Cognism, a London-based start-up which uses artificial intelligence to generate sales leads has closed a £2m funding round with the help of Newable Private Investing and the London Co-Investment Fund.

Chelverton Asset Management Limited, a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quoted equities and unquoted SMEs, has completed its first realisation of 2018 on behalf of Members of its Investor Club.

Student entrepreneurs and faculty entrepreneurs engage in different strategic behaviour in commercialising their inventions according to a new research from the UCL School of Management.

In a new National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship Kenny Ching and his and co-authors found thdent entrepreneurs are less likely to patent their ideas or protect their innovations compared to faculty entrepreneurs.

Augentius Compliance has appointed Andrew Shrimpton, a proven leader within the Compliance Consulting industry, as its Chairman. Andrew will spearhead further expansion of the business, following yet another year of strong growth for Augentius’ leading Regulatory Compliance Business.

New CBI analysis of data published by the Office for National Statistics has found that businesses paid £186 billion in taxes in 2017/18. The total business tax contribution amounts to 27% of all tax revenue.

Crowdfunding has gone beyond the early adopter stage, meaning most people have now heard of it. A recent survey by TribeFirst suggests that we are getting close to the stage where more people in the UK have supported a crowdfunding campaign than haven’t. The survey, completed by 250 people, showed that 43.8% of the respondents had backed either a charity, rewards or equity crowdfunding campaign.

Mercia Fund Managers has announced that it has been awarded the £27 million Venture Fund to support businesses across the North East region as part of the £120.0million North East Fund, supported by The European Regional Development Fund.

This follows a succession of contract wins for Mercia amounting to in excess of £200 million, which includes the recent award of a £23 million Proof-of-Concept and Early Stage Equity Fund, part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, £108 million of the British Business Bank’s Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, the first closing of EV Growth II with initial commitments totalling £45.1million and £11.8million in Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) capital.

Inflexion Private Equity has created Comparison Technologies, a multi-channel price comparison enabler in home services (energy, broadband, TV and telephone), through the simultaneous buyouts of Energy Helpline and UK Web Media.

BGF, the most active investor for growing companies and entrepreneurs in the UK & Ireland, has received the prestigious honour of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category. BGF is the first investment company to have received this honour.

New research by mobile investing app Dabbl has revealed a surprising lack of investment activity amongst millennials in the UK – threatening the future of innovative British business.

The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has expanded its universe of investment companies. From 31 March 2018, non-AIC member UK Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) which are funds and non-AIC member investment companies listed on the Specialist Fund Segment (SFS) of the London Stock Exchange have been added to the AIC’s universe.

Mobius Motors, a Kenya-based automaker who design and manufactures durable, affordable vehicles for Africa, has successfully closed an equity and debt funding round. The lead investor in the equity round, Pan-African Investment Company, is joined by other investors including Playfair Capital, Techstars, Chandaria Industries and VestedWorld.