Private equity firm Chiltern Capital is making a significant investment in employee benefits provider PES (Premier Employment Solutions Limited). 

FBGS Technologies GmbH, a leading supplier of advanced fiber-optic sensing solutions and components (based on Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG) technology), has secured single-digit million-dollar growth financing, to accelerate its manufacturing automation programme and build out its sales operations in high-growth Asian markets.

JOB TODAY, the UK’s number one mobile hiring app, today announces that it has raised a further $16M to fill the Brexit gap with young job seekers, as EU workers leave their jobs and the country.

Arecor, the UK-based biopharmaceutical formulation company, has raised £6 million from new and existing investors to develop groundbreaking pharmaceutical drugs to transform the treatment of diabetes. The fundraising was led by Calculus Capital, Albion Capital, and Downing Ventures.  BioScience Managers Limited, the international healthcare investment firm, advised Downing Ventures.

Through the application of its technology platform, Arecor is creating faster working, more effective drugs that help progress the creation of the next generation of artificial pancreas systems. The Company’s ultra-rapid acting insulin and ultra-concentrated insulins more closely mimic the insulin profile and response to glucose of healthy individuals, improving health outcomes and quality of life for people living with diabetes while reducing the wider costs to health services and society.

Cambridge start-up AudioTelligence has developed the world’s first digital solution to the problem. The company has raised £3.1million from Cambridge Innovation Capital and Cambridge Enterprise to grow its team to meet the considerable demand for its technology, which, in addition to helping humans to hear and understand speakers in the presence of loud background noise, helps to improve the performance of voice recognition systems.

AudioTelligence CEO Ken Roberts explains that one of the major motivations in developing the technology was to overcome the ‘cocktail party problem’. This is a particular area of interest to Professor Peter Rayner who founded the Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

UK-based privacy technology and data analytics company MyLife Digital has completed a new c.£6million funding round to support the international roll out of its innovative platform.  BGF has added £3 million of funding to its initial £2 million investment made in 2016, alongside a £2.7 million venture debt facility from Barclays to support MyLife Digital’s growth ambitions.

Index Ventures tops Beauhurst's table of the UK's most active VC funds.

CoInvestor Technologies, has been selected to be part of Tech Nation’s inaugural Fintech programme this autumn.

The technology company digitising the management of alternative assets for advisers, fund managers and private investors was chosen following a rigorous selection process to meet Tech Nation’s criteria.

Finnish SaaS company Screenful has raised €305,000 in seed funding to help companies improve the efficiency and delivery of collaborative projects with their business intelligence dashboard. The funding round was led by Finnish venture capital company Gorilla Capital and the Arctic15 Funding Program consisting of a syndicated deal from 14 angel investors from FiBAN and the Nordic Angel Program.

Ahren has announced that over the Summer it completed the first close of its new fund, Ahren LP, with over $100 million committed from leading Limited Partners including blue-chip institutions Aviva and Wittington Investments and iconic West and East Coast US family offices.

Ahren’s investments focus on four domains that will create the future at the intersection of deep tech and deep science: the brain and artificial intelligence; genetics and platform technologies; space and robotics; the planet and efficient energy technology. Ahren is focused on building a new wave of billion-dollar companies that will change the world for the better. Its Founding Partners include an elite group of the most successful Cambridge University entrepreneurs and scientists whose inventions and technologies are today valued in excess of $100 billion combined.

Following its recent 'Silicon Fen' report looking at tech funding trends in Cambridge, Beauhurst has published its 'Silicon Spires' report into the tech funding scene in Oxford.

Investcorp Technology Partners, a leading European lower middle market technology investor, has acquired Berlin-based Softgarden, a fast-growing Human Resources (HR) software provider for an undisclosed sum. The investment is the fourth deal from Investcorp’s fourth Technology Fund.

Founded in 2005, Softgarden offers an innovative recruitment technology platform to a diversified set of German midmarket and enterprise customers. The company’s “Applicant Tracking System” (ATS), a SaaS platform covering the entire digital corporate recruitment process, enables companies to streamline and manage their entire recruitment process in a fully automated and data-privacy compliant manner. In addition to this, Softgarden offers a proprietary jobseeker market place with over 65,000 candidate profiles, as well as a tool allowing for the automated posting of job adverts on more than 300 job boards.