Pollen Careers, a job platform on a mission to transform the entry-level job market into a more inclusive and equitable space, has raised £112,000 funding via SeedLegals, which reached 100% of the target amount in just one week and closed after being overfunded by 12%. Several angel investors also participated in the round.  The new funding will be used to scale operations to accommodate more employers, meet growing demand, automate processes and for product design, paving the way for future scalability.

South East Angels has invested in Blue Skies Space - a startup on a quest to enable the world’s research communities to solve the biggest questions in the universe.

Relevic, a web personalisation SaaS platform, has secured £150,000 in a pre-Seed round led by early-stage venture capital firm Jenson Funding Partners. Launched in 2023 by Ali Sohail, Saad Sohail and Fahd Sheikh, the funding will be used to enhance the product whilst increasing customer acquisition.

A new University of Liverpool spin-out company, Atomik AM, brings together cutting-edge chemistry and solutions-focused engineering expertise to enable manufacturers to reduce cost, waste and adverse social impact.

Investment and pension provider Prosper is establishing a back office at Capital Quarter in Cardiff following an investment of £520,000 from the Development Bank of Wales and a syndicate of 11 business angels.

The EdTech company, founded by Salisbury mum-of-three Kirstin Coughtrie, has gone through its biggest growth quarter to date – with both significant new angel investments, alongside its learners tripling since the start of this academic school year.

A new assessment of British Patient Capital’s Future Fund: Breakthrough reveals that the programme is successfully increasing later stage capital investment into deeptech and life sciences companies – the sectors it was founded to support.

JOINRS, a start up AI based job board that puts the university students and junior profiles in front of the big corporations, has receieved its latest round of investment, raising €1.7million and has launched its service in the UK!

The capital received will be used primarily for the acceleration and the internationalization of JOINRS, which already has developed a community of over 650,000+ users ready to use the platform so that they can have a step closer in the world of work.

Anima, the next-generation care enablement platform, has completed an oversubscribed $12 million Series A funding round, led by Molten Ventures. Existing investors Hummingbird Ventures, Amino Collective and Y Combinator also participated in the round, and there is new participation from angels including Sidar Sahin, founder of Peak Games.

Following on from the success of last year’s partnership, Catalyst and Techstart Ventures are teaming up again to offer five inspiring entrepreneurial teams who participate in Catalyst’s Co-Founders programme the chance to win a £10,000 proof of concept grant each.

PORTUGAL: Vawlt Technologies, the visionary start-up in the global long-term data storage market, has raised additional €2.15 million round of funding. 

Vawlt secured a total of three new investors, with Lince Capital as the round leader, and Basinghall and Beta Capital listing as the other two new joiners. This latest funding round also includes participation from Vawlt’s existing investors Armilar Venture Partners and Shilling VC, as well as further investment from two former Cisco and OVHcloud executives.

Asterias, the London-based technology startup, has closed an oversubscribed £600k Pre-Seed round. Led by Insurtech Gateway, a leading investor in insurance technology ventures, alongside Syndicate Room’s Access, a data-driven super angel fund, and prominent industry investors. The round will be sufficient to take the Asterias’s product into mainstream adoption, unifying loss data across the insurance ecosystem.