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5 British Companies Changing The World In 2020 According to CBInsights 7 Jan 2020 Strategy, Trends - CB Insights recently published a fascinating report called Game Changers 2020, dedicated to companies shaping the future of mankind. 5 of these companies are UK-based.
Beauhurst Publish Scale-Up Index 2019 19 Nov 2019 Investment, Trends - 2018 saw £1.3b invested into visible scale-ups through 63 deals: the largest of these was £150m into Oxford Nanopore, closely followed by Trilico's £149m round.
Is Winter Really Here? David Sacks Thinks So 4 Nov 2019 Investment, Opinion, Trends - Unicorn Founder and investor David Sacks thinks the party is over for companies hoping to raise fund without a clear path to profitability. Let's dig deeper and find out why and why it's actually god news!
Practical Guide To A Recession That Might (Or Might Not) Happen 22 Oct 2019 Strategy, Trends - Fears of an imminent recession resonated through many media outlets in the past months, but what are the real risks and what can we do to minimise them?
Revolut Starts Targeting Teenagers With Its Youth Feature 8 Oct 2019 Trends - UK challenger bank Revolut announced its Youth feature last week targeting teenagers with a parent-controlled card and a child-friendly app.
StartupBlink Publishes Start-up Ecosystem Report 8 Oct 2019 Trends - StartupBlink mapped cities and countries worldwide based on their capacity to be the perfect ecosystem for start-up growth.
Money Out – Exits in Q2 ’19: M&A, IPO, Secondary Sale 22 Jul 2019 Investment, Tech, Trends - Transportation giant Uber Technologies finally reached its highly anticipated IPO in May, along with other notable companies that were welcomed with mixed reactions by the public.
Unicorns Report: a closer look at 3 profitable Unicorns 12 Jun 2019 Strategy, Trends - Last month - May 2019 - 13 companies were valued over $1bn for the first time. By the way, none of them was profitable. That doesn't sound rare at all!
Should we trust all the fuss about Chinese Start-ups? 13 May 2019 Investment, Trends - There has been a lot of buzz around Chinese start-ups raising huge amounts of capital. However, not only numerous reports dating suggest that the hype around the Chinese VC scene is exaggerated: some argue that Western media is playing its part in overstating its size and momentum.
UK InsurTech: Investment and Valuation Data 6 Mar 2019 Investment, Tech, Trends, Valuation - Recent breakthroughs in Data Science and AI made its disruption possible, all thanks to the new players who are challenging the business models of huge multinational incumbents. These new players are often referred to as InsurTech Start-ups. The sector now seems to be maturing in the UK, with £276m invested since 2013.
UK Startups: Who were 2018’s biggest investors? 25 Feb 2019 Investment, Trends - Out of all the categories of investors, crowdfunding platforms were the only ones to actually increase their numbers, driving almost a third of all UK's seed-stage deals (the stage which suffered the most dramatic fall).
Beauhurst: 2018’s biggest acquisitions 28 Jan 2019 Exit, Trends - Although investment slightly dropped compared to 2018, several UK business managed to raise substantial amounts, and these five were acquired for hundreds of millions of pounds.