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Venture Capital Funding

Tory peer Lord Wei calls for tax breaks for green VC funds

Lord Wei of Shoreditch also calls for pension funds to invest up to 5% of their assets into transformative social and environmental technology

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Deals of the week January 4 to January 7 – a GrowthBusiness roundup

This week’s deals include Space Forge breaking the record for a space tech seed round, theUp.co raising £7m to consolidate its business, and ethical investing app C5K raising £4m through CrowdCube

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US takeovers of British tech companies rise by 50% in 2021

Government can intervene in foreign takeovers of UK high-tech companies with turnover below £70m as concern grows over overseas investors snapping up significant start-ups

Venture Capital Funding

Cambridge Innovation Capital raising second fund

CIC acts as a booster rocket for tech start-ups spun out from Cambridge university, with £200m invested in 35 companies to date

Venture Capital Funding

UK tech investment accounts for one third of £76bn invested in Europe

Record-breaking £26bn invested in UK technology in 2021, up 2.3x from last year's £11.5bn figure

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Deals of the week Dec 13 to Dec 17 – a GrowthBusiness roundup

Paul McCartney joins £7.2m investment round for music royalty technology Audoo, office space organiser Kitt raises £6.1m Series A and second-hand watch marketplace Subdial clocks £4m investment

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Deals of the week Dec 6 to Dec 10 – a GrowthBusiness roundup

This week’s deals include goods delivery platform Sorted raising £30m Series A, global VC launching a £21m fund for UK tech companies, and Atom Learning smashing the record for Series A funding for a UK edtech start-up

Venture Capital Funding

European technology investment busts $100bn threshold for first time

Investors will plough $121bn in European tech companies this year, according to VC firm Atomico, with record figures for unicorn creation

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Deals of the week Nov 29 to Dec 3 – a GrowthBusiness roundup

Future Fund: Breakthrough makes first life sciences investment, German luxury goods platform Timeless raises £11m and recruitment video software firm Hinterland closes £3m Series A round in this week’s deals

Venture Capital Funding

Future Planet Capital closes £3m crowdfunding within days

Impact investor Future Planet Capital, which has £300m invested to date, closes £3m crowdfund raise through Seedrs within one week

Funding

Deals of the week Nov 22 to Nov 26 – a GrowthBusiness roundup

This week’s deals include Singulart raising £51m from Vitruvian, chicken rearing accessories firm Omlet selling a £33m minority stake and events platform Feast It raising £4.2m

Venture Capital Funding

PROfounders – ‘We’re in the unicorn-hunting business’

For Sean Seton-Rogers, co-founder of seed investor PROfounders, what makes a venture capital fund great is the number of billion-dollar companies it helps grow