Pioneering UK-based bio-tech business Clean Food Group has rasied £2.5 million from Clean Growth Fund, a climate-specific UK venture capital fund, providing UK cleantech entrepreneurs with the expertise and capital they need to reduce carbon emissions and tackle the climate crisis. This follows an earlier funding in 2022, which included a number of angel investors.

Scaleup Finance has raised an $8million (£6.4million) pre-Series A round to ‘solve the challenge of financial management’ for startup and scale-up companies.

Led by Inveready, alongside Crowberry Capital, Seed X, PROfounders, Fin Capital and CircleRock Capital, the funds will be used to help drive continued growth in the UK and prepare for future expansion into the US. 

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.

East Kilbride plumbing startup, Water Kinetics, has secured a £150,000 investment from British Design Fund for its innovative ‘Eco-Duo’ pipe-within-a-pipe water recirculation system that can help reduce carbon emissions and energy use, while aiding safe pathogen levels within drinking water systems.

350 PPM LTD is an incubator and accelerator which provides investors with a gateway to invest in early-stage climate tech companies and share in their success.  They are currently raising investment funds for expansion.

If you want to access investment opportunities in the environmental sector, this could be for you. 

For more information go to https://landing.investsuccess.co.uk/350ppm?sid=OSM_ANGELNEWS_6499&cr_cid=329310077

Lithium Salvage UK Ltd uses a proprietary and environmentally friendly process to recover rare, valuable materials from waste Lithium-ion batteries and is raising £1.5 million to establish a fully operational Li Ion battery recycling facility by 2025 having already secured £250,000 cornerstone funding from a strategic investor.

More about this investment opportunity on our Funding Pages website https://www.fundingforentrepreneurs.co.uk/.

The SETsquared Partnership has been ranked as the 3rd leading start-up hub in Europe and the top entry from the UK and Ireland by the Financial Times and Statista's Special Report on Europe's Leading Start-Up Hubs.

The report ranked 125 start-up hubs across 21 European countries using data and feedback from alumni and independent experts, including investors, and it also examined the success of emerging companies.

Winefi, a UK-based start-up building a nextgeneration wine investment marketplace which successfully raised £400,000 from SFC Capital and other angel investors at the end of 2023, has announced a partnership with Wealt, a wealth management platform that allows investors to manage all of their bankable and non-bankable assets in one place, to offer investors easy and cost-effective access to fine wine as an asset class.

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.

CryoLogyx, a University of Warwick spinout redefining cell technology through cryopreservation, has closed an oversubscribed seed funding round. The £500,000 investment came from private UK business angels and the Wider Oxford Technology Angel Network (WOTAN), which includes previous investors Oxford Technology Management. 

Science and technology hub Catalyst has has launched its Open Innovation service, designed to help companies of all sizes, across all sectors in Northern Ireland and the northwest region of Ireland to unlock their innovation potential.