London based mobile payments and digital loyalty platform, Pepper, has closed a £1.1m investment with over £400k of investment by London Business Angels (LBA) and associated investors including the LBA EIS Roundtable Syndicate Fund 2015 and the £25M London Co-Investment Fund.Read the full story…
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Britain’s Heroic High Growth Companies
High growth small businesses (HGSBs) represent just 3.4% of the UK economy, but contribute more than 10 times that to UK growth, and between 2012 and 2013 generated more than two thirds of all the jobs created in the UK.Read the full story…
Boom in UK Start Ups, But Not Scale Ups
Recent research into UK entrepreneurship highlights the fact that it is easier to start a company than to scale it; easier to exit a company than to accelerate it.Read the full story…
Private Capital Powers Knockout Valuations
Private capital, rather than public markets, is increasingly powering sky high valuations of high growth companies on both sides of the pond.Read the full story…