Published by Directorzone Markets Ltd on February 1, 2017, 9:00 am in Knowledge, Market Info
Wednesday January 1st 2020
Digest of news and trends in the GRID marketplace, November 2015 to now:
2018
January 2018
MARKET: Cash Burn to Workspace
Angels reveal all | Enterprising Birmingham | Mifid II hits Smallcaps | SME Energy Rip-off | Start-ups slower in 2017 | Brexit Think: Midsized vs London | Wave of Workspace | Cash Burn Pain | Start-ups to watch in 2018
2017
December 2017
MARKET: Startup Successes to Tech Nation
Late Payment Culture | 4 Fintech Sectors | 10 Open Banking Startups | France: Reverse Brain Drain | UK Startup Successes | Stockbroker Blues | Government: Tech Nation + DCMS | Funding: IGF + Episode 1 | Tax, Accounts & Productivity
November 2017
French Tech Competition | Growth Company M&A; | Angel Q&A; | Networking + Boards | Deloitte Fast 50 | New Entrepreneurs Foundation | SME pitch to Corporates | Start -> Scale-Up | Private Equity eating out less | SMEs: Top Growth Sectors | Trademark Disputes | Show Up
October 2017
MARKET: Legaltech to the Crick
Grants, Listing, Co-Founders + Tax Advisers | Angel Q&A; | Inventor -> Entrepreneur | Business Collaboration | M&A;: Energy and AI | French Trip for UK Entrepreneurs | Oxford Enterprise Initiatives | AI, Blockchain & IoT | Investment Post Brexit | Legaltech | Francis Crick Institute | Plants & Drugs
August 2017
Hype Cycle: AI to 5G | Unsellable Shares | eCigarettes Business | Personal Data Timebomb | Crowdfunding Rules | Craft Beer Boom | UK Legal and Accountancy Dominance
July 2017
Workplace Pensions October deadline | Ed Wray, Investor | UK Film Industry Success | Fintech Funding: Insurance + Banks | Nurole NED Recruitment | R&D; Tax Credits | Microsoft + AI | Cyber Security Start-Ups | Lending to Exporters | Entrepreneurial Story-Telling | French VC Partech | Burger Boom Bombs? | Kings Cross Music + Tech @ Tileyard
June 2017
MARKET: Bad Advice to UK Disruptors
Fintech, PSD2 + Edinburgh | Employee Share Schemes | Pitch for Chinese Cash | ID Fraud Targets Directors | Google Academy London | New Deep Tech Investor | Northern Powerhouse + Manchester | Bad SME Advice | Rocketspace lands in Islington | 32% of Global Disrupt 100 British
May 2017
MARKET: Equity Markets to Space Tech
UK in Outer Space | Fast Track hits 20 | SME collaboration | Equity markets: Seedrs + Nex | Female founders U.S. bound | ES awards shortlist | Chinese check in | Silver start-ups | Engage Invest Exploit (Scotland) | Lawtech | Social tech investments | Barclays fintech space
April 2017
MARKET: Blockchain to Chinese Investors
LSE: Elite Start-Ups + Private Placements | Scottish Space Cluster | Small Cap M&A; | 100pc increase in UK Distilleries | Northern Life Sciences Success | Blockchain Revolution | Corbyn Slams Late-Payers | London Top of FT1000 | EIS lifeline for Entrepreneurs | The Chinese are coming…
March 2017
MARKET: Northern Tech to Reshoring
Reshoring UK Manufacturing | Northern Tech Investment | Satago & Crowdfunding Questions | Banks: Apps, Challengers & Big 5 | Metro Up, Print Advertising Down | Lending to SMEs in Decline
February 2017
MARKET: Circular Economy to Industrial Internet
Platforms & Empires | Deep Tech & The Industrial Internet | Circular Economy Grants & Funding | Fintech Accelerators | Late Payments & Fintech | Crowdfunding Grows | University Spinouts Declining | RCBs: Random Chinese Bidders | Food Industry Staff Shortages | Digitising Tax Returns
January 2017
MARKET: Health Tech to Station F, Paris
Secondary Share Trading | Drug Discovery Research Oxford | 33 Tech Startups Scale-Up | Slower, Lower Growth vs Investment | Beauty Tech | Aim Returns 16% | Station F, Paris | NW England Health Tech Cluster | Regional Startup Stats | Biotech Evergreen Funds | UK Aerospace
2016
December 2016
Drone Industry Lift-Off | London Restaurants Crisis | Female Enterprise Investment | UK Law Firms Threatened | Birmingham Booms | More Funds For UK Spin-Outs | Business Frugality | Euro Deep Tech Investment | French Innovation
November 2016
MARKET: Foodtech to Smart Cities
Mayor Funds Startups | Energy Wars | UK Export Blues | Self-Employed Tax Scrutiny | Single European Patent System | Business Wish List | CDC - Govt Overseas Private Equity | Space Investors | Iran Export Potential | EF London Accelerator Programme | Smart Cities | Google @ KX, London | Female Innovators £ | Foodtech | Business To Berlin? | Grandees Join Fintech | PE Deals Down | AI | Pitch@Palace | National Living Wage
October 2016
MARKET: Business rates to Brewonomics
Password (Un)Protected | Low Pay Rises | Fashion Down, Leisure Up… | Business Rates Crisis | Corporate Venturing Is Back, Bigly | Brewonomics
September 2016
MARKET: Private Capital Markets to Care Deficit
Care deficit economics | Tech funding | Start-up stats | Facebook of Everything | Tech startup exits - UK #2 | Big Society | Private Capital Markets
August 2016
MARKET: Bioelectronics to Chinese Investment
Workplace Pensions | Supplier Contract Terms | Chinese UK Investment up 500% | Universities & Business | Cornwall Mining Revival | British Wine | L&G; -> VC | British Bioelectronics
July 2016
MARKET: Foreign Investors to Data Centres
Rates, Apprentices & Payments | Platform Monopolists vs Digital Co-Operatives | Foreign-Owned Firms | Government Contracts For SMEs | Angel of The Year | Data Centres
June 2016
MARKET: Accelerators to Big Data
Brexit effect | Corporate accelerators + China | Big accountants’ software for SMEs | Euro tech big ones | Payment pain | Manchester rises | Microsoft Links In to Big Data | Exporters grow faster | More female entrepreneurs | Scale-ups need talent | AIM gains | Content marketing @ City AM
May 2016
MARKET: Green power to Nanobots
What’s up with exports? | Brexit threat to science research | University research & city cash | Biotech spinout investment | Apprenticeship 0.5% tax | Ant engine nanobots | Green power successes
April 2016
MARKET: Manufacturing to Video Games
UK technology doesn’t scale up | More care homes failing | Innovation UK switches grants to loans | Better pre-IPO info | Battle of the science parks | Alternatives to banks | Manufacturing falls for 9th month | UK video games renaissance | Company ownership transparency | Regional investment | Services = 4/5 of UK economy
March 2016
MARKET: Biotech Clusters to Ransomware
Manchester San Francisco link-up | Ransomware | Smart cities sector | Female founders |Budget business boosters | French business | UK business under cyber attack | More city office space for SMEs | Northern technology boom | P2P vs invoice finance | Regional biotech clusters | Stock market decline | Reverse auctions for SME cash | Equity crowdfunding: VC / transparency | Venture funding UK
February 2016
MARKET: Gazelles to Industrial Internet
Gazelles outside London | Banks fund P2P | Sharing economy Trustmark | UK spin-out blues | Preparing for the industrial internet | Crowdfunding credibility
January 2016
MARKET: Spin-outs to Science Parks
UK university spin-outs in decline? | Chinese interest in UK innovation | Creative: #2 economic sector | Insurers invest in start-ups | UK banks: big 4 vs upstarts | 19 UK Unicorns | UK science parks | UK yacht makers | Start-up hotspots; Birmingham #2 | Tech & fintech investment up |Manchester funds founders | Northern powerhouse floats | AIM down in 2015 | Organic food online
2015
December 2015
MARKET: streaming to top tech
Enterprise growth drives jobs | Government enterprise support focuses on LEPs and Catapults | Battery Power | Manufacturers scale back | Streaming services struggle | Top Tech table
November 2015
MARKET: start-ups to global innovation
More new businesses; 75% fail | Crowdfunding mergers; 20% fail | Maths & Scaling up | Start-up Cities UK | 40% LSE overseas-based | Top 100 innovators: France 10, UK 0
MARKET: accelerators in start-up cities
Universities, Angels, VCs, funds, hubs, incubators, councils and corporates - in the GRID marketplace from The Sunday Times start-up list / “The start-up cities. We take 25 cities and test-drive their entrepreneurial credentials”
