Oliva, an advanced workplace mental health platform founded in 2020, has raised £4.84 million seed funding.  The round was led by Stride VC, a seed-stage VC firm based in London, along with additional investment provided by Moonfire, as well as adding a number of new angel investors.

Lawyer-free UK divorce services company amicable has secured a further £1.2m in funding, led by 24Haymarket and existing angel investors.  

Monterosa has raised £3.5m ($4.5M USD) of growth capital to accelerate development of its Real-time Engagement (RTE) platform and drive the company’s expansion into new global markets. The funding was led by 24Haymarket and included existing investor ACF Investors, plus a trio of new investors including Jeremy Darroch, former CEO and Executive Chair at Sky, Chris Rodman previously Group Managing Director of Topps and Richard Scudamore, former CEO of The Premier League who also joined the Monterosa board in 2021.

Angel investing has been remarkably resilient following the pandemic according to research carried out by Professor Colin Mason (pictured) at the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School.

BeamUP, Ltd, the AI platform that designs and manages enterprise building systems, has launched with a $15M round of seed investment led by Israel-based StageOne Ventures and US-based Ibex Investors, as well as prominent angels including Chano Fernandez, CEO of Workday.

Two of Green Angel Syndicate's portfolio companies have been nominated for this year’s prestigious Earthshot Prize. 

The Clean Growth Fund, a venture capital fund investing in the most promising early-stage UK clean technology ventures, has closed its first fund with £101m in capital commitments. The first and final close comes with new commitments of £31m from two of the UK’s largest local authority pension funds – Merseyside and South Yorkshire – and from Queens’ College Cambridge and Aviva Investors, the global investment management company.

Climate change investor, Climate VC has launched to exert a gigatonne scale impact on climate change in the next decade and influence a sea change in the way the venture capital sector approaches climate investing.  The fund has a number of high profile angel backers including serial founder investor Doug Scott.

Investing in start-ups throughout the UK, Climate VC is a specialist climate tech investor focused on finding and backing climate change start-ups that might have been overlooked by other VCs. Climate VC wants to disrupt the traditional VC approach to climate innovation by putting as much emphasis on the climate impact of a venture as the commercial return.  

The London Technology Club (LTC), the leading community for investment opportunities in the technology sector, has launched LTC Dubai, its first strategic international investment hub.

Sano Genetics, co-founded by three University of Cambridge genomics postgraduates, has raised $11M in a Series A funding round led by MMC Ventures, with further funding from Episode 1, Seedcamp and several angel investors, including Paul Forster, a co-founder and former CEO of Indeed, Paul Wicks, former VP of innovation at PatientsLikeMe, and Margo Georgiadis, the former CEO of Ancestry.com.

East Kilbride based FreeFlow Technologies (FFT), which has developed a light power to weight e-Bike motor, is moving into production following the completion of a £1.65m funding round led by investment syndicate Kelvin Capital.

The new investment will accelerate the production of units from its Scottish production line in 2022, ready to be sold into the fast-growing e-Bike sector.

Chaired by Martin McCourt, former Global CEO of Dyson, the business completed a previous funding round in November 2020 securing £1.85m which saw them move to new headquarters and R&D facility in East Kilbride and adding senior technical positions and assembly engineers.

A technology company that specialises in developing software for the renewables industry has secured new investment to accelerate its product development. 

Bristol-based Sennen has raised £780,000 equity funding from a range of new and existing investors. They include investment firms Caygan Capital, Future Play and Vala Capital as well as a number of private individuals.

Around £100,000 of the total investment came through the crowdfunding platform Seedrs.