Glimpse Protocol, the startup that delivers accurate digital ads with zero data disclosed, has announced a £1.3 million seed investment round with participation from Force Over Mass Capital, angel investors Simon Franks (Lovefilm) and Eric Salama (former CEO of Kantar), and with added support from Innovate UK. 

Glimpse Protocol’s privacy-preserving ad platform increases value and reach for an industry that is undergoing a once-in-a-decade period of disruption driven by privacy. Established mechanisms for tracking consumers across the web are being ruled illegal in a wave of global privacy legislation, and by the end of 2021, they will become technically impossible when Google removes the third-party cookie.

Esme Learning Solutions, a leading digital learning platform, has close of a $7.5 million Series A financing round led by Adit Ventures, a venture capital firm with a technology thematic investment focus. 

BGF has made a further £4 million investment in fast-growth, lead generation technology business, ROI. 

This deal follows just seven months after BGF’s initial investment, taking the total invested to £7 million. In November 2020, ROI acquired the consumer finance assets of Raketech to accelerate the company’s growth in the financial services sector and establish a base in Norway.

Foresight Group has invested into Titania Group Limited, a cybersecurity automation software business. The investment will be used to support the senior management team in taking Titania through its next stage of growth, assisted by Foresight’s expertise in the sector.

Keysource, a specialist in data centres and critical environments, has successfully completed a management buyout (MBO), led by Stephen Whatling. 

Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK FinTech, has released investment figures for the global FinTech sector in 2020 that reinforce the UK’s position as a global and European leader.

Subsea technology firm, Rovco, has completed a £3.9 million Series A investment from Foresight group via the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund and Foresight VCTs. The investment was part of a larger round totalling £5 million which included funds from existing shareholders including Green Angel Syndicate. 

The funds will be used to support its international expansion and Rovco’s continued development of its state-of-the-art 3D Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence subsea technology.

Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, has completed the sale of its stake in full fibre broadband operator G.Network to the Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited (USS) and Cube Infrastructure Managers (Cube), generating a 3.8x return for its venture capital trust (VCT) investors.

Skyqraft, an AI-driven powerline inspection solution-provider from Sweden, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding. The latest fundraise was led by Subvenio Invest, and also include participation from Antler, Next Human Ventures and selected angel investors. The company is on a mission to become the leading powerline issue detection system globally enabling its customers to conduct smarter and safer powerline inspections in a more cost-efficient and environmentally sustainable way.

PPC Protect has launched its annual Global PPC Click Fraud Report which examines over 1 billion ad clicks to uncover the sheer global impact fraudulent activity has on businesses of every size - accounting for between £14,000 and £700,000 per year lost to each business as fraud schemes and criminal gangs adapted and ramped up their efforts to defraud businesses of nearly £25billion¹ lost through click fraud in 2020.

RevGlue, a platform that enables affiliates and online publishers to easily monetise their websites, blogs, mobile apps and social channels, has secured investment of £300k from GC Angels and Admitad to scale up its sales and marketing activity in the UK.

Quendoo, a digital platform that allows property owners to take back control of their property bookings, payments, marketing and availability, has launched after securing EUR 750,000 in VC funding.