UK-based gynaecological health startup Daye, which is known for having invented the CBD tampon that is now used by over 60,000 women in the UK, has completed a £10 million funding round. The company’s successful Series A funding round includes investment from London-based Hambro Perks, an international investment firm which focuses on breakthrough and growth technology companies and included angel funding from investors including Dr Michelle Tempest, Dr Fiona Pathiraja and Martin Varsavsky, founder of Prelude, the largest chain of fertility clinics in the world.

Award winning, early stage Healthtech company, BlueSkeye AI Ltd, has secured £3.4m in funding to pursue its mission to improve people’s quality of life through the use of its proprietary face and voice analysis technology. The round was led by XTX Ventures, which invested alongside Foresight Group (through The Midlands Engine Investment Fund), Praetura Ventures (through Praetura’s GMC Life Sciences Fund), the University of Nottingham and a consortium of high-net-worth individuals.

Book Salon, a payment and booking service provider specializing in hair, beauty, and wellness companies, is launching operations in the UK. The Finnish startup has raised £3,7 million from private investors to date, including Big Bets VC and promonent angel investors such as Lennu Keinänen. Book Salon provides entrepreneurs with a full suite of modern tools to run a successful business. Book Salon offers payment terminals and a payment processing service, in addition to its website builder, online booking systems, and cash and accounting reports.

Early stage businesses in North Wales are set to benefit from a new collaboration between Angels Invest Wales and business mentoring provider Camau Nesaf.

Leapfunder is a Europe-wide, online angel club which aims to disrupt the long-standing models we are used to.  We asked CEO Tienko Rasker to tell us more.

The British Business Bank has published a list of 67 additional companies in which the Future Fund holds an equity stake, taking the total to 464 as at 30 September 2022, meaning more than a third of companies have now converted to equity.

Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS), a provider of highly realistic virtual reality healthcare training, has raised a further £2.1 million in a funding round that included ACF Investors and angel investor Dr Nicolaus Henke, former chairman of Quantum Black and former head of McKinsey’s global healthcare practice.

New insurtech Peachy has raised $1.6m seed round from a number of angel investors from the insurance world, reflecting both the strength of Peachy’s radical new approach as the change that is needed and the quality of the business that has been built to deliver it.  The company's mission to radically improve financial inclusion in private healthcare has received a $1.6m boost from an impressive list of former executives of the insurance world who believe radical change is necessary and that Peachy is the answer. 

Hedgehog, the fractional investing app making real-world investments accessible to a wider audience, has completed its crowdfunding round on Seedrs ahead of schedule. The round overfunded by more than 50% to hit a total of £1.56 million from close to 400 individual investors, including a number of angel investors, from 27 different countries, with the majority of capital coming from those working within private markets.

Archireef Limited, which is supported by Emirates Angels, an NGO focusing on angel investing and tech startups, is a Forbes Asia 100 to Watch company among the 10 startups invited to represent the UAE at CEATEC in October 2022.

A Nottingham company which has devised a blood test that could revolutionise management of tuberculosis (TB) has raised a further £2.4m to further develop the test and support clinical trials.

Two major research bodies will join a Development Bank-led research partnership to provide new insights and data-backed perspectives on the Welsh business environment.