Oliver Woolley from Envestors asks 'What budget do you need for a fundraise?' 

Seedrs has launched Seedrs Private Deal Room, a new feature to improve professional investor access to angel, private equity, and venture capital opportunities. The launch of Private Deal Room is another step towards Seedrs’ mission to become the world’s largest private equity marketplace. 

eFront's latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance Overview, covering the period to the end of Q1 2021, shows that following the massive pandemic shock-driven correction in the first quarter of 2020, the following 12 months (Q2 2020 – Q1 2021) brought a persistent recovery and further growth to the global Buyout and VC markets. In the first quarter of this year, VC funds have globally generated a quarterly return of 12.9%, while the Buyout funds produced 9.6% over the same period.

Distil.ai, a UK company whose software platform helps businesses to understand their customers’ behaviour and identify buying signals has raised £400,000 investment from Mercia.

The eighth edition of the Global Green Finance Index (GGFI) evaluates the green finance offering of 80 financial centres. .

Intelligent property search portal property.xyz has secured a seed round of angel investment of £268,000 from eleven, experienced investors in the fields of technology, finance and real estate.

GP Bullhound, the global technology advisory and investment firm, has revealed the 2021 Northern Tech Awards Top 100 shortlist, recognising the fastest growing technology companies in the North of England and Scotland and Ireland.

British satellite scale-up Satellite Vu, founded in 2016, has successfully raised £15 million ($20.7 million), as it looks to ramp up its plans to launch seven thermal and infrared imaging satellites into space that will be able to provide real-time data on how green every building on the planet is.

Flexciton, an optimisation technology company that has developed a unique solution to radically improve the efficiency and productivity of fab manufacturing processes, has announced a £15M Series A investment, led by Nadav Rosenberg (Saras Capital). Flexciton’s solution analyses the real-time data that each fab generates and applies cutting edge technology to decide which actions need to be taken to optimise production

Northern Ireland startups and scale up companies have been given the opportunity to meet and pitch their companies to more than 80 venture capital investors from London and the rest of the UK at a two-day event organised by Catalyst.

Primer has closed a Series B funding round that values the payments infrastructure startup at $425 million only 20 months after being founded.

The $50M Series B fundraise was led by ICONIQ Growth, the San Francisco based investment firm that has backed global tech companies such as Adyen and Marqeta to Snowflake and Datadog. Existing investors, including Accel, Balderton Capital, Seedcamp, Speedinvest, and RTP Global all participated in the round.

The British Business Bank reveals today that, based on its estimates, smaller businesses[1] account for almost a third (30%) of all current UK greenhouse gas emissions (including emissions from households, industry and government) and around half (50%) of total emissions from UK businesses.[2]

Its latest research report, Smaller businesses and the transition to net zero, highlights the potential collective influence of UK smaller businesses and the considerable contribution they could make to wider net zero objectives if they all made changes to reduce their carbon footprint. The report, one of the most in-depth so far in this under-explored part of the market, incorporates results from fresh data via a bespoke, nationally representative survey of 1,200 smaller businesses, and analysis of public data sources.