The Keith Arundale Website

I am delighted, and honoured, to have been awarded an Adam Smith Business School prize for PhD excellence in 2018. Up to three prizes are awarded each year on the basis of the excellence and significance of the contribution of the thesis.  I certainly enjoyed carrying out my research into venture capital fund performance and investment […]

My PhD thesis entitled “Exploring the difference in performance between UK/European venture capital funds and US venture capital funds” is now available from the University of Glasgow library at: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/view/creators/Arundale=3AKeith=3A=3A.default.html Abstract: Investment returns of European venture capital (VC) funds have consistently underperformed US VC funds. This has led to reduced allocations of funds raised for European […]

The summer edition of the BVCA Journal, published on 20 June 2017, features an interview with me on my discussion paper which explores the performance gap between European and US venture capital funds. A copy of the interview is available here: Keith Arundale Article – BVCA Journal Summer 2017 My research, on which the paper is based, investigates whether […]

Despite some rumours to the contrary, venture capital is alive and well in today’s financing climate. The venture capital industry is one of the most traditional and well-tested ways of securing funds to start-up, develop or expand your business. For an insight into the venture capital financing process see my article here: ICAEW F&M VC article-KeithArundale, […]

A truly inspirational talk by Lord David Puttnam this evening at the Royal Society of Arts. He was giving the inaugural NACUE Entrepreneur Leaders Lecture (National Association of College & University Entrepreneurs). Concentrating mainly on his early career with Collett Dickenson Pearce, but also featuring his award-winning career as an independent film producer (The Killing […]

At the Entrepreneurs – City of London event on 21 January  “California dreaming and London calling” I spoke on my visit to Silicon Valley, USA last summer when I met with a number of venture capital firms, tech companies and entrepreneurs based in the Valley. This was in connection with my research into VC fund […]

The UK came 14th in the 2012 GEDI ranking of the entrepreneurial performance of countries around the world (The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index by George Mason University, University of Pecs and Imperial College Business School, 2012). Not surprisingly the US was in first place.  Having recently returned from Silicon Valley, California, where I was […]

I’m writing this blog at the University of Glasgow and wondering whether when I come here this time next year I will be in a newly independent Scotland. I regard myself as truly British: although I was born in England (Oldham) and currently reside in Windsor, I was brought up and schooled in Wales (and […]

Many thanks to all CIM members who voted for me in the recent elections to the CIM Board of Trustees.  And a special “thank you” to my proposer Lasantha Wickremesooriya and seconders Chris Lenton, John Flynn and Sally Muggeridge. I am delighted to have been elected to the Board and look forward to representing the interests of CIM Fellows […]

The report on the 4th Annual Internet of Things Europe conference, held in November 2012, is now available: see www.theinternetofthings.eu/4th-annual-internet-things-europe-report. The conference was organised by Forum Europe and examined the co-existence of the real and virtual worlds in areas such as consumer electronics, health, transport and retail. It was attended by around 150 delegates from […]