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Springboard to Funding #15 - Tracking the NI Deals
added Tuesday, December 11 2018
In innovation circles there is a common perception that ‘all the money’ goes to London and the South East. And there are some strong facts to back...
Springboard to Funding #14 - VCs Eat Their Own Dogfood
added Tuesday, November 13 2018
Eating your own dogfood is a particularly delightful American expression. Our nearest equivalent is perhaps taking some of your own medicine. However,...
UK Funders Discover Northern Ireland
added Tuesday, October 23 2018
Capital Match recently hosted 20 UK VCs and funders for the first ever Invent Day. Invent itself is the largest gathering of the entrepreneurial and...
Springboard to Funding #13 - Seconds Out
added Friday, September 21 2018
Being an angel or a business investor sounds rather good. The image, aided by the TV, is of working with edgy entrepreneurs with the sniff of making a...
Springboard to Funding #12 - Meatballs, Ikea and Venture Capital
added Tuesday, August 14 2018
OK – so there’s a bit of a clue in the title. Yes I’m going to talk about Sweden, but you won’t know it’s really about gender stereotypes...
Springboard to Funding #11 - When to be Tired of London
added Wednesday, June 13 2018
It was Samuel Johnston who said ‘when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life’. However we in Northern Ireland are not so keen on the good...
Catalyst Inc Report Highlights Potential £50m Funding Gap
added Thursday, May 24 2018
Companies in Northern Ireland (NI) raised £32.8m of equity capital in 2017 but are failing to attract larger rounds of investment, according to a new...
Springboard to Funding #10 - Could Do Better
added Tuesday, April 17 2018
The latest incarnation of my career has seen me largely working with London Venture Capital companies for nearly a year and I’ve noticed that I’m...
Springboard to Funding #9 - The Value of Free Money
added Tuesday, March 13 2018
Grants are ‘free money’ for companies and Northern Ireland is a great place to get them. This is a widely held perception but actually it’s not...
Springboard to Funding #8 - Too Much Too Young
added Tuesday, February 6 2018
Venture Capital firms get a bad press from many sources, but rarely from amongst themselves. So it came as a bit of a shock recently when Eric Paley,...
Springboard to Funding #7 - No More Heroes?
added Thursday, January 25 2018
Have you ever thought to stop and ask where Venture Capitalists get their money from? Well here’s an unlikely tale where the heroes are actually the government and a bank! VCs take big sums of money from what are called Limited Partners. They invest this in a number of exciting companies with great growth...
Capital Match Director Alan Watts reflects on NI Venture Capital investment – On the Up or Up the Spout?
added Thursday, January 18 2018
Alan Watts, Director of Capital Match (Catalyst Inc) shares his insights on NI Venture Capital investment, further to the recently released...
