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Trends in Startup Jobs: When Are Startups Hiring Lawyers?
Creating a management team can make or break a startup. It’s not just about hiring the right people who share a company’s vision and have the drive to execute it—entrepreneurs and business owners must first decide which positions are the highest priority and which could have the biggest impact on the future of their business. … Trends in Startup Jobs: When Are Startups Hiring Lawyers?
Startups Experimenting with Psychedelic Mental Health Treatments
Startups Experimenting with Psychedelic Mental Health Treatments 13 April 2022 By Hannah Skingle Share You might associate psychedelics with recreational use and abuse, but a growing number of scientists, entrepreneurs and investors are working to bring these experimental substances into the mainstream. Psychoactive substances have been shown to have significant benefits for a range of … Startups Experimenting with Psychedelic Mental Health Treatments
The Gender Gap in UK Startup and Scaleup Businesses | 2022
Beauhurst has been tracking the gender gap in the UK’s private company ecosystem for several years now, monitoring the success of female entrepreneurs, from the number of startups and scaleups led by women to the amount of venture capital raised by these firms. As well as reporting on these numbers, we’ve also produced pieces that … The Gender Gap in UK Startup and Scaleup Businesses | 2022
How To Find Companies That Are Actively Hiring
The Beauhurst platform allows users to search for private companies by any combination of hundreds of criteria, including funding history, financial information, sector, location and employee growth. Now, we’ve added a new data point to our arsenal, allowing you to search for the high-growth companies that are actively hiring. This new data point runs over … How To Find Companies That Are Actively Hiring
IPO Watchlist 2022: 15 High-Growth Companies Likely To List
What is an IPO? An initial public offering, or IPO, is when a company lists on a stock exchange, allowing individual investors or firms to buy the company’s shares on the public market, and providing an exit event for founders, employees and private investors. Why do companies IPO? IPOs have traditionally been the end game … IPO Watchlist 2022: 15 High-Growth Companies Likely To List
The 9 Most Active Female Angel Investors in the UK
Angel investors are an incredibly important source of funding in the equity landscape, providing relatively small ticket sizes to small businesses that are of personal interest and have high-growth potential, with the aim of eventually making a return on investment. Many unicorn companies started out with friends, family and angel rounds, and this early-stage finance … The 9 Most Active Female Angel Investors in the UK
12 VC Funds and Angel Networks Backing Diverse Founders in the UK
Despite the fact that diversity is good for business, it’s well documented that the UK’s venture capital and private equity market is not, in fact, equitable at all. From Silicon Valley to Europe, the vast majority of venture capital investment is deployed to startups with White, male founders from well-educated backgrounds. This leaves founders who … 12 VC Funds and Angel Networks Backing Diverse Founders in the UK
The London Underground of High-Growth Companies
London is at the centre of the UK’s flourishing high-growth ecosystem, with just over 1 in 3 ambitious businesses calling the Capital home. Here at Beauhurst, we never tire of bar charts and line graphs. But, in the spirit of shaking things up a bit, we’ve created a brand new visual of the city’s top … The London Underground of High-Growth Companies
Making Sense of Unicorn Startup Valuations: Is There A Bubble?
Companies with a billion-dollar valuation are labelled as unicorns because they were once rare creatures. But now they’re breeding more like rabbits, with over 750 reported world-wide, and more than 30 headquartered in the UK alone—which begs the question, is this growth in the population of billion-dollar companies sustainable, or is it indicative of a … Making Sense of Unicorn Startup Valuations: Is There A Bubble?
NEW Visualisations of Diversity in Startups & Scaleups
Diversity fuels growth and innovation–that’s a fact. And in order to spot opportunities for change and improve diversity, we need to be able to report on the current state of play. We’ve previously published research on gender and age diversity in the high-growth space. But now we’ve made it easier than ever for you to replicate … NEW Visualisations of Diversity in Startups & Scaleups
Which High-Growth Companies Have Furloughed Staff?
The UK Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been in place since March 2020, introduced to support businesses that are significantly impacted by COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, and the people they employ. The scheme allows employers to furlough their staff and apply for a grant to cover a portion of their wages whilst they’re not working … Which High-Growth Companies Have Furloughed Staff?
UK Craft Beer Startups Raising the Bar
The British beer scene is a fast-growing subset of the food and drinks industry, driven by passionate founders and teams, for whom brewing beer is a true labour of love. The craze for innovative and specialty beer styles first took off in the late 2000s, and has since built a community of hardcore fans who … UK Craft Beer Startups Raising the Bar