One of our latest conversations saw True Altitude’s Eva Dobrzanska (ED) talk with Megan Snijman, Commercial Director at Hyper. Hyper is a global startup incubator that provides founders with the safest way to launch their startups, having supported over 600+ Founders and raised over £60m+ to date. (ED): Can you tell me more about yourself and your career journey so far? Megan: Oh, absolutely…

The UK’s Angel Investing ecosystem has been growing steadily in the recent years — last year, as a source of funding, angel investing actually overtook crowdfunding. …

Discussing everything from identifying the right investor, using the right tools to do so and overall increasing transparency within the VC ecosystem. — As of today, there are an estimated 40,000+ VC funds worldwide, each one of them operating under a specific investment thesis and with different areas of focus. …

Given the rather bearish attitudes towards the investment market in 2022, many start-ups have found themselves struggling to raise capital. After a record-breaking year in 2021, valuations dipped alongside stock market correction. With the due diligence process often taking longer than previously, start-ups face a number of challenges, notably shorter…

The global VC market is changing. While 2021 was a record-breaker, with a doubling of year-on-year investments, 2022 has been drastically different, bringing more conservative investments, slower fund deployment times, and a major pullback of growth capital. Market forces have been a primary reason for change-ups within the venture landscape…

Late last year, we invested in a company changing the way we work. ybot is a Voice RPA, which is an autonomous assistant for work that performs tasks on behalf of employees or customers. With the ability to execute business-critical tasks through Voice AI in 40+ languages, ybot are leaders…

Venture debt is an important source of capital for startups, yet there’s relatively little information about the funding option out there. Very often, lenders know more about the process than VCs and founders. …

The alternative capital market is more attractive than ever. With companies choosing to stay private for longer, many are “turning to debt financing as an alternative to traditional equity rounds, in an attempt to avoid down rounds, dilution, and unfavourable terms”. Non-dilutive funding is any kind of funding that doesn’t…

The UK is home to some of the leading tax relief schemes. Yet, the benefits of the schemes available to investors are not as widely known as you might expect. In this article, we explore the key features of the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme…