Last week’s Comprehensive Spending Review has made the challenge critically clear: how can we save money in public services without significant harm to society?
London coffee houses of the 17th century were fertile ground for innovation.
The New York Times published an article recently about an entrepreneur, Seth Priebatsch, and described what it called his 'hypomanic' attributes: an elevated mood, obsession with one idea, little need for sleep, massive self-confidence.
The new line-up of top 100 UK tech companies shows just how disruptive and exciting this market can be.
s The potential for open-source software to cut public sector costs is an exciting prospect and it's happening now
It seems that we are finally beginning to grasp the true value of localism: not as an R&D lab for the centre, but as a powerful force in its own right. But this new vision of localism also calls for new types of social finance.
Two events that remind me that although we are a UK based fund, investing in UK technology, the markets that our businesses can address are global.
It's taken a while, but at last a new type of high street bank has emerged from the wreckage of the credit crunch.
Last week I went to a couple of interesting events which highlighted some of the key questions facing the Venture industry and the broader issue of access to capital for high growth innovative businesses.
Find out why we have invested in a semiconductor company, and the criteria we use when assessing the market
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