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Exclusive: British Business Bank to back UK scaleups with £400m per year

The state bank will write first-time cheques of £10m-40m

The British Business Bank (BBB) wants to invest over £400m into UK scaleups per year across life sciences and deeptech to fintech and clean energy. 

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Maya Dharampal-Hornby

Maya Dharampal-Hornby is a reporter, covering UK tech for Sifted, based in London. She's also the producer of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast .

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