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Start-ups

Articles on Startups – newly established businesses most often characterised by innovation, agility, and high growth potential, pursuing disruptive ideas or technologies with the aim of addressing unmet needs or solving pressing challenges in the market.

News

Start-up behind Boris Bike stunt video rides off with $1.35 investment

Collaborative social video network FightMe has turned to venture capital backers to finance the continued growth of its platform.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Google snaps up UK start-up spider.io

Display ad technology business spider.io is now in the hands of Google after becoming the US search engine giant's latest acquisition.

News

Doug Richard on investing in creative start-ups    

Interviews with serial entrepreneur and investor Doug Richard.

Venture Capital Funding

HOWZAT Partners: In search of the next Trivago

Finding a promising young start-up in the highly competitive digital market needs skill and tenacity. GrowthBusiness meets HOWZAT Partners and the firm's co-founder David Soskin to find out how the investor found, and then sold, Trivago.

Growth Planning

What are the success factors for start-ups?

Nyall Jacobs, partner at accountancy firm Carter Backer Winter, cuts through the uncertainty to identify solid and reliable factors that successful start-ups have in common.

News

French accelerator TheFamily gets investment stamp of approval from Index Ventures

A start-up accelerator in France has become the latest beneficiary of investment capital from Index Ventures.

News

Freedom of Information request finds disparity between reported and actual number of start-ups

A discrepancy between the number of start-ups reported to be springing up by Companies House, and the actual number in working existence, has been discovered.

News

Irish government sets aside €175 million to invest in fast-growth start-ups through venture capitalists

A new €175 million fund aimed at funding high-growth companies has been set up by the Irish government.

News

Former PayPal executive and ghd co-founder back start-up Eco Market 

Eco Market has added to its growing list of angel backers by securing the interest of ghd co-founder Martin Penny and former PayPal and eBay executive Elisabeth Ling.

News

James Caan's Start-Up Loans scheme backs 1,000th entrepreneur

The £112 million Start-Up Loans initiative has seen its uptake double since an extension was announced in early January.

News

Start-up survival hinges on access to finance, survey suggests

New businesses are most likely to fail due to a lack of start-up finance, a new study shows.

Growth Planning

The importance of SMEs

Simon Blagden, non-executive chairman at Fujitsu UK & Ireland, believes SMEs are vital for the future growth of the UK economy and explains why.