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Seeing the World in Colour

Visual Clarity For All Spectral Edge Announces Investment by The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund

21st July 2014

18 July 2014 – Spectral Edge announces today the completion of a £300K financing round led by the Iceni Seedcorn Fund and the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund managed by Midven.
Entrepreneurship is Key Catalyst of Economic Recovery

Entrepreneurship is Key Catalyst of Economic Recovery

29th April 2014

Midven’s Chairman Brian Blakemore, a leading financial expert with a career spanning 40 years in the banking and investment industries, shares his perspective on entrepreneurship and risk taking.
Lady working

KEIT: Going Where No Human Or Machine Has Been Before

16th April 2014

Parts of our planet are so hostile they are unreachable. But if we are to understand Earth’s atmosphere it is vital we monitor factors such as gases around industrial chimneys and erupting volcanoes.
Spring

Newsletter Spring 2014

12th April 2014

 The West Midlands – Proud To Be UK’s Hub Of Enterprise
Make It the Midlands

Make It the Midlands: Why the UK’s Centre is Ripe for Startups

7th April 2014

London has been lauded as the centre of the startup universe, but is Birmingham primed to take the lead?
Entrepreneurship Shifting to Centre of England

Entrepreneurship Shifting to Centre of England

17th March 2014

The West Midlands Is Well Used To Being Dubbed “The Centre” Of The Country.
a new generation of entrepreneurs

Thank You, Dragon’s Den

18th February 2014

Dragons’ Den’s panel of would-be investors may have adopted a cruel and opportunistic tone to boost TV ratings, but drama aside, one can’t deny that the show has cultivated a new generation of entrepreneurs…
Ian-Taylor

Former Science Minister Appointed UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund Advisory Chair

3rd February 2014

Next stage for ‘risk-taking’ public sector, early-stage technology investment fund.
Petri dish

New Funds To Drive Development Of Best-in-Class Fully Human VH antibody Fragment Therapeutics

3rd January 2014

VH domains are the smallest, most robust antibody fragments and as such have advantages for tissue and tumour penetration…
Earth, from space

Third World Magic ?

15th November 2013

I think I’ve reached the age that I can now begin a blog by saying ‘when I was a lad’…. Not so long ago the third world was widely viewed as an immensely impoverished place.
Synthetic Biology

Midven To Manage Engineering Biology Enterprise Fund

6th November 2013

Entrepreneurial scientists in the engineering biology space can benefit from a new £10M investment fund that opens for business today.
Meeting

Engineering Biology Enterprise Boost As New Fund Opens For Business

6th November 2013

Entrepreneurial scientists in the engineering biology space can benefit from a new £10M investment fund that opens for business today.
Seedlings

Contego Secures £900k Of Growth Funding

6th November 2013

Contego Fraud Solutions, the rapidly growing Oxfordshire-based risk management software company, has announced that they have raised £900k in their latest investment round.
johannes plenio

Is the UK Open to Innovation?

20th September 2013

It’s a question we’ve been pondering due to the fact that so many small innovative companies in the UK struggle to gain acceptance of their products.
ibrahim boran

Eagle Genomics Secures £590,000 To Expand Its Current Bioinformatics Offerings

3rd September 2013

Eagle Genomics (Eagle), an expert provider of bioinformatics software and services across a wide range of the life science and other sectors, [has][today] announced the first closing of £590,000.
Laboratory

CellCentric Gains £4.3m To Take Prostate Cancer Programme Through To Clinical Candidates

25th June 2013

New investment coupled with a major award from the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, will provide funding for over two years to conduct lead optimisation and clinical candidate generation…
STFC #49 - Victoria Grigson - High Res

Mars To Volcanoes, Ash Clouds and Chimneystacks-UK Spin-Out Brings Space Technology to Earth

20th June 2013

KEIT Ltd is a brand new, forward thinking spin out company from the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) RAL Space division.
Synthace research

£100,000 Investment For Microbiology Company

19th June 2013

A Company which offers bespoke microbiological testing has secured £100,000 investment.
Craig Parsons inspecting a sapphire pill in OXSENSIS' pilot line 1 laboratory at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 4th March 2014

Parker Aerospace and Oxsensis To Develop Highly Accurate Stable Fiber Optic Pressure Sensor

18th June 2013

Suitable for low temperatures and high vibrations, immune to EMI Reduces system weight and complexity.
Shared Experience Raising Venture Capital

Shared Experience From Raising Venture Capital for a Technology Business

4th June 2013

Tim Grasby recently joined Midven as an investment manager to develop its relationship with Harwell Capital,  targeting investment into UK based technology focused business.
Messages to the Chancellor

Messages to the Chancellor from VC Backed Companies

19th March 2013

Many of the companies that Midven works with are creating exciting products with international reach, but they are looking for more help in accessing and selling to these markets.

Clock

The 60 Second Marketer

18th February 2013

Midven Investment Manager Giovanni Finocchio has extensive sales and marketing experience within the SME environment, having held business development and marketing roles in five early stage businesses that were VC and business angel funded and will be sharing his views…
Nodes

Midven Annual Review 2013

18th February 2013

Midven Annual Review 2013
Funding for Growth

Funding For Growth – An Insight From The Coalface

17th January 2013

The path of raising finance for the entrepreneur is always a precarious balancing act.
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