BGF, the UK & Ireland’s most active investor, has broken the £100 million investment milestone, backing more than 30 businesses across the fields of diagnostics, medtech and digital health, as well as services, software and tools supporting therapeutic development. 

GP Bullhound has announced that entries for the 2021 Northern Tech Awards are now open. 

Divido, the world’s largest whitelabel platform for retail finance, has raised a $30 million Series B funding round to fuel international expansion, while continuing to build out its market-leading platform for lenders and merchants.

Atos and Huma, the digital health innovator, have announced a 5-year strategic global partnership to shift healthcare and clinical trials from hospital to home. The partnership will focus on Huma’s modular platform which can power digital ‘hospitals at home’ up to national scale, as well as support pharmaceutical and research industries to run complex global decentralized clinical trials. The platform is already used in the US and across Europe for illnesses ranging from atrial fibrillation to diabetes to Covid-19.

Heja, the vertical social platform for Team Sport communication, has scored a $4.2m seed round led by Amsterdam-based Peak Capital. Peak is joined by existing investors, including Luminar Ventures, Bonnier Ventures, Inbox Capital, and Max Ventures, as well as various high profile angels, namely Ted Nelson (ex-Truecaller CCO) and former NHL player Mattias Weinhandl.  Heja’s social platform allows coaches, parents and players to easily organize and communicate in one place.

British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a £50m commitment to private credit provider Apera Asset Management.

Satellite Vu has raised a £3.6m (US$5m) seed round led by Seraphim Capital to launch the world’s first satellite constellation capable of imaging the thermal footprint of any building on the planet every one to two hours.

Cultivo, a new way to invest in nature at scale, has launched its service to connect landowners to investors who want to invest in nature-based solutions that help combat the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. Over the next five years, Cultivo’s goal will be to deploy 1 billion USD in nature and restore at least 3.5 million hectares of land by financing a diverse range of projects including forests, grasslands, wetlands, and regenerative agriculture.

Wealth at Work Group Limited, a UK-based specialist provider of workplace financial education, guidance and regulated financial advice for individuals, has announced that it has agreed to an investment from Aquiline Capital Partners, a private investment firm based in New York and London with $6.4 billion in assets under management.

Dutch artificial intelligence company Sentinels has raised £4.9 million (€5.7 million) in a seed funding round, led by INKEF Capital, complemented by strategic angel investors and industry leaders – including several members of the early Adyen team. The startup has now raised a total of £7.3m (€8.4m) to date.  

Cognigy, a global leader in omnichannel Customer and Employee Service Automation with its Conversational AI platform Cognigy.AI, has raised $44 million in Series B funding led by global venture capital and private equity firm, Insight Partners. DN Capital, who led Cognigy’s Series A round 18 months ago also participated alongside, Global Brain, Nordic Makers, Inventures and Digital Innovation and Growth. As part of the round, Insight Partners’ Managing Director Teddie Wardi will join Cognigy’s Board of Directors.

Ingenious has announced that Ingenious Real Estate Finance LLP (Ingenious Real Estate) has completed four new loans totalling £52million to fund new residential developments in Liverpool and across Greater London.