6 April

The InterTradeIreland Seedcorn competition launches for 2017, to find upcoming business talent.  Register at www.intertradeireland.com/seedcorn.

4 April

Repositive, the company that created the world’s largest portal for accessing human genomic research data, has closed a Series A funding round of £2.5m. The investors include lead investor, Ananda Social Venture Fund, Force Over Mass Capital and sees Amadeus Capital Partners and Jonathan Milner increase their investments, having previously participated in seed funding Repositive.

29 March 

Scotland’s first dedicated pre-seed tech accelerator is to open in Edinburgh with a mission to trigger Scotland’s next billion dollar startup. Seed Haus is raising an innovative new angel-backed fund to create the hot-house environment needed to produce scaleable startups in emerging markets, such as fintech and internet of things (IoT). 

29 March 

Airangel, the Warrington-based company which is the leading provider of guest WiFi solutions to the hospitality sector - has secured a £1.7m funding package from Santander Corporate & Commercial to support its further growth.

29 March 

29 March

Low-carbon, clean-technology innovators due to exhibit at Cleantech Innovate 2017 have welcomed the £270 million investment into the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund announced by Chancellor Phillip Hammond in the 2017 Spring Budget. The fund is expected to foster innovation in clean technologies, in particular electric vehicles and offshore wind. Further details on the disbursement of the funds are expected to be announced soon.

29 March 

BGF Quoted has provided Accsys Technologies plc with a £12m investment to support its ambitious growth strategy including the development of the world’s first Tricoya® wood chip manufacturing plant in Hull, along with expansion of its existing Accoya® facility in the Netherlands. 

28 March

Vantage Power, the London-based hybrid powertrain manufacturer for buses, has announced it has taken £2.5m in funding with the former CEO of Barclays Corporate Banking, Mr. John Winter leading the round, and which also sees investment from the Angel CoFund.

27 March

Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) - Europe’s first impact investment start-up accelerator - celebrates the fifth anniversary of its accelerator by announcing £1.3m new investment from Big Society Capital, Nominet Trust and Nesta.

27 March 

AccuRx has completed an SEIS/EIS round raising a total of £355,000 from a number of business angels including Anvil Partners LLP.

24 March

• Notion Capital, Partech Ventures, Tribal VC, Enterprise Ireland
• Team growing 25 to 40, US offices, 40% of business in US
• To build on pure organic growth - 500 existing gyms and studios

23 March

Catapult Ventures is delighted to announce the acquisition of Monica Healthcare, a leader in wearable digital foetal monitoring, by GE Healthcare. The transaction delivered a cash return of 3.5x for Catapult’s East Midlands Regional Venture Capital Fund.