Green Angel Ventures has followed its original investment in Qualis Flow, a female-founded technology company provides construction teams with the data they need to reduce waste.  The round will further accelerate growth, and is a reflection of the success of this construction-sector company following a first investment in 2021.

Distil.ai – a customer data platform that helps e-commerce businesses to understand customers’ behaviour and boost sales – has raised a further £1.1m in a funding round led by Mercia Ventures and supported by angel investors.

MIPISE, a Fintech-Regtech specialized in development of “end-to-end white-label” solutions for the digitalization of financial activities, announces a €1.3 million fundraising to accelerate the European rollout of its offering dedicated to management companies (private equity, real estate) and crowdfunding players.

Recent research from the British Business Bank found there has been no improvement in the value of investment deals to all-female founder teams over the past decade. While the Small Business Equity Tracker 2023 found that 27% of deals went to teams with at least one female founder, the highest proportion ever, all-female teams accounted for 9% of deals in 2022 but only received 2% of funding, which reflects no improvement since 2011.

Germany: SQUAKE, a climate tech startup powering accurate carbon calculations and providing tangible compensation for travel and logistics emissions, has raised €3.5 million in funding led by Simon Capital, with participation from Schenker Ventures and Rivus Capital.

A move towards AI as a trusted ‘advisor’; the impact of the cost of living crisis and a move away from ethical investing are just some of the key findings published from the Investor Index - an annual study of UK investors.

SFC Capital has been awarded the prestigious 'Best SEIS Investment Manager' and 'EISA Impact Award' at this year's EISA Awards.

Green Angel Ventures has made a follow-on investment in an early stage venture producing a revolutionary chain drive product. New Motion Labs Limited (NML) is a high tech engineering company that has successfully re-engineered chain drives for the first time in 150 years, substantially improving their durability and efficiency.

Wales’ first all-female angel investor syndicate has marked its first investment into a new business intelligence platform, supported by the Development Bank of Wales.

Women Angels of Wales (WAW) backed Newport-based Talent Intuition and CEO Alison Ettridge with £60,000 into its Stratigens software, a SaaS product which brings together labour market, economics and location data to provide the insight businesses need to shape radically smarter decisions.

The increased use of heat pumps in line with the EU’s REPowerEU plan will create 3 million net additional jobs by 2030. The reason: GreenTech heating is much more energy-efficient than fossil fuel boilers. This will lower energy bills (with fair energy prices), enable spending elsewhere and benefit employment. This is according to a new study by the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA). 

Statement, the platform comparing card payment providers for small businesses, has launched in the UK with £1.5m in pre-seed funding from global VC investor Northzone with participation from Notion Capital, Triple Point Ventures and TinyVC. Angels involved include fintech regulars Charlie Songhurst and Chris Adelsbach.

Haia Communications, a leading online and hybrid events platform, has announced its remarkable success at the esteemed Startup Awards Wales held in Cardiff last Thursday. The company emerged victorious, securing two highly prestigious awards: the coveted title of Overall Winner of the Wales Startup Awards 2023 and the esteemed Digital Startup of the Year.