Tag

Venture Capital

Articles, news and analysis on UK and European venture capital financing and its role in heling startups and early-stage companies.

Venture Capital Funding

Cambridge Innovation Capital closes £225m second fund

CIC’s first fund made more than 30 investments in potentially world-leading deeptech and life sciences companies

Venture Capital Funding

What is a venture capital term sheet?

Mountside Ventures has produced a report demystifying the world of term sheets for founders. What is a term sheet? What's the difference between types of shares? How long do VC deals take to close?

Venture Capital Funding

The world started with a big bang, your pitch should too

The world started with a big bang, your pitch should too, says corporate storyteller and pitch consultant Donna Griffit

Opinion

Five venture capital trends for start-ups to follow in 2022

For Dave Rosenberg, VC investment in start-ups will be all about embedded AI, challenger brands and clean technology

News

Venture capital investment in Europe and Israel busts €100bn threshold

Last year was great for venture capital. Pitchbook explores why that is by examining fundraising, deal-making and exits in it latest report

Venture Capital Funding

UK tech investment accounts for one third of £76bn invested in Europe

Record-breaking £26bn invested in UK technology in 2021, up 2.3x from last year's £11.5bn figure

Venture Capital Funding

PROfounders – ‘We’re in the unicorn-hunting business’

For Sean Seton-Rogers, co-founder of seed investor PROfounders, what makes a venture capital fund great is the number of billion-dollar companies it helps grow

Venture Capital Funding

Edge Investments holds first close of its second venture fund at £85m

Edge Investments raised £85m, with its Create the Future fund aiming for a £100m final close. The fund will support firms contributing to the creative economy

Funding

Rishi Sunak pushes for pension funds to invest in tech start-ups

Chancellor announces consultation on changing regulatory charge cap for pension schemes, unlocking potential billions for investment

Venture Capital Funding

UK creating technology unicorns at rate of one a week

Twenty businesses become unicorns in first half of 2020, as £14bn of venture capital is ploughed into nearly 2,000 tech start-ups

Funding

Key to tech investment lies in hands of pension holders, says Sunak

Chancellor says its up to those who pay in to pensions to tell institutions they want to invest in fast-growth tech start-ups

News

Record $5.3bn raised in first six months for London’s fintech sector

London-based fintech companies has attracted over a third of Europe's venture capital funding in 2021 so far