ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank, announced today that client capital raising activity has increased 200 percent since 2016 

EBAN, the European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds and Early Stage Market Players has published the new edition of its much anticipated annual mapping of fiscal incentives available to business angels in Europe. This year, EBAN partnered again with BOFIDI to develop the annual publication.  Fiscal incentives have an important role in stimulating the activity of business angels and early stage equity investors in start-ups.

The latest EMEA Private Equity Market Snapshot, by S&P Global Market Intelligence, has been published.

Mimica Lab, a business that produces award-winning technology designed to reduce waste in perishable products such as food and pharmaceuticals, have received investment from Henley Business Angels members to contribute to their funding round.

After launching an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, Story Terrace, the bespoke memoirs service has raised over £500K, exceeding their initial funding target of £400,008.

Keywords Studios has announced that it has established Keywords Ventures which will make modest investments in innovative technologies and services that will benefit its clients, while further accelerating the success of investee companies through access to its global platform and relationships.

Complementing existing Keywords services, KWV will identify and support innovative new ventures where the Group believes that its game developer and publisher client base would benefit from improved access to those technologies and services.

Booksy, the world’s largest and fastest growing booking app for appointment-based beauty businesses, has announced that it has secured $13.2 million (£9.5 million) in funding. 

Capitama, the global direct private investment platform for sophisticated and professional investors, has today announced that its members have exceeded £10bn in annual investment appetite.

NPIF - Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has completed its 25^th deal by investing £1m in industry leading tech platform MirrorWeb Limited. The funding secured will fuel the company’s next phase of growth, strengthening the team by creating 12 new jobs to develop its innovative range of products and enter new markets.

Manchester-based MirrorWeb has developed an innovative, robust and highly scalable cloud-based unified electronic communications archiving and monitoring platform that enables frequent archiving of web and social media assets for businesses in the private, and public sector. 

Martin Sherwood, Partner at Enterprise Investment Partners discusses the challenges of timing the perfect exit. 

Before you invest your hard-earned savings into a peer to peer lender, here are five key questions that you should be asking to give you the best chance of seeing returns on your money, says Michael Lynn, CEO of Relendex.

EBAN, the European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds and Early Stage Market Players elected on 26 June, 2018 a new President and Board of Directors for the 2018-2020 mandate. The elections were held during the association’s Annual General Assembly, which took place at the 2018 EBAN Annual Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria.