Neil Cunningham, founder of MatchPoint Hospitality Group, has been appointed to the board of Archangels, the world’s longest continually running investment syndicate.

Financial wellbeing platform Blackbullion has announced a £2.5m investment round to accelerate financial wellbeing for students. The new funding round will scale the platform’s growth, driving Blackbullion’s mission to simplify the complex world of finance for young people, while connecting them with scholarships and additional funds while they study

The oversubscribed round was led by Calyx Venture Fund with existing investors including Lord Stanley Fink and MPA Education, also participating; Blackbullion is the first investment for MPA’s second fund. 

British technology company, Sunstone Systems, has raised £1m in equity finance in its latest funding round. 

Based in Kent, Sunstone Systems creates solar-powered technologies that provide surveillance, wireless networks and satellite communications to some of the most remote locations in the world. All while helping global organisations to reduce their CO2 emissions. This fundraise comes off the back of a stellar period of growth which saw it double year on year revenue in 2021, with projections to do the same in 2022. 

EBAN has launched the Manifesto For a Gender Balanced Angel Investing Ecosystem.

Net Purpose, a platform for sustainable investors, has raised £10 million in a Series A round led by ETF Partners, following a year of record growth.

Net Purpose also has angel investor backing from Jim O’Neill, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and Kevin Gould, Co-Founder of Markit who have both increased their commitment in this round,

Düsseldorf-based technology startup iFactory3D has completed a financing round on the investment platform Companisto. More than 600 individual private investors and business angels pledged over one million euros for the company and its innovative product, the One Pro 3D belt printer. One of the aspects that convinced them was a special feature that differentiates the 3D belt printer from conventional printers: thanks to the built-in conveyor belt and smart camera technology, objects can be printed in series around the clock without supervision.

Bristol Private Equity Club is one of the leading investors into Bristol based tech startups, according to a new report from Beauhurst shows that after Seedrs, the group is the most active investor in the region.

Round 4 of the Green Angel Syndicate EIS & SEIS Climate Change Fund opened on Friday 1st July and closed on 22nd September, having exceeded its minimum funding target by 50%. The round was evenly split between GAS members and non-members, and 45% of investors had invested in one or more previous rounds of the Climate Change Fund.

Archangels, the world’s longest continually running investment syndicate, has generated up to £1.4 billion Gross Value Added (GVA) for the Scottish economy from its investments in the life sciences and tech sectors.

Catalyst is inviting budding entrepreneurs across Northern Ireland to apply to their Co-Founders programme, launching with a newfound focus on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Lawhive, the AI and data-driven Legaltech platform, has successfully raised $2M in seed funding to increase transparency and democratise access to legal services for consumers and small businesses in the UK. The round was led by Episode 1 Ventures and includes additional support from Tiny VC and 25 angel investors, including Aron Gelbard (Bloom & Wild Founder), Jonathan Petrides (Allplants Founder) and senior executives from Monzo, Spotify, Meta and N26.  

Sküma Water has raised £300,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by early-stage focused venture capital firm Jenson Funding Partners. Multiple angel investors also participated in the round, including William Ripley, a notable investor in sustainable technology and ex-director of product strategy at Philips.