Foresight Group has iinvested £1.6 million into The Salford Valve Company, which provides aerosol valves for use with ecologically sustainable propellants, from Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund.

Salvalco has developed aerosol valve technologies (referred to as Eco-Valves) from original research carried out by Professor Ghasem Nasr of the Spray Research Group at the University of Salford, that enable safe inert gases such as simple fresh air or nitrogen to be used as a propellant in aerosols. This is significantly better for the environment and far safer than conventional propellants, most of which are hydrocarbons. The Company has developed a family of valve designs for a wide range of aerosol products and applications.

Cognism, a London-based start-up which uses artificial intelligence to generate sales leads has closed a £2m funding round with the help of Newable Private Investing and the London Co-Investment Fund.

As we close the doors on yet another eventful tax year, it was fitting that at the Spring Statement 2018, Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer should comment that the UK “are the champions of small businesses and the entrepreneur”.

Foresight Group has invested £1.05m from Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into Codeplay Software Limited.

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Touch Biometrix, a UK company aiming to change the way we interact with technology for user authentication are pleased to announce they have received seed investment from Deepbridge Capital.

Kuber Ventures has produced the third in a series of short animations providing an educational insight into investing in EIS. The third highlights the flexibility of EIS and SEIS as tax planning tools.

eporta, a London-based B2B interior marketplace startup, has raised $8 million in a series A funding round led by US investor Canvas Ventures as it looks transform the $700 billion global design and furniture industry.

Seraphim Capital has published its analysis of the last quarter's SpaceTech Venture Capital transactions for the period . Every quarter it carefully monitors the investment in the SpaceTech sector globally over a rolling 12 month period, highlighting key deals from the Quarter.

Startup Funding Club, the award-winning network of Business Angels and early-stage Investment Fund, has successfully closed first tranche of its SEIS/EIS funds for investments made in the 2017/2018 tax year. SFC invested over £2M under the (Seed) Enterprise Investment Schemes across four funds in 36 UK-based startups, 28 of which are part of the organisation’s flagship fund, the SFC Angel Fund.

EISA commissioned a national survey of more than 2000 respondents to uncover how Brexit negotiations are affecting the sentiment of investors towards SME investment in 2018.

Kuber Ventures' Dermot Campbell discusses the growing importance of Knowledge Intensive Companies.

Deepbridge Capital has closed a £5.4m Series A funding round for vTime,a virtual reality (VR) sociable network that allows users to meet, chat, broadcast, and share with people all around the world.