All Start-ups articles
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NewsBritish Business Bank helps raise £2bn towards UK technology, life sciences companies
The Bank co-invested £250m into the 33 companies
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NewsGermany’s WIN-Initiative deploys first start-up investments
Some signatories have already implemented investments committed up to 2030 above their original targets, says state-owned development bank KfW
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NewsEnpam targets innovative firms with €190m investment
The Italian pension fund for doctors plans to keep its private markets allocation stable, targeting 12-13% returns in private equity and 7-8% in private debt
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NewsGerman government earmarks a further €200m for venture capital
KfW Capital is launching the Impact Facility, a new building block of the Future Fund, to strengthen impact investing in the German venture capital market
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NewsEU considers role of pension funds in new five-year economic plan
The Commission to introduce an investment programme focused on disruptive technologies such as AI and clean tech
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NewsGerman dentists scheme faces losses on insolvent insurtech start-up
The pension fund is one of the main investors in the Berlin-based start-up, with a 27.14% stake in the company
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NewsGermany’s innovation agency calls for pension funds’ backing of tech start-ups
SPRIN-D had €220m available last year, far from enough to turn technological innovation into profitable companies
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NewsBVK, BlackRock, Allianz and others commit €12bn to start-up investments
Germany needs around €30bn annually to finance innovation, says CEO of state-owned investment and development bank KfW
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Opinion PiecesDeep-tech startups: from academic know how to commercial viability
Many would argue that universities have been set up in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, so perhaps the idea of seeking commercial applications for university research detracts from the beauty of that ideal. That certainly was the attitude in Oxford when I completed my own doctorate in physics four decades ago. But times have changed and the UK, and Europe more generally, is desperate to encourage the growth of innovative companies that can rival those being churned out in the US.
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NewsGerman scheme invests in VC arm of cooperative banking group
Government plans to channel institutional investors’ capital towards start-ups, as the number of venture capital deals sunk by 25% last year
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NewsGermany plans second Growth Fund for start-up investments by 2026
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action says the country is significantly behind other nations when it comes to growth financing
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NewsUBS sets up foundation to channel CHF50bn towards deep-tech start-ups
Swisscom calls on institutional investors, including pension funds and asset managers, to fund the country’s start-up ecosystem
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NewsBVK joins Allianz, BlackRock and others in WIN-Initiative for start-up investments
The WIN-Initiative comes as German institutional investors opted to allocate €600bn in funds abroad over the past 10 years
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NewsGerman government earmarks further €1.6bn for start-up investments
Cabinet expects €3.5bn public and private capital for investments in venture capital
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Opinion PiecesInvestors could do more to boost German start-ups
The German constitutional court’s ruling that the government’s reallocation of €60bn worth of debt to the country’s Climate and Transformation Fund is unlawful was a blow. But there was also also some welcome news last month.
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NewsSwisscom calls on investment industry to boost domestic start-ups
20 institutional investors have allocated capital to Swisscom’s funds raising CHF375m
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NewsGerman government ditches plan to deploy pension capital for VC funds
Instead, start-up strategy envisions opening up the VC market to institutional investors through a German Growth Fund
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NewsGerman government plans to channel pension assets for VC investments
Also considering setting up a facility to finance young innovative companies that previously had no access to venture capital funds
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NewsGermany to kick-start FoF for start-up investments
The government also plans to increase the amount of capital in Coparion, a fund financed through the ERP Special Fund
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Domestic equities and RE revaluations lift KLP’s Q1 return
Launch of “pressure tank” project to support and invest in Norwegian start ups was a key event in the first quarter, says KLP
