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  • Veganuary: New £240m fake meat fund looks to disrupt and decarbonise the food industry

    Food Sector

    Milltrust Ventures and Earth First Food Ventures are set to launch a new $300m (£242m) Smart Protein Fund tomorrow to back alternative proteins and decarbonise the food industry, City A.M. can reveal.   Over $600m was invested in total in the cultivated meat sector last year, and the alternative protein market, which includes imitation meats [...]

  • Exclusive: CybSafe’s CEO on tackling VC pattern matching as a black business founder

    Venture capital exclusive

    When CybSafe CEO Oz Alashe MBE raised his Series B funding round last year, the ambitious London entrepreneur was one of only ten black British founders to have ever done so, or so he was told. While Alashe has not been able to validate that claim, it gives an insight into the stark reality of [...]

  • London beats Euro rivals to retain tech investment crown (yes, despite Brexit)

    Tech investment

    London sailed past European rivals to retain its crown as the top destination for tech investment last year as nearly $20bn was pumped into the capital’s start-ups, new data has revealed.

  • Venture capital to play major role in European private equity

    December 21, 2022

    Go big or go home, there is no time to be risk-averse as venture capital investments are set to play a major role in European deal values throughout 2023.  The venture capital (VC) game was primarily played in the US however, since 2013 the European asset class has grown from €60bn (£52.6bn) assets under management [...]

  • UK startups bag £4.2bn as VCs shrug off recessionary fears

    November 1, 2022

    Venture capital investors in the UK and Ireland shrugged off recessionary fears in the third quarter of the year as they pumped £4.2bn into start-up firms, new research has revealed.

  • Four venture trusts bag £45m in start-up vote of confidence

    October 18, 2022

    Four venture capital trusts have bagged £45m from investors in just 24 hours in a vote of confidence for the vehicles after ministers reversed a decision to wind them down.

  • Taxpayer-backed Pollen on the verge of collapse

    August 9, 2022

    An events start-up backed by the British Business Bank's Future Fund is on the verge of collapse just months after it bagged a $150m funding injection, according to reports today.

  • European venture funding plunges as inflation hits private markets

    August 4, 2022

    European venture capital funding slumped in the second quarter of the year as an investment boom tailed off amid soaring inflation and market shocks brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, new research has revealed.

  • Startups restraining breakneck growth plans in hunt for funding, says VC chief

    July 28, 2022

    UK startups are paring back growth-at-all-costs business plans and mapping out firmer routes to profitability as recessionary fears cause investors to pull back from higher risk bets, a top venture capital chief said today.

  • British Business Bank pumps £30m into early-stage venture fund amid investment slowdown

    July 27, 2022

    The state-backed British Business Bank revealed it had pumped £30m into a new early-stage venture fund today as it looks to fill a funding gap for small firms amid a major investment slowdown this year.

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