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Early Stage Funding

Articles, guides and news on early stage funding for UK growth companies and start-ups.

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Concentric launches Europe’s first bitcoin focused fund

The £18m pre-seed and seed fund is the first dedicated bitcoin venture fund outside the US

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Amount raised by start-ups drops 57% year-on-year

Start-up and scale-up fundraising totalled £2.76bn in Q3 – the lowest quarterly figure since the same period in 2020

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TSP Ventures to back 10 climate tech start-ups in 2023

London-based VC is looking to invest between £250,000 and £1m into 5-10 investments in 2023

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Deals of the Week Oct 24 to Oct 28 – a Growth Business round-up

Deals this week include VR-based training for employees, breast screening for a billion more women and a blood test to better manage TB

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Triple Point Ventures to deploy £15m into B2B tech start-ups in 2023

Around ten new investments and five follow-on investments will be made into B2B tech start-ups next year from the London-based VC.

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Deals of the Week Oct 17 to Oct 21 – a Growth Business round-up

Deals this week include an environmentally friendly rocket, animal fat created in bioreactors and a start-up looking to fuel planes with agricultural waste

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Lightrock launches £742m climate fund

The fund will make investments of between £8.6m and £34.5m in growth-stage businesses driving net zero.

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Deals of the Week Oct 10 to Oct 14 – a Growth Business round-up

Deals this week include a fintech that helps under-18s with financial skills, a website builder for side-hustlers and a psychedelic start-up helping cancer patients

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US venture capital market resilience gives hope to UK

The first nine months of 2022 has seen a record-breaking $151bn pumped into venture capital funds in the US

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Calculus launches EIS fund for impact start-ups

Calculus Knowledge Intensive EIS Fund focuses on technology and healthcare start-ups with a ‘societal purpose’.

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Deals of the Week October 3 to October 7 – a Growth Business round-up

Deals this week include a platform that can spot fake advertising clicks, an ethical eyewear company and a platform which gives small creative agencies a leg-up

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Ada Ventures launches £36m fund for early-stage founders

For its second fund, Ada Ventures will focus on climate, healthcare and economic empowerment