Sunamp, the thermal storage technologies company, has  received a 6 million-pound ($8.3 million) convertible loan note investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank. Sunamp will use these funds to increase its sales in the UK, scale up production, and to accelerate international expansion into China, the Americas and continental Europe.

Poor mental health has grown to be a global crisis, with 1 in 5 people experiencing common mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression in any given year¹. In the search for more effective and accessible treatments for mental wellness, renewed scientific and commercial interest in psychedelic medicine is now leading to rapid advancements in psychedelic models of care for mental health. Founders Factory and Woven Science have announced a unique partnership to invest in groundbreaking startups that have the ability to redefine mental healthcare and build new solutions that make sustainable well-being accessible to all.

Marketplace ‘super seller’ and tech startup, Boulevard, has closed a £2.2m seed investment from early and growth-stage VC, Fuel Ventures, following an exceptional 12 months. 

AIM-listed Hardide plc (“Hardide”) has secured a £250,000 funding package from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (“MEIF”) East & South East Midlands Debt Finance fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”) and backed by the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).

London-based Wiserfunding, a leading provider of credit risk assessment for SME lenders, has announced it has secured £3 million investment from BGF – the UK and Ireland’s most active growth capital investor. This investment will support Wiserfunding in accelerating international expansion and strengthening its global position.

cheqd – a start-up whose technology could drive widespread uptake of digital IDs – has secured a £1.9m investment to support the launch of its product later this year.  The latest funding round was backed by Outlier Ventures, Evernym, TitanBlock, Torque, 3GR and a consortium of private investors. It follows their initial investment in March this year and brings the total raised by the company to £2.4m.

Birmingham-headquartered Antser, a leading innovator in social care, has announced an £8.5 million investment from growth capital investor, BGF.  Antser delivers transformational solutions to the social care, health, and education sectors, in partnership with local authority and independent providers. The investment will allow the company to continue to scale its business within the children’s social care sector, as well as increase its reach across adult social care and the adjacent markets. Antser employs 150 people across four UK offices.

German-based drinks technology, air up, has successfully closed its latest funding round having raised over EUR 40 million. This is after completing their Series A fundraise at the beginning of the year. The investment round, led by Five Seasons Ventures (co-led by PepsiCo, Ippen.Media, Oyster Bay), was in part based on the rapid growth trajectory in the German speaking countries and across Europe over the past 12 months.

Futures Factory, a marketplace for selling sneakers, that merges both the physical and digital worlds through Augmented Reality (AR) and NFTs, has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Seedcamp and Stride. Further participation comes from the co-founders of Voodoo, Kima Ventures, RTP Global, along with technology, crypto, and fashion angel investors.

Tyk, a London-based global tech company, has closed a $35M growth equity funding round led by new investors Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), alongside existing investors MMC Ventures.

Tyk’s innovative API management solution helps to build mission-critical systems in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government. It is used by some of the world’s largest enterprises such as Societe Generale, Starbucks and Domino’s.

Civo, the first pure-play cloud native service provider, and THG plc (THG), a global technology platform that specialises in taking brands direct to consumers, have announced that THG Ingenuity, the technology Division of THG, has invested £1.4 million to take a minority stake in Civo. Civo’s developer-focused Kubernetes platform will strengthen and accelerate development of the technology stack that underpins THG Ingenuity, its cutting-edge proprietary technology platform.

Bowmark Capital has further strengthened its portfolio management and value creation team with the appointment of Ben Hollowood as a portfolio director.