Tech entrepreneurs can expect to spend around £380,000 over the first year of a new venture according to new research from QuoteMyEnergy which looks at how much it costs to be a tech entrepreneur. 

KPMG VC Venture Pulse for AQ1 2018 shows that venture capital investment in the UK slowed in the first quarter of 2018, following a huge Q4’17, which saw over $2.8 billion invested.

The PwC / CB Insights MoneyTree Report for Q1 2018 reveals latest figures for venture capital actvity in the US.

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Statistics collected by Finnish Business Angels Network ry (FiBAN) and Finnish Venture Capital Association ry (FVCA) show Finland blasting to another all-time high on investments made into Finnish startups and early stage growth companies in 2017. 

The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has published the fundraising figure for Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) for the 2017/18 tax year. 

The number of new tech companies being set up in Scotland rose by 77 per cent in 2017 according to new analysis by RSM.

In total, there were 440 software development and programming businesses incorporated in Scotland in 2017, a 77 per cent increase on the 249 companies set up in 2016.

New data from eFront shows that, once biases are eliminated, European venture capital has consistently matched the performance of US funds over the past 20 years.

The region’s newest investment arm, NorthInvest, reports significant growth of across the North following a 25% increase in membership.

Invoice finance and asset-based lending in the UK stood at £22.2 billion at the end of 2017, up five per cent on the funds advanced at the end of 2016, figures published by UK Finance reveal. The number of clients remained stable at around 42,000.

Funderbeam has publilshed its Global Funding Report for Q1 2018. The report looks back at the first quarter of the year and reviews the latest funding trends around the globe. For example, funding in Q1 2018 when compared to Q1 2017 was up 27.5%. 

There are signs of improved investor confidence in making large investments as higher value venture capital funding (VC) bands gain momentum, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. A recent analysis by the company has revealed that in Q4 2017, the number of VC investments in bands above $10m accounted for 33.5% of activity.

Moore Stephens, the top ten accounting and advisory firm, has carried out an in-depth survey amongst directors of AIM companies and their professional advisers to explore one overarching question – is AIM still considered the world’s leading growth market?