Venture capital

Innovation spending in danger as corporate investment is forecast to drop by 45%

European Investment Bank warns innovation spending will be one of most affected areas of the economy as the COVID-19 crisis takes a toll

21 Jan 2021

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UK tech venture capital breaks record in 2019

21 Jan 2020

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UK attracts more deep-tech investment than any other EU country

17 Dec 2019

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EU launches bid to double venture capital funding for high tech start-ups

New investment vehicle seeded with €410M of public money aims to attract pension funds and sovereign wealth funds to back early-stage companies and help them reach €1B ‘unicorn’ status in Europe

10 Apr 2018

R&D Policy

EU agrees to more support for venture capital for start-ups

Small and growing companies will enjoy better access to finance on the back of new EU rules agreed as part of the Commission's drive to stimulate venture capital investment

31 May 2017

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France and not Germany may be UK’s friend in Brexit tech talks

With little sign of German flexibility on tech issues ahead of Brexit negotiations, the UK could have better luck extracting concessions from France

02 Mar 2017

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Kaunas University spin out wins €1M investment

Lithuanian medical software specialist attracts VC backing, after developing its technology with backing from several EU grants

14 Apr 2016

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Index Ventures closes €210M fund dedicated to early-stage European biotech

Index is splitting its life sciences and technology arms into two separate VC firms and launching Medicxi Ventures with new €210 million fund

03 Feb 2016

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UCL sets up £50 million fund for technology commercialisation

Imperial Innovations and the European Investment Fund are each to put £24.75M into the University College London fund UK, which will be managed by the VC firm Albion Ventures

19 Jan 2016

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