The digital platform which has been specifically designed to help coaches and players deliver professional football coaching content set for growth following investment. NPIF Maven Equity Finance, alongside consortium of investors led by ex-England football international, Danny Mills, have invested £775,000 in the football digital platform provider, The Coaching Manual.

Evident Proof, the Ethereum blockchain and token based service that turns data into immutable proof of evidence chains, has partnered with Swytch - the blockchain platform for sustainable and renewable energy - to create a proprietary blockchain that will be used to capture energy production from generation equipment. 

App commerce company Poq has announced the completion of a £9.5 million Series B funding round, led by Smedvig Capital, with significant participation from long-term investor Beringea and additional investment from existing investor Revolt Ventures. This round brings the total amount raised by Poq so far to £16.5 million.

International law firm, Addleshaw Goddard has successfully advised on the sale of ICS Learn in a management buyout backed by private equity firm Primary Capital Partners.

Kalray, a pioneer in processors for new intelligent systems, announced two new investors: Alliance Ventures, the venture capital fund of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, and Bpifrance as part of Definvest, the investment fund managed on behalf of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. This transaction amounts to 10M€, including existing and new shareholders; this is the second tranche of the 23.6M€ funding through Safran Corporate Ventures, the Asian investment fund Pengpai, and the long-standing shareholders ACE Management, CEA Investissement, EurekaP! and Inocap Gestion.

InvestCloud Inc., a global FinTech firm, has announced Silicon Beach-based NameDrop Solutions, Inc., as the latest tech firm to enter its Los Angeles Innovation Center. The startup is using the space to bring its data sharing platform to market.

C5 Capital, the investment specialist firm focused on cyber security, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, has announced that its led an $78 million investment round with a $35 million investment in IronNet Cybersecurity, a leading provider of state-of-the art cybersecurity solutions. The new funds will be used to support IronNet’s strategic growth and to continue accelerating the development and adoption of its industry-leading cybersecurity solutions.

StorageOS, Inc. has announced the general availability of its software-defined persistent storage platform for running containerized applications in production. The company also announced an $8 million Series A funding round.

Nanotech Industrial Solutions, Inc (NIS) has completed a $12m growth capital round to accelerate sales and continue developing new applications of its path-breaking nano-additives technology. The round was led and syndicated by EcoMachines Ventures, a long-term investor in NIS.

NIS is the only manufacturer of nano-sized particles of Inorganic Fullerene-like Tungsten Disulfide, producing high performance additives for greases, industrial lubricants (including gear oils, transmission oils, chain oils etc.), metal working fluids and other lubricating fluids.

Technology business Intelligence Fusion, IF, is set to scale after successfully raising £487,000 to further develop its online global intelligence and risk management platform.

App commerce company Poq has announced the completion of a £9.5 million Series B funding round, led by Smedvig Capital, with significant participation from long-term investor Beringea and additional investment from existing investor Revolt Ventures. This round brings the total amount raised by Poq so far to £16.5 million.

The first spinout company set to emerge from the University of the West of Scotland has closed its seed investment round, raising £1.5 million.

novosound, the winner of the 2017 Converge Challenge, has developed and patented a ground-breaking technique to mass-manufacture printable ultrasound sensors. The revolutionary method overcomes the limitations of existing technology, improving a manufacturing process, which hasn’t majorly changed in more than 40 years.