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London startup
fromBusiness Matters
2 weeks ago

Innovate UK pivots funding to back high-growth firms and future 'industry giants'

Innovate UK is concentrating its £1.1 billion budget on fewer high-potential companies instead of supporting hundreds of thousands of innovators annually, prioritizing scalable technology firms over broad-based support.
London startup
fromExchangewire
1 month ago

FirstPartyCapital Announces Corporate Innovation Model

FirstPartyCapital launches a hybrid corporate innovation model combining outsourced R&D, market intelligence, and equity investment to enable strategic participation in ad tech without building proprietary technology from scratch.
Startup companies
fromBusiness Matters
1 month ago

Kibu secures investment offer from Peter Jones and Jenna Meek after Dragons' Den pitch

Kibu secured investment from Dragons' Den entrepreneurs for modular, repairable children's headphones designed around circular economy principles to reduce electronic waste.
fromFortune
2 months ago

Silicon Valley legend Kleiner Perkins was written off. Then an unlikely VC showed up | Fortune

Independently and immediately, a flood of people reached the same conclusion: This had to be a mistake. It was the summer of 2017, and as word spread that Mamoon Hamid was joining venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, some people wondered if it was a joke, or "fake news." And they didn't hold back. "I got calls from friends in the venture business, other GPs [general partners], asking: 'Are you sure this is happening? Is this real?'" Hamid recounts.
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