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Chris Elphick provides his reflections on VC fundraising data in 2025 and the decline in the UK total overall. He highlights that this is a narrow snapshot, drawing attention to the strengths of the ecosystem including how the UK continues to lead Europe in total VC investment, the strong track record of exits and returns, and the UK’s strengths in important and emerging sectors including AI, health tech and life sciences.

At our Annual General Meeting, members ratified an important but deliberate change: the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) will adopt a new name, UK Private Capital.  

The Bank of England are mapping out scenarios against which they can specifically test how private markets would react in a moment of acute stress. They want to know what that could mean for the stability of the financial system on the one hand and the performance of the real economy on the other.

The BVCA’s Sustainability Policy Executive, Breeze Haywood, reflects on the outcome of the most recent COP30 negotiations. Breeze highlights the UK’s role in advancing global nature finance and how private capital is well-positioned to help develop innovative finance mechanisms to further mobilise capital at scale.

This is the 18th annual report on the performance of portfolio companies, a group of large, private equity (PE) owned UK businesses that met defined criteria at the time of acquisition. Its publication is one of the steps adopted by the PE industry following the publication of guidelines by Sir David Walker to improve transparency and disclosure, under the oversight of the Private Equity Reporting Group (PERG).

The latest Private Equity Annual Public Reports – reviewing the industry’s financial performance and disclosure – have been published today. The reporting process brings together three complementary annual reports which promote transparency by the UK’s largest private equity-backed companies and their investors. Designed to be read together, the reports underpin the private equity industry’s continued commitment to openness and accountability in support of the UK economy.

Seven UK businesses backed by private capital have been crowned as national winners of the BVCA Vision Awards for exceptional performance, following regional awards that took place throughout the year.

The BVCA’s longstanding Vision Awards, in partnership with headline sponsor Grant Thornton and supporting sponsor Santander, continues to recognise and celebrate the best management teams backed by private capital, alongside the GPs who support them across the United Kingdom.

Belasko’s Head of Funds, Nick McHardy, looks at the practical steps involved in launching and operating a private capital fund. This piece reflects on foundational aspects such as fundraising, documentation, fund structuring as well as service provider selection – giving a useful guide on operational aspects and fund lifecycle management.

New data has found that businesses backed by private capital generated £4.4bn for the Welsh economy in 2025.