BankToTheFuture.com, the crowdfunding platform that allows people to invest in start-ups and mature businesses, has announced that it is providing an investment platform for Fabfob, the latest venture by Wowcher founder, Nick Brummitt, who has chosen cowdfunding over traditional venture capital funding.
The wide-ranging applications of bioscientific developments will feature at Venturefest Oxford 2013, the business event attracting investors, innovators and entrepreneurs taking place this year at the Saïd Business School, Oxford.
A student from London’s Kingston University has created concepts for a range of clothing for disabled women which combines sophisticated style with practicality and comfort.
The co-founder of PayPal, who made more than a billion dollars by making a $500,000 gamble on an unknown website called Facebook in 2004, has made his first European investment.
Software developer Beyond Verbal has launched a patented technology that can extract, decode, and measure a full spectrum of human emotions from a person’s raw voice which saw a $2.8 million round of funding led by prominent angel investor Kenges Rakishev, and new VC, Genesis Angels.
There is just time to enter Accelerator Academy, the early stage business development programme as the entry date to decide which companies will be accepted onto its fifth semester in late-May is 13th May.
More than £300,000 from three prominent UK businesspeople and serial investors is waiting for the right investment opportunities on a new video pitching website, dubbed ‘Dragons’ Den without the nerves’.
At an event held in Edinburgh a panel of experts from across Scotland debated the country’s commitment to funding and supporting Scottish entrepreneurs.
Nearly ninety percent of technology startups plan to hire new employees in 2013, according to an interactive report by Silicon Valley Bank, financial partner to technology, life science and cleantech companies and their investors worldwide.
A specialist lender reports a 20% leap in first-time landlords as savers hunt more attractive returns and benefit from inflation-busting yields and record rents.
‘We must storm the boardrooms and let them know we’re here’ was the message given this week by Tech London Advocates, a newly launched group of 150 tech and business leaders who want to build bridges between tiny startups and multinational corporations.
The Manchester based disruptive online recruitment company Hiring-Hub.com is celebrating triple-digit growth during the first quarter of 2013 with month-on-month revenues leaping 260% from January to March.
Zalando was founded in 2008 as a shoe retailer for the German fashion market. One year later, they began to ship their goods to Austria, and they have continued to expand across Europe.
Growth Capital Partners (GCP) has acquired medical marketing agency Fishawack in a deal which values the communications company at £13M.
Rohan Silva, the Downing Street advisor behind the soaraway success of east London’s Silicon Roundabout, is leaving politics to join a european venture-capital firm.
