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  • Saturday, 27 February, 2021
    UK Budget
    UK government to take stakes in tech start-ups

    Up to £375m of state funds to be matched by venture capital and made available for promising companies

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  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    InterviewRishi Sunak
    Chancellor spots break in clouds after Brexit, Covid and battered finances

    Sunak tells FT he wants to start laying foundations for Britain’s future economy

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    Kinnevik AB
    Kinnevik to distribute entire stake in retailer Zalando to shareholders

    Swedish technology investor moves to rebalance portfolio towards fast-growing and unlisted start-ups

  • Monday, 15 February, 2021
    Financial services
    PensionBee to offer customers access to planned IPO

    Financial technology start-up plans to offer its users shares in upcoming listing

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Venture capital investment
    Ribbit came to Robinhood’s rescue. Will its bet pay off?

    Fintech investor looks to capitalise on IPO of contentious share-trading platform

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    Entrepreneurship
    How ‘scale-up’ business became the engine of job creation

    Start-ups and high-growth ventures will be crucial in the pandemic economic recovery

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    Due Diligence
    Robinhood, GameStop and a last-minute dealmaking dash Premium

    The trading platform’s regulatory woes spurred a flurry of venture capital deals

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
    Grab upsizes term loan to $2bn on strong US demand

    South-east Asia start-up weighs US listing after interest from institutions including BlackRock and Carlyle

  • Sunday, 31 January, 2021
    Turkish start-up Getir launches grocery delivery service in London

    Company backed by venture capitalist Michael Moritz enters competitive UK field

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  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    John Thornhill
    UK must resist the itch to meddle with the tech sector

    Start-ups can thrive under Brexit if the government avoids mistakes

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Venture capital investment
    Coronavirus drives retreat of Chinese VCs to safer deals

    Investors lavish funds on known companies in favoured sectors at expense of tech start-ups

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Euan Blair’s education start-up valued at $200m

    Multiverse, which helps young people win apprenticeships, raises new funding from General Catalyst and Google

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Children's bank accounts
    Video games top the pocket money spending charts

    Youngsters dip into their savings for Roblox and Fortnite during lockdown

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Due Diligence
    Selling a Spac dream: auto start-ups angle for Tesla shine Premium

    Investors are being courted with supercharged valuations, but they may be overhyped

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Special ReportCorporate Change and Technology
    Start-ups force finance chiefs to rethink attitude to risk

    Experiments with innovation are a nightmare for risk-averse CFOs, as investing in disrupters so often results in a loss

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    InterviewHow to Lead
    The tech chief who put diversity at the heart of her group

    Ashwini Asokan admits enforcing a 50-50 gender policy was challenging but it is ‘ridiculous’ to think a pipeline of women in tech does not exist

  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    PT Go-Jek Indonesia
    Gojek and Tokopedia in advanced talks to form $18bn tech group

    Indonesian tie-up would create one of south-east Asia’s biggest companies

  • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
    Semiconductors
    AI chipmaker Graphcore raises $222m as it takes on Nvidia

    Latest funding round values four-year-old UK start-up at $2.5bn

  • Monday, 28 December, 2020
    Lex
    Unicorns: herd it all before Premium

    Not all valuations are rock solid, so best to check investor safety nets before considering a stake

  • Sunday, 27 December, 2020
    Search engine start-ups try to take on Google

    Challengers such as Neeva bet on alternative approaches as tech giant faces regulatory scrutiny

  • Friday, 25 December, 2020
    Due Diligence
    The best of DD’s corporate finance coverage in 2020 Premium

    We’re counting down our top-10 topics of the year

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    Cloud computing
    Sky’s the limit as tech investors pile into cloud start-ups

    Valuations soar in Silicon Valley with venture capitalists racing to find next big thing

  • Sunday, 20 December, 2020
    Lex
    Turo/car rental: deals on wheels Premium

    Biggest threat to the San Francisco-based start-up is legislation

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    FT CollectionsData rich: the numbers behind corporate news
    Patience pays off for US start-ups that stayed private

    Wait is over for venture-backed companies as rewards of going public become too enticing

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    Online used car sales fuel Asia fundraising burst

    Portals in India and south-east Asia seize pandemic-driven opportunity to sell to growing middle class

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