Growth Planning

Government to roll out three different visas to help fast-growth companies hire overseas workers, attract graduates from world's top universities, and woo foreign founders of tech start-ups.

Funding

This week’s deals include a developer of robotic e-skin closing £3.6m, life sciences diagnostics firm Automata closing £37m Series B, and WalkSafe, an app which helps women get home safely, raising £300,000 seed investment

Insurance

Scrapping EU rules over how insurance companies can invest will free up £80bn between them, say two of Britain's biggest insurers

Company Flotations

London's junior stock market recorded £9.5bn raised in 2021, compared with £8.5bn for the rest of Europe's secondary markets, despite Brexit

Funding

This week’s deals include games developer Tripledot closing £85m, cold fusion start-up First Light raising £33m and upmarket travel brand Plum Guide raising £23m

Venture Capital Funding

The Government is being held hostage by trying to reduce national debt, says influential economist. What it needs to do is have a coherent long-term investment strategy to grow UK business, says Lord O'Neill