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EMV Capitals fund raise was very well supported – ICYMI [Video]

EMV Capital (AIM:EMVC) earlier this week announced the successful completion of an oversubscribed £1.5 million fundraising round, conducted at a 15% premium to the market price.

The company attributed this success to strong shareholder support and its robust business model, even amid challenging market conditions.

The funding will primarily focus on expanding EMV Capital (AIM:EMVC)’s fund management practice, launching new funds, and supporting its Venture Build program.

The company, which manages £100 million in assets, has a portfolio of 70 companies and aims to reach £200 million in assets under management by 2025. It has £40 million-plus in direct balance sheet holdings, which it expects to grow.

Here, we take a closer look at what was said.

Proactive: Congratulations on the capital raise, which was oversubscribed. Also, strong support for the retail offer.

Take us through the placing and the mechanics of it.

Ilian Iliev:Well, let me start by saying that we all know we live in a rapidly changing environment, …

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New Year's Resolution Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck and 1Mby1M [Video]

We are in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of tech businesses have already been built successfully. Let's learn from those who have come before us. Girish Navani started eClinicalWorks, a healthcare IT venture by bootstrapping with a paycheck. Girish scaled to over $500M in revenue. Since 2006, I have spent thousands of hours interviewing successful entrepreneurs. Listening. Asking questions. Understanding. Extrapolating. Learning about their mistakes. Capturing their lessons from the trenches. I encapsulated their anecdotal knowledge into Methodology. I have been running One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) since 2010. Our unwavering mission has been to democratize entrepreneurship education, incubation and acceleration. What is Core Startup Methodology? Bootstrapping. Positioning. Market Sizing. Customer Validation. Customer Acquisition. Financing. Team Building. We have to learn Domain Specific nuances. We call them Electives. Artificial Intelligence. Machine