7 April 

Foresight has invested £2.15m from Foresight VCT PLC into Fresh Relevance Limited (“FRL”), a leading marketing technology platform for eCommerce businesses.

7 April 

Small Pharma has raised £830,000, supplemented by a £140,000 grant from Innovate UK, The round was led by Chris Torrance, co-founder of Horizon Discovery and PhoreMost, with the Angel CoFund and a number of other investors also participating.

7 April 

Intertrust has four new client-facing directors following a recent set of promotions within the firm. Roger Bolan, Alex Di Santo, Shane Hugill and Stephen Langan have all been promoted to directors across Intertrust’s Private Wealth, Funds, Capital Markets and Performance & Reward Management service lines.

7 April 

The GM&C Life Sciences Fund, managed by Catapult Ventures, has led a £4m investment in Proveca, a European paediatric speciality pharmaceutical company. The investment will fund the commercial launch of Sialanar™ and the development and commercialisation of its paediatric product portfolio. 

7 April 

BDRC Continental has published an update to its half-yearly SME Finance Monitor. The largest and most frequent study of its kind in the UK, research findings date back to the start of 2011 and are based on more than 100,000 interviews with SMEs. Download the report here

7 April 

New research carried out among over 1,000 UK investors by Market Financial Solutions has revealed how they are approaching their investment strategies as Brexit negotiations begin.

6 April 

Triptease, a travel SaaS start-up that provides a platform to hotels seeking to increase direct bookings, has raised $9 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by new investor BGF Ventures, with participation from existing investors Notion Capital and Episode 1 Ventures.

6 April 

A novel antibiotic, which has been developed in Scotland for the treatment of Clostridium difficile, will take a step closer to being brought to market following the completion of a further round of funding led by prominent angel investment syndicate, Archangels, for MGB Biopharma.

6 April 

HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network) announces its five-year business angel outlook that predicts business angels will invest €85 million in 264 high potential start-ups in the period running 2017 to year-end 2021. It will mark a 79% increase in investment over the previous five years, which saw €47.4 million invested in 244 companies.

6 April

The InterTradeIreland Seedcorn competition launches for 2017, to find upcoming business talent.  Register at www.intertradeireland.com/seedcorn.

5 April 

Foresight Group has completed a £3 million investment into Ollie Quinn Limited, a branded retailer of prescription glasses, sunglasses and non-prescription polarised sunglasses to fund the rollout of additional stores throughout the UK and Canada.

5 April

Private equity fund manager Calculus Capital has closed its EIS fundraising after reaching its £20m target three months earlier than anticipated.