Foresight Group's award-winning Foresight Capital Management Team has raised £500 million in less than two years since the launch of its first open-ended investment company.  The team cites the growing demand for ESG and sustainable investing, predictable cash yields, and lower market volatility, as key drivers for its success.

Co-founders Julien Sevaux and Tarek AbuZayyad have launched Eighteen48 Partners, a research-led private investment office addressing the needs of professional investors, sophisticated families and institutions. 

The new firm has already secured over $600m in assets under management from its founders and a group of prominent strategic investors, many of whom are shareholders, clients and advisors of the firm.  As advisors they provide specific asset class, industry and geographic expertise and contribute directly to the sourcing and evaluation of investment opportunities.  John Singer, former Managing Partner of private equity firm Advent International, is representing strategic shareholders on the Eighteen48 board.

Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) has revealed its annual list of the 70 most ambitious high-growth technology companies joining the 2019 ‘Scale Up Club’, which celebrates the most-promising businesses from across the UK who are scaling fast. 

Social impact investment company Resonance has won the Impact Investment Academy New Product Launch (Specialist) Impact Award for the second year running. This year’s award was given to the recently launched Resonance North West SITR Fund.

Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s leading SME finance providers, has strengthened its portfolio team with the appointment of Simon Robb and Dean Gregory. 

World-class leaders from LEGO and Harvard Kennedy School will join over 700 delegates from the Scottish SME community today (20 November) at Scotland’s CAN DO Innovation Summit at Glasgow Science Centre.

The shortlist for the North East Innovation Awards has been announced. 

Sixteen coveted trophies covering every aspect of business life have been presented to the winners of the 18^th Lloyds Bank National Business Awards.

Calculus Capital has appointed Dominic Harris as Portfolio Management Director. Harris was previously an Investment Director at Valtegra, a private equity firm focused on the investment in and turnaround of mid-market companies facing unique situational challenges.

The ScaleUp Institute has appointed successful scaleup entrepreneur Adam Hale as its new Chair.

He takes over from Sherry Coutu, co-founder of the ScaleUp Institute, who has served her planned five-year term since the publication of the original Scaleup Report in 2014 and the subsequent formation of the ScaleUp Institute in 2015.

EIT InnoEnergy, the world’s largest sustainable energy accelerator, has issued its first ever global call for start-ups across the entire sustainability value chain. The call is open to start-ups worldwide in areas including but not limited to: renewable energy, energy efficiency, heat and transport, to solve the decarbonisation challenge.

Balderton is launching the fund against a backdrop of unprecedented momentum within the European tech ecosystem.