Edinburgh-based biotech company Lentitek Ltd has secured £700,000 in private funding from Equity Gap, a leading Scottish angel investment syndicate, bringing its total investment to £1 million in the last six months. This follows a £300,000 Innovate UK grant awarded recently, earlier, accelerating the development and commercialisation of its groundbreaking viral vector technology for next-generation cancer treatments.

Oxford Innovation Finance's EIS Growth Fund and OION Angel Network have invested £350,000 in Study Hall, an agentic learning platform that provides personalised learning agents for reading, writing and exam preparation.

Health and Care Innovations (HCI) has secured a £375,000 equity investment from the British Business Bank's South West Investment Fund via appointed Fund Manager, The FSE Group, as well as from new and existing angel investors.

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Finalrentals has secured a six-figure Pre-Series A investment, bringing its total funding to over seven figures.

MISSION, a natural energy drink and performance tea company, has successfully extended its equity fundraising round to £2 million, including an investment from F1 driver Pierre Gasly.

YAi, a platform helping marketing agencies and brands create, evaluate, and improve AI-generated content at scale, has raised £250,000 in Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) funding from Jenson Ventures. 

StimOxyGen, a spin-out from Ulster University, has raised £1.5m, led by DSW Ventures, to accelerate the development of its innovative therapy designed to overcome treatment resistance in solid tumours.

A pioneering angel investment initiative, fhunded angels, has been officially launched by Lancashire County Council (LCC). Part of LCC's highly successful fhunded early-stage finance programme, fhunded angels is thought to be the UK's first angel network to be led and managed by a local authority at such a scale.

CapRelease, the UK's first logistics-embedded finance platform, has secured £1.7 million in pre-seed funding to redefine how eCommerce retailers access capital. The round was led by a global FinTech-focused family office with significant holdings in leading UK neobanks, alongside a group of experienced angel investors.

WEARABLE tech start-up UNA Watch has secured more than £300,000 investment from SFC Capital as it prepares to take on industry giants Apple and Garmin with the world's first repairable modular GPS sports watch.

Edinburgh-based UNA Watch, which also won the £100,000 top prize from Scottish EDGE last year, is pioneering a new category of sustainable smartwatches, allowing users to repair, replace, and upgrade components instead of discarding entire devices. The innovation aligns with the growing Right to Repair movement and addresses the mounting e-waste crisis, with 62 million tonnes of consumer electronics discarded annually.

Noxus, a startup helping enterprises build their own AI workforces to unlock business-changing productivity, innovation and growth, has raised $1.5m in pre-Seed funding. Led by SFC Capital, with participation from Antler, Bynd VC, Caixa Capital, AltaIR Capital, I2BF Global Ventures, Yellow Rocks, and Smart Partnership Capital plus prominent business angels from the European ecosystem. The funding will help further develop and scale Noxus' platform and expand operations.