Social impact investment company Resonance has launched their latest Social Impact Tax Relief (SITR) Fund in the North West.

autologyx has announced that it has raised an additional £1 million to rapidly expand its foothold in legal, RPO and insurance sectors. The digital operations platform, which automates real-world, complex business processes, has seen significant growth over the past year, both in terms of recurring revenues – which have doubled, and demand for its market-leading platform.

Foresight Group LLP, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has won this high-profile award in recognition for its support for businesses in the East Midlands.

yulife, the life insurance company which puts wellbeing at the heart of its insurance offering, has announced that it has secured £10 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Creandum Funds, backers of Spotify, iZettle and depop. MMC Ventures and Notion Capital participated in the round alongside existing investors Anthemis Exponential Ventures, RGAX and Israel’s most active venture investor OurCrowd. This new round of funding follows a previous £3m seed-round led by LocalGlobe.

Israeli startup TriEye, whose innovative Short-Wave-Infra-Red (SWIR) sensing technology is able to see in adverse weather and night-time conditions, announced today a $17M Series A funding round, led by Intel Capital. Other investors include Marius Nacht, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies, and TriEye’s existing investor Grove Ventures, headed by TriEye chairman Dov Moran, the inventor of the USB flash drive and co-founder of M-Systems. Since inception, TriEye has raised over $20M, including a seed investment of $3M led by Grove Ventures in November 2017. 

Global Tech Advocates (GTA), the international private sector network connecting tech hubs around the world, has launched Tech Japan Advocates 

Finance Durham , managed by Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active SME finance providers, has, since its launch, invested £3.4 million in 10 dynamic growth businesses across County Durham, driving economic prosperity and supporting the creation and safeguarding of over 250 jobs.

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has closed its ISIA Fund (Idinvest SME Industrial Assets) at €340m, surpassing its initial target of €300m by 13%.

Following recent expansion in Singapore, London based RegTech firm ClauseMatch closed its first venture debt funding round with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative businesses and their investors.

Maven Capital Partners, has led a £500,000 investment in back & posture care product specialist, Handsome Limited. A total of £250,000 was invested by NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, and £250,000 provided by the GMC Fund, along with the company’s lead China manufacturing partner.. The funding will allow the company to execute its ambitious marketing strategy to expand overseas, invest in product development and will create five new jobs in the region.

Domain Therapeutics has announced that it has secured a €3.5M ($3.9M) investment from existing shareholder Seventure Partners, to accelerate its next growth phase. 

Enlaps, the inventor of the Tikee timelapse solution, has announced that it has closed a funding round of €3 millions from business angels including Fabien Pierlot, founder and CEO of Coyote, Jiong Ma, Senior Partner at Braemar, Charles Matine, ex-Apple and from banking institutions such as BPI, BNP Paribas and Caisse d’Epargne.  This financing will allow the Grenoble-based start-up founded in 2015 and recognized in 2016 by an Innovation Award at CES in Las Vegas, to speed up its development and to continue to provide its solutions to a wider range of customers from professional users to individuals with a passion for photography.