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Early Stage Funding

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

Funding

Deals of the Week, January 1 to 8 – Growth Business roundup

Growth Business roundup of Deals of the Week January 1 to 8, listing seed funding, venture capital and crowdfunding deals of note

News

Deals of the Week, October 16 to 23 – Growth Business roundup

Growth Business roundup of Deals of the Week, October 16 to 23, listing seed funding, venture capital and crowdfunding deal of note

Funding

What is the future of start-up funding post coronavirus?

Ciaran Hickey and Benjamin Simon of tech law firm Wiggin consider the options as start-ups face a tougher market for raising finance

Venture Capital Funding

Checkout.com raises Europe’s biggest ever early-stage funding round

Checkout.com raises $230m in record Series A funding, valuing it close to $2bn.

Venture Capital Funding

MMC London Fund turns 5: Over £100m investment for early-stage businesses

A dedicated fund supporting early-stage London-based businesses, MMC London Fund has turned five. Marking this milestone, venture capital firm, MMC Ventures looks back at the fund's highlights.

Venture Capital Funding

New early-stage VC firm launches with an initial £28m fund

Rooks Nest Ventures officially launches today after a number of investments in technology and IP-heavy entertainment businesses.

News

Crowd Vision attracts US investment and provides partial exit for early-stage angel investors

Crowd analysis software provider completes combined funding round.

News

Former Vodafone UK CTO and Salesforce VP back seed round for business call app

A $500,000 early stage investment round has been closed by VENNCOMM, a smartphone app that allows users to have free group business calls.

Opinion

Build your business not your network: A message to European entrepreneurs

Early-stage businesses need to be careful to not get swept up in the sexy start-up scene.

News

Adblocking prevention start-up PageFair nets $400,000 of venture funding

Irish tech start-up PageFair can now count Tribal Ventures, Frontline Ventures and Enterprise Ireland as backers after closing a new funding round.

Venture Capital Funding

Boost for UK tech start-ups following first close of Amadeus IV Early Stage Funds

Venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners has achieved a first close of its latest Enterprise Capital Fund aimed at backing early-stage technology businesses.

Private equity

Beware of death by a thousand questions in the private equity game

Private equity firms are very dangerous to know if yours is a small, fast-moving firm.