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The UK is now the third largest venture capital market globally 🌍 💰 With £72bn in VC raised by UK companies between 2021-2023, the UK is now accounting for 6% of global VC investment, shows our Small Business Equity Tracker 2024 report, published today 🚀 Following 2022 market downturn, equity investment for smaller businesses returned to 2019 levels in 2023, but is up by 182% overall over the last 10 years. Download the full report for the latest insights into equity investment in smaller UK businesses 👉 https://bit.ly/4cUJhH4

🚀 Positive Insights from the British Business Bank’s Small Business Equity Tracker 2024 Report! 🚀 The report sheds light on some promising trends and achievements in the UK SME equity finance market. I have summarised some of these: ⚖ Stabilising Market: Despite a challenging 2022, the market is showing signs of recovery with quarterly equity investments stabilising at just over £2bn between 2023Q1 and 2023Q4. 🌍 Global Competitiveness: The UK is the third largest VC market globally, accounting for 5.8% of global investment 🥉. The UK accounts for a third of investment across Europe. 🙋♀️ Diversity: Founder teams with at least one women, won their biggest deal share ever in 2023 = 28.2% of deals. 🎓 Spinout Success:  University spinouts raised £1.3bn in 2023, equivalent to 15% of total investment across the market = the third highest year on record. 🏙 🚲 Cambridge: In terms of UK VC investment, Cambridge is no. 2 🥈 in the top 10 UK cities for VC investment showing a 1.76% share of the UK market and an impressive 6.96% share of the UK life science VC investment market . *Being based in our Cambridge office, I had to mention Cambridge right? 💁♀️ *.  London was ranked no. 1 🥇 with a 22.9% share, with a 42.6% share of the UK Fintech market. Oxford wasn’t far behind Cambridge, ranked as no. 3 🥉 , with 1.04% and with 5.04% of the UK life science market. 📈 Growth is on the up: Investment in growth stage and established companies was 25% higher in the second half of 2023 compared to that in 2023HI. 🌟The future is bright for small businesses and being positively shaped by them! 🌟 #EquityFinance #Innovation #UKBusiness #VentureCapital #SmallBusiness #tech #lifesciences #cambridge #oxford #london #investments #lawyer #diversity #spinouts (All information in my post was obtained from the Report, link below. Thank you to the British Business Bank for preparing this Report)

Our 2024 Equity Tracker highlights both the successes of the last ten years and the challenges facing UK venture capital markets. To highlight 3 successes (1) increasing the UK share of global VC markets, (2) amazing progress in fin-tech, and (3) more university spinouts. And the challenges (1) gaps remain in the life sciences and R&D intensive sectors, (2) the need for larger deal sizes, and (3) developing bigger clusters of venture capital across the UK.

How does private equity and venture capital help Europe's businesses grow? 📈 ✨ Discover our library of #SuccessStories, spanning different geographies, sectors and investment stages – showcasing how investment supports Europe’s leading businesses, from start-ups and SMEs to the continent's largest corporates 🏆 Explore the collection here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ec3A-mrA   #BuildingBetterBusinesses #PrivateEquity #VentureCapital

Private equity and venture capital is a continuous spectrum of investment ⤵️ 🟦 Mid-market private equity firms invested more than €30 billion in 1,263 small and mid-market companies in Europe in 2022. Find out more 🎥 https://lnkd.in/erKZ77Ev #InvestEurope #BuildingBetterBusinesses #explainervideo #PrivateEquity #VentureCapital #PESpectrum

A significant drop in large deal size investment and a strong resilience in seed funding was a notable trend of venture capital investment into Irish firms in Q1 2024. -€30m deals down 48% -€10m deals down 63% -€5 - 10m deals up 3% -€3 - 5m deals up 81% -€1 - €3m deals up 126% ->€1m deals down 4% -Seed funding up 437% Full detail in the latest VenturePulse report https://lnkd.in/e_PQwjxJ #venturecapital #privateequity #ivca #venturepulse

🚀 We enable lower and middle-market-focused private equity and venture capital firms to identify actionable targets, efficiently evaluate opportunities, and maximize returns from investments. 🔍 We deliver impact across the deal lifecycle with a 30% increase in efficiency while evaluating opportunities 💡So, how do we do it? To learn more, DOWNLOAD our case study now! https://lnkd.in/dA_-mZRz Mayuresh Wagh Steve Salvius Kunal Doctor Sandeep Jindal #privateequity #venturecapital #casestudy

Private equity continues to lead alternatives in Latin America, while venture capital exhibits promising advancements. As the region grapples with the global economic slowdown, nearshoring is serving as a tailwind for market growth. Read more: https://okt.to/WpUl4J #LATAM #lataminvestments #privateequity #venturecapital

🎇🇪🇺All segments of European #privateequity generate net returns well in excess of public market benchmarks: ✅ European #venturecapital yielded 20.77% net IRR over 10 years, and 16.57% net IRR over 15 years, eclipsing the performance of the North American peer group over the same time periods. 🎯It shows the strength of active funds investing in innovative European #startups. ✅European #growth capital produced 14.47%net IRR since inception, far ahead of the MSCI Europe's 7.35%. ✅European private #infrastructure funds created 8.86% net IRR since inception, over 500 basis point ahead of the MSCI Europe Infrastructure benchmark on 3.79%. ✅And last but not least, European #buyout funds delivered 14.97% net IRR since inception vs. 6.07% for the MSCI Europe. #Midmarket buy-outs delivered the best performance of the segment with net returns of 16.90%, increasing their lead over listed equities to 975 basis points. European buy-outs segment continued to perform in line with North American funds.

Venture capital performs a crucial role for the European economy, supporting start-ups and scale-ups and helping them to become active on the global stage.   Because of that role, our industry has often garnered financial support from public authorities. In our EU Funding Handbook, members can discover what funding is available to them and their portfolio companies.   ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eZfJ3F3m   #InvestEurope #VentureCapital #EUFunding European Investment Fund (EIF)