Sidekick, a digital active investment manager built for today’s rapidly changing world, has announced a £3.33M Pre-Seed equity round led by Octopus Ventures, one of Europe’s largest and most active venture capital investors. Seedcamp, Europe’s leading early-stage fund, and Semantic, a venture fund investing in new rails for data and the digital economy, also participated in the round.

The British Business Bank thas announced new ENABLE Funding facility to Propel, one of the UK’s largest and fastest growing independent asset finance providers. The new facility will allow Propel to provide around £165m of finance to smaller businesses across the UK.

Old Street Digital has closed a $2.8m Seed funding round led by Draper Associates. OSD is building an institutional asset manager bringing the best of active, fundamental research-driven portfolio management to crypto. The round announced includes participation from Plassa Capital and prominent venture capital and angel investors across Europe, Asia and the U.S. as well as senior executives from the U.K. Asset Management industry.

Gatenox, the UK-based provider of corporate client verified credentials, has raised a seven-figure amount from C3 VC Fund, a venture capital firm based in Frankfurt, Germany that invests in exceptional technology companies worldwide. Additional funding was provided by A100x Ventures and several prominent angel investors, including Matthew Niemerg and Antoni Zolciak, co-founders of Aleph Zero.  Gatenox is the Anti-money Laundering and Sanctions solution for corporate onboarding that starts with the customer. 

London and Malta based fintech CityFALCON closed an equity fundraising campaign on Seedrs of £1.65m ($2m) to scale up the business and bring even more insightful products to market faster.  On Seedrs, the leading UK private investment platform, CityFALCON has leveraged individual investors from their growing fanbase and onboarded institutional investors.  Serial entrepreneurs took part in the round, including one who sold his last company for £500m.

Kita, the world’s first carbon insurer, has raised a heavily oversubscribed £350k pre-seed round led by Insurtech Gateway, alongside investors Carbon13, Climate VC and Echelon Capital.

Kapaga, the UK-based cross-border payment platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has announced a £1.5m funding round led by Target Global and with participation from well-known angel investors in the fintech space, Chris Adelsbach, Andreas Mihalovits, and Mark Ransford.

Challenger bank, Recognise Bank, will benefit from £8.7 million in new capital following the latest successful round of fund raising by the City of London Group (CoLG), the Bank's parent company.

tell.money, the fintech platform that delivers innovative and rapidly deployable Open Banking solutions for banks and other account providers, has closed its growth funding round of £2m.

Bluezone, an insurtech reinventing life insurance for people with chronic illnesses has announced a £1.5m seed round led by Insurtech Gateway and AV8 Ventures. Oxford Capital, Portfolio Ventures and impactful angel investors including former CEO of AXA, Chief Transformation Officer Aegon Group, former Chairman of NHS England and a leading Fintech angel also participated in the round.

ETAP, an insurtech startup that makes it easier to buy and claim insurance, has secured $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to grow its team and drive the adoption of much-needed car insurance across Africa. Starting in Nigeria, the new funding will support the roll-out of ETAP’s game-changing app which allows drivers to buy insurance in 90 seconds, complete claims in 3 minutes or less and get rewarded for good driving and avoiding accidents.

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