21 February

Members of the Chelverton Investor Club – a syndicate of High Net Worth private investors – have raised a significant sum of growth capital to support the continuing and rapid development of Qualification Check Limited.

21 February

Browne Jacobson is to launch a legal support service aimed at both supporting start-ups with high-growth potential and developing its junior lawyers into future partners.  "Grow" is being officially launched on 23 February.

21 February

The UK’s first team of student venture capitalists are all set for their new role - scouting for businesses that could become the technology stars of the future.  The 18 students, who are all from The University of Sheffield, will be working with Campus Capital, the innovative venture capital firm that operates in partnership with universities.

20 February 

20 February 

Lending Works, the first peer-to-peer lending platform to have insurance protecting lenders against certain borrower default risks, today announces that it will be reopening the window of opportunity for ISA applications and subscriptions to investors via the platform, just over a week after the launch of the new product.

20 February 

SBRI contract awarded to snap40 for “game-changing technologies with the highest potential value to patients and the health service”..........

17 February

The Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA), recognised as a beacon for good standards of business conduct in the alternative finance sector, has welcomed Folk2Folk into its membership, increasing the number of member platforms to nine.

16 February 

Asset Match has surveyed 2,000 UK adults, revealing the widespread feelings of discontent being experienced by the nation’s community of private company shareholders. It found: 

• 10% of UK shareholders said they have never been given the opportunity to discuss options regarding their shares since making their original investment
• A further 9% feel locked-in due to an inability to sell or trade the shares they own in a private company – equating to over 600,000 trapped and frustrated investors
• Post-Brexit sentiment towards stocks and shares is resoundingly positive – 23% of UK investors said they intend to invest in stocks and shares in 2017, trumping property (11%), bonds (7%) and commodities (7%)
• 27% of respondents – the equivalent of 1.8 million shareholders across the UK – do not know the current value of the shares they own
• More than a million shareholders (16%) would like to invest in other high-growth businesses but cannot because of an inability to sell their existing shares

16 February

Ascension Ventures has made an investment from the ASCEND SEIS Fund III into Rotor, a cloud-based content platform for creating promotional videos quickly and easily.  Additional backers in Rotor’s £300,000 seed round include Finance South England (FSE Group) and a group of angel investors.

15 February

SyndicateRoom Research out today reveals EIS trends for 2017 and identifies knowledge gap among retail investors.

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15 February

New research from national audit, tax and advisory firm Crowe Clark Whitehill, together with the University of Portsmouth’s Centre for Counter Fraud Studies (CCFS), suggests that fraud is costing the UK £125 billion each year.

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14 February 

Perfect Channel, a leader in marketplace transformation technology has secured £2m in funding from its long-term investor Beringea, and new partner UIL Limited, an investment company jointly managed by ICM Limited and ICM Investment Management Limited.