StateUp, a world-leading insights and advisory firm for the GovTech sector has announced StateUp 21.

Working with governments, startups, investors and international organisations to enable more and better cooperation between governments and technology startups, StateUp offers training, advisory services, and data-driven insights and sector analysis with particular expertise in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. 

The Technology Venture Investments team at the Development Bank of Wales is expanding, as the Development Bank of Wales seeks to further support Welsh technology businesses.

Helen Kuhlman joins the Development Bank as a senior investment executive. Alex Leigh is promoted to a senior investment executive and David Blake is promoted from an assistant investment executive to an investment executive.

The British Business Bank has appointed Elizabeth O’Neill as General Counsel and Company Secretary of the British Business Bank plc, effective from 15 February 2021.

A Cambridge University programme has produced a fleet of the UK’s ‘next generation’ entrepreneurs and world-class innovators - attracting over £50million (£53,561,000) of funding and investments over the last four years for the alumni’s life-changing projects.

Curve, the London-based fintech that combines multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, has named Anju Patwardhan as a non-executive director to its Board.

The 2021 shortlist for next month’s coveted #21toWatch Awards includes some of the most inspirational entrepreneurs, startups and innovations from the East of England.

DSW Debt Advisory – which advises businesses on raising a wide variety of debt funding and is part of the Dow Schofield Watts group - has appointed Lynn Li as Manager.

Squire Patton Boggs has further expanded its Global Corporate Practice in London with the appointment of partner Julian Thatcher. 

Antler has appointed Karl-Christian Agerup as a Partner, focusing on the company’s investment operations and strategy globally. 

Tech Nation, the scaleup network for entrepreneurs, has launched its inaugural Scale Ratio, which compares the number of seed stage, early growth and late growth companies in the UK’s tech ecosystems. 

NatWest has announced an additional £1 billion in funding to help support female-led businesses in the UK recover from the coronavirus. The aim is to ultimately help female entrepreneurs scale and grow, and builds on the £1bn announced last January, which was the largest intervention by a UK lender focused specifically on female-led businesses.

Deborah Harris, founder, director and strategist of The Grow CFO Co., based in Australia, has been awarded runner up in the global Wealth Dynamics Masters Programme from Entrepreneurs Institute.