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Venture Capital Funding

Articles, news and expert analysis on venture capital funding in the UK and Europe.

Tech start-ups in London raise record $26bn in funding in 2021

Amount raised by London tech companies more than doubles year on year, bringing total tech unicorns to 75

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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

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Edge Investments holds first close of its second venture fund at £85m

Edge Investments raised £85m, with its Create the Future fund aiming for a £100m final close. The fund will support firms contributing to the creative economy

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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

Venture Capital Funding

Edge Investments holds first close of its second venture fund at £85m

Edge Investments raised £85m, with its Create the Future fund aiming for a £100m final close. The fund will support firms contributing to the creative economy

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7percent Ventures – ‘Find investors who aren’t scared of your vision’

Andrew Scott, co-founder of 7percent Ventures, started investing in early stage companies because of his frustration at the timidity of European VCs. Too often, he says, British founders downplay their vision to appease investors

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Northern Gritstone on track to raising £500m fund for northern universities

Fund has found backing for its first £100m with another £300m in discussion, enabling it to back two dozen northern university spinouts a year

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Diary of a VC deal – how SEON became Hungary’s largest Series A round

Bence Jendruszak of online fraud prevention firm SEON opens his diary as to what it took to be Hungary’s biggest-ever Series A raise

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British start-ups raise £20bn so far this year, setting new record

UK start-ups have already raised one third more investment cash by end of third quarter than they did throughout 2020