Clim8 Invest, the app that offers everyone the opportunity to have a positive impact on climate change through sustainable investment, has raised £1.5 million in pre-launch crowdfunding from 1420 investors in over 55 countries. This exceeds its crowdfunding target by more than 300% and makes it one of 2020’s most successful raises on the Crowdcube platform.

Maven Capital Partners has completed a £1 million investment in Boiler Plan (UK) Ltd, a market disruptive online platform that sells, installs and services boilers across the UK.

The transaction includes a £600,000 investment from the Maven VCTs and a further £400,000 investment from the North East Development Capital Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Maven.

Parabellum Investments, an international investment firm specialising in the mid-market, has teamed with operational investors The Acacia Group to acquire The Column Group.

Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine, has awarded a 'MegaGrant' to Polystream, a deep-tech startup and the world’s most scalable real-time 3D content and application delivery platform, to further enhance its content development platform.

The digital staffing service, Zenjob, has successfully secured a Series C funding round of $30 million. The lead investor is Forestay Capital, who are joined by Redalpine, Acton Capital, Axa Venture Partners and Atlantic Labs. The new financing will primarily be used to support expansion into further cities in Germany. Zenjob plans to roll-out its digital recruiting technology throughout the country by the end of the year and subsequently expand internationally. Currently, the Berlin-based business’ services are deployed and used in 14 German Cities. 

Edinburgh-based Reactec, has repurposed its proven system for monitoring workers’ exposure to health risk to create “Safedistance”, which enables employers to manage the social distancing of their workforce within construction, rail, manufacturing and other workplaces.

Financial firms need to adopt a digital-focussed working environment if they want to survive beyond current lockdowns, says Arches Capital. The Amsterdam-based Business Angels believe that strong technological foundations and connectivity have been among the main reasons why they have been able to support their members and the Dutch start-up ecosystem amid current social and economic uncertainty.

Newable has completed a £120,000 equity investment in Echion Technologies. This is the second Echion investment round that Newable related Funds have participated in after a deployment of £140,000 in 2018.

Echion Technologies, led by Jean De La Verpilliere are developing a portfolio of advanced Lithium-ion battery materials that look to provide low barriers to market entry along with rapid customer access. The result of their technology is the creation of batteries that possess very-fast charging characteristics and are produced using sustainable materials.

Zeitgold, the intelligent software platform for small business accounting automation, raised €27 million in Series B funding. The round was led by new investor Vintage Investment Partners, a leading global venture firm. Existing investors BatteryVentures, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Saban Ventures, and btov Partners, as well as insurance company AXA Germany (AXA Innovation Campus) and Deutsche Bank, also participated in the investment round. The new round brings the total fundraising of the German-Israeli tech company (with offices in Berlin and Tel Aviv) to more than €50 million.

Scoota , the leader in automated omni-channel digital branding technology, has raised £2 million from Notion Capital, the Angel CoFund and VentureFounders. The growth funding will be used for rapid US expansion plans for the latter part of 2020 and early 2021. 

Peanut, the leading social network for women, today announces the closing of a USD $12M Series A funding led by the EQT Ventures fund, the multi-stage Venture Capital fund which invests in the most ambitious founders in Europe and the US. 

Oxwash, the space-age laundry and dry-cleaning startup overhauling the traditional laundry service, has raised £1.4m investment from TrueSight Ventures, Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter), Paul Forster (founder of Indeed.com), Founders Factory and other angel investors. Oxwash’s service is taking medical-grade laundry technology typically used in spaceship and hospital sterilisation and making it accessible to all.  The new investment will be used to expand Oxwash’s reach across South East England and scale the team.