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News
- NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator to support 5,000 entrepreneurs during 2018 (Startups.co.uk)
- Kindred Capital, an £80m seed VC fund in London, is giving founders it backs a share of fund profits (TechCrunch)
- Metro Bank to provide £1bn of funds to support UK businesses (London Loves Business)
Opinion
- VCT fund raising boom offers SMEs equity funding opportunity (David Prosser, contributor, Forbes)
- The Dropbox IPO is a transformative moment for Y Combinator (Sarah Todd, editor, QZ)
- Lisbon 2018: Why startups are booming in the Portuguese capital(Heather Farnborough, contributor, Forbes)
- Enterprising universities must boldly grow entrepreneurial business leaders (Jerry Allen, director of entrepreneurship, UCL)
- Israel is building bridges on the foundations of its tech revolution (Erel Margalit, founder, Jerusalem Venture Partners)
Features
- Nominations are open for the UK’s leading entrepreneurship awards:
- The Next Web: How Sweden’s startups became Europe’s digital vikings
- CityAM: Keeping the little guys in the loop: How Funding Circles hopes to fix the financial system