Leading distributed solutions specialist Applied Blockchain has completed a £2 million funding round lead by Hong Kong based venture capital firm QBN Capital. The newly-injected funds will be invested in developing a platform using privacy enhancing technologies to help companies to collaborate and generate meaningful outcomes together, without having to share any of their data.

QVentures has announced that it will lead the funding round for articulate.xyz, a digital app-based service for those wishing to speak languages clearly and fluently.  Using the latest language and voice processing technologies, articulate.xyz is developing a self-serve EdTech application that emulates an immersive learning environment, helping users to improve their verbal communication in a language. As users read text within the app, the app listens, highlights potential improvements and an assistant helps users to sound out words. 

GrowthDeck has completed a £650,000 fundraise for Teacher Booker, the online network of high-quality supply teachers and support staff - far exceeding our original £500,000 target.

Albion Capital has refinanced Albion Community Power, the £105 million renewable energy portfolio by raising £57 million of debt across the portfolio of onshore wind, hydro, solar and battery projects.

Startup Funding Club has led a £250,000 seed round into fintech company Ember. The accounting software startup strives to make business simpler for contractors and SMEs by automating the entirety of the business administration and tax process.

UK-founded marketing technology company ContentCal has secured a £2.5 million investment from early and growth stage investor Fuel Ventures with participation from existing shareholders. The new funding will be focussed on driving customer growth, product innovation and doubling the size of the team.  With the new investment, ContentCal’s mission is to continue to build and scale its content marketing and collaboration platform. The software is designed to make it easy for companies to distribute better marketing content at scale and own their growth through content marketing. This delivers a better marketing experience for customers and drives huge efficiencies within businesses for their content creation efforts.

Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have made a £540,000 investment from Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into Living Optics, a spin out from the University of Oxford redefining imaging technology.  The investment is part of a £3.3 million funding round led by Oxford Sciences Innovation.

Zeigo, an innovative energy tech platform which connects corporate energy buyers with renewable energy generators and suppliers, has closed a £800,000 Seed Funding Round led by Naruhisa Nakagawa, founder of Caygan Capital.

Blackfinch has invested c.£630,000 in Glasgow-based company Candidate.ID, founded in 2015. Candidate.ID offers recruitment software that provides recruiters daily hot leads based on candidates' interactions with a company’s online content.

Candidate.ID’s talent platform is a fast-track solution to hiring for both mid-large employers and specialist staffing companies. Its sophisticated technology and software can replace a company’s customer relationship management system to provide enhanced recruitment performance. Its technology, packaged in a simple-to-use interface, sits on top of a company’s applicant tracking system and works as the core system of candidate engagement.

Maven Capital Partners and Guinness Asset Management have led a £10 million funding round for Push Technology, the pioneer and leader in real-time data streaming and messaging solutions. This will enable Push to enhance its sales and marketing efforts as well as broaden product development.

Igloo Vision, the Shropshire-based immersive technology company, has raised an additional £435,000 in funding under the UK Government’s Enterprise Investment Scheme.  Igloo creates immersive projection spaces, such as domes, cylinders, cubes, and immersive workspaces. Igloo’s technology can display any 360° or Virtual Reality (VR) content. And, because entire teams can get inside the immersive spaces and engage with the content, the technology is well-suited to training, simulation, and visualisation, as well as events and experiences.

Leading US universities including Harvard and Arizona State University have engaged British tech start-up StageClip to facilitate “virtual graduations” for their seniors in light of in-person ceremonies having to be postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.