Following hard on the heels of the Home Office’s announcement relating to Entrepreneur visas, this week’s budget had a distinctly enterprise supportive flavour.
I had very much hoped this would be the case and certainly the signals coming out of the Department for Business in the shape of Mark Prisk – who attended Seedcamp’s SeedSummit for a full hour and half – the PM Read more

You can watch his interview with Ted Cohen here : http://bit.ly/h3WSmq

Today we’re excited to announce that Index is opening its fourth office and that Danny and Mike will be going to the Bay Area to get it going.
For us this feels like a big move. But truth be told, although Index was born in Europe and has been based in Geneva, London and Jersey, we’ve Read more

I’m delighted to announce that after long discussions and a lot of hard work on the part of Philips, our co-investors Union Square Ventures and Simon Levene and most specifically Peter Weijmarshausen and his team at Shapeways, that we have finalised our investment in the company. The New York Times coverage is here and Shapeways commentary here. What I thought might be interesting Read more

We’re very excited to announce a great investment out of our Index Seed Fund. Groupspaces is a company founded by a couple of Oxford grads who have had an entrepreneurial twinkle in their eye from when they were back in school. We met them at a conference, had a coffee, we loved their idea, and Read more

Zippin’ up my boots
goin’ back to my roots
- Richie Havens (choose your poison disco or acoustic)
At Index, seed investing is part of our DNA. Since 1995, we’ve made over 40 seed deals, with over 30 in the last 5 years including Moo, DimDim, Moshi Monsters, Boku, Songkick, Weatherbill and Viagogo. We are really energized by Read more