Seedrs,  the leading private investment platform with over £2BN in investments recorded to date, has today launched the inaugural Seedrs Venture Partner programme, a new curated community for VCs, accelerators, ecosystem builders and serial entrepreneurs.  Seedrs’ Venture Partner community will bring together established and emerging investors and influencers in private investing to support one another through global deal flow, mentorship, and collaboration to help founders get further ahead. 

GAS welcomed QLM to its portfolio in Spring 2021 and has now invested in a £12 million Series A funding round led by Schlumberger.

The round was led by Schlumberger with support from Green Angel Syndicate, Enterprise100 Syndicate, Development Bank of Wales, Newable, Quantum Exponential and several private investors. As a company with headquarters in Cardiff and operations in Bristol, this funding round also included British Business Investments funds committed to Green Angel Syndicate through its Regional Angels Programme.

Zero Carbon Capital has made a seed investment in ClimateCrop Ltd, an Israeli company using state-of-the-art gene editing techniques to improve the efficiency with which plants use sunlight to grow.

The British Design Fund is delighted to welcome two experienced investors to its Investment Committee. Meeting regularly to select the very best British purpose-led product design and manufacturing start-ups the Committee welcomes the breadth of experience and knowledge that our two new members bring.

Cambridge University spin out, GamGraPhic has raised £813,475 from Wealth Club clients through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). This takes its total amount raised to £1.26 million, which has been raised through an equity funding round from existing and new investors led by Frontier IP and Wealth Club. 

A proptech company which aims to be the ‘Airbnb for shared living’ has raised over £500,000 in additional funding from existing investors.  Worcester-based COHO has secured investment from the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, and private investors. The funding will enable it to scale the platform, strengthen its management team and continue its rapid growth.

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.

VascVersa, an award winning, early-stage regenerative medicine spin out from Queen’s University in Belfast, has completed its second seed funding round, raising over £500,000.  The investment was participated in by Co-Fund NI (managed by Clarendon Fund Managers), QUBIS, the commercialisation arm of Queen’s University Belfast, the Innovation Investment Fund and angel investors from the Halo & Business Angel Network (HBAN).

Joshua Wohle is a EdTech/Learning enthusiast, advisor, investor. He was previously CPTO & co-Founder of SuperAwesome, the largest kidtech company in the world and is currently CEO and co-founder of Mindstone.

Joshua is also a Venture Partner and LP of Emerge Education, an education sector focused European seed fund. Here he shares his experiences of being an angel investor.

The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (The NSI Act) came into force on 4 January 2022. The act strengthens the UK Government’s power to scrutinise transactions on grounds of national security. Parts of the act will apply retrospectively between 12 November 2020 and the 4 January 2022.

New data from Tech Nation reveals that nearly a quarter of UK tech companies are making it to Series C or an exit in 2022, but warns that these large liquidity events must not detract from the need to support the majority (50%) of tech companies who are in earlier stages of growth, especially those R&D intensive firms who tend to have longer product development cycles and time to market.

A specialist business support organisation is celebrating after leveraging more than £25m in investment for North East companies in the last three years.  Through the Newcastle Angel Hub, the Innovation SuperNetwork has supported 58 North East businesses with investor readiness activities and helped them leverage £25m in equity investment since launching in July 2019.