Foresight Group and Elgin Energy have formed a joint venture to develop a pipeline of greenfield solar projects across the UK. The JV aims to develop six projects located in England, Wales and Scotland, with a total generating capacity of 200MW.

A major investment in Lightning Fibre, a community-oriented full fibre network provider, will see hyper-fast fibre broadband rolled out in East Sussex with Eastbourne and Hastings the first towns to receive the cutting-edge technology.

The announcement follows the completion of a long term finance agreement between Lightning Fibre by the Foresight Group, a leading infrastructure and private equity investment manager.

Nu Quantum, the quantum photonics company, has raised £2.1 million in Seed funding in a round led by Amadeus Capital Partners. Ahren Innovation Capital, IQ Capital, Cambridge Enterprise and Martlet Capital have also followed-on from the company's pre-Seed investment round last September, with Seraphim Capital joining as a new investor. The funding will go towards a state-of-the-art photonics lab in Cambridge and a major recruitment drive for scientists, product team members and business functions as the company approaches the launch of its first commercial technology demonstration.

Immune Regulation Limited, a US and UK based clinical stage biotechnology company, has closed a Series B funding round led by Boston based Morningside Ventures, alongside existing shareholders including London based 24Haymarket.

Piper has invested £11.5m investment into Wattbike, the world's first smart indoor bike brand, joining the impressive team, led by CEO Rich Baker, on their mission to make Wattbike a global brand legend. The team will also be joined by non-executive chairman Gordon Baird, former chairman of sports footwear brand Inov-8 and swimwear brand Zoggs.

Award-winning health tech company DrDoctor has raised £3,000,000 Series A Round investment from venture capital firms Ananda Impact Ventures and 24Haymarket. The money will be used to hire across the business and add new functionality to DrDoctor’s patient communication platform, which transforms the way hospitals communicate with their patients, ensuring fewer missed appointments across the NHS, lower administrative costs for hospitals and clinics, and more timely care for patients.

A £10 million funding package from the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) will help to scale the insect bioconversion sector, accelerating the transition to sustainable methods of farming.

As part of the project consortium, Better Origin will use the funding to focus on scaling their insect processing and value extraction technology to convert insects into products such as animal feed and human food. A result of years of research and development, their patented ‘Metamorphosis Technology’, which processes insects into different products, represents the most cost-effective,tailored processing line developed to date.

Preservica has announced an additional $3.8 million investment from Mobeus Equity Partners.  Demand for Preservica’s market-leading Active Digital Preservation software has continued to grow as government, academic and business organizations around the globe seek to preserve and provide access to critical records, including those related to the pandemic and other recent world-changing events.

HomeDoctor, a Warsaw and Amsterdam-based digital healthcare provider has announced a €3,7m Series A funding round led by Cogito Capital Partners with participation from the Company’s founders. HomeDoctor, founded in 2016, is a leader in the Polish market in providing online medical consultations and delivery of healthcare services to patients’ homes. The Company is operating as a b2b2c and a b2c medical services platform that enables delivery of both, online and phone consultations (telemedicine channel) and booking a doctor appointment (home visit).

YourParkingSpace, the UK’s leading provider of peer to peer parking and intelligent parking solutions, has secured investment from Pelican Capital to support the next phase of its growth strategy, advised by Cavendish Corporate Finance.

Turquoise, the UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced a £350,000 investment in Connected Energy, the third deal for the Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 (LCIF2) since it started investing in June.

Bamboo Systems, the Arm-only server vendor, has announced that it has secured a new, significant round of $7 million USD in funding. This new infusion is being led by existing investors Seraphim Capital and Opea Holding and with support from the UK’s £1.25 billion Future Fund, a government funding package designed to support startups driving innovation and development through the coronavirus outbreak.