{"id":2827,"date":"2021-09-14T07:39:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/uk-government-fund-invests-in-kombucha-and-luxury-ship-builder\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T07:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T05:39:12","slug":"uk-government-fund-invests-in-kombucha-and-luxury-ship-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/uk-government-fund-invests-in-kombucha-and-luxury-ship-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government fund invests in Kombucha and luxury ship builder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayer-backed Future Fund was pitched by Rishi Sunak as support for \u2018gamechanging technologies\u2019 during Covid<\/p>\n<p>The UK government has become a shareholder in more than 150 companies during the Covid crisis, including a kombucha drinks maker, a bespoke ship builder and a knitting and crochet supplier, data reveals.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time that the government\u2019s development bank has revealed the list of firms that received special taxpayer-backed convertible loans that were earmarked for startups.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/14\/uk-government-fund-invested-in-kombucha-and-luxury-ship-builder\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8ab4b0e916a6973efc37ffacafd5a27adff93df5\/0_108_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=58a5d6e9419deb62cbf954a935009069\" title=\"UK government fund invests in Kombucha and luxury ship builder\" \/>Taxpayer-backed Future Fund was pitched by Rishi Sunak as support for \u2018gamechanging technologies\u2019 during Covid<br \/>\nThe UK government has become a shareholder in more than 150 companies during the Covid crisis, including a kombucha drinks maker, a bespoke ship builder and a knitting and crochet supplier, data reveals.<br \/>\nIt is the first time that the government\u2019s development bank has revealed the list of firms that received special taxpayer-backed convertible loans that were earmarked for startups. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayer-backed Future Fund was pitched by Rishi Sunak as support for \u2018gamechanging technologies\u2019 during Covid The UK government has become a shareholder in more than 150 companies during the Covid crisis, including a kombucha drinks maker, a bespoke ship builder and a knitting and crochet supplier, data reveals. It is the first time that the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/uk-government-fund-invests-in-kombucha-and-luxury-ship-builder\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK government fund invests in Kombucha and luxury ship builder<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}