Innovative law firm Muve has completed a £1.1 million equity funding round to finance its further aggressive expansion into the £1.75bn UK conveyancing law market.

Muve supports over 250 home movers every month with residential conveyancing. The Company's success is built on the three pillars of: process automation through technology, 100% ownership of the lowest cost off-shoring facility in the UK conveyancing market, and being the first law firm to guarantee home buyers an exchange of contracts within as little as 25 days, or return its fees.

Silver Cloud Investments has been launched by founder and CEO Joe Stelzer, formerly managing partner at the UK’s leading sell-side M&A house Cavendish Corporate Finance.

Silver Cloud Investments will provide capital investment to businesses across its target sectors with a flexible approach, helping management teams to either stablilise previously growing businesses and/or  support the growth of companies with strong and scalable business models in this current very difficult business climate.

Acceleris Capital portfolio company Reacta Biotech has completed its largest funding round to date, involving £1.25m of equity finance, with further investment expected in the coming months.  Reacta is a Deeside-based biotechnology company producing diagnostic kits for food allergy.  Cases of food allergy and allergy-related hospitalisations continue to rise globally at an alarming rate.  Reacta’s core focus is to improve the diagnosis and management of allergies through the provision of a pharmaceutical grade Oral Food Challenge (OFC), the gold standard for the clinical testing of food allergy.

Aberystwyth headquartered Phytoponics has raised £500,000 equity finance to undertake large scale commercial trials of its innovative substrate-less Deep Water Culture growing solutions.

A new revenue finance company has pledged £20m of funding for online business by the end of 2020.

The revolutionary venture funding firm, Just Capital, provides businesses with up to £1m of funding to help them rapidly scale revenues, via repeatable channels like paid marketing and inventory, without relinquishing equity. 

Unlike equity raises or traditional loans, and in contrast to lengthy pitching and applications, Just Capital uses a speedy, self-serve platform for businesses to request funding. Companies simply link up their online payment processors and ad tools, such as Stripe, Shopify, Facebook and Open Banking and Just Capital uses that data to build a bespoke offer and deal for each business. 

Prime Advantage Capital Partners has completed a successful fundraise for Tonic Nutrition, a vitamin drink that’s making headlines.

Acceleris client, Vertical Future has completed  an additional £1.1 million of equity investment from Earthworm Group.

Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has announced the completion of the sale of smartTrade, a global leader in multi-asset electronic solutions.

Peak, the pioneer of the enterprise AI System, has completed a $12 million extended series A funding round led by existing investors MMC Ventures and Praetura Ventures. This fresh investment brings Peak’s total amount of funding to $18.5 million. Peak will use the incoming capital to support its rapid growth and commercial expansion and to ramp up investment in R&D.

One Utility Bill – which simplifies utility billing for tenants, landlords and letting agents - has raised £1.7m to further develop its platform and expand its business.

The funding round was led by DSW Angels, the venture capital business of the Dow Schofield Watts group, and included existing investors the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Northstar Ventures.

British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a new commitment under its £100m Regional Angels Programme, committing £10m to Startup Funding Club Limited (SFC).

The commitment will be managed by SFC and invested alongside the SFC SEIS & EIS Funds as well as the SFC Angel Network. SFC intends to deploy the commitment in over 100 early stage businesses across the UK to deliver almost £30m of new funding for start-up and scale-up businesses across all sectors. 

Shepherd, specialists in property performance management via data analytical and remote monitoring solutions, has secured follow-on funding.