For a founder building outside London, the hardest part of raising is rarely the pitch. It is getting in front of the right person at all. Warm introductions cluster around a handful of postcodes, and the funds with cheques to write are disproportionately based in the capital. A new £100 million com

Ask a UK founder why the biggest cheques in a later funding round tend to come from Boston or San Francisco rather than London, and the honest answer usually comes back to where the money sits. A proposal now on the table from two of Britain's largest pension providers is aimed directly at that prob

The British Business Bank has published annual results showing statutory pre tax profit of 426 million pounds for 2025 to 2026, nearly triple the 144 million pounds it reported the year before, alongside a record 9.4 billion pounds of finance supported for smaller UK businesses over the same period.

The British Business Bank has committed €25 million, roughly £21 million, to EQT Life Sciences' Health Economics 3 fund, adding a dedicated pool of growth capital for medtech, diagnostics and digital health companies at a stage of the funding journey that UK founders in this sector consistently desc

Picture two founders raising a seed round in the same week. One has built and sold a company before, has a network of investors who already know the name, and has funds competing to lead. The other has an equally good product, early revenue and a sharper insight, but no track record and no warm rout

The statistic that frames this announcement has not changed in a decade. Female founders in the UK receive less than 2% of all venture capital deployed. Despite numerous initiatives, codes, commitments and pledges from investors, the number has barely shifted. Against that backdrop, the British Busi