This week on the startup to scaleup journey:

• Lesson #1: Choose your investors wisely
• Lesson #2: Funding is a process of lines not dots
• Lesson #3: Develop your storytelling
• Lesson #4: Hire the very best talent
• Lesson #5: Have a framework for decision making

This week on the startup to scaleup journey:

• Sharp decline in equity investment for the UK in 1H20
• European Funds raising record amounts of capital during Covid
• When Tailwinds Vanish - what will VCs spend all this cash on?
• Solving 'harder problems' may lead to the reshaping of VC

This week on the startup to scaleup journey:

• 2Q 2020 European investment data shows risk appetite slowly returning
• Europe VCs are active again - but a great deal has changed
• No longer 'Growth at all costs' - what does this mean for SaaS businesses?
• What do Limited Partners (LPs) look for in VCs?

This week on the startup to scaleup journey:

• The Deep Tech funding challenge
• European funding for early stage Deep Tech businesses
• The Convertible Loan Note (CLN) and how it can backfire
• Impact of Covid-19 on European startups
• Hong Kong's new national security law creates uncertainty for startups and scaleups

This week on the startup to scaleup journey:

• New business models: A misconception about the pivot
• Future Fund Update: Extended to UK companies in accelerator programmes outside the UK
• Innovate UK awards: Sustainable Innovation Fund announced
• Corporate funding insight: CVC investment terms may look different to those of a VC
• US early stage funding insights

This week on the startup to scaleup journey:

• New Business Models: The road to Product/Market fit
• Future Fund Update: almost £240m now issued
• Early stage insight: Covid raises awareness of Impact Investing
• Venture Funding Insight: Fintech - a mixed scene coming out of Covid
• US early stage funding insights: 'Painkillers versus vitamins'