An education technology start-up created by an American entrepreneur has netted £1.1 million of seed capital.
The £25 million North West Fund for Biomedical has made its 57th investment to date through the backing of Perfectus Biomed.
Maven Capital Partners has lent its support to a buy-in management buy-out for manufacturing firm HCS Control Systems.
Despite a number of large venture capital investments taking place in 2013, the UK start-up investment scene is still lagging behind its US equivalent, independent innovation charity Nesta says.
Long nights: Start-ups will get a cheque and tin of instant coffee when backed
Ping pong and Movember are things of the past for companies set to be backed by Ingenious Ventures' new media and creative industries seed fund, as the firm's CEO Patrick Bradley explains.
Adam Grunwerg, founder of Graduates.co.uk, gives his take on The Apprentice and explains why it does little to represent what business is like in the real world.
Roberto Bonanzinga is a partner at Balderton Capital and has spent over 15 years working with entrepreneurs in the US and in Europe. He gives some candid advice on how to approach a VC.
Despite it taking until 2013 for the UK to have its first ‘official astronaut’, Britain’s space industry offers many opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Avoiding the pitfalls of Pan Am, Jarvis and the News of the World
The reputation of a business has a strong bearing on how successful it can be and, as BDO partner Nigel Burbidge explains, can be something lost overnight.
Agile lower mid-market businesses key to driving deal flow
Ian Sale, managing director in the Acquisition Finance team at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, analyses how the performance of the lower mid-market could lead to its own investment focus.
Crowdfunding: An arriving and welcome phenomenon
The rise of crowdfunding can only be sustained if we keep the nanny state out.
I'm always enthused when the government decides to not just throw money at a generic problem, but actually target specific elements of it.
That was the business ethos being championed by Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson during a talk at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
The government now has two new advisers on tech policy.
Having first cut his teeth in the business world on the classified telesales desks at The Daily Telegraph, Nick Green set up printed.com in 2011 and has grown it to revenues of £3.9 million.
Having spearheaded the government's early Tech City promotion, Eric Van der Kleij is using his entrepreneurial experience to produce the next wave of innovative financial technology businesses.
Treating staff like his own family has worked wonders for Kevin Taylor, CEO of online marketing services company Gravytrain.
Eric Collins, managing director of Nampak Plastics, explains how his decision to concentrate on employee engagement has lead to greater innovation throughout the organisation, and why this has been instrumental in the company’s successes.
The 2012 M&A on AIM report examines valuation metrics, cash balances and financial performance to provide dealmakers with all the tools they need to pinpoint undervalued companies on AIM.
Details of CEO and total board pay are provided for the majority of AIM-quoted companies, and analysed by sector, company turnover and profitability.
The latest cash shells directory has identified 91 cash shells with total cash of more than £572.3 million between them. They are all quoted on the London markets and hoping to find an acquisition that will turn them into growth companies.
The Alternative Investment Market (AIM) remains home to over 1,100 ambitious companies and professional services firms.
