Venture Capital Funding

UK companies set for record year of venture capital investment

VC funding for UK technology companies hits $4.9bn in H1, twice the amount of capital secured by this time last year

Alternative Finance for Business

Esme wants to be lending £1bn a year to small business within few years

NatWest’s digital lending platform wants to increase its SME lending tenfold as it nears £100m lent to date

Growth Planning

Suzi Woolfson, PwC Q&A: ‘We’re about increasing stakeholder value’

PwC head of private business Suzi Woolfson on what she looks for in start-ups, digital disruption, and how the accounting giant can help grow your business

Alternative Finance for Business

Growth Street plans to lend £1bn to companies by end-2022

Growth Street plans to have £1bn out on loan to small businesses in attempt to plug £18bn funding gap left by high-street banks.

Alternative Finance for Business

Julie Ashmore, Growth Street Q&A: ‘We want to transform the overdraft.’

Growth Street has lent more than £100m to growth businesses since the fintech platform launched in 2014. However, commercial director Julie Ashmore says Growth Street has its own plans to grow

Alternative Finance for Business

Crowdfunding UK small business: everything you need to know

Crowdfunding expert Rob Murray Brown explains everything you need to know about raising money for small businesses through crowdfunding in the UK

Funding

British Business Bank increases small business support by 27pc

Government economic development bank supported over 89,000 start-ups and scale-ups with £6.6bn of finance in 2018-19 - an uplift of 27pc

Venture Capital Funding

This year set to be record one for funding UK start-ups and scale-ups

First half of 2019 sets new record for investment in start-ups and scale-ups, with investment up 20pc

Venture Capital Funding

IQ Capital raises $300m for investment in ‘deep tech’ growth business

Cambridge-based IQ Capital raises $125m for scale-ups and third $175m fund for start-ups working in the artificial intelligence, biotech and internet of things 'deep tech'

Technology

Audoo raising £1.2m for revolutionary music smart meter

Audoo has already raised £600,000 for music smart meter that enables collection agencies to accurately calculate royalties for songwriters and musicians

Growth Planning

Businesses need to understand staff better to solve productivity puzzle

One third of large businesses spend less than £10,000 a year on understanding what their employees actually do - and how to set targets to improve productivity

Venture Capital Funding

Venture capital placing bigger bets on fewer scale-ups

Total amount of VC money invested in Britain rises by 37pc to £4.4bn over the first six months, according to KPMG