Kuai Commerce has closed a Pre-Seed Round, raising $2.4m to build its social commerce solution for D2C brands looking to sell in the world’s largest ecommerce market, China.

EnsiliTech, the award-winning biopharmaceuticals company has raised £1.2 million in pre-seed funding to aid the development of a pioneering refrigeration-free approach to transporting vaccines and other materials.

University of Nottingham spinout, Scintam Engineering, has developed an innovative technology that uses electricity to help relieve a major problem faced within aerospace, automotive and other engineering industries. The start-up recently secured a £125K investment from British Design Fund, as part of a £325K seed funding round, as it now looks to take its technology to market.

More than 30 of Wales’ most successful female entrepreneurs and business leaders have united to form Women Angels of Wales (WAW),  

Seedrs has launched its 2022 Sector Report which reveals the sectors that filled investors with conviction last year in the face of macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds. The Report, which analysed more than 324 campaigns, found that ClimateTech thrived with investment growing 154% from £15.7m to £40.1m, with 58% more businesses raising from 37% more investors. 

Hilltop Leaf, the company behind one of the UK’s first medicinal cannabis cultivation and production facilities, has raised £2m from Traditum Private Equity and private investors.  The funding will enable the company to make its first commercial sales and scale its infrastructure to become one of the largest UK producers of medicinal cannabis products for the specialist prescription market. 

Following the launch of the RCA's first Design & Impact S/EIS Fund, a £5 million multi-sector fund investing in early-stage Royal College of Art companies - managed by Infinity Asset Management - we spoke to InnovationRCA Director Dr Nadia Danhash to find out more....

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Brose, a fast-growing UK wine business focused on the globally developing appetite for rose wine is seeking equity investment. 

Fast-growing UK wine business seeks equity investment.

EBAN board member Dr. Nicolas Rouhana (PhD) is currently the Chairman and CEO of IM Fndng, grouping IM Capital & IM Ventures with $60M funds under management, providing Matching Capital, Equity Guarantee and Technical Assistance to startups, investors, business angels, incubators and accelerators in Lebanon.

One hundred Northern Ireland companies have now benefitted from investments totalling over £42M through Co-Fund NI since the programme began in 2011.