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Venture builder aims to co-found 40 startups

Venture builder Cambridge Future Tech has raised more than $3 million, marking a significant develop...

Invest in Women Hub to help female entrepreneurs secure finance

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with the Council for Investing in Female...

Idea dismissed as ‘crazy’ by investors nears £1bn valuation

Today tech-enabled sportswear brand Castore is on the brink of a £1bn valuation. Fresh from rais...

Oxx closes second fund at cool £150m

Oxx, a specialist investor in European B2B SaaS scaleups, has reached the final close of its second ...

YFM’s new £95.5m fund shatters target

YFM Equity Partners has closed its latest fund at £95.5 million. The private equity firm says Bu...

Molten Ventures in £41m swoop for rival tech VC

Molten Ventures has swooped to acquire fellow tech-focused venture capital firm Forward Partners in ...

110 growth measures: Tech sector reacts to Chancellor’s Autumn Statement

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt plans to introduce 110 measures to boost the UK’s economic growth. Deliv...

Building Our Startup: Ian & Lisa McCartney, Plytime Learning

Our series profiling companies from our Startups 2.0 lists continues with Ian McCartney, co-founder ...

‘Founders must work IN the business, not just ON it’

Founders must avoid taking a strategic role too early before the company is ready for it. That’...

Advisory board appointed by Scotland’s Kelvin Capital

Kelvin Capital, the Scottish-based investor in early stage globally disruptive technologies, has app...

New chair revealed at Molten Ventures plc

Molten Ventures plc has revealed the identity of its next chair. The investment house said Lauren...

‘There is unmet investor appetite for early-stage companies’

There is a discrepancy between the appetite for investing in early-stage companies and advisers’ b...