
February 16, 2021
M&A Trends in UK/Irish tech 2020 View PageOne 2020 – Disposals of UK/Irish Tech Companies[...]
February 7, 2021
Ascendant has just completed its review of venture investment in private technology companies in the UK and Ireland during 2020 and I thought you might be interested in a few[...]
February 7, 2021
Investment Trends in Tech Q4 2020 View PAGE ONE TECH 2020[...]
January 10, 2021
In the US, the term “megadeals” refers to VC investments of over $100m (i.e. c. £75m). The usage of this name tag is less common in the UK but like[...]
November 5, 2020
Ascendant has just completed its review of venture investment in private technology companies in the UK and Ireland during Q3. It is clear that Covid19 continued to have an impact[...]
November 4, 2020
Investment Trends in Tech Q3 2020 View PAGE ONE TECH Q3 2020[...]
August 3, 2020
Ascendant has just completed its review of venture investment in private technology companies inhe UK and Ireland during Q2 – the CoronaVirus Quarter – and we thought our clients, colleagues[...]
July 31, 2020
Investment Trends in Tech Q2 2020 View PAGE ONE TECH Q2 2020[...]
June 16, 2020
Investment Trends in Tech Q1 2020 View PAGE ONE TECH Q1 2020[...]
April 12, 2020
There are lots of rumours and whispers doing the rounds right now on the state of the venture market – the vast majority are of the doom laden/end of the[...]
February 16, 2021
M&A Trends in UK/Irish tech 2020 View PageOne 2020 – Disposals of UK/Irish Tech Companies[...]
February 7, 2021
Investment Trends in Tech Q4 2020 View PAGE ONE TECH 2020[...]
November 4, 2020
Investment Trends in Tech Q3 2020 View PAGE ONE TECH Q3 2020[...]
July 31, 2020
Investment Trends in Tech Q2 2020 View PAGE ONE TECH Q2 2020[...]
June 16, 2020
Investment Trends in Tech Q1 2020 View PAGE ONE TECH Q1 2020[...]
February 13, 2020
Investment Trends in Tech Q4 2019 View PAGE ONE TECH Q4 2019[...]
January 10, 2020
M&A Trends in UK/Irish tech 2019 View PageOne 2019 – Disposals of UK/Irish Tech Companies[...]
December 3, 2019
Investment Trends in Tech Q3 2019 View PAGE ONE TECH Q3 2019[...]
October 18, 2019
M&A Trends in UK/Irish tech Q3 2019 View PAGE ONE- Disposals 2019 Q3[...]
September 16, 2019
Investment Trends in Tech Q2 2019 View PAGE ONE TECH Q2 2019[...]
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[...]
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[...]
April 6, 2016
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[...]
April 6, 2016
Article originally appeared in Finextra on 11th March 2016 Is London’s much-lauded fintech scene overhyped? New figures suggest that the value of UK and Ireland financial technology investments grew last[...]
April 6, 2016
Article originally appeared in CBR Online on 11th March 2016 News: What is behind the fall in investment? UK and Ireland’s fintech investments are falling short of the hype that[...]
January 31, 2016
Article originally appeared in The Scotsman on 25th January 2016 Sixty of Scotland’s brightest start-up firms have been chosen to take part in this year’s Engage, Invest, Exploit (EIE) investor[...]
October 6, 2015
Article originally appeared in RealBusiness on 3rd June 2015 With the tenth largest deal during the first three months of 2015 totalling £17m, the period was a particularly active one[...]
November 6, 2014
Article originally appeared in Management Today on 6th October 2014 The capital is driving the UK technology boom, with the highest VC funding levels since 2001. But are we in[...]
March 11, 2013
Venture capitalist investments in Britain and Ireland are the highest since 2001, say analysts. Venture capital investment in U.K. and Irish technology companies is at its highest level since the[...]
February 26, 2013
Technology spending has reached a new peak with over £1 billion of venture capital was invested in technology in 2012, the highest amount since a peak in 2001. According to[...]
July 25, 2019
Ascendant Corporate Finance (“Ascendant”), the technology-focused corporate finance boutique, is pleased to announce that its client Cambridge Touch Technologies Limited (“CTT”, the “Company”) – a leading provider of piezoelectric “UltraTouch”[...]
May 31, 2018
Ascendant Corporate Finance(“Ascendant”), the technology-focused corporate finance boutique, is pleased to announce that its client Cambridge Touch Technologies Limited (“CTT”, the “Company”) – a leading developer of AI-driven, 3D multi-touch sensing technologies[...]
January 14, 2018
Ascendant Corporate Finance (“Ascendant”), the technology focussed corporate finance boutique, is pleased to announce that its client Pyreos Limited (“Pyreos” or the “Company”) – the Edinburgh-based passive infrared sensor developer[...]
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 –[...]
May 1, 2014
Ascendant Corporate Finance, the technology focussed corporate finance boutique, advised leading audience intelligence provider, Intent HQ, on a £4.75m fund raising. Specialist growth capital investor, Oxford Capital, has led the[...]
May 12, 2012
Carduus Limited (“Carduus” or the “Company”), Scotland’s newly established lender to Housing Associations (“RSLs”) has today announced a substantial investment by Bridges Ventures LLP (“Bridges”). Ascendant, the London based corporate[...]
June 21, 2011
Ascendant, the corporate finance boutique focused on growth businesses, completed its third transaction of 2011 advising EVO Electric Limited (“EVO Electric” or the “Company”) on a direct investment by GKN[...]
May 4, 2011
ACAL Energy (“ACAL” or the “Company”) has attracted investment from I2BF and Parkwalk. Ascendant, the technology and cleantech focused corporate finance boutique, introduced these investors to ACAL on the fund[...]
January 27, 2011
Redeem, a leading recycler of mobile phones and printer cartridges was acquired today by a management buy in team, consisting of Curt Hopkins and Pete Petrondas, for an undisclosed sum.[...]
March 1, 2010
Mi-Pay Limited (““Mi-Pay” or “the Company”), a leading processor off payments for the fast-emerging mobile money sector has raised a series “C” investment round of £3 million. Octopus Ventures, one[...]
February 7, 2021
Ascendant has just completed its review of venture investment in private technology companies in the UK and Ireland during 2020 and I thought you might be interested in a few[...]
January 10, 2021
In the US, the term “megadeals” refers to VC investments of over $100m (i.e. c. £75m). The usage of this name tag is less common in the UK but like[...]
November 5, 2020
Ascendant has just completed its review of venture investment in private technology companies in the UK and Ireland during Q3. It is clear that Covid19 continued to have an impact[...]
August 3, 2020
Ascendant has just completed its review of venture investment in private technology companies inhe UK and Ireland during Q2 – the CoronaVirus Quarter – and we thought our clients, colleagues[...]
April 12, 2020
There are lots of rumours and whispers doing the rounds right now on the state of the venture market – the vast majority are of the doom laden/end of the[...]
August 30, 2019
2019 has been a great year for tech IPOs in the US. Notably after an extended period in private ownership, Uber finally listed in May and Slack in June both[...]
March 1, 2019
Ascendant has just completed its review of venture investment in private technology companies in the UK and Ireland during 2018 and it has never been higher. The chart below highlights[...]
June 19, 2018
Newsfeeds and papers often seem full of deals where innovative small companies have been acquired for seemingly insane valuations by large corporations. We have all heard of Facebook’s purchase of[...]
March 31, 2017
Tom Kneen, from the Cisco Start Up Hub, sat down for a chat with Stuart McKnight, Managing Director at Ascendant , to unpick some of the stats from the 2016[...]
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[...]
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