Nivaura, a regulated FinTech company focused on automating the issuance and administration processes for financial instruments, has closed a strategic funding round, raising $20m in seed and seed extension capital from a number of prominent partners.

Richard Theo, fintech envoy for Wales and co-founder and CEO of digital investment service Wealthify, will reveal his predictions for the fintech sector and the opportunities it presents for Welsh companies at a prestigious tech event in Cardiff ono 5th March.

Find out why Paul McNabb from Episode1 Ventures believes Ori’s edge cloud is enabling the next evolution of computing architecture.

Simon Hopkins, CEO of Milltrust International, believes the university tech  start-up sector has never been so exciting.  Read on to find out why....

StoryShare, a leading SaaS Mobile Employee Experience Platform (EXP), today announced it has raised £1.15 million in growth finance led by Gresham House Ventures. StoryShare provides a SaaS platform to help large organisations, with diverse and mobile workforces, engage and develop employees anywhere, any time on any device.

Leading brands including Unilever, DLA Piper and Renault use StoryShare to help their employees love their work. Increasingly companies acknowledge that staff want to use the same type of technology they use at home at work. 

Luxcara, one of the leading asset managers for renewable energy investments, has acquired the Finnish wind power project Välikangas, which has a projected capacity of 100 MW. The produced electricity will be sold to an off-taker on the basis of a power purchase agreement (PPA).

ThousandEyes, the company that provides actionable intelligence into digital experience for the cloud, Internet, and enterprises, has announced it has raised $50 million in a Series D round of funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), bringing ThousandEyes’ total funding to more than $110 million. 

The rapid pace of innovation, new technologies and the digitalisation of almost all segments of the economy pose a huge recruitment challenge for companies all over Europe. The number of job vacancies requiring digitally skilled workers is estimated to rise to 700 thousand by 2020 on an EU level. To tackle these challenges, Budapest-based IT education startup Codecool launched a disruptive model for training coding and other digital skills three years ago. The recipe has proved to be successful as the company is now adding EUR 3,5 million of Series-B round venture capital - provided by Lead Ventures and Portfolion - funding to finance its European expansion.  

British technology company Rotolight, which specialises in creating advanced LED lighting for the photography and filmmaking industries, has secured substantial equity investment from the Development Capital team at Octopus Investments to support its ambitious business growth plans. The £5 million ($6.5M) growth capital funding will strengthen the company’s future, as it invests heavily in research and development to deliver 15 cutting-edge products in the next five years, as well as marketing and international expansion, which will lead to the creation of a number of new jobs at its headquarters at Pinewood Studios UK. 

A leading SaaS video management platform which holds both current and archive footage for major sporting organisations and news outlets, including Premier League, World Tennis Association and the BBC, has secured £6.5 million in a Series B funding round led by Downing Ventures. The round also included capital from Guinness Asset Management Ltd. and existing investor Cambridge Innovation Capital.

Gradtouch, a Manchester Based job matching business, has received a funding boost of £150K from GC Angels, the angel investment arm of the Growth Company.

FrontM, which provides business ICT applications for enterprises operating in areas with little or no standard telecommunication infrastructure, such as Airplanes, ships and remote areas that rely on satellite network infrastructure to meet their operational and communication needs, has raised money from Jenson Funding Partners.