Funding

Deals of the week August 2 to August 6 – a GrowthBusiness roundup

This week’s deals include True leading a £2m seed round for Canadian homeware site Fable Home, Vira Health raising £1.5m for its Stella menopause app and Ember Snacks crowdfunding £1m for its British biltong brand

Funding

Deals of the week July 19 to July 23 – a GrowthBusiness roundup

This week’s deals include London-based fintech Soldo raising £131m in Series C, B2B food logistics start-up Collectiv Food closing £12m Series A and Scottish outdoor kindergarten chain Willow Den raising over £700,000

Funding

Number of start-up funding rounds down 36% from 2018 peak

Government faces blowing its own science superpower goals unless more is done to support early-stage tech start-ups, warns financier

Funding

Deals of the week July 12 to July 16 – a GrowthBusiness roundup

This week’s deals include Heart Aerospace raising £25m in Series A for its electric plane fleet, food allergy testing firm Reacta closing £3m and healthy snack brand BEPPS munching on £400,000 seed funding

Funding

Deals of the week July 5 to July 9 – a GrowthBusiness roundup

Growth Business roundup of Deals of the Week, July 5 to July 9, listing seed funding, venture capital and crowdfunding deals of note

Venture Capital Funding

DN Capital launches $350m fund for post-pandemic recovery

Latest Fund V will target tech founders developing technology to help the world bounce back from the pandemic

Company Flotations

Aquis hopes to raise £100m for growth companies this year

Newcomer stock exchange for growth businesses has raised £70m so far in 2021 with 50 companies queuing up to list

Funding

Deals of the week June 28 to July 2 – a GrowthBusiness roundup

Growth Business roundup of Deals of the Week, June 28 to July 2, listing seed funding, venture capital and crowdfunding deals of note

Mergers & Acquisitions

Bethnal Green Ventures sold to asset manager Connected

Connected Asset Management sees BGV as a way for its pension fund clients to invest in British tech start-ups working for social and environmental good

Funding

Deals of the week June 21 to June 25 – a GrowthBusiness roundup

Growth Business roundup of Deals of the Week, June 21 to June 25, listing seed funding, venture capital and crowdfunding deals of note

Venture Capital Funding

Leta Capital launches $100m fund for Russian-speaking founders

Third Leta Capital fund looking for entrepreneurs based in London or New York who speak Russian or other East European languages

Private equity

Rishi Sunak expects £500bn Long-Term-Asset Fund to launch this year

Half-trillion pound Long-Term Asset Fund will help pension funds invest in venture capital funds and back start-ups