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One of our latest clients, Fix Radio Ltd, is holding an evening networking event to get to know potential investors, sponsors and advertisers. The company is currently raising £250,000 via and SEIS and EIS Share offer to establish the first UK Commercial radio station tailored to Tradespeople in the Greater London Area at first. There are over 3M Tradespeople in the UK with over 650,000 located in the London area and a survey by independent market research firm Lieberman commissioned by the company confirms that there is a very clear demand

A new study by a leading lending platform has revealed that one in six (16 per cent) small and medium sized enterprise (SME) owners seeking finance say they have been turned down by a mainstream lender. Nearly a third (31 per cent) of SME owners reported that their inability to secure finance terms with a mainstream lender meant they had lost out on a business deal or investment opportunity. As a result, this has led to greater interest in alternative finance – including forms such as property finance, crowdsourcing, invoice finance

Investors, especially TMT Investors, are presented with more opportunities than they can realistically filter: so how do you make sure you stand out from the crowd and get the attention you really deserve from them? One of the burning issues for growing TMT businesses is securing funding, but how on earth does an entrepreneur get an investor’s undivided attention amid all the other white noise. At 4 Oceans Capital we have helped numerous young and growing tech companies get access to Seed funding and beyond into Series A and B rounds.  

Chinese technology and investment group Cocoon Networks is launching a £500 million London-based venture capital fund aimed at investing in UK and European tech startups. Cocoon Networks, which has the backing of China Equity Group, one of the first investors in to Baidu, China’s answer to Google, and Hanxin Capital, which specialises in cloud computing and bio tech investments, will look to invest in tech companies whose products and services show promise and potential for growth in the Chinese market. The fund will look to invest in tech companies across

The UK TMT sector is one of the fastest growing parts of the economy, annually contributing £125bn (a total 8% of UK GDP) as well as maintaining 1.3m jobs. Investment in the sector has once again increased in 2015 to nearly £2Bn – showing an increase in activity and confidence. More interestingly, lending to the sector has also risen significantly which on the face of it is excellent news, however, one of the main reasons for this may be the increase in M&A Activity between larger businesses in the sector. For example, BT’s takeover of EE (which

Beechbrook Capital has announced the first close of its new UK SME Credit Fund, with commitments of more than £100m. The fund will support small and medium-sized businesses in the UK with a turnover of between £10m and £100m and EBITDA of more than £1m. Among the institutional investors that have made commitments to the new fund are British Business Bank Investments Limited, the commercial arm of the British Business Bank, and the European Investment Fund. With additional investments to the fund already pledged, Beechbrook expects to hold a second close