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Articles and guides on growth funding strategies and opportunities for UK companies.

Opinion

Why follow-on investment is crucial to fulfilling business potential

Funding constraints can be terminal for growth businesses, which is why follow-on support must become a key component of an investor and company relationship.

News

Crowdcube fuses venture capital and crowdfunding for latest investment round

Having previously only used its own crowdfunding platform to raise growth capital, Crowdcube has secured institutional backer Balderton Capital as a new investor.

News

Business Growth Fund backs 50th company from £2.5 billion fund

Aberdeen-based Task Geoscience has been backed by the Business Growth Fund through a deal worth £3.8 million.

Opinion

Growth is back on the agenda for ambitious UK businesses

Positive market figures and a renewed focus on the future bodes well for SME growth during 2014.

News

Global Founders Capital makes Girl Meets Dress one of three maiden investments

Girl Meets Dress, a service which allows users to rent luxury garments, has secured its first round of funding with help from Global Founders Capital.

Alternative Finance for Business

Roundtable on SME finance and business growth

A roundtable discussion on SME finance drew on the fields of invoice factoring, commercial finance and accountancy in a discussion about obstacles to business growth.

News

Octopus Investments hits the slopes with backing of The Faction Collective

The entrepreneur and investor behind businesses such as Seedcamp and Skimlinks had been backed by Octopus Investments in his latest venture.

Venture Capital Funding

Interview with Stephen Welton of the Business Growth Fund

Stephen Welton has returned home to his natural investment habitat, backing smaller companies. GrowthBusiness sits down with him to find out what he is trying to achieve at the Business Growth Fund.

Alternative Finance for Business

Using retained earnings as a source of capital

With banks firmly closing the doors and venture capital firms becoming increasingly risk averse, GrowthBusiness speaks to entrepreneurs and business owners who are going it alone.

News

BGF sees promise in Morphsuits firm AFG Media

The entrepreneurs behind AFG Media, a fancy dress and party fashion business behind Morphsuits, are the latest recipients of equity funding from the Business Growth Fund.

Entrepreneurs

Allowing investors to take a cut

You have made it on your own so far, why share now?

News

First recipients of Regional Growth Fund named

The government has announced the 50 successful first round bids from companies and partnerships which will share in more than £450 million of investment from the Regional Growth Fund.

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