Venture Capital Funding

Ada Ventures raises £27m to invest in diversity-driven tech start-ups

Ada Ventures will invest £500,000 apiece in 30 tech startups run by minorities often overlooked by traditional venture capital.

News

Company directors overwhelmingly reject Labour’s nationalisation plans

Labour’s £59bn plan to nationalise broadband gets biggest thumbs-down, yet bosses say broadband is UK’s most urgent infrastructure investment need

Alternative Finance for Business

Duke Royalty sitting on £45m it wants to invest in established businesses

AIM-listed finance fund raises another £18m in equity having closed royalty finance deals with a dozen businesses so far

Venture Capital Funding

London cements its position as the global fintech hub

London has the most fintech headquarters of any city, according to research, but average deal size lags behind San Francisco.

Venture Capital Funding

Why Europe’s tech millionaires put their money where their mouth is

Nearly 20 per cent of all money invested in European startups is coming from individual investors, making private wealth the main source of venture funding

Venture Capital Funding

Investors plough £9bn into British tech funding in 2019, up nearly 50%

UK pulls ahead of closest rivals Germany and France as investment magnet, despite Brexit uncertainty

News

MarketFinance plans to offer up to £1m in business loans

Newly rebranded MarketFinance moves beyond invoice financing into business loans and other combined products

News

UK’s 50 fastest-growing tech companies grow revenue by nearly 4,000pc

The UK’s 50 fastest-growing tech companies earn £650m between them in 2018/19, employing nearly 9,000 people

Exit Strategies

Exit, what exit? 92% of those who’ve sold up stay in the business world

Entrepreneurs who envisage walking away from their firms having sold are likely to be disappointed. The reality is that over 80pc stay involved with the businesses they’ve exited

Funding

Alternative Business Funding looking to raise £6m to fund expansion

ABF, the small business finance comparison site, wants to increase its registered users to 160,000 small firms

Growth Planning

UK businesses gloomiest about economic outlook out of EU countries

Nearly two thirds of UK businesses think economy will worsen over coming six months reflecting wider European malaise

Company Flotations

AIM market set to miss last year’s total funds raised

Total capital raised so far on AIM market hits £3.9bn, well shy of the £5.5bn raised in 2018