Riskbook Ltd, an independent provider of reinsurance technology, announced today that it had received new investment of £2m to further develop its Lloyd’s-recognised digital placement platform. Through Seed funding from leading private venture capital firms Episode 1 Ventures, MMC Ventures and Seedcamp, Riskbook will maintain its industry independence as it scales to meet the needs of a growing global customer base of cedents, brokers and reinsurers.

ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank, has been named the Investment Bank of the Year by Environmental Finance at their IMPACT Awards 2020.  

Kindred Capital has closed its second seed fund at £81m. Through its ‘Equitable Venture’, the firm gives exceptional seed-stage entrepreneurs co-ownership in the fund that invested in their businesses.

Since its launch in 2015, the firm has now invested in 39 technology companies across Europe and Israel, with ten of those investments coming from the second fund. Kindred has been investing from the second fund over the last 12 months.

Ian Connatty of British Patient Capital comments on new data from Tech Nation revealing that the UK continues to lead Europe for VC investment. Since the start of the year, $2.5bn has been invested into UK fintech companies. By comparison, German fintechs have raised $1.09bn and Swedish fintechs have raised $1.06bn this year to date.

The world’s most awarded non-alcoholic spirits company, Lyre’s Non-Alcoholic Spirit Co. has successfully closed a £9m seed round

HOWZAT Partners and ennea capital partners are joining forces as HOWZAT ennea Group to create one of Europe’s leading early to mid-stage investment, M&A and advisory businesses.  

HOWZAT is a unicorn investor and one of the top 3 travel technology investors globally*. It is ranked by Dealroom.co in the top 5% of European seed-stage investors. HOWZAT and ennea, between them, have made over 100 investments to date, through various vehicles, and assisted more than 60 transactions across multiple technology spaces.

Panthera Biopartners has completed a Series A funding round with Gresham House Ventures as a major investor. The capital raised will enable Panthera to further build out its network of clinical trial sites across the UK and overseas and increase its team of clinical trial experts in serving both pharma and patients.

Panthera Biopartners has completed a Series A funding round with Gresham House Ventures as a major investor. The capital raised will enable Panthera to further build out its network of clinical trial sites across the UK and overseas and increase its team of clinical trial experts in serving both pharma and patients.

Mountain Technologies has secured investment from a group of HBAN angel investors.

Ballymena-based Mountain Technologies will use the funding to market and launch its connected ski pass system designed for ski resort operators worldwide.

A new study by Merchant Machine finds the top countries, states and industries for the fastest-growing companies in Europe and the US.  The study found that technology ranks as the overall top industry, accounting for 21.3% of the 1,360 companies.

According to new research by PwC, VC and corporate investment in startups developing technology enabled solutions to climate change, and the transformation to net zero emissions, grew at a faster rate than VC investment as a whole between 2013 - 2019. In that time, US$60 billion of early stage capital was invested globally into startups contributing to tackling the net zero challenge. 

Playfair Capital and Tech Nation have joined forces to expand their nationwide initiative to improve access to funding and mentors for female founders with two special events taking place on 5th and 12th November.  Female founders from across the UK will have the opportunity to meet four investors during one hour of remote office hours to discuss their tech business idea, ask for advice, pitch for investment and find a mentor.