Northwest-based investment group Seneca, has recently expanded its investment capability with the launch of its property investment business, Seneca Property.

Redag Crop Protection , an agrochemical discovery company, has secured £1.3 million in funding from existing shareholders which include institutional funds managed by Seneca Partners, and private individuals. Manchester-based corporate finance boutique Acceleris Capital arranged the funding.

Q-Bot, the UK’s leading developer of robots for use in the construction industry, has closed an investment round of £450,000 supported by ClearlySo, Minerva Investors Group, Curious Capital, London Business Angels and Chicago Booth Angels.

Peak has announced their £2.5m series A funding round led by MMC Ventures, bringing the total amount raised by the company so far to £3.5m. Peak’s data analytics-as-a-service model helps companies of all sizes use data, machine learning and AI technologies to drive growth. This latest injection of capital will be used to will fund the company’s ongoing investment in machine learning and AI technologies and further accelerate sales growth.

The Mobeus VCTs has opened a new share offers to raise, in aggregate, up to £50 million, with over-allotment facilities to raise, in aggregate, up to a further £30 million. Mobeus’s existing VCT asset base is approximately £200 million.

OfferMoments, the world’s most innovative advertising platform, has received a £1.5 million injection to fund a brand new project that will revolutionise Out-Of-Home (OOH) advertising. This new wave of investment has been led by Michael Edelson, who has been a director of Manchester United since 1982.

Scotland’s first dedicated pre-seed tech accelerator, Seed Haus, has launched in Edinburgh backed by a stellar line-up of investment partners. Seed Haus’ mission is to trigger Scotland’s next billion-dollar startup and the partners joining the team in realising this goal include: Alistair Forbes, James Watt of BrewDog; Gavin Dutch, Paul Walton, Judy Wilson, Rob Dobson, Paddy Burns, Chris van der Kuyl, Paul Davidson, and Sir Tom Hunter. 

Sn-ap, an on-demand intercity coach travel service that is changing the face of coach travel, today announced that it has raised £2m in equity funding led by early stage VC fund Kindred Capital. The investment, which is supported by a number of private investors from the travel and finance sectors, will be used to expand its current service into new parts of the UK.

LeapFrog Investments (http://www.leapfroginvest.com/), the Profit with Purpose investment group, today announces its companies have reached 111 million people, marking an impact investing milestone. 

• Ten years on since founding, LeapFrog’s portfolio of companies reach 111 million people across Africa and Asia
• 93.8 million are emerging consumers earning less than $10 PPP per day
• Companies achieved 43% annual revenue increase per year from time of investment.
• Companies grew their emerging consumer base by 67% per year
• Companies deliver 184 financial and health services in the growth markets of Asia and Africa
• Proof of impact investing exceeds the ambitions set by President Clinton ten years ago
• LeapFrog named last week alongside Apple as one of Fortune Magazine’s top five companies changing the world

Independent coffee shop chain Bob & Berts has become the third company in Northern Ireland to secure a major equity investment of £2 million from BGF, the UK’s most active investor in small and mid-sized companies.

Hobs Group has received a further £4m investment from BGF to continue the expansion of its 3D printing, reprographics, facilities management and legal support services businesses in the UK. This brings BGF’s total investment in Hobs to more than £11m.

The European Investment Fund (EIF), with the support of InnovFin Equity and COSME, is investing €20 million in ACT Venture Capital’s latest fund, ACT V, in Ireland. The agreement will allow ACT to finance around 30 high potential early and expansion stage companies in the information and communication technology sector in the coming decade.