About

Dom is a feature writer for Growth Business and Small Business, focused on matters concerning start-ups and scale-ups. He has also been published in the Independent, FourFourTwo magazine and various lifestyle publications.

Growth Planning

5 steps to prepare your company for scaling

Rajiv Nathwani, founder and director of Quivira Capital, gives 5 tips on successfully scaling your business

News

Government revives Oxford-Cambridge tech hub

Sunak backs plan with £2.5m to develop ‘UK Silicon Valley’ based on the Oxford-Cambridge Arc

Growth Planning

How to scale your business quickly

What does scaling mean? How do you know when you’re ready to scale and how do you grow quickly?

News

UK seeing exodus of R&D activity

Blow to Government ‘science superpower’ dream as 70% of firms plan to move research & development abroad this year

News

Government to hold a scale-up summit this year

Grant Shapps tells business leaders in Davos he wants UK businesses to ‘grow and mature into world-beaters’

News

Steven Bartlett hunts unicorns with $100m Flight Story Fund

The fund will back entrepreneurs focusing on blockchain, biotech, health and wellbeing, commerce, technology and space.

News

VC investment in UK companies falls by a third

Venture capital investment into UK businesses falls by one third in final quarter of 2022, seeing the lowest level of investment since Q2 2020

News

Government proposes to revamp R&D tax credits for small businesses

A consultation document from the Government published on Friday acknowledged there was “merit to the case for further support” to small and medium-sized businesses

News

Mercia to invest up to £130m into regional start-ups

VC co-founder Mark Payton warns that B2C, fintech and cryptocurrency will all have a torrid time in 2023

News

Oxx to invest in up to four B2B SaaS companies in 2023

London-based VC will invest between £5m-£20m in B2B SaaS companies at Series A stage

Funding

Jenson Funding Partners launches £60m early-stage net zero fund

The VC firm aims to deploy the fund from mid-2023, investing in 60 pre-seed and seed stage companies in year one

Funding

Beringea to back eight start-ups in 2023

Beringea will look to invest between £2m and £10m in around eight start-ups across all sectors in 2023