Veremark, the global pre-employment screening service that helps companies verify employee credentials, has raised a $2.8m seed round in follow-on investment from ACF Investors, Triple Point Ventures and SOV Ventures. This brings the total funding to $3.8m. Launched in late 2019, Veremark provides an automated digital first solution that instantly lets companies, large or small, order a wide range of checks like employment history, academic, criminal and credit records checks anywhere in the world.

Having delivered growth beyond expectations, digital martech innovator, Modo25 has secured a fourth six-figure investment round for its award-winning BOSCO™ Connect solution that delivers real and significant benefits to online marketers globally.  This time, the investment has come from three new investors with significant industry experience to support the continued global growth of Modo25 and BOSCO™.

Olsam Group, a company which buys and scales category leading e-commerce businesses, has successfully raised $165 million in a Series A equity and debt round. The equity investment was led by Christian Angermayer’s Apeiron Investment Group and Elevat3 Capital, which counts Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund as a strategic partner. Alongside the equity raise, the debt financing round was led by leading European special situations investor North Wall Capital, from the firm’s dedicated e-commerce lending strategy. Stanhope Capital advised Olsam on the transaction. 

Vectornator by Linearity – the vector-focused platform revolutionising how people design – has raised $20 million of funding led by EQT Ventures together with 468 Capital and business angels including Bradley Horowitz (VP Product, Google), Jonathan Rochelle (Co-Founder Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Google Slides, Google Drive), Charles Songhurst (Ex. Corporate Strategy, Microsoft) and Lutz Finger (Group Product Manager, Google). 

Versarien PLC, an advanced materials group, has commissioned the University of Gloucestershire to carry out the first academic wearer trial of its kind.

Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has invested in RealVNC, a leading vendor of remote access and remote support software.  Founded in Cambridge in 2002, by the original inventors of VNC remote access technology, and now led by CEO Adam Greenwood-Byrne, RealVNC is a highly-rated vendor in the large and fast-growing market for remote access and remote support solutions, with customers in 160 countries.

Musiversal, a global platform designed for making music creation and production more accessible to musicians and studio producers, has successfully raised a €1,36 million Seed financing round. The funding was led by the Shilling, a venture capital firm, counting also with the participation of existing investors, namely LC Ventures, REDangels and Best Horizon.  In addition to the Seed round, Musiversal also received €310 thousand in funding from the Portugal 2020 Programme, with the support of FEDER/European Union, bringing the company’s total to €2,51 million in funding to-date.

SnapDragon Monitoring, an online brand protection business, has raised £1.2m in its latest funding round - bringing the total raised to just over £3m - from ACF Investors, Mercia, and Scottish Enterprise, to help brand owners identify and remove fakes, copycats and online threats, using intellectual property to do so.

Echion Technologies is a leading developer of next generation materials for Lithium-Ion batteries. Its products deliver a unique combination of fast-charging capability, cost-effectiveness, and high energy density, vital for the world’s shift towards decarbonisation through pervasive electrification.

DataMilk, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool which autonomously optimizes E-Commerce websites to improve the customer experience and drive increased sales, has raised a $1.7m seed round led by Brazilian VC big_bets, European investors RTP Global, and Berlin-based Angel Invest, with additional support from investor Matthew Freud and the founders of digital commerce platform VTEX to expand its product offering across the globe as it takes on more employees to drive forward product development.

Exus Management Partners, a leading expert in powering sustainable investments through operational excellence, 

Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping service, has decided to exercise its stock options in UK InsurTech, Flock. This marks the first time Ordnance Survey has ever held equity in a startup.  Flock has recently raised $17M in funding to supercharge its expansion into new geographies and product lines. This round of funding marks a major milestone in building a global, fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous vehicles.