Maven Capital Partners to continue managing £20m Finance Durham Fund The North East firm recently topped £12.5m investments into businesses across the region through the Fund Birmingham Post · Jun 7, 2023
A crypto obsession and early Crocs investment lie behind an outsider’s ‘hustle mentality’ Maya Bakhai founded her venture capital firm after stints at PwC and Thirty Five Ventures – and an early bet that paid off big time The Guardian - US · Jun 7, 2023
N4 launches maiden fund aimed at start-ups Glasgow-based firm is looking for early-stage businesses in the technology sectors to invest in Insider UK · Jun 5, 2023
Ballymena cemetery software company PlotBox wins £5M investment London-based Guinness Ventures are lead investors Birmingham Post · Jun 2, 2023
Edinburgh angel syndicate reshuffles top team Investment firm's founder moves to new position of executive chair Insider UK · Jun 1, 2023
Contract of £100k awarded to help Nottingham City Council with future Levelling Up bids The council spent £250,000 on unsuccessful bids to the most recent round of funding Nottingham Post · May 24, 2023
Tech firm hoping to tackle 'inefficient and unprofitable' shopping areas raises £1.5m Customers of Sticky include the likes of Byron Burger Birmingham Post · May 12, 2023
The City remains a beacon of innovation for stock listings Moves off market show London is innovating, not dying Evening Standard · May 10, 2023
Scottish scale-up investment dips as caution enters market The £70m raised during the first quarter was the lowest amount during that period since 2020 Insider UK · May 10, 2023
Hotter Shoes owner Unbound Group loses £10m investment over trading concerns as it calls in Interpath Advisory A knitwear and jersey brand backed away from a possible £7m takeover of the group last month Birmingham Post · May 10, 2023
Glasgow EV charging business gets private equity backing The latest funding will enable the company to scale its operations across the UK Insider UK · May 2, 2023
Major VCs link arms in new climate push The new alliance is designed to align firms' portfolios with a "net zero" emissions future, and help individual companies they finance do the same. Axios · Apr 25, 2023
Female angels lead terrible* investment round Merchandising company secures nearly £200,000 in fundraise Insider UK · Apr 25, 2023
Woodford fund compensation for investors likely to total 77p in the pound Takeover of frozen fund’s administrator and FCA ruling could filter extra £235m to 300,000 investors The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2023
Evening Standard · Apr 20, 2023 Woodford fund investors offered up to £235m in FCA’s redress scheme However, the deal is conditional on the completion of a sale of Link Group’s fund solution business to Waystone Group
Daily Mirror · Apr 19, 2023 Rishi Sunak accused of 'complete lack of transparency' as wife's shares kept secret Details of investments worth hundreds of millions of pounds that are owned by the PM's heiress wife Akshata Murty were not included on a list of ministerial interests
Reuters · Apr 19, 2023 British govt publishes PM Sunak and other ministers' interests Britain's government on Wednesday published an updated list of ministers' interests, including an outline of the affairs of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is under investigation over whether he properly declared his wife's shareholdings.
Manchester Evening News · Apr 17, 2023 Over £60m raised by credit card start-up backed by former Manchester United star Rio Ferdinand The investment means the company is now valued at more than £70m
Liverpool Echo · Apr 17, 2023 US firm 777 Partners retains 'serious interest' in Everton investment after holding talks with Farhad Moshiri Miami-based 777 Partners have held talks with Everton earlier this year over a potential deal
Birmingham Post · Apr 17, 2023 Credit card start-up backed by Rio Ferdinand raises over £60m The investment means the company is now valued at more than £70m
Birmingham Post · Apr 17, 2023 Private equity investors Foresight Group launch Newcastle office amid £20m addition to regional fund Foresight's North East Fund has secured funding from the British Business Bank
The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2023 ‘A naive and stupid idea’: how Rishi Sunak’s Future Fund spent millions on failed firms The then chancellor’s loan scheme, set up as Covid hit, was supposed to keep dynamic startups going, but ended up giving taxpayer cash to long-established or lame duck businesses
Insider UK · Apr 13, 2023 ETZ's £2 million challenge fund opens Grants of up to £250,000 are being made available to help the energy supply chain realise low carbon sector opportunities
Tribune News Service · Apr 11, 2023 Venture Capitalist Lisa Lambert of National Grid on ‘toughing it out,’ disrupting energy grid Lisa Lambert has come a long way from her childhood in Toledo, Ohio, raised by a single mother in subsidized housing.
Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2023 Leaving London: ‘How I swapped renting in Clapham for my own penthouse and a new business in the Lake District’ A home in the Lake District, and a fresh start, all for around the same monthly costs as a room in Clapham