The Greater Manchester LEP, backed GC Angels, a UK’s leading early-stage investor, has made total investments in Greater Manchester startups of £3.4m and has unlocked an additional £12m in private capital since 2018, vital in helping high growth SMEs succeed and scale from Greater Manchester.

Following its latest funding round, Rosa Biotech has announced plans to accelerate development of its pioneering bio-sensing technology, designed to enable cost effective screening of a range of life-threatening diseases with high accuracy at an early stage.

Cornerstone Partners has joined a $3m seed funding round in  fashion rental platform By Rotation. The round, led by venture capital firm Redrice Ventures included Closed Loop Partners, True Global, Magnus Rausing and other leading angel investors.

DSW Ventures, the venture capital business of the Dow Schofield Watts Group, has closed its debut Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) fund.

Sticky, the technology company solving companies’ inefficient and often unprofitable physical spaces, has raised £1.5m in seed funding from prominent UK venture investors to accelerate customer growth across leisure and retail markets around the world.

EBAN Congress - taking place in Thessaloniki, Greece, on May 24-26 - will feature 37 handpicked startups and scaleups, 20 from Greece and 17 from the rest of Europe.

Green Angel Syndicate has completed a new investment in a technology innovation for cleaner water worldwide. This vitally important breakthrough has been created by early stage company, Molymem, which spun out of The University of Manchester in December 2022.

Molymem has developed an energy-efficient and highly versatile membrane coating based around a material called molybdenum disulphide (MoS2). The material is modified to create an innovative water filtration solution.

Bethnal Green Ventures has launched a research project looking into angel investments in tech for good businesses.

If you're an angel actively investing or looking to invest, then take part in their survey.

Treekly, an app which encourages people to walk and help the planet, has secured funding from Anglia Capital Group.

Heero Technologies, a high-growth clean tech software and data company based in Dundee, has secured a six-figure investment from The TRICAPITAL Syndicate LLP, Scottish Enterprise and Mint Ventures to further develop its innovative energy efficiency app.

Spend intelligence platform Spendkey has raised £358,000 in pre-seed funding from early-stage investors Fuel Ventures and Scalebridge Capital, as well as several angel investors. Emerging from stealth mode, Spendkey will use the funding to continue its mission to transform vast amounts of data into tangible spending insights, accelerating and automating decision-making in the process.

Heatio, a UK cleantech start-up, focused on smart home energy management, has secured £560k of new funding following the completion of its Seed fundraising round in April 2023. Having an original target fundraise of £500k, the Seed Funding round was significantly oversubscribed and capped at £560k, with a total of 30 new angel investors supporting the round.