UK-based Unlock, a SaaS-enabled marketplace to build culture among remote teams, has raised a $2m seed round.  The round was lead by La Famiglia, with other investors including Kima Ventures, Antler, GuideStar Ventures and well-known angels Eduardo Ronzano, Thibaud Elziere, Frederic Montagnon, Julien Romanetto, Nicolas Steegmann, Philipp Moehring, Andy Chung, Ville Vesterinen and Deepali Nangia from Atomico Angel Network, Richard Faern, Ian Hathaway, Lu Li, co-founders of Personio and Foodora, VP Product at Malt and more.

After an impressive pitch to the Anglia Capital Group Angels, Fox Robotics successfully received investment to help them fill their round of £750,000 alongside other investors. This is ACG’s 8th investment into local businesses so far in 2021, with several awaiting round closure, cementing their commitment to growing opportunities for companies within East Anglia.

Global venture capital firm Antler has invested in eight new portfolio companies as part of its Stockholm cohort. The startups focus on industries including recycling electrical devices, impact investing, and sustainable packaging, improving mental wellbeing, monitoring data centres and making communication more efficient with AI. This is Antler’s fifth cohort out of Sweden, and it has now supported 700 entrepreneurs and invested in 75 early-stage startups in the Nordics.

DeHaat, the technology-based platform offering end-to-end agricultural services to farmers in India, has raised $115 million in Series D funding, led by Belgium-based investment firm Sofina and Lightrock India. Temasek co-invested in the round, with participation from existing investors Prosus, RTP Global, Sequoia Capital India and FMO.

The London Technology Club has invested in Cogniac, a leading provider of enterprise-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) image and video analysis across a variety of industries, including automotive, railway, manufacturing and government.

Market research platform Attest has raised $60 million in Series B funding, to continue its mission in helping brands be truly customer-centric via continuous insights. The round brings the total funds invested in the company to over $85 million.

TAINA Technology, an award-winning regulatory technology company, has announced that it is closing a substantial funding round, welcoming onboard Deutsche Bank and HSBC Asset Management’s Financial Technology Venture Capital Fund alongside its existing investors led by Anthemis.

Sphere Fluidics, has closed a $40 million (circa £30 million) investment round. 

SimScale, the SaaS platform making high-fidelity simulation technically and economically accessible to engineers worldwide, has raised an additional €25M as an extension to its Series C funding. The investment is co-led by Draper Esprit and New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners, with Earlybird, June, Vsquared and USV also participating in the round. 

HUBX, a deal syndication platform for banks and brokerage firms, has raised over $1.5 million extension led by Mandalore Partners and ACF Investors’ Delta Fund. This follows an initial raise of $5.5 million announced earlier this year, led by Barclays, Elite and Basinghall Partners, and brings the total to $7 million for this round.  HUBX clients and partners include Tier 1 banks, Finastra and Barclays.

Admix, the leading In-Play monetization company that bridges the gap between gaming content and brands, has raised USD $25 million in a Series B round to scale up its In-Play solution worldwide; and establish it as the content monetization layer for the metaverse.

More than one in eight (13%) claims for Entrepreneurs’ Relief were for gains of more than £1 million in 2019/20 with the average claimed at just over £627,000, new analysis* from Handelsbanken Wealth Management shows.