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Private equity holds key to mid market deals in wake of credit crunch
Written by News Desk   
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Businesses looking to raise capital for management buyouts or acquisitions could find their funding in private-equity finance alongside banks, according to accountant and business adviser PKF East Anglia.
 
3i to shut Cambridge office
Written by Tony Quested   
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Venture capital giant 3i is set to close its Cambridge office in a major strategic shift by the quoted group. But senior sources insist they will not be abandoning Cambridge innovation.

 
Death of TTP Ventures chief
Written by News Desk   
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Gerry Fitzsimons, chief executive of TTP Ventures, has died aged 47 following a lengthy battle against lung cancer. He is survived by a wife and five daughters.

 
New Cambridge venture capital firm launched
Written by Ben Fountain   
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
IQ Capital Partners has officially been launched following an MBO of NW Brown Group’s early stage investing activities.
 
KCP makes maiden investment
Friday, 02 November 2007
Cambridge-based private equity fund, Key Capital Partners (KCP), has made the first investment from its maiden fund, a £4.3 million funding of the management buy-out of a Birmingham-based recruitment company.
 
Prelude invests in Xanadu
Thursday, 12 July 2007

Cambridge based Prelude Trust plc, the investment trust managed by Esprit Capital Management Ltd that specialises in high growth technology-based businesses, has invested a further €900,000 (£620,000) in Xanadu Wireless BV.

 

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    The 2008 UK Budget may have been a modest affair, but published with it were two documents with probably greater implications for the long-term performance of the innovation sector in the UK.

    Many of you reading through the coverage of Alistair Darling’s first Budget, delivered on 12th March 2008, may have been reminded of Claud Cockburn’s famous (spoof?) entry for the prize of most dull but accurate headline: ‘Small Earthquake in Chile, Not Many Dead’.

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