· The Start Up Loans programme lends more than 60,000 loans to fund small businesses since 2012 · Almost 40% of loan recipients are women · 22% of loan recipients come from BAME backgrounds · North West has the highest number of loans...
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UK equity investment market has grown 72% in just two years Equity investment outside capital increases by 29% as London wanes UK VC market has grown faster than the US Tech businesses receive 44% of all UK equity investment Embargoed until 00.01, 14 June 2019: The amount of equity invested in...
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Toast to this year’s success stories at the UKBAA Angel Investment Awards 2019 black-tie gala dinner at Illuminate at the Science Museum in London on Tuesday 2nd July. The 2019 Awards recognise the important innovators and disruptors who have received investment from angels, VCs and other sources of finance to...
Continue ReadingConnected Investing Newcastle, from UKBAA in partnership with Innovate UK, will look at the major shift in emphasis towards regional funding support and lift the lid on the latest initiatives open to both the investor and start-up communities. With a huge shift in emphasis towards regional funding support, the Connected...
Continue ReadingConnected Investing Cardiff, from UKBAA in partnership with Innovate UK, will look at the major shift in emphasis towards regional funding support and lift the lid on the latest initiatives open to both the investor and start-up communities. With a huge shift in emphasis towards regional funding support, the Connected...
Continue ReadingConnected Investing Bristol, the second of four regional events from UKBAA in partnership with Innovate UK, will look at the major shift in emphasis towards regional funding support and lift the lid on the latest initiatives open to both the investor and start-up communities. Taking place on the 21st...
Continue ReadingConnected Investing Manchester, the first of four regional events from UKBAA in partnership with Innovate UK, will look at the major shift in emphasis towards regional funding support and lift the lid on the latest initiatives open to both the investor and start-up communities. The Investment conference will take...
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How young people are piling their savings into start-ups in search of business ‘unicorns’ by Nikou Asgari from Financial Times Sahil Bahl, a 24-year-old digital consultant from London, has invested £2,500 in four businesses via crowdfunding websites, ranging from tech start-ups to a coffee chain. The prospect...
Continue ReadingBy David Prosser, Forbes 14 January 2019 With the peer-to-peer finance sector now growing at a rate of 35 per cent a year, increasing numbers of UK-based small and medium-sized enterprises are turning to crowdfunding as a viable source of investment capital. But if you’re thinking...
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This past week, HMRC released numbers on the relatively new Innovative Finance ISA(IFISA) that enables savers to invest in debt based crowdfunding offerings. The UK government indicated that IFISA participation had topped £290 million during the 2017/18 tax year, or 8 times more than the 2016...
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