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British Business Bank
UK government development bank; £6.6bn direct-investment mandate active from April 2026.
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#1113 Jul
Expanded the Growth Guarantee Scheme to guarantee up to £6.5bn of SME lending
UK Startups and Innovation: £6.5bn guarantee targets the debt tier#119 Jul
Mentioned in: UKRI confirms 58% cut to STFC labs
UK Startups and Innovation#119 Jul
Made its largest-ever direct life-sciences investment into Alchemab
UK Startups and Innovation: Alchemab wins Bank's record £25m cheque#101 Jul
Reported the 2025 regional equity-investment shift
UK Startups and Innovation: London's equity share slips to 57%#101 Jul
Reported the 2025 university-spinout funding contraction
UK Startups and Innovation: Spinout deals fall 33% as seed dries up#101 Jul
Published record 2025 UK equity finance data
UK Startups and Innovation: AI takes record 44% of UK equity market#1029 Jun
Mentioned in: Exeter spinout raises GBP3m for epilepsy
UK Startups and Innovation#922 Jun
Committed £10m as a limited partner in Seedcamp Fund VII and Select
UK Startups and Innovation: Seedcamp closes its record $320m fund#920 Jun
Mentioned in: CuspAI raising $400m on Bezos money
UK Startups and Innovation#917 Jun
Mentioned in: AION quantum result lands in Nature
UK Startups and Innovation#810 Jun
Mentioned in: Midlands fund writes its first cheques
UK Startups and Innovation#88 Jun
Co-managed £150m advance-customer commitment for British chip startups
European Tech Sovereignty: UK pledges £1.1bn AI hardware plan#88 Jun
Mentioned in: PhysicsX hits $2.4bn on Temasek cash
UK Startups and Innovation#72 Jun
co-invested in IMU Biosciences Series A as state development bank
UK Startups and Innovation: IMU raises £40m to read blood#72 Jun
co-invested on the OQC cap table as state development bank
UK Startups and Innovation: OQC raises £260m in Europe's biggest quantum round#627 May
Committed £50m cornerstone to Longwall Ventures Fund 4 via Enterprise Capital Funds programme
UK Startups and Innovation: State £50m backs the tier funds skip#514 May
Anchored Lansdowne VC fund as lead LP
UK Startups and Innovation: Lansdowne hits €128.9m on BBB-anchored fund#413 May
Mentioned in: National Wealth Fund writes first defence cheque
UK Startups and Innovation#513 May
Mentioned in: Fractile lands NATO and CIA chip cash
UK Startups and Innovation#412 May
Mentioned in: Paymentology raises $175m for card issuance expansion
UK Startups and Innovation#412 May
Deployed £13m via British Growth Partnership Fund I and core balance sheet in Elliptic Series D — first dual-instrument BBB deal
UK Startups and Innovation: Elliptic closes $120m crypto compliance round#512 May
Marked NPIF II second anniversary and confirmed £275m deployment to 400+ Northern businesses
UK Startups and Innovation: NPIF II hits £275m across 449 Northern deals#47 May
Deployed £40m as cornerstone investor in Quantum Motion Series C, its largest direct mandate cheque to date
UK Startups and Innovation: BBB puts £40m into quantum hardware#45 May
Contributed £12m to Cytospire Therapeutics Series A as direct mandate co-investment
UK Startups and Innovation: Cytospire's £61m oncology Series A oversubscribed#81 May
Mentioned in: Angel base shrank 7% before the cut
UK Startups and Innovation#330 Apr
Mentioned in: Online Oceans surfaces £4m maritime raise
UK Startups and Innovation#329 Apr
Mentioned in: Third Space Learning raises £4.4m for Skye
UK Startups and Innovation#329 Apr
Mentioned in: All3 lands $25m for agentic defence factories
UK Startups and Innovation#327 Apr
Co-invested in Ineffable Intelligence seed round
UK Startups and Innovation: Ineffable lands $1.1bn seed, SAIU rides minority#222 Apr
Mentioned in: FCA and PRA cut SM&CR certification by 15%
UK Startups and Innovation#214 Apr
Mentioned in: VCTs hit £917.7m record, brace for 65% fall
UK Startups and Innovation#214 Apr
Mentioned in: UK Q1 VC hits $7.8bn, Nscale dwarfs rest
UK Startups and Innovation#16 Apr
Received £6.6bn additional mandate and began leading venture rounds directly
UK Startups and Innovation: Business Bank begins direct startup investment#16 Apr
#26 Apr
Mentioned in: EMI reform quadruples the scaleup thresholds
UK Startups and Innovation#11 Jan