TravelNest, an advertising optimisation platform for holiday rental owners, has secured a £3m seed round from leading early stage venture firms Pentech, Mangrove Capital Partners and Frontline Ventures. Investors also include Mark Logan, ex-COO at Skyscanner, who has joined the company as a board member. 

Verv, a brand, which sits under machine learning experts Green Running Ltd, has successfully raised £1,234,500 on Crowdcube in return for a 4.72% stake in the business.

Mojiworks, the leading start-up dedicated to creating games for the world’s fast-growing chat and messaging platforms, has raised £2.1 million in funding led by Balderton Capital, Europe’s largest early stage venture capital investor.

BGF has exited its investment in Statesman Travel Group, a high-end travel management company, following Statesman’s acquisition by US based Travel and Transport. Statesman was bought in whole by Travel and Transport in an undisclosed all-cash transaction.

Sugru, the world’s first mouldable glue, closed its second successful crowdfunding campaign at the weekend after raising £2m from 2740 investors with leading equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube.

Octopus Ventures backed eve Sleep has announced its IPO on AIM, with a market cap of c.£140m - the first retail IPO of 2017 in the UK.  

Mobeus Equity Partners has provided £2.9 million of growth capital to Buster + Punch, a London-based interiors brand founded in 2012 by architect and industrial designer Massimo Buster Minale.  

LoveCrafts, the creator of online crafts communities, with millions of users across 140 countries worldwide, today announces completion of a £26 million funding round led by Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), together with current investors Balderton and Highland Europe.  

BGF has provided £5m of long-term funding for Renegade, a London headquartered business which is developing a major whiskey project on Ireland’s south-eastern coast. The funding will be used for continued development and production of single malt whiskey at Renegade’s Waterford distillery in Ireland.