News BGF continues to build momentum as it reaches £2bn landmark with Merseyside investment (BQ) Business call to cut immigrant salary threshold (Fresh Business Thinking) Atomico co-founder and partner Mattias Ljungman is leaving to start his own seed fund (TechCrunch) &nbs...
Read More »News Just 8% of UK VCs know what it’s like to work at a startup (Sifted cover Diversity VC report) Migrants drive UK’s fastest-growing companies (FT covers The Entrepreneurs Network’s latest report) London-based AllBright raises £13m (UK Tech News) British businesses attack post-Brexit immigration policy (City AM covers BCC ...
Read More »News Tech startups’ confidence rises despite political uncertainty (CityAM covers a Studio Graphene survey) Amazon investment in Deliveroo halted as competition watchdog launches investigation (Independent) Station F launches a co-living space for 600 startup people (TechCrunch) Regulator steps up scrutiny of fintech banks (CityA...
Read More »News Government proposes measures to tackle late payment scourge (CityAM) Startup Loans reaches £500m loans milestone (BBC) Techies outstrip bankers on pay for first time but still can’t buy a London home (Evening Standard covers Hired research) Women are under-represented in Cyber, says government (Fresh Business Thinking) Two ground-b...
Read More »News Small and medium enterprises lead outstanding British businesses honoured by the Queen (gov.uk publish Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2019 winners) Apprenticeship levy makes training harder, say UK small businesses (FT covers FSB survey) UK tech startups doing social good are worth £2.3bn and have raised over £1bn in VC fundin...
Read More »News London startups to take fintech unicorn crown from San Francisco (CityAM covers Robert Walters and Vacancy Soft research) New European AI ethics guidelines announced (UK Tech News) Business confidence crashes to lowest point since 2012 (Fresh Business Thinking covers BDO Optimism Index) Secret Escapes and Zoopla investor Oc...
Read More »News · Number of UK scale-ups hits record high (Fresh Business Thinking covers ScaleUp Institute and ONS research) · Investing in random group of startups secures better returns than firms backed by Dragons’ Den stars (CityAM covers Syndicate Room research) · Microsoft gives 500 patents to startups (Techcrunch) ·...
Read More »News Liv Garfield wins Veuve Clicquot business women of the year title (Telegraph) Deliveroo pledges to give their riders all over the world free accident insurance (CityAM) Business confidence at two-year high (Economia covers ICAEW’s Business Confidence Monitor) Growth in self-employment risks undermining the state pension (T...
Read More »News Goliath still winning in late payment epidemic (London Loves Business covers Xero’s inaugural Small Business Insights, showing 52% of invoices to small businesses were paid late in 2017) Related: 90% of public sector suppliers hit by late payments (London Loves Business covers FSB research) Gig economy workers grow increasingly anx...
Read More »News CFE hosts award-winning refugee entrepreneurship incubator Last week, CFE hosted Usman Iftikhar, co-founder of Catalysr – the Sydney-based refugee entrepreneurship programme featured in our latestreport. Usman was in town to receive the Commonwealth Young Person of the Year award from HRH Prince Harry for his work with refugee entrepreneurs. ‘Best of British’ enterprise cele...
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