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Unicorns Report: a closer look at 3 profitable Unicorns 12 Jun 2019 Strategy, Trends - Last month - May 2019 - 13 companies were valued over $1bn for the first time. By the way, none of them was profitable. That doesn't sound rare at all!
Strap your Boots: 10 Bootstrapped Success Stories 29 May 2019 Fundraising, Strategy - We collected 10 exemplar bootstrapped companies that successfully employed different strategies to achieve impressive exits, sky-high valuations and more-than-healthy profit margins while retaining most of their Founders' ownership.
What a VC learnt from the 600 start-ups he said “NO!” to 13 May 2019 Investment, Strategy - VC portfolios are often too small to make accurate links between metrics and performance. What if they used companies they rejected as a dataset instead? This VC studied 600 start-ups he said "no" to and found some interesting connections.
Should we trust all the fuss about Chinese Start-ups? 13 May 2019 Investment, Trends - There has been a lot of buzz around Chinese start-ups raising huge amounts of capital. However, not only numerous reports dating suggest that the hype around the Chinese VC scene is exaggerated: some argue that Western media is playing its part in overstating its size and momentum.
3 Reason Behind The Explosive Funding Growth Of AI 13 May 2019 Investment, Tech - AI funding worldwide more than doubled between 2016 and 2017, and more than tripled from 2016 to 2018. What exactly triggered the start of this exponential growth?
Tired of pitch decks & meetings? Meet Capital-as-a-Service 18 Apr 2019 Strategy, Tech - Their premise is simple: once you're able to categorise a company together with others with a comparable business model, you can use key metrics to compare performance and evaluate the profitability of an investment.
Beauhurst Publish Returns Data For Investment in Private Businesses 18 Apr 2019 Investment - The conclusion of the report is that private equities are potentially a much more profitable asset class compared to public equities.
Accelerator or Incubator – What’s the difference? 29 Mar 2019 Strategy - Start-up Incubators and Accelerators often assume similar roles in the early stages of a company. However there are several differences between the two.
Do Start-up Accelerators really Accelerate Start-ups? 11 Mar 2019 Strategy - There are over 130 active startup accelerators in the UK. They have been increasing for the past 5 years, but what is their real impact on a firms's growth?
UK InsurTech: Investment and Valuation Data 6 Mar 2019 Investment, Tech, Trends, Valuation - Recent breakthroughs in Data Science and AI made its disruption possible, all thanks to the new players who are challenging the business models of huge multinational incumbents. These new players are often referred to as InsurTech Start-ups. The sector now seems to be maturing in the UK, with £276m invested since 2013.
UK Startups: Who were 2018’s biggest investors? 25 Feb 2019 Investment, Trends - Out of all the categories of investors, crowdfunding platforms were the only ones to actually increase their numbers, driving almost a third of all UK's seed-stage deals (the stage which suffered the most dramatic fall).
Beauhurst: 2018’s biggest acquisitions 28 Jan 2019 Exit, Trends - Although investment slightly dropped compared to 2018, several UK business managed to raise substantial amounts, and these five were acquired for hundreds of millions of pounds.