Startup Funding Club has led a £250,000 seed round into fintech company Ember. The accounting software startup strives to make business simpler for contractors and SMEs by automating the entirety of the business administration and tax process.

Medopad has changed its name to Huma and has acquired two UK AI and wearable technology businesses, BioBeats and TLT. The rebrand and acquisitions support the company’s mission to use insights gathered by remote monitoring to help healthcare, life sciences and innovation partners understand, treat and prevent poor health. By collectively benefiting from the data people individually generate, Huma aims to give knowledge and power to individuals, while saving clinicians time, energy and valuable resources. 

All any of us can think about is ‘when this is over..’  ‘once I can get back to normal…’ ‘if I can go to….’  We are all living in a surreal state of suspended animation where even the simplest task – domestic or work-related – requires planning thought and modification.

UK-founded marketing technology company ContentCal has secured a £2.5 million investment from early and growth stage investor Fuel Ventures with participation from existing shareholders. The new funding will be focussed on driving customer growth, product innovation and doubling the size of the team.  With the new investment, ContentCal’s mission is to continue to build and scale its content marketing and collaboration platform. The software is designed to make it easy for companies to distribute better marketing content at scale and own their growth through content marketing. This delivers a better marketing experience for customers and drives huge efficiencies within businesses for their content creation efforts.

Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have made a £540,000 investment from Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into Living Optics, a spin out from the University of Oxford redefining imaging technology.  The investment is part of a £3.3 million funding round led by Oxford Sciences Innovation.

Zeigo, an innovative energy tech platform which connects corporate energy buyers with renewable energy generators and suppliers, has closed a £800,000 Seed Funding Round led by Naruhisa Nakagawa, founder of Caygan Capital.

Blackfinch has invested c.£630,000 in Glasgow-based company Candidate.ID, founded in 2015. Candidate.ID offers recruitment software that provides recruiters daily hot leads based on candidates' interactions with a company’s online content.

Candidate.ID’s talent platform is a fast-track solution to hiring for both mid-large employers and specialist staffing companies. Its sophisticated technology and software can replace a company’s customer relationship management system to provide enhanced recruitment performance. Its technology, packaged in a simple-to-use interface, sits on top of a company’s applicant tracking system and works as the core system of candidate engagement.

Maven Capital Partners and Guinness Asset Management have led a £10 million funding round for Push Technology, the pioneer and leader in real-time data streaming and messaging solutions. This will enable Push to enhance its sales and marketing efforts as well as broaden product development.

Great Point, the UK’s leading independent media investment firm, has invested in Camden Productions, an independent TV and film production company whose team has a track record of producing multi-award-winning, creatively acclaimed and commercially successful scripted comedy and comedy-drama. 

Countingup, the number one banking and accounting app in the UK, has  launched a free furlough calculator, acccessible at covid19.countingup.com, to  help small businesses impacted by coronavirus(Covid-19).  

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