23 March 

Florismart, the online marketplace for professional florists throughout Europe,has announced that Beaubridge is leading a £2.5 million investment into the company. Beaubridge has chosen CoInvestor to make this EIS investment opportunity available to investors to access directly and invest in online. 

22 March

Oxford University Innovation (OUI), the research commercialisation company of Oxford University, has named its new Chief Operating Officer. Dr Adam Stoten, the current Head of Technology Transfer Life Sciences at OUI, will be taking up the newly created position from 1^st April 2017. 

22 March 

​Elvie,​ the female-led British company dedicated to developing smarter technology for women’s health and lifestyle, announces today that it has raised £5 million from ​Octopus Ventures and with a participation from female focused VC AllBright​. 

21 March

The money raised from Draper Esprit will fast-track RavenPack’s mission to transform the way investors gain insights from unstructured data. International investment banking firm EOC Partners acted as advisor to RavenPack on the transaction.

21 March 

French-American start-up Akeneo has raised £10,5 million from Partech and Alven Capital. Akeneo is the leading provider of open-source product information management (PIM) software, a resource that is becoming increasingly important for companies competing in e-commerce. 

21 March 

BrainWaveBank has secured funding from Angel CoFund, techstart NI, Innovate UK and Invest Northern Ireland totalling just over £1m. The majority of the funding is equity-based, with Innovate UK and Invest Northern Ireland providing grant support via their much-coveted innovative R&D schemes.

21 March 

HNW Lending, an alternative lender that provides individual loans of between £50,000 and £1million to borrowers against their valuable assets, has received FCA approval to offer Innovative Finance ISAs (IFISA), with minimum investments of £5,000 per loan.  

20 March 

BGF has backed Sentric Music with an initial investment of £3 million to help accelerate the publisher’s international expansion plans, as well as forming a strategic partnership to fund future acquisitions.

6 March

Members of Wild Blue Cohort, the London-based network of angel investors, have made three new investments, taking the total invested by members of the early stage venture to £1.4m.

15 March

Goodlord, the comprehensive rental transaction platform, has attracted the attention of leading Silicon Valley fintech investor Ribbit Capital, raising £7.2 million from the Palo Alto team, alongside new money from existing investors LocalGlobe and Global Founders Capital. 

15 March

Rokk3r Labs has launched its first major fund: Rokk3r Fuel, a global $150M fund that will invest capital into early stage ideas that go through the Rokk3r Labs platform. Rokk3r Fuel will also invest in exponential companies at large, and make selective investments in growth and exit rounds.

15 March

Jellynote, an AI powered Music Edtech Platform, has secured $800K to drive user acquisition and production of exclusive Artist Masterclasses. The latest round is led by Danish Fund Nordic Eye with participation of existing investor Partech Ventures and Jellynote's CEO Martijn Tjho.