News | VC | 3 Jul Lakestar partner steps down after decade at the VC firm Manu Gupta is leaving prominent European VC firm, Lakestar.
Opinion | Venture Capital | 2 Jul The convertible loan note: What’s to lose? Startups are taking convertible loan notes like never before — but they have their downsides.
News | Venture Capital | 1 Jul Sophia Bendz leaves Atomico to join Cherry Ventures as partner Seed-stage VC firm Cherry Ventures has snapped up one of Europe's most prominent female investors.
News | Venture Capital | 1 Jul ‘Codecademy for VCs’ launches Merit, a new, free VC training programme launches today — and hopes to offer a scalable solution to the VC industry's diversity problem.
News | Venture Capital | 25 Jun Connect Ventures raises third seed stage fund of $80m The ‘product-first’ investor is losing a founding partner but gaining top institutional investors.
News | Mobility | 23 Jun Cazoo becomes fastest-ever British unicorn Online used car retailer Cazoo has become a billion-dollar business in record-breaking time.
News | Venture Capital | 18 Jun Hoxton Ventures closes its second fund of (almost) $100m It has a tiny team, a trio of billion dollar companies and a must-read Twitter account.
Opinion | Venture Capital | 17 Jun VCs should pay themselves less Why big fat salaries are a bad idea for VCs — according to a VC.
News | Venture Capital | 4 Jun New pre-seed pitch event launches — remotely The Debut Sessions wants to hear from UK founders raising their first round.
Analysis | Investment | 4 Jun It’s finally the moment for revenue-based startup financing As venture capital funding dries up, revenue-based financing is looking increasingly attractive for many startups.
Interview | Venture Capital | 3 Jun Who will the Covid unicorns be? Pascal Cagni used to be Steve Jobs’ Europe guy at Apple. Now he’s running a VC with a five unicorn track record and a recipe for investing after coronavirus.
News | VC | 21 May Funding for seed-stage UK startups drops over 80% Startups looking for initial funding are struggling, with first-time investment plummeting since lockdown began.
News | Venture Capital | 28 Apr Partech closes $100m seed fund to invest in a post-Covid future Coronavirus hasn’t stopped VC firm Partech from doing deals — but it has led to changes in how it makes investment decisions.
Analysis | Funding | 7 Apr Southern European governments must act now to save startups Entrepreneurs say that current coronavirus response measures fall short and that many startups could disappear as a result.
News | Angel Investing | 7 Apr Blossom launches new $5m angel investment programme The hope is to kickstart an angel investing ecosystem similar to that in Silicon Valley.
Analysis | Venture Capital | 9 Mar VCs have to fundraise too Inside SuperVenture: the bizarre conference where VCs flock to raise their next fund — and not all succeed.
