London-based startup, BEPPS Snacks, has raised £400,000 investment from early-stage venture capital investors, Ascension Ventures, 

Multi-family investment office, Arete, has made a significant investment as part of a multi-million-pound deal in North West based, Vivify. The scale-up provides a digital platform as well as a fully managed service where under-utilised school facilities can be listed for hire to maximise social and physical activities within communities and generate much-needed revenue for schools.

Alex Kennedy of Gannons looks at how to deal with the next phase of Covid regulations

Employers are thinking about how to manage their employees' return to work under the lifting of lockdown restrictions. We are hearing from employers unsure about their position: what changes they have to make and what requests for change from employees they can refuse.

Gannons has set out an overview of the key employment law requirements for employers post lock down designed to help employers rebuild their businesses.

Remy Astie, CEO and founder of Vauban, makes the case for joining forces with other angels and highlights some of the benefits (for both investor and the companies they back).

In reaction to a COVID crisis that brought extremely low interest rates and an accelerated digital transformation, investors are increasingly exploring private investment opportunities in startups to enjoy better returns. 

Karen Dunne-Squire from Elation Experts shares her five key steps to ensuring the change you want to embed in your business succeeds.

Modwenna Rees-Mogg looks at the Future Fund statistics and asks just how helpful they really are?

The number of first-time funding rounds into UK seed-stage startups declined for a second consecutive year in 2020, to 36 per cent below the 2018 peak for such deals, according to new research commissioned by SFC Capital. 

Bower Collective, the sustainable consumer goods business has raised £2.1 million in seed stage fundraising.  The round led by Oxford Capital and Doehler Ventures will accelerate the growth of the business through packaging innovation and new product development to increase market share. 

A biotech company with a product that helps to heal eye injuries and could revolutionise treatment of other wounds has raised a further £1.8m.

Nottingham-based NuVision Biotherapies  has secured funding from the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, Mercia’s EIS funds, Newable Ventures and private investors.

Situated in the London borough of Westminster, technology company Dragonfly AI has secured a £250,000 loan to expand its operations whilst creating employment opportunities for the region.

Three quarters (76%) of IFAs believe that their use of Business Relief propositions will increase over the next two years, 

A business that is on course to transform the food allergy diagnostics market has secured £2.9m investment in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures with follow-on equity investment from the Development Bank of Wales.  Reacta Biotech (Reacta), which is based in Deeside, North Wales, produces clinical diagnostics kits for food allergy testing. The business improves the efficiency, accuracy and safety of food allergy testing by producing pharmaceutical grade Oral Food Challenges (OFCs), the gold standard test for diagnosing food allergies.