Raising Finance

Raising Finance 4 min read

Wizz Air showing how growth can be funded using an IPO

James Lyons, partner at law firm Ashfords, explains the different ways businesses can interact with the capital markets, and what the pluses and minuses of doing so are.

Business Technology 3 min read

UK’s top inventors hunted by Worth Capital and Channel 5’s The Gadget Show

Investment firm Worth Capital has launched the Future Gadget 2015 business competition to find Britain's next great gadgets and top entrepreneurial inventors, while Channel 5's The Gadget Show has signed up as a partner.

Raising Finance 2 min read

Intellectual property sticking point means failed trip to Dragons Den for Colapz

The entrepreneurs behind a collapsable watering can came close to securing the £150,000 they were after on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den investment show, but ultimately fell short after revealing a potentially troubling set of affairs.

Raising Finance 3 min read

While smaller than the industry in the UK, alternative finance in Europe cannot be ignored

While previous studies have charted alternative finance in the UK, the market in 2014 at £840m and the year on year growth rate of 90 per cent, EY and the Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge Judge Business School are the first to cover the whole of Europe in detail.

Interviews 4 min read

WorldRemit: The secrets to closing a $100m venture capital funding deal

On the back of completing an investment round that means his business has now raised nearly $150m since founding, Real Business quizzes WorldRemit founder and CEO Ismail Ahmed on the best way to get funding.

Business Technology 3 min read

Boris Johnson visits US as American investors fund record number of UK tech ventures

Mayor of London Boris Johnson is hoping to see more collaboration between the US and the UK, as new figures have revealed that American investors are funding more of London and UK technology businesses than ever before.

Interviews 6 min read

The FD who left EY in favour of the startup world and P2P lending

Matt Powell is the financial director at Lending Works, but prior to joining the P2P lending startup, he was working at global audit firm EY (formerly Ernst & Young) and on the road to becoming a partner, so some would call him “crazy” for leaving.

Interviews 3 min read

If we can remove SME fear of funding rejection, we can release the brakes on the UK economy

Issued on 22 January, the latest Bank of England ‘Trends in Lending' report clearly showed the divide that still exists between large and small companies when it comes to borrowing money. But according to FundingKnight CEO Graeme Marshall, years of being turned down for finance has resulted in the hesitancy of smaller companies to borrow money. This seems to holding back the UK economy.

Raising Finance 2 min read