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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

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

Venture Capital Funding

Venture capital has £8.4bn ready to invest in fast-growth businesses

Equity investment in small businesses rose by 24% to £8.5bn in 2019, with tech investment increasing by 27% to £4bn

News

Here are 3 tech start-ups actively fighting coronavirus

Growth Business highlights 3 tech start-ups actively fighting the Covid-19 pandemic that are open for investment to fund further research and development

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?

Venture Capital Funding

IQ Capital growth fund invests in first two companies

Thought Machine and Consirus are first two fast-growth tech businesses to access IQ Capital £100m growth fund

Venture Capital Funding

Why venture capital needs to stop hunting unicorns

Unicorn hunting promises a high bounty, but real returns come from investing at an earlier stage, argues Daniel Pitchford.

Venture Capital Funding

Three companies raise £50m between them through MMC Scale-Up Fund

MMC Scale-Up Fund has raised £100m from institutions to fund growth for scaling companies, offering EIS investors an exit route

Opinion

How blockchain can fix the broken venture capital model

Kevin Monserrat highlights 4 things that are wrong with venture capital, arguing that blockchain can fix its broken system.

Venture Capital Funding

VC funding for UK tech start-ups breaks new record

Over £10bn of VC funding for UK tech start-ups last year, a 44% year on year increase

Venture Capital Funding

VC backing for UK scale-ups rockets by 22% in 2019, hitting £9bn

Venture capital investment in early and seed stage falls away, in favour of later stage deals

Venture Capital Funding

Global tech VC investment falls for first time in seven years

Worldwide venture capital investment drops to $258bn as investors are spooked by IPO flops of tech unicorns such as WeWork

Venture Capital Funding

London cements its position as the global fintech hub

London has the most fintech headquarters of any city, according to research, but average deal size lags behind San Francisco.