ascendant corporate finance – Stuart McKnight

Appetite for Risk in UK/Irish Venture

Posted By: Stuart McKnight | February 28, 2017

During 2016, Ascendant extended its analysis of the Venture Market by establishing a Risk Appetite Index. We wanted to measure how the appetite for risk varies from quarter to quarter and between different types of investor, sectors and regions. The […]

Q4 2016 PAGE ONE TECH

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Investment Trends in tech Q4 2016 View Q4 2016 PAGE ONE Tech report

Ascendant helps BookingTek check in with Mobeus

Posted By: Stuart McKnight | November 16, 2016

Ascendant Corporate Finance (“Ascendant”), the technology focussed corporate finance boutique, is pleased to announce that its client BookingTek Limited (“BookingTek” or the “Company”) – a leading hospitality software developer – has raised £2.2m from Mobeus Equity Partners (“Mobeus”). BookingTek is […]

Q3 2016 PAGE ONE TECH

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Investment Trends in tech Q3 2016 View Q3 2016 PAGEONE tech report >

Food for Thought – Venture investment in London vs Rest of the UK

Posted By: Stuart McKnight | October 1, 2016

Extracted from an Article in Infinite Magazine (see http://www.research-innovation.ed.ac.uk/News/Infinite-magazine) . Until August this year, Edinburgh-based FanDuel held the record of raising more venture capital in a single investment round than any other technology business in the UK. However, it was then […]

Help me doctor – I have a pain in my Cap Table…

Posted By: Stuart McKnight | September 18, 2016

The boom in venturing funding the UK has been particularly prevalent at the seed stage (see the stats here). Many of the parties involved in these early stage deals – seed investors, incubators, accelerators and other service providers – struggle […]

Q1 2016 PAGE ONE Life Sciences

Posted By: Stuart McKnight | June 24, 2016

Investment Trends in Life Sciences Q1 2016 View Q1 2016 PAGEONE Life Sciences report >

Q1 2016 PAGE ONE TECH

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Investment Trends in tech Q1 2016 View Q1 2016 PAGEONE tech report >

Finance chief: ‘there is no funding gap’ for growth firms

Posted By: Stuart McKnight | April 6, 2016

Article originally appeared in Daily Business Group on 4th October 2015 A new entrant to the Scottish corporate finance sector claims there is ‘no funding gap’ in the market. Stuart McKnight, whose company Ascendant Corporate Finance has just opened an […]

The ten biggest technology venture capital investments of 2015

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Article originally appeared in RealBusiness on 10th March 2016 More companies in the technology space were backed by venture capital and institutional sources than during the market peak back in 2000, new findings from Ascendant Corporate Finance have found. A […]

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