InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, today announces its investment in FATMAP, the leading platform for outdoor adventure lovers and mountain professionals with cutting-edge global 3D mapping technology.

Origami Energy, a technology company building a real-time marketplace for the evolving distributed energy world, was crowned the overall winner of the second annual Future Planet Awards (“The Awards”), hosted by Future Planet Capital (“FPC”), on Tuesday 22 May at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium.  The Future Planet Awards, in partnership with Global University Venturing, aim to raise the profile of new and growing firms that will profitably impact global challenges.

Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM), the specialist private equity fund manager have backed a £3m investment into Arcus Global Limited (Arcus), a provider of cloud-based software solutions to local and national public sector organisations.

New figures show that SETsquared Surrey’s Digital Business Acceleration Hubs (DBAH) have helped over 100 UK tech start-ups raise a combined total of more than £8m in investment.

Acceleris have announced that they have advised upon the completion of a £2.9m funding round into Power Roll’s novel energy creation and storage technology from existing shareholders and High Net Worth Individuals.

Ultromics, the UK start-up behind breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) technology for the diagnosis of coronary heart disease, has raised £10 million in Series-A investment. The funding was led by Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), with Neptune, RT Ventures, GT Healthcare, Tanarra, Fushia and personal investors Andre Crawford-Brunt and Dieter Spälti also participating.  

Draper Esprit  has invested  £10m investment in Aircall, a French cloud-based call centre software business.

The London-headquartered venture capital firm led on a Series B funding round that brought Aircall’s total investment to around £30m to date.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as the most frequently mentioned theme in discussions among the key disruptive technologies during the first quarter (Q1) of 2018 on Twitter, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData. 

Glownet, a global market leader in cashless payment technology for the live events industry, has secured £2 million funding from venture capital firm Downing Ventures, as it eyes US expansion and further development to its payment technology.

Glownet has developed cashless payment technology which allows a wide range of events and venues to go entirely cashless, including music festivals, nightclubs and sporting events. In addition to enabling cashless payments, the platform can also be used for ticket validation at events and venues, as well as linking with social media and loyalty programs.

National investment group Mercia Technologies PLC is pleased to announce that it is partnering with Digital Catapult's Augmentor programme to support early stage immersive technology companies from across the UK regions.

Fintech is the most popular sector among high net worth and professional investors, according to Capitama, the direct private investment platform.  Analysis of the preferences of the registered investors of Capitama, which includes more than 300 individuals, family offices, PE firms and investment offices has indicated that fintech and technology investment opportunities more generally are the two most popular sectors among investors.

Downing has announced the successful exit by its funds from a Cornwall-based satellite station site, managed by Goonhilly Earth Station Limited.