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Browse 16 Reports about Fundraising

Beauhurst 2025 Funding Review: A Return to Form for Early-Stage Founders 3 Feb 2026 Fundraising, Investment, Trends - After years of decline, the number of UK companies securing their first funding round rose by 23.6% in 2025, reaching a total of 2,489.
Why Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) Are Growing Popular Post-Budget 26 Nov 2024 Fundraising, Policy - As they retained their tax efficiency amid Reeve's CGT crackdown, VCTs have become an increasingly attractive vehicle for UK investors.
Is AI Monopolising Venture Capital Funding? 2 Oct 2024 Fundraising, Trends - While in the past couple of years most startups experienced a funding shortage, the AI sector seems to be immune to external market forces.
Future Fund Applications Are Closed: Who Secured Government Investment? 10 Feb 2021 COVID-19, Fundraising - The Future Fund provided just over £1,066m to 1,055 companies. An average of £1m for each company, but who secured the funds?
All The Costs Of Going Public… And New Ways To Reduce Them 18 Nov 2020 Fundraising, Strategy - In this report, we outline all the (visible and hidden) costs of going public, as well as how new solutions are helping company spend less on their IPOs
Q2 ’20 Report: Investment During Lockdown 18 Jul 2020 COVID-19, Fundraising, Investment - Investment data from Q2 is now available. Was it harder to raise funding during lockdown? The answer is not as simple as a yes or no.
The IPO Pipeline For 2020 Is Looking Good 17 Jul 2020 Fundraising, Investment, Strategy - As the world moves on from the shock of lockdowns and tries to go back to some version of normality, many successful scale-ups resumed their IPO plans.
What A Post-COVID-19 Funding Round Will Look Like 30 Apr 2020 COVID-19, Fundraising - In this report we answer three key questions on what VC investment will look like after the COVID-19 crisis.
From A Funding Round To Another: How Long Should Your Runway Be? 3 Feb 2020 Fundraising, Strategy - The time before your business runs out of cash between a funding round and the next is known as runway. Estimating it correctly is crucial to its survival.
Taking Investment From A Corporate VC: All The Pros And Cons 3 Dec 2019 Fundraising, Investment - The figure of the Corporate VC comes with an aura of mixed opinions. CB Insights surveyed 365 of them to get a deep insight into how and how well they work.
IPO: What Is A Direct Listing And Why It Matters 4 Nov 2019 Exit, Fundraising, Investment, Strategy - An increasingly high number of tech start-ups are deciding to list their shares publicly through a direct listing rather than a classic IPO.
The Weirdest “Risk Factors” In 2019’s IPO Filings 16 Sep 2019 Exit, Fundraising, Investment, Strategy - One of the requirement for S-1 filings are "Risk Factors". It is a chance for a company to acknowledge its weaknesses and publicly declare what could get in the way of its success.