All Bright has participated in a £3m Series A funding round into Tech Will Save Us, led by Initial Capital alongside Backed VC, SaatchInvest, Unltd-inc and Leaf VC. The start-up, which develops technology-led toys to help develop STEM skills in kids, will use the funding to increase its product range.

Matillion, the makers of cloud data integration tools Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift, Matillion ETL for Snowflake and Matillion ETL for Google BigQuery, today announced it has closed a $20 million Series B round of funding led by Sapphire Ventures, existing investor Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners, the specialist UK-based private equity fund manager and new investor Scale Venture Partners. The funding will accelerate the Company’s leadership in the cloud data integration category.

Cardiff-based Simply Do Ideas, the education technology firm that helps people build and test their ideas, has raised £550,000 in its latest funding round. The money was secured from angel investors led by the company’s Chairman, Ashley Cooper, alongside the Development Bank of Wales. 

Gorilla in the room, a developer of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) products for the market research industry has secured a seed investment from Mercia Fund Managers to scale the company’s product pipeline and support its international growth.

Founded in 2016, Gorilla in the room provide researchers with the tools they need to acquire more robust data to predict why and how consumers buy products. The company won the Market Research Society’s “Best Data Solution 2017” for its approach and it currently works with a number of high-profile clients including Ipsos, one of the largest market research organisations in the world, and agencies within multinational advertising group WPP.

Leading technology career platform Honeypot has released the 2018 Women in Tech Index which analyses the gender pay gap in the OECD and EU technology industry, revealing the best opportunities for women.

Tora, the world’s leading supplier of asset management technology and Kenetic a leading blockchain and cryptocurrency investment firm have today announced the launch of Caspian, a joint venture providing institutional investors with a full-stack crypto trading and risk management platform. 

Friend-making app investors include LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner

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YFM Equity Partners has backed an investment into Ncam Technologies Limited, a provider of innovative and leading Augmented Reality solutions for the entertainment industries.

Ncam was founded in 2012 by Nic Hatch (CEO), Sam Boivin (CTO) and Brice Michoud (Senior R&D Engineer) to develop a unique augmented reality solution which combines patented camera tracking hardware that fuses data from multiple sources with proprietary software to adapt the application to its target markets.  

Airsorted, the world’s largest hosting management service, has announced the successful 

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Dow Schofield Watts Angels has completed its first deal, with a £500,000 investment in Warrington-based software company Avanite.