White Motorcycle Concepts (WMC), a Northampton start-up that has designed a unique hybrid motorcycle and is already grabbing the attention of UK police forces, has just secured a £150K investment from British Design Fund, along with a further £150k from angel investors.

Aegiq, a start-up developing solutions to enable wide-scale adoption of quantum technologies around the world, today announces that it has received grant funding from Innovate UK, part of UK Research & Innovation, to develop a field-deployable high-performance quantum light source integrated solution in partnership with Fraunhofer CAP.

Kaiko Systems, a Berlin-based software startup digitizing maritime shipping, has completed a seed financing round of € 2 million. Investors participating in the funding round include Schoeller Holdings, Vineta Ventures, A Round Capital, and Flagship Founders, as well as industry experts such as Clasen Rickmers and Justus Kniffka.

Catalyst has announced a new partnership with global IT service provider Fujitsu, which has become its latest Platinum Partner. The two organisations plan to collaborate on projects aimed at growing the innovation ecosystem in Northern Ireland.

The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA), representing entrepreneurs, investors and advisors involved in facilitating private sector investment through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), is calling on Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng not to underestimate the role entrepreneurs and their investors can play in helping to drive economic growth post Covid.

AMPLY Discovery Limited has raised £900,000 in a mix of equity and grant funding to develop new drug products using its proprietary AI-driven drug discovery platform.  Investors include Co-fund NI, the QUBIS Innovation Fund, the Helix Way Partnership, and Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN).

The Belfast-based biotech company, which is a spin-out from the Queen’s University Belfast, was established in 2021 to commercialise an innovative drug discovery platform which was developed by researchers in the School of Biological Science at Queen’s. Its technology platform has been the subject of more than eight years of scientific research.

Swiss techbio company Hedera Dx, founded in 2021 by veteran healthcare entrepreneurs and executives, has raised €14m to support the launch this Autumn of a blood-based testing solution to profile cancer DNA circulating in the blood, helping patients access better treatments.  

Cello has raised €2.3m in pre-seed funding, in a round led by byFounders, with participation from Tiny VC, Possible Ventures and Notion Capital; together with operator angels from Youtube, Personio, McMakler, and others.

Female angel investors have helped drive more than £2bn of investment in companies across the UK in the past decade, a new study reveals today.

The Women Angel Insights report from the UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) and Beauhurst reveals that more than 5,000 women are making angel investments across the UK, helping to create over 10,000 jobs in the past decade.

British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a commitment of up to £10m to Haatch Ventures through the Regional Angels Programme.

Catalyst has appointed three experienced non-executive directors to its board to help oversee the implementation of its new five-year strategy and further strengthen its position as the epicentre of entrepreneurship and innovation in Northern Ireland. 

Optalitix, the SaaS, data analysis and AI company that enables insurers to turn their legacy excel-based processes into online systems, has received £4m in a funding round led by Calculus Capital.