Venture Capital Funding

What is Foresight Group? – a Growth Business guide

Foresight Group, the London-headquartered private equity and infrastructure investment house, has a portfolio of over 70 investees in its venture capital and private equity division in British SMEs with an AUM of over £470 million. Partner James Livingston tells Growth Business what he is looking for in a potential investment

Venture Capital Funding

Venture capital biotech funding increases 35% year on year

Venture capital channels over £2m a day into biotech, accounting for two thirds of all biotech funding

Banking

Barclays launches £15bn fund to help small business through Brexit

Fund will offer loans, mortgages and overdrafts of up to £250,000 to SMEs, as well as cash flow and growth funding

Venture Capital Funding

VGC Partners closes fund at over £50m to invest in consumer, media tech

Fund will invest between £2-5m apiece in consumer, media and tech companies

Venture Capital Funding

Omers launches £258m London-based VC fund for tech startups

Canadian pension fund with £55bn in assets previously invested in Shopify and Hopper

Funding

British Business Bank £2.5bn growth fund could float on stock exchange

British Patient Capital aims to trigger £7.5bn of investment in growth companies over next decade.

Funding

Keith Morgan of British Business Bank – ‘Our fundamentals are strong’

Keith Morgan, CEO of British Business Bank, talks to Growth Business about the £6bn bank’s future in a post-Brexit Britain.

Funding

What is the British Business Bank? – a Growth Business guide

The British Business Bank is the UK’s economic development bank supporting nearly 8m businesses through £6bn of finance. Growth Business takes you through all the funding initiatives on offer

Technology

Number of biotechnology companies grows by two thirds over three years

Biotech business population flourishes since 2016 as annual investment reaches £2.2bn in 2018

Technology

How reducing your carbon footprint can increase business productivity

Coupling new ways of working with the latest technology reduces your carbon footprint while increasing productivity and your bottom line

Cyber Security

Almost a third of small businesses have no cyber security strategies

A new report from Business in the Community reveals that many small businesses are leaving themselves vulnerable to cyber attacks.

Entrepreneurs

How we’ve grown our business – Emma Watkinson, CEO SilkFred

E-commerce platform SilkFred began in 2011 raising £150,000 in seed money. Today, it employs 70 staff and sells 600 fashion brands online.