13 February 

Bloom & Wild, the UK’s top rated online flower company, has taken £3.75m in a new round of funding with Burda Principal Investments, Hubert Burda Media’s investment unit, leading the round, and previous investors MMC Ventures and the company’s other angel investors also participating.

13 February 

London based action.ai, the developer of an advanced AI platform for the launch of high quality chatbots, has closed a £515K investment round which included participation from Angels in The City (AiTC), LBA private investors, and the London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF). 

13 February

Advizzo, a B2B customer engagement software & Smart Home specialist, has closed a pre-series A investment round from LBA and other investors which included participation from the LBA EIS Roundtable Syndicate Fund 2016 and the London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF).

13 February 

Beans Entertainment (Beans), the developer of Bean&Gone, a new interactive brand that delivers shared engagement experiences for children across digital and physical media formats, has secured £300,000 of seed investment raising its valuation to £1.3m.

9 February

Crowdcube has seen a strong upswing in investment through the platform since the decision to leave European Union (EU) last June. Crowdcube finished 2016 on a high with its best quarter since the platform launched in 2011 and investment up 20 per cent in the six months following the Brexit vote.

9 February 

Angel Investment Network (AIN) are delighted to announce that they have recently completed four deals through their network. 

9 February 

Startup Funding Club has launched a new initiative for early-stage startups in partnership with experienced entrepreneur and angel investor Andy Yates, the SFC Academy.

8 February

Edition Capital today launched an exciting new EIS fund (Enterprise Investment Scheme). The First Edition EIS offers investors tax efficient access to a portfolio of pre-identified companies in the dynamic and fast growing media and live entertainment sectors.

8 February 

The Electrospinning Company has secured a £650,000 investment from a network of UK angel investors, including Angels 5K, LBA, Minerva, Wroxall, Angels in MedCity and OION, as well as from tChoose Filehe Rainbow Seed Fund.

8 February 

Oxford University Innovation’s management consultancy division to restructure as separate entity to scale up interactions and business on the world stage. Isis Enterprise, the global innovation management consultancy division of Oxford University Innovation, will be joining Oxford University’s ever-growing list of innovative companies as it rebrands to Oxentia and establishes itself a separate entity later this year.

8 February 

Seed investor and former long-term chairman of King Digital (creators of Candy Crush) Mel Morris, has invested £3.8m in Audiense, a software-as-a-service developer which delivers unique consumer insight and consumer engagement capabilities to many of the world’s biggest brands and agencies. 

9 February

SPNV Ltd announces the launch of the Space Net Ventures (S)EIS fund. The fund, targeting early stage investments in Satellite Applications and the Internet 0f Things, is uniquely positioned to take advantage of a very high growth and highly strategic sector for the UK economy.