Panta Capital has announced the launch of its Private Equity Co-Investment Service and its seed investment of EUR 500,000 in fertiliser startup Rembuyung. 

QVentures has announced their latest investment into PowerMarket, a deep-learning mapping and monitoring technology which leverages satellite data to identify ideal solar sites and forecast generation for grid management.  PowerMarket helps the solar energy sector optimise grid management and energy trading, while aiding policy makers and real estate asset managers identify optimal solar sites.

Solidatus, the leading provider of innovative metadata management software, thas announced a strategic investment from Citi, the leading global bank. Citi is also implementing the Solidatus platform internally, at a global enterprise level. 

The UK’s 2 million plus landlords are facing a property management problem with no true oversight on the financial health of their rental properties. Hammock, the first current account for landlords and property managers, is fixing this problem and has raised £1million in seed investment from Fuel Ventures and Ascension Ventures to further develop its technology platform in order to give financial clarity to landlords and save them time and money. 

Nova Pangaea Technologies, the Teesside company which has found a way to use non-food biomass to make biofuels and other chemicals, has raised a further £900,000 from investors following successful trials of its technology.

Angel Academe has closed its investment in Salve as part of a larger fundraise.   Co-founded by Elin Ng and Charlie Kenny, Salve services fertility/IVF clinics in Europe, US and the ANZ region guiding patients through life-changing treatment and automating clinic workflows.  Sabita Gupta and Chris Connelly, who were deal leads for AA said, “as well as the business opportunity, we were impressed by the founders who handled pitching to us, due diligence, the birth of a child and running their business during this period with remarkable skill and grace.”

Bone Therapeutics, the cell therapy company addressing high unmet medical needs in orthopedics and bone diseases, today announces it has been granted EUR 1.0 million in non-dilutive funding from the Directorate-General for Economy, Employment and Research of the Walloon Region, Belgium. 

Located in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Jennifer Young Ltd, the cosmetics and skin care company, has received new investment from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) West Midlands Equity Fund, managed by Birmingham-based venture capital business Midven. 

Circularity Capital has continued to build its innovative portfolio of European growth-stage businesses enabling the circular economy, leading a growth funding round in Shark Solutions, the global leader in advanced recycled PVB products.

Omnipresent Group has raised $2m in a seed round led by Playfair Capital and Episode 1. The fundraise was closed within six  weeks during the height of the pandemic with participation from investors including Entrepreneur First, Truesight Ventures, Charlie Songhurst, Andrew Goodman, Akash Gupta, Srin Madipalli and Ian Hogarth.  The financing will be used to extend Omnipresent’s coverage to 80 markets by the end of 2020,  

The independent Iberian management company GED Capital has entered, through its Conexo Ventures fund, into the capital of SimpleCloud, a leading company in the transformation of the animation, video game, advertising and special effects industries. This startup, founded in 2008, and invested in by Inveready, Caixa Capital Risc y CDTI, offers a global platform based on the cloud for the management and creation of digital content focused on companies and also has one of the most powerful tools created for teleworking.

A new investment summit with the aim of bringing national policy makers together with equity investors, fund managers, big business, and Innovative SMEs will take place this autumn.