London-based Zango has raised $4.8m, in a round led by Nexus Venture Partners, a leading global venture capital firm with over $2.6 billion capital under management. Other participants in the latest round include South Park Commons, Richard Davies, CEO of Allica Bank, Alan Morgan, former head of Financial Services at McKinsey (EMEA), Mark Ransford, Notion Capital, No Label Ventures and Start Ventures.

Digostics, the UK-based health tech company behind the world's first oral glucose intolerance test (OGTT) that can be done at home instead of a clinic or hospital, has announced it has surpassed £500,000 in funding on the Crowdcube equity crowdfunding platform, with more than 100 investors backing the company's mission to revolutionise diabetes detection and monitoring.

The Athena Festival, a trailblazing event dedicated to empowering female entrepreneurs outside of London, returns for its second year at Nexus Leeds on Tuesday 7 October 2025.

The 2025 Invest in Women Code report shows that at the early stage, 71% of deals reported by angel groups who were signatories were for all female led or mixed gender led teams, with all female led being the highest single group. In addition female founders backed by women led angel groups achieved twice as much investment as all male founder led businesses.

Inyanga Marine Energy Group has raised a further £3.7m of investment from a group of investors that includes the British Business Bank via The FSE Group, Welsh Ministers via Local Partnerships, and business angels including the FSE Investor Network.

AI auditing platform Warden AI has raised new funding round led by the founders of Onfido, the digital identity verification company acquired by Entrust in 2024. The round also includes participation from Playfair, a leading early-stage VC firm, and will support Warden's geographic expansion and product development.

Opper AI has announced the launch of its Task Completion API, backed by an oversubscribed $3 million pre-seed round. The API is designed to help developers move beyond one-off prompts and fragile prototypes, providing a structured and dependable path to launching AI-powered features in production environments.

The funding round includes backing from Luminar Ventures, Emblem Venture Capital (backers of one of the fastest growing AI startups in Europe - Loveable), Greens Capital, and several prominent angel investors. The Opper founding team - Göran Sandahl, Johan Gustafsson, and engineers from the Unomaly core team - bring more than 50 combined years of experience building automated, production-grade systems.

UK payments startup yetipay has raised £3.5 million to continue the expansion of its all-in-one payments platform and introduce new products to its growing base of independent and enterprise hospitality and retail customers, including Brewdog, Pho, Grasso Soho, Kütchenhaus and Zenith.

Bulgaria: Paypercut has secured €2 million in pre-seed funding to simplify Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) for small businesses across Central and Eastern Europe.

Estonia: Jälle Technologies, an Estonian deeptech startup, has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding to advance it mission of transforming end-of-life lithium-ion batteries into critical raw materials. The round was backed by grant support from Enterprise Estonia (EIS) and the Environmental Investment Centre (KIK) with participations from Kiilto Ventures, 2C Ventures, and experienced angel investors.

Startup JammJar is coming out of stealth with a platform designed to overhaul how mortgage brokers operate—by eliminating the admin that slows them down. With backing from early-stage investors Haatch and the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund via fund manager The FSE Group, the company is launching publicly with a goal to become the Al operating system for the UK's mortgage advice industry. 

Chorus, the provider of innovative digital training solutions for frontline workers, has raised £710,000 funding co-led by Ufi Ventures, the UK's specialist investor in adult EdTech, and Haatch, a prominent early-stage venture fund with additional investment secured from the Stakeholderz Syndicate angel group.

South Africa: Five years after crypto exchange Luno was acquired by crypto-focused venture capital firm Digital Currency Group (DCG), its Co-Founder Carel van Wyk is coming out of stealth with MoneyBadger to make money better by helping major South African retailers and payment processors accept Bitcoin and crypto payments.