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Diversity VC Publishes Report On UK Venture Capitalists 5 Aug 2019 Employment - Earlier this month, Diversity VC carried out a research on 171 active VC firms to look into the diversity issue within the Venture Capital sector.
Corporate VCs: The Europe Top 10 5 Aug 2019 Fundraising - Despite their mixed reputation as investors, Corporate VCs are a rising segment of the start-up landscape. Here are the Top 10 in Europe according to the Financial Times.
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.
Money In – Investment in Q2 2019 22 Jul 2019 Investment - The past quarter saw shifts across geographical regions, development stages and key players in terms of start-up investment.
Capital Efficiency: Do Larger Investments Make Better Businesses? 22 Jul 2019 Investment, Strategy - Funding rounds have been growing at unprecedented pace while capital efficiency decreases: do larger investments lead to superior returns and exits?
CleanTech Report: Are UK VCs investing to fight climate change? 28 Jun 2019 Investment, Strategy - The CleanTech sector require huge investments in order to become profitable and efficient at scale. Are VCs investing in British CleanTech start-ups?
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!
Strap your Boots: 10 Bootstrapped Success Stories 29 May 2019 Fundraising, Strategy - We collected 10 exemplar bootstrapped companies that successfully employed different strategies to achieve impressive exits, sky-high valuations and more-than-healthy profit margins while retaining most of their Founders' ownership.
What a VC learnt from the 600 start-ups he said “NO!” to 13 May 2019 Investment, Strategy - VC portfolios are often too small to make accurate links between metrics and performance. What if they used companies they rejected as a dataset instead? This VC studied 600 start-ups he said "no" to and found some interesting connections.
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.
3 Reason Behind The Explosive Funding Growth Of AI 13 May 2019 Investment, Tech - AI funding worldwide more than doubled between 2016 and 2017, and more than tripled from 2016 to 2018. What exactly triggered the start of this exponential growth?
Tired of pitch decks & meetings? Meet Capital-as-a-Service 18 Apr 2019 Strategy, Tech - Their premise is simple: once you're able to categorise a company together with others with a comparable business model, you can use key metrics to compare performance and evaluate the profitability of an investment.