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General Election 2024 – what do scale-ups want to see?

The General Election will be on July 4, 2024, with political parties scrambling to get their policies together. What do high-growth firms want?

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ThinCats to back high-growth companies with £300m fund

The new fund is for high-growth and owner-managed businesses based in London, the South East, North West and the Midlands

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Fastest-growing companies in the UK revealed

The eighth annual FT1000 rankings is based on revenue growth in the three years to 2022

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Litestream Ventures unveils plans for ‘click-to-invest’ TV series  

The venture media firm is hoping the series will challenge the likes of Dragons’ Den

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Record number of new companies launched in 2023

NatWest and Beauhurst’s New Startup Index reports a record 900,000 companies were started in 2023, up 12% on 2022

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Government reveals aim to make UK a ‘scaleup powerhouse’

Michelle Donelan wants Britain to be home to half the number of tech unicorns in Europe by 2030

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UK pension funds trail Scandinavia for start-up investment

Venture capital investment is down across Europe, but AI is bucking the trend

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University spinout equity stake to be capped

Currently, the UK average stake a university will have in a spinout is 22.8 per cent

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UK pension funds trail Scandinavia for start-up investment

Venture capital investment is down across Europe, but AI is bucking the trend

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University spinout equity stake to be capped

Currently, the UK average stake a university will have in a spinout is 22.8 per cent

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Jeremy Hunt announces science and tech VC programme

The Chancellor is looking to cultivate a group of investors specialising in AI, robotics and vaccines

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UK gets top spot in Europe for venture capital funding

Globally, the UK is behind only the US and China for levels of start-up VC funding so far this year

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Cambridge aims to double its number of unicorns

Cambridge makes up the ‘golden triangle’ of R&D-rich start-ups in the sciences sector

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European VC Atomico raises $1.1bn

The backer of Klarna and Lilium has a target of £1.35bn despite a challenging economic climate