Foresight Group's Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund has surpassed its target performance of UK CPI +3% over 12 months, with a total return 18.51%.  The Fund has provided a yield of 4.12% over 12 months exhibiting significantly lower volatility levels than higher risk asset classes such as high-yield debt.

DSW Debt Advisory, the new service launched just before the lockdown to help companies raise debt funding, has attracted another senior banking figure, Simon Carrier.

Prime Advantage Capital Partners has participated in a fundraise for North-East based impact sensor developer HP1 Technologies.

Start-ups faced with an entirely new trading environment are being encouraged to use the next 100 days to carefully align their shifting commercial goals with an effective approach to IP or risk being left behind by innovative competitors.

NodThera, a clinical stage biotechnology company developing a new class of medicines that inhibit the NLRP3 inflammasome to treat diseases driven by chronic inflammation, has secured $55 million (£44 million) in a Series B financing. NodThera’s lead candidate, NT-0167, is being evaluated in a Phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers.

Oxford Flow, the flow control equipment specialist, has raised £8.45m to fuel the company’s expansion across the utility and industrials markets, and oil and gas product development.

The funding has been secured from eight parties, with existing investors Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), Parkwalk, Oxford Investment Consultants and the University of Oxford contributing a total of £5.6m. The remaining amount is made up by GF Piping Systems, a division of Georg Fischer, a Swiss leader in fluid transfer equipment, individual investor Nick Harbinson and companies associated with GK Goh, the Singapore-based investment group.

Flusso, a semiconductor company spun out of the University of Cambridge, has raised a $5.7 million Series A funding round to scale up production of the world’s smallest flow sensor. The round was led by existing investor Parkwalk Advisors and new investor Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund, with participation from 24 Haymarket, Cambridge Enterprise, Martlet, and Cambridge Angels. With products already commercially available, the investment will also enable Flusso to widen its product and technology portfolio.

ROI has secured a £3m investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, to support its expansion into 12 cities across the UK and Europe. ROI is a lead generation technology company which allows small businesses to rent a highly optimised website which attracts more leads and ultimately boosts sales for these companies. ROI’s innovative proposition has had success in the home improvement and maintenance sector and is scaleable across different geographies and sectors.

The number of businesses with a positive outlook for the next 12 months exceeds the number with a negative outlook for the first time, 

The Danish workspace management startup Good Monday has just entered London following a $4M capital injection from the UK early-stage VC firstminute Capital, led by Brent Hoberman. Other investors are Creandum, Seed Capital, and PreSeed Ventures. In London, the first clients are already on board, and the UK office is up and running in Shoreditch with five employees.

British Business Investments Ltd has committed up to £40m to Columbia Lake Partners Fund II - CLP Growth II GBP SCSp - at its first close.

Columbia Lake Partners (CLP) is a London-based venture debt fund, providing growth capital term loans of £3-10m to venture capital backed technology businesses. The investments are a complement to traditional VC funding, allowing companies to grow with less dilutive capital. The fund can invest as part of an equity round, between equity rounds to allow a company more time to build enterprise value, or to fund an acquisition.

BGF has invested £6m in Amdaris, an industry-leading software developer and digital transformation specialist, to support its organic and acquisitive growth strategy.

Headquartered in Bristol, Amdaris is one of the UK’s fastest-growing technology companies, employing more than 200 developers averaging 40 percent revenue growth per annum over the past three years to £7.2m. The firm’s key sectors of operation include real estate, recruitment, education, financial services and energy.