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Can a sole trader employ staff?
What is a sole trader? Does it mean you have to work alone or can you take on employees as the business grows? → Read More
British Business Bank wants to back more scale-ups
British Business Bank’s new chief executive says he would like to see the bank plug a funding gap for scale-ups looking for £50m and more → Read More
What’s the best country in the world to be an entrepreneur?
The best country for entrepreneurs? The answer may surprise you. When it came to the Top 50 countries, the UK was only middling → Read More
What is a scale-up visa?
A scale-up visa allows skilled overseas talent to be employed by eligible scale-ups in the UK for up to two years → Read More
Nuclear fusion: the start-ups chasing energy’s holy grail
Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the sun and stars; the hope is that it could also power our homes → Read More
Space tech start-ups see number of deals rocket by 50%
The private space tech industry attracted $8.9bn globally in 2022, the second highest annual investment on record → Read More
More VC funding going to female founders
Twenty-seven per cent of equity deals in the UK last year went to female founders or businesses co-founded by women → Read More
Oxford Capital to back 12 start-ups in 2023
VC firm Oxford Capital will back seed-stage companies with £500,000 to £1m in digital and deep tech space this year → Read More
5 steps to prepare your company for scaling
Rajiv Nathwani, founder and director of Quivira Capital, explains the 5 steps for successfully scaling up your business → Read More
Government revives Oxford-Cambridge tech hub
Rishi Sunak backs regional partnership plan with £2.5m to develop ‘UK Silicon Valley’ based on the Oxford-Cambridge Arc → Read More
How to scale your business quickly
What does scaling mean? How do you know when you’re ready to scale and how do you scale your business quickly? → Read More
UK seeing exodus of R&D activity
Blow to Government ‘science superpower’ dream as 70% of UK R&D firms plan to move research & development abroad this year → Read More
VC investment in UK companies falls by a third
VC investment into UK businesses falls by one third in final quarter of 2022, seeing the lowest level of investment since Q2 2020 → Read More
Government proposes to revamp R&D tax credits for small businesses
The Government acknowledges there is “merit to the case for further support” to R&D intensive SMEs in life sciences and tech → Read More
Mercia to invest up to £130m into regional start-ups
VC firm Mercia co-founder Mark Payton warns that B2C, fintech and cryptocurrency will all have a torrid time in 2023 → Read More
Oxx to invest in up to four B2B SaaS companies in 2023
London-based VC Oxx confirmed it will invest between £5m and £20m in B2B SaaS companies at Series A stage in 2023 → Read More
Jenson Funding Partners launches £60m early-stage net zero fund
Jenson Funding Partners aims to deploy the fund from mid-2023, investing in 60 pre-seed and seed stage companies in year one → Read More
Beringea to back eight start-ups in 2023
London-based VC Beringea will look to invest between £2m and £10m in eight start-ups across all sectors in 2023 → Read More
British Patient Capital invested £1.6bn into start-ups in 2021/22
Over the year, British Patient Capital made 61 fund commitments, four co-investments and five Future Fund: Breakthrough deals → Read More
Form Ventures to back 10 start-ups in heavily regulated markets in 2023
London-based VC Form Ventures is ready to invest £200,000 to £1m into eight to 10 companies in regulated markets next year → Read More