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Venture Capital Funding

British Patient Capital targets life sciences and fintech as key investments

Government’s venture capital arm backs 12 funds with £334m of investment in its first year, bringing total commitments to £600m

Banking

NatWest adds another £2.2bn to its Brexit Growth Fund

Nearly £6bn drawn down already from Brexit preparation fund, designed to help small business through no-deal

Venture Capital Funding

White Star Capital looking for scale-ups to expand internationally

Second White Star fund has $180m to invest in software, ecommerce and online marketplace growth businesses

Venture Capital Funding

Hiro Capital VC to invest €100m in European gaming startups

New VC fund will target UK and European games studios and deep tech for sports technology, esports and wearables for professional athletes

Banking

Cashplus plans to lend £400m to small business from next year

Cashplus aims to have a 10pc market share of all new UK business accounts by 2024, with nearly 100,000 business customers already

Entrepreneurs

Wanted: entrepreneurs to run multimillion-pound tech startups

Kamet turns the traditional seed capital model on its head by developing disruptive ideas itself and then finding entrepreneurs to lead them. Oh, and they’re backed with €250m of AXA insurance money

Alternative Finance for Business

Creative England launches £24m debt fund for creative businesses

Creative Growth Fund will offer loans of up to £500,000 to post revenue, IP-rich creative businesses which need finance to scale up

Growth Planning

Two thirds of young tech companies planning to raise investment

Hiring talent still biggest obstacle for UK’s booming tech sector, with 80pc hiring staff despite ongoing Brexit turmoil.

Banking

Co-operative Bank to revolutionise small business banking offer

Co-operative Bank plans to bolster its small business banking offer through re-introducing relationship managers, revamping its technology and easing up cash flow facilities

Banking

HSBC adds billions to its £14bn small business loan fund ahead of Brexit

SME loan fund ringfences cash for agriculture and companies that want to expand overseas post Brexit

Venture Capital Funding

UK fintechs raise on average £20m each in 2019, up one-third since 2017

UK fintechs expected to raise total of £2.6bn in their next funding round, with Series A funding accounting for over a quarter

Technology

MPs call for tax incentive for small businesses to boost robotics

Parliamentary business committee says tax incentive for robotics and automation in small businesses will help increase productivity