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...
Eating your own dogfood is a particularly delightful American expression. Our nearest equivalent is perhaps taking some of your own medicine. However,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Alan Watts, Director of Capital Match (Catalyst Inc) shares his insights on NI Venture Capital investment, further to the recently released...