Kelvin Capital backed ProFactor Pharma Ltd (PFP), has completed an important development milestone in its research that will transform the treatment of ‘Haemophilia A’.

Based outside Edinburgh at the Easter Bush Campus, the company has received £1.1m (the second tranche of funding from its £2m funding round announced in September 2019) to advance its R&D programme, which is moving closer to toxicology studies for its low cost recombinant human factor VIII (rhFVIII) for the treatment of ‘Haemophilia A’.

A team of healthcare experts who developed a fast and low-cost way to protect carers working with Covid-19 patients has raised a £100,000 investment.

Mat Campbell-Hill and his colleagues who created the AerosolShield mini-isolation tent have secured the funding from the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network’s (WMAHSN) SME Health Innovation Fund, which is managed by Mercia, and MidTECH Innovations.

The Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, has led investment of £3.3 million in innovative Scottish companies during the Coronavirus lockdown.  Archangels’ Q2 deals data reveals that three of its portfolio companies – Calcivis, BDD and Reactec – have received follow-on funding during the period, with £1.9m of the committed investment coming from Archangels’ syndicate members and the remaining £1.4m from Scottish Investment Bank (the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise) and from the staff and management teams at the companies themselves.

Zedify, the network of first and last mile delivery operations across the UK, have recently raised over £300,000 from a group of private investors led by Green Angel Syndicate (GAS). 

The investment signals the confidence investors have placed in Zedify, and the huge market potential for efficient, consolidated first and last-mile urban deliveries. Antoine Pradayrol, who joins the board as investment director noted the pioneering work Zedify has done to demonstrate the business case for using cargo bikes in the burgeoning urban delivery market.

Draper Esprit has participated in the latest £25m Series C funding round in Cazoo, the UK's leading online car retailer. Cazoo allows customers to buy a used car entirely online and have it delivered to their door in as little as 72 hours.

TAINA a market leading, computer science led provider of flexible and efficient FATCA, CRS and Chapter 3 solutions for banks, online trading platforms and fund administrators has announced the closing of its most substantial funding round yet, welcoming Anthemis, Tribeca ESP, Reciprocal Ventures and SIX Ventures to the TAINA Family.

ThingTrax, a provider of smart technology solutions for the manufacturing industry, has announced the close of a $1m seed round led by SuperSeed, investing alongside industrial specialist Sumaria. Founded in 2015, the company has been working with manufacturers around the world to turn their unconnected factories into smart manufacturing hubs. Using cloud computing, IoT, AI, and most recently computer vision, to connect machines, workers, and robotics to improve efficiency.

British Patient Capital, a subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a cornerstone commitment to Kennet’s fifth fund as it announces its €223m ($250m) close.

Kennet specialises in investing in established, high growth technology companies which are founder-owned and ‘bootstrapped’ – built without significant external capital. Typically, investment from Kennet is the first external funding that companies receive and is primarily used to support international expansion, enabling companies to meet the global market opportunities often associated with Software as a Service (SaaS) business models.

Europe’s leading R&D and electric battery production company, InoBat Auto has secured additional EUR 10m investment to fund the development of a first-of-its kind 100 MWh R&D centre and production line in Slovakia.

Luxury homeware wholesaler, Fifty One Percent Limited, has received a £250k finance package from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners.  The funding will allow the Leicestershire-based business to hire four additional staff, while expanding its product line and sales and marketing function.

Investors and experts predict that in 2020 this will reach a record figure, boosted by an interest in the sector after Covid-19

The SidebySide Partnership has expanded its management team with the appointment of James D’Mello as Head of Business Development.