SyndicateRoom's EIS fund, Fund Twenty8, has finished deploying capital ahead of schedule.

The second iteration of Fund Twenty8 has invested £3.2 million into 32 early-stage British companies across 12 sectors. The fund’s algorithm analysed the investment decisions of 1,427 private investors on the SyndicateRoom platform when deciding how to deploy capital.

YFM backed ACC Aviation has acquired global aviation consultancy Aerotask and has been recognised in the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s fastest growing international sales businesses 

deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations, has acquired Credence International, a UAE-based wealth management and advisory company.

Richard Theo, fintech envoy for Wales and co-founder and CEO of digital investment service Wealthify, will reveal his predictions for the fintech sector and the opportunities it presents for Welsh companies at a prestigious tech event in Cardiff ono 5th March.

Find out why Paul McNabb from Episode1 Ventures believes Ori’s edge cloud is enabling the next evolution of computing architecture.

Simon Hopkins, CEO of Milltrust International, believes the university tech  start-up sector has never been so exciting.  Read on to find out why....

Two niche property law firms, Equilaw and Thomas Legal, have received a multi-million pound investment from BGF, the UK’s most active investor in growing companies, to support business growth.

Set up in 2007, Equilaw is the UK’s only dedicated equity release legal adviser, working with homeowners and financial advisers to provide independent legal advice on the process of releasing home equity for a range of purposes including retirement planning, house improvements and care provision.

StoryShare, a leading SaaS Mobile Employee Experience Platform (EXP), today announced it has raised £1.15 million in growth finance led by Gresham House Ventures. StoryShare provides a SaaS platform to help large organisations, with diverse and mobile workforces, engage and develop employees anywhere, any time on any device.

Leading brands including Unilever, DLA Piper and Renault use StoryShare to help their employees love their work. Increasingly companies acknowledge that staff want to use the same type of technology they use at home at work. 

Luxcara, one of the leading asset managers for renewable energy investments, has acquired the Finnish wind power project Välikangas, which has a projected capacity of 100 MW. The produced electricity will be sold to an off-taker on the basis of a power purchase agreement (PPA).

ThousandEyes, the company that provides actionable intelligence into digital experience for the cloud, Internet, and enterprises, has announced it has raised $50 million in a Series D round of funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), bringing ThousandEyes’ total funding to more than $110 million. 

Women have long been under served by the financial advisory sector - but this is now changing.  This is the assessment of deVere Switzerland, part of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations, which recently held the ‘Women in Finance’ summit in Zurich.

New research from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has shown that Chinese venture