Bristol-based technology start-up, Matter, has just completed a successful Pre-Series A investment round securing $0.5m of new funding from Builders Vision’s Rising Tide Fund. This follows the recent £150,000 investment from the British Design Fund and the company’s entry into the Elemental Excelerator programme for climate technologies.

Livingbridge has invested in UK-based Quorum Cyber, a leading security services firm delivering managed detect and response capabilities to teams and organisations globally.  Founded in 2016 by CEO Federico Charosky, Quorum Cyber’s innovative services enable enterprises including banks, cloud providers and major brands to thrive in an increasingly hostile digital landscape.

£100m of private funding has been made available to a new-generation internet service provider on a mission to provide hypersonic broadband access to 1,000,000 premises, over the next six years.

A Newcastle-based entrepreneur with ambitions to disrupt the online dating industry has raised £225,000 in a bid to create a dating platform with user safety at its heart.  The Women angels of the North syndicate investment made up part of the total fundraise for Safer Date. A number of other investors were also contributed to the total investment of £225,000.

Fast growing, international web hosting business, Miss Group, has completed the acquisition of one of Switzerland’s leading web hosting providers, Webland. 

Two London entrepreneurs who pivoted their mobile phone charging business into a successful mobile order and pay app and hand sanitiser network as the pandemic hit, generating turnover of £1m in a month, today scored a new win, securing £7 million to support the expansion of their hospitality “super app”. On a mission to lead innovation in the hospitality sector, theUp.co, secured investment from high-profile investors such as Jägermeister, former CEO of Monzo, Tom Blomfield and JamJar Investments - the ex-Innocent Smoothie founders fund, in the round led by a leading private global investor. 

A UK business which aims to transform industry with its internet of things software platform has raised £2.1m to accelerate its international expansion.

One of the UK’s largest independent Oracle partners, DSP-Explorer, a database and cloud managed services provider, has received an additional £8m of investment from YFM Equity Partners (YFM). The investment, made by the YFM-managed YFM Equity Partners Buyout II LP fund, will enable the business to continue its organic and acquisitive growth plans.

Talion, a leading cybersecurity specialist that provides services for some of the UK’s biggest companies has raised a seven-figure sum from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF).

The funding will allow Talion to further expand its business in the UK and target new customers in the US.

Talion was launched by BAE Systems in 2012 to help protect the Olympic Games in London from ‘nation state’ cyber attacks. Previously known as Sy4 Security, it became a standalone business in April 2020 when industry veteran Mike Brown, the current CEO, and BAE Systems’ head of security Keven Knight, the COO, led a management buy-out.

Pirum Systems, a leading provider of post-trade automation and collateral management technology for the global securities finance industry, announces that Hg, a leading software and services investor, will become a significant shareholder in the company.

UK-based auto fintech startup Bumper has raised $12M in Series A funding to roll out its car repair financing platform across Europe. The round is led by Silicon Valley based Autotech Ventures, with participation from Jaguar Land Rover’s fund InMotion Ventures, and a group of prominent angel investors. The latest round brings total funds raised by the company to $17.5m.

BGF has made a £8 million investment in Operational Solutions Ltd (OSL), a leading counter drone technologies business based in Reading.

OSL actively supports major international airports, national infrastructure projects and defence markets with solutions to the growing challenges posed by the increasing prevalence of unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS” or “drones”) in airspaces around the world.