UK payments startup yetipay has raised £3.5 million to continue the expansion of its all-in-one payments platform and introduce new products to its growing base of independent and enterprise hospitality and retail customers, including Brewdog, Pho, Grasso Soho, Kütchenhaus and Zenith.

Bulgaria: Paypercut has secured €2 million in pre-seed funding to simplify Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) for small businesses across Central and Eastern Europe.

Chorus, the provider of innovative digital training solutions for frontline workers, has raised £710,000 funding co-led by Ufi Ventures, the UK's specialist investor in adult EdTech, and Haatch, a prominent early-stage venture fund with additional investment secured from the Stakeholderz Syndicate angel group.

South Africa: Five years after crypto exchange Luno was acquired by crypto-focused venture capital firm Digital Currency Group (DCG), its Co-Founder Carel van Wyk is coming out of stealth with MoneyBadger to make money better by helping major South African retailers and payment processors accept Bitcoin and crypto payments.

Munich-based Robotic-Startup Filics, developer of innovative solutions for autonomous load carrier handling, has completed a new financing round. The new investors include Sandwater, Alven, F-LOG Ventures, and the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, alongside Bayern Kapital, business angels Andrei Danescu (founder and CEO of Dexory) and Helmut Schmid (CCO of Filics and former CEO of Agilox), and with continued participation from Capnamic and 10x Founders. 

upLYFT, a pioneering company in the smart technology sector, has completed a £500,000 investment through the Deepbridge Capital UK Innovation Seed Fund, alongside TIME Interconnect (HK) Limited.

This significant investment will enable upLYFT to accelerate the development and market introduction of its intelligent wearable technology. The funding will support product enhancement, team expansion, and operational scale-up to meet growing demand across the healthcare and sports sectors.

Fuel Ventures has led a £525,000 investment round into Eventwise, the end-to-end event budgeting platform that gives event professionals full control over their finances, so they can focus on delivering exceptional experiences. The round, which closed on 30th June, signals a key milestone as Eventwise scales its platform and infrastructure to meet growing demand across the events industry.

The entrepreneurs behind two of the UK's most successful hospitality tech businesses have joined forces to launch a new venture that aims to reshape hospitality recruitment.

Sam Brown and Nick Holroyd-Doveton have raised £785,000 to further develop their matchmaking platform, Candid Hospitality. The funding came from NPIF II - Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia Ventures and part of the Northern Powerhouse Fund II (NPIF II), Haatch and an angel investor, and marks the first NPIF II equity investment in Hull.

Appacut, the UK's leading mobile barbering platform, has raised £600k in seed funding to accelerate its national expansion, led by musicMagpie co-founder Steve Oliver, who joins as Non-Executive Chair.

Glyde, the currency platform that empowers individuals and businesses to send, receive and convert money on their own terms, has secured £450,000 in pre-seed funding led by Fuel Ventures. The investment will be used to grow Glyde's engineering team, accelerate product development, and expand adoption across the UK and internationally.

Antler Bio, an AgriTech company transforming dairy farming with gene expression technology, has announced a $4.3 million investment to scale its world-first EpiHerd system. Operating across key European markets including the UK, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, EpiHerd provides farmers with a unique understanding of their cows' health. Using advanced data analytics, the technology interprets how a cow's genes respond to its environment, detecting stress and nutritional imbalances, and helping farmers take proactive measures that improve wellbeing and increase milk yield, ultimately boosting farm profitability.

Blocktype, the residential planning platform helping to unlock the UK's housing pipeline, has announced a new round of investment led by Fuel Ventures to support the scaling of its data-driven planning solution. The pre-seed funding will be used to accelerate growth, expand partnerships, and support local authorities and developers in tackling one of the UK's most urgent challenges: building the right homes, in the right places, at the right time.