21 February

Browne Jacobson is to launch a legal support service aimed at both supporting start-ups with high-growth potential and developing its junior lawyers into future partners.  "Grow" is being officially launched on 23 February.

20 February 

20 February 

SBRI contract awarded to snap40 for “game-changing technologies with the highest potential value to patients and the health service”..........

16 February

Ascension Ventures has made an investment from the ASCEND SEIS Fund III into Rotor, a cloud-based content platform for creating promotional videos quickly and easily.  Additional backers in Rotor’s £300,000 seed round include Finance South England (FSE Group) and a group of angel investors.

13 February 

Bloom & Wild, the UK’s top rated online flower company, has taken £3.75m in a new round of funding with Burda Principal Investments, Hubert Burda Media’s investment unit, leading the round, and previous investors MMC Ventures and the company’s other angel investors also participating.

13 February 

Beans Entertainment (Beans), the developer of Bean&Gone, a new interactive brand that delivers shared engagement experiences for children across digital and physical media formats, has secured £300,000 of seed investment raising its valuation to £1.3m.

8 February 

The Electrospinning Company has secured a £650,000 investment from a network of UK angel investors, including Angels 5K, LBA, Minerva, Wroxall, Angels in MedCity and OION, as well as from tChoose Filehe Rainbow Seed Fund.

8 February 

Oxford University Innovation’s management consultancy division to restructure as separate entity to scale up interactions and business on the world stage. Isis Enterprise, the global innovation management consultancy division of Oxford University Innovation, will be joining Oxford University’s ever-growing list of innovative companies as it rebrands to Oxentia and establishes itself a separate entity later this year.

8 February 

Seed investor and former long-term chairman of King Digital (creators of Candy Crush) Mel Morris, has invested £3.8m in Audiense, a software-as-a-service developer which delivers unique consumer insight and consumer engagement capabilities to many of the world’s biggest brands and agencies. 

9 February 

London/Macedonian-based startup Cognism has secured $500,000 in seed investment. The round, which was led by Netcetera alongside other investors including Startup Funding Club, SC Ventures, Tsingbay Venture Capital, Tom James, James Hodson, Usman Khan and others.

7 February 

Beer & Young has raised £2.2million for a company who was the first free smart navigation and traffic app on iPhone. As a leading provider of connected navigation solutions they are positioned to become the largest 3D-mapping company in the world by the end of 2018. 

7 February 

Exonate, an early stage biotechnology company has been awarded a £4.9m Seeding Drug Discovery award by the Wellcome Trust to continue development of an eye – drop treatment for wet age–related macular degeneration.