Oak Intranet has raised £2.1 million additional seed funding round led by existing investors Maven Capital Partners. The funding follows a restructure of the company’s leadership team led by the new CEO, Will Murray and the appointment of a new non-executive chairman, Mark Quartermaine which will enable the business to expand adoption across the UK.

Created in 2016 Oak Intranet is aimed at enterprise and medium sized businesses, it organises departments, news, teams, projects and internal communication through its mobile app and SaaS platform.

Foresight Group has made a £500,000 growth capital investment into Selazar Limited, a logistics management software business, set to open a new base in Leicestershire.

The investment has been made using finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) and is part of a £1 million funding round led by Foresight and supported by Invest Co-Fund NI and private angel investors.

Brand management platform Frontify has raised a $22.3 million Series B funding round led by the EQT Ventures fund with participation from existing investors, including Blossom Capital, Datartis Ventures and Thomas Dübendorfer, Tenderloin Ventures, and Myke Näf. The funding will be used for global expansion, particularly across North America and Europe, alongside continued product innovation in the company’s movement to trailblaze the brand management category; an increasingly critical tool for building long-term business and brand value.

Thrive, the Belfast-based provider of employee communications software and support, has secured strategic investment to help facilitate its plans to grow users fourfold to one million by 2022. The company is also initially creating 10 new jobs in marketing, software development, and customer care.  Thrive provides software and support to make employee communications easy and cost-effective. Its client-base includes councils, healthcare companies, manufacturing businesses, food firms, retailers and other organisations across the UK, Ireland and internationally.

Blackfinch has invested c.£650,000 in Oxford-based company Cyance, founded in 2007. Cyance helps business-to-business (B2B) clients forecast customer buying behaviour through its predictive analytics software.

Cyance’s pioneering behaviour-based marketing technology platform ‘Nexus’ is an Artificial Intelligence-powered platform for intent marketing. It enables businesses to target their customers with laser focus. Nexus can interpret and understand the behaviour of users browsing over 50,000 partner websites. It detects the digital footprints that businesses are leaving online, allowing clients to accelerate their sales along with their marketing return on investment (ROI).

Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have made a £1.5 million investment into enterprise collaboration and virtual reality /augmented reality software company Masters of Pie Ltd.  The Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund led the funding round, which included Robert Bosch Venture Capital, and follow-on funding from existing investor Downing Ventures.  The Masters of Pie technology allows VR and AR to be more efficiently used by professionals working in immersive design, production, review and training, across multiple enterprise verticals.

proSapient, the Expert Network and Primary Research Platform, has raised new equity capital to support its rapid growth. The round was led by 24Haymarket and existing investors.

24Haymarket leads £1.1m investment in MWS Technology, a leader in the apprenticeship technology space, has raised new equity capital to support its rapid growth.

Antler, the global startup generator and early-stage venture capital firm, will today reveal the thirteen companies that were founded during its first London program. The companies have raised a total of £1.56m from Antler (£120k per company), and will be revealed on stage at Antler’s London ‘Demo Day’, which will be hosted at The Royal Institution.

QVentures, manager of 29PP Pre-Seed Fund, will be leading the funding round in Ocyan, a cloud operating system for enterprise blockchains and P2P networks. Joining QVentures in the round is Wayra UK, the open innovation arm of Spanish Telecom giant, Telefónica. 

Coniq has secured £6.4 million of growth equity to meet the growing demand for its award-winning CRM and loyalty platform used by the world’s leading shopping malls, outlets and brands.

The round was led by Guinness Asset Management with Maven Capital Partners, and participation from existing investors Venrex Investment Management. High profile angel investors, including Greg Marsh the founder of OneFineStay, also invested as part of this round.

Dataseat, a London-based tech startup, helping mobile app advertisers to manage programmatic media buying in-house, has launched with its first seed round of funding of £1.75m through Play Ventures, Backed.vc and SAATCHiNVEST. The impressive funding syndicate also includes angel investors, ex Criteo, Eric Eichmann (CEO) and Jonathan Wolf (CPO).