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RevGlue, a platform that enables affiliates and online publishers to easily monetise their websites, blogs, mobile apps and social channels, has secured inves...
British premium low-alcohol spirits startup, ...
Foresight Group has made a £4.5 million investment into iMist Holdings Limited, a manufacturer and installer of w...
British Business Investments (BBI), a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has completed...
Nick Lyth is Founder and Director of Green Angel Syndicate, the only angel investment syndicate in the UK specialising in the fight against Climate Change and Global Warming. ...
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Quendoo, a digital platform that allows property owners to take back control of their property bookings, payments, marketing and availability, has launched af...
Chatting to an entrepreneur I have got to know the other day, who is on the hunt for an angel investor, I yet again found myself pointing them to the notorious table 8.5a on the EIS statistics publ...
Seedrs' investors in Senta will see up to a 120x return on their seed investments after t...
Foresight Group has made a £5 million investment to support the buy-in management buy-out of Plantexpan...
Shippeo, the European leader in real-time transportation visibility (RTTV), has raised $32 mil...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has announced that Elisabeth Scott has been voted Chair of the AIC. The membership of the AIC has elected Sapna Shah and Mick...
UK-based EdTech gaming studio, Kuato Studios, has raised £4.5m in a round led by ...
IgniteNI has revealed the 20 start-ups that will be participating in the renowned 2021 Propel Pre-Accelerator programme which...
South East Angels have launched their Brighton investor group, set to be the most active angel network in the local area. With a focus on providing va...
Mid-market private equity firm NorthEdge has invested in Helios Medical Communications, a full-service, independent, ...
Weezy, the UK’s leading on-demand superfast supermarket that delivers groceries in only 15 minutes, has r...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active fund managers, has further strengthened its East &...
Exus Management Partners (Exus), an independent investment and asset management firm focused on the renewable energy sector, has significantly expand...
Orbus Software, a global market-leading provider of Enterprise Architecture software, has announced that...
Fast-growing consumer insights business Vypr plans to strengthen its sales and marketing operations as it invests in its team...
Poptop – the Newcastle-based events booking platform – has raised a further £440,000 to pursue its global...
Award winning Digital life insurance provider DeadHappy has completed a £4.75M investment from new investors ...
The pandemic has inspired a new wave of social entrepreneurs who are developing business ideas to support their Covid-stricken communities, experts say. T...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has published its list of the 20 most viewed investment companies on its website...
433 Equity Crowdfunding campaigns successfully raised £332 million in 2020 up from 403 campaigns in 2019. This is the highest number of campaigns ever and th...
Birmingham-based tele-optometry manufacturer Eyoto,has secured funding from the ...
James Murdoch takes a considered look at how his food and restaurant investments have performed in recent months. An active experienced Equity Crowdfunder was talking, a f...
Albion Capital is seeking to raise up to £45 million through top up offers for five of its venture capital trusts. The fundraising ...
Buy and build Investment group Tristone Capital - through its care division Tristone Healthcare – has acquired North Wales-based care business, ...
OnePlanetCapital, a new sustainably driven investment house, has launched a specialist sustainability EIS Fund to invest in businesses tacklin...
BGF has completed a multi-million pound investment in Cirrus, an award-winning provider ...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has bolstered its leadership team with the appointments of James Titmuss...
Liva Healthcare, a European market leader in scalable digital health coaching, has secured a new funding round of EUR 24.5 million, led by ...
Scale Up Group has completed a £3.8 million 'Series A' growth capital investment into its client IMMJ Systems Lim...
Parkwalk has launched one of the first HMRC Approved Knowledge Intensive EIS Funds to open to retail investors, offering an opportunity to invest in grou...
In a year that has seen scientists heralded as heroes and the future of protein-based medicine has sat at the coalface of a pandemic, one startup is looking to increase the pharmaceutical industry&...
Luxtripper, the fast-growth luxury travel business, has closed its latest investment round at £1.2m. The funding, raised from high-net worth indivi...
Very few industries have been untouched by the COVID-19 crisis. With unemployment rates hitting an all-time high, many seasoned industry professionals who have built a corporate career for years or...
Genius Group, the world’s leading entrepreneur education group, has today announced it has signed an agreement...
Par Equity, the Edinburgh-based investment manager that specialises in early-stage technology businesses with high growth potential, increased its new investment activity to a record £12.4m i...
Industrial electrical engineering contractor, Process Control Services (PCS UK Ltd) has secured a £1 million ABL facility from Independent Growth Finance...
BGF, has invested £6 million in world-renowned global animation studio, Snipple, to support its ambitious...
Angelini Pharma, an international pharmaceutical company which is a part of the private Italian Angelini Group – and ...
JP Morgan analysis shows that 2020 saw the largest ever outperformance of the FTSE All Share by Investment Companies - With the FTSE Equity Investment Instruments Index (FTSE EII) producing a total...
Blackstone Resources AG has announced that Current Direct, a new research and innovation project funded by the European...
GIBIE Home Furnishings Ltd. today concluded its pilot equity crowd funding campaign on CrowdCube platform. In this campaign,...
Funds advised by Hilltop Credit Partners, a specialist funding partner for SME residential developers, have comp...
Private equity firm WestBridge has promoted three members of its team as it prepares for another successful year. Edward ...
Roei Samuel, CEO and Founder, Connectd, looks at how diversity can be achieved within the angel i...
Mayfair Equity Partners, the leading tech and consumer growth investor, has announced the management buy-out of ...
Pacific Current Group Limited, a global multi-boutique asset management firm, has entered into an agreement to purchase a minority stake in ...
Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, led investments ...
Superfast wireless broadband provider Wildanet has secured £50m investment, which will allow the company to continue to expand its b...
Liberis, a leading global embedded business finance platform, has secured £70m in financing from long-ter...
Genius Group, the world’s leading entrepreneur education group, has completed the acquisition of New Ze...
A healthtech platform has raised £825,000 investment from ...
C-Link, a property procurement start-up founded in 2015 by Paul Heming and Chris Barber, has successfully raised a six figure investment fro...
The call for nominations has officially opened for this year’s prestigious awards, celebrating incredible...
The AngelNews team is having a short break over Christmas after a busy and news-filled year. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for being part of the AngelNews community and ...
David Mott, Founder Partner at Oxford Capital reflects on the themes that have shaped this year. Looking back at 20...
IgniteNI, the leading accelerator in Northern Ireland, is now welcoming ...
Marcus Rashford MBE and the Child Food Poverty Taskforce have launched a new website (...
Texthelp Ltd, the global leader in...
Maven Capital Partners has led the £17 million management buyout of Envitia Group plc, an established data a...
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The Zero Carbon Fund has made an investment in the pre-seed funding round of Phycobloom, a UK-based bio-...
OKKO Health, a digital eye care company, has received investment from seven Henley Business Angels (HBA) me...
Private equity firm WestBridge has backed the senior management team at construction software company Eque2 to acq...
Innovative Scottish-based drug delivery company, Bio-Images Drug Delivery Limited (BDD), has positioned itself for rapid growth with a further round of inve...
Alderley Park-based proteomic-data science and diagnostics company, Kinomica, has secured £3.9 million in funding for pioneering technology that could ...
Fintech start-up Hi55 Ventures has secured the backing of a global investment firm with over $50 billion of assets under management for a unique pilot project tha...
Recycleye, the intelligent waste management start-up, has secured £1.2 million in seed funding, led by venture capital investors ...
Birmingham-based travel technology business, You. Smart. Thing. Limited (YST) has received £250,000 from the Midland...
Zokri, a company that provides a ‘software as a service’ platform for businesses to create and track objectives and key results, has received investment...
Crowd Data Systems (CDS) has secured funding to further develop the next generation of treasury management systems. Founde...
.Poncho, a digital startup backed by ...
Renewable energy has proven a particularly resilient asset class throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, with the exit from this crisis increasingly defined by demands for a green recovery and grea...
Xiatech, a UK Headquartered system integration and data analytics specialist, has agreed a growth capital investment with ...
Solihull-based executive recruitment firm, Quantum Group Solutions Limited, has secured its first round of investment, totalling &poun...
The founders of London-based ecommerce startup aisle 3 have bounced back after being made redundant at the start of the pandemic to successfully ...
Gusto, a drink company which funded successfully via Crowdcube, has launched two new functional drinks: Super DC Blood Orange and Super DC Blackcurrant & E...
Orbex, the innovative European space launch company, has secured $24 million in a funding round led by BGF, the UK's most active investment company, and Octopus V...
BGF, has appointed Jim Strang, MD & EMEA Chairman of Hamilton Lane, and Kris Isherwood, CFO of Eight Roads, will...
On the back of new quantum algorithm breakthroughs, quantum software company ...
Creator Fund, the university-focused venture capital fund making strides to unearth startup innovation within European universities, is now focussing o...
Wonder, the company revolutionising virtual space, has completed a $11 million seed round led by EQT Ventures, with parti...
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Summize, a Manchester-based developer and provider of software for the legal sector, has secured an additional £1m investment in a funding round led...
Green Angel Syndicate, the UK’s angel syndicate specialising in the fight against climate change and global warming, has just launched the ...
As an interested observer of the unquoted UK funding market, I have long been curious about what is really going on around the symmetry between fundraising entrepreneurs and investors, be they crow...
Stakeholderz Venture Relations Manager Megan Snijman explores the opportunity and sheer value being lost to investors as female entrepreneurs contin...
Aqua Digital Rising, the Fintech company developing tradable indices based on human performance and achievement, has completed its Bnk to the Future crowdfun...
Outfund, the fintech company changing the way online businesses raise funds, has closed a £37million late seed round of capital, includi...
C-Link, a property procurement start-up founded in 2015 by Paul Heming and Chris Barber, has successfully raised a six figure investment ...
Vala Capital, the entrepreneur-led venture capital firm, has launched the Vala Sustainable Growth EIS targeting sm...
Steve Richardson, Sales Director at Reparo Finance, gives his perspective on why Government-backed COVID-19 loans aren’t necessarily helping ...
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BGF has made a further substantial investment in the expansion of Yorkshire-headquartered bakery business, Coopla...
Karakuri, the world-leading food robotics company, is bringing the future of food to life as it lifts the lid to unveil the world&rsquo...
Derbyshire-based fleet management software provider has secured a £1.5m funding boost to develop its cloud-based product and create 20 new skilled jobs. Nathan Grace Holdings Limit...
A Leicestershire based food safety technology business has secured a £500,000 investment to scale-up operations and boost their ambitious growth plans. N...
BioInnovation Institute (BII), a Novo Nordisk Foundation initiative incubating and accelerating world-class life science research, has identified...
Valloop, founded to empower employees and management to buy the companies they work for, has emerged from stealth read...
London may lead the pack when it comes to business start-ups in Britain, but the latest research from Instant Of...
Updraft, a part lending, part credit report, and part financial planning app designed to tackle escalating consumer borrowing, has secured £16m in fundi...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has invested in 8power for the Low ...
Living Map, the digital map and data platform, has completed an £850,000 funding round led by existing in...
Griff Williams, CIO of the British Innovation Fund...
Infogrid, the artificial intelligence technology company that automates facilities management and makes any building smart, has raised $15.5m ...
EclecticIQ, a global threat intelligence, hunting and response technology provider, has raised €20million ($24 million) in Series-C financing, led by ...
BVA BDRC has released additional SME Finance Monitor data, covering the period to the end of September 2020. With data going back to 2011, it's the largest s...
The third annual edition of the KPMG Private Debt Fund Survey in collaboration with the Ass...
Three start-up industry experts have joined together to launch Connectd, a new smart-matching platform for start-ups, investors and Non-Ex...
Catherine Gannon of Gannons Solicitors looks at what SEIS/EIS can offer to investors. The new world definitely brings new opportunities. Opportunities...
Primer, the low-code payments infrastructure and online checkout API, has announced a £14 million Series A funding round led by A...
Retail expert Dr Gordon Fletcher, of the University of Salford Business School, looks at what has gone wrong for the former titan of ...
UK-based biotechnology company ILC Therapeutics has announced that it has secured significant investment from its first global investor ...
Two former Newcastle University students who developed a unique range of alcoholic tea drinks have raised £1.4m from investors to help them further expand their business. ...
Swiss SaaS start-up GUURU Solutions Ltd has closed a $5M Series A extension, which brings the total Series A financing to $7.9 million. The funds w...
Research technology company uMed has raised £3.7m in ventur...
Small business specialist investor IW Capital has completed a £3.7million investment into Rockwater Hove, a comm...
NVM Private Equity has sold its stake in Agilitas IT Solutions Limited to the international private equity investor Perwyn...
FreeFlow Technologies (FFT), the developers of the world’s lightest power to weight e-Bike motor has secured £1.85m from a heavily ov...
Envestors' Oliver Woolley discusses why angel investing should be considered by HNWs in a negative interest rate environment. ...
Newable Ventures and Bristol Private Equity Club (BPEC) have secured £10m in new funding f...
Mauro Moretti, the founder of Three Hills Capital Partners, has set up Atypical Partner, a digitally led mul...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced its fifth deal for the Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 (LCIF2)...
Funding Focus, the social enterprise seeking to level the playing field for female and ethnic minority entrepreneurs, returned on Wednesday 25 Nove...
Private equity firm NorthEdge has backed the primary management buyout of ...
Navenio, the UK healthcare scale-up, has announced a $1.1 million investment from Future Planet Capital to help...
Entrepreneurial Champion & Atlantic Rowing Philanthropist Guy Rigby has joined ScaleUp Group to #GrowGlobalChampions. Entrepreneurial Champion Gu...
Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialised in scaling businesses d...
The pan-European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital has agreed to sell its majority stake in ...
M Squared, the photonics and quantum technology developer, has raised significant new financing of £32.5m as it expands its backers to support its grow...
IP Investment Management, a Hong Kong-based boutique real estate investment manager and Maven Capital Partners, a ...
Icelandic airline software vendor Dohop has raised an undisclosed growth equity round from Scottish Equity Partners...
BGF has completed a multi-million pound investment for a minority shareholding in a Teesside-headquartered Engineering Information Management (EIM) software com...
Elmtronics, the leading independent provider of charging points, has raised £1.5 million funding from the ...
Downing Ventures has le...
Performance marketing technology provider Envolve Tech has successfully closed its latest funding round for a total of £720,000. The vast ma...
TransferGo, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, has received £4m in financing from ...
The digital healthcare consent platform, Flynotes, has successfully secured funding from ...
YFM Equity Partners has boosted its growing portfolio of high-growth technology businesses with an investment into award-winning marketing automation platform, ...
Hams Hall Sustainable Energy Ltd has secured an £800,000 loan from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by ...
Opteran, the Natural Intelligence company, has raised £2.1 million in seed funding. Opteran will use the funds to pioneer its radical lightw...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has agreed the sale of Giacom, a ...
RB's (Reckitt Benckiser) new purpose-led venture arm, RB Ventures, has backed space-age laundry and dry-cleaning startup, ...
Reflecting the growth in tech for good companies in the North of England, Bethnal Green Ventures and Leeds-based investment non-profit NorthInvest ar...
Stephen Kelly, Chair of Tech Nation, comments on the Government’s 10 point plan for a Green Industrial Revolution: ...
Entrepreneur Alicia Navarro has closed a £1.2 million pre-seed investment round to fund her latest venture,&...
Private equity firm NorthEdge has supported the management buyout of Lights4fun, one of Europe’s leading e-com...
Cambridge-based agritech company KisanHub has raised £1.12m for its seed to sale connectivity platform that is accelerating the pace of digital transfo...
DefiniGEN, a provider of human cell products and services, has raised £3.25 million to accelerate its next phase of growth. This includes £...
NatWest has integrated with global small business platform Xero, which will allow its users ...
BGF has invested £8 million into Midlands-headquartered UK Flooring Direct to support its ongoing growth...
Wave power specialists Mocean Energy have secured major new investment to accelerate the commercialisation of their ground-...
Seneca Partners EIS Portfolio Service has returned £2.8million to investors following the takeover of ...
Alphagreen, Europe’s leading marketplace for CBD and alternative healthcare products, has s...
Bdeo, the leading insurtech company in Spain and Latin America, has just closed a Series A round of funding worth €5 million. The fundraising was led by ...
The outperformance of the tech sector during COVID-19 has never been far from the headlines. But some of the fastest-growing technology companies fly under the radar, as they are not quoted on publ...
Ingenious has announced that its Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service has invested £787,000 in Igloo V...
TIME Investments, a specialist real assets investment manager focused on secure income strategies, has appointed Tony van Gool to support its distributio...
British predictive analytics platform, DragonflyAI, has completed a £625,000 ($1m) seed funding round. ...
Direct.me, the social media platform that connects audiences with influencers’ content, has raised a $2.6m seed round...
A ‘fintech for good’ start-up which has developed a banking platform for credit unions and community banks has completed a £1.75m funding round. &nbs...
Maven Capital Partners has realised its VCT investment in Edinburgh-based Symphonic Software (Symphonic) through...
New research from behavioural finance experts Oxford Risk reveals that during the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis when stock markets fell sharpl...
Nozzle.ai, an eCommerce and advertising optimisation platform for Amazon, has raised $2.6 million (£2 million)...
Paid has launched to help enterprises transform supplier management with its next-generation procurement platform. Paid raised £...
Translation platform TAIA, has raised a further €1.2million in seed funding from venture capital fund ...
Fintech business lender MarketFinance has appointed The Rt Hon. Baroness Susan Kramer and entrepreneu...
Judith Hartley, CEO, British Patient Capital said: “The latest report from the ...
Fourteen of Sweden’s leading companies have come together to form Restart the Future, a one-year initiative to help build 1000 new companies, in ord...
Paul Beach, Head of Executives and Entrepreneurs at Arbuthnot Latham gives his perspective on the leading role entrepreneurs can play in d...
A group of leading figures from the hospitality industry are urging the Chancellor to use EIS tax relief to encourage investors to support the hospitality industry through the pandemic and beyond....
Online product discovery platform, Product Guru, has secured funds of £330,000 to disrupt the traditional retail buying process by re-inventing ho...
Situated in Southwark, South London, Hinterview has secured a £500,000 growth loan from the Greater Lo...
ilumoni, the fintech startup helping people to borrow better, save on unnecessary interest and time in paying off debts has raised $450,000 pr...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a new...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has backed the management buyout of Babble fr...
Key highlights include: A record year of 15 commitments totalling £547m, including to nine new delivery partners ...
Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on building the brands of tomorrow, has made ...
James Murdoch, an experienced investor in Equity Crowdfunding, asks what is at stake in the Seedrs and Crowdcube Merger. Both management teams have been proactive in communicating via many ...
Latest market analysis from the British Business Bank finds early stage venture capital funds have the potential to generate higher retur...
Angel Investment Network (AIN), the world’s largest online angel investment platform, has announced impressive growth, with annual reve...
SICCAR has received an investment of £1.3m led by specialist technology investment house, Par Equity...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has announced its investment...
A trio of Oxfordshire day nurseries have been acquired by a fast-growing independent education provider. Chatsworth Schools, which is itself headquartered in Oxfordshire, has purchased ...
Integrated Graphene Ltd, the Scottish-based tech company, has fired the starting pistol on scaled production of its unique breakthrough 3D gr...
Whiterock Finance has made its first ever equity investment by backing specialist recruitment business Arte...
Private equity house, Chiltern Capital, has completed an investment in a leading waste management incinerator manufacturer with support from a multi-mil...
Ingenion Medical Limited has been awarded nearly £100,000 in grant funding from ...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, welcomes Iain Leigh as the newest member o...
In a significant boost for both the German and the wider Central European start-up ecosystem amidst ...
QVentures made an investment into Opsly, a platform that a...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has made one promotion...
Mind Foundry, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company that spun out of the University of Oxford’s Machine Learning Resear...
Purple Dot, the ‘worth-the-wait’ payment option for fashion brands, today announces its seed round of £1.35 million, led by ...
Bright Instruments, a&nb...
EXM Insight, the next-generation solution for portfolio monitoring and value creation for the Private Equity ind...
ArmaUrto, an innovative provider of protective cycle wear, has secured a £150k equity investment from the Cornwall &...
Downing Ventures has completed a $35 million Series B funding round in Ayar ...
BiVictriX Therapeutics has completed a &...
20 scaleups from 10 countries (4 from the UK) compete in the finals of Europe’s flagship scaleup competition in digital to win int...
MIME Technologies, a med-tech spin-out from the University of Aberdeen, has received £248,000 in funding...
Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have invested £1.05m into ...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced ...
Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has announced that its technology investment partnership with Foresight Group has...
flypop, the UK’s only international long-haul low-cost airline, has secured significant investment from the UK Government’s Future Fund and is&nb...
Buy & build activity in first half of 2020 shows resilience in the face of Covid-19 according to Silverfleet’s European Buy & Build Monitor for H1 2020. ...
NorthEdge-backed Catalis Group is expanding its North American footprint with a second bolt-on acquisition completed...
Navenio, the healthcare scale-up whose location-based technology has been shown to double the throughput of hospital teams, has secured a £400,000 grant...
Mills & Reeve has advised Delta Financial Systems Limited on its £23 million acquisition by Bravur...
Two regional investors have agreed a new strategic partnership to provide enhanced support for early-stage tech firms in the Northern Powerhouse region. DSW Ven...
New research from The Entrepreneurs Network, in partnership with...
In its second year, British Patient Capital has continued to deliver strongly against its business plan with total commitments over ...
Employee engagement SaaS solution secures funding after enjoying strong growth and doubling revenue in the last 12 months. £1.75 million funding round includes £500,000 inves...
The Creative Industries Federation and Creative England have annou...
Triple Point has announced that Solihull Metropolitan Borough Councilhas successfully secured £6,5...
A spin-out from Cranfield University whose technology can detect and predict corrosion in pipelines has raised a further £900,000 to expand its global client base. ...
Downing Ventures has led an investment in BBC Maestro, a new e-learning service designed in partne...
Malvern-based D-RisQ, has secured £360,000 from the Midlands En...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity managers in the UK, has invested £2 million in ...
Europe’s tech sector is worth four times what it was five years ago as the leading generation of companies and founders give back to the next wave of ambitious tech firms – signal...
British Business Investments (BBI), a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has committed...
Alternative fund manager, Frontier Development Capital (FDC), has announced the first close of its latest fund, the FDC Debt Fund (...
Over the last few years, cutting-edge technology, a globalised market and changes to the supply chain have radically transformed the shipping industry. The interest ...
Private equity firm Grafton Capital has invested £7 million into ...
Pembroke VCT has made an initial investment of £2 million into Eave, a UK-base...
Mo, a london based SaaS company, has secured £3 million investment led by Calculus Capital, alonside continu...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has backed the buy-out of Totalmobile...
A new report released by BGF and academic Sir Anthony S...
Palatine Private Equity has completed the sixth investment from its Impact Fund, with the acquis...
Psyomics Ltd, a UK-based healthtech and University of Cambridge spin-out, has closed a £1.5 million funding round from existing and new invest...
Eagle Genomics, a pioneer in applying network science to biology – particularly linked to the microbiome – ha...
With half of its population under the age of 35 and a rapidly expanding middle class, Vietnam is one of the most dynamic frontier economies. ...
Diageo has announced it has reached agreement to acquire BGF portfolio company ...
To coincide with National Mentoring Day on 27 October, NatWest and Be the Bus...
New research from Tech Nation and Dealroom reveals that investment into UK impact startups increased 9.5x between 2014 and 20...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has appointed...
Relying on guidance from historical returns is the number one investment mistake made by millionaires, reveals a new global survey. The survey was carried out by ...
£50mn raised by Future Fund campaigns accounts for a quarter of all money raised by the crowdfunding industry in last 5 months. ...
NatWest is to set this year’s National Enterprise Challenge &ndas...
British Patient Capital has committed $35m to The Evolution...
VG, one of Jersey’s largest independent and privately-owned providers of fiduciary and administration solutions, has appointed Steve Langan as a Director of V...
A new report released by BGF and academic Si...
Foresight Group LLP and Island Green Power have formed a joint venture (JV) to develop ...
Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialised in scaling businesses driven by technology, customer insight or service excellence,...
The University of Liverpool has formed a new spin out company - Robotiz3d Ltd – to take forward new technology that has the potential to radically tran...
DSW Angels, the venture capital investment business of the Dow Schofield Watts group, has changed its trading brand to DSW Ventures to reflect the increasing scale and...
Irish data driven VR simulation company ...
In his latest podcast (transcribed below), Seneca Investment Director, ...
Disease Screening and Diagnosis startup, Occuity has raised more than £1m, supported by ...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has backed the management buy-out of Ten10, a le...
Personify XP, the world’s first anonymous digital analytics and AI personalisation platform, has closed a £550,000 pre-seed round. Investors in...
CRUX, the British-Israeli startup that has developed the world’s first Knowledge Quantification platform, has announced a...
By Brian Williamson, serial entrepreneur and chairman of Glasgow-headquartered 4icg Group. Note: This article expresses an independent opinion and the views expressed m...
European start-ups received 127% more growth capital than in 2016 and, according to a new ...
UK-based technology company Hinterview, the award-winning video platform for the recruiting & talent sector, has raised £1.47m in venture ...
The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund and manage...
Convertibles have become more popular on the Equity Crowdfunding Platforms. In this second article on the topic, James Murdoch shares more thoughts about investing in Convertibles....
A surge in deal activity over the next few months is being predicted by private equity house WestBridge, as business owners seek to realise and de-risk t...
Flexa, a job and employer brand platform, has successfully raised £250,000 from a consortium of international and domestic investors, including renowned an...
An innovative new system that has the potential to revolutionise hearing tests globally has received financial backing from Scottish business angel investment syndicate, ...
Black business owners and those from Asian and Other Ethnic Minority backgrounds face persistent disparities in business outcomes, with systemic disadvantage playing a key role. This i...
MMC Ventures, the research-led venture capital fund, has become a certified B Corporation through...
CPI, an independent technology innovation centre and founding member of the UK Government’s High ...
Pimloc, the visual privacy and security company, has closed £1.4M in new financing in a seed funding round led by Ama...
Detected, the world’s first agnostic business verification platform, has closed its pre-seed funding round at £250,000. This first tranche ...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has appointed Jo Johnson as a new Board Director. ...
Iventis, a company whose events software platform is used by organisers of international sports competitions has raised £400,000 to support its furt...
NPIF Maven Equity Finance has led a £250,000 funding round for fissara, a software...
Gresham House Ventures has invested £5 million in eConsult Health. The £5m investment, made on behalf of the ...
NatWest and ITV have today announced the launch of a new com...
GC Angels’ Jess Jackson (pictured) has joined 28 of the North’s most high-profile female investors from Northern Investment f...
Oliver Woolley, CEO of Envestors, talks about why incubators, accelerators and networks matching investors and startups need to be regulated and the grey areas such organisati...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, announces the 32 companies that have been selected to join the Applied A...
The Running Channel, the YouTube channel and content brand for a global audience of runners, has raised over £1 millio...
Ori Biotech Ltd (Ori), a leading innovator in cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing, today announced the successful close of a $30 million ...
Praetura Group, the Manchester-based debt and equity capital provider to Northern SMEs, has announced a series of organisational and board c...
Two advertising executives who quit their jobs to develop their own 3D software have secured over £450,000 in investment to help them launch their product. ...
JAXJOX, the global fitness technology company known for its innovative workout equipment and platform, today announced...
Ed Stevenson, investment manger at SFC Capital looks at ...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent asset-based lender, has so far provided £65 million of new lending since lockdown began. IGF wa...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, announced its ...
A businesswoman whose software platform helps companies to manage rebate and incentive schemes has raised a further £950,000 from investors. Leanne Bonner-Cooke MBE, who founded the ...
Duff & Phelps, the world’s premier provider of governance, risk and transparency solutions, has announced the launch of its Equity Match ser...
New figures highlight the resilience of the software sector throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with a rise in capital raises during the lockdown period. Global ...
The continued strong interest and engagement from the investment community in the UK’s independent network sector must be sustained if the UK wants achieve status as a gigabit nation, the ...
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The British Business Bank’s ...
More than eight in ten income investors (83%) are concerned about a potential loss of income from dividend cuts caused by COVID-19, according to new research from the ...
Fit Cloud Technology Ltd, trading as Membr, a fitness focused management software platform that operates in 23 countries worldwide has secured significant investmen...
Ada Ventures has launched a new £250,000 angel investor programme – Ada’s Angels – which has been set up to help discover a new ge...
Pictet Alternative Advisors (PAA), the Pictet Group's wholly-owned alternative investment business line, has launched its first themat...
Edgify, a company building AI training frameworks at the edge, has secured a $6.5m seed funding round backed by Octopus V...
John Auckland from TribeFirst discusses the proposed merger between Seedrs and Crowdcube. When it comes to equity crowdfunding, the go-to platform for any European investor, young company o...
Two construction experts who aim to revolutionise the industry through the use of digital technology have raised £250,000 to bring their smart building software to market. ...
AI chatbot specialists, We Build Bots, has set its sights on global growth with the announcement that international technolog...
Resilience and Recovery, a new repo...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report, sho...
Humley, a company which develops conversational assistants capable of manning helpdesks and answering technical enquiries, has raised £700,000 to hel...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has appointed Liam Pursall as an investor and Georgie Stratton in direct origination...
Antler has welcomed ...
British digital health start-up Clin-e-cal has raised over £130,000 on leading crowdfunding platform ...
Condense Reality, a virtual reality startup developing technology to transform how viewers watch live entertainment and sports, has raised...
An innovative Scottish software business that provides a comprehensive booking platform for the leisure travel sector plans to launch a suite of data technology products designed to help travel age...
Downing Ventures has appointed Joe Raffa as a Venture Partner as it scales up for global expansion and sector specialization. Joe i...
Rockley Photonics, a leading integrated optics solutions provider, has closed an additional $50m of growth funding from leading deep-tech VCs, strategic ...
Great Point, the media investment business run by Jim Reeve and Robert Halmi, has entered into an agreement with the ...
BioAccelerate, AberInnovation’s flagship accelerator programme for early-sta...
Simply, the non-bank SME lender, has raised a fourth financing tranche from the British Business Bank to...
London startup, Jelly Drops, has launched in the UK to help boost the water intake of the elderly and...
Spoon Guru, the London-based AI powered food search and discovery technology start-up, has secured a Series A funding round with ...
Seedrs and Crowdcube are to merge, in a move that will accelerate their shared plan to create the world’s larges...
A new study published by Foresight Group into the resilience of infrastructure to global pandemics reveals that renewable energy, telecoms and primary c...
Foresight Group and Elgin Energy have formed a joint venture to develop a pipeline of greenfield solar projects across the UK. The JV aims to de...
A major investment in Lightning Fibre, a community-oriented full fibre network provider, will see hyper-fast fibre broadband rolled out in East Susse...
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of financial advice business owners and wealth management chief executives do not trust the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to deliver fair outc...
Nu Quantum, the quantum photonics company, has raised £2.1 million in Seed funding in a round led by Amadeus Ca...
Immune Regulation Limited, a US and UK based clinical stage biotechnology company, has closed a Series B funding round led by Boston based ...
Piper has invested £11.5m investment into Wattbike, the world's first smart indoor bike brand, joining the impress...
Award-winning health tech company DrDoctor has raised £3,000,000 Series A investment from venture capital firms Ananda I...
A £10 million funding package from the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) will help to scale ...
LawtechUK, the government-backed initiative within Tech Nation, whose aim is to help transform the UK legal secto...
Preservica has announced an additional $3.8 million* investment from Mobeus Equity Partners. De...
YourParkingSpace, the UK’s leading provider of peer to peer parking and intelligent parking solutions, has secured investment from ...
HomeDoctor, a Warsaw and Amsterdam-based digital healthcare provider has announced a €3,7m Series A funding round led by ...
Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced a £350,000 investment in ...
Bamboo Systems, the Arm-only server vendor, has announced that it has secured a new, significant round of $7 million USD in funding. This new infusion is...
Cornelis Networks, Inc.,&nbs...
The UK’s £4bn gaming sector is predicted to almost triple in value within the next 3 years to £10bn, with the current 27,000 employed by the sector expected to also triple within ...
Palatine Private Equity has completed the maiden investment from its fourth buyout fund (Fund IV) with the acquisition of a majority shareholding in ...
Elspeth Kinder, Partner and Head of Family Law, JMW Solicitors considers the value of prenuptial planning for entrepreneurs. Getting venture c...
Scale-up FinTech TotallyMoney, which is backed by Elliott Advisors and Scottish Equity Partners, following a £29 million investment in January...
Huboo, an e-commerce fulfilment and storage company, has rasied a further £14m investment as the pandemic triggers a rapid increase in online shopping.&...
CCC Holdings, a holding company based in Italy focused on the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) industry, has raised €18 million from Italian Energy Efficiency F...
Lumenisity® Limited, which has developed ground-breaking fibre optic and cabling technology, has closed a £7.5 million funding round from a consort...
Global digital consultancy Appnovation has received £6.8M in follow...
Oakham-based machinery and vehicle dealer, C&M Retail Group, is embarking on a major expansion programme which will create up to 20 new jobs after agreeing a funding deal to enable the developm...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies, has appointed four new Directors joining the Board, including the Audit Committee and...
Riskbook Ltd, an independent provider of reinsurance technology, announced today that it had received new investment of £2m to further de...
ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank, has been named the Investment Bank of the Year by Environmental Finance at their IMPACT Awards 202...
Ian Connatty of British Patient Capital comments on new data from Tech Nation ...
Kindred Capital has closed its second seed fund at £81m. Through its ‘Equitable Venture’, the firm gives exceptional seed-stage entrepr...
The world’s most awarded non-alcoholic spirits company, ...
HOWZAT Partners and ennea capital partners are joining forces as HOWZAT ennea Group to create one of Europe’s l...
Panthera Biopartners has completed a Series A funding round with Gresham House Ventures as a major invest...
Panthera Biopartners has completed a Series A funding round with Gresham...
Mountain Technologies has secured investment from a group of HBAN angel investors. Ballymena-based Mountain Technologies will use the funding to market a...
A new study by Merchant Machine finds the top countries, states and industries for the fastest-growing companies in Europe and the US. The ...
According to new research by PwC, VC and corporate investment in startups developing technology enabled solutions to climate change, and the transformation to net zero emissions, grew at a faster r...
Finance Durham Fund has invested £250,000 in Power Roll, a developer of ultra-low-cost ...
Fintech business lender MarketFinance has been awarded a £10m grant from the Capability and Innovation Fund (CIF), announced by Bank...
Playfair Capital and Tech Nation have joined forces to expand their nationwide initiative t...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, announces the 31 tech companies that have been selected to join the ...
Investment banking fees generated in the UK total £3.3 billion so far during 2020, 5% less than the value recorded at this time last year and the lowest year-to-date total since 2016 accordin...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has launched an online resource for prospective investment company directors, which aims to encourage a wide and diverse group of candidates to find ou...
Research from Red Flag Alert, released six months after the UK’s lockdown, shows 4,058 businesses have failed in this period across bars and restaurants, construction, retail, logis...
Finch Capital has published its latest annual research, The State of...
Dublin start-up FoodMarble has raised €1.2M in a funding round which included HBAN business angels from the MedTech sy...
A Northern Ireland start-up which appeared on TV's Dragons' Den earlier this year has successfully closed a £350,000 funding round with local business angels to bring its innovative new insul...
Bounce Back loans, the most popular HM Treasury support measure, used by SMEs are running low, finds the latest insights [1] from fintech business lender ...
28 September marks 25 years since the launch of the first VCT. From humble beginnings in 1995 the sector has grown to back winners from Zoopla to Secret Escapes an...
Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on building the consumer brands of tom...
Deepbridge Capital and Boundary Capital backed diagnostics firm Glyconics® has been awarded an internationally recognised quality certificati...
Ceryx Medical, a bioelectronics startup working towards the world’s first curative therapy for heart failure, has secured a £...
The Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre (ATTC) network has been awarded a total of £9.5 million to fund an additional 12 months of the programme. £6.5 million has been granted from the Go...
Global venture capital firm 500 Startups released new survey findings that reveal how startup investors are responding to the new challenges brought on by COVID-19 and...
Booking.com CEO Kees Koolen has invested more than €4 million in Holidu, one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide, from his personal fun...
The Insights People, the Manchester-based company which is a global leader in kids, parents and family market intelligence, has secured a £500...
AccelerComm, a Southampton University spinout supercharging 5G, satellite and other wirele...
Tribosonics, a Sheffield company whose smart sensing technology helps industry to reduce costs, has raised £1.1m from...
Praetura Ventures, the VC fund that targets high-value sectors in the north of England, is investing £1m in a tech company that helps businesse...
Lincolnshire-based cyber security firm KryptoKloud Limited is pursuing new growth following a £500,000 investment from ...
British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a new £30m subscriptio...
BGV's Paul Miller explains why now, more than ever, the case for investing in Tech for Good is so compelling. This piece was first published in the August issue of BGV's monthly investor ne...
Global technology investor, Amadeus Capital Partners, today announces a major expansion of its investment team. Edward Kliphuis and Kai ...
The British Business Bank, the UK’s national economic development bank, has published its 2020 Annual Report and Accounts for this, its sixth year ...
Finance Durham Fund has invested £750,000 in ...
Crista Galli Ventures, a new early-stage healthtech fund that offers patient capital and deep healthcare expertise, has launched this week. Crista Galli Venture...
Pitchbook Data recently published their Q2 2020 Global League T...
UK-based start-up Skin Analytics has raised £4 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by ...
British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made its fourth commitment through its £500m Managed Funds P...
BGV have launched their third Tech For Good SEIS & EIS Fund for high-net-worth and sophisticated investors. The Fund aims to deliver sign...
Following a period of sustained growth since launching Fund II in March 2019, Playfair Capital is bolstering its team in London with three new hires. ...
HR DataHub, the HR data benchmarking platform, has raised a £1m seed round led by the Angel CoFund&nb...
Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc, a leading, clinical-stage gene therapy company dedicated to developing adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies for geneti...
BGF, the UK’s most active growth capital investor, has invested £3 million into 365 Response, a Wakefield-bas...
ClinSpec Diagnostics, a university spin-out which has developed a way to detect cancer at an early stage using a simple blood test has completed a &po...
BGF is formally supporting The Diversity Project in its mission to accelerate progress in achieving a more inclusive culture in the investment and savings profe...
Medefer, the b2b virtual healthcare provider that is reimagining the old-fashioned outpatient system, has announced a £10m funding round ...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has today announced the launch of the Fintech Pledge with support from HM Tre...
WestBridge has appointed Katherine Bond as investor relations director as the firm prepares the pre-marketing of its third fund. ...
Three out of five business leaders worldwide (61%) predict growth over the next twelve months, according to a new study. Intertrust, a glo...
E-commerce platform Moteefe has raised $11 million during their latest funding round. The round was led by GBF with participation from existing investors,...
A healthtech business with an app that helps patients communicate with clinicians remotely has raised a further £2m to help expand its use. Advanced Digital Innovation (ADI) has raise...
London Tech Week today plans to definitively map the UK tech scene highlighting and promoting the best businesses, innovators and thinkers ope...
QuadSAT, a Danish company that is revolutionising test and measurement of satellite antennas, has closed a €2 million P...
Yotta Capital Partners, the first French private equity team dedicated to Industry 4.0, announces the completion of the first closing of the Yotta Smart Industry fund at €101 million at the en...
Finnish venture capital firm Superhero Capital has announced the first close of its second fund at €30M. The fund will make seed...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed new statistics that show the UK economy has grown by 6.6% in the month of July. This news will be we...
Riverside Europe, the European part of The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has inve...
Warwick-based energy consultancy Utility Stream has obtained a significant investment from the ...
ThoughtRiver, the market leader in automated contract review and pre-screening, has announced $10M (£7.5M) in Serie...
The Calculus Creative Content EIS Fund has invested in Home Team, a production company founded by Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee, it was announced by the Fund’s manager Calculus Capital ...
Premium crafting company, Stitch & Story, has received an additional £1 million investment from Pembrok...
Ian Connatty, Managing Director of British Patient Capital comments on the opportunities in venture capital and the challenge of attracting UK...
Mollie, one of the fastest growing payment service providers in Europe, today announced the closing of €90 million (US$1...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, announces the 30 scaleups that have been selected to join the new Net Zero programme. Ann...
Bristol-based tech startup Geollect is one of 10 companies chosen to take part in a special mentoring programme being run by the UK’s intelligence, sec...
AppyWay, the leading kerbside management and smart parking technology firm, has launched a £20 million Series B funding round. This will be used to support ...
Small- and mid-cap stocks (SMIDs) are currently more vulnerable to the COVID shock than markets have already priced in. A capital chasm is set to emerge as the unprecedented conditions have left ma...
Funds advised by Hilltop Credit Partners, a specialist funding partner for SME residential developers, have completed a £360,000 pre-devel...
Squire Patton Boggs has appointed David Milne (pictured) as a partner in its Global Corporate Practice in Leeds. Mr. Milne joins from Eversheds Sutherland. ...
Data management software firm Azquo has appointed an industry heavyweight as its new Chairman. Rhoddy Swire, the founder of global fund of funds ...
ACT Genomics has announced the completion of the first closing of the latest round of equity financing from a group of strategic investors including ...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has launched itsUnlocking Global Tech report, assessing t...
Intertrust, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, has appointed Nick Maton as Luxem...
Mercuryo.io - a fast-growing Estonian startup that bills itself as a European leader in cryptocurrency payment processing solutions closed a €2.5m seed funding...
In a first phase of this funding round, Climeworks announced, in April, the successful raise of CHF 73 million (USD 75 million) in...
British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British ...
Jaisal Pastakia, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management shares five learning points from the pandemic ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, invested £15m into ...
AIPUT (Aberdeen Standard Investments’ Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust) has announced the completion of two new lease tra...
Advanced Digital Innovation (ADI) has raised funding from ...
Turquoise, the London-based merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced its latest investment thro...
Enigma Holdings has invested £500,000 seed funding in Crowd Network, a ...
Humatica, the leading private equity specialist advisor for portfolio organisational effectiveness, has announced its cooperation with ...
Reachdesk, a direct mail and corporate gifting software platform for B2B companies, has announced a $6 million funding round led by ...
Private equity-backed soft drinks manufacturer Clearly Drinks is to invest in a new canning facility at its Sunderland headquarters following support ...
Moteefe, the ecommerce platform providing infrastructure, customisation and global fulfilment for re...
A key stage in the commercial development of quantum computers has been reached with the successful UK trial of a high-performance, universal operating system. In Deltaflo...
Intertrust, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, has reached a binding agreement to acquire the corporate ser...
Half of companies do not have adequate cybersecurity provision to allow for 100% remote working. And whilst 58% of tech hiring managers list info-security as their most required skillset...
In November last year, Porky Whites, a premium British sausage b...
Leading online investment platform, Seedrs has announced the next evolution of its seconda...
A global total of 241 initial public offerings have been recorded so far during the second half of 2020, marking the fastest start to the second half of the year since 2007, according to figu...
The British Business Bank has announced that it has a...
Humatica, the leading private equity specialist advisor for portfolio organisational ...
Following the news of ...
Sheffield-based Electric Vehicle (EV) tech start-up Mina has successfully secured significant seed investment during the lockdown period supported by investme...
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Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity managers, has invested £1.5 million ...
After a global search, Isle of Man craft spirit producer, The Fynoderee Distillery, is proud to announce the appointment of Berle ‘Rusty’ Figgins Jnr...
A global total of 241 initial public offerings have been recorded so far during the second half of 2020, marking the fastest start to the second half of the year since 2007. Proceeds ra...
INSTANDA, the leading customer and policy management platform for the insurance industry, and...
Redis Labs, the company behind Redis, the most popular open source database and the provider of&nbs...
As organizations’ strategic priorities change, business survival emerges as the number one reason to invest in emerging technologies. ...
As Ventureburn will be hosting their first-ever webinar series focusing on Section 12J, they have decided to unpack several success stories of investee companies of Kalon Venture Partners. ...
It August, holiday season, things traditionally shut down for August but this year it feels a little different. Many of us are on staycation, some trying to k...
Novosound, the award-winning novel thin-film ultrasound technology company, has appointed Dr Derek Mathieson, former Chief Marketing and Technology Off...
Having climbed the career ladder in the world of banking and consulting, working with so many interesting, intelligent and energetic women, Alexandra Tymann and Anna Rauch left their careers ...
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Infront ASA (INFRNT) today announced its interim results for Q2 2020. Operating revenue was EUR 28.4 million, an incr...
An online game developed by a start-up business in response to the recent Covid-19 lockdown is now being used to train the Artificial Intelligence (AI) component of its new legal contract man...
According to research1 released by dental health startup Floe Oral Care...
The number of professional vacancies in London paying over £40k and over saw a steady increase in July, edging closer to pre-lockdown levels. That’s according to new research from...
Investors selecting the income paying option in ...
The past few years have seen many traditional taboos broken and developments in the workplace have reflected this, from the introduction of shared paternity leave and the increasing conversat...
Funding has increased by a staggering 940% for UK cybersecurity start-ups since the beginning of lockdown - with £496m being raised in the first half of 2020, almost outstripping the 20...
A £3.5 million project loan facility from the Development ...
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Award-winning investment syndicate, Equity Gap, this month celebrates 10 years as one of Scotland’s most successful angel inve...
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Stephen Kelly of TechNation responds to Barclaycard’s SME Barometer data “Despite the Q2 barometer showing the impact on SMEs has been...
Innova Capital, a leading private equity fund in C&EE, has signed a definitive agreement with Kingspan Group to...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Pr...
Panta Capital has announced the launch of its Private Equity Co-Investment Service and its seed investment of EUR 500,000 in fertilise...
QVentures has announced their latest ...
Solidatus, the leading provider of innovative metadata management software, has announced a strategic investment from ...
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Jason Jefferys, Co-Founder and CEO of Fetch looks at the challenges for new FinTech ventures The past few months have been diffic...
Kemp Little has advised Thomson Reuters on its acquisition of Cas...
Beckley Psytech, the psychedelic medicine company, has appointed a series of respected figures from the psychiatric and psychedelic research field...
The British Business Bank has published Future Fund data that gives a detailed picture o...
The UK’s 2 million plus landlords are facing a property management problem with no true oversight on the financial health of their rental properties. ...
Nova Pangaea Technologies, the Teesside company which has f...
Some 1.7 million small-scale farmers in Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan will soon receive personalized agricultural advice through their mobile phones as a means to improve thei...
UK SME’s are at risk of 65,000 cyber security attacks daily – with around 4,500 of these being successful – and the figure could be much higher since the beginning of the Covid-19...
As workforce strategies make a dramatic shift from hours-based to output-based performance metrics as Covid alters business models, investing in the right technology will be the crucial lever...
Final figures have been published by the Development B...
Angel Academe has closed its investment in ...
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Abrado, the industry leader in the surgical removal of multiple casing sections downhole, has appointed Jason Broussard as Pre...
Job opportunities for the professional sector – including sectors such as IT, professional services, life sciences, finance, marketing, HR and engineering, have continued to improve, with Jul...
The UK Creative Content EIS Fund has invested in ...
According to the National Association of Estate Agents Property Mark, the housing market is booming. In June, properties sold for over the asking ...
Bone Therapeutics, the cell therapy company addressing high unmet medical needs in orthopedics and bone diseases, today announces it has been ...
Russia aspires to become a world leader in the hydrogen sector, and the state sees great potential for European exports in particular. Gazprom estimates that the EU market will be worth &euro...
Gaming quality assurance and testing firm Testronic, part of the Catalis Group, has acquired...
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Edtech startup BibliU has raised £500,000 as part of a Series A extension funding round, supported by Angel Investme...
Glennmont Partners, one of Europe’s largest pure renewables fund managers, has adopted Greenbyte’s moni...
Circularity Capital has continued to build its innovative portfolio of European growth-stage businesses enabling the circular economy, l...
NorthEdge Capital, which manages over £650m of private equity funds aimed at the North and Midlands regions, has r...
The Insights People, the Manchester-based company which is a global leader in kids, parents and family market intelligence, has secured a £500...
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By 2022, an operational stock of almost 4 million industrial robots are expected to work in factories worldwide. These robots will play a vital role in automating production to speed up the post-Co...
Omnipresent Group has raised $2m in a seed round led by Playfair Capital and ...
The independent Iberian management company GED Capital has entered, through its Conexo...
A new investment summit with the aim of bringing national policy makers together with equity investors, fund managers, big business, and Innovative SMEs will take place this autum...
A new crowdfunding initiative has been launched by ACE Entrepreneurs to support early stage black-owned businesses. The ...
New data published has revealed the regional distribution of loans under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme and the Bounce Back Loan Scheme. The data, published by the ...
The new application phase for the 3rd Swiss Market Entry Bootcamp has begun and lasts until 1 Septe...
Anexsys Group, which provides technology and consultancy services for law firms, corporations and the public sector, has been acquired by private-equity-back...
Urgent action is required to close the UK’s growth capital gap, according to a report released by Innovate Finance, the ...
Foresight Group LLP has announced the completion of a €4.5 million top-up to the Project Bond issued in January 2019 by ...
Tech-led businesses, whose models have been further validated by the Covid-19 crisis, have seen unprecedented demand from investors in the last three months, according to tax-efficient platfo...
Technology consulting firm Invenio Business Solutions has completed a rebranding process to cement its preparation fo...
Private equity-backed property, site and people protection specialist Orbis Protect has made its first acquisition following a strong pe...
Foresight Group, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, and ...
YFM Equity Partners is continuing its focus on growth stage investment, particularly in the technology sector, with the appointment of venture capitalist and e...
“We cannot be reliant on sectors that will inevitably fluctuate until there is a vaccine to drive the UK’s recovery. The Bank of England’s prediction ...
Clarilis, the high-growth legal technology business,...
Research has shown that UK 1 small and medium businesses are owed as much as £50bn in late payments at any one time, with the situation only likely to get worse in the current ...
TaxScouts, the company making tax preparation effortless for the UK market, has announced a Series A inves...
Foresight Group LLP, a leading private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has announced a further £2 million&n...
UCL Technology Fund, managed by AlbionVC in collaboration with UCL Business ...
Bramble Energy, the world’s most scalable hydrogen fuel cell company has raised a £5m Series A round. ...
Enterprise IT managed services organisation DSP and Leeds-based Explorer UK, an ...
The Great Lockdown caused a global output shortfall of $12.5 trillion. Governments have reached deep into their coffers to inject relief into shocked economies. We've seen companies bolster b...
With the arrival of Covid-19, the vast majority of us have been working from home for the past few months. Far from being a huge disaster, working from home has led many of us to question the...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest annual ...
Symetrica, a manufacturer of radiation detection products for military and homeland security applications, has c...
Liopa has successfully achieved funding from Innovate UK...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in the Growth Economy, has backed 24 new companies in the first half of the year whil...
Humanloop, a game changing UCL spinout, has attracted investment from UCL’s Technology F...
Green Angel Syndicate has completed an investment in online, sustainable grocer, ...
The Aviation X Lab, situated in AREA 2071 wit...
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Investors have rewarded the commercial success of Spotta’s smart pest systems with a $1.18 million seed funding round. ...
Aceleron, the UK developer of sustainable and reusable battery solutions, has announced a £2m million equity investment with £1.45m from ...
Corby-based Green Life Buildings Ltd has received a £600k funding package from the ...
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NatWest have announced a partnership with Synalogik, a member of their Entrepren...
Closed Loop Medicine, the London based therapeutics and health tech company secures a £250,000 COVID-19 Innovate UK Continuity Funding a...
Cowboy, a leading manufacturer of the beautifully-designed, connected electric bike, has completed its Series B funding round, tota...
Belfast-headquartered green technology firm StormHarvester is announcing the conclusion of a €2 million investment round, and is laun...
NEOS Surgery, a company that researches, develops and m...
Global technology investor, Amadeus Capital Partners, announced the promotion of both Amelia Armour and Pierre Socha to Partner in the Early Stage...
Clive Hale, Chief Strategist of Albemarle Street Partners, looks under the hat of global markets ...
To celebrate the launch of its new financial training platform, Yorkshire-based finance management specialist Mellor Financial Training is offeri...
Closed Loop Medicine (CLM), the London based therapeutics and health tech company has secured a £250,000 ...
Cologne-based SoSafe GmbH closed a substantial seven figure Pre-...
British Patient Capital announces its participation in Quantexa’s series C fundi...
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Genius Group has completed the acquisition of Entrepreneur Resorts Ltd, comprising luxury resorts and lodges, b...
A biotech company which is developing new treatments for patients with serious spinal conditions has completed a £2.25m funding round led by Mercia Asse...
Takarék Venture Capital Fund I. managed by Dutch-Hungarian VC company DBH Investment has invested EUR 2 million into Budapest-based AerinX in a Pre-Series A round. The company develops and p...
Green Angel Syndicate has completed an investment in online, sustainable ...
Atos SE, a global leader in digital transformation, and ...
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By Stephen Kelly, Chair of TechNation In recent months the UK government has made one of the great strategic i...
Creator Fund, the university-focused ven...
Following investment from a number of former industry leaders, tech platform Bowimi has grown its development capabilities to expand in the hospitality se...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has led an investment through its managed VCTs, alongside the ...
FLX Distribution, the first and only professional network technology platform bringing together asset management firms and independent distribut...
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The Universities of Birmingham and Warwick have created a new spinout company, 4D Medicine Ltd, to commerci...
Silverfleet Capital, the pan-European private equity firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Christian Süss as a ...
British Patient Capital announces a cornerstone commitment of $65m to ...
The Coronavirus lockdown decimated economies all over the planet, but while some stock markets are showing signs of recovery, the UK’s FTSE 100 is taking longer to bounce back. Since falling...
Neurovalens, a global healthtech company headquartered in Belfast and San Diego, has raised £5.1 million in funding, led by ...
Withers tech has represented Draper Esprit, one of Europe's leading VC funds, on the Series...
Leading digital health start-up Gendius has raised £250,000 on leading crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, ...
The Coronavirus lockdown decimated economies all over the planet, but while some stock markets are showing signs of recovery, the UK’s FTSE 100 is taking longer to bounce back...
Private equity firms invested in a record 464 companies in Central and Eastern Europe in 2019, with investment increasing by 7% year-on-year to €2.95 billion, as the industry strengthened its ...
I was struck by the contrast of two conversations on a single day, a couple of weeks ago: In the morning I was talking to a number of experts in Angel Investment and start-ups and one obser...
Norgrove Building Supplies, based in Kidderminster, has secured a...
NatWest has announced the appointment of Solange Chamberlain as Chief Operating Officer for its Commercial Banking arm. Ch...
Drover, the European leader in car subscriptions, announces a £20.5 million investment. The investment has been co-led by new ...
Plastometrex - a Cambridge-based company that develo...
Coconut, the smart banking, accounting and tax tool aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses, has raised over £2.4m in its latest crowdfund - bea...
Covid-19 has disrupted every aspect of human life. This global threat has spurred us to reconsider priorities and heightened the importance of social justice and preservation of the planet. B...
Opinium today unveils the Top 100 Most Connected Brands in the UK. Now in its third year, the ranking is the first ever Index to be compiled...
CyberSmart has raised £5.5 million in a heavily oversubscribed Series A funding round led by VC firm ...
Macomics Ltd, an immuno-oncology company with world-leading expertise in macrophage biology, launches today with a £3.2 million seed financing round led by transatlantic ...
SDG500, a pioneering USD$500 million investment platform dedicated to helping achieve the Sustainab...
By Charlie Parker, Managing Director, Albemarle Street Partners "Whilst the virus con...
TOffeeAM, an Imperial College spin-out that optimises product designs for Additive Manufacturing - a...
Foresight Group LLP, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has announced a £1...
Leading property technology company Goodlord has announced that it will be joi...
Loss adjusting and claims management specialist GHG Limited near Southampton has funded its primary buy-out by securing a £7m equity invest...
The cryptocurrency market is heating up with significant growth in 2020 and a new wave of potential crypto investors ready to join in. But there is just one thing keeping them fro...
UK-based startup ...
Johnathan Ransom, CEO & Co-founder of Square Mile Farms, looks at recent experiences. Post-2008 financial crisis, internet technologies an...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has reinforced its portfolio ...
London-based ETF Partners has closed its third Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF3) at £167m, to grow the most innovative companies in the UK and ...
Machine Labs has raised a Seed Extension round of £1 million ($1.25 million) lead by Techstart Ventures alon...
BrainWaveBank Limited, an artificial intelligence (‘AI’) company focused on develop...
The Development Bank of Wales has further expanded its technology investments team with a new hire. Colin Batt...
Luke Johnson, the entrepreneur, investor and Sunday Times columnist, is investing in the British Design Fund and wi...
Astrosat has signed up to the national SPRINT business support programme to develop a new software tool that will autom...
British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced t...
Traplight, the Finnish mobile game studio focused on highly accessible mid-core games, has announced the global launch of its new mobile gam...
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) has published new research[1] which reveals that the COVID-19 crisis has fuelled the appetite of insurers fo...
Mergermarket, the leading provider of M&A data and intelligence, has released its 1H20 report with league tables. According to the new research,...
A new study reveals that over half (54%) of financial intermediaries believe that infrastructure is seeing the biggest surge in investor demand among all asset classes in response to the COVI...
An angel network that is among the first to penetrate the $5 trillion Halal consumer market has teamed up with UK fintech Delio to digitise the Halal ...
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Investment in Northern Ireland tech companies increased by over 50% last year, with both the number of deals and average value of each investment rising, according to new data published by ...
Nearly four fifths (79%) of private equity fund managers expect investors to demand more transparency in reporting on portfolio company performance over the next 12 months, reflecting growing conce...
Kelvin Capital backed ProFactor Pharma Ltd (PFP), has ...
A team of healthcare experts who developed a fast and low-cost way to protect carers working with Covid-19 patients has raised a £100,000 investment. Mat Campbell-Hi...
The Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, has led investment of £3.3 million in innovative Scottish companies during the...
TAINA a market leading, computer science led provider of flexible and efficient FATCA, CRS and Chapter 3 solutions ...
Zedify, the network of first and last mile delivery operations across the UK, have recently raised over £300,000 from a group of private investor...
Draper Esprit has participated in the latest £25m Series C funding round in Cazoo, the UK's leading online car r...
ThingTrax, a provider of smart technology solutions for the manufacturing industry, has announced the close of a $1m seed round led by ...
British Patient Capital, a subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a cornerstone commitment to ...
Europe’s leading R&D and electric battery production company, InoBat Auto...
Heka (previously GoSweat), confirms the launch of its new website and benefits platform on the 24th of June. Fit for the Covid-19 era and beyond...
Luxury homeware wholesaler, Fifty One Percent Limited, has received a £250k finance package from the Midlands...
Investors and experts predict that in 2020 this will reach a record figure, boosted by an interest in the sector after Covid-19. Life sciences and healthcare start-ups and companies in Cata...
The SidebySide Partnership has expanded its management team with the appointment of James D’Mello as Head of Business Development. ...
Willa, the fintech startup dedicated to helping freelancers get paid on time without the ...
Specialist technology investor Par Equity has led a consortium that has invested £800k in Publisher Disc...
Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Wales have been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the second annual report published by ...
Nanotechnology business, MIP Diagnostics, has completed a £5.1m funding round to accelerate its global expansion. The co-investment has come from ...
Growth capital investor VGC Partners has promoted Andrew Lister to partner. This promotion further strengthens VGC’s leadership team in order to support inve...
Maven Capital Partners has led a further investment in Brigh...
Envestors has secured £2m in funding to grow its digital marketplace for start-up investment, The marketplace, powe...
6 Bit Education, a company spun out of the University of Birmingham, has received investment to pilot an AI-b...
The British Business Bank has approved six new lenders for accreditation under the ...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the Future Fund is being expanded to accommodate businesses that contribute significan...
The Angel CoFund has appointed Dr Olivia Nicoletti to the team as Senior Investment Associate. Joining from Cambridge Enterprise, where she worked o...
Unicorn AIM VCT has closed its latest offer having raised the full £25m of available capacity ...
Beckley Psytech, the psychedelic medicine company, has raised £3m of Series A funding to develop a pipeline of psychedelic drugs into licensed ph...
Since its launch in May 2019, the Greater London Investment Fund (GLIF) has invested £12.5m in 33 early-stage and high-growth companies through its equity and l...
As of 1 July 2020, the Aston Lark Financial Institutions team will join the Protean Risk brand, making the c...
Thierry Baudon, 2019-2020 Chair of Invest Europe, is to continue as Chair, following the sudden and unexpected death of Roderick “Rory” Macmillan ...
Mia & Ben, the innovative kids' food brand sold nationwide in Sainsbury's, Ocado and Abel & Cole in the UK, as well as Dunnes Stores in the Republic...
One year ago last week the UK’s 2050 net zero target was announced. Mike Jackson, Entrepreneur Success Director, Tech Nation comments: “The UK&rsquo...
Edge Investments, the leading growth investor in the UK creative economy, has appointed an Advisor Panel to provide specialist industry expertise and advice to as...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growth businesses, has invested in ...
Downing Ventures has appointed Warren Rogers as a Partner to its 14-strong team. Prior to joining Downing Ventures, Warren was a Ventures Partner at...
With a 53% growth in the last three years, an active fundraising scene, and a 20% surge in-demand during lockdown, fintech has become the poster-boy for how an industry can be in a position to resp...
Loopster, the online platform which closes the loop between the use and reuse of second-hand clothes, has secured a six-figure seed equity funding round le...
Recruitment platform Tempo has secured £5 million in a Series A funding round led by the Adecco Group, a For...
Foresight Group's Nick Mettyear, an Investment Manager responsible for the £100 million Foresight East of England Fund, has been...
A venture backed Cambridge startup, Better Origin, has launched the X1, the world’s first ever insect mini-farm to convert local waste into high-qual...
British Patient Capital comments on the British Business Bank&rs...
The £3.5m SHAKE Climate Change Programme has announced its first three investments. Energy from manure, tools for smarter ...
Reactec, the Edinburgh-based tech company that recently launched its innovative SAFE-DISTANCE device to enable social distancing among workers, has completed ...
Stained Glass artists Cariad Glass have seen a boost in online sales during lockdown after developing a fun make at home glass mosaic kit to give crafty...
Oxford Capital portfolio company, Cambridge-based UltraSoc Technologies Ltd, has signed an agreement to be acquired by Siemen...
Epipole, the video retinal imaging specialist, has secured £1.5 million in new funding to prepare for introduction into the United States ophthalmic imagi...
Equity investment in the UK’s tech businesses increased by 27% in 2019 to £4.0bn, the highest amount since the series began in 2011, reveals the ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has invested in Bayfields Opticians an...
Covid-19 has made investment prospects bleak in many sectors, but a new report by Ceuta Group reveals confidence in consumer health, wellness and personal ...
Nottingham-based Far-UK, a specialist manufacturer of composite material-based products, has signed up to the national SPRINT ...
Kaelo Limited has secured a £350,000 growth loan from the Greater London Investment Fund (GLIF) which is managed by ...
The startup ecosystem will take a year or more to fully recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, with economic and political risk representing the biggest barrier to innovation in that tim...
So far this year, Antler has invested in 58 startups across seven countries. The companies funded represent over twenty sectors, ranging from fintech and deep t...
Velox, the future of front office technology, has secured $2.5 million in strategic funding from ETFS Capital.&...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, delivered by British Business Bank, has made 66 investments in 47 York, North Yorkshire & East Riding based small ...
Epidarex Capital, a transatlantic life science venture firm, announces that it has closed Epidarex Capital III UK LP at £102.1 million. The Fund will bu...
An overwhelming majority (88%) of private equity investors plan to step up their efforts to manage and measure ESG performance in their portfolio companies over the next two years yet almost half (...
Agamon, a healthcare AI startup, announced today a $3M seed round, led by ...
London-based VGC Partners is launching its £1m Technology Seed Fund IV, headed by Parminder Basran, which looks to invest in early stage, tech companies whic...
Trojan Energy, an Aberdeen-based green tech start-up, has secured a £4.1 million of seed funding. The funding round includes £1 mil...
In the world of work, the effects of social measures that governments are being forced to take have proven to be incredibly challenging for businesses and employees. However, for many business lead...
Cornerstone Partners has invested £170,000 growth capital investment into East Yorkshire based Coordinat...
FW Capital has invested £20 million to support Greater Manchester-based businesses through NPIF - FW Capital Debt Finance which launched in 2017. ...
Middlesbrough-based games developer SockMonkey Studios has secured a £250,000 investment from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) to fun...
Hoxton Ventures has announced the final close of Hoxton Ventures II L.P., an early stage European venture capital fund building on the firm’s reco...
Bamboo Capital Partners, an impact investing platform which provides innovative financing solutions to catalyse lasting impact, has announced the formation of...
It took a global pandemic to accelerate remote working to where the world is today; nobody could have foreseen the profound impact that COVID-19 would have. For ...
HYCM has commissioned an independent surv...
Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. (LDC) has launched its corporate venture capital program, ‘LDC Innovations’, as an element in LDC’s strategic plans t...
Matt Weston, Managing Director of Robert Half UK, comments: "We are now starting to see the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the jobs...
SLAMcore, a UK company developing spatial AI algorithms for robots and drones, has secured $5million in a ...
Bubo.AI, a start-up which aims to revolutionise the way companies price their products has raised £650,000...
The UK Defense and Security Accelerator (DASA) innovation scheme has awarded a triple-figure contract to ...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has invested in Chill Insurance, one...
A new survey by Intertrust1, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, reveals how COVID-19 has impacted the ...
The Development Bank of Wales has reported a record 457 investments totalling £103.3 million in the financial year ended 31 March...
Growing fears of a no-deal Brexit will prompt an increasing number of British and international investors to move their financial assets overseas out of the UK, believes the CEO of one of the world...
James Murdoch considers the challenges for investors around the timely collection of EIS and SEIS Certificates. It’s that time of year; the most common question I see on post investme...
IQ Capital, the deep-tech venture capital firm based in Cambridge and London, has appointed Simon Hirtzel as General Partner. ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest research on LBO and VC performance...
Ikarovec, which is developing novel gene therapies to treat major ophthalmic indications, has been awarded £458,740 by ...
London based cleantech company Powervault has secu...
The anger and frustration unleashed by the appalling murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis is simple to understand - Black Lives Matter - no exceptions! Whilst some of the issues are straight forwa...
Vintro, a new digital, global marketplace of business decision makers, is opening its platform to entrepreneurs and innovators who are see...
Quotevine helps brokers give SMEs faster access to vital COVID-19 recovery finance - with new Quickst...
EQT Ventures has appointed a new deal partner, Rania Belkahia, to its new team in France. Joining EQT Ventures’ team of former founders and operat...
The British Business Bank has announced that it has approved a new lender for accreditation to the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS), five new le...
Zelluna Immunotherapy, a T Cell Receptor (TCR) cell therapy company, has completed a fundraise to fully focus on the development of its proprietary TCR gu...
No women in private equity report that they see starting their own firm as part of their future ambitions, according to Investec’s 10th editi...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has launched its new Net Zero growth programme. The programme is designed to support tech compa...
Ten technology rich early stage businesses in Wales are a step closer to developing their innovative products and services having secured equity investment from the ...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has invested in TitanHQ, a fast-g...
Following the launch of Blackfinch Asset Management, investment specialist Blackfinch Group launches four Adaptation Funds. The new multi-asset unit trus...
The coronavirus pandemic has hit the housing market hard but this does not mean that developers looking for financing are out of options, says ...
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Richard Davies, Chief Operating Officer at Revolut, just spoke at ...
Spectrum Logic has been awarded an Innovate UK grant to develop a novel Weste...
Catherine Lewis La Torre has been appointed Interim CEO of the Government-owned British Business Bank and will take up the role from 1 Septemb...
One in seven small business owners (14%) say they are transitioning towards becoming fully or mainly online enterprises since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, according to new resea...
Daisy Onubogu, Head of Networks & Communities, Backed VC and Anu Adebajo, Investment Manager, British Pat...
Enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor, My Digital Accounts, has appointed Nic Scott, former CEO and co-founder of Fairsail, as its chairman wit...
Redwigwam, the UK’s leading provider of flexible workers, has secured investment from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund to fuel the next phase of its expansion. ...
A £250,000 loan for the Welsh Mountain Zoo ...
An overwhelming majority (92%) of private equity fund managers expect to see a rise in the volume of distressed fund transaction activity over the next 12 months. Says ...
By Duncan Grierson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Clim8 and Andrew J Scott...
SilviBio, a company developing a ‘survival capsule’ that will improve the survival of tree seedlings by 40 per cent in drought conditions, is the overall winner of the ...
Qkine, a specialist developer and manufacturer of proteins for s...
Foresight Group, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has announced that its Foresight Global Real Infrastructure...
DSW Debt Advisory, the new service launched by Dow Schofield Watts group just before the lockdown to help companies raise debt funding, has attracted anot...
Prime Advantage Capital Partners has participated in a fundraise for North-East based impact sensor developer HP1 Techn...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UKs most active private equity managers, has invested an undisclosed amount in Zing Dev Limited...
RiskIQ, the world leader in attack surface management, has announced an investment from Natio...
Start-ups faced with an entirely new trading environment are being encouraged to use the next 100 days to carefully align their shifting commercial goals with an effective approach to IP or risk be...
NodThera, a clinical stage biotechnology company developing a new clas...
Flusso, a semiconductor company spun out of the University of Cambridge, has raised a $5.7 million Series A funding round to scale up production of the world&rs...
Oxford Flow, the flow control equipment specialist, has raised £8.45m to fuel the company’s expansion across the utility and industrials market...
ROI has secured a £3m investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, to support...
The number of businesses with a positive outlook for the next 12 months exceeds the number with a negative outlook for the first time, in the clearest sign yet that...
The Danish workspace management startup Good Monday has just entered London following a $4M capital injection from the UK early-stage VC firstmi...
British Business Investments Ltd has committed up to £40m to Columbia Lake Partners Fund II - CLP ...
BGF has invested £6m in Amdaris, an industry-leading software developer and digital transformation...
Industrial services and waste management firm, Harpers Environmental, has secured £2 million of funding from ...
Tilney and Smith & Williamson have agreed a revised transaction structure for their proposed merger. T...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has strengthened its team wit...
Navenio, the healthcare scale-up whose location-based technology has been shown to double the throughput of hospital teams, has...
Business lender Reparo Finance is further strengthening its team with the appointment of Daniel Jones as business development manager covering the Sou...
Climeworks has successfully raised CHF 73 million (USD 75 million) in equity from private investors. This is the large...
Tech Nation, the UK’s leading growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has appointed Stephen Kelly as the new Chair. Stephen Kelly succeeds E...
Following the launch earlier this year of a further £40million MEIF Debt Fund by the ...
Service Robotics Limited, a health and wellbeing business focusing on supporting the vulnerable and elderly through innovative technology, has raised &...
Aberystwyth based Agxio has completed a £750,000 equity investment round to support the development of advanced data science and AI solutions in agri-tech...
Inflexion has sold Glide, the UK’s leading provider of infrastructure to difficult to serve markets, like high...
Lenders have approved £27.5bn of emergency finance to businesses during the coronavirus crisis with most coming from the bounce back loans scheme, government figures show, according to a ...
DSW Angels - the business angel network focused on UK regional scale-up companies - is planning £10m of new investment over the next 12 months t...
While economists sought to rejig their models following the financial crisis, adjusting for a pandemic, the likelihood of a cure and a whole range of science and tech related variables in between p...
BGF is to make donations totalling £100,000 to support local community-based charities across the UK & Ireland following the onset of Coronaviru...
In my annual review of my portfolio last month, I focussed on an analysis of what had happened in "normal time" any effects of current, more challenging times, had not yet come through. But what is...
Poplar has closed a $2.1million investment, led by Fuel Ventures...
Caerphilly based X4 Software Limited has secured follow-on investment of £175,000 from the Development Bank of Wales and the backing of business a...
The Silicon Valley Bank’s Future of Robotics Report, which ...
The value of venture capital raised by UK companies rose to its highest first quarter total on record according to research from Refinitiv. UK compan...
Fintech investment in the UK has exploded by 500% in the last three years, compared to 170% for the USA and 133% for Europe. Since 2018, the UK fintech market has be...
Red Rock Power Limited, a renewable and sustainable energy company, has selected Greenbyte’...
Jenson Funding Partners have completed an investment in eTEU Technologies Ltd, which is a technology platform that...
Prism Corporate Broking has advised the shareholders of Orion Future Technology Ltd (Orion FT) on its sale...
Guernsey, a leading global centre in green and sustainable finance, is hosting an array of international speakers for its first ...
A Coventry biotech business has raised £1.2m for a new hand-held device that allows paramedics and emergency doctors to quickly diagnose patients who are having a stroke. ...
Blackfinch has invested c.£550k in Poole-based company Spotless Water, founded in 2016. The company offers...
New tech roles in banks has increased by a staggering +46% in the last three years – making traditional banks the most prominent recruiter for tech professionals. ...
Jenson Funding Partners' 2019/20 EIS Fund has invested across six of its existing portfolio companies providing follow on funding to facilitate the ...
The UK’s leading provider of Start Up Loans for business is toasting it 6,000th customer – its local pub in Gateshead. T...
Birmingham-based language technology firm, Learning Labs Limited...
Future VC 2020, Diversity VC’s programme that helps people from backgrounds that are unde...
INSTANDA, the leading customer and policy management platform for the insurance industry, has today announced the appointment of Steven Haasz as Partnerships and...
Continuum Industries, which provides AI tools for engineering professionals to rapidly design linear infrastructure projects and reduce their costs, has ...
Ambitious new route map points the way to £1 billion for nature conservation. Nick Lyth, Founder and CEO of Green Angel Syndicate, is a member o...
European VC-backed companies raised $8.8B across 923 deals in the first quarter of 2020according to the latest ...
Urgentem (formerly Engaged Tracking), one of the pioneering companies in climate risk management, data and analytics space, has raised £500k from ...
Triple Point Heat Networks Investment Management, in partnership with the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), has announced i...
After a year in Beta, Mole Valley Asset Management (MVAM) launches its new Yorkshire T20 portfolio. The portfolio is made up of 20 handpicked, listed c...
A Newcastle tech company whose software allows businesses to create their own mobile apps has raised £1.2m to further develop its product and expand its team. ...
COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on businesses across the globe but it has also been a catalyst for digital transformation. Much of the media attention has been drawn toward companies li...
Technology company Sennen, whose bespoke software enables safer and more efficient renewable energy operations, has won a major new client. ...
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An Agri-Tech Lookbook, to feature the sector’s most progressive companies, is being developed by the Department of International Trade (DIT) in association with ...
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Navenio, the healthcare scale-up behind a location-based platform which has been shown to double team throughput, has announced £9m in series A funding l...
A company which has developed an eco-friendly water treatment system that can reduce pollution levels has raised £550,000 to help roll it out to the water industry. &n...
MGB Biopharma, the Glasgow-based biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of anti-infectives, has announced the suc...
Silicon Valley Bank UK Branch (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and their investors, has appointed Patrick Flynn as Chief Operating...
Over £64.8 million has been invested into 257 businesses by the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), with new data revealing its regional impact just ...
Expert cycle insurance provider Bikmo has secured its first venture capital funding of £1.8 million (Series A funding). The investment is led by ...
Meals for the NHS, a non-profit organisation set up t...
Port Talbot-based Hybrisan has joined the fight against the Covid 19 pandemic having secured £500,000 equity investment from the ...
Clim8 Invest, the app that offers everyone the opportunity to have a positive impact on climate change through sustainable investment, has raised £1.5 m...
Maven Capital Partners has completed a £1 million investment in Boiler Plan (UK) Ltd, a market disruptive on...
Blackfinch Group has launched Blackfinch Asset Management, offering adviser firms expanded capabilities and increased support....
A leading Welsh medtech company has received significant equity funding from The Development Bank of Wales and Wealth Club to develop the ...
Private equity and venture capital fundraising hit €109 billion, up 6% in 2019, and the highest total over a decade, according to new data from Invest Europe. In parallel, the total equit...
Parabellum Investments, an international investment firm specialising in the mid-market, has teamed with operational investors T...
A London based, food brand, has secured a £600,000 expansion loan from The Greater London Investment Fund...
Praetura Ventures, the Manchester-based investor that backs quality businesses in high-value sectors, has launched the Praetura EIS Growth Fund as it...
There are some classic bear traps that new business angels should avoid if they want to get beyond that early exciting stage, and closer to the money making stage... #1...
A year after the worldwide sales success of the Channel 5 film ‘Agatha and the Truth of Murder’, the North Yorkshire-based husband and wife team behind it – Emily and Tom...
UK Innovation funder Rocking Horse has announced a multi-million-pound partnership with London-based specialist investment firm ...
Smarterly, the digital wealth platform for the workplace, has secured £7 million investment to support its continued growth as it brings innovation ...
Qadre, a high-growth fintech trusted by leading institutions to deliver certainty with blockchain technology, has announced ...
Xona Space Systems, a San Mateo-based startup creating a secure and precise Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) satell...
The digital staffing service, Zenjob, has successfully secured a Series C funding round of $30 million. The lead investor is ...
British Business Investments, the commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank,...
Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine, has awarded a 'MegaGrant' to Polystream, a deep-tech startup and th...
Intertrust, a leading global provider of tech-enabled corporate and fund solutions, has appointed Derek Ramage (pictured) as Head of Fu...
While the initial shock of lockdown was evident in early April with some deal processes being postponed or even falling away entirely, the surprise has perhaps been the speed of the bounce back in ...
Edinburgh-based Reactec, has repurposed its proven system for monitoring workers’ exposure to health risk to create “Safedistance...
The transformation of a Victorian railway building into an entertainment and business complex is nearing completion having secured a £2.9 million investment from the ...
The UK Creative Content EIS Fund has invested in Maze Theory, a digital entertainment studio focusing...
Financial firms need to adopt a digital-focussed working environment if they want to survive beyond current lockdowns, says Arches Capital. The Amsterdam-based...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest ...
Insulation and fire protection expert ...
Blackfinch Group has launched the #ISOLATIONINTERN platform in partnership wit...
Business angel syndicates in Scotland participated in deals which invested over £100m in young entrepreneurial companies in the financial year to end March 2020. This is ...
BGF has exited Direct Online Services (DOS), the UK’s leading ecommerce retailer of kitchen wo...
A new survey by Intertrust1, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, revea...
Countingup, the business current account that automates your accounting, has received the backing of leading fintech investors. The London-based startup has ra...
Against the backdrop of a challenging market environment, Amati AIM VCT latest fundraising has reached its targeted £25 million capacity.&n...
StaffCircle, a communications, performance and culture platform that enables companies to manage employees across many locations, has raised new funds fro...
Newable has completed a £120,000 equity investment in Echion Technologies. This is the second Echion investment...
Sukendhu Pal talks about the impact of Coronavirus on London's start ups and offers advice on what they can to help mitigate some of the worst impacts on their businesses. The coronavirus p...
BGF reported strong investment and financial performance in its 2019 Annual Report and Accounts, remaining the number one growth capital investor in the world by ...
One in ten British businesses face a high risk of entering insolvency as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This equates to more than half a million (591...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published a retrospective analysis of private equ...
A Coventry-based manufacturer responsible for producing all electric black taxis - ‘Hackney Carriages’ - approved by Transport for London has secured a £1.25m loan. The...
Zeitgold, the intelligent software platform for small business accounting automation, raised €27 million in Series B funding. The round was led ...
Scoota , the leader in automated omni-channel digital branding technology, has raised £2 millino from Notion Capital, th...
Peanut, the leading social network for women, today announces the closing of a USD $12M Series A funding le...
Oxwash, the space-age laundry and dry-cleaning startup overhauling the traditional laundry service, has rasied £...
A Carmarthen carpenter has led his management team to complete a multi-million management buy-out of the double glazing company that he set-up in 1989. Funded by the ...
A Newcastle tech start-up whose software helps sales staff to find and close new leads has raised £400,000 to further develop its product and expand its team. ...
Turnaround investor Jon Moulton has described the Covid-19 environment as the biggest disruption he has seen in his 40-year business career. Mr Moulton, who liv...
New research released from venture capital fund MMC Ventures, shows that while 2...
Cardiff based fintech company Yoello has joined forces with non-profit organisation FOR Cardiff to launch a campaig...
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) is continuing to expand its team with the appointment of Laura Sisson as investment manager. ...
Intertrust, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions to clients operating and investing in the international business en...
A Liverpool-based chemical technology company that is helping in the fight against dementia, cancer and respiratory illnesses has secured £2.25m in a funding round led by the VC firms ...
QVentures is to lead the funding round in Glean.ly, a scalable repository for user experience research and insights. ...
Lifebit Biotech, a leading innovator in bioinformatics and cognitive software solutions, has closed its Series A funding round of US$7.5M (£6 million) led by...
A Newcastle-based company which provide the UK’s fastest-growing text donation service has secured a second round of investment funding worth £350,000. Tech-for-good firm ...
TransFICC, the specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has closed its...
The proportion of UK small businesses predicting growth has plummeted from 39% to just 14% in the last three months - with 31% of business owners scaling back their businesses and 30% saying they w...
Expa, a company founded by serial entrepreneur and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp to help entrepreneurs create and launch new companies, has hired ...
UK deal making has plunged to the lowest monthly total in almost 35 years according to research from Refinitiv. Deal value invol...
Social impact investor Nesta Impact Investments (NII), part of Nesta, and London-based investment manager, ...
Bot-Hive, a digital marketplace for robotics and AI solutions has successfully completed a six-figure equity funding round. Bot-Hive is...
The world's leading online Karaoke channel, Sing King, has raised £550,000 via...
Kluster has received a $1m investment from VCs Newable and SuperSeed, alongside ...
Figures from Plexal and Beauhurst released today show there was £663 million of investment in UK companies over the lockdown period between March 23 and ...
Stress in the financial markets is prompting a growing number of people to make extreme investment decisions that could ultimately hit their wealth, warns Nigel Green, CEO of deVere ...
The British Business Bank has allocated an additional £23.7m to Maven...
Leeds-based investment non-profit NorthInvest supported three investment rounds in the first quarter of 2020. The investment facilita...
Littledata, a SaaS company that connects and automates ecommerce analytics for its customers, has received investment from a member of ...
Innovative law firm Muve has completed a £1.1 million equity funding round to finance its further aggressiv...
Skills for leadership are natural, learned and require continual refinement. New skills are forged in times of crisis. Conversely leadership as a position starts at a point in time, often when some...
Manchester-based sustainable and ethical marketplace, Know the Origin has received a £300,000 investment from GC Angels...
Silver Cloud Investments has been launched by founder and CEO Joe Stelzer, formerly managing partner at the UK’s leading sell-side M&A house Cavendish Corporate Finance. Silver Cl...
LGB Corporate Finance has arranged a £20 million Medium Term Note (MTN) programme for Simply Asset Finance, a leading privat...
LGB Corporate Finance has advised Whalar Ltd, a multinational advertising and media business, on the establis...
Brikk, a modern ‘3.0’ estate agency platform that serves its customers online, has received investment from three ...
The British Business Bank has announced that it has approved four new lenders for accreditation ...
Acceleris Capital portfolio company Reacta Biotech has completed its largest funding round to date, involving...
Aberystwyth headquartered Phytoponics has raised £500,000 equity finance to undertake large scale commercial trials of ...
Alastair Bathgate has become the 29th Member of ScaleUp Group, following the announcement that he is stepping down as ...
A new revenue finance company has pledged £20m of funding for online business by the end of 2020. The revolutionary venture funding firm, ...
Prime Advantage Capital Partners has completed a successful fundraise for Tonic Nutrition, a vitamin drink that’s making headlines. ...
Acceleris client, Vertical Future has completed an additional £1.1 million of equity investment from ...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has announced the completion of the ...
585 businesses across Wales have been awarded funding totalling £36 million by the Development Bank of Wales since the Covid-19 Wales Business Loa...
Peak, the pioneer of the enterprise AI System, has completed a $12 million extended series A funding round led by existing investors ...
Ingenious' Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service has led a $4m A-series investment round in Shoreline. ...
Rooted MilQ, a Reading based food and beverage company that is developing plant protein-based milk from quinoa and tarwi, has received investment from a member of ...
One Utility Bill – which simplifies utility billing for tenants, landlords and letting agents - has raised £1.7m to further develop its platform...
Foresight Group has successfully exited its investment in Clubhouse Golf, the UK’s largest independ...
British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a new commitment under its £100m Regional Angels P...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent commerc...
Shepherd, specialists in property performance management via data analytical and remote monitoring solutions, has secured follow-on funding. ...
New research from global communications agency ...
Maven Capital Partners has completed a £2.5m investment in Precursive, a software as a service (SaaS) com...
IW Capital has announced the completion of a £2 million investment in GPDQ, providing a welcome boost to healthcar...
According to new research conducted this month from proSapient, a machine learning executive research platform, over half (57%) of UK start-ups said they only h...
Leading distributed solutions specialist Applied Blockchain has completed a £2 million funding round lead by Hong Kong based venture capital fir...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a new £15m commitment to ...
QVentures has announced that it will lead the funding round for articulate.xyz, a digital app-based service for thos...
79 SME property developers have benefitted from investments totalling £100 million for 112 property development projects according to the latest figures published by the ...
The Covid-19 Wales Business Loan Scheme is fully subscribed after more than 1,500 applications were received in just over one week. ...
GrowthDeck has completed a £650,000 fundraise for Teacher Booker, the online network of high-quality supply ...
Albion Capital has refinanced Albion Community Power, the £105 million renewable ener...
YFM Equity Partners has appointed David Wrench as an investment director as it continues to expand its investment team. David is joi...
Funding Circle, the small business loans platform, has today been approved for accreditation by the ...
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Green Angel Syndicate has invested alongside Triple Point Impact EIS Fund and ...
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Yes, that is an impossible question to answer on many levels. All any of us can think about is ‘when this is over..’ ‘once I can get back to normal…’ &lsq...
UK-founded marketing technology company ContentCal has secured a £2.5 million investment from early and growth stage investor ...
Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have made a £540,000 investment from Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into ...
Zeigo, an innovative energy tech platform which connects corporate energy buyers with renewable energy generators and suppliers, has closed a £800,000 Se...
Blackfinch has invested c.£630,000 in Glasgow-based company Candidate.ID, founded in 2015. Candidate.ID o...
Maven Capital Partners and Guinness Asset Management...
Great Point, the UK’s leading independent media investment firm, has invested in ...
Countingup, the number one banking and accounting app in the UK, has launched a free ...
The British Business Bank has announced that it has approved four new lenders for accreditation under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Lo...
Igloo Vision, the Shropshire-based immersive technology company, has raised an additional £...
Leading US universities including Harvard and Arizona State University have engaged British tech start-up StageClip to f...
Experts from the University of Birmingham's Medical & Dental School, Health Technologies Institute, and ...
Almost a third of businesses in the Midlands and the North of England are at high risk of collapse due to COVID-19 impacting on their supply chain, according to a recent report from ...
Cohesity has completed a $250 million Series E funding, led by DFJ Growth, ...
Innovate UK has launched a £20m competition looking for business-led innovation in response to global disruption, closing...
James Murdoch takes a considered look back over his portfolio performance from the last year and shares his observations on the ups and downs of equity crowdfunding. ...
Jenson Funding Partners has completed an investment in Survey54, a business SaaS platform for consumer surveys i...
Jenson Funding Partners has made investment in Not In The Guidebooks, providing local, authentic, ...
Maven Capital Partners has led an investment in Nano Interac...
Capital on Tap has revealed the world’s most sustainable corporations and startups, analysing where they ar...
Dr Maria Rana, expert in economics and finance at the University of Salford Business School, looks at how the UK economy is coping so far und...
Blossom Capital, the record-breaking VC led by investor Ophelia Brown, has launched Cultivate, an angel investment program that will bring together Europe&...
The Craftory is the first UK-based investment company, investing exclusively in purpose-led consumer goods, to achieve B...
YFM Equity Partners has closed its Buyout Fund II, ahead of target, with £80 million of committed funds and a wave of new high net worth and entrepreneurial i...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s 3 April announcement that financial support for the vital mid-tier sector is now available for businesses with up to £500m turnover should be welcomed. This is ...
Demand for stocks and gold has topped the numbers of the 2008 financial crisis by as much as 335%, as can be seen on a new ...
Launched on 23 March, the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) has now been significantly expanded along with changes to the scheme’s features and eligibility criteria. ...
Data streaming platform Ably has raised $7m in Series A funding, led by MMC Ventures, with ...
Foresight Group has made a £800,000 growth capital investment into Substantive Research Limited, a ...
Board evaluation and board development specialists Better Boards has secured a £250,000 equity investment from the Development Bank of Wales and £125,000 from a panel of four angel...
Kickstart, one of Europe's largest innovation platforms, is welcoming applications for the fifth iteration of its annual B2B scale-up pr...
Tony Fish gives his perspective on the leadership skills needed in a senior team to create and map the direction ahead. ...
The Prince’s Trust and NatWest have announced the launch of a £5million fund...
Gerard Grech, Chief Executive, Tech Nation Latest tech sector response to ...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has announced COVID-19 Response & Community Support initiatives that stem...
InvestSuite has raised a seed extension round led by PMV with participation from existing and new business angels, management and employees. This €2 ...
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Brookfield Asset Management, through its Strategic Real Estate Partners III Fund, has acquired a 50% stake in Harw...
Mergermarket has released its Global M&A roundup for the first quarter (Q1) of 2020, including its financial ad...
The North East Business and Innovation Centre (BIC) has launched the region’s first social enterprise incubator – designed to nurture entrepreneu...
Blackfinch Group's Blackfinch Spring VCT has raised over £3.3 million to invest in a portfolio of technology and technology-enabled companies, since...
Smart Separations, a leading specialist in innovative microfiltration (MF) technology, has signed up to the national SPRINT business support programme. ...
The EIS Association is collecting evidence to replay to the Government to show them the affect current situation is having on small businesses who are s...
Big Society Capital and Guy’s and St Thomas’s Charity have partnered t...
A syndicate of investors including Banque des Territoires, ...
Gilde Healthcare has closed its $450 million venture and growth capital fund Gilde Healthcare V. The new fund, which was oversubscribed, targets grow...
With vast swathes of the world in lockdown, the one question on everyone’s minds is how long will it take to develop a vaccine against COVID-19? The Association of Investment Companies (...
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Symvan investee, UnderPinned...
Air Doctor, a technology platform providing a global medical outpatient network that connects travelers with local doctors, has raised a Series A funding round of ...
Yorkshire based SME funding specialist One Stop Business Finance has expanded its client servicing team with the appointment of Carey Scargill as Business Develo...
Kernel Capital through the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Funds II and Infinity Capital have led a €1.2m investment in ...
Iconic British ceramics brand Emma Bridgewater has secured an £8m investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland...
QVentures has launched a petition to the UK government to increase tax reliefs for the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Sche...
Added Value Solutions (AVS) Ltd, a world-leading designer and developer of bespoke equipment for large science and research infrastructure, has signed up to the ...
Marion Surgical, which works with surgeons from around the globe to build a next generation suite of surgic...
A new medical device supplier which aims to offer UK hospitals the latest innovations from around the world has secured a £650,000 investment from ...
James Murdoch looks whether Convertibles benefit the founders or the investors in Equity Crowdfunding. ...
The Link App - software designed to facilitate communication between law firms and their clients - has received significant investment from ...
Jenson Funding Partners have completed an investment in LogistCompare a marketplace platform for wareho...
Lanistar, a new banking alternative fintech company, has launched...
VoxSmart, the global leader in communications surveillance technology for Financial Markets, has completed a strategic funding round of £5.5m ($7.2m) f...
Symvan Capital's Kealan Doyle predicts that will almost certainly be a further downward stage, probably centered in the United Sta...
Advice on fundraising during the CoronaVirus pandemic from TechNation. With a global pandemic underway, and economies still reeling, we understand ...
Foresight Group LLP and Belltown Power Limited have formed a joint venture to develop Belltown’s pipeline of gr...
Jenson Funding Partners has completed an investment in ZEUS a property valuation app which allows property own...
Andrew Aldridge from Deepbridge Capital urges investors not to loose their nerve and why is important for us to carry on investing. ...
Funding London – the Mayor of London's investment vehicle – is being supported by several iconic mentors. Entrepreneurs and investors ...
In December 2019 Backfinch invested c.£500,000 in London-based company Auro. Founded in 2016, Auro offers a fitness app t...
New data reveals that 33 per cent of UK businesses say they lack the technology infrastructure to manage long-term remote working during the Covid-19 crisis. ...
AstronauTx Ltd, a biotech company developing new medicines designed to restore the normal behaviour of astrocytes for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases...
Global financial markets will use China’s recovery as a sentiment tracker, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and services organizations....
Notify Technology – the Newcastle-based health and safety software business – has completed a £370,000 investment r...
Following the announcement of its dividend heroes last week, the ...
During 2019, Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd) made new investments and commitments amounting to €133m. Tesi gave commitments totalli...
Announced by the Chancellor at Budget 2020, the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) is open for applications and can provide facilities of up to £5m ...
Just under half of firms in the UK (46%) and US (45%) predict their country will go into recession in 2020, according to research by trade finance provider ...
The Turnaround Management Association UK has appointed BTG Advisory partner Paul Davies as president of the as...
Oddbox, the London company behind the UK's first sustainable fruit and vegetable box delivery service, is planning to expand nationwide after securing a &pou...
Lord Howard Leigh of Hurley, Senior Partner at Cavendish Corporate Finance & Deputy Executive Chairman at finnCap Group plc, has told the House of Lords...
LawBite, the UK's leading legal-tech platform, looks at some of the ways in which SMEs can help themselves to weather the current storm. ...
YFM Equity Partners-advised funds have sold their shareholding in GroupBC to Bentl...
Beauhurst takes a closer at the high-growth companies operating in Northern Ireland in its latest report, 'Mapping out the most ambitious businesses ...
Through its two funds, the London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF) and the Greater London Investment Fund (GLIF),...
Glasgow-based Visual Management Systems (VMS), a leading provider of bespoke Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) solutions, is work...
In conjunction with its recent annual Tech Nation report, Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has announced the high-growth s...
BVA BDRC has published its latest quarterly SME Finance Monitor report. The largest and most frequent study of its kind in the UK, research findings have been ...
Peter Jones CBE, known for his role on Dragon’s Den, and BGF have joined forces to support two high-growth tech b...
RLC Ventures has made an investment has led a £500k seed round in Labworks. Labworks are Europe's leading vo...
Glasgow-based Swipii has secured funding of £1 million into its cashback ap...
The latest AngelNews wine column from Caspar Bowes of Bowes Wine...
Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has released its annual Tech Nati...
Growth Capital Ventures, a growing North East financial technology company has hit a series of milestones as it celebrates i...
Watersport and sailing enthusiasts will be setting sail from Lydstep when the Pembrokeshire Performance Sailing Academy opens a second centre this Easter. ...
DSW Angels, the business angel network, is celebrating a milestone after receiving its 1,000th application for funding within two years of its launch. ...
YFM has completed a significant investment in West Midlands-based Innovative...
Crowdcube, the leading equity crowdfunding platform, is partnering with Episode 1, backers of Zoopla, Shazam, carwow...
The national SPRINT business support programme has formed a strategic partnership with Knowledge Transfer Network's Geosp...
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has published the latest list of its 21 dividend heroes, the investment companies which have consistently incre...
A Manchester-based technology business that has created a platform for people to confidentially and safely report workplace harassment has secured a £1...
Assetz Capital has become the ...
Despite the strides that have been made towards workplace equality in recent years, women in businesses are still feeling largely under-represented and underpaid. Re...
Skyports, the urban air mobility infrastructure provider and drone delivery operator, has extended its Series A funding to now total £6 million ($8 m...
LSP, the leading life sciences investor in Europe, has held its final close of LSP 6 at the $600 million hard cap. This is the largest fund ever raised in Europ...
EBAN, the trade association representing business angels, seed funds and early stage market playe...
Last year, Beauhurst published its Female Entrepreneurs report on the state of gender d...
The latest IT & Business Services M&A market report from Hampleton Partners, the international technology mergers and acquisitions advisor, outl...
AI insurance pricing solution Akur8 has raised €8m in its Series A round from BlackFin Capital Partners and ...
Green Angel Syndicate has invested in The Scottish Bee Company, which is leadin...
Space Talos, a specialist in space radiation technology, has signed up to the national SPRINT business support programme to...
Moray Wright, CEO, Parkwalk Advisors "Today’s sur...
VC firm Boundary Capital has launched a new Impact investment fund for private investors called the Impact Life Fund. The fund’s purpose is to &...
Speaking at Leyton UK event, techUK Director of Policy, ...
John Glencross said: “There is a lot in this budget that is positive for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The big change is in entrepreneurs’ relief, which enables business owne...
As the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak begins to directly impact more businesses, NatWest has outlined the initial support it will pr...
The UK Creative Content EIS Fund has invested in Raindog F...
Instanda, the leading customer and policy management platform for the insurance industry, has completed a $19.5m Series A fundraising round, the company has anno...
QVentures has invested in start-up Kitche, a free app to reduce food waste and save money. With food waste receiving...
Sure Ventures plc, a London listed venture capital fund that invests in early stage software companies acro...
The Development Bank of Wales has now worked with over 900 women involved in the ownership of companies in Wales. This includes female-fou...
Property technology company Goodlord, which provides software and services to ...
Imperial College London has launched its first Innovation Fund to invest in early-stage, high-growth, knowledge-intensive companies spun out of the world t...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has purchased a significant minority stake in Focus Group, a lead...
YFM Equity Partners has appointed Roux Brits as Portfolio Director. Based in the London office, Roux will focus on actively managing YFM’s Growth and Buy...
Intertrust has appointed Frank Hattann as Global Head of Sales. Frank, who will report to Intertrust’s Chief Com...
246 angel investors shared a major payday this year with the €363 million sale of Irish chip-maker Decawave to US Apple supplier Qorvo. Founded ...
Ethical travel gear brand Tropicfeel has surpassed expectations by raising £1 million through crowdfunding platform ...
Loughborough-based Previsico has signed up to the national SPRINT business support programme to work with the ...
Just Play Golf has received a £50,000 micro loan from the Development Bank of Wales to help buy...
Enhancing diversity and inclusion is a top priority for over a quarter (28%) of business leaders, as companies seek to improve workplace culture in a competitive hiring market. ...
London-based TechApp Consultants (TAC), a specialist in bespoke antenna solutions, has signed up to the national ...
Coutts, the Private Banking arm of NatWest, together with BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing ...
Inotec AMD, a Cambridge based, fast-growing medtech business that has developed a novel device capable of healing complex chronic wounds, has secured ...
The majority of advisers have a very positive view of the importance of ESG in portfolio construction, according to a new study[1] among financial ad...
Scotland’s leading female-founded, organic and sustainable whisky distillery, Nc’nean, has successfully raised more than £1.7m in a new fundin...
Symvan Capital's Kealan Doyle explains why EIS investments should generate ‘alpha&rs...
Analysis of global startup hubs by ...
Marco Art Ltd, one of the first wide-format print centres in the UK, has secured £3.3 million in working capital from ...
BVA BDRC has published the fourth Women in Business report, based on data from the SME Finance Monitor. This report, covering the period up to and in...
BGF has exited its minority stake in Vysiion Group, a communications infrastructure and outsourced IT service provider....
Octopus Ventures, part of Octopus Group and one of the largest VCs in Europe, has exited its investment in FilmTec...
Following his landslide election victory in December, Boris Johnson announced plans for significant government spending in regions around the UK including the North, the Midlands and Wales. The pla...
Guernsey Finance, the promotional agency for the island’s finance industry internationally, has appointed Rupert Pleasant as its new Chief Executi...
Livingbridge, a leading mid-market private equity investor, has announced four new appointments to its investment team as well as a new Head of Marketing...
In his latest article for AngelNews, James Murdoch discusses reasonable investor expectations of equity crowdfunding platforms responsibility for disclosure and managing investments. ...
Following a successful 2019 and a strong start to 2020, Finstock Capital has now deployed over £12m into early stage businesses, supporting the ...
Whitham Group, an assembler and supplier of waste recycling systems, has completed an MBO which has enabled investors introduced by ...
Montane, the UK outdoor clothing and accessories company founded over 25 years ago, has received investment from Edinburgh-based specialist consumer brand i...
QVentures has made an investment in SaaS start-up Smartia, which provides artificial intelligence solutions to i...
HISBE Food CIC, a social enterprise and sustainable supermarket, has now raised its full target of £450,000 ...
Insurance platform Collective Benefits has closed a £3.3 million seed round led by U.K.-based Stride.VC, alon...
The o2h Therapeutics and AI Fund, has invested in Neurofenix, an innovative digital health company empowering stroke s...
Aventus, the London-based B2B insurtech business and insurance operating system originally created for the MGA Homelyfe, has closed a £2.6m inve...
The Accelerator Network, in partnership with ...
The o2h Therapeutics and AI Fund, an early stage S/EIS fund investing in biotechnology therapeutics and related AI opportunities, has invested in ...
UK companies raised a record amount of venture capital in 2019 – the highest in Europe – according to research by Refinitiv. ...
The British Business Bank’s 2020 Small Business Finance Markets report highlights significant long-term growth in alternative f...
Manchester-based entertainment brand Vistavenus, has received its first angel investment of £200,000 from renowned businessman David Walter, giving Vista...
Speedinvest, a European venture capital fund with offices in London, Berlin, Vienna, Munich and San Francisco, has raised €190 million for its third fl...
AND Digital has secured an £11m equity investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland&rs...
Foresight Group has made the first investment from its East of England Fund, supporting the Buy-in Management Buyout of ...
In February 2020 Henley Business Angels hit the landmark of over £1 million invested by its members and guests. Since first being ...
Award winnning Active Needle Technology is seeking £150,000 for market entry. For more information about this investment opportunity, please...
The o2h Therapeutics and AI Fund, an early stage S/EIS fund investing in biotechnology therapeutics and related AI opportunities, has made an investment in ...
The exit plan needs to be part of the decision whether to invest. That’s the advice for business angels looking to invest in start-up and early stage businesses. New research identifi...
Capgemini and ISAI, through their joint investment fund ISAI Cap Venture, have made their first minority investment in ...
Montis Biosciences announced its launch with €8.4 million in seed financing from an international investor syndicate to investigate interactions be...
BGF has successfully exited its investment in fast-growth web hosting company, ...
Fox Robotics seeks £400,000 to fund the commercial development of its innovative Autonomous Mobile Robots. For more information about this investment opportunity, please register via ...
PetMedix has been voted best start-up in the global Animal Pharm Awards. The UK-bas...
From 2020 to 2022 almost 2 million new units of industrial robots are expected to be installed in factories around the world. New technology trends and market developments enable companies to react...
Last week, Beauhurst launched ...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), which is delivered by British Business Bank has invested...
Appointments follow investment by pan-European private equity fund manager, capital D. ...
Process Vision, a leading business in preventing pipeline contamination and pipeline failures in the oil and gas industries, has received investment fro...
At the 93rd International Selection Panel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the international jury of the non-governmental o...
Inotec AMD, a fast-growing medtech business that has developed an innovative device to heal and treat complex chronic wounds, has secured £7m in...
It’s no secret that the world’s oceans are rapidly becoming unrecognizable as the impact from human activity strips them of marine life....
British Patient Capital, a subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has...
The Supply Register which is based in Stoke-on-Trent has secured a significant inv...
Triple Point Investment Management has announced a £10m facility into WeFlex...
Newly formed Manchester based property developer Northern Property Consortium (NPC) has embarked on its maiden project after agreeing a key short term finance deal ...
Leading marine and automotive insurtech Concirrus has announced that it has closed a $20 million Series B funding round led by ...
The Development Bank of Wales has invested £200,000 to support the leasehold purchase and refurbishment of the ...
Online sales are driving rapid growth at a Bristol-based father and son beachwear business. ...
Inc & Co Group has acquired the operations of Laundrapp, the U.K.’s largest on-demand laundry service. Laundrapp p...
New research by SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk analyses how neobanks are on the rise and why they’re so popular amongst consumers compared to...
Electric vehicle charge-point maker, Pod Point, which raised funds three times on ...
Livingbridge investee company Brainlabs has made two investments – in online marketing agency ...
Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious tech entrepreneurs, has revealed the 10 early-stage scaleup winners of its nationwide competition, Rising Stars. ...
Silverfleet Capital, the European private equity firm, has acquired a majority stake in Collectia A/S, a credit management services provider based in Denmark. The terms of the transaction were not ...
John Auckland, founder of TribeFirst, shares his predictions for alternative finance in the 2020s. The radical increase in alternative finance options has sent shockwaves through the tradit...
Crowdcube, Europe’s leading crowdfunding platform, has achieved its eighth record-breaking quarter in a row, as revenue for 2019 surpasses the £8m...
Praetura Ventures, the Manchester-based investor that backs early-stage businesses in high-value sectors, has successfully closed its second EIS fund...
The Development Bank of Wales has appointed Rhys Jones as a non-executive director. Rhys, 36, is a co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of SportPursu...
Leicestershire-based European Thermodynamics, an SME developer and supplier of thermal management components to the electronics, medical, telec...
The latest Fintech M&A market report from Hampleton Partners, the international technology mergers and acquisitions advisor, reveals that 2019 shift...
Unmind, the workplace mental health platform, today announced it has raised 10 million dollars in a Series A funding round. Led by B...
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Beauhurst has published The Deal - a review of publicly-announced equity fundraisings in 2019. The report shows a record breaking £12 bil...
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund has in...
The winners of the ‘Welsh Innovation of the Year Award’ at the Welsh SME Business Awards 2019, Forth, are set to turnover £1million ...
Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world's most innovative companies and their investors, today released the 11th edition of its ...
The Angel CoFund (ACF) has made two appointments to the team and board. Experienced investor an...
The Development Bank of Wales has invested £250,000 in Yimba, a f...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyo...
European proptech VC A/O PropTech has launched after raising €250m permanent capital to invest in technology companies disru...
Start-ups are twice as likely to succeed if mentoring is involved, as opposed to those who try and build their venture on a good idea and funding alone*. It is why ...
Yorkshire-based SME funding specialist One Stop Business Finance has completed a major investment programme at its HQ to increase office space and facilitate its...
Foresight has made a £500,000 growth capital investment into Novel Technologies Holding Limited, developers of anti...
The top 50 fastest growing private equity-backed businesses in the Midlands have a significant impact on the region’s economy, growing revenues by almost £1 billion sin...
Collision Management Systems (CMS), the connected vehicle data specialist, working with insurers, fleets and remote worker organisations to reduce employee risk, h...
Latest update from Beauhurst January has been a record breaking month in terms of megadeals, with six equity fundraisings worth over £50m se...
Par Equity, the leading Scottish EIS Fund Manager, has appointed two new team members. Tom Croy joins as Investment Manager and Alastair Orr Ewing as Portf...
Squire Patton Boggs has expanded its Global Corporate Practice in London, adding significantly to its international private equity (PE) team, with...
Angel CoFund-backed LivingLens, the video feedback platform, to humanize feedback and bring the voice of the cu...
Schroders, along with Johan H. Andresen through his investment h...
Ingenious has invested in TeraView, the pioneer and leader in terahertz technology and solutions, as part ...
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Equity Gap, the Edinburgh based business angel syndicate, reports its 2019 performance, which saw the firm deliver 23 funding rounds, add ...
NURVV, the biomechanics innovator using British science to disrupt the global wearables industry, has closed its first venture funding round, led by ...
Family run plant nursery will use the funding to accelerate growth plans, diversify its customer base and take advantage of new market opp...
BLEND Network, the leading property investment platform specialising in funding low-cost, accessible housing developments has announced the completion of the...
One of the world’s fastest-growing marketplaces, which has created a fair and transparent global platform for both buyers and sellers, has received £3 million in VC funding after finali...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a commitment of £50m to ...
Westcott-based start-up company, Protolaunch has signed up to the UK SPRINT programme to support the developmen...
Newport-based early years education technology specialists Kinderly has secured a £300,000 investment to help give children a great start in life, regard...
Dixa, the Copenhagen and London-based startup that offers a customer service platform delivering the best customer and agent experiences, has closed ...
Direct to Consumer brand Wild Cosmetics has raised £500K of seed capital from Angel investors to disrupt sustainability in the bathroom with the imminent la...
Blackfinch has led a funding round of over £1m in Edozo which closed in December 2019. Founded in 20...
Convelio, leading digital freight forwarder specialized in fi...
Foresight Group has made a further £1.1 million growth capital investment into portfolio company Tudor Group Limited...
A new salary study, exploring C-suite compensation in high-growth tech ventures, has found that the East of England is the highest paid UK region. The report, published by...
Rimilia, the leading SaaS-based fintech company, today announced it has secured $15 million in growth funding. This funding round includes participation from e...
Healthcare investment vehicle Impel Healthcare Catalyst has made an additional seven figure investment into its portfolio business ...
A new University of Liverpool spin out company, CageCapture, has secured £300k funding from ...
Symvan Capital has completed the first tranche of an up to £1 million investment in Custodiex...
Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious tech entrepreneurs, today reveals the 30 companies joining its prestigious Upscale programme...
Oak Intranet has raised £2.1 million additional seed funding round led by existing investors Maven Capital Partners. ...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and an initi...
An innovative funding arrangement is helping to accelerate the growth of an award-winning housebuilder and fast-track property ventures across the North of England. ...
Angel Investment Network (AIN), the UK’s largest online angel investment platform, has revealed its latest ‘State...
Since being appointed by the British Business Bank in 2017, to manage two debt funds on behalf of the ...
Foresight Group has made a £500,000 growth capital investment into Selazar Limited, a logistics management soft...
Over one quarter (28 per cent) of UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are expecting a revenue bounce in the first three months following the UK’s official departure from the Eu...
Informatics Ventures, which has been supporting technology entrepreneurs since 2008, has announced the cohort ...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) has appointed a new fund manager and made £40 million available to invest in the region’s small business...
Unigestion, the independent specialist asset manager, has launched Unigestion Secondary V, its latest secondary...
BGF-backed Kids Planet has raised new funds to support its next growth phase and has acquired North West...
Brand management platform Frontify has raised a $22.3 million Series B funding round led by the EQT Ventures...
A rapidly growing healthtech start-up on a mission to solve the NHS staffing crisis and bring flexible working to thousands of clinicians has secured £3m in a funding round led by ...
Eleven fast growing businesses have secured £2m of funding from HBAN (Halo Business Angel ...
Thrive, the Belfast-ba...
Half of UK firms (51%) expect geopolitical tensions, such as Brexit, to have a positive effect on their business in 2020, according to new research released today by trade finance provider ...
Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have made a £1.5 million investment into enterprise collabora...
Barclays has launched of a new cashback scheme for term loans to el...
Blackfinch has invested c.£650,000 in Oxford-based company Cyance, founded in 2007. Cyance hel...
proSapient, the Expert Network a...
BGF is to appoint Stephen Welton, founder CEO of BGF, to the new role of Executive Chairman. Stephen has been responsib...
Glasgow based investment syndicate Kelvin Capital has seen a 19% increase in its total investments in 2019, compared to 2...
Foresight Group is supporting the MBO of Signature Private Finance Holdings Limited from private equ...
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Private equity firm WestBridge has promoted Tim Whittard to partner. Whittard joined the firm as Investment Directo...
Placed, a mobile recruitment matchmaking platform fo...
24Haymarket leads £1.1m investment in MWS Technology, a leader in the apprenticeship technology spac...
HBAN recruited more than 100 business angel investors last year – significantly higher than its projected 75 new angels. The organisation is now aiming to ...
Seneca Partners have appointmented Siobhan Pycroft as Investment Executive in their expanding Growth Capital Team as they target new investment of £...
Edinburgh-based bioinformatics company, Fios Genomics, which helps pharmaceutical and biotech companies to analyse the large amounts of data generated du...
Intertrust, a global leader in tech-enabled corporate and fund solutions, has signed a strategic agreement with ...
Oxford Investment Opportunity Network (OION) and Oxford Angel Network (OAN),...
Antler, the global startup generator and early-stage venture capital firm, will today reveal the thirteen companies that were foun...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active SME finance providers, has invested £8.5 million in nine dynamic growth businesses across the ...
In its 20th year, MMC appoints two new partners alongside another four promotions within the team. 2019 was a...
QVentures, manager of 29PP Pre-Seed Fund, will be leading the funding round in Ocyan, a cloud operating system for enterpris...
Free Spirit Fund managed by Sanford DeLand Asset Management (SDL), home ...
Philanthropic food and drink start-up accelerator, The Seed Fund will open for entry on Saturday 1 February, with 12 spots up for grabs on its game changi...
Elder, a leading care home alternative, has raised another £8.2m funding round as its technology-enabled live-in care service gains nationw...
FeedStock, an AI-driven SaaS business that leverages the latest natural language processing technologies to enable financial services companies to meet both the...
Coniq has secured £6.4 million of growth equity to meet the growing demand for its award-...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, closed its 2019/2020 VCT top up offers earlier than scheduled after existing and new shar...
Par Equity had a record-breaking final three months in 2019, securing one exit, battery technology expert ...
Simon Blakey gives us the benefit of his 20 years experience as an Angel Investor. 1st January 2000:...
Withers tech, working with experienced VC legal teams in France, Germany and Switzerland, has carried out the first analysis of how...
Dataseat – a London-based tech startup, helping mobile app advertisers to manage programmatic media buying ...
Ingenious's Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service has led a £2.3m A-series investment round in 3D Repo, the p...
Funds advised by YFM Equity Partners have backed a £5.6m investment into Unbiased EC1 Limited to support the continu...
NatWest has launched a new partnership with Soldo, a pre-paid company card provider for small bu...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performan...
The membership of the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has elected Gay Collins (pictured) and Francesca Ecsery to the board of the ...
James Murdoch considers whether Accelerator/Incubator Funds are a good option for crowdfunding investors. &...
Dazzle, the automated conversation platform, has closed its first seed funding round raising £2.3m from global corporates, government accelerators and individuals including Telefonica and Fin...
BookingLive has secured £1.31 million in new investment from Blackfinch Ventures and ...
Photek, a Sussex-based specialist manufacturer and global supplier of vacuum-based tubes and camera systems for photon detection, has signed up to the national ...
Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund has i...
Clean energy solutions provider, Logan Energy, has secured £1 million investment from Kelvin Capital...
Work on the third phase of Glan yr Afon Industrial Estate in Aberystwyth has begun with confirmation of a commercial property loan for developers Ellis Development Company (Wales) Ltd by the ...
Leading Global Tech Executive Duncan Tait FRSA is adding his remarkable global experience and connectio...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has appointed Roy Mani as a partner. Roy has over 20 years’ e...
BGF has invested in The Chemistry Group (TCG), the London-based disruptive HR consultancy. ...
Kuber Ventures is holding its next Manager Showcase event on 6th February 2020 in London. Now in its fourth year the Kuber’s CPD qualifying ...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has provided ...
Investment manager Downing LLP has sold Nightjar Sustainable Power Limited and Guillemot Green Energy Limited, the final exits by its EIS funds from a serie...
You & Mr Jones, the brandtech group founded by former Havas chief executive David Jones, has invested in ethical v...
Foresight Group has invested £3.9 million investment into disruptive subsea surveying company Rovco Ltd....
YFM Equity Partners has appointed Aaron Lowery as Investment Manager. Based in the Leeds office, Aaron will focus on supporting YFM’s new investment acti...
Great Point Media, the London-based media and investment group, has appointed Jamie Lowe as Head of Institutional Distribution. Lowe will oversee the s...
More than five new tech startups launched every hour in 2019, contributing to a record 681,704 new business formations over the year – a 2.8% increase from 2018. These are some of the finding...
Two-thirds (66%) of alternative investment professionals have a good understanding of the benefits of fund finance but cite negative perceptions among LPs as the biggest challenge to its wider adop...
Foresight Group has sold Flowrite Refrigeration Holdings Limited to ...
Funds advised by YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity fund manager, have banked a healthy return multiple of 2.25x within two years of their initial i...
Mixergy, the award-winning Oxford University cleantech spin-out company, has raised £3.6m in Series A financing to fuel its next stage of growth in de...
Abris Capital Partners, the leading private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe, has announced the promotion of Paulina Pietkiewicz (pictured),...
Just under half of firms in the UK (46%) and US (45%) predict their country will go into recession in 2020, while the Chinese economy is expected to maintain a solid 6-7% growth rate, according to ...
Cowboy, the designdriven electric bike company, has hit an impressive £3.7 million with four days of its crowdfunding still t...
GP Bullhound, a leading technology advisory and investment firm, has acted as financial exclusive advisor to EcoVadis...
Livingbridge is re-investing as a minority shareholder in Sykes Holiday Cottages, the UK’s leading in...
Ori Biotech Ltd, an innovator in Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) manufacturing, has successfully closed a $9.4M (£7M) seed round which will be used to bring ...
Calculus Capital has sold their investment in London-based marketing agency Once Upon a Time (OUAT) in a ...
London Business School (LBS) and QVentures, a leading private network for sophisticated investors, have launched an exclus...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent commercial finance provider, appoints ...
BGF has experienced a year of growth across its Yorkshire and North East portfolio, having invested £275m into 29 businesses to date to support the region&...
Blackfinch has invested c.£500,000 in London-based company ...
Edinburgh-based biotech startup MiAlgae has received an investment of £1 million to focus on the commercialisation of its revolution...
Coffi heads are enjoying a new experience in Cardiff Bay following a refurbishment and extension of Coffi Co’s Mermaid Quay store. ...
Worcestershire’s first-of-its kind technology accelerator is searching for its third cohort. BetaDen is now accepting applications for its 9-month ...
DPL, the London-headquartered data tech start-up that enables clients to automate the application of artificial intelligence and behavioural science insights to impr...
Foresight Group has made a £7.5 million investment into Roxy Leisure Limited, a social entertainment bar group operating sites under the Roxy Ball R...
Livingbridge has announced a raft of promotions, including those of Amy Yateman-Smith and Dave Kirby to Partner. These promotions fu...
Skylight IPV Limited, the experienced independent price verification company, has secured significant investment from ...
BGF has now invested £411m into 50 businesses in the Midlands, with £57m of that total invested in the past 12 months in new investments and follow-o...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank for innovative businesses, enterprises...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest research, showing that infrastruct...
With 2020 expected to see major growth in compliance, leading testing, inspection and certification authority, Bureau Veritas, has revealed that a focus...
BGF’s North West team has now invested £311m across 34 businesses in the region with £59m of that total invested in the past 12 months. ...
A Cambridge University programme, originally created to nurture the brilliant minds of academia, is now giving businesses and research organisations a unique opportunity to develop high-potential, ...
InMotion, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital and mobility services arm, has invested in blockchain technology firm ...
New research released by BGF has highlighted for the first time how growth economy companies are responding to Covid-19. Accord...
Direct Online Services, the UK’s largest online retailer of kitchen worktops, has announced a record year of sales and profits, and a &poun...
Scotland’s leading business angel investment group, Archangels, has sold its 25% shareholding in Bellshill-headquartered document outsourcing speci...
A popular hotel in a Pembrokeshire beauty spot has secured a bright new future after being bought by new owner Robert Jones and hotel manager Matthew Pugs...
Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels has recorded another active year of support for the Scottish tech and life sciences sector...
My Bespoke Room, the tech-enabled interior design service, has closed £700K angel investment as it reports 104% annual revenue growth. This brings...
Whirli, the toy sharing subscription service, has raised a £4m Seed funding round led by Octopus ...
British Business Investments (BBI), a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced...
ZeroAvia, the leading innovator in decarbonising commercial aviation, has secured £12.3m ($16.3m) in Government funding through the ATI Programme to de...
YFM Equity Partners has made a £3.75m investment into ARRACO Global Markets, the award-winning and disr...
The latest research from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments. ...
Snowdrop Independent Living has opened a new mobility aid showroom in Cardiff. Taking over Hearing and Mobility’s Cardiff bran...
During recent meetings with angel friends of mine, I discovered some common ground between them of which I was previously unaware. It seems that many angel investors are also pension fu...
Blackfinch Group has launched the Blackfinch Spring VCT, an investment portfolio of technology and technology-enabled companies, which have already raised ...
ABAKA, the London-based digital retirement solutions provider, has completed its Series A funding round with a joint investment of $6.5 million from Thames Trust, ...
CurrentBody, the online retail specialist for home-use beauty devices, has now reached £10m in funding with BGF this week joining NVM Private...
Young British SaaS company Cyclr has announced £0.5million of new investment, led by Juno Capital....
Bamboo Capital Partners, an impact investing platform, has announced that Elec...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has made a profitable exit from Pr...
Birmingham-based Zipabout Limited has secured a £650,000 investment from the ...
NVM Private Equity has invested a further £3 million of growth capital into leading indoor climbing business ...
Sorted, the global delivery experience platform, is toasting a landmark year after the value of goods it has shipped to date reached the £1billion mark. ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has appointed James Marshall to its Manchester investment team, covering the North We...
Octopus Investments, part of Octopus Group, has led a £3.6 million funding round, alongside Calculus Cap...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made its second cornerstone commitment this year through its £500...
NNAISENSE has concluded its Series B financing round, with a number of high-profile industrial partners having invested i...
Great Point Media, the London-based media and investment group and MC Credit Partners LP, the US based institutional...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has appointed Amit Karna as S...
Foresight Group has invested £2.0 million investment as part of a £3.3 million round into award-winning novel thin film ultrasound technolog...
Crowdcube is announcing a record-breaking year for overseas businesses raising funds on Europe’s leading equity crowdfunding platform. Despite Brexit ...
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UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund UKI2S), ...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in ...
Financial technology, or fintech, is the buzzword on everyone’s lips that has continued to inspire conversation and innovation. But fintech is more than just a buzzwor...
The AIC's December edition of Compass looks at the election result, how the UK is the one ...
THE VAST majority of peer-to-peer lending platform executives feel optimistic about the new rules that came into effect this month and their ability to comply with them, an exclusive ...
Foresight Group, a leading infrastructure and private equity investment manager, continues its growth trajectory in renewable energy infrastructure, bre...
HealthTech startup PinPoint Data Science has successfully raised over £1m as part of an early stage funding round, with support from ...
Kindred, a new platform that digitises word-of-mouth recommendations on social media, has raised £2.25 million in seed c...
Funding from national SPRINT programme provides access to Earth Observation data analysis expertise from University of Leicester ...
Waracle, one of the UK's largest mobile apps and digital products developers, has received a £4.8m investment from BGF, ...
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A survey by Intertrust reveals that 69% of CFOs and COOs expect levels of dry powder to increase next year with 31% predicting it will become slightly...
The AIC has published its 2019 sector round-up. Technology & Media was the top-performing investment company sec...
Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering has made a £1.6 million investment into Oxford University spin-out ...
Ada Ventures has raised a $34m (£27m) fund. At present, 92 in every 100 dollars invested in Europe goes to all male teams (1)...
The Invested Investor has released a new book, centred around the challenges entrepreneurs face along the start-up journey. Titled Founder to Founder...
Kevin Monserrat of Consilience Ventures takes a critical look at the traditonal investment model Do you know venture cap...
Robert Crowter-Jones, Head of Private Equity at Saranac Partners gives his market update and 2020 predictions. This will be my l...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £600,000 investment in military grade security and intelligence platform, ...
The most important question you need to ask yourself when joining a start-up is why. Some people do it because they hate their current jobs. Some people do it because they want to get rich. Oth...
NVM Private Equity has invested £11.6m in supporting the management buy-out of Merseyside-based Knowsley Contractors Limited, trading as ...
The Senior Managers & Certification Regime that has just come into effect is a positive step for the financial services industry – but its failure to include Appointed Representative Firm...
Mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge has appointed Mihir Patel and Joseph Evans as investment managers. Mihir (picture...
Aptus Utilities Limited, one of the UK’s leading providers of multi-utility services, has secured a £12.8m investment private equity fir...
Manchester Investor and SME Advisor, Patrick Molyneux, has been invited on a trade delegation to San Francisco with the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of the City of London (Alderman William Russe...
Governments that invest in businesses, but then have no say on any decisions made by company managers, are much more likely to see their investments be a success, according to new research by ...
Jenny Tooth OBE, CEO of the UK Business Angels Association, provides commentary on this decade of devolution and what is next for SME investment. ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest ...
Israeli agritech startup ...
Aberdeen Standard Investments’ AIPUT fund (Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust) has si...
European Buy & Build activity in the first half of 2019 reach...
Invest Europe has teamed up with the European Investment Fund (EIF), the EU’s leading venture capital (VC) invest...
Tel-Aviv based venture capital firm ...
WSR Medical Solutions Limited (‘Rothband’), a specialist manufacturer and distributor of x-ray protective equipment for use in radiology environm...
DeckSender.com, the startup platform that aims to democratise access to investment has analysed the gender div...
The UK Creative Content EIS Fund, launched this summer by ...
New regulations being introduced by the FCA later this year will restrict individual investors new to the property investment platform sector to investing a ma...
KALEAO has become Bamboo Systems, a provider of transformative ARM server architecture designed to power the next generation of sustainable data centers....
Kuber the pioneering alternative fund investment platform offering access to EIS, SEIS & BR portfolios and funds has appointed James Ramsay as MD a...
Women-led companies have more success with Crowdcube’s crowdfunding platform than with any other method of equity financing. Out of 760 UK start...
Sheffield-headquartered Independent Forgings & Alloys, one of the UK’s leading independent aerospace and industrial forgers, has acquired Don...
Hundreds of businesses, entrepreneurs, investors and experts descended on St James' Park, Newcastle last week for Venture...
Ethical investment platform SeedTribe has relaunched as a new UK-focused impact hub. The ...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has provided Black Country b...
Esme Loans, the SME digital lender backed by NatWest, has achieved £100million of lending to UK SMEs. ...
The prevalence and severity of cyber-attacks/breaches has damningly increased over the last few years. This year alone (2019), 55% of UK firms have alrea...
Charity Bank, the loans and savings bank owned by and committed to serving the social sector, has announced both the successful raise of nearly £5 milli...
NatWest is partnering with Moneypenny, the world’s largest and highest rated outsourced communicat...
Caspar Bowes of Bowes Wine investigates the 2018 vi...
Mercia Asset Management has announced its intention to acquire the management of the three Northern Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs); Northern Venture Trust PLC, Northern 2 VCT PLC and Northern 3 VCT ...
Independent games studio and virtual reality developer XR Games has secured a £1.5m funding round, led by ...
Tech Nation, the UK’s leading network for ambitious tech entrepreneurs, has revealed the 33 regional winners of its nationwide competition. Rising Stars r...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund Debt Finance, managed by ...
Iotic has secured investment of €7.5million to accelerate growth and meet increasing demand for its pioneering digital twin technology. Iotic enables e...
With the general election fast approaching, the UK's major political parties have now launched their manifestos. For the first time, policies around the environment and climate change have been pla...
With all the uncertainty around Brexit, and the General Election, business leaders can be forgiven for wanting to hang up their gloves and taking December off....
MMC Ventures has backed Cloudsmith as the team build for the next stage of software development. Cloudsmith’s Softwar...
ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank, has helped MyKindaFuture, the leading expert in ...
Gresham House Renewable Energy VCT 1 plc and Gresham House Renewable Energy VCT 2 plc have made a new investment of £1.2 million...
Economic Intelligence Wales has published its latest report on medium-sized firms and Welsh busi...
EBAN, th...
Linton Hydro Ltd has successfully raised £3.3 million through the Triodos impact investment cr...
Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world, today announces it has raised £17 million in further inv...
A new ethical loan fund has been launched to help grow businesses who find accessing finance difficult has been warmly welcomed by the FSB as a way of disrupting the market. The fund, deliv...
BGF has welcomed the Australian Government’s announcement to establish an Australian Business Growth Fund that will help boost the growth of small and medi...
MJ Hudson Allenbridge has publishd the inaugural edition of its ...
European venture capital activity saw €5.9 billion invested across 296 rounds during the third quarter of 2019, the strongest quarter on record according to research by ...
Blackfinch has invested in London-based company Movebubble, founded in 2014. Movebubble offers an app that lists prop...
The UK Business Angels Association is hosting its annual Future Forward event to highlight some of the key ...
UK investors are turning to traditional assets as a result of the political uncertainty currently facing the country, new research from ...
Foresight Group's award-winning Foresight Capital Management Team has raised £500 milli...
IW Capital has invested £2 million in Impact Recycling Limited. The investment will be used a...
On 29th November 1994 Kenneth Clarke, the then Chancellor, announced in his Budget “an imaginative set of measures aimed at generating equity inves...
Independently owned corporate finance adviser, Castle Corporate Finance, is a proud sponsor of the Scale-Up category at the Lloyds National Business Awards. Cast...
On doing my 2018/19 tax return I sensed that the number of SEIS investments was lower than previous years and the proportion of EIS had grown. Was this true? Apart from the fact that the SEIS allow...
Financier and author David Horne will launch the first Funding Focus Conference on 25 November at the London Sto...
After only two months since launching, the ‘China-ready’ investment programme for UK and European companies increases by $3 million (£2.330 million), opening up new market segment...
GP Bullhound acted as exclusive financial advisor to Croud on a £30 million minority investment from private equity...
ScaleUp Group has supported exclusively its client Active Navigation, a leader in Data Privacy & Governance...
Co-founders Julien Sevaux and Tarek AbuZayyad have launched Eighteen48 Partners, a research-led private investment office addressing the nee...
Beechbrook Capital, the leading SME private debt fund lender, has appointed Conor Molloy as chairman of its new Irish SME fund which has made its fir...
Following the release of the latest Atomico report looking at The State of European Tech, Russ Shaw, founder of ...
Startup Funding Club has led a £250,000 seed round into fintech company Ember. The accounting software startu...
The Management team of Professional Music Technology has completed a Management Buyout of the business, with financing provided by ...
Celonis, the market leader in AI-enhanced Process Mining and Process ...
ABN AMRO's Digital Impact Fund (DIF) has doubled its assets under management from EUR 50 million to EUR 100 million and will continue its activit...
Capitolis, the innovative FinTech company reimagining and reshaping how the global capital markets operate, has announced the successful completion of its S...
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) has revealed its annual list ...
Social impact investment company Resonance has won the Impact Inv...
Rory Stewart, Nick Jenkins and Henry Blofeld are amongst the top speakers at today's VCT & EIS Investor Forum at the Leonardo Royal Hote...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s leading SME finance providers, has strengthened its portfolio team with the appointment of Simon Robb and Ben Greg...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, has announced the first close of its new asset-backed private equity fund, Albion Real Assets F...
A survey of financial advisers1 on Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) has found that the level of use has been consistent despite concern that rule changes brought in by the government ...
Foresight Group LLP, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has announced the successful sale of ...
World-class leaders from LEGO and Harvard Kennedy School will join over 700 delegates from the Scottish SME commu...
Headstart, the HR tech company using data science to remove bias when hiring, has announced a $7million seed investment round, led by ...
A six-figure investment from the Development Bank of Wales will enable a waffle company to expand its current productio...
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The shortlist for the North East Innovation Awards has been announced. The North East Innovation Awar...
Sixteen coveted trophies covering every aspect of business life have been presented to the winners of the 18th ...
Paul Newsome, Head of Investment Solutions - Private Equity at Unigestion offers his market insights in the secondary market. ...
Calculus Capital has appointed Dominic Harris as Portfolio Management Director. Harris was previously an Investment Director at Valtegra, a private eq...
Snaffling Pig, the UK’s leading pork-based snack business, has received investment from multiple Henley Business Angels members, who contributed ...
The ScaleUp Institute has appointed successful scaleup entrepreneur Adam Hale as its new Chair. He takes over from Sherry Coutu, co-founder...
Envestors has announced that the banking giant Santander has acquired a 50.1% controlling stake in Ebury for £350m. This has provided several member...
Funds advised by YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity fund manager, have backed a £4.5m investment into Sha...
Snowplow Analytics, the company that helps businesses to collect and own their customer data, has closed a £4m fun...
EIT InnoEnergy, the world’s largest sustainable energy accelerator, has issued its first ever global ...
Bioplastics company Teysha Technologies has successfully raised £1.2m of investment, supported by A...
Beauhurst this week launched The Scaleup Index 2019. This report, in partnership with The ScaleUp Institute, examines the 5,456 unique visible scaleup bus...
Foresight Group has made a £749,000 growth capital investment into Promethean Particles Limited...
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UK small and medium-sized businesses are holding record levels of cash as uncertainty surrounding Brexit persists – and it is costing them billions of pounds a year, new analysis reveals....
Shopblocks has raised funding from the Greater Manchester Combined Authori...
CapitalRise, the prime property investment platform, has secured the backing of ...
Foresight Group has made a £3.0 million investment into Biotherapy Services Limited, a biopharmaceut...
Warwickshire-based Oneskee has secured a six-figure investment from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), Equity Financ...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investment, along with ...
Balderton is launching the fund against a backdrop of unprecedented momentum within the European tech ecosystem. The number of Series A rounds in Eu...
Visionable, the healthcare technology company providing a single video collaboration platform that enables clinicia...
Angular Ventures has closed its debut fund at $41M for early-stage deep technology enterprise companies with global expansion plans based in Europe an...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has appointmened Rebecca Osman as investment director and Nick Mann...
Octopus Ventures, part of Octopus Group and one of the largest VCs in Europe, has released a new in-depth study identifying the universities that are...
BGF has invested a further £11m into Molson Group, the UK’s largest independent distributor of capital eq...
Foresight Group, a leading independent private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has appointed Matt McLoughlin to join the Private Equity Tea...
Private equity house WestBridge has further expanded its team with the appointment of Rebecca Sinclair as Investment Executive. ...
HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and an initi...
Bolt, the leading European on-demand transportation platform, has launched a dedicated environmental impact fund with seed capital of €10 million aimed at init...
US and Israel-based cybersecurity company ...
Swiss startup Optune has successfully closed the first close of its seed rounds with Bexio founder Stefan Brunner and a UK family office, as well as with e...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative businesses and their investors, today announced that it has established a presenc...
The average small and medium-sized business (SME) in the UK estimates that it will spend £160,000 to fill the skills gap in their organisation in the next 12 months, according to recrui...
Immersive Labs, the world’s first fully interactive, on-demand and gamified cyber skil...
Birmingham-based Linear Diagnostics Limited (LDL) has secured £2m of investment from MEIF and othe...
Swansea based Medical Connections Limited has successfully completed a management buy-out. The medical imaging so...
GP Bullhound acted as exclusive financial advisor to Jellyfish on the strategic investment by ...
Santander has bought a majority stake in UK-based Fintech company Ebury for £350m. The bank now holds 50.1 pe...
Flarin Holdings Limited has completed its first round of fund-raising by IW Capital. Flarin Holdings was recently demerg...
Thoughts from Caspar Bowes of Bowes Wine about the ever-expanding universe of grape varieties ...
Foresight Group LLP has opened its fifth regional UK office, located in historic George Street in Edinburgh. ...
PRIVATE equity house WestBridge has further expanded its team with the appointment of Rebecca Sinclair as Investment Exec...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has exited its investment ...
Israeli precision agriculture startup Agritask, which has been operating in bootstrap mode till recently, has completed an $...
Oxford Drug Design Limited (ODD), a biotechnology company with a proprietary computational and machine learning platform...
New research from Nucoro, a B2B fintech providing Wealth Management as a Service Solutions, reveals 57% of wealth managers are hav...
New data from leading global insights platform, Atheneum, has revealed that only one in four ...
Tracey Davidson has been appointed to the new role of Deputy CEO of Handelsbanken plc, Heartwo...
Mafic, an innovative information company based at the Surrey Technology Centre near Guildford, has won a grant from the national ...
A total of £1.28 billion was raised in October through secondary fundraisings by investment companies, marking an all-time record fo...
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Despite a cloudy global economic outlook and rising political uncertainty, the venture ecosystem remains robust, according to Silicon Valley Bank’s latest ...
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The Management team of Professional Music Technology has completed a Management Buyout of the business, with financing provided by ...
My first six articles looked at my experience of investing in individual companies; one of the conclusions I had come to was that, at least for the passive investor, the right strategy is to divers...
Cervest, the leader in Earth Science AI, has closed a £3.7m investment round to fund the launch of a revolutionary real-time, climate forecasting platf...
Some 63% of real estate professionals believe the secured property debt market is currently attractive for investors.* The research*, commissioned by secured property lend...
Dow Schofield Watts Angels, the business angel network, has expanded its team with the appointment of Ellie Boardman as Investment Executive. ...
British Business Investments (BBI), a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced...
Life has gone full-circle for technology venture investment specialist Mike Bakewell who has joined the Development Bank of Wales. ...
CorrosionRADAR, a Midlands business that has found a way to detect corrosion and prevent leaks in assets such as pipelines through a network of remote ...
AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital, has appointed Jessica Bartos as an investment manager....
Next month’s flagship innovation conference, VentureFest North East will bring over 800 businesses together to hear from a we...
Midlands Engine Investment Fund Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has provided ...
TotallyMoney has announced new growth funding from Silicon Valley Bank that will provide the credit experts with an ...
Keith Morgan has announced that he will be standing down from the role of Chief Executive of the Government-owned ...
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va-Q-tec AG, the pioneer in highly efficient vacuum insulation products and solutions in the thermal insulation and TempChain logistics has announced that the ...
NatWest’s asset finance arm, Lombard, has launched a new digital service that allows businesses to receive instant agreement to f...
New research (1) from Nucoro, a B2B fintech providing Wealth Management as a Service solutions, reveals wealth managers...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has exited its investment in 3sun Group L...
SPOKE, the fast-growing direct to consumer menswear brand, has raised £8.5m of new equity cap...
Par Equity, the leading Scottish EIS Fund Manager, has appointed former Olympic skier Andrew Noble as a Partner. A serial angel investor in technolo...
Specialist eCommerce platform Online Poundshop Ltd has secured ...
New investment company Impel Healthcare Catalysts has announced its first deal by acquiring a majority stake in pioneering ostomy company...
Aston Lark has acquired Lloyd's broker Protean Risk, a specialist Lloyd’s insurance broker focusing on the ...
Engineering design consultancy Hydrock has announced its acquisition of Yorkshire-based MRB Consulting Engineers, as the...
GP Bullhound has invested $10 million in RavenPack, a leading provider of alternative data and insights for finan...
An innovative new investment vehicle to provide funds to support UK property deals – commercial and residential – has been launched by one of the UK’s leading private equity firms...
KPMG's Q2 Enterprise Venture Pulse report for 2019 has been published and shows European VC de...
Launched by Britbots earlier in 2019, the British Robotics Scale-Up Fund is soon to close, rai...
Sukhendu Pal has worked with some of the iconic leaders of our generation. In this interview he talks about the unique qualities of these legend...
Matt Weston, Managing Director of Robert Half UK, looks at the latest ONS Families and the Labour Market stati...
The latest data on equity investment trends in the UK. ...
Creative England will inject £24million of growth finance into the creative industries. The scale-up finance will be...
Victoria Maby of Envestors looks at the wider effects of Crowdfunding Data from our survey of 200 scale-ups reveals that one of the driv...
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Latest market analysis from the British Business Bank finds that, contrary to widespread misperceptions, UK Venture Capital produces similar re...
63% of UK venture capital firms have no women at all in senior investment positions, according to a report released in Diversity VC back in July. m...
In a time when we’re struggling to give pay rises or bonuses more employers are investing in employee benefits to encourage retention and loyalty as well as maintaining a...
Cybersecurity company for connected vehicles Upstream Security has announced that a prominent syndicate of investors, including some of the world’s la...
Disperse, the leader in AI-powered construction transformation systems, has raised $15 million of...
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Foresight Group has made its thirteenth investment from the Foresight Williams Technology EI...
The conversation on private markets is changing among Wealth Managers, according to a recent report by Delio. ...
Healthcare entrepreneurs Richard Anderson and Spencer Kerry have launched Impel Healthcare Catalysts, an investment company designed to be...
SmartWorking startup Abodoo is set to accelerate its UK expansion following a successful crowdfund. The Co. Wexford based business, on a mission to change the ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance re...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £5.3 million funding round in E-Fundamentals, a leading eCommerce insights platform....
Speechmatics, the leader in machine learning and automatic speech recognition, has raised £6.35m in Seri...
Beechbrook Capital has appointed Paul Whitehouse as investment director to head up deal origination and execution activity across the Midlands. With o...
An international non-fiction book club aimed at open minded thinkers has not only reached, but exceeded its £100,000 crowdfunding target as they continue on their journey to grow the existing...
British Patient Capital has established itself as a major player in UK venture and venture growth markets after investing in 12 funds with...
Nu Quantum, a quantum photonics company, has completed a £650,000 pre-seed investment round. The over-subscribed round was led by ...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has announced the final closing of its third digital fund at €350m, having surpasse...
Luminous Group, the Newcastle company which is one of the UK’s leading mixed reality experts, has raised over £400,000 to support the laun...
Livingbridge has closed its Livingbridge Enterprise 3 fund with total capital commitments of £334m, an increase of 50% on its predecessor fund, Liv...
Process Mining software provider Minit has raised €7 million in a Series A funding round, led by ...
Ingenious's Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service has invested in ...
ProFinda has received £1 million of funding from Nesta I...
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MIME Technologies, a med-tech spin-out from the University of Aberdeen, has raised a combined £255,00...
The University of Warwick has received one of its largest donations from an individual to establish a new Fintech research centre. The £3 million d...
YFM Equity Partners has backed a £4.5m investment into SharpCloud Software Limited to support the continued growth and...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has appointed Sylviane Guyonnet, COO of Idinvest, and Eric Gallerne, Co-Head of Private Debt Stra...
A wealth of local, national and global experts in innovation will come together in central Newcastle next month with the aim of inspiring over 800 busine...
Triple Point has appointed Jennifer Ockwell as Partner and Head of Institutional Sales. Jennifer’s career spans over 20 years in the ...
Technology company, Sennen, whose software increases the reliability and productivity achieved by renewable energy owners, has secured financial backing from i...
A new Guernsey Green Fund has been launched backing the wind farm sector in the UK and Ireland. Resonanc...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £4 million investment in language understanding business, Relative Insight Ltd...
British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of British Business Bank plc, the UK’s national economic development bank, has publish...
Apadmi Ventures has invested in studentnannies.com, an innovative new childcare platform...
Invest Europe has appointed Eric de Montgolfier as new CEO to lead the world’s largest association of private capital providers and investors. ...
Mogrify Ltd, a UK company aiming to transform the development of life-saving cell therapies, has announced the...
Livingbridge has appointed Andy Harrington, Robyn Smith and Tom Smith as investment managers, alongside two further hires in the business. ...
BGF has successfully exited its investment in landscaping and grounds maintenance company, TCL Group. TCL has been...
Browne Jacobson’s corporate finance team has advised Impala on its successful $11 million investment round....
Deutsche Handelsbank has welcomed Jens Munk and Dr. Frank Schlaberg as Co-CEOs and plans to accelerate its growth. Jens Munk (52) and Dr. Fran...
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has made a £15 million investment in ...
Law firm Ashfords LLP has bolstered its Financial Services team with the hire of Legal Director Cynthia Ma. Cynthia joined the firm’s London off...
Quantum machine learning company Rahko has raised a £1.3m (USD1.6) seed round led by Balderton Capital, Europe’s...
MJ Hudson has signed for a multi-year sponsorship of Harlequins. The firm is the first official partner of Harlequins Women, which currently c...
Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) and Landsker Business Solutions have been appointed by the Development Bank...
A report from the Female Founders Forum – with a foreword from Rt Hon Liz Truss MP – reveals that while th...
Codacy, the Lisbon-based startup whose platform automates and standardizes software quality to...
IW Capital has launched their innovative new EIS Portfolio Service, allowing access to investment into the UK’s wealth of high-growth SMEs through the E...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has appointed Hannah Waters as an investor in its Cardiff office. Hannah join...
When George Jones' son developed terrible eczema as a child, she was unable to find any products that didn't aggravate his condition so she set out to create her own by launching ...
Moorgate Benchmarks, the index company driving change, has closed its Series A funding round, securing a significant investment from ...
BLEND Network, a leading property investment platform specialising in funding low-cost, accessible housing developments outside of London has announced its l...
Par Equity has concluded an £800k investment in Kibosh Ltd, designer of the world’s fastest leaking-...
Angel Investment Network (AIN), the world’s largest online angel investment platform, has announced strong growth, with annual revenues...
On the first birthday of the Great Point Ventures (EIS) Fund, we spoke to Da...
Inflexion Private Equity has agreed to acquire Pharmaspectra, a leading global provider of medical affairs data to...
The winners of the 17th annual Investor Allstars Awards were revealed last Thursday, at an award...
Vertical Future, a London-based food technology company, announced the completion of its Seed Round, raising £4m of equity finance, with further ...
Tutorful, a platform that connects students with tutors across the UK has secured a £3.2 million investment from NVM...
Growing East Yorkshire based alternative funding specialist for SMEs, One Stop Business Finance, has strengthened its operations...
Foresight Group LLP has announced a further £749k equity investment into Footfalls and Heartbeat...
The independent Iberian alternative assets manager GED Capital has taken a further step in the development of its multi-product strateg...
There are many reasons why investors might want to avoid Europe. Slowing growth, political crises and the ongoing Brexit uncertainty present several challenges and could make investors think twice ...
An entrepreneur who set out to help save struggling high streets has raised £325,000 to deliver his idea. Chris Reed has secured investment from the ...
New data released by the Office for National Statistics shows a continued decline in the number of sole traders and partnerships. Mark Halstead, partner at busines...
Launching the #MeTooPay campaign, more than 100 of the UK’s most successful women seek to end pay discrimination. Fronted by ...
The phenomenal increase of scaleups in recent years has seen the UK make great advances in support of high-growth businesses. In light of this, John Duckwor...
Augusta & Co., a specialist financial adviser to the renewable energy industry, has successfully overseen the sale of the 211.4MW Piiparinmäki onsh...
DeckSender.com, the startup platform that aims to democratize access to investment, announces it’s 1 ...
Momentum Global Investment Management (MGIM), the specialist investment manager focused on outcomes-b...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by ...
Deepbridge Capital, the tax-efficient investment manager and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) provider, has announced the exit of its holding...
New research from Mactavish, the leading expert on commercial insurance placement and disputes, reveals many private equity firms are not placing enough fo...
The average UK SME faces a skills gap that would impact total revenue by £145,000 in the next year, rising to £318,000 in the next five years, according to new independent research [1]&...
With many fund managers already fundraising and more expected to join them, it has never been more important to understand the market. At this year's&...
The phenomenal increase of scaleups in recent years has seen the UK make great advances in support of high-growth businesses. In light of this, John Duckworth, Managing Director at ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has led the £12 million investment in ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing companies, has appointed Daina Spedding as an investor in its L...
IW Capital - an EIS-specialist Venture Capital firm in London - has unveiled a nationally representative report revealing the sentiments of a popul...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest annual Global Private Equity Performance...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout...
QVentures, manager of 29PP Pre-Seed Fund, has led the funding round in Rosecut Technologies, a digital wealthmanager. ...
Hardman & Co has published its latest report, The Truth About What Lies Beneath, has been written to coincide with the launch of the Hardman & Co ...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund Debt Finance, managed by ...
Triple Point, a leading UK alternative investment manager, has appointed experienced financial services professional Jack Rose as Strategic Sales Directo...
Maven Capital Partners has hired Carolyn McEwan to the property investment team as Investment Manager. The strengthening of the team reflects Maven’s con...
Growth and funding ambitions have strengthened amongst SMEs over the course of 2019, according to the latest report by ...
Community interest company ‘Community Mentoring and Support’ (CMAS) is the latest social enterprise to receive investment of £250,000 ...
Crowdcube has helped fuel the growth of three out of 16 of the UK’s active unicorns - or 19% of the herd. The three are BrewDog, Revolut and Monzo. Har...
Crowd2Fund has been formally granted their Advanced Assurance from HMRC for the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) tax relief. This means that now up ...
GP Bullhound and Bonhill have revealed the shortlist for the 17th annual Investor Allstars Awards 2019, fea...
Shoosmiths has advised NVM Private Equity on its recent investment of £2 million into Duke & De...
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The Seedrs Secondary Market (SM) is a mechanism by which, once a month in window lasting one week, investors may offer their Seedrs shareholding’s for sale via the Seedrs Platform at the pric...
BEAT81, one of the fastest growing fitness tech companies in Europe, has raised a €6.4m Series A funding round, led by E...
EIS Fund Manager Par Equity has realised its 17th company exit with the sale of the market-leading videogame data analysis firm, ...
VCT & EIS Investor Forum platinum sponsor GrowthInvest invites you to join its award-winning ...
BGF has expanded its Reading team with the appointment of Guy Pope as an investor. Guy joins BGF from BCMS Corporate, where he specialised in all aspects of mid-...
ShieldIOT, an IoT security company, offers service providers network-wide cyber protection, increasing revenue streams and securing millions of connected devices...
London-based Lifted has raised £1.5m in seed funding to transform the home care sector. The...
The first half of 2019 has seen automotive technology deal-making news led by major tech giants challenging traditional OEMs for ‘ownersh...
The Financial services industry has entered into a period of unparalleled opportunity as our nation enters what many are calling the inheritance economy. The inheritance economy represents ...
The latest research from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments...
Savers in defined contribution pension schemes are missing out on higher returns due to a lack of investment in some of the UK’s fastest growing an...
Orbital Education has received a minority investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growin...
Ometria, the customer marketing platform for retailers, today announces that it has raised $21m in Series B funding to further innovate its AI technology which ...
Deepbridge Capital investee company Afin Technologies (forme...
Cambridge China Centre (CCF) has arranged an exclusive pitching event with 14 of China’s top investment firms signalling the continued ...
The Riverside Company has signed a definitive agreement to invest in German cycling e-commerce speci...
Hampleton Partners’ latest global IT & Business Services ...
A fast-growing clothing brand with a mission to become the ‘Levi’s of the women’s outdoorwear market’ has raised £350,000 in a funding round led by ...
Edge Performance VCT, the creative industries VCT managed by leading creative economy specialist Edge Investments, has exited its investment...
Lookiero, the online personal shopping service for clothes and accessories, has closed a $19 million funding round led by venture capi...
Leading European social media management platform ...
Origin Capital has invested in Cyclops Marine, a specialist provider of load measurement instrumen...
In a week that saw the announcement of CMR Surgical as the latest UK company to be valued at over $1b, there is hardly a more appropriate time to examine the state of the UK's unicorn herd. These c...
Learning with Experts has just completed a latest funding round above target, raising £800k with an impressive group of High Net Worth (...
Law firm Ashfords LLP has announced the promotion of IT and technology specialist Suzie Miles to its partnership, in the firm's Bristol of...
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The workplace is busier than ever before due to an ‘always-on’ culture that is leaving employees and managers with burnout. New research from global health service company ...
Red Sift, the cognitive data platform that provides cloud-based email security solutions, has closed a $8.8m investment round from research-led VC ...
British Business Investments (BBI), a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a new £25m commitment to Cheshire-based asset fi...
Triple Point, a leading UK alternative investment manager, today announced a top-up of its Venture Fund, a share class in the successful Triple Point VCT...
Customers are at the heart of most businesses. With that in mind, environmental fund manager Earthworm has made two key appointments in its client services...
Negative sentiment towards the economic outlook for the UK over the next 18 to 24 months amongst the UK investment community has increased sharply from 49% in 2018 to 67% in 2019, according to the ...
At the end of the second quarter of this year, more than 150,000 lenders were invested in 321,483 loans facilitated by Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) platforms – a record level of i...
Wagonex Limited, the car subscription marketplace platform is delighted to announce a significant...
Snaffling Pig, the category leading porky snack brand, has reached its £750,000 crowdfund target in just seven days. Hosted by ...
GrowthInvest and Partners Wealth Management have launched a strategic partnership between the two or...
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Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), the leading supplier of predictive Advanced Process Modelling (APM) software and services to many of the world’s ...
Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK, has launched four sustainable multi asset funds designed to make ...
Symvan Capital, an EIS fund manager, has announced that B.heard, a pioneer in the monetisation of the European persona...
Hardman & Co is leading a new initiative to support (S)EIS funds entering the investment market. It has brought together a wide range of professional...
This month’s Start-up Spotlight, in partnership with The Invested Investor, features an interview with entrepreneur Iris Barcia.......
Echopoint Medical Ltd, a spinout company from UCL, has raised £2.8m to develop optical sensing technology to help heart disease patients in a g...
Karan Bilimoria, better known as Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea, the Indian born founder of Cobra Beer, will officially open the Festival...
NVM Private Equity has completed the management buy-out of Mobius Networks Limited (MNL), a ...
Spirable, the next generation of personalised video marketing automation, today announced it has closed a £6M Series A investment round led by ...
Spark EV Technology has completed extensive trials of its electric vehicle (EV) range prediction technology with Hyundai. Carried out as part of ...
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The EISA's Summer 2019 edition of Zeitgeist discusses the tricky question of risk and what it really means in relation to EIS investments. Risk. ...
Entrepreneur and investor Nick Jenkins, who founded moonpig.com and is a former star of BBC TV's "Dragon's Den", is to be the opening keynote speaker at this year's ...
Green Angel Syndicate has successfully led a £520k investment round into AirEx, the IoT-enabled smart vent...
Ventures Director at Blackfinch Ventures, Dr Reuben Wilcock, discusses his top-tips for start-ups seeking investmen...
NVM Private Equity has completed the management buy-out of Leicestershire-based Secure Retail Limited&nbs...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a new comm...
A businesswoman has achieved her dream of opening a shop in Cardiff to sell clothes that combine fashion with traditional spiritual values with the help of a loan from the ...
Eric Tveter, former Central Europe CEO of Liberty Global, has become a major investor and the first Chairman of London-based start up ...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, and ...
Home security tech specialist, Boundary, has secured £1.22 million investment from Equity Gap and the ...
The Insurtech M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisors, ...
High Net Worth private investors are increasing their exposure to alternative assets to achieve greater portfolio diversification in an uncertain economic climate, reveals research...
Albemarle Street Partners (ASP), the specialist discretionary investment manager and in...
PrimaryBid, the award-winning FCA-regulated online platform connecting publicly listed companies with everyday investors for discounted share issuances,...
The founders of a specialist price comparison website have secured £500,000 of seed-stage investment and are now ready to disrupt the UK car leasing market. ...
Voxpopme, a Birmingham-based leading video feedback and analytics company, today announced that it has closed a £7.5m Series A1 equity financing led b...
Managed office platform Kitt has raised £2 million in seed funding and appointed former Fitness First CEO Oren Peleg as Chairman. The funding round w...
Arctic Shores, the Manchester-based psychometric assessment provider, has announced that it has secured a $5.5m Series A investment to accelerate its inte...
Scribeless, which fully automates and personalises h...
London-based start-up Koru Kids, has raised £10 million from its Series A round led b...
Maven Capital Partners has strengthened its UK investment team with a senior appointment in the South of England. Luke Matthews joins Maven as an Investm...
Praetura Ventures is raising money for its second Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund, the Praetura EIS 2020 Fund. The company plans to raise up ...
Ahead of launch later this year, Desana, an Edinburgh and London based startup that gives subscribers access to a UK-wide network of quality workspace to use wh...
Blackfinch Ventures has appointed Dr Nic Pillow, co-founder of tech start-up Rhizome Live, as Ventures Manager. Since the appointment of Dr Re...
The Riverside Company has invested in TOOLPORT, the...
Wayland Additive Limited has raised a £3 million Series A funding round, led by ...
Stefano Maifreni, Founder of Eggcelerate, a B2B growth experts for British SMEs, shares his insights on how small comapnies can operate effectively ...
Three in 10 office workers (29%) are considering moving jobs in the next year, driven by the demand for a better work-life balance, higher remuneration and flexible working hours. ...
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made its first cornerstone commitment through its £500m Managed F...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £750,000 equity investment into innovative ecommerce platform, Aero Commerce Ltd...
Elliptic, the leading provider of crypto-asset risk management solutions for crypto businesses and financial institutions, has raised $23 million in a Series B...
A Teesside business which has developed a new way to generate fuel and chemicals from waste biomass has secured a further £2.3million investment to commercialise its technology. ...
London-based dairy free cheese producer, Kinda Co. has been named as The Seed Fund’s 2019 champion, picking up th...
Invenio Business Solutions, a global provider of business-focused technology solutions and consulting services, has acquired Prov...
Duke & Dexter (D+D), an award-winning footwear label has secured a £2m investment from NVM Private Equity ...
PRIVATE equity house WestBridge has appointed a new Investment Director to open its new Manchester office and lead investments across the North of Englan...
Ortho Solutions, a specialist orthopaedic design manufacturer, has secured a £2 million funding facility from ...
European companies raised a record-breaking €10.6bn of venture capital during the first six months of 2019 according to analysis by Refinitiv. ...
A new indoor climbing centre has opened in the old boathouse in Llandudno, thanks to a £50,000 loan from the Development Bank of Wales. ...
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By James Murdoch I had not planned to write an article in the holiday month of August, but time for reflection has given me the impetus to highlight my key conclusions. These have perhaps b...
Crowdcube, the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, had several of its records smashed by fintech pioneer ...
Technology sectors in the UK are thriving and have thus brought about an increased level of awareness to the public consciousness. The government-driven Digital Economy Coun...
Equiem, the global leader in tenant experience technology and services for commercial real estate, has anno...
Foresight Group LLP, a leading independent infrastructure and small cap private equity investment manager, is launching its fifth regional private equit...
Kare Plus National Limited has received a £910,000 loan from ...
Recent events have illustrated that the closed-ended structure of investment companies is particularly well suited to investing in unquoted companies. ...
The majority of smaller businesses do not seek advice when applying for external finance to grow their business, despite the fact that having access to the right information can make the difference...
MGB Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of anti-infectives to address the major global problem of antibiotic...
Trak Global Group, one of the world’s leading telematics technology companies with operations in the UK, Europe and North America, has announced...
HeleCloud, an AWS Advanced Consulting and Managed Services Par...
London-based technology startup Augnet, which is set to revolutionise the SMS and messaging space, has appointed well-known information and communicati...
Five-time FIA Formula One World Champion, Lewis Hamilton is collaborating with hospitality organisation The Cream Group and investors including UNICEF Ambas...
Residently, the UK startup that is building the global rental platform, has secured £7m in seed ...
Goldex has named Nina Amin as an Advisor to the Board alongside the announcement that the UK India cross-border fund of Unicorn India, the ...
Paul Munn, Partner at Par Equity reflects on the impact of Brexit on EIS ...
International Investor has announced its recognition of excellence in all industries and at all levels, across the globe. At a time of shift ...
PRIVATE equity house WestBridge has appointed a new Investment Director to open its new Manchester office and lead investments across the North of...
PIMFA, the trade association for investment managers and financial advisers, has launched the ...
The Digital Security Exchange Nexthash is investing £2.5m of growth capital in Skills Matter, the network pub...
Blackfinch Ventures has invested £540,000 into innovate start-up Kokoon...
This weekend saw the world's leaders come together to discuss a number of problems facing the planet, from fires in the Amazon rainforest to global economic instability. But while the Prime M...
Esme Loans, the standalone digital lending platform for SMEs and scale up businesses, has now lent over £70million to UK businesses. &nbs...
A Birmingham-based wholesale supplier of quality products to the food and drink industry has secured £1.5m from ...
Nomanini, the pioneering fintech platform for the informal retail ecosystem, has today announced a $4m funding round l...
Dr Kerstin Braun, President of Stenn Group, a global provider of trade finance, comments on the Yuan at its weakest level since 200...
Following the recent acquisition&nb...
Proving to investors that your company has the legs to offer them a significant return on investment down the line is no small task for any entrepreneur, but is especially impressive for thos...
A Brexit deal now appears more likely than a U.S.-China trade de-escalation - but global financial markets are still to remain volatile in the near term, meaning investors should revise their...
Whilst most of us are no strangers to the concept of crowdfunding, what most people don’t know is how to create a successful campaign that hits your funding target! Founder a...
Clyde Biosciences Ltd. has raised a £2 million ‘Series A’ investment led by Epidarex Capital, a leading...
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP and Envestors, the fintech for fundraising company, have announced a j...
Two female tech entrepreneurs who have developed the UK’s first software as a service (SaaS) platform to help companies manage rebate and pricing schemes have secured £950,000 from inve...
PredictImmune, developers of pioneering prognostic tools for guiding treatment options and improving patient outcomes in immune-mediat...
The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund (NI) has led a £2m investment in Belfast-based ...
Maybe Solutions, an e-commerce platform developer that helps businesses, towns and cities analyse and engage with social media conversations has secured a s...
50 of the leading investors from across Europe will be arriving in Edinburgh next week looking for attractive startups to invest in at Turing Founders...
Three fintech mega-deals totalling $87 billion set the scene for a record-breaking $120 billion in disclosed transaction value for the sector in a ‘white-hot’ first half of 2019, reveal...
QueryClick, an Edinburgh-based digital marketing consultancy that aims to transform how effectively advertisers invest in digital marketing, is to embark...
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The UK tech sector has attracted more foreign investment in the first seven months of 2019 than it did during the whole of last year, ...
Private equity fundraising for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) hit the highest annual level in a decade in 2018 with €1.8 billion, according to new data from ...
Scottish biotech company, and the market leader in gene therapy control technologies, Synpromics, has been bought by AskBio...
As the talent dilemma continues, UK businesses are ramping up their focus on retaining and upskilling their existing workforce. New research [1] from recruitment spec...
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Beauhurst has published its overview of the high-growth ecosystem in Scotland. There are almost 2,000 active ambitious companies in the country, most of which are buoyed by fairly different methods...
Maven Capital Partners has invested £160,000 in data analysis business, Innotech Insights, on beha...
Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has backed the management buy-out of Hanson Wade...
The organisers behind the prestigious MSDUK Innovation Challenge have announced their finalists for 2019. After a full day of pitches f...
Leading global delivery software business Sorted Group has raised £15 million in a Series B funding round led by ...
MoA Technology Limited, the crop protection discovery company, has secured £6.3m ($8m) Series A round to develop its unique crop ...
In this article, Beauhurst highlights the top fund raisings this year by companies that were founded in the same year. ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has invested £2 million in high-growth FinTech provider ...
Appnovation has received £9.3m in equity financing from a joint partnership between the ...
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BiVictriX has announced that Dr Michael Carter has ...
BDO LLP has advised the management team and shareholders at Sukhothai on its recent recapitalisation.&nbs...
By Charu Lahiri, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK. According to the emotively-named ‘Miser...
A growing number ofUK and global investors will move their assets overseas as Britain stumbles towards an economic abyss, affirms the boss of one of the world’s largest independent financial ...
Keller Williams, the world’s largest estate agency, has entered into a partnership agreement in the UK with start-up ...
Panoramic Growth Equity, a leading equity investor in fast growing, ent...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent commercial finance provider, appoints Dave Pickup as ABL Director for the Thames Valley. Investment i...
Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Wales have higher levels of confidence than their UK counterparts, despite challenging business conditions and increasing uncertainty of UK and global economic...
With widespread disruption from new and emerging technologies facing companies, the financial services sector is still lacking in CEOs with a background in technology, according to recent analysis ...
In 2018, Enterprise Research found that almost half (45.3%) of startups don't surv...
There are ambitious companies at all stages of evolution that are looking for growth capital. Private Equity and...
As more businesses invest in surveillance technology to monitor and track employees in the workplace, questions are raised around whether the benefits override growing concerns around digital ethic...
Kantox, a leader in foreign exchange (FX) management solutions, has partnered with ...
AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital, has appointed Paul Lehair as an investment manager. Paul joins Albion...
innogy Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of innogy Innovation Hub, has invested in ...
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Green Angel Syndicate has invested in BuyMeOnce, the destination website for long lasting products of all sort...
NPIF - Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund has invested...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), has invested £150,000 to support ProGen Services Limited as it se...
AndWider, a worker engagement company ...
Innovative wave energy technology developer Bombora has secured a seven figure working ca...
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Kemp Little has advised private equity house Apse Capital in a deal with intelligent transformation provider Ultima ...
For entrepreneurs to be able to find the ‘right’ investors, and vice versa for funders to select the ‘right’ founders is still very important...
Investment manager Downing has exited from two freehold gastropub investments managed by Upham Group. ...
This autumn Brexit will again dominate the minds of businesses and traders, but UK's SMEs should continue to plan ahead and look to export as a way of mitigating risk and increasing global sa...
France Invest, the French private equity and venture capital association, in partnership with Deloitte, and with the ...
Fleetondemand, one of Europe’s leading mobility technology providers, has acquired Buckinghamshire-based vehicle management company FleetEurope fo...
This November, the Growth Investor Awards will turn five. Since 2015, this event has sh...
Wellington Partners has announced the final close of its fifth-generation fund Wellington Partners Life Science Fund V (WPLS-V). The fund close...
More than a third of small business owners (38%) say they won’t be having a summer holiday this year – a problem peaking among those with larger families (45%) and young children (45%) ...
FNA has closed a $5.5m Series A investment round led by IQ Capital, with participation from ...
Commenting on the number of electric car models in the European market set to more than triple within the next three years, Harry Merrison, Investment Manager at ...
The investment capacity of the Baby Boomer generation is undeniably the most powerful across the UK. According to the Office for National Statistics in 2016, Baby Boomers owned...
Kernel Capital has led a £1.6m investment in Belfast-based Automated Intelligence, in syndi...
CyberSmart, a GCHQ Cyber Accelerator alumni, has secured £1.3 million in new financing led by deep-tech investor ...
Thriva, the proactive health company, has secured a £6M Series A funding round. The funding will support Thriva as it builds towards it’s ambitiou...
The Animal Health Laboratory within the Colorado Department of Ag...
It’s been serving the Anglesey community delicious gelato for the past 10 years. Now more and more locals and visitors to North Wales ...
Bluegem Capital Partners, the European mid-market fund focused on consumer brands, has announced the acquisition of ...
One Stop Business Finance, the Yorkshire based alternative funding specialist for SMEs, has strengthened its senior management team to help fulfil its growth pla...
Bluecrest Health Screening, a leading provider of affordable health checks, has secured a £17 ...
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven and p...
MPC Capital has acquired a 6.5 MWp solar PV project under development in El Salvador. The project has ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has invested £6.25m into ...
Astarte Capital Partners LLP, an alternatives co-investment platform, has appoint...
Six-in-ten (61%) financial advisers believe there has been insufficient industry focus on decumulation solutions despite an overwhelming majority (86%) expect...
A new summit connecting emerging technology fund managers with investors has been launched in London by early stage VC firms, ...
PredictImmune, PredictImmune, developers of pioneering prognostic tools for guiding treatment options and improving patient outcomes in immun...
Catley Lakeman Securities (CLS), the market-leading provider of defined-return invest...
Sometimes I watch Dragons’ Den and the impression it leaves me with is that of hopeful Entrepreneurs asking for £80,000 for 5% percentage of their Busin...
Beauhurst has analysed every publicly-announced equity fundraising in H1 2019 to spot emerging trends and patterns in the market. Their ...
Minerva Business Angels, part of the University of Warwick Science Park and one of the most successful busi...
British Business Bank has supported over 89.000 businesses with £6.6bn of finance, an increase of 27%, according to its 2019 ...
The FSE Group, the Camberley based fund manager that provides loan and equity funding for small ambitious growing businesses, has announced that Paul Marst...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading European Growth Buyout&nb...
Standard Cognition, which is building the next interface of retail, has raised a $35M Series B funding round led by the ...
Machine learning start-up Futr. has secured £2.4m in seed funding in a round led by VC firm Praetura Ventures. T...
New research(1) from fast growing Shearwater Aero Capital, the global corporate aviation finance specialist, reveals the trend for family office...
New evidence shows that the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) has increased the availability of finance in the region and this is already making a pos...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), delivered by British Busine...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout[1] ...
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Deepbridge Capital has announced the appointment of two new Business Development Managers (BDMs) covering both the North West and North East...
Lingua Custodia, the specialist in Machine Learning applied to financial translation, has closed a ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performan...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £900,000 investment in supercomputing technology specialist,...
UK SMEs must create a tech-friendly culture to attract and retain top tech talent, according to a new white paper from ...
LGB Investments, whose offering includes secured high yielding investment opportunities fo...
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Broad Street Investment Management, a subsidiary of Broad Street Asset Management, the bespoke, independent wealth management business, has appointed An...
Workshare, the document comparison and transaction management specialist for the legal sector, has been acquired by Chicago-headquartered Litera Microsystem...
Graphite Capital, the leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has recognised the contribution of members of its investment team with the foll...
Bluegem II LP, a European mid-market fund focused on consumer brands, exited from its participation in Liberty,...
Foresight Group has invested a further £4 million growth capital investment into portfolio company ONFAB to...
Zegami, the augmented intelligence company helping businesses unlock their data potential through visual data exploration, has raised £1.25M in equity fundin...
MEIF Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has provided Advance Tapes Internat...
Asabys Partners, a Pan-European Venture Capital firm specialized in investments in the life sciences and health sectors, and Alantra, an investment banking and a...
Beauhurst H1 2019 Equity Market Report analyses every publicly-announced equity fundraising in H1 2019, to spot emerging trends and...
NVM Private Equity (NVM) has appointed Oliver Wildig as an Investment Manager. He will be based in Manchester within the buy-out team with res...
Ashfords has advised WhiteHat on its recent $16 investment by Index Ve...
SteamaCo, a UK-based technology supplier to utilities in Africa and Asia, has completed a $5m Series B equity financing. This latest round of funding supports the c...
Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has provided a six-figure invoice finance facility to H...
FibreCRM, a Penryn-based software company, has secured a £250,000 investment from the Chelverton Investor Club...
QuoteOnSite has announced a cash injection to facilitate aggressive growth over the next 12 months thanks to investment from the ...
UK-founded graphene-based electronics technology company ...
Deep-tech venture capital firm IQ Capital has launched a new $125 million Growth Opportunities Fund and closed its third venture fund, IQ Capital Fund III, at ...
North East entrepreneurs developing industry-changing innovation have taken to the stage in the first of a series of new pitching events delivered by the recently launched ...
Maven Capital Partners, has led a £650,000 investment in Manchester-headquartered passenger transfers booking platform ...
This month’s Start-up Spotlight from the Invested Investor features an interview with the Head of Access to Funding and Finance at the ...
Crypta Labs has completed a £2.7 million (US$ 3.4m) funding round led by Bloc Ventures and ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has committed £2 bi...
A British games and Jukebox entrepreneur, Alexander Walder-Smith, has acquired ...
Luminous Ventures has made a £1million investment in ...
End-to-end sales acceleration platform Cognism has raised $10m in Se...
The Royal College of Art’s incubator InnovationRCA has won ‘Acce...
Tyk Technologies Ltd, creators of an industry-leading API gateway and management platform, has secured £4m in Series A f...
eFront data shows that, despite improving performance, fewer than 4 in 10 VC funds ...
A fast growing manufacturing firm based in Merseyside has received an initial investment of £7.5m from ...
The Qube the capital’s coworking studio complex for creativ...
Master of Business Administration (MBA) and accountancy are the top qualifications among the UK’s CEOs, according to the annual ...
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Green Angel Syndicate has backed NatureMetrics, a pioneer in sampling, sequencing and analysing Environ...
Aergo, a company that has developed a responsive posture support system which empowers wheelchair users, has completed an equity funding round with the help o...
Envestors, the fintech fundraising company, has announced its community of connected sophisticated investors has grown to 11,000. Envestors’ &...
The new board of the Greater London investment Fund (GLIF), who will support the Mayor’s vision to grow and support the SME ecosystem in the ca...
Maven Capital Partners has completed a £2.5 million investment to support the continued growth of pioneering software developer ...
Non-profit organisation Diversity VC has published ‘Diversity in UK Venture Capital 2019’, a report which analyses the gender, ethnic, education, ...
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By Tom Hopkins, Business Development Director at Parkwalk The latest international university league tab...
Funding London interview with Peter Briffett Peter Briffett is a serial entrepreneur with a difference. Not only did he l...
A data pipeline management company set up by Google alumni and supported through its early days by Y Combinator, has...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has completed an investment in Compana, a German provider of ...
BAFTA Cymru award-winning, multi-platform production company ie ie productions is focusing on strengthening its female leadership team following a loan from the ...
Main Capital has made an investment of nearly 50 million Euro in GBTEC, a leading player in Business Process Management. With a...
New research from secured property lender Fitzrovia Finance reveals a lack of understanding of some of the fundamental risks involved through investi...
Maven Capital Partners has funded manufacturer and supplier of homelifts, Stiltz Limited, with a £1m loan facili...
LGB Corporate Finance, which provides M&A advisory and capital raising services to companies, entrepreneurs and financial sponsors, has raised £7...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has achieved £100 million client funds in use through funding UK SMEs. The company’s audite...
Unquote Data’s preliminary figures for Q2 2019 show that activity in the European private equity markets continues to cool after a strong year in 2018. ...
Astarte Capital Partners LLP, an alternatives co-investment platform, has ...
Six inspiring young entrepreneurs have overcome fierce competition to impress the country’s business leaders with their innovation and business capability and...
Simulation software developers Simul Software Ltd, has received a £150k investment from ...
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Law firm, Ashfords LLP, has appointed Chris Sutoto-Haywood as an Associate in the firm's Intellectual Property Team. ...
Blackfinch Ventures has invested £700,0001 in innovative tech start-up Warwick Analytics....
Now more than ever it is essential that income-seeking investors diversify their portfolios. This year has been a challenging environment with global economic uncertainty, volatile equity markets a...
MEIF Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners has backed pop-up retail specialists, Rapid Retail Limited, with...
Stuffstr, the game-changing solution to consumer waste, has raised a total of $2.9 million in its seed funding round, led by ...
Mergermarket, the leading provider of M&A data and intelligence, has published its 2Q19 report that shows a reluctance among companies to acquir...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £3 million funding round in Manchester-based ...
As part of its contribution to London’s climate action week, Guernsey Finance has published findings suggesting the political backdrop is encourag...
The fintech startup Joko has carried out its first fundraising with top-tier investors — Partech, ...
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Ascension Ventures, the London-based investment firm, had an eventful evening at the annual UKBAA Angel Investment Awards. Throughout the ceremony an...
Maven Capital Partners has exited from GEV Group Holdings Limited. The exit attracted significant interest from several private equity buyers; the sale to Bri...
Partech is augmenting its Growth Equity team due to continued expansion in its portfolio of investments. The Fund has completed five financings in high-growth disruptive c...
By Peter Cowley, The Invested Investor As an angel looki...
GeckoLabs, an Edinburgh company whose software platform helps universities to engage and recruit students, has secured £1.8m investment from ...
AlbionVC has led a £2.6m Series A investment round in Clear Review, the UK HR technology scale-up. AlbionVC inv...
Earthworm Group welcomes four new hires to its expanding team, coinciding with the move to its new head office at Milton Park, Abingdon. Jo T...
As outlined in the British Business Bank’s Equity Tracker report of 2018, the proportion of equity in the UK going to companies with at least one female founder has declined to 18% from 20% i...
Ingenious has led an investment round into Over-C Limited, a London-based analytics company focused on opera...
Panoramic Growth Equity, a leading equity investor i...
The British Business Bank has appointed Warren Ralls as UK Network Director, South and East of England....
The Harwell Space Cluster has added 14 new companies to its impressive roster, now comprised of 92 organisations including the UK and Euro...
Qualis Flow, the environmental management platform that tracks, monitors, and predicts project environmental risk, has raised £725,000 in seed funding. T...
Across the nation, British businesses in the regions are suffering heavily from ensuing disparities in investment. According to the independent report by the UK 2070 commission, the UK i...
Machine Labs has announced £800,000 equity funding received from Techstart Ventures, the founders, angels in...
During the first half of 2019 YFM Equity Partners (YFM) completed £230m of deals and raised £100m of new funds.&n...
NVM Private Equity has invested £7 million in Chemigraphic, a leading provider of Electronic Manufactur...
Vesalius Biocapital III , the specialist life sciences venture...
Private capital is growing in significance as a source of funds for private equity funds, ...
WeGift, the digital rewards platform, has secured £4 million in Series A funding, led by&n...
Foresight Group LLP has announced a £4 million growth capital investment into Ten Health and Fitness Limited, a...
UltraSoC plans to substantially grow its worldwide operations to address emerging opportunities in the cybersecurity, high-reliability and safety-critica...
London-based investment manager Downing LLP has appointed Tom Moore to lead its asset management capability. Prior to joining Down...
With a huge shift in emphasis towards regional funding support, the Connected Investing event series, hosted by the ...
Poplars Forge, a traditional ironwork business is gearing up to move premises, improve productivity as well as teach the next generation of blacks...
Pharrowtech, the designer of chip and antenna solutions for high-speed wireless applications, has raised more than €6 million for its Seed investment...
London-based investment manager Downing has appointed six new senior team members across its investment, venture capital, asset management, a...
A consortium of leading scientific research and academic institutions has teamed to identify innovative solutions to tackle climate change linked to the agri-food sector. ...
Following a £6.3m equity investment in 2018, pioneering airspace developer Apex Airspace has secured a further £3million equity invest...
The North East Development Capital Fund (“NEDCF”), supported by the European Regional Development F...
Our resident wine expert, Caspar Bowes of Bowes Wine, looks at challenging terroir and resultant unique taste of single grape wines ...
Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world’s most innovative businesses and their investors, has led a £50 million senio...
London-based bakery, Orée, has raised £425,000 through Angel Investment Network (AIN) the ...
Europe represents 30% of the global market for smart manufacturing and factory automation, according to a new ...
Foresight Group has made a £5 million growth capital investment into Fourth Wall Creative Limited, a...
Sukhendu has been a CEO for thirteen years, Managing Director for four years, Sen...
Thames Technology develops, manufactures, personal...
Symetrica, the global leader in radiation detection and identification, has secured a further £3m of growth funding from existing investors to sup...
HBAN, the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment and a joint initiative between ...
North West-focused Praetura Ventures has backed fertility startup Dr Fertility in a ...
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and Funding London CEO, Maggie Rodriguez-Piza, have announced the appointment of three new additions to the Funding London...
The latest MarketInvoice Business Insights (1)...
The British Business Bank has welcomed Edward O’Hara as its new Chief Risk Officer. As the UK government...
Venture capital firms with a track record of working together by investing in the same venture are more likely to produce a successful venture, but working together repeatedly will eventually have ...
Token, the turnkey open banking platform, has complete...
Swoop, a FinTech solution that supports SMEs to access funding, has been awarded £5 million (€5.6 million) by the UK’s Banking Competiti...
In his latest article, James Murdoch discusses the importance of regular company reporting and post investment communication for equi...
Augnet, a London-based technology start-up set to revolutionise the SMS and messaging space, has announced it has been selected to receive much sought after ...
BlockClaim, the first hybrid artificial intelligence and blockchain technology solution developed for the insurance industry...
In recent years, Alternative Finance funding channels that exist outside of the traditional finance system have revolutionised how small and medium enterprises are able to operate. The rapid ...
Technology advisory and investment firm GP Bullhound’s Fund IV holds its final close at EUR113 million, continuing its successfu...
By Jörg Rocholl, President and Professor of Finance at ESMT Berlin In recent years, international crowdfunding markets have s...
This week Beauhurst has published the third instalment in its series of short reports on some of the UK's most exciting tech sectors. The SaaS Brief takes an overview of Software-as-...
London-based investment manager Downing LLP has appointed Richard Lamb to its growing Property Finance investment team. Richa...
London-based insurtech firm Zego has raised $42million in one of the largest funding rounds for a European insurtech start-up. The proc...
Marine bycatch prevention company Fishtek Marine has netted its full £900,000 impact investment crowdfunding via the ...
UK SMEs are losing out to big tech in the battle to recruit top tech talent, according to Robert Half UK’s new report, ...
London-based STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and maths) learning pioneers OKIDO and OjO, have raised £18,800 on Kickstarter, exceeding their target of £15,000. ...
In London Tech Week, Tech Nation reveals rising worldwide demand for UK tech visas 45% rise in applications for th...
the UK alone, wellbeing issues affect one in four people, which in turn costs the economy over £57 billion a year in lost productivity, but just last week on its first birthday, ...
The level of P2PFA platform lending has continued to increase during the first quarter of 2019 – with more than £850 million of loans facilitated...
YFM Equity Partners has appointed Helen Villiers as Investment Manager. Based at YFM’s London office, Helen will be focussing on supporting YFM’s new in...
A new senior executive leadership team has been put in place at Montezuma’s following investment from Edinburgh-based private equity firm, ...
UK boards are seriously lacking non-executive directors with skills and expertise in technology, new research from Russell Reynolds Associates a ...
QuarterOne, the sales forecasting software start-up for SMEs, raises first major investment from ...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout...
The Ticket Fairy, a growth and sales channel partner for the live events industry, has announced the official launch of its cloud-based eve...
Inzura.ai the UK based global InsurTech has raised a further £1m in a pre-A funding round. This follows a seed investment round in early 2018 and rapid growth...
Nexeon, the company developing and supplying battery materials for rechargeable Li-ion batteries, is leading a new project to optimise coating technolog...
Specialist property peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has hit two more major milestones after fully funding the 92nd project on the CrowdProperty p...
Palamon Capital Partners, a European growth buyout private equity firm, has signed an agreement to sell Il Bisonte...
With a huge shift in emphasis towards regional funding support, the Connected Investing event series, hosted by the UK Business Angels Association, wil...
Funderbeam, the global funding and trading platform, has raised US$ 4.5 million in Series A funding, led by UK-based ...
The amount of equity invested in smaller UK businesses rose 5% to £6.7bn in 2018, the highest amount recorded, reveals British Business Bank...
The diversity of investor types in the UK contributes to the success of the nation's high-growth scene, as different companies have varying requirements from their backers. In Part 1 of a new blog ...
Maven Capital Partners has invested a further £750,000, in disruptive car insurance platform, Honcho Markets Ltd. T...
Funding Options has appointed David Keene to its senior leadership team as Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, David will be responsible for leading...
YFM Equity Partners has completed the first close of its Buy-Out-Fund II with £60m of investment committed. This follows the £45m raised...
Ocado has announced a £17 million investment into the vertical farming industry, including an investment into ...
AI data extraction start-up SuccessData, formerly known as sc.io, has closed a £600k inve...
Tonkotsu, the Emma Reynolds and Ken Yamada-founded ramen restaurant group plans expansion after partnering with investment firm ...
Digital livestock production, smart plants and 24/7 indoor salad production are some of the ways the digital revolution is driving rapid growth in the agri-tech sector. Start-ups ...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a leading independent commercial finance provider, today announces the appointment of John Allbrook as Non-Executive Chairm...
Downing Ventures, part of London-based investment manager Downing LLP, has appointed James Nettleton as Principal of its 12-strong venture...
Funds advised by YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity fund manager, has backed a £3.6m investment into Wooshii Li...
In partnership with The Invested Investor, this month’s Start-up Spotlight features an interview with Sarah Turner, a technologist, en...
Business to business (b2b) telecoms provider Challenger Mobile Communications is targeting growth after a management succession buyout supported b...
Kernel Capital and Par Equity have led a £1.2M investment in ...
finnCap Group plc, a leading adviser and broker to ambitious growth companies, is delighted to anno...
European Buy & Build activity reached its highest recorded level in 2018 with a total disclosed deal value of £9.5 billion, according to Silver...
The London-based Venture Firm, Hambro Perks, has appointed Andrew Noyons...
To coincide with London Tech Week, global investment platform Funderbeam and Sensor City are co-hosting “Th...
Immedis, a specialist provider of enterprise technology solutions for global payroll and mobility ta...
Foresight Group has invested £500,000 into Oomf Limited through the Midlands Engine...
Investor Allstars, the "Oscars" of the European entrepreneurial and investor community in Europe and the US, will return for its 17th edition this ye...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing companies, has bolstered its Quoted team with the appointment of Simon Blackaby as an...
Praetura Ventures has closed its 2019 Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund at £15m, making it the largest-ever maiden EIS fund. It will use ...
London-based Q-Bot, an EMV Capital portfolio robotics company that has developed a solution to remotely apply underfloor ins...
Research by Funding Options, the UK’s leading business finance marketplace, has revealed that half (51%...
BGF, a leading investor in high-growth UK businesses, has invested £10m of equity in Extentia Group, t...
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Augnet Limited, the London-based technology start-up set to revolutionise the SMS and messaging space, has announced that ...
Deepbridge Capital has led a $2m (£1.52m) funding round in Thalia Design Automation, with re...
Dan Perkins, a Director at Great Point, the UK’s leading...
The latest research from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has thrown into sharp relief the d...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has acquired La Galvanina S.p.A, a fourth g...
Groovy UK Limited, a wholesale and giftware business, has received a £250,000 loan facility from the Midlands Engine ...
Award winning patisserie business La Crème Patisserie has acquired new premises near Newport following a £500,000 loan from the ...
British Patient Capital (BPC) has appointed Hazel Moore, OBE as Non-Executive Director to the boar...
Augusta & Co, a specialist financial advisory and investment firm for the renewable energy industry, has today...
Calculus Capital and Stargrove Pictures have launched a new EIS fund in association with the ...
The Electrospinning Company, first established in 2010 as a spin-out from research undertaken by the UK Science and...
Foresight Group has successfully exited its investment in Nottingham-based Mercia Power Response Limited ...
Westbridge Capital has closed its latest fund, WestBridge II, having raised £140m in fund commitments and associated earmarked co-...
The UK workforce is becoming increasingly held back by mental health problems such as stress, depression and anxiety. According to research (1) ...
Foresight Group has launched the FP Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (“GRIF” or “the Fund”). The Fund, which has received FCA regulatory approval, will be actively ...
Vala Capital, the venture capital firm, has added accomplished technology entrepreneur and investor John Swingewood to its investment committee. After...
An overwhelming majority (94%) of UK-based financial services industry decision-makers believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the most potential t...
Product Guru, an online platform described as ‘Tinder for retail buyers and product suppliers’, has secured a £300,000 investment....
Silverfleet Capital, the leading Pan-European private equity firm, has agreed to acquire ...
MMC Ventures has launched the £52 million MMC Greater London Fund as part of the Mayor of London’s new initiative - the Greater London Investm...
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Sorted, the global delivery experience company, today announces it has secured £15 million in a recent funding round led by ...
Suir Valley Ventures, the entrepreneur-led venture capital fund launched in partnership with Shard Capit...
Awen Collective has secured seed investment through Startup F...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has partnered with ACTINEO, the leading German ...
The rising trend of private capital investment is being well serviced in Guernsey due to the global finance specialist’s flexibility to meet investors’ sophisticated requirements, secto...
Social impact investment company Resonance has launched their latest Social Impact Tax Relief (SITR) Fund in the North West. ...
autologyx has announced that it has raised an additional £1 million to rapidly expand its foothold in legal, RPO and insurance se...
Foresight Group LLP, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has won this high-profile award in recognition for...
yulife, the life insurance company which puts wellbeing at the heart of its insurance offering, has announced that it has secured £10 million in Series A...
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Global Tech Advocates (GTA), the international private sector network connecting tech hubs around the world, has launched ...
Finance Durham, managed by Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active SME finance provid...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has closed its ISIA Fund (Idinvest SME ...
Following recent expansion in Singapore, London based RegTech firm ClauseMatch closed its first venture debt funding r...
Maven Capital Partners, has led a £500,000 investment in back & posture care product specialist, Handsome Limite...
Domain Therapeutics has announced that it has secured a €3.5M ($3.9M) investment from existing shareholder ...
Enlaps, the inventor of the Tikee timelapse solution, has announced that it has closed a funding round of €3 millions from business angels including Fa...
Albemarle Street Partners (ASP), the specialist advice and investment management...
Theresa May’s departure demands that UK and international investors move to mitigate risks to their wealth, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent fina...
Government statistics released l...
Rockstart, Europe's premier startup accelerator, has published th...
As “on demand” services expand into more industries and market places,Trukkin is leading the way in digital lo...
IW Capital - the debt, equity and EIS investment specialist based in the heart of Mayfair - has announced its latest milestone of growth with the cl...
Streamline Press, a leading commercial printer specialising in lithographic, digital and large format print services, has secured £250,000 funding ...
Parkwalk and the UCL Technology Fund are leading a £750k investment into Phasecraft, a pioneering quantum com...
The FitTech company, Revoola, has confirmed that its application to join the leading business incubator SETSquare...
Minerva, the University of Warwick Science Park’s Business Angel Network, has played a vital role in helping Lincoln-based te...
Syncona Ltd has founded Quell Therapeutics, a new cell therapy company, with a £35 million commitment in a Series A financing...
YFM Equity Partners has invested £3.5 million in Elucidat Limited, an...
The Development Bank of Wales’ first full year has helped even more Welsh businesses to grow. ...
Angel backed novel diagnostic developer PBD Biotech has appointed new CEO Mark Hammond to drive the company’s expansion. The success of the company’s...
A new initiative to support Business Angels looking to invest in the North East was launched yesterday at FinanceCamp, the region’s annual investme...
In partnership with AngelNews, this month’s Start-up Spotlight focuses on the experienced, dynamic and philosophical serial investor...
Great Point, the UK’s leading independent media and investment firm, has invested in ...
Triple Point Venture Fund has led a £1.3m investment in UK-based messaging company Augnet Limited. Triple ...
Immense Simulations, the intelligent mobility software provider, has announced that it has secured $4.6m in Series A funding. The investment will aid the continu...
An on-demand removals marketplace aiming to bring on-demand technology to the removals and deliveries sector has secured investment from leading London-based ...
Panoramic Growth Equity, the leading equity investor in fast growth, entrepreneurial companies has sold its portf...
Blu Wireless has raised £12.7m ($16.6m) in a growth funding round led by existing investors Arm, C...
NVM Private Equity has fully realised its investment in international marketing communications group MSQ Partners fo...
Deepbridge Capital, the tax-efficient investment manager, has appointed Samantha Piddington as its new Head of Corporate Finance. Deepbridge has als...
Stephen Kelly has 35 years’ unique leadership experience in both the private and public sector. He has held CEO positions with three successful UK & USA public technology companies, as we...
SEIS and EIS are incredible tax benefits and Equity Crowdfunding democratises them, potentially making them available to a much wider population than the super-rich. You might be led to believe tha...
In 2018, 70% of equity deals were not announced to the public, and although these deals are often much smaller than those that are announced, they can be just as (if not more) interesting. ...
The global biomedical market is in the midst of a period of stable growth and Catalonia, one of the most dynamic healthcare hubs in the world, is also enjoying this trend. 2018 was a positive year ...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has agreed to sell Aston Lark, a leading independent insurance b...
Calculus Capital has made a £2.5m investment in Wazoku. Wazoku’s main product is Idea Spotlight, an i...
By Estelle Blanks, Executive Director of the Innovation SuperNetwork According to research by Beauhurst, UK businesses...
The British Business Bank’s ENABLE Guarantee programme is now accepting applications from new types of lenders, with the aim of increasi...
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund has invested in Bolton-based eLearning company, ...
Rich Brits and wealthy international investors fear a Corbyn government more than Brexit, with an increasing number considering moving their wealth overseas. This is the assessment of Nigel...
Scaleup tech investment 2.5x higher than expected based on the relative size of the UK economy in 2018 UK leads Europe and fourth in the world for scaleup ...
Quotevine, a provider of SaaS solutions for the asset and automotive finance industries, has received £2.2 million in funding from private-equity fir...
Hampleton Partners’ latest analysis of the Artificial Intelligence M&A market reveals that over 150 deals were disclosed in 2018, up from ...
CogX, the world’s leading festival of AI and emerging technologies, today announces the headline speakers for its...
Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have made a £2 m...
Octopus Investments, part of Octopus Group and the UK’s largest Venture Capital Trust (VCT) manager1, today announced the launch of a new ...
A Greater Lincolnshire-based horticulture producer and supplier has secured a £200,000 debt funding package from Maven Capital Partners and the ...
Edison Group, the leading investment research, investor relations and consulting firm, headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Europe and Asia-P...
Triple Point has invested nearly £1 million of funding to back the latest two companies in their Impact EIS Investment Fund. The fund targets fast...
Digital disruption has heightened the need for technological experience amongst leaders of the UK’s biggest businesses, yet broader boardroom diversity is failing to progress, according to ne...
Hardman & Co has introduced a new panel service which will help advisers cope with what it calls the “…the greatest financial planning o...
Maven Capital Partners has led an investment, alongside existing shareholders Par Equity and the Scottish Investment Bank, in Edinburgh-based ...
The British Business Bank has appointed Dharmash Mistry as non-executive director (NED) ...
Par Equity, the Edinburgh-based multi-award-winning venture capital firm, has led investments totalling £3.2m in two Northern Irish software companies...
Global fintech, The ID Co., has has received $2m seed funding from global technology investor Amadeus Capital Partners...
Mobeus has sold Plastic Surgeon, the surface repair and restoration specialist, to ...
The Portuguese company 360 onlineprint, founded in 2013, is expanding its sales territory and is now also active in the United Kingdom. This strategic...
Weengs, a smart logistics startup that partners with ecommerce businesses to get online orders to their customers reliably and efficiently, has secured &poun...
Masabi, the company bringing ...
Private investment and alternative finance specialist IW Capital announces a £1.83 million loan for Inglenook Inns and Taverns Limited. The loan represe...
Leicester-based Furnley House Limited, a firm of independent financial advisers and mortgage brokers, has received a £200,000 investment from the...
Cherwell Software a global leader in service managemen...
The Instant Group, which was backed by Bowmark Capital last year, has acquired ...
Investment from European funds into the UK’s thriving tech ecosystem reached a record high of £1.89bn in 2018 (up from just £1.66bn in 2017), according to a new report published b...
How and what we eat in restaurants or on-the-go is changing thanks to new robotics startup Karakuri and its £7 million seed inv...
It’s been serving the community of St Clears with traditional, tasty fish and chips for more than 50 years. And now Neil’s Fish and Chip shop has new owners Ricky and Hanna J...
Investment manager Downing LLP has announced the successful exit from a series of freehold pub investments managed by award-winning Oakman Inns and Restaura...
Biotangents, a Scottish medical diagnostics business, has secured £1.5m of new investment following the completion of a second fundraising round....
Insurance startup, Urban Jungle has announced a £2.5 million seed funding round with participation from a range of new and existing ...
An adventure skin care start-up Toddle, based in Wrexham, will be launching its child-friendly skin care products this summer following a £200,00...
Naming advice from Grant Polachek, Director of Marketing at Inc 500 company Squadhelp.com, ...
Tutor House, an online and in-person tutoring agency that aims to give all students access to affordable tutoring, group retake courses and educational...
A Nottingham company which has developed a new platform to help pharmaceutical firms manage clinical trials more effectively has raised almost £1m from investors to help it launch its product...
Sonae Investment Management (Sonae IM), has announced that it has concluded an equity investment in Cellwize, a global l...
Award winning British content company Somethin’ Else is castin...
With a line-up intent on shaking up the shopping basket, The Seed Fund has announced its Class of 2019, revealing the 14 food and drink start-ups that have b...
Oriient, pioneers of high-performance indoor GPS, announced today the closing of $4m in seed funding from F2 Capital...
Wales’ share of the volume of equity deals in the UK is 3% and relatively close to its share of the UK’s economy, says research unit, Economic Intelligence Wales (EIW) in its latest ...
En Primeur tastings in France For the second year running, I eschewed the annual en primeurs tastings ...
Nivo, the Manchester-based instant messaging and identity verification platform, has announced the close of a £2m funding round fr...
The London based venture firm, Hambro Perks, have recently launched a ...
Synthesia, a UK based startup developing video synthesis technology, has raised $3.1 million to continue their mission of helping brands and ...
Sure Ventures plc, a London listed venture capital fund which invests in early-stage software companies across...
23 per cent of London’s tech companies have experienced investors deferring investment decisions as a direct result of Brexit, according to new research released by ...
Established North West capital finance advisory firm Acceleris Capital has announced a return to Greater Manchester as part...
Ongoing uncertainty makes it increasingly difficult to predict what the UK business ecosystem will look like or which cities will thrive post-Brexit. Despite this, business owners are keeping their...
MUSO, the global authority on digital piracy data, has raised £3.5m in an extension to its £2.5m 2017 Series A with ...
London-based Venture Firm, Hambro Perks, has appointed ex-Morgan Stanley’s Svenja Grundmann as Investment Associate. ...
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), delivered by ...
Workbooks, a British cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and marketing automation vendor, today announces the arrival of Alex Bradley as head ...
LONDON-based venture capital firm, Luminous Ventures has strengthened its advisory board further with the appointment of expert sales strategist, ...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has agreed to sell CARE Fertility, the UK’s leading fe...
A company which helps universities to commercialise academic research by initiating new collaborations with industry has secured a £950,000 investment. The funding includes £750,000 fro...
A consortium led by Sunderland-based North East Business and Innovation Centre (BIC), has received £1m from Innovate UK to support the growth of local ...
Innovative medtech company Odin Vision is to scale up its pioneering cancer detection technology thanks to an investment round led by the ...
The UK is a global centre for socially responsible technology innovation, according to new quantitative and qualitative analysis prepared by...
Masthaven, the UK specialist bank, has completed a strategic £60 million investment by ...
A new British-South Asian low-cost long haul airline, flypop, has completed a Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) funding round of £80,000 with ...
By James Murdoch Over 5 years, I have built up what I am told is a significant number of investments in start-up via the platforms and AngelNews has invi...
Edinburgh’s tech sector will go from strength to strength after a partnership between Informatics Ventures and the Data-Driven Innovation Initiative was announced at the annual international ...
Great Point Media, a UK leader in entertainment development, production and distribution, announced it has invested in three UK companies from its rec...
Research conducted by Foresight Group LLP, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, highlights...
EMV Capital has acquired a controlling stake in Bay Area-based Vortex Biosciences, and a further investment pa...
Seneca Partners, the SME focused investment firm has announced that it completed seven new growth capital investments in Q1 2019 into fast growing UK bas...
Weedingtech, the world-leader in supplying herbicide-free systems for controlling unwanted vegetation, has received an investment from environmental ...
High-flying firms across the UK will benefit from a further £200 million of government support to ensure that innovative British firms can access the finance they ne...
Fasteners and tools company Spotnails Ltd has new owners after the Development Bank of Wales ...
Imandra Inc, creator of the Imandra cloud-native automated reasoning engine, has completed a $5 million Seed investment led by A...
West Midlands business leaders, entrepreneurs and investors have welcomed the launch of a new angel investment network for the region. ...
By Hasna Haidar at Carphone Warehouse Whether you are a start-up owner or a business leader, your mind ...
Kantox, a leader in FX management solutions for businesses, has just closed its second venture debt financing deal with Silicon V...
Cytora, a provider of AI-powered solutions for the commercial insurance industry, has completed a £25 million Series B funding round led by the ...
London-based growth capital investor, VGC Partners, has appointed Andrew Lister as Investment and Portfo...
Credit Kudos, challenger credit bureau and leader in commercial applications of...
This week will see fifty high-growth potential data-driven tech companies pitch for funding at the annual flagship Engage Invest Exploit (EIE)...
Award-winning Mexican quick-service chain Chilango is celebrating one of the most popular alternative investment offers of rece...
Specialist property peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has closed a £1.1m ...
Newable, a leading provider of professional services, financial support and property space to UK businesses, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with t...
Guardian Angel, a free and private online platform that simplifies the bereavement process;...
Chelverton Asset Management Limited, a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quoted equities and...
Rockstart is almost ready to close its first fund of €15 million for its AgriFood domain accelerator and fund. S...
EMV Capital announced the acquisition and investment into Wanda Inc, a San Francisco-based digital health company commerci...
NVM Private Equity continues to expand the VCT team with the addition of Alex Wilson and Stephen Johnson. NVM’s recruitment strategy has been to build...
PTP Funding Limited (“Welendus”), a peer to peer (P2P) lending platform focusing on short term loans, has recently raised funding from the ...
This week sees entrepreneurial icons flock to Scotland as the second edition of CAN DO Fest, Scotland’s festival of impactful...
Astarte Capital Partners has established a £400m investment platform with a focus on transformi...
Leah Hutcheon, founder and CEO of the Edinburgh-based software company, Appointedd, and former EIE participant, shar...
The Newable Ventures Scale Up Fund 2 has completed its year-long investment cycle having invested £1 million into a diverse ...
Touch Biometrix has received a £2million investment from Deepbridge Capital. ...
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has sold its portfolio of onshore wind farms to Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) for an enterpr...
The Midlands Engine investment fund, through Maven Capital Partners, has provided Aurelius...
Following the publication of research suggesting that women are more successful than men when it comes to crowdfunding for scientific research, Juliet Eccleston, co-founder and CEO of ...
Ingenious, the leading alternative investment manager that specialises in the Media, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Education sectors, has expanded...
Foresight Group has made a £5 million growth capital investment into Northern Ireland’s largest private healthcare business, ...
Great Point Investments, the UK’s leading media production and investment company, has acquired a minority stake in ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance r...
Shedul.com, the world’s fastest growing booking platform for salons and spas, has announced a Se...
Limitless Technology, the London-based inventor and p...
Jon Hughes, Commercial Director of leading independent ...
Mayfair-based alternative finance house IW Capital has invested in PlayMoreGolf. PlayMoreGolf is the first flex...
For investors, the need to know what occupiers want, where they want to be and what they need to thrive are crucial factors to help seek out areas where performance could be maximised. Saul Western...
The Invested Investor interviews Jon Bradford. Want to hear the inspirational journey of an entrepreneur, investor and VC and who ...
The latest funding round of €10m for ...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has invested £6m in BB7, the high-growth f...
BEX Capital, the first investment firm focused exclusively on fund-of-funds (FoF) second...
Berlin-headquartered investment firm Target Global...
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London Food Tech Week - the world’s largest week-long festival ...
Green Angel Syndicate has announced that its members have backed a revolutiona...
CleverTap, the customer lifecycle management platform, has announced it has raised a $26 million Series B funding round, led by ...
More than 800 London students have had their hard work and creativity celebrated by leading industry names after they were asked to devise soluti...
Organizers of MRO Americas, one of the leading professional conferences of the aircraft maintenance industry worldwide, have selected the AR-based technology of AerinX among the TOP 10 most promisi...
Philanthropic start-up accelerator, The Seed Fund has revealed a growing trend for new food and drink businesses to be run b...
This year, London will be home to just as many fintech ‘unicorns’ as current global leader San Francisco – according to a ...
Jenny Evans started her luxury homeware brand, Jenny Kate, whilst studying Textiles at Cardiff Metropolitan U...
Intermediate Capital Group’s Europe VII Fund has announced it has, in partnership with Mérieux Equity Par...
After more than 23 years as Managing Director, and then Managing Partner of Albion Capital, Patrick Reeve has become Chairma...
BGF has successfully exited its minority stake in care service provider, The Good Care Group, alongside all...
Ahead of EIE next month, one of the investor panellists, Deborah Magid of IBM Venture Capital ...
This month’s Start-up Spotlight from The Invested Investor focuses on the co-founder of Cambridge based CRFS...
Green Angel Syndicate is investing in a £600,000 funding round for Entomics Biosystems, a Cambridge-based technology company at the forefront of the rapidly growing insect protein sector....
A start-up company that has discovered a safer, smarter way to tackle corrosion has secured a cash injection of £1m; which will support ambitious plans to become the industry standard i...
Crypta Labs, an innovative Internet of Things s...
AI-based technology startup Liopa has completed a very successful fund-raising campaign on the SyndicateRoom ...
New research by SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk has revealed how much CEOs earn compared to their employees around the world. ...
Simudyne, a simulation technology company, has announced that it has closed a $6 million Series A fundraise, led by Barclays alongside a distinguished set of...
Nauta Capital, a pan-European VC investing in capital-efficient B2B software companies and lean consumer plays, has announced the closing of a new €55M fund dedicated to backing its exist...
A British entrepreneur has seen his company achieve its £500,000 crowdfunding target, giving it the green light to roll-out technology to reduce the 16 million metric tonnes of Nitrous Oxide ...
The commercial magic of the Spice Girls remains as strong as ever, as Emma Bunton’s ethical baby product business Kit & K...
Nikki Howes is Investment Associate at Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm ...
Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious digital tech entrepreneurs, has revealed the 24 dynamic, fast-growing, late-stage technology companies ...
Maven Capital Partners has provided a £450,000 debt funding package to Reed Thermoformed Packaging Ltd (trading as &ldq...
Quilam Capital, which provides both debt and equity solutions to companies in the speciality finance sector, has announced its seventh investment since ...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative businesses, enterpri...
Astarte Capital Partners, a specialist alternatives co-investment platform with a focus on value-add real asset strategies, has made two appointments to its L...
Latest research from eFront demonstrates impact of Brexit vote on private equity capital commitments and distributions...
Sanford DeLand Asset Management, the multiple award winning investment boutique specialising in Business Perspective Investing, has announced the appoi...
Acre, the next-generation mortgage, protection and general insurance platform, has announced an exclusive arrangement with ...
Intertrust, a global leader in providing expert administrative services to clients operating and investing in the international bus...
Intechnica, the Manchester-based technology business, has closed a £2.85million funding round led by investment group Mercia. ...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has named Karsten Langer as its new Managing Partner for the Riverside Europe Fund (REF). ...
True, the retail and consumer sector specialist investor, has invested in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions based company F...
Over 40% of Scotland’s tech start-ups and scale-ups are targeting the US market for growth but have found access to finance the biggest barrier to their ambitious plans. ...
Partnership will support collaboration between five SPRINT universities and high growth SpaceTech start-ups. ...
Sceenic has raised its seed round through Startup Funding Club to continue expanding its “Watch Together” SaaS solution ...
Beechbrook Capital, the specialist direct lender, has established its first office in Germany.and has appointed Peter Gottron as Investment Director,...
Mobility aids specialist Snowdrop Independent Living has new owners after a management buyout (MBO) team ...
The UK Bioindustry Association (BiA) has published its quarterly financing update for December 2018 to February 2019 showing: ...
Cyberhawk Innovations Limited, the world leader in delivering drone inspections and asset visualisation software for energy infrastructure, has been acquired...
Pure Pet Food, the award-winning manufacturer of dehydrated and freeze dried pet food has secured a £2m investment from ...
Growth capital investor VGC Partners has announced the close of Fund II at £50.25m, to target UK-based consumer, media and ...
Cavendish Corporate Finance, the UK’s leading mid-market M&A firm, and part of the finnCap Group, has advised ...
According to new research by Master Investor Ltd., 85% of investors are actively looking to invest in the...
CroíValve, a medtech start-up providing a safe and effective treatment for tricuspid regurgitation, hasannounced that it has secured ...
Maven Capital Partners has led the management buyout of CMS Window Systems, a leading end-to-end provider of premiu...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has completed the take-private of AIM-listed Tax Systems Plc, th...
WestBridge Capital has acquired a majority shareholding in and provided growth capital to Wilcomatic Limite...
G3 Comms, the business communications provider and network integrator, has secured investment from private equity firm ...
The “HBAN Business Angel Syndicate” has been formed by HBAN - Halo Business Angel Network - to bring private investors together to back high potenti...
A bond offer in Dove Renewables, which operates two hydro schemes in Ashbourne (Derbyshire) and in the River Teign in Devon, has raised £1.1 million on the ...
Maven Capital Partners has completed the final close of the Maven UK Regional Buyout Fund LP, which has received total commitments (including from co-investmen...
Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity fund manager have backed a significant investment into ...
Startup Funding Club has made an investment of £100,000 into luxury lifestyle media brand The J...
Beauhurst has released a new series exploring regional trends in the UK's high-growth ecosystem. Starting with London, which is home to a staggering 30% o...
Comparethemarket.com has compiled profiles for 13 of the most successful entrepreneurs born in the 2000s. Their companies oft...
Luminous Ventures, has appointed John Spindler...
The innogy Innovation Hub, which identifies, funds, and mentors game-changing technologies and ideas, has closed a seed investment round in ...
Following the widely reported news of Tengai, the latest robot allegedly developed to remove bias from hiring processes, ...
Beauhurst has released a new series exploring regional trends in the UK's high-growth ecosystem. Starting with London, which is home to a staggering 30% o...
BlackCurve, a pricing optimisation company, has today announced the closing of a £1.5 M funding round, led by ...
People suffering with communication difficulties are benefitting from a new speech therapy service that has been developed by Caerphilly-based Cog-Neuro Speech...
The number of active UK biotechnology businesses in the field of research and experimental development has soared by 65% in just over three years as the sector attracts record levels of funding, ac...
Bristol Wood Recycling Project (BWRP) is celebrating having successfully raised the funds through a bond offer on ...
As it reaches the second anniversary of its launch, the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is celebrating having directly invested £100m in 385 N...
Ozo Innovations (Ozo) announces that it has secured over £600,000 project funding from the Department of Business Energy Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator (I...
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Startup Funding Club has been named the #5 Most Active Angel & Seed Investor in the world in PitchBook ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active SME finance providers, has invested £150,000 in cloud-based project management system, ...
London-based VC fund Fuel Ventures has expanded its portfolio of early-stage companies and invested £1 million in C...
Deepbridge Capital, the tax-efficient investment manager, has announced the appointment of Anjali Roberts as Strategic Partnerships Manager. ...
WarDucks, the Dublin-based augmented reality (AR) game development studio, has announced a €3.3 million funding round. Lead investor ...
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Fast-growing international investment and corporate advisory group Mayfair 101 has added leading business figures from ...
UKCloud, the multi-cloud experts dedicated to making transformation happen across UK public sector, today announced a significant £25m investment from ...
By Caspar Bowes, Bowes Wine Something came to me over breakfast yesterday; two things, in fact, in quick succession. The first was a rather spe...
Marketplace lending hit a record £6.1bn in 2018, according to Link Asset Services’ inaugural Marketplace Lending Index, powered by ...
Leading estate agency comparison business GetAgent has closed a £2.2m super-seed round from a consortium of investors led by Marchmont Ventures, back...
Private investor Rcapital has completed a Franchisee-led Buyout of Cash Generator, a successful and well e...
Luke Davis, CEO and Founder of IW Capital: &l...
Specialist property peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has secured the backing of a major financial institution to...
Praetura Ventures is raising money for its first Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund, as part of its mission to bridge the estimated £...
Belfast-based health tech company, Neurovalens, has secured one of the largest ever Series A investments generated by a Northern Irish technology company....
Tim Allan is joining the board of Archangels, the leading angel investor group specialising in early stage technology and life sciences companies in Sc...
Tim Mills, Management Director of the Angel CoFund has made the following comments on the Chancellor's Spring Statement and its focus on science and tec...
A new investor network has launched with the goal of building an ecosystem of entrepreneurialism and investment around the University of St Andrews. ...
Bowmark Capital is backing the buy-out of Pirum Systems, the leading provider of post-trade market infrastructure technol...
AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital, today published a new study which establishes a clear link ...
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, ...
BGF has invested £11.6m in Invenio, a UK-headquartered and global provider of business focussed technology ...
London and Tel Aviv based HR tech platform Hibob has raised $20m in Series A+ funding, led by existing investors Bessemer Venture P...
By Sophia Matveeva, CEO and Co-Founder of Enty Last week saw the International Women’s Day launch o...
As the tax year draws to a close, the Downing FOUR Venture Capital Trust (VCT) Healthcare Share Class remains open for end of year tax investments as part of...
Glasgow based investment syndicate Kelvin Capital has moved into its tenth year of business by completing its biggest investment year yet. ...
Disruptive Automotive AI start-up Cazana.com has closed its crowd-fundraise at £1.56 million, nearly 160 percent of its or...
London-based VC fund Fuel Ventures has expanded its portfolio of early-stage companies, investing £2 million in ...
Leading online investment platform Seedrs announces the highly anticipated launch of full customisation in its pioneering AutoInvest product. From today, inves...
BVA BDRC has published its quarterly SME Finance Monitor. The largest and most frequent study of its kind in the UK, research findings have been gathered ...
London-based investment manager, Downing, has appointed John Pollington as Investment Director, and Oliver Pettafor, as a Loan Servicing Analyst, to its gro...
Foresight Group has invested £249,000 in Usheru Limited, the firm behind a pioneering technology platform ...
Draper Esprit has led a £7 million investment in Hadean, the London headquartered deep tech company . The roun...
Beanuhurst marked International Women's Day by highlighting the continuing gender imbalance in the UK's high-growth sector. In its ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, today publishes its first LP Proficiency Survey – the...
Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious digital tech entrepreneurs, is revealing today the 10 early-stage tech startup winners of its Rising Stars competition...
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Vala Capital expects to invest all the capital raised by the Vala EIS Portfolio before the end of this current tax year on April 5. ...
Angel Investment Network (AIN) the UK’s largest online platform connecting angel investors with startups has launched a new platform co...
In this month's Startup Spotlight Invested Investor speaks to Ramona Liberoff, an exper...
Deepbridge, the tax-efficient investment manager, has appointed Alison Maughan as Investment Manager in the Life Sciences team. ...
innogy Innovation Hub, which identifies, funds, and mentors game-changing technologies and ideas, today announced it ...
Beechbrook Capital, the specialist direct lender, has reached the first close of its second UK SME Credit Fund, with commitments of £128m. The ...
P2PFA platforms facilitated loans worth nearly £3 billion during 2018, with more than 288,000 current borrowers during the fourth quarter, as further e...
Melanie Goward, Investment Director, Maven Capital Partners...
Godwin Capital, the fundraising and investment arm of Godwin Group, has recruited senior debt funding consultant Stan Lersch. ...
Clyde Blowers Capital (CBC), Duplomatic Motion Solutions (Duplomatic) and ...
VenueScanner has raised £1 million to roll out its sharing economy marketplace for booking venues. VenueScanne...
Draper Esprit portfolio company Trustpilot, the leading independent platform for companies to build trust with ...
Investment manager Downing LLP has completed the acquisition of Funding Empir...
With a portfolio of 150 start-ups of all stages and from all over the world, Partech is at a perfect observation post for the projects implemented by corp...
A report released from venture capital firm MMC Ventures...
Maven Capital Partners has led a £7 million investment in Northumberland based AVID Technology Group, a leader in the ...
On International Women’s Day, female representatives of Mercia’s investment team argue that whilst there are shortcomings in the VC industry,...
Specialist property peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has...
Revolutionary heating specialist Koleda has overfunded it's latest funding round on Kickstarter which is more than 700% funded. The funding r...
Growth in the UK private sector remained stagnant in the three months to February as momentum in early 2019 remained subdued, the latest C...
New research(1) from Revolution.Aero, the global meeting place for people who are reshaping, rethinking and re...
London-based veterinary tech business, Felcana, has received an early stage venture capital investment from Global Ventu...
Belfast-based ECG biometrics innovator B-Secur has closed a follow-on funding round worth £4 million, from investors, including Accelerate...
Beauhurst has outlined the ...
Harwell Campus, the UK’s science and innovation hub, has secured £110 million funding from Santander Corporate & Commerc...
Swipii, the loyalty card app, has secured investment of £1.9m via a funding round led by award-winning Scottish venture capital firm ...
Since opening offices in Newcastle and Durham in May 2017, Maven Capital Partners has invested a total of £10 million in dynamic, high growth businesses...
London Co-investment Fund's Flavia Richardson comments on why we need to change the landscape for female entrepreneurs. This week we ar...
With the backing of an equity investment package of £500,000 from the Development Bank of Wales and a further £600,000 from private investor...
Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths are key to the innovative small businesses that are set to make up a significant proportion of the Government's futur...
Inflexion Private Equity has acquired Times Higher Education (“THE”) from ...
AdoRx Therapeutics, a UK based drug discovery company, has announced that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC* a...
The British Business Bank has announced the accreditation of Robert Owen Community Banking Fund (ROCBF)...
The next generation of innovators met TeenTech patron HRH The Duke of York KG at Buckingham Palace to share their bold inventions, designed to make life &lsqu...
Two in five (40%) private equity industry professionals believe that a change in UK government is the biggest risk to their investment appetite in the UK, compared to 20% who selected a no deal Bre...
London-based investment manager Downing LLP has appointed Torsten Mack as Investment Director to its growing healthcare investment team. ...
Vortex IoT, a Swansea-based Internet of Things (IoT) company has received a six-figure investment from the Development ...
The Angel CoFund backed energy technology company Limejump is to be acquired by Shell*. With this de...
Nivaura, a regulated FinTech company focused on automating the issuance and administration processes for financial instruments, has closed a strategic funding...
Aston University and University of Birmingham Enterprise have teamed up with Miner...
SyndicateRoom's EIS fund, ...
YFM backed ACC Aviation has acquired global aviation consultancy Aerotask and has been r...
The CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations has acquired Credence International, a UAE-based wealth management and advisory company. ...
Richard Theo, fintech envoy for Wales and co-founder and CEO of digital investment service Wealthify, will reveal his predictions for the fintech sector and the opportunities it presents for Welsh ...
Find out why Paul McNabb from Episode1 Ventures believes Ori’s edge cloud is enabling the...
Simon Hopkins, CEO of Milltrust International, believes the university tech start-up sector has never been so exciting. Read on to find out why....
Two niche property law firms, Equilaw and Thomas L...
StoryShare, a leading SaaS Mobile Employee Experience Platform (EXP), has raised £1.15 million in growth fina...
Luxcara, one of the leading asset managers for renewable energy investments, has acquired the Finnish wind power project Välikangas,...
ThousandEyes, the company that provides actionable intelligence into digital experience for the cloud, Internet, and enterprises, has announc...
Women have long been under served by the financial advisory sector - but this is now changing. This is the assessment of deVere Switzerl...
New research from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alterna...
Specialist property peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has reached three major landmarks after fully funding th...
By Andrew Aldridge, Head of Marketing at Deepbridge Capital ...
The Growth Stage, the world’s first and only regulated, membership only funding platform for institutional investors and growth-stage privat...
British technology company Rotolight, which specialises in creating advanced LED lighting for the photography and filmmaking industries, h...
The rapid pace of innovation, new technologies and the digitalisation of almost all segments of the economy pose a huge recruitment challenge for companies all over Europe. The number of job vacanc...
Alastair George, Chief Investment Strategist at Edison Investment Research gives his view on global earnings: ...
AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital, has hired Jay Wilson to the role of investment manager. Jay’s appoint...
A leading SaaS video management platform which holds both current and archive footage for major sporting organisations and news outlets, including Premier League, World Tennis Association and the B...
The UK’s BGF has been named the world’s most active investor in businesses seeking growth and expansion funding in ...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most...
FLOWERBX, the online, wholesale, flower-delivery service, has announced it has closed a £4.2m ($5.5m US) fundraising round. The new funding will pave t...
The Growth Company has been awarded a £56.5m contract package as a result of bidding for ESF from the Education and Skills Funding Agency. This European ...
Albemarle Street Partners (ASP), the specialist advice and investment management consultancy for advisers, has announced a merger which wil...
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has made a significant investment in ...
Mobeus has announced that Matt Mead has joined the team in the newly created role of Venture Partner working across its VCT investments. ...
Senseon, the next generation AI platform for cyber defence, has announced the completion of a seed funding round of $6.4m. Leading the investme...
UK-leading meal kit company, Gousto, has raised another £18m in equity funding, bringing the total raised since launch to £75m. Attract...
Gradtouch, a Manchester Based job matching business, has received a funding boost of £150K from GC Angels, the angel investment arm of the Growth Company...
A recruitment business specialising in the financial sector has experienced rapid growth after developing a solution to a classic problem for SMEs. ...
ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank, has announced that it has appointed Gill...
Octopus Investments, part of Octopus Group and the largest provider of venture capital trusts (‘VCTs&...
FrontM, which provides business ICT applications for enterprises operating in areas with little or no standard telecommunication infrastructure, such as Airplane...
The British Business Bank’s 2019 Small Business Fi...
MMC Ventures-backed Growth Intelligence has raised £1.7m funding,...
ThinCats, the fintech lender for mid-sized SMEs, today welcomes a new £20 million funding commitment from British Business Investments, a commercial su...
Catering management software company Spoonfed is planning major expansion in the US, following £575,000 of development funding from ...
Jenson Funding Partners has announced an investment in Col8 Ltd, a technology company that provides video managemen...
Deepbridge, the Chester-based tax-efficient investment manager, has announced a further increase in its yearly funding to an increased range of comp...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has today announced the final closing of its second capital growth fund (Idinvest Growth Fund...
By Graham Bishop, Investment Director at Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK, whether the UK is stockpiling ahead...
ChargedUp, the UK’s first mobile charging network, is applying the bike-sharing model to mobile device charging, after closing a &...
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, today announces the appointment of Bao Dinh as Investment Director in the Venture Capital team. In...
Angel-backed peer-to-peer tasking app Pinga has announced its expansion across Central London, following a successful launch in Hackney last year. ...
Jenson SEIS and EIS Fund 2018/19 has invested in VANUSE Ltd, an on-demand mobile marketplace app designed for the cour...
Vala Capital, the UK venture capital firm, have appointed Jane Holland, ex-Financial Director at investment company The Ingenious Group, as the firm’s new COO...
The latest British Bank Business Report[i] paints a worrying picture of the risks small businesses take to secure finance for their business. ...
General Motors is taking a 35% stake in wejo, a Chester based 'connected car' start-up, originally backed by regional SME specialist, ...
Praetura Asset Finance Group (PAF Group), an asset finance lender based in Manchester, today announces it has closed a £75m securitisation facility wi...
Investors have pumped £300,000 into the company behind operations and issue management software used at golf’s Ryder Cup and athletics’ European Championships. ...
BGF portfolio company MorphCostumes, the manufacturer and online fancy dress retailer behind the legendary...
Fuel Ventures is offering entrepreneurs with their sights on Dragons’ Den the opportunity to pitch for investm...
Silverfleet Capital, the leading Pan-European private equity firm, has strengthened i...
Award winning, social enterprise Memory Matters CIC, which runs the Moments Café in the heart of Plymouth, has received investment of £100,000 to franchise its innovative training pack...
Wine Vault, the company behind WiV, a blockchain-based trading platform for fine wines, has made a significant step towards long-term viability by attracting investment from Singapore-based ...
Kuber Ventures, the alternative investment platform specialising in EIS and SEIS, is announcing the addition of three...
Maven Capital Partners and NVM Private Equity have completed a £3.25 million equity investment in UK fintech star...
NVM Private Equity has invested £2.25 million of growth capital into Edinburgh-based software business Adm...
Foresight has made a £5 million growth capital investment into Spektrix Limited, the UK’s leading pro...
Par Equity has be awarded ‘Best EIS Investment Exit’ at the EIS Association Awards 2019. The win completed a hat-trick of awards ...
Two tech entrepreneurs aim to transform cybersecurity with a new software platform that allows businesses to monitor the whole of their cybersecurity from one easy-to-use dashboard. ...
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ASTI Mobile Robotics is partnering with Keensight Capi...
The latest Fintech M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisor, Hampleton Partners, reveals that 2018 witnessed...
Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious digital tech entrepreneurs, is seeking 20 startups with the potential to go head to head wit...
The value of private equity business in Guernsey reached its highest-ever level the end of September 2018, according to the latest fund statistics from the Guernsey F...
Angel-backed company PBD Biotech has had its novel Actiphage® testing technology...
Kuber Ventures, one of the UK’s most innovative fintech platforms used by financial advisers has been shortlisted for the WealthBriefing ...
The Clwyd Pension Fund has confirmed a £10 million equity investment in the £25 million Wales Management Succession Fund. This is the first time an institutional equity investor has bac...
Earth Capital has successfully exited from the UK Energy Efficiency Investments Fund, through the sale of the Fund’s assets via a £100m IPO.&...
Redag Crop Protection Ltd, a UK agrochemical discovery company, has sold its discovery and early development division to ...
Innovative biometric tracking service, Forth, which helps people to navigate their way to better health using simply at-home finger-prick blood tests,...
Goji, the specialist direct lending investment manager and platform, has launched its 25th platform technology client, enabling 25 direct lending investm...
Jaisal Pastakia, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK ...
HBAN plans to recruit 75 new business angels in 2019. The new investors will have a combined total of at least €15 million available to invest in start-ups based in the island of Ire...
Newquay Community Orchard, which was built by the community for the community in the heart of Newquay, has received £100,000 inve...
Smith & Williamson has launched the Dream Bigger Hall of Fame, a brand new gallery showcasing ...
Storytellers Entertainment have defied the odds by hitting the $25k target for its first solo RPG ‘Imperium Omni’ in just 24 hours. The ...
Intertrust, a global leader in providing expert administrative services to clients operating and investing in the international business environment, ...
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) has provided two debt packages, committing a total of £410,000 to support l...
The SidebySide Partnership, the London venture capital firm founded by technology veteran John Bailye, has launched a technology EIS fund to...
Edge Investments, the leading creative industries specialist, has invested £3.5m into Festic...
Helena Murphy started investment consultancy Raising Partners two years ago and runs the business with her partner Duncan Di Biase. The business has so fa...
Foresight Group has announced the €17.3 million arrangement and subscription of a Project Bond issued by Pagano & Ascolillo S.p...
Female start-up founders are missing out on billions of pounds of investment, new research has found. The UK VC & Female Founders report found that for every £1 of venture capi...
Vala Capital, the UK venture capital firm, is looking to shake-up fees in the EIS industry with the launch of its ground-breaking EIS fund. ...
Beauhurst's latest edition of The Deal 2018 shows that deal numbers dropped from 1,744 in 2017 to 1,572 in 2018, and amount invested fell from £8.6b to £7b respectively. But this ...
'It is a great honour to announce that H.E. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, President of Croatia, will be attending the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) 2019 World Congress of Angel Inv...
Foresight Group has made a £2.15 million growth capital investment into Sportlabs Technology Limited, trading as ...
One of Asia’s leading fintech companies has invested £2 million into the development of a UK-based trading platform, demonstrating confidence in a post-Brexit Britain. ...
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has promoted Colin Anderson and Andrew Whiteley from Maven’s special...
NVM Private Equity has committed £2.2 million of growth capital into London-based recognition, employee reward, and ideas platform business, ...
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Philanthropic start-up accelerator, The Seed Fund opened for entry on Friday 1 February, offering 12 places on its sum...
State Street Global Exchange has released the results of the State Str...
Level39, one of Europe’s largest technology hubs, has launched a new campaign recognising the diversi...
LSN Diffusion (LSN), a high-tech metallurgical business has secured a further £1.25m loan from ...
Independent Growth Finance (IGF) report finds businesses ‘bullish’ about future despite 90 percent highlighting Brexit challenge 71 percen...
AI is already being implemented in businesses around the world, and while worries persist over whether robots will be taking over the workplace, some are predicting that it will actually improve an...
Uncertainty around Brexit has hit UK markets and raised questions about the UK’s economic prospects, but what effect is it having on the UK’s sma...
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A look at the year ahead from YFM 2018 was a year that confounded predictions. We had predicted a year where Brexit and general ...
A new trend in investment explained by Thomas Sheils of ...
Angel Investment Network (AIN), the UK’s largest and first online angel investment network has revealed its first ...
In this 4th episode of Series 3 of The Adviser Hour, GrowthInvest explores the wider drivers behind the growing popularity of “alternati...
Milltrust International, the award-winning investment group, has highlighted the commercial potential of spinout companies from the UK’s leading univers...
By Flavia Richardson, Portfolio Manager at the London Co-investment Fund The investment community commends its ability to monitor, interpret ...
The Resonance Real Lettings Property Fund² (RLPF²) has r...
Newable Private Investing syndicate including the LBA EIS Tracker Fund 4 make greater than 5x return following Hallmarq Veter...
Beringea has led a £6.5m investment in Exonar, a leading data discovery and management software firm. Downing Ven...
2019 is set to be a ‘buyers’ market’ for the UK’s top professionals, as the nation’s war for talent intensifies. Ne...
Resonance, a social impact investment company, with a head office in Cornwall, worked with Smile Together as advis...
Venture Capital firm Boundary Capital has invested £200,000 in Torsion Information Security, a disruptiv...
Palamon Capital Partners, one of Europe’s leading growth private equity firms, has announced that it has elected Philippe Arbour (pcitured) to the Partne...
The latest HMRC ISA Bulletin confirmed that ISA subscriptions cannot be held with eMoney providers. Goji, the specialist direct lending investment manage...
Firefly, a suite of school learning tools used in 40 countries and first developed by co-founders Simon Hay and Joe Mathewson while preparing for their GC...
By Caspar Bowes, Bowes Wine We’ve been in the throes of the latest burgundy offering of late, not only visiting the re...
Beringea has led a £9m investment in AccessPay, a Manchester-based fintech firm. The funding round, backe...
BGF has expanded its investment team covering the West Midlands with the appointment of Tom Horton, who will be based in the Birmingham off...
InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture cap...
The Dream Corporation has secured $1.1 million of investment to introduce a new leisure and hospitality concept with immersive entertainment...
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Foresight Group has made a £1.25 million growth capital investment into Fertility Focus Limited, a l...
Par Equity, the venture capital firm, has closed five investments worth £4.85m in just two days. The firm was lead investor and partnered with the&nbs...
Aberdeen-headquartered SPEX Group Holdings Limited has secured a multi-million pound follow-on investment from its management team and ...
Growth Intelligence has announced the successful close of a £1.7m investment round. The company received multiple offers with the round being...
NVM Private Equity has exited from Warwickshire-based Lanner Group, a leading provider of predictive simulation ...
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Startup Funding Club (SFC) has recently closed an investment into state-of-the-art eBike company Swytch...
MEIF Maven Debt Finance has provided Validair Monitoring Solutions Limited, a technical services and environm...
BGF has completed a further investment into The Prezola Group to deploy new technology pla...
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Charu Lahiri, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management, the asset manageme...
Hubble, the online platform for flexible office space, has secured £4 million in Series A financing from a group of industry-leading invest...
Farewill, the UK’s fastest growing will writing service has announced it has raised £7.5 million to disrupt the dea...
Equity Gap, Scotland’s most active business angel syndicate, is preparing for further expansionafter completing its biggest investm...
Hundreds of books and articles have been written on leadership – most are written by academics based on surveys and by people, who neither held penultimate leadership roles in sizeab...
The British Business Bank has appointed Paul Jones to a new position as Senior Manager, UK Network for the South West. ...
Private equity chief financial officers (CFOs) reported another year of unprecedented growth of their firms but are still struggling to overcome opera...
Alastair George, Chief Investment Strategist at Edison Investment Research discusses his outlook for 2019 in the attached s...
Fintech business lender MarketInvoice has announced it has raised £26m in...
Silverfleet Capital, the leading Pan-European private equity firm, has acquired a majority stake in STAXS&...
KPMG UK Tech Monitor Index Political uncertainty and global trade frictions have dented client confidence, but buoyant staff hiring and capital spending p...
The British Business Bank has appointed Steve Aslett to a new position as Senior Manager, UK Network for the South East. ...
Following the heavy Government defeat on the Brexit withdrawal motion, PIMFA, the trade association for the personal investment management an...
BGF has made its fourth life sciences investment in the last few months, providing Nottingham-based business incubator Bio...
SimplyCook has announced that it has secured a £4.5m Series A funding from ...
Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has appointed Simon Adcock as a partner and head of portfolio management. ...
QuadSAT, the drone-enabled antenna testing company, today announced it has closed its £700,000 seed round, led by the Danish Gr...
The British Business Bank has appointed Paul Sullivan to a new position as Senior Manager, UK Netw...
Over half (53%) of respondents to the survey believe financial services creates the most potential for value creation through technological innovation,...
Fuel Ventures, a leading London-based VC investment fund has launched a scheme to improve diversity and remove all unconscious bias from the investment proce...
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, provided a record investment of almost £50m into AIM-listed companies in 2018, b...
A fast-growing online retailer has moved into a bigger warehouse in Glasgow after receiving financial backing from more than 700 vegans across Britain. ...
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Seldon, the machine learning deployment specialist, today announced a £2.7m funding round led by ...
Cycle.land, the bike sharing marketplace unlocking the assets of unused bikes, has announced that it has raised over £200,000, thanks to...
Alex Sleigh, Investment Director at Newable shares his thoughts on trends from last year, what to expect for 2019 and how the upcoming year will impact busi...
School Space, a leading platform for schools to generate extra funds by hiring out their spaces, has announced that it has secured £800,000 in equity fu...
Maven Capital Partners has, through its management of two regional funds, provided £1.95 million of...
BGF has announced the exit of its minority investment in Jumpstart, the UK's leading R&D tax credit spe...
The Board of Sanford DeLand Asset Management (SDL) has announced the appointment of Rex Orton as Chairman with immediate effect, following FC...
The latest Companies House data, as analysed by the Centre for Entrepreneurs (CFE), shows that business formations recovered from ...
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, ...
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Immersive Labs has announced that Goldman Sachs has led ...
Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK, has announced the rollout of its dynamic reportin...
By Robert Crowter-Jones, Head of Private Capital at Saranac Partners Families now tend to allocat...
Chronomics, a pioneering company in health-tech innovation, has just launched the world’s first consumer epigenetic testing kit. Chronomics has succe...
Foresight Group has invested £1.5 million from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into ...
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Superfood Bakery, a company that makes delicious gluten-free dairy-free baking mixes and snacks sold at over 100 retailers, have closed their £240...
Ingenious, the alternative investment manager that specialises in the media sector, has announced the launch of Ingenious Vision VCT. The focus of Ing...
Analysts, accountants and digital marketing specialists top a list of in-demand roles in 2019, as employers focus on navigating an increasingly digitalised business landscape and a shortage of key ...
The Unicorn AIM VCT plc has announced the intention to launch an offer for subscription to raise £15 million, through the issue of new ordin...
The UK’s leading peer-to-peer ethical investment company Abundance has started the year with the closing its largest fund raise to d...
LettUs Grow, creator of advanced aeroponic technology for indoor farms, has announced it has s...
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Lein Applied Diagnostics, a company that specialises in innovative and precise optical technology, have closed their latest funding round, receiving investment from two members of ...
Volatility will persist throughout 2019, reflecting uncertainty as the Fed tightens monetary policy – but current stock market valuations will generate positive returns for investors. ...
Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments, has closed an investment of £3.6 million into ...
BGF has announced the exit of its minority investment in Petrotechnics, a global leader of software solutions for hazardous industries, following its acquisitio...
Graham Bishop, investment director at Heartwood Investment Management, gives his insight on what we can expect in 2019 ...
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UK buyout investor, WestBridge, has promoted Tim Whittard (pictured) to director and Edward Minton to Investment Manager. ...
Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, is seeking to raise up to £36 million through top up off...
Crowdcube hit its best-ever figures across a range of measures in 2018, as crowdfunding continues to cement its popularity with entrepreneurs and invest...
UK infrastructure’s rapid transition from a niche to an increasingly mainstream asset class has been underlined by a new study, which reveals that over six-in-ten (62%1) financial ...
Healthcare venture investment in the U.S. and Europe reached a new high in 2018, according to Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world’s most i...
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Red Industries, the hazardous and non-hazardous waste management business, has secured a £39m funding package from ...
Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, believed to be the oldest in the world, led a record breaking £22.4m of invest...
Dymag Group, the British designer and manufacturer of carbon hybrid automotive wheels, i...
Leading private equity investment platform Seedrs has announced a record-breaking year full of industry firsts, European growth and the highest level...
Mercia invested £59.7million in 2018, with over 90 per cent of the funding going to businesses outside of London and the South East. The figur...