YFM has led a £10m investment into healthtech company DrDoctor along with Ananda Impact Ventures and 24 Haymarket

DrDoctor was founded in 2012 by Tom Whicher, Rinesh Amin and Perran Pengelly and provides digital care solutions to increase communication and engagement between patients and clinicians, managing 25 per cent of NHS outpatient appointments.

Oxford Innovation EIS Growth Fund 2 invests in the innovative coloured advance materials company Hypetex, as part of its latest £1.25 million seed fundraise, led by 24Haymarket.

South East Angels, Brighton’s most active business angel investment network, has launched a new initiative to tackle the diversity problem in venture capital. Future Angels will host frequent events that are open to anyone intrigued about angel investment so they can come along and meet like-minded people, learn, and grow their network.

The British Business Bank’s Small Business Finance Markets 2022/23 report shows £35.5bn of bank lending came from challenger and specialist banks in 2022. This exceeded lending by the major banks during the period, giving challenger and specialist banks a 55% share of the market.

Robin AI, the generative AI startup, has raised $10.5m led by Plural, with participation from Episode 1 and a number of angel investors.

Devyce, a UK SaaS company that provides digital phone numbers to multinational businesses, has closed a $2.7 million (£2.2 million) seed funding round to spur on its ambition to create a global mobile network for business using its own mobile network operator licence. 

A design engineer and TV presenter, skilled in creating space-saving architectural innovations for the home, is feeling flush after securing £160,000 backing from the British Design Fund for his latest invention – a frame that allows toilets to be folded away in a cupboard when not in use.

The Flywheelers, a specialist comms agency for high-growth startups and scaleups, has published a new research report into what technology startup and scaleup founders can do to raise their profile and boost their attractiveness with investors.

Sourcerie, which is building a community-driven data platform and personalisation software for the beauty industry, closed a £1.8m pre-seed round last year co-led by Playfair Capital and Vorwerk Ventures. 

A number of notable angels with relevant operational experience participated, including Sandrine Deveaux, EVP Future Retail at Farfetch, Mandeep Singh, exited Co-Founder of Trouva, Renee Parker, Ex Head of Amazon Luxury Beauty, Vanessa Goddevrind, ex EMEA Head of Beauty for McKinsey, Jason Scott, ex Head of Google’s US Startup Ecosystem, and Joe Falter, Co-founder of Zapp and ex Jumia founding team member. 

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Quell, the UK-based fitness gaming developer and publisher pioneering the future of fitness gaming technology, has announced the completion of a $10m Series A funding round led by Tencent with follow-on investment from Khosla Ventures, Heartcore Capital, Social Impact Capital and entrepreneur Naval Ravikant. This latest round brings Quell’s total financing to $15.6m.