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Future Fund backed ‘zombie businesses’

British Business Bank director Dharmash Mistry warned in June last year that businesses in the scheme had a ‘limited chance of growth to a sufficient scale for success’

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Future Fund now has stakes in 400 UK start-ups

The government takes equity in 400 companies after providing £1.14bn in Covid loans

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Deals of the Week August 1 to August 5 – a Growth Business round-up

Deals this week include an alternative to palm oil, a social app which connects people based on shared interests and a mystery activity subscription service

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Cornerstone VC launches £20m fund for tech start-ups led by diverse teams

The fund will invest between £250,000 and £1m into 40 UK tech-enabled businesses at pre-seed and seed stage

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Deals of the Week July 25 to July 29 – a Growth Business round-up

Deals this week include an electric car subscription service, a platform which lets you design your own home and a start-up to improve companies’ CO2 impact

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Concept Ventures launches UK’s largest pre-seed fund

The £50m fund will back over 60 start-ups over four years, writing cheques of up to £600,000

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Deals of the Week July 18 to July 22 – a Growth Business round-up

Deals this week include tech that could cut car charging times to under five minutes, a Gen Z freelancing platform and drone tech for high-risk environments

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University of Oxford spinout investor raises £250m

The £250m funding will see Oxford Science Enterprises overtake Cambridge Innovation Capital as the biggest single investor in UK spinouts

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Deals of the Week July 18 to July 22 – a Growth Business round-up

Deals this week include tech that could cut car charging times to under five minutes, a Gen Z freelancing platform and drone tech for high-risk environments

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University of Oxford spinout investor raises £250m

The £250m funding will see Oxford Science Enterprises overtake Cambridge Innovation Capital as the biggest single investor in UK spinouts

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Deals of the Week July 11 to July 15 – a Growth Business round-up

Deals this week include an investment platform backed by Sir Richard Branson, a start-up which creates digital versions of real-world infrastructure and a browser plugin recommending greener shopping alternatives

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More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade

The clean energy solution has attracted £2.5bn in investment globally over the past year

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Deals of the Week July 4 to July 8 – a Growth Business round-up

Deals this week include the biggest Series A investment into quantum computing, a family investment app and a fintech to help Gen Z better understand finance

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Deals of the Week June 27 to July 1 – a Growth Business round-up

Deals this week include inclusive speech recognition technology, a start-up replacing plastics with mushrooms and a start-up cleaning up the mining industry

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