Investment and pension provider Prosper is establishing a back office at Capital Quarter in Cardiff following an investment of £520,000 from the Development Bank of Wales and a syndicate of 11 business angels.

Winefi, a UK-based start-up building a nextgeneration wine investment marketplace which successfully raised £400,000 from SFC Capital and other angel investors at the end of 2023, has announced a partnership with Wealt, a wealth management platform that allows investors to manage all of their bankable and non-bankable assets in one place, to offer investors easy and cost-effective access to fine wine as an asset class.

Arrow Risk Management, a specialist managing general agency (MGA) underwriting platform that provides brokers and carriers with real-time data across the insurance lifecycle, has raised £2 million in funding, led by ACF Investors and a range of EIS investors. This investment will be used to fuel expansion plans and further develop its underwriting platform.

Hope Macy, the FCA authorised UK Fintech, has obtained £1.5m in seed investment from the Development Bank of Wales, and a supportive angel network, to extend the development and roll-out of its regulated Open Banking and AI platform across the UK to counter the growing problem of financial vulnerability. 

Wealthtech platform Prosper has closed its first crowdfunding campaign, raising over £1 million and topping up the £3.2m already raised from investors including Monzo’s co-founder Tom Blomfield, Capital One’s co-founder Matt Cooper, and many other high-profile fintech angels.

Prosper was founded by fintech entrepreneurs Ricky Knox, Nick Perrett, and Phil Bungey, who previously built businesses such as Nutmeg and Tandem Bank.

New wealth-tech platform Prosper, which plans to revolutionise how we save and invest, has raised a £3.2 million angel round.

The founders of Monzo, Capital One, World First, Tandem, Azimo, Embark, Comply Advantage, and the Connect, MMC and Portfolio Ventures all contributed to Prosper’s £3.2 million angel round, backing the company to shake up the way people manage their wealth.

Delio, the financial technology firm that digitises the private market strategies of leading financial institutions, has launched its new Vaults functionality as part of the flagship Delio Core platform. 

Smaller Scottish businesses, which often struggle to keep pace with big financial institutions when it comes to harnessing the latest growth-enabling technologies, will soon be able to benefit from an innovative national initiative.

To keep pace with its rapid growth, Kore, the RegTech Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that enables large financial institutions to fast track regulatory compliance has raised just under £2.4 million from Wealth Club members under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) in a heavily oversubscribed round.

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.

OION Angels has invested in the latest £1.5 million funding round of Arma Karma, the award-winning monthly insurance subscription company which has been a part of the Oxford Innovation ecosystem since 2019, when it took up residency with Oxford Innovation Space in the Colchester Innovation Centre Knowledge Gateway.

Gyroscope has raised $4.5M in seed funding to build Gyro Dollars (GYD), a decentralized stablecoin featuring a novel all-weather stablecoin design. The round was co-led by Placeholder VC and Galaxy with participation from Maven11, Archetype, and Robot Ventures, as well as angel investment from Cyrus Younessi, Fernando Martinelli, Hart Lambur, Will Villaneuva and others. A live beta version of the new GYD stablecoin mechanism - Gyro Proto - is now live on mainnet Polygon and is open to all for testing.