a software platform for broadcasters has secured an £850,000 investment led by the ...
By Graham Bishop is Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management, With on...
Ventrica, a European, award-winning, outsourced contact centre, has attracted a £9 million investment from ...
The latest Fintech M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisors, Hampleton Partners...
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Goji, the investment manager and platform focused on Direct Lending, today announced it has reached over £100 million in assets on its platform, ai...
Foresight Group LLP has announced a £500,000 equity investment into Mobile Pay Systems, trading as ...
Siilo, the secure instant messaging app for healthcare professionals...
In partnership with The Invested Investor, AngelNews is publishing this recent interview with&nb...
LIGNIA Wood Company, a producer of sustainable modified wood based in Barry, Wales, has secured £3 million funding from London-based investment manager Dow...
Phytoponics, a multi-award winning start-up specialising in the development of hydroponic deep-water culture technology for sustainable agriculture has secure...
BVA BDRC has published its quarterly SME Finance Monitor. The larges...
Paragraf, the graphene technology development company, has rapidly ...
Calling women across the Northern Powerhouse to be part of the Women Angels of the North Investment Forum on 12th November. Organi...
Smart cities technology firm Connexin has become an official partner of the ...
Capify, an alternative SME finance provider that has helped almost 10,000 UK SMEs to grow and to th...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a &pou...
ReBOUND, the global returns management platform used by online clothing retailers such as ASOS, Gymshark and Charles Tyrwhitt, has re...
VentureFounders has appointed Michael Gray to work with the company to build its Channel Islands presence. Michael (pictur...
Kuber Ventures, the alternative fund investment platform specialising in EIS and SEIS investments, has added two new SEIS funds to its business platfo...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active VCT managers and lower-mid market private equity house, has launched new VCT offers to raise up to &...
Preservica today announced a £7.5 million ($10 million) Series B investment from Mobeus Equity Partners ...
Expandly, a Milton Keynes-based company whose e-commerce software allows retailers to sell across multiple channels worldwide, has closed a £580,000 fun...
Axminster Carpets Ltd has secured £3.375 million of funding from Independent Growth Finance (IGF) as...
Locum’s Nest, the app that connects doctors to locum work in hospitals, has raised £3m in further funding from ...
By Simon Murdoch, Episode 1 In its acquisition by Apple which closed on the 24th S...
London-based investment fund Fuel Ventures has raised £20 million in its third fund since launching in 2014, having grown to a portfolio of more than 2...
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Eos Venture Partners, the specialist venture capital fund investing in insurance technology (InsurTech), has made its first two investments. The fu...
A line-up of the most influential investors in European innovation will land in Paris this month for Invest Europe’s Venture Capital Forum, to discuss how to propel further the industry&rsquo...
Inverleith LLP, the specialist consumer brands investor, has taken a majority stake in Planet Organic, the London health and wellbeing supermarket, food-to-go ch...
Exciting sports start-up BATFAST, now the UKs leading cricket simulation company, has raised over £600,000 through private investment to fund its future gro...
In-app ad-verification platform ...
Piper, the leading specialist investor in consumer branded businesses, has led a £15m investment into Bloom ...
Elements Talent Solutions, a disruptor to the $200+ billion worldwide recruitment market, has received a £3.45m investment from ...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has announced that its Private Debt team has financed three direct lending transactions as ap...
Hometree, the online-led boiler installation service, has secured $8.5 million in financing from a group of leading investors led by AV8 Ventures in its Se...
Beauhurst has analysed the UK's leading ...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has launched a new £100m Regional Angels Programme d...
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Pitch@Palace, the programme established by The Duke of York to guide and support Entrepreneurs in the development of their businesse...
BGF has exited its minority investment in NewVoiceMedia, the market-leading cloud customer contact platform, as the ...
British Business Bank plc has appointed Catherine Lewis La Torre as CEO of the Bank’s ...
SLAMcore, a UK company developing spatial artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for robots and drones, has raised $5m in funding led by global technology in...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is marking another milestone as it celebrates backing £100 million of investment across the Northern Powerhouse region. ...
Mayku, a consumer products company that has built a d...
Thanks to technologies like blockchain, the pace of investment is faster than ever. But with many smaller investors looking for a less volatile alternative to cryptocurrency trading, alternative fi...
State Street Global Exchange has released the results of the State Str...
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I was in Northern Spain recently exploring the vineyards of Ribera del Duero and Toro, tasting a great many stunning (almost exclusively red) wines and ...
Seven new Prosperity Partnerships projects that will build links between the UK’s research base and leading industry partners such as AkzoNobel, AstraZeneca, Google, Rolls-Royce, Tata Steel, ...
Talis Capitall, a London-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies, has announced it has led a $3 million seed funding round ...
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Crowdcube, the world’s first and largest equity crowdfunding platform, is pleased to announce that over 100 fundraisings have now taken place on the s...
A winning combination of public and private sector businesses is helping to build Leeds into a major digital tech hub and encouraging startups right across the region. Leeds and surrounding Y...
By Martin Sherwood, Enterprise Investment Partners With the recent rule changes to the EIS, people have begun to re-focus on ...
Thincats has announced a new programme for up to £300 million with global asset manager...
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By Oliver Jones, from the impact investing platform, SeedTribe. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sle...
The North East Development Capital Fund (“NEDCF”), supported by the ...
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...
Triple Point, which provides innovative and compelling investment solutions for private and institutional investors, has launched the Venture Fund, a ne...
Seedrs, the leading private equity investment platform, has today published its latest Portfolio Update, an in-depth analysis of the characteristics and performance of the deals funded on the platf...
Octopus Investments, part of Octopus Group, has announced a £10 million over allotment facility for its current AIM VCTs fundraise. ...
By Belinda Thomas, Triple Point Ethical investments have been around for more than two decades but such investments traditionally were rarely, if ever, considered to outper...
The UK Treasury Select Committee’s conclusion that crypto-assets should be regulated demonstrates cryptocurrencies are part of mainstream finance and the sector is likely to rally as a result...
The latest Healthtech M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisors, Hampleton Partners, reveals how Big Data is...
Berlin or London-based six-week intensive courses teach post-graduates the skills needed to start a new business ...
Agile networking pioneer and UK-based hybrid cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) start-up 6point6 Cloud Gateway has won recognition in the ...
Entrepreneurs around the UK are opening up about 'imposter syndrome';feeling like you're failing despite the success of your business. This lack of confidence, faith and self-doubt has been n...
Funding Circle is seeking a market valuation of up to £1.8bn through its upcoming initial public offering (IPO) on the L...
Six of the fast-growing companies which have recieved backing from The London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF), the Mayor of London’s early-stage ...
By Christian Elmes, Enterprise Investment Partners ...
Busyness is often thought of as a modern day affliction, but it can also help you delay gratification and make decisions that benefit you in the longer-term, according to new research from th...
Mobeus has realised its investment in Lightwork Design to Siemens PLM Software, a business of ...
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Downing Ventures has committed £4.2 million of funding to Rated People Limited,...
ForeVest Capital Partners, a leading private equity fund manager operating primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, announced the close of ...
Go Beyond Investing and Bamboo Capital Partners&...
Mambu, the SaaS banking engine powering modern digital financial services, has launched Mambu Process Orchestrator (MPO). An Integration Platf...
Nosto, a leader in ecommerce personalization and artificial intelligence (AI) tools for retail, has raised USD $7.4 million led by European investment companies ...
CrowdProperty has been accepted as the first property development peer-to-peer lending platform to join th...
Polling commissioned by British Business Bank, the UK government-owned economic development bank, has revealed one in three (33%) smaller busi...
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...
Scottish Equity Partners has been named as one of the world’s most consistent, top performing venture capital fund managers by ...
An Edinburgh-based startup enabling businesses to gain insight from customer support conversation data has secured £115,000 in seed funding. ...
Optoscribe, a leading supplier of glass-based integrated photonics components, has raised £2.8 million. This funding will facilitate an expansion ...
Ethereum Classic and ZCash have been added to deVere Crypto, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchan...
NPIF - Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, has invested £200,000 as part of a &...
Divido, the consumer finance platform for retailers, lenders and payment intermediaries, today announces a $15 million USD Series A raise led by ...
Talis Capital, a London-based venture capital firm focused on technology companies, has invested $2.5million into ...
aescuvest and EIT Health have launched the first pan-European equity crowdfunding platfo...
Office workers are being urged to swap out sugary treats for these ten brain foods in order to stay alert and proactive throughout the day. Office buffs at ...
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The team behind a company having relevant skills and experience (93%) are the most important indicators which influence the willingness of angel investors to invest in a business T...
Judy Naake, the founder of St Tropez Tan and all round successful businesswoman, has been announced as a keynote speaker at this year's ...
Octopus Investments, part of Octopus Group and the largest provider of venture capital trusts (‘VCTs’) in the UK, today a...
Seasalt, the Cornish lifestyle and clothing brand, has announced a £16m investment in the company to support future growth and development in ...
The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Early & Growth Stage Funds have invested €1.7M ...
Do you have life insurance to protect your dependants? Have you started your pension pot? Do you know how much you have saved towards your retirement? New research by leading price comparis...
A novel anti-bacterial agent which has been developed in Scotland by MGB Biopharma ...
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With just six months to go before we ‘officially' leave the European Union (EU), it is understandable there remains a great deal of uncertainty about how the UK econom...
Productivity of growth companies growing 14x faster than UK average with 13.5% increase Firms investing in I...
Private equity firm Chiltern Capital is making a significant investment in employee benefits provider ...
gohenry, the company behind the gohenry financial tool, which is enabling a generation of kids and teens to take part in the digital econo...
Seneca Partners, the award winning specialist SME finance business, has completed a successful first close for its recently launched VCT offering, ...
ACA Compliance Group has completed the acquisition of Cordium, a leading provider of governance, r...
FBGS Technologies GmbH, a leading supplier of advanced fiber-optic sensing solutions and components (based on Fiber Bragg Grati...
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Will Fraser-Allen, deputy managing partner at Albion Capital, comments: “This year’s VCT fundraising season is set to be just as big as last year’s...
JOB TODAY, the UK’s number one mobile hiring app, today announces that it has raised a fur...
Fine, adjective - Of very high quality; very good of its kind. Fine, adjective - Good; satisfactory. Wine - An alcoholic drink...
Crowdcube, the world’s first and largest equity crowdfunding platform, is delighted to announce the acquisition of the...
Arecor, the UK-based biopharmaceutical formulation company, has raised £6 million from new and existing investors to develop groundbreaking...
A Devon based social enterprise Action To Prevent Suicide CIC, is the fifth organisation to receive a £10,000 launchpad loan from the Health ...
Loud background noise that makes it difficult to hear or understand a conversation is not just a problem for humans but also for voice activated devices. Cambridge start-up ...
CupClub, a returnable packaging service for drinks cen...
BGF adds £3 million of funding to its initial £2 million investment made in 2016. Barclays ...
A leading Birmingham enterprise is celebrating after securing £100,000 of SITR (Social Investment Tax Relief) investment from social investment company Reso...
Manchester based CEO of Evergreen Group, Stephen Critchlow, has been recognised for his contribution to sustainable business growth in...
Having recovered from a slump in 2016, 2018 is already the biggest year on record for amount invested by UK venture capital funds, at just three quarters of the way through the year. Whilst de...
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 ...
CoInvestor Technologies, has been selected to be part of ...
Finnish SaaS company Screenful has raised €305,000 in seed funding to help companies improve the efficiency and delivery of collaborative p...
Having funded the 47th project on the CrowdProperty platform, a total of £20,526,000 has now been r...
Britain’s highest earners should consider reviewing their pension tax relief plans ahead of an expected raid by Chancellor Philip Hammond in November’s Budget. The warning from ...
Ahren has completed the first close of its new fund, Ahren LP, with over $100 million committed from leading Limited Partners including blue-chi...
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The total value of funds business in Guernsey is at a five-year high following a predicted rise in net asset value in Q2 2018, according to the latest figures from the ...
Investcorp Technology Partners, a leading European lower middle market technology investor, has acquired Berlin-based ...
UK Finance has published its Invoice Finance and Asset Based Lending Update for the second quarter of 2018. Key data highlights: ...
BGF has provided £6m funding to One Media iP Group plc, a digital media content prov...
How does the UK FinTech market compare to other European economies such as Germany and France – and also major economies such as the USA/ China? What can we learn from them – what do we...
International law firm Brown Rudnick LLP has announced the expansion of its International Corporate practice with the appointment of&n...
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Small Business Advice Week has partnered with ...
Maven Capital Partners has led the £20 million management buyout of UAP Limited, a leading UK supplier and di...
Foresight Group has invested £2.5 million to support the partial buy-out of Bolton-based community healthcare and wellbeing provi...
ghd and Cambridge Wireless have announced a partnership that brings a new form of...
Valuing and deciding how much equity to sell of a company that you’ve put your heart and soul into is not easy. While there is no single answer, at SeedLegals we've analysed data ov...
Countingup, a revolutionary mobile app, allowing small businesses to do their banking, bookkeeping and stay on top of their taxes, has received...
Funding Circle is rumoured to be planning an initial public offering (IPO) within the next two weeks, according to reports. Th...
Any business that has to pay trade partners or employees in other countries should give some consideration to currency volatility and unnecessary conversion fees. Ch...
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...
The Danish/Swedish private equity firm Polaris and Falck have signed an agreement...
Investly has appointed seasoned working capital executive Wayne Hughes as its new Chief Executive Officer to make Investly the leading receivables financ...
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...
Reasons why you should not miss the Forum on 30th November. Plus you can get £30 off tickets until 31 August. ...
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...
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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...
Shoosmiths has advised on the sale of specialist IT-provider Taylor Made Computer Solutions (TMCS) to&...
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.” ...
Ascension has partnered with India based Unicorn India Ventures to launch t...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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...
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...
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 exce...
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...
Private equity fund distributions have outweighed capital calls by a significant and striking degree over the past five years. Data from ...
BGF is to exit its investment in employee benefits firm Benefex, the first company to receive BGF funding when it la...
Electric autonomous vehicle company, the Academy of Robotics, has closed its latest funding round in under six hours. Inv...
Triple Point, which provides innovative and compelling investment solutions for private and institutional investors, announces the first investment of i...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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...
In partnership with global law firm Penningtons Manches, ...
Arix Bioscience plc, a global healthcare and life science company supporting medical innovation, has announced that its Group Busine...
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...
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...
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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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...
Profit with purpose food company Farmstand raises $3 million to continue its mission to make a healthier plant-powered diet accessible to all F...
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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...
Ocean Polymers, a British recycling technology company, has announced its commitment to develop partnerships with companies which invest in technology an...
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...
Calculus Capital, the award-winning Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) specialist, has invested £2m in ...
YFM Equity Partners has backed the MBO of DSP Database Managed Services, a leading provider of database and da...
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...
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...
Wine’s at a curious crossroads and the future is as foggy as an especially opaque Tyne morning. ...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has sold Nexus Vehicle Rental (N...
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...
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...
Crowdcube, the world’s first and largest equity crowdfunding platform, has had its stronges...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of busine...
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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...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the next stage of the post-implementation review of peer-to-peer lending regulat...
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...
Sangamo Thereapeutics, Inc. and TxCell S.A. have announced that they hav...
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 ...
Keywords Studios, the international creative and technical servic...
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...
snap40, an AI-enabled healthcare company with the mission to protect the health of e...
Startup Funding Club has invested £570K into Blue Skies Space Ltd alongside the London Co-Inves...
CrowdProperty, the property specialist peer-to-peer lender today funded a £925,000 residential property development project in 9 minutes and 51 se...
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. ...
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...
Following the fast-moving Brexit developments, ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
A fast-growing South Wales fintech company has closed a £1.25million funding round backed by Mercia Fund ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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...
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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Wistia, a video software provider for small and medium-sized businesses, today announces it has raised $17.3m in debt ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
Beringea, the international growth capital investor, has completed the sale of its s...
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Beauhurst publishes its 'Foreign investment in high-growth companies' report 2017 was a record year for foreign investment into t...
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...
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...
A 19th-century icon of the Welsh coast is being developed for the 21st century, thanks to funding from alternative finance provider ...
Mediolanum Asset Management, the Irish asset management company of the Mediolanum Banking Group, has announced the appointment of Christophe Jaubert as its new Hea...
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,...
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...
Keywords Studios has announced that it has established Keywords Ventures which will make modest investments in innovative techn...
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, ...
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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...
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...
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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Companies only go bust when they run out of cash. That might seem like the most obvious statem...
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...
Chargemaster is the operator of the UK’s largest EV charging network and the leading supplier of EV charging infrastructure. ...
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...
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 ...
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. ...
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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Sam Quawasmi, co-founder of global equity crowdfunding platform Eureeca, is urging UK and European businesses to take advantage of Chin...
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 ...
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...
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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...
Pfizer Ltd has announced that Medopad, Perfect Ward and Inhealthcare have been selected to be part of the Pfizer Healthcare Hub: London. ...
Triptease, a travel SaaS startup which helps hotels to get more direct bookings and bring hospitality online, has raised $4m of additi...
Celonis, the global market leader in process mining software, has raised $50 million in Series B funding from existing investors ...
TourRadar, the largest OTA in the multi-day touring market, announced today a US$50m Series C, led by TCVwith partic...
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 ...
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BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has appointed Link Asset Services ...
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 conditions, h...
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...
European venture capital investment rached its highest amount in a decade with €6.4 billion in 2017, according to Invest Europe. ...
Polaris has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority shareholding in ProData Cons...
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 ...
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, ...
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...
Micrima, the Bristol-based breast imaging company, has raised £4.4 million in additional equity funding led by ...
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...
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...
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...
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Carpe is a new, all-inclusive car subscription service offering customers hassle-free access to brand new Jaguar a...
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...
Healthy food retailer MuscleFood.com has been crowned specialist online food retailer of the year at The Grocer Gold Awards....
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 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...
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 ...
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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...
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...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has backed the buy-out of The Instant Gro...
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 ...
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...
Foresight Group has invested £2.5 million of growth capital into The Naked Deli Limited. Launched in 20...
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...
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SIS Ventures is launching its first £5 million fund to back Scotland’s high impact enterprises. ...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s “steadfast yet proactive approach” on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies shows the sector is incr...
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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By Siobhan Clarke, Episode 1 Over the past 3 blogs, we’ve explained: ...
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...
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...
Masters of Pie, a London-based early stage technology firm specialising in virtual and augmented reality software for manufacturing and...
Acceleris has advised upon the completion of a £2.9m funding round into Power Roll’s novel energy creatio...
The University of Surrey’s S100 Club – the evolution of the Surrey 100 Club angel inves...
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...
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...
TxCell SA, a developer of cellular immunotherapies based on regulatory T cells (Tregs) for inflammation, autoimmunity and transplantation, and Lonza Pharma & Bi...
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...
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 ...
Leading British soft drinks company Cawston Press has announced that they have successfully raised &po...
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...
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 ...
New figures show that SETsquared Surrey’s ...
Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM), the specialist private equity fund manager have backed a £3m investment into Arcus Global Limited (...
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...
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 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. ...
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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...
Foresight Group has invested £3 million into Altrincham-based, DA Languages Limited....
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...
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&...
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...
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...
Leading gold and silver coin online retailer, http://www.coininvest.com/ announced the launch of a special fine silver coin accompanied by SwarovskiÔ ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
In light of Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, which is focusing on stress, online printer instantprint has coll...
Following its recent funding round and investment by Mayfair Private Equity, converged ICT Services Provider GCI has announced the appointment of Pat...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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...
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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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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...
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 ...
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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 ...
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GCI, the converged ICT services company, has been acquired by ...
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...
C5 Capital, the investment specialist firm focused on cyber security, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, has announced that its led an $78 million...
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...
InvestCloud Inc., a global FinTech firm, has announced Silicon Beach-based ...
A team of students from Imperial College Business School have collaborated to create and launch the School’s first student-led investment fund. The “...
Scale-up superfood brand, Creative Nature, based in Surrey and born out of the founder’s frustration at the lack of healthy and tasty...
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...
CapitalRise has closed a £2 million seed funding round from the family of renowned bankin...
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. ...
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...
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...
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 investment will enable Concentra to accelerate its international expansion and support product development initiatives for its market-leading strategic human capital software solution...
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...
Nestlé Purina PetCare has acquired a majority stake in Tails.com, a direct...
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 ...
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...
Shoosmiths has advised private equity investor LDC on its £13 million minority investment into Paladone, one of...
Andy Kaye, President of OurCrowd Where is crowdfundin...
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 ...
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...
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TradeDepot, the innovative SaaS platform for FMCG distribution in Africa, announced today $3 million in funding. ...
BGF has announced the exit of its minority investment in Brownhills Glass, one of the UK’s leading...
Foresight Group has announced the £1.68 million investment from the Foresight Williams&n...
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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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...
Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund invests £1.6 million in Salvalco Innovative aerosol valve ...
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...
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...
Mobius Motors, a Kenya-based automaker who design and manufactures durable, affordable vehicles for Africa, has successfully closed an equity and debt fundin...
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 ...
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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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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...
Tech entrepreneurs can expect to spend around £380,000 over the first year of a new venture according to new research from ...
Maven Capital Partners has been appointed to manage the £27 million North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF), which will provide equity, debt an...
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...
Zelluna Immunotherapy, the biotechnology company specializing in T-cell receptor (TCR) immunotherapies targeting a broad range of solid cancers with a hig...
LNC Therapeutics, a French biotech company specializing in research and development for gut microbiome-based drugs, has announced the appointment of Dr. G...
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National law firm Shoosmiths has advised long standing clients Octopus Investments on i...
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...
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...
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...
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Family-owned Kids Planet has received a further £6.5m investment from BGF as it plans to double th...
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...
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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 ...
Tikehau Capital, the alternative asset management and investment group, has acquired a stake in Filiassur to support the company&rsq...
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 ...
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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...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
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...
Responding to the publication of the Green Finance Taskforce report, Paul Chisnall, Director of Financial Policy and Operations at UK Finance, commented: ...
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...
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-...
Midaxo, the Finnish developer of the award-winning cloud M&A platform, has announced a €12.9m funding round comprising of &eur...
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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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Growth Street, an alternative finance provider for UK SMEs, plans to inject £20m into growing Wels...
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 ...
LendingCrowd has secured an external funding round of £2 million following a strong 2017 for the peer-to-peer (P2P) lender, ...
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 ...
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...
Glyconics has signed an exclusive licensing deal with Ghent University in Belgium for its proprietary method for the measurement of Diabetes and Renal insuff...
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...
The Development Bank of Wales has invested i...
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...
THE ROUNDUP The Facebook fiasco. “Shame if you missed it” tweeted billionaire investor Jim Mellon on Monday, talking abo...
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...
Mobeus Equity Partners has led a £3.8 million funding round for ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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...
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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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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Hats off to HBAN who funded an angel deal just 48 hours after the pitch. How did this investment which is possibly the ...
The Lithuanian Business Angel Network (LitBAN) launched on March 14th in Vilnius, Lithuania, and was an overwhel...
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...
Patrick Reeve, Managing Partner, Albion Capital, comments on VCT changes heralded by Royal Assent of the Finance Bill: “The Finance ...
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...
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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...
Andrew Aldridge, Partner, Head of Marketing at Deepbridge Capital, said: "As an investment manager that utilises EIS to almost solely support ‘Knowledge Intensive&rs...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NVM Private Equity has led a £5 million growth capital minority investment into Manchester-based ...
Augentius, the specialist global service provider to private equity and real estate funds, has appointed ...
Airsorted, the world’s largest hosting management service, today announces the successful completion of a Series A funding round worth £5 million ...
BDRC has published its quarterly SME Finance Monitor. The largest and most frequent study of its kind in ...
A welcome proposal from the Government in relation to entrepreneurs’ relief which should be introduced with immediate effect, says Nimesh Shah, partner ...
“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...
The founding editor-in-chief of Wired, established fintech leaders and a Silicon Valley investor are just some of the names businesses can...
The World Business Angels Investment Forum became an affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (...
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 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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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 ...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation r...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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....
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...
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...
It’s the second largest investment company sector, with total assets of £14.5 billion (to 31 January) and strong long-term per...
Ed Lascelles, head of technology investment at Albion Capital, comments on the FCA/CFTC collaboration to support innovative Fintech entrepreneurs: ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Capitama, the direct private investment platform for sophisticated and professional investors, is publicly launching ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
John Gilligan, a private equity and venture capital industry expert, has been appointed as Director of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford’s ...
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...
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Evonetix, a Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to enable scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis, ann...
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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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Green Angel Syndicate believes that moving from a world still largely powered by fossil fuels to one tha...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and joint initiative of Enterpris...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Blueliv, Europe’s leading provider of enterprise-class cyberthreat intelligence solutions, has announced it has raised €4 million in Series A fundi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Foresight Group has invested several million pounds of growth capital from Foresight VCT plc into PowerLinks Media Limited. The investment completes a larger Se...
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...
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. ...
Bodle Technologies, an Oxford University spinout company, is aiming to transform how and where we interact with displays after att...
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...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, is backing the buy-out of ...
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 ...
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...
Quilam Capital, which provides both debt and equity solutions to companies in the speciality finance sector, has announced its third deal...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has published the results of its second annual study into the UK’s atti...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Alastair George, Chief Strategist at Edison Investment Research: “Perhaps controversially, we view the intellectual horsepower being consumed by the ...
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...
Calculus Capital has invested £3m in Open Energy Market, an online platform that helps companies secure the best deal with en...
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...
Beauhurst's The Deal shows 2017 as the best year on record for investmen...
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...
Investment managers will support growth SMEs across the West Midlands, as part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), supported by the European R...
NVM Private Equity has backed a management buyout of Dale Power Solutions, one of the UK’s leading providers of re...
CognitionX has announced that SoftBank Investment Advisers, which manages the SoftBank Vision Fund, will be the headline sponsor for CogX 2018, the Festival for...
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...
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...
Symvan was one of eight fund managers presenting in Sandy Park,Exeter on 5th December on the joys of tax-efficient fund investing. ...
Research by Tindall Perry shows that Finance Directors lack confidence when it comes to accessing certain forms of funding. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Dow Schofield Watts Angels - the network set up last year to bring together individual investors with promising Northern technology firms - has...
BGF has announced its investment figures and key milestones for 2017, detailing another year of growth for the company. BGF completed 48 new investm...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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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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...
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...
Busbud, the online marketplace that enables global travellers to shop for and book intercity bus tickets on over 1.4 milli...
Calculus Capital, the award-winning Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) specialist, has announced a record year, with £30m in...
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 ...
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. ...
An innovative new app designed to reduce insurance costs for motorists will be launched following a successful crowdfunding campaign. The ...
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...
Deepbridge has announced three new recruits joining the business in both Investment and Business Development Manager (BDM) roles. ...
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...
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...
The Association of Investment Companies’ (AIC) membership has elected Elisabeth Scott to the AIC board. Her appoi...
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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...
Sofant, an Edinburgh based developer of smart antenna technology company, has closed an undisclosed investment round The investment round was backed by Newa...
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...
BGF has made a significant minority investment in London Middlesex-based Revital, a multi-channel retailer of supplements, beauty ...
A Newcastle-based company which uses artificial intelligence to help organisations improve the performance of their sales team has secured a significant investment from ...
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...
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...
• 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 ...
AI driven lesson planning and assessment tool secures £300,000 to encourage uptake of STEM subjects in the UK M...
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...
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 ...
OurCrowd Launches $100M Cognitiv Fund Fund to Focus on Tomorrow’s Cognitive Tech Category Mak...
Britbots, the organisation dedicated to promoting U.K.-based ro...
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...
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 ...
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...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation and joint initiative of Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIrel...
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 ...
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...
Funding will enable eSafe to further develop its sales and marketing resource ...
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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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
NHS Innovation Hub Health Enterprise East (HEE) has launched a separate medtech innovation development company called Medovate Ltd to boost the financial and techn...
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 ...
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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...
Online marketplace for car and bike parts raises £180k in 3 days from 119 investors on Crowdcube ...
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 ...
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.&...
“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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A UK games studio which has developed a unique real-time football game has closed a £600,000 funding round from Mercia Fund Mana...
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The company will push forward with its unique SaaS software offering for facilitating the discovery of innovative molecules &n...
Transaction is the 13th profitable exit for Maven investors since January 2014 Maven...
Senseye Limited, the leader in predictive maintenance software, today announced it has raised £...
The P2PFA today announced revisions to the industry standards it sets for peer-to-peer lending platforms. The new Operating Pri...
TravelNest (www.travelnest.com), an advertising optimisation platform for holiday rental owners, has secured a £3m seed round f...
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 ...
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Deepbridge, the tax-efficient investment manager, has today (29th November 2017) launched the new Deepbridge Innov...
Foresight launches new Infrastructure Income Fund ...
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“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...
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...
“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:...
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...
The majority of Britain's tech founders expect to sell for £50m or less – but there is no ambition gap in the UK ...
Fund focused on industrial high-tech, energy, smart cities and resource efficiency investment opportunities in the UK...
“Creating the conditions for success to enable businesses to scale should continue to be a cornerstone of economic policy,” said ...
Suggestv, the intelligent video discovery platform for publishers, has today closed its seed investment round, raising a total of $1m. The investment rou...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
A boost for savers? Interest rates hiked for first time in a decade ...
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...
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...
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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? ...
78% of investors expect GPs to increase their focus on ESG Biggest obstacles are cost, resource constraints and evaluation ...
NVM Private Equity (NVM) has invested £4 million in Manchester based Hello Soda, a global text and big data analytics business. H...
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...
Startup Funding Club (SFC) has recently invested £300K in four British startups: Curamicus, Designed in Colour, icarusparts.com an...
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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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...
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...
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...
Ventilation systems specialist Monodraught has received a £2.65m investment from BGF to support its long-term growth plans. The High Wycombe headqu...
Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has exited its...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) is pleased to announce that Rachel Beagles has been voted Chairman-elect ...
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...
The partnership will allow The Law Society’s members to access early stage investment opportunities through the Seedrs platfo...
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...
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 ...
The social enterprise Charity Checkout has announced that it has successfully raised over $1m to accelerate its growth. The charit...
BotSkill has secured a £250,000 investment led by the British Robotics Seed Fund (BRSF). The investment is the...
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...
Chris Hulatt and Simon Rogerson, Co-Founders of London-based Octopus Group, were named ‘EY Entrepreneur Of The Year UK 2017 overall winner’ a...
SyndicateRoom has supported Warwick Audio in a £2.2m funding round, as part of a larger financing a...
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...
IW Capital leads milestone investment for the world’s first peer-to-peer currency exchange platform ...
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Intertrust; a leading global provider of high-value fund, trust and corporate services, is pleased to announce its appointment as fund administrator to t...
Nearly two thirds (63%) of small businesses are looking to big data to benefit their business, according to research by Smith & Williamson,...
Funding will enable Cognitive to develop its pipeline of third generation petroleum geoscience software modules...
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...
Yorkshire-based Nationwide Window Cleaning has received new investment of £1.5m from BGF to support its orga...
Mercia Technologies PLC, the national investment group focused on the funding and scaling of innovative technology businesses with high growth potential from the...
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...
Award-winning challenger law firm gunnercooke has today launched Operating Partners, a ...
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 ...
Acquisition adds a range of additional services and geographical reach to strengthen Indigo’s capabilities customer offering and market positi...
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...
Crowdcube celebrates a strong third quarter 70 pitches launc...
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...
Roc Technologies, one of the UK’s fastest growing companies for IT services, has secured a £10...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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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 ...
Rapidly-growing men’s online grooming business Cornerstone has received a further £3.5m investment, led by Calculus Capital. &...
Britbots, the mentoring organisation devoted to supporting British-based robotics start-ups, has launched Britbots CROWD, the world's first ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Redag Crop Protection , an agrochemical discovery company, has secured £1.3 million in funding from existing shareholders which include institutional ...
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...
Durham-based distillery set for rapid growth aiming to become the North East’s ‘distiller of choice’...
Crowdcube partners with America’s top equity crowdfunder ?...
Research commissioned by YFM Equity Partners (“YFM”), the specialist private equity fund manager, has established that shareholders consider the ability to support gro...
The Association of Investment Companies’ (AIC) review of Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs), ‘Transforming small business’,...
Q-Bot, the UK’s leading developer of robots for use in the construction industry, has closed an investment round of £450,000...
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...
Less than one month to go for Tranche “A” – closing 13.10.2017 One, two and three year ...
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...
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. ...
OfferMoments, the world’s most innovative advertising platform, has received a £1.5 million injec...
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...
Ten years on since founding, LeapFrog’s portfolio of companies reach 111 million people across Africa and Asia ...
Intercity coach travel service, co-founded by ex-Chiltern Railways commercial director secures funding from Kindred Capital...
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&...
Study of 4,000 small businesses in the UK, Europe and the US shows strong growth across the board – with younger entrepreneurs outperforming th...
11th September 2017: Hobs Group has received a further £4m investment from BGF to continue the expansion of its 3D printing, reprographi...
Albion Capital is proud to have supported four British companies included in the annual Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 league table ...
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...
27,000 jobs created by current VCT investments Each VCT-backed business employs an average of 109 people...
Foresight Group (“Foresight”) has invested £3 million from the Foresight Regional Investment Fund into the specialist engineering compa...
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...
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...
The European Investment Fund (EIF), with the support of InnovFin Equity and COSME, is investing €20 million in ACT Venture Capital’s latest fund, ...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, is seeking to raise up to £38 million through top up offers for its six venture capital...
Funds managed by Foresight Group LLP ("Foresight”) have provided a £40 million secured loan note facility for Reward Finance Group ...
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...
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...
Ski Solutions (www.skisolutions.com), the London-based luxury winter sports travel experts, has attracted over...
The Greater Manchester Loan Fund (‘GMLF’) has completed three investments, committing a total of £885,000 to support local businesses. ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
Want to increase a startup’s chances of getting bank financing? That Obama-inspired credo may help: “Y...
Foresight Group LLP (“Foresight”) announces the investment of £500,000 on behalf of the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund (“...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
The London Co-investment Fund (LCIF) – the Mayor of London’s early stage business fund...
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...
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...
UK’s first flatmate matching site helps flatsharers find better matches based on compatibility and living habits. Seed round ...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ariadne Capital Survey Uncovers Pain Points and Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in Europe and the Mediterranean ...
Maven Capital Partners announces £30 million VCT fundraise, reflecting a strong pipeline of opportunities to invest in high-growth UK private com...
Startup Funding Club’s network of business angels invests in Northern Irish startup Intupod Northern Irish startup ...
British SMEs face uncertain funding future Thirty-five percent of small b...
Kickstart Accelerator announces the startup shortlist for its second cohort comprising of FinTech, Food, Smart Cities and Robotics & Intelligent System...
Amicus Commercial Finance, the specialist lender of flexible working capital to small and medium sized businesses, today announces that it has provided a...
Entier, Scotland’s largest independent privately-owned catering company, is preparing to grab a bigger slice of international markets after BGF (Busines...
Northern Irish Start-Up of the Year set for accelerated growth ...
“The way in which London’s professionals meet, work and grow their networks is changing, increasing demand for flexible work space. The Clubhouse occ...
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...
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 ...
Partech Ventures leads the round with participation from CME Ventures and Salesforce Ventures P...
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...
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...
UK investors rally behind post-Brexit business, but have NO faith in Theresa May and the DUP ...
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...
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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...
£1m investment from GuanQun Investment, leading Chinese finance firm £20m successfully raised in Q2, t...
Quill, the global leader in Primary Co...
Day Lewis Pharmacy will acquire APM Healthcare’s 18 pharmacies, extending its network to 300 pharmacies across the country ...
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...
NVM Private Equity (NVM) has invested £3m in London based Knowledgemotion the creators ...
Global banks, leading VCs and industry veterans bring total funding to $13m Investors suggest Curve will kic...
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...
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...
Tranches of one, two and three year fixed rate term loans used to fund smart meters Bonds backed by long term rental agre...
Global institutional investors looking to Europe’s experienced fund managers A-Z of start-up hubs across the continent leading innovation...
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...
Priscila Bala, ex-Director of the Mentor Network at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, joins Octopus Ventures ...
Foresight Group (“Foresight”) is pleased to announce the completion of a £3.45m investment into Mowgli Street Food Limited (“the Company...
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-...
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...
Foresight Group announces the £2.25 million growth capital investment into Cinelabs International on behalf of Foresight VCT. ...
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...
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...
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...
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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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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 ...
Locum’s Nest, a mobile first platform founded by doctors which is revolutionising the way staffing shortages are addressed in the NHS, has complete...
92% of tech professionals take a positive view on ...
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...
Octopus Ventures, one of the Europe’s leading venture capital investors, has announced that Stephe...
Investment Round now open all year to shorten energy innovation journey from lab to launch ...
UK-based Kuflink joins a select few P2P platforms offering a Property-Backed ISA ...
Since inception the GMLF has provided funding for 28 local businesses enabling su...
The Peer-to-Peer Finance Association today launched a new category of membership, welcoming eight inaugural associate members who provide important profe...
96% of companies with a Gold Investment rating are still in business and showing demonstrable progress ...
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...
Driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Plum is on a mission to make millennials financially better off by helping them to microsav...
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...
Online investment platform SyndicateRoom today announces that two EdTech companies, Gooseberry Planet...
Intertrust has announced six senior appointments across funds, capital markets and corporate services, spanning some of its key jurisdictions. ...
1068 investors backed the online corporate lending platform’s raise on Crowdcube in return for 16.7% equity ...
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...
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...
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...
Silverfleet’s 2016 Buy & Build Monitor reported 5371 add-ons, making 2016 a record year for European add-on activity2...
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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...
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 ...
$22 million represents one of the largest Series A rounds for an AI company in Europe to date....
· Seed funding round led by UK tech investors LocalGlobe & DN Capital ...
Since launch the GMLF has supported over 25 businesses to help them fulfil their growth aspirations ...
Funding to provide two additional care homes and further investment into the existing estate BGF has invested £3.85m ...
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 ...
· AllBright to host FoundHER, a six day long festival dedicated to f...
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 ...
Tech businesses remain optimistic about their prospects over the next 12 months according to recent research from Smith & Williamson, the accountancy, investment management an...
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...
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 ...
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...
- Q1 purchases of investment companies second highest on record - Most popular sectors in Q1 were Sect...
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...
Graphite Capital, the leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, is pleased to announce a number of promotions and ap...
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...
Investing in Dismantling Poverty in Bristol – the First Year of Impact Social impact investment company Resonance has pub...
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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...
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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...
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 ...
Online investment platform SyndicateRoom today announces the closure of two lift rounds, for Peptinnovate an...
Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s leading private equity houses, has today announced a £2.25 million investment v...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
James Bond enthusiasts can now invest in the “James Bond” bond The “James Bond” bond is available for ...
Investors using equity investment platform Seedrs have realised impressive returns as first secondary ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Octopus Ventures celebrates 10th anniversary Leading European VC now in...
Albion Ventures, the leading independent investment manager with a long-term record of partnering ambitious business, has rebrande...
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...
YEAY, an m-commerce platform using video to redefine shopping, has closed i...
Pioneering manufacturing company honoured at BVCA Awards Edinburgh-based manufacturers of p...
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...
InnoEnergy, Europe’s largest sustainable energy accelerator, and EBAN, the European tra...
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 ...
OurCrowd, a global leader in equity crowdfunding, today announced a partnership with Motorola Solutions, Reliance Industries and Yissum, to operate an innovation technolog...
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...
InMotion Ventures, the venture capital business powered by Jaguar Land Rover, has partnered with global sta...
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Draper Esprit announces that it has raised a further £160 million to invest in Europe’s best startups. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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The National Australia Bank (NAB) today announced an innovative collaboration with Israeli company OurCrowd, a leading global equity crowdfunding platform that will provid...
Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, is pleased to announce a £2.5 million VCT qu...
Capital Cell has launched in the UK, with value adding angel network partnerships, strong life science start-up links, and a ...
OurCrowd now the world’s leading crowdfunding investor in the healthtech sector Scopio is OurCr...
Online investment platform SyndicateRoom today announces that independent UK film, Kat and the Band, ...
Offering an unrivalled energy and water savings consulting service, SaveMoneyCutCarbon works with businesses, organisations and homes to reduce energy and water consump...
The new funds will support the company’s expansion into Latin America, the development of advanced software for doctors and m...
ProVen Legacy plc has completed deals with healthcare marketing agency Cogora and fintech company Celoxica ...
Oxford’s research commercialisation office named best in the world while OSI’s David Norwood also celebrated in annual Global University ...
BGF has exited its investment in Statesman Travel Group...
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 ...
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...
Fintech firm Growth Capital Ventures is set to help ambitious businesses in the North access capital to grow from a £57.5m investment fund. ...
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 ...
Sugru, the world’s first mouldable glue, closed its second successful crowdfunding campaign at the weekend after ra...
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Footfalls & Heartbeats has achieved a strategic investment round of £1.25m with ...
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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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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....
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Patrick Thornton-Smith joins as a Non-Executive Director and member of Global Management Team Cult Wines ...
White Bull Summits, producers of Europe’s exclusive technology entrepreneur and investment summits, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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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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...
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...
Platform eyes European expansion to offer EU businesses access to Europe’s largest crowdfunding community ...
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...
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Statistics released today [27/04/2017] by HMRC* demonstrate a near 20% decline in the amount rai...
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)...
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...
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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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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Scotland’s entrepreneurs are set to benefit from a major new partnership between Cazenove Capital, the premier provider of personalised wealth...
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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...
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...
Mobeus Equity Partners has provided £2.9 million of growth capital to Buster + Punch (https://ww...
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LoveCrafts, the creator of online crafts communities, with millions of users across 140 countries worldwide, today announces completi...
BGF invests in Waterford based Renegade Spirits Ireland Limited (‘Renegade...
Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has completed the £6 million management buy-...
Success of “all-star” bid from FiveAI, Direct Line Group, Transport Research Laboratory, University of Oxford and Transport for London me...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Private equity fund manager Calculus Capital has invested a total of £3.5m in Scottish biotechnology company Synpromics via its Enterprise Investment S...
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...
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 ...
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...
One of the UK’s leading equity crowdfunding platforms, Crowdcube, has announced anoth...
Appetite for intervention – 88% believe that the UK needs a comprehensive industrial strategy Brexit clarity vs industrial strategy &ndash...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has today published the Ventu...
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...
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...
UK investors will not allow Brexit to derail their investment plans, with two fifths ready to seize short-term opportunities...
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 ...
Intertrust has four new client-facing directors following a recent set of promotions within the firm. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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Private equity fund manager Calculus Capital has closed its EIS fundraising after reaching its £20m target three months earli...
Foresight Group, a leading infrastructure and private equity investment manager, is pleased to announce the completion of a £3 million investment i...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) is pleased to announce two new appointments to its investment team. ...
“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...
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...
NVM has delivered a £3 million investment in ...
Monzo has broken records once again on Crowdcube, one of the UK’s lead...
UK Bond Network, the alternative finance provider that specialises in structuring secured corporate bonds and...
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&...
Low-carbon, clean-technology innovators due to exhibit at ...
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% ...
Scotland’s first dedicated pre-seed tech accelerator is to open in Edinburgh with a mission to trigger Scotland’s next billion dollar startup....
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...
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...
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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 ...
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...
New Goji proposition opens access to peer-to-peer and direct lending for financia...
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Highlights • Capital Cell’s crowdfunding campaign - Bionure - overfunds with more than €1M and becomes Spain’s largest ever life science equity crowdfunding campaign....
Oxford University Innovation (OUI), the research commercialisation company of Oxford University, has named its ne...
Alternative Lender HNW Lending receives FCA approval to offer the new Innovative Finance ISA The...
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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...
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...
Startup Funding Club (SFC), the seed investment fund and most active network of business angels in the UK, and Spark10, the technology-focused Startup ...
Appointment to support growth ambitions, double lending to £2bn ...
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 ...
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 ...
Online investment platform SyndicateRoom has announced the successful ...
MMC Ventures, the London-based venture capital fund, has announced significant senior appointme...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Over £40m invested in to campaigns presented on the platform since launch in late 2014 85% of...
“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...
STREETBEES RAISES $5.1m SEED FUNDING TO ACCELERATE GROWTH OF WORLD’S INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM Streetbees provi...
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...
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...
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...
Innovation Birmingham will host this year’s annual Blockconf UK event a...
More Homes for Vulnerable People from Hollywell Housing Trust as Resonance makes its first investment from the Health & Wellbeing Challenge Fund...
Strategic corporate partnership will target 5G Mobile Edge Computing and other high performance networking infrastructure applications Bristol, UK, – Bl...
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The first commercial real estate debt product available on the BrickVest platform Confirm BrickVest’s capacity to be the single point of access for ...
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First British Robotics Seed Fund High Growth Robotics Limited British Robotics Seed Fund closes for investment on 31 March 2017. Th...
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...
From today, investors on Seedrs will be able to access their individual portfolio IRR for the first time in another pioneering firs...
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...
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 ...
Rockerfeller is estimated to have been worth $336bn (adjusting for inflation) on his death at the age of 97 in 1937. He achi...
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...
Deal activity for 2016 drops almost a quarter compared to 2015 as investor caution skyrockets, but total annual funding remain...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Sector still trading at a discount to NAV despite strong five-year performance; most LPEs are running a net cash pos...
Company readies for production of wireless, cell-based management system for electric vehicle, industrial and grid ene...
VCTs are certainly in the limelight at the moment. With the changes to pension rules, including the reduction in l...
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. ...
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Investment, led by Archangels, will allow business to triple headcount, open new HQ and set up a team in London ...
Three quarters (74%) of tech entrepreneurs and business leaders are forecasting growth in 2017 according to recent research by ...
Financial well-being app Squirrel will use capital to expand functionality and reach out to new demographics ...
Dealflo, the leading provider of end-to-end financial agreement automation services, today announced a £10 million investment round, led by ...
Hitachi Capital UK, the innovative financial solutions provider to businesses and consumers, has reinvigorated ...
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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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...
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 ...
REalyse, the property analytics company, launches nationwide today having raised £500,000 in seed capital...
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...
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...
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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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 ...
Greater optimism from UK population toward UK Economic outlook than European Economic outlook...
Meltwater, a global leader in media intelligence, is excited to announce the acquisition of ...
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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. ...
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Chelverton Asset Management Limited (‘Chelverton’), a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quote...
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SBRI contract awarded to snap40 for “game-changing technologies with the highest...
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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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...
Fraud costing UK Plc £125 billion a year Latest research ...
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...
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...
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...
London based action.ai, the developer of an advanced AI platform for the launch of high quality chatbots...
Bloom & Wild, the UK’s top rated online flower company, has taken £3.75m in a new round of funding with ...
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...
Crowdfunding investment up 20% since EU vote ...
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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...
UK’s third-largest consumer peer-to-peer lending platform launches new IF...
“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...
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...
Edition Capital, one of the UK’s leading live entertainment and media investment specialists, today announces the launch of an exciting new EIS fun...
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...
First Derivatives plc (FD) has agreed a partnership with BGF, the UK’s leading investor in small and mid-sized companies. The partnership, ai...
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...
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...
https://www.off3r.com/news/id/38131-A-Record-Breaking-2016-for-Alternative-Finance...
CoInvestor platform evolves to include funds as business grows ...
A Scottish early stage company, whose expert system has the potential to revolutionise the way healthcare is delivered,...
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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...
BGF (Business Growth Fund) has appointed Fiona Gibson to support its growing portfolio in the South West of England. ...
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....
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...
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...
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...
The winners of the Enterprise Investment Scheme Association’s (EISA) annual awards, which recognise outstanding investment performance, excellent service and valued ...
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...
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...
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...
The Virtual Technology Cluster Group (“The VTC Group”), which connects small innovative companies with blue chip organisations seeking innovation, is raising capi...
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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...
Smart technology company Camfridge have overfunded to £640,254.78...
BGF (Business Growth Fund), the UK’s leading growth capital investor, has invested £10m in Frontrow Energy Technology Group to support the company...
New research* by CIL Management Consultants conducted amongst 100 high performing mid-sized businesses with sec...
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...
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...
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 ...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Technology-enabled, transparent access to institutional grade real estate opportunities, without the high transaction costs or management commitme...
Data published today by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) demonstrates continued confidence in the VCT sector. Fundraising for the 201...
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, ...
Welcoming today’s publication of [Industrial Strategy], Stephen Welton, CEO of BGF, the UK’s leading provider of invest...
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...
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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 ...
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...
A strong Q4 for equity crowdfunding and P2P lending kept both sectors growing in 2016 according to the latest data from the OFF3R I...
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...
Richard says: "Yesterday, the PM outlined 12 objectives sought from a proposed "hard Brexit". Of particular interest to Britain's sc...
The disruptive mobile tyre fitting company TyresOnTheDrive.com today announces that i...
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Investment manager, Oxford Capital, has appointed Miles Kirby as a Director to lead investments in technology companies and further strengthen its growth i...
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New online service digitalises paperwork for tax relief around Enterprise...
Chesney’s, a designer, manufacturer and retailer of luxury fireplaces and wood burning stoves, has secured a growth capital investment from BGF (Bu...
• Funding from Octopus Ventures, Munich Re / HSB Ventures, and other follow-on investors...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
● AllBright’s platform goes live with outstanding female-led businesses; Fluidly, Piccolo and Juggle Jobs, on the ...
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...
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 ...
UK’s young investors committed to Brexit Britain – with under 30s the driving force backing Britain’s businesses SyndicateRoom research shows tha...
- QikServe’s platform addresses increasing demand for self-service technology...
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...
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 ...
Investment manager Oxford Capital has completed the sale of high performance computing (HPC) specialist Allinea to global computer processor giant ARM.&nbs...
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Founded to facilitate access to drugs in development for physicians and their patients, myTomorro...
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...
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...
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...
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It's the presentation, stupid! Books shouldn’t simply be judged b...
Sector focus: All except pharma and biotech: high tech Regional Focus:...
Capable, self-operating machines are increasingly becoming available to help people reduce time spent completing tedious, repetitive tasks and improve le...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
John and Horace were prominent industrialists and entrepreneurs in Detroit in the 19th and 20th Centuries. The two brothers compl...
Molecular Products Group (MPG) and BGF (Business Growth Fund) today announced the sale of the business to Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, DC-ba...
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...
Private equity fund manager and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) specialist Calculus Capital has invested £3m in cleantech firm We...
NVM has completed a significant investment to support the management buy-out of Cheshire based Thyson Technology (“Thyson” or the “Business”) from ...
Ascension Ventures is pleased to announce its investment from the ASCEND SEIS Fund III ...
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...
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National law firm Setfords Solicitors has secured a £3.75m investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund) to support its expansion plans. The fun...
