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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.

Alternative Finance for Business

ACF Investors launches £30m Delta Fund for start-ups

Delta Fund will co-invest alongside sector-savvy angel investors in funding rounds greater than £500,000

Alternative Finance for Business

SFC set to invest £11m in early stage start-ups this year

Angel fund says its investors are keener than ever to support Britain’s newborn start-ups – in the hope they grow into unicorns

Opinion

5 models for the start-up office of the future – how the office will change

Five years from now, how will we look back at 2020? Will we have grasped the opportunities that lie before us? David Mott questions the idea of the office and examines new models emerging in the start-up community

Opinion

Start-up valuation – an investor guide to valuing a start-up

Matthew Cushen, co-founder at Worth Capital, explains the ins and outs, the art and not the science behind a realistic start-up valuation.

News

New company launches fell by a quarter between January and May

But company registrations bounced back in May, just 3% down year on year as entrepreneurs take the plunge

Growth Planning

How law firm Harper James is powering the start-up revolution

Online, digital and subscription-based, Harper James is the perfect law firm for tech-savvy start-ups

Opinion

What the Government needs to do to save British start-ups

Government must acknowledge the failures of the Future Fund and pursue longer-term solutions, argues Michael Buckworth.

Opinion

Why COVID-19 is not all bad news for start-up valuations

Start-ups face a 20-60% drop in valuations based on previous crises. Yet some start-ups could see increased investor demand during the COVID-19 pandemic

Venture Capital Funding

Female Ventures Fund to invest £10m in women-only start-ups in first year

New venture capital fund led by and for women will address inequality of just 1% of VC money going to women-only start-ups

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

Venture capitalist calls for £1bn start-up bailout fund

France has launched a £3.5bn bailout fund for tech start-ups, argues VC Public, so why isn’t Britain doing the same?

Growth Planning

4 biggest obstacles stopping you from growing your business in 2020

Andrew Johnson, FD of PowWowNow, identifies 4 headwinds your scaleup faces in 2020 as you try to grow