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Manchester-based sustainable and ethical marketplace, Know the Origin has received a £300,000 investment from GC Angels to support the growth of the business as it looks to expand its team and product offering.

Silver Cloud Investments has been launched by founder and CEO Joe Stelzer, formerly managing partner at the UK’s leading sell-side M&A house Cavendish Corporate Finance.

Silver Cloud Investments will provide capital investment to businesses across its target sectors with a flexible approach, helping management teams to either stablilise previously growing businesses and/or  support the growth of companies with strong and scalable business models in this current very difficult business climate.

LGB Corporate Finance has advised Whalar Ltd, a multinational advertising and media business, on the establishment of a secured working capital facility from Praetura Commercial Finance, a leading provider of alternative debt and equity funding solutions.

Brikk, a modern ‘3.0’ estate agency platform that serves its customers online, has received investment from three Henley Business Angels (HBA) members in addition to more than 15 other investors from the UK and Europe.

The British Business Bank has announced that it has approved four new lenders for accreditation under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), 

Acceleris Capital portfolio company Reacta Biotech has completed its largest funding round to date, involving £1.25m of equity finance, with further investment expected in the coming months.  Reacta is a Deeside-based biotechnology company producing diagnostic kits for food allergy.  Cases of food allergy and allergy-related hospitalisations continue to rise globally at an alarming rate.  Reacta’s core focus is to improve the diagnosis and management of allergies through the provision of a pharmaceutical grade Oral Food Challenge (OFC), the gold standard for the clinical testing of food allergy.

LGB Corporate Finance has arranged a £20 million Medium Term Note (MTN) programme for Simply Asset Finance, a leading private equity backed specialist asset finance provider. The facility will enable Simply Asset Finance to expand its lending capabilities.

Aberystwyth headquartered Phytoponics has raised £500,000 equity finance to undertake large scale commercial trials of its innovative substrate-less Deep Water Culture growing solutions.

Alastair Bathgate has become the 29th Member of ScaleUp Group, following the announcement that he is stepping down as Blue Prism CEO on 30th April.

A new revenue finance company has pledged £20m of funding for online business by the end of 2020.

The revolutionary venture funding firm, Just Capital, provides businesses with up to £1m of funding to help them rapidly scale revenues, via repeatable channels like paid marketing and inventory, without relinquishing equity. 

Unlike equity raises or traditional loans, and in contrast to lengthy pitching and applications, Just Capital uses a speedy, self-serve platform for businesses to request funding. Companies simply link up their online payment processors and ad tools, such as Stripe, Shopify, Facebook and Open Banking and Just Capital uses that data to build a bespoke offer and deal for each business. 

Prime Advantage Capital Partners has completed a successful fundraise for Tonic Nutrition, a vitamin drink that’s making headlines.