1st July 2022
- 0 commentsSFC Capital, the UK’s most active seed-stage investor, has received a further £5 million commitment from British Business Investments to invest into innovative early-stage businesses across the UK regions. This new commitment - part of its Regional Angels Programme, designed to reduce regional imbalances in access to early-stage equity finance for smaller businesses across the UK - follows an initial £10 million commitment from British Business Investments made in 2020, which is now fully deployed.
1st July 2022
- 0 commentsManchester based early-stage investor Praetura Ventures has announced an additional £5m funding commitment from British Business Investments to continue supporting start-ups across underserved parts of the UK.
1st July 2022
- 0 commentsEntrepreneurs, founders and adventurers are being given the chance to live pitch for investment and sponsorship available at the Blue Earth Summit in Bristol in October.
From hundreds of applications, 10 semi finalists will pitch online to become one of 4 finalists to pitch live to more than 20 of the world’s best impact investment firms and hundreds of Angel and Retail investors attending the Summit. All the investors have a passion for businesses, adventures and projects that can be a force for good in protecting our planet and its people.
1st July 2022
- 0 commentsData Access Governance software firm Torsion Information Security has closed a £1.1 million funding round co-led by Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund, Juno Capital and The FSE Group, alongside investors from several prestigious Cambridge angel networks.
1st July 2022
- 0 commentsCytomos, an Edinburgh-based life science company that has developed a proprietary new approach to analysing cells, has secured £1.6m funding to progress the development and qualification of its novel cell analysis platform, Cytomos Dielectric Spectroscopy (CDS).
The fundraising round by Cytomos was led by existing investor Archangels with participation from Scottish Enterprise and Old College Capital.
1st July 2022
- 0 commentsPembroke VCT plc, the venture capital trust focused on backing early-stage businesses led by exceptional founders and management teams, has invested into My Expert Midwife, the award-winning, midwife-founded brand for pregnancy, birth and beyond. The £2 million fundraise was led by Pembroke, who invested £1.5 million alongside existing shareholders and angel investors.
24th June 2022
- 0 commentsPar Equity has supported 12 high growth technology companies in the first quarter of 2022 and has made record investments in the past year of £31.4m, an 83% increase on £17.2m in the previous year.
24th June 2022
- 0 commentsInsurtech startup BirdsEyeView has closed a seed funding round led by SFC Capital, with the funds matched by the European Space Agency (ESA). BirdsEyeView uses satellite data to structure insurance solutions for severe weather. The funding will be used to grow the team, further develop BirdsEyeView’s tech and match ESA funding.
17th June 2022
- 0 commentsSpirea Limited, a Cambridge company created to advance a new generation of antibody drug conjugate (ADC) therapeutics, has announced that it has secured funding of £2.4 million with investments from high-profile UK and US investors. Spirea will use the funds to initiate its pipeline of superior and differentiated ADCs in the treatment of solid tumours where there is a high unmet need.
17th June 2022
- 0 commentsThe team behind REAP Bikes has received widespread support from the cycling community reaching their initial crowdfunding target of £300,000.
17th June 2022
- 0 commentsSky is anchoring a new £100m ‘operator-first’ venture capital fund powered by Founders Factory that will champion early-stage entrepreneurs launching planet positive technologies.
17th June 2022
- 0 commentsRayon, the space design software makers, has completed a $2m pre-seed round, which will be used to grow the Rayon team, refine its product and launch its offering in October of this year.