OurCrowd, a global investment platform and Israel’s leading venture investor has announced that it will invest and partner with 7thirty to build the world’s leading global cannabis technology venture capital fund. The new $30M fund is focused on emerging cannabis technology companies in med-tech, ag-tech, retail, e-commerce, marketplaces, SaaS solutions, and the deep-tech research in Cannabis. The fund, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, will be active globally and include activities in Israel, Canada and the United States.

Hubble, the online platform for flexible office space, has secured £4 million in Series A financing from a group of industry-leading investors, spearheaded by JLL Spark Global Venture Fund.

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Political uncertainty and global trade frictions have dented client confidence, but buoyant staff hiring and capital spending plans are still in place for 2019, according to a new quarterly survey of UK technology sector companies by KPMG.

BGF has made its fourth life sciences investment in the last few months, providing Nottingham-based business incubator BioCity with development capital, alongside Blue Skies Investments (BSI).  Founded in 2002 and a pioneer in the field, BioCity is the UK’s largest life science incubation business, providing specialist workspace for growing life science companies, including access to high-end equipment, shared services and training, as well as business advice through its expert network.

QuadSAT, the drone-enabled antenna testing company, today announced it has closed its £700,000 seed round, led by the Danish Growth Fund, VF with participation from Seraphim Capital and existing investors.

Immersive Labs has announced that Goldman Sachs has led an $8m Series A investment round in its fast-growing cyber security skills platform. The funding, made alongside smaller private investors, will grow an offering which arms enterprise IT and cyber security teams with the latest skills by combining threat data with gamified learning.   The award-winning Immersive Labs platform uses real-time feeds of the latest attack techniques, hacker psychology and technological vulnerabilities to rapidly

Benjamin Vedrenne-Cloquet, Chief Executive of EdtechX Holdings, the Nasdaq-listed education technology acquisition company, discusses why the future is bright for EdTech companies.

Dymag Group, the British designer and manufacturer of carbon hybrid automotive wheels, is predicting a record 2019 following a £3.6m investment from Puma Private Equity.

Green Angel Syndicate (GAS) is delighted to announce its latest investment in state-of-the-art e-bike company Swytch Technology. GAS is the largest single contributor in a round that includes investments from the Startup Funding Club, Angels Den and the London Co-Investment Fund, with a total investment of £795,000, valuing the company at over £2.5 Million.

E-bike demand is soaring with over 1.67m unit sales of electronically power-assisted cycles (EPAC) in Europe in 2016, a rise of 1,700% in just ten years. Swytch is now targeting the EU which is 15-20 times larger than its home UK market, and the USA which has seen explosive growth of up to 70% in volumes each year for the last three years.

The economic contribution of the Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford Growth Corridor to the UK’s post-Brexit economy could reach £400billion by 2050, Bidwells’ latest research reveals.

But delivery of a planned Expressway Road and a re-opened Varsity Line linking the region’s economic centres is essential to maintain the impressive growth seen in the Corridor since 2013.

The Corridor’s economy would grow to £400billion if it continues expanding at the pace of recent years. The Corridor’s Gross Value Added (GVA) will surpass £300billion by 2050, even if the region’s growth slowed below the long-term average rates seen since 1998.

Patrick McMahon, Bidwells Senior Partner, said: “The Growth Corridor is the UK’s next Economic Powerhouse. This knowledge-intensive region is already big on ideas but is set to become much bigger in economic value too.

This report by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan‘s Sustainable Development Office looks at how to improve the ability for London to be a centre for #cleantech with a specific focus on increasing the number of women in the space.

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