Scale-ups

Articles and news on UK and European scale-ups and their role in driving innovation, job creation, and economic growth.

Venture Capital Funding

White Star Capital looking for scale-ups to expand internationally

Second White Star fund has $180m to invest in software, ecommerce and online marketplace growth businesses

Alternative Finance for Business

ThinCats to lend £400m to growth companies by end-2020

ThinCats, the growth business lender, targets scale-ups it feels are ignored by other lenders including high-street banks and fintechs

Growth Planning

Stephen Welton, BGF Q&A: ‘We want to help you make a quantum leap’

BGF was set up after the financial crisis to help fast-growing companies accelerate even faster. It has become the most active investor in Britain, ploughing £2bn into scale-ups

Venture Capital Funding

Venture capital placing bigger bets on fewer scale-ups

Total amount of VC money invested in Britain rises by 37pc to £4.4bn over the first six months, according to KPMG

Entrepreneurs

Top 9 women founders leading the UK’s high-growth UK scale-ups

With female entrepreneurs overlooked by venture capitalists, the UKBAA nominates its top 9 women founders of high-growth businesses

Growth Planning

AIM for growth businesses looking to scale up is still an option

AIM used to be the first port of call for growth companies looking to fund raise. To be so again it needs to attract institutional interest and improve transparency and governance, argues Ivan Sedgwick of LGB & Co

Opinion