Two of Green Angel Syndicate's portfolio companies have been nominated for this year’s prestigious Earthshot Prize. 

Climate change investor, Climate VC has launched to exert a gigatonne scale impact on climate change in the next decade and influence a sea change in the way the venture capital sector approaches climate investing.  The fund has a number of high profile angel backers including serial founder investor Doug Scott.

Investing in start-ups throughout the UK, Climate VC is a specialist climate tech investor focused on finding and backing climate change start-ups that might have been overlooked by other VCs. Climate VC wants to disrupt the traditional VC approach to climate innovation by putting as much emphasis on the climate impact of a venture as the commercial return.  

The London Technology Club (LTC), the leading community for investment opportunities in the technology sector, has launched LTC Dubai, its first strategic international investment hub.

Sano Genetics, co-founded by three University of Cambridge genomics postgraduates, has raised $11M in a Series A funding round led by MMC Ventures, with further funding from Episode 1, Seedcamp and several angel investors, including Paul Forster, a co-founder and former CEO of Indeed, Paul Wicks, former VP of innovation at PatientsLikeMe, and Margo Georgiadis, the former CEO of Ancestry.com.

East Kilbride based FreeFlow Technologies (FFT), which has developed a light power to weight e-Bike motor, is moving into production following the completion of a £1.65m funding round led by investment syndicate Kelvin Capital.

The new investment will accelerate the production of units from its Scottish production line in 2022, ready to be sold into the fast-growing e-Bike sector.

Chaired by Martin McCourt, former Global CEO of Dyson, the business completed a previous funding round in November 2020 securing £1.85m which saw them move to new headquarters and R&D facility in East Kilbride and adding senior technical positions and assembly engineers.

A technology company that specialises in developing software for the renewables industry has secured new investment to accelerate its product development. 

Bristol-based Sennen has raised £780,000 equity funding from a range of new and existing investors. They include investment firms Caygan Capital, Future Play and Vala Capital as well as a number of private individuals.

Around £100,000 of the total investment came through the crowdfunding platform Seedrs.

Innovatium, a Scottish technology business focused on reducing the carbon impact of industrial processes, has secured over £900,000 of new investment to enhance its new liquid air battery technology.

Led by the investment syndicate Kelvin Capital, alongside co-investment partners Scottish Enterprise, the funding round will support the continued development of Innovatium’s ground-breaking Liquid Air Energy Storage System called the PRISMA Air Battery.  The funding will also be used to scale the already experienced team to assist in the build of productionised units for identified clients.

Lune, which aims to change this by offering an API and software tools to make it easy for any business to integrate climate impact into their customer experience, has closed a $4m funding round led by early-stage VC Crane, with participation from 15 reputable angel investors, including Maximilian Tayenthal (co-founder of N26), Fredrik Hjelm (co-founder of Voi) and Tony Jamous (co-founder of OysterHR & Nexmo). 

Anglesey-based online events platform, Haia celebrates this week with the announcement of significant investment deals from early-stage funder SFC Capital and Stakeholderz angel funding.

Nick Lyth, founder of the UK’s largest network of specialist investors fighting climate change, asks: “What will these new targets achieve?”

Global Data from Angel Investment Network reveals Technology remains the top sector for investors looking to back startups, up 23% year on year and there is growing opportunity for FinTech entrepreneurs, more investors looking to back fintech businesses.

There has been a significant rise in the numbers of angel investors looking to back startups across the globe with technology the most popular sector and food and beverage seeing the fastest year on year growth. These are some of the key findings from Angel Investment Network’s annual analysis of the global state of angel investment funding based on data from their platform. 

Wastewater treatment and bioenergy company, WASE, has raised £400,000, to be followed by a further £300,000, following closure of the oversubscribed Seedrs campaign. The funding was led by Elbow Beach Capital, the decarbonisation, sustainability and social impact investor, with support from the Science Angel Syndicate, and the European Union’s Climate-KIC’s investment support programme Found by Us, Funded by You, WASE has raised over £1 million.