A company based at Queen’s University, Belfast which has developed a potentially life-saving new cancer treatment is to invest almost £8m to take its first anti-cancer drug through a first-in-human, Phase 1a clinical trial and perform further scientific development work.

Log my Care - a fast-growing company whose software platform enables care homes and social care organisations to ‘go digital’ - has raised £3.25m in a funding round led by Mercia, with Oxford Capital and angel investors also participating.

The Startup Investor Accelerator has unveiled the six companies selected for the final round of its Trans-Atlantic startup competition.

Fund Her North is celebrating its second birthday, having successfully closed 14 deals leveraging a total of £4.5m for female founded businesses, and reaching 500 members. Established in 2020, Fund Her North is made up of over 32 northern women from venture capital firms, funding organisations and angel groups. Together, they have a combined investment power of over £650m. Fund Her North was founded by Helen Oldham, Jordan Dargue Jess Jackson, Charlotte Ashton, and Chi-chi Ekweozor.

Apheris, the platform for creating collaborative data ecosystems, has raised €8.7m to further develop its unique technology and build on its growing list of customers and partners, including BASF, Boston Consulting Group, BMW Group and JLABS, Johnson & Johnson’s innovation division. The platform enables organizations to extract value from each other’s decentralized data sets in a way that helps them overcome regulatory, technical, and commercial challenges because the data never moves from the owner’s secure environment. 

The tenth edition of the Global Green Finance Index (GGFI) evaluates the green finance offering of 84 financial centres.

Nix and Kix, a low-calorie carbonated soft drink brand with a focus on natural, vegan ingredients, has received investment from one Henley Business Angels member, contributing towards a funding round of £1m.

EBAN has announced that yet another very successful edition of the European Angel Investment Summit was concluded on the 11th and 12th of October 2022.

Swedish electromobility and industrial tech startup STILRIDE has raised €3.7m to fuel future growth and innovation, following unprecedented demand for its inaugural electric motorcycle - the Sport Utility Scooter One (SUS1) -  and sustainable manufacturing technology, dubbed “industrial origami”.  The round was joined by new and existing angels that include Gustaf Hagman, Saeid Esmaeilizadeh and Tobias Emanuelsson (founder and CEO at Polar Structure).

Fast-growing consumer insights business Vypr has received an additional £3m of investment from YFM Equity Partners (YFM) through its British Smaller Companies VCTs to fund strategic sales and product development as the business continues to scale.  Funded in its early stages by a number of angel investors in various seed rounds, a few of them participated in this follow-on round

Pembroke VCT plc, the venture capital trust focused on backing early-stage businesses led by exceptional founders and management teams, has invested £1 million into VIEVE, the aspirational and purposeful makeup brand transforming the cosmetic landscape, as part of a £5.5 million Series A round. Investing alongside Pembroke VCT are Venrex and Samos (the early stage investors in Charlotte Tilbury), Active Partners and business angels. 

Tech Nation, the UK’s leading growth platform for tech scaleups, has published its Climate Tech Report 2022, to shed light on the state of UK climate tech ahead of COP27 this month.