Software company, Modern Democracy has secured a £700,000 investment round to facilitate further growth in the UK and international markets.

Bristol-based Anaphite, which is developing new technology to improve batteries for electric vehicles, has raised just under £1 million from Wealth Club clients under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). The funding was part of Anaphite’s latest £4.1 million funding institutional round, with Wealth Club taking 20% of the raise. Blue Wire Capital, OION, Zero Carbon Capital, Silicon Roundabout Ventures and Deeptech Labs, who are highly regarded as an accelerator for deep tech companies, have also invested.

Thalamos, a platform digitising the Mental Health Act has raised a $1million (£900k) Seed Round, backed by Ascension's Conduit Impact EIS Fund, Angels including Syndicate Room, and a private Seedrs crowdfund. 

Ryft, the revolutionary PSD2 compliant payments system, has raised a large seed round, led by SFC Capital, the UK’s most active seed-stage investor. Additional investors include the ex-founder of Shutterstock and the founder of LoveFilm. Ryft enables automated next day payouts for marketplace businesses and their merchants, for a single flat fee per transaction.

Ahead of the Accelerating Investment & Innovation Summit, taking place on Tuesday 13th September, Jordan Dargue, Head of Access to Finance at Innovation SuperNetwork, argues that, although the North East is brimming with investment opportunities, innovative businesses continue to find it hard to raise finance, and considers what can be done to attract more investors to the region.

The North East is brimming with investment opportunities. So why do we still see less investment in our innovative businesses? asks Jordan Dargue, Head of Access to Finance at Innovation SuperNetwork.

GAS welcomed QLM to its portfolio in Spring 2021 and has now invested in a £12 million Series A funding round led by Schlumberger.

The round was led by Schlumberger with support from Green Angel Syndicate, Enterprise100 Syndicate, Development Bank of Wales, Newable, Quantum Exponential and several private investors. As a company with headquarters in Cardiff and operations in Bristol, this funding round also included British Business Investments funds committed to Green Angel Syndicate through its Regional Angels Programme.

Zero Carbon Capital has made a seed investment in ClimateCrop Ltd, an Israeli company using state-of-the-art gene editing techniques to improve the efficiency with which plants use sunlight to grow.

Joshua Wohle is a EdTech/Learning enthusiast, advisor, investor. He was previously CPTO & co-Founder of SuperAwesome, the largest kidtech company in the world and is currently CEO and co-founder of Mindstone.

Joshua is also a Venture Partner and LP of Emerge Education, an education sector focused European seed fund. Here he shares his experiences of being an angel investor.

Hypetex, the world’s first manufacturer of coloured carbon fibre, has attracted £1.25 million in new equity investment and welcomes two experienced business leaders as both investors and advisers to the company.

The investment is the latest round of Hypetex’s seed funding, led by 24Haymarket, which will support ambitious growth plans and help scale the business’s footprint.

Zeed, the first-ever investment platform that uses short-form video to empower Gen-Z investors in Europe, has secured £205,000 in pre-seed funding led by SFC Capital, the UK’s most active seed stage investor.

This month we talked to Jonathan Matlock, a serial investor in deep science and founder of Science Angel Syndicate, about the unique opportunities (and challenges) of investing in deep science businesses.

PhysioMedics is poised to scale its commercial operations after securing growth capital from investors led by Archangels, the world’s longest continually operated business angel syndicate. The investment follows the appointment last year of experienced CEO, Charles Sweeney, to lead the company through the next stage of its growth.