Beauhurst releases it's new report on Funding Innovation – the first study of how combined grant and equity funding affects innovative businesses. 

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New nationally representative research across 2,000 UK adults from Asset Match has revealed resounding consumer confidence towards British businesses in light of Brexit negotiations triggered on 29 March. 

A new global survey conducted by Ipsos and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Internet Society, reveals that Internet users are increasingly concerned about their online privacy, and that 49 percent of users polled say lack of trust is their main reason for not shopping online.

FiveAI, a UK start-up applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to accelerate the arrival of fully autonomous vehicles, today announces that its ‘StreetWise’ consortium has been awarded £12.8M in grant support for its £23M project.

Maven Capital Partners has completed the £6 million management buy-out of ProspectSoft Limited to support the roll-out of the new cloud-based SaaS software – Prospect365.

BGF has provided £5m of long-term funding for Renegade, a London headquartered business which is developing a major whiskey project on Ireland’s south-eastern coast. The funding will be used for continued development and production of single malt whiskey at Renegade’s Waterford distillery in Ireland.

21 August

August Equity, the UK lower mid-market investor, has raised £224m for its latest vehicle, August Equity Fund IV. The Fund will continue August’s longstanding strategy of backing management teams to build UK businesses of scale in service-led companies which are sourced and created through the firm’s self-origination model.

20 April 

Tantalum Corporation announces a significant investment by Korean automotive technology company Handysoft, part of the Dasan group. Further funding is also coming from Disruptive Capital, a long-standing investor in Tantalum.

Innovation Birmingham Campus-based start-up, Liquidity Exchange, has announced a partnership with international debt collection firm, Atradius Collections.

19 April 

Private equity fund manager Calculus Capital has invested a total of £3.5m in Scottish biotechnology company Synpromics, alongside Scottish Entreprise.

19 April 

Keensight Capital, one of the leading players in European Growth Private Equity, today announces that Magdalena Svensson is promoted as Partner.

19 April 

The Angel CoFund, launched at the end of 2011 with an initial Government-backed funding of £50m to support the UK’s angel market, today celebrates reaching its fifth birthday. 

£175m invested, 71 companies funded, four successful exits and three IPOs: five years of the Angel CoFund. Strong performance sees 3x return on investments on average.