About

Dom is a feature writer for Growth Business and Small Business, focused on matters concerning start-ups and scale-ups. He has also been published in the Independent, FourFourTwo magazine and various lifestyle publications.

Funding

Northern Gritstone secures £312m to invest in spinouts  

The capital will be deployed to back science and technology firms in the North of England and builds on momentum of 15 initial investments

News

UK gets top spot in Europe for venture capital funding

Globally, the UK is behind only the US and China for levels of start-up VC funding so far this year

News

Cambridge aims to double its number of unicorns

Cambridge makes up the ‘golden triangle’ of R&D-rich start-ups in the sciences sector

News

European VC Atomico raises $1.1bn

The backer of Klarna and Lilium has a target of £1.35bn despite a challenging economic climate

News

Thought Machine ponders IPO as VCs advise against listing  

The London-based fintech could follow the high-profile flotation of chip designer Arm

News

British Business Bank makes £135m loss

The state-owned economic development bank expects pressure to remain on its portfolio valuations over the next 12 to 18 months

Uncategorized

Venture capital jobs – what to expect working for a VC

What job roles are available in venture capital? What does it involve day-to-day and how do you get into the industry?

Technology

12 of the most exciting tech companies in Manchester

Manchester is the fastest growing UK tech hub outside London and home to over 10,000 tech companies

Funding

Qatar set to launch £1.5bn green energy fund in UK

The fund will be part of a larger £4bn investment from the Qatar Foundation into the development of a green energy R&D facility

Entrepreneurs

Dundee named top university for spinout success

A report has found that 60% of the top ten spinout universities are based outside the golden triangle

Technology

Tech unicorns UK – complete guide to the billion-dollar club

The UK is the go-to breeding ground for tech unicorns in Europe with 44 billion-dollar companies so far spanning fintech, e-commerce and artificial intelligence

Managing

Small business project management software

From improved client collaboration to meeting financial targets, here are some of the best project management software tools to streamline your processes