Entrepreneurs

How I’ve grown my business – Guy Blaskey, founder Pooch & Mutt

Pooch & Mutt has averaged 60 per cent growth year-on-year for the past five years. Founder Guy Blaskey shares his tips for keeping an engaged workforce, disrupting the market and why his mentor is a 2,000-year-old Roman

Funding

Abu Dhabi $400m fund for tech start-ups to open in London

Mubadala plans to invest between $5 million and $30 million in high-growth European tech companies

Alternative Finance for Business

Business lender Iwoca to back 100,000 SMEs within 5 years

Fintech firm Iwoca raises another £150m in equity and debt capital to further ambitions as a small business lender

Alternative Finance for Business

OakNorth nearly triples loans to UK businesses last year

OakNorth has lent £3 billion to British business within four years

Funding

More Brexit blues – growth businesses that borrow from EU perform better

Companies that use European Union loans outperform privately funded peers

Funding

Scaling your business? Come to the Business Funding Show ’19

Event attracts 60 exhibitors offering all types of debt and VC funding

Venture Capital Funding

AI platform Peltarion secures $20m in Series A funding

Money will be used to expand London office

Banking

Starling Bank raises £75m to fund expansion

Challenger bank already has 30,000 small business accounts.

Alternative Finance for Business

Cash raised by European SME direct funds falls by one third

Investors place €22bn in 19 direct funds for European business in 2018

Alternative Finance for Business

Kuber Ventures adds three new EIS investment funds

EIS investment platform raises £53m for growing businesses to date

Alternative Finance for Business

Online platform launches to help companies raise finance

Companies can borrow up to £2m to grow their businesses

Entrepreneurs

Q&A Piers Linney – ‘Staying where you are is dangerous’

Former investor on Dragon's Den has become passionate advocate for scaleups

Timothy Adler

How I’ve grown my business – Guy Blaskey, founder Pooch & Mutt

Abu Dhabi $400m fund for tech start-ups to open in London

Business lender Iwoca to back 100,000 SMEs within 5 years

OakNorth nearly triples loans to UK businesses last year

More Brexit blues – growth businesses that borrow from EU perform better

Scaling your business? Come to the Business Funding Show ’19

AI platform Peltarion secures $20m in Series A funding

Starling Bank raises £75m to fund expansion

Cash raised by European SME direct funds falls by one third

Kuber Ventures adds three new EIS investment funds

Online platform launches to help companies raise finance

Q&A Piers Linney – ‘Staying where you are is dangerous’