Yieldify Raises $6M in Funding

Yieldify Raises $6M in Funding

Yieldify, a London, UK-based marketing experience company, raised $6m in its second funding round. The round was led by Binomial Ventures with participation from John Giuliani, CEO of digital marketing leader Conversant, who has also joined the Yieldify board as Chairman, Tom Singh, founder of fashion chain New Look, and existing investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), SoftBank Capital, Hoxton Ventures and Data Point Capital. The company intends to use the funds to continue to scale in the e-commerce market. Launched in 2013 and led by Jay Radia, Chief Executive Officer,

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The Angel CoFund is now 5 years old, how has it performed?

The Angel CoFund is now 5 years old, how has it performed?

The Angel CoFund, a London, UK-based venture capital fund launched with an initial Government-backed funding of £50m has announced its main results culminating with the celebration of its fifth birthday. With its mandate remaining to back the best UK-based high potential and high growth early stage companies and to partner with business angels via co-investment, the fund has hit several milestones, including: more than £33m invested which leveraged £175m of co-investments from angels and angel networks 71 companies funded Four successful exits Three IPOs And an ROI of 3x on average

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Raising capital from angel investors isn’t as easy as you think

Raising capital from angel investors isn’t as easy as you think

Raising capital from business angels and private investors isn’t as easy as some people think There’s no question about it: Raising funding for a start-up from angel investors or venture capitalists is hard. Some entrepreneurs seem to think that investors should be falling over each other to fund their project, but the unfortunate truth is that only a small percentage of entrepreneurs are successful in raising capital for their start-up. Unlike venture capitalists who invest other people’s money, angels invest their OWN money. It’s important to put yourself in the

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The rise of the family offices as early stage investors

The rise of the family offices as early stage investors

Companies currently raising rounds of venture investment are inevitably learning some hard truths.  Primarily, VC money isn’t as readily available as in previous years, and for the companies that are receiving funding, they’re finding that the terms are becoming increasingly more onerous. The good news for startups looking for funding is that a new source of direct investment is coming to the rescue: the family offices of wealthy individuals and families. Single-family offices (SFOs) were first pioneered by the Rockefellers in the late 1800s as a way to centralise the management

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Barclays extends high growth tech fund for UK scale-ups to £200m

Barclays extends high growth tech fund for UK scale-ups to £200m

A year since the launch of its first venture debt fund for UK technology firms, Barclays has announced it is extending the fund to £200 million. Barclays has seen huge take up from businesses and since launching in May last year has provided £100million in earlier stage financing support to nearly 40 companies. It is the first of the big four banks to offer high growth businesses and their founders debt funding solutions at this early stage. The fund is designed to provide access to debt finance; commonly available in

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