25th March 2022
- 0 commentsWastewater treatment and bioenergy company, WASE, has raised £400,000, to be followed by a further £300,000, following closure of the oversubscribed Seedrs campaign. The funding was led by Elbow Beach Capital, the decarbonisation, sustainability and social impact investor, with support from the Science Angel Syndicate, and the European Union’s Climate-KIC’s investment support programme Found by Us, Funded by You, WASE has raised over £1 million.
25th February 2022
- 0 commentsSemarion Ltd, a University of Cambridge spin-out company from the Cavendish Laboratory combining materials engineering and cell biology to tackle unmet drug screening needs, has closed a £2.14 million GBP seed funding round. The investment round was led by Parkwalk Advisors, with the University of Cambridge Seed Funds, Martlet Capital, and angel investors also contributing to the fundraise.
11th February 2022
- 0 commentsThe entrepreneur behind a new property management platform COHO has raised £275,000 to establish it as the ‘Airbnb for shared living’.
Vann Vogstad has raised funding from the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, and a number of private angel investors.
11th February 2022
- 0 commentsAI-driven cancer detection platform C the Signs has raised £5,000,000 in Series-A funding from MMC, Ataraxia and Acequia Capital, alongside notable Angels including the past CEO of AXA Health, past CEO of Bupa, and Founder of Monzo.
4th February 2022
- 0 commentsCauldron was labelled one of FinTech’s best kept secrets when last summer it spun the gaming studio out of the fintech unicorn, Thought Machine. Their Chief Design Officer, Mark Warrick, announced he was moving on after 7 years to become the CEO of Cauldron with a founding team including the award-winning creative force of Fox Rogers and BAFTA-nominated games director Matt Hyde.
4th February 2022
- 0 commentsVertical Future Limited, , which grows crops without soil and with artificial light, has successfully completed a £21m Series-A Equity Fundraise from investors including the Acceleris syndicate of investors participated in this fundraise alongside new UHNW, HNW and family office investors. The funding is Europe’s largest ever “Series A” fundraising in the emerging vertical farming sector.
4th February 2022
- 0 commentsSmartia, the leading UK industrial intelligence technology company, has raised £1.7 million, led by 24Haymarket and supported by existing investors. Smartia’s flagship intelligence platform, MAIO, combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep industrial expertise to provide manufacturers with an end-to-end Industry4.0 solution.
28th January 2022
- 0 commentsStreetwear mystery box start-up HEAT has closed a multi-million dollar seed round with investors including global venture capital investor Antler, LVMH Luxury Ventures, and a number of strategic angel investors including Stefano Rosso (OTB), the Hermès family, Michael Mitterlehner (L Catterton), Oliver Merkel (Flink) and Sven Ahrens (Spotify).
28th January 2022
- 0 commentsSkiller Whale, the online live training platform that marries skills assessment with small expert-led classes tailored to upskill tech teams, has raised a $2.9M seed round to scale up their on-job learning offer. This approach allows a high degree of flexibility and an easy integration with tech teams' schedules.
21st January 2022
- 0 commentsPar Equity has more than doubled its annual investment into innovative technology businesses, from £12m in 2020 to £25m last year. This was in addition to a landmark $400m exit on the sale of portfolio company Current Health in October, which continued Par Equity’s track record of successful exits, returning cash to investors every year since 2013.
21st January 2022
- 0 commentsSwedish technology and design startup STILRIDE has raised £2.5m to produce sustainable electric motorcycles and scooters using a groundbreaking process dubbed ‘industrial origami’. This £2.5m seed round was joined by angels and private investors that include Gustaf Hagman, Saeid Esmaeilizadeh, Sam Bonnier and Andreas Adler.
21st January 2022
- 0 commentsBGF has led a £2.5 million investment round into sustainable female underwear brand, Stripe & Stare, alongside a consortium of high-profile investors.
BGF provided £1.5 million of growth capital with the remaining amount coming from private backers, including Richard Longhurst, co-founder of Lovehoney, and Sam Galsworthy of Sipsmith Gin.
Headquartered in Devon, Stripe & Stare was founded in 2017 by friends and business colleagues Katie Lopes and Nicola Piercy, with the aim of creating the most comfortable and eco-friendly knickers in the world.