QVentures has led a pre-seed funding round in CareerPaths, one of the world’s largest career mentoring platforms, alongside a number of angel investors, some of whom have taken on roles as business advisors at CareerPaths.

In March 2023, Ambrose Healthcare launched a £1 million Founders Round share offer and is raising funds to take the business to the next phase of its development.  

To date, it has banked share applications for £300k, and has commitments for a further £100k.

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Last week saw the re-launch of HBAN, the All-Island Angel Investment Network.  The network is now managed by Dogpatch Labs (Dublin), in partnership with Ormeau Baths (Belfast), Portershed (Galway), RDI Hub (Kerry) and Republic of Work (Cork) and funded by Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIreland.

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.