Oxford Capital has backed online market research platform Attest in a US$3.1m funding round.  Oxford Capital and Episode 1 led the round, alongside new angel investors. The investment will be used to roll out the full version of Attest’s platform, and expand its offering to new sectors and use cases.

The fund with the target size of €40 million will invest mainly in Finnish startups offering software to B2B customers. The investors are Finnish institutional investors, foundations, family offices and private investors.

Tagtronics Limited, a business that specialises in the delivery and maintenance of software solutions for the domiciliary care industry, has secured six figure funding from the Enterprise Ventures SME Loans to support the acquisition of a London-based company.

Olympic Fixings Group, the Lancashire-based business which supplies hardware products to the merchant trade throughout the UK and Ireland, is all set for growth after a £6m combined investment from PHD Equity Partners and Secure Trust Bank.

Figures published by the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) today, covering lending volumes for its nine member platforms for the first three months of 2017, underscore the continued development of the sector with the maintenance of impressive expansion in lending volumes and investor participation.

Winton Group has invested £750,000 as part of a £1.25m investment round into Exonar Limited, a British company that is redefining how organisations can map and understand their data to minimise risk and ensure compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR). Amadeus Capital Partners has joined Winton and existing angels in providing investment for Exonar.

Scotland’s entrepreneurs are set to benefit from a major new partnership between Cazenove Capital, the premier provider of personalised wealth management services, and Entrepreneurial Scotland, the country’s leading organisation for entrepreneurial leaders.

This expansion will enhance the capabilities of Humaniq to solve critical and chronic issues of the world by repurposing Artificial Intelligence and DeepTech for social good and enabling leading scientists and entrepreneurs to solve the most critical problems facing humanity.

Chessable, the chess trainer lauded by YouTube chess star John Bartholomew, is ready to make a major push into the e-learning market after attracting nearly £100,000 of investment.

LoveCrafts, the creator of online crafts communities, with millions of users across 140 countries worldwide, today announces completion of a £26 million funding round led by Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), together with current investors Balderton and Highland Europe.  

FiveAI, a UK start-up applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to accelerate the arrival of fully autonomous vehicles, today announces that its ‘StreetWise’ consortium has been awarded £12.8M in grant support for its £23M project.

BGF has provided £5m of long-term funding for Renegade, a London headquartered business which is developing a major whiskey project on Ireland’s south-eastern coast. The funding will be used for continued development and production of single malt whiskey at Renegade’s Waterford distillery in Ireland.