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Having introduced £15.3m of equity between 2010-2018, this represents a return of £42,686,301 for 50 members of the ENVESTORS private network and two introduced Funds.

CamBioScience, an e-learning company that provides intensive training courses in breakthrough life science technologies, has received investment from three Henley Business Angels members, helping them raise a total of £400,000. CamBioScience have created an enterprise-level cloud platform called OBRIZUM, which allows companies in high-skill areas like healthcare, engineering, finance, law and software to automatically create, deliver and monitor adaptive online courses and assessments on a global scale.

New Anglia Capital has invested in PBD Biotech to fund the firm's international expansion.

A.I.-powered reputation management and decision support platform, Signal Media, has announced a $16 million series B funding round. The funding round was led and priced by GMG Ventures LP. MMC Ventures was the largest investor in the round, which included a debt facility from Kreos Capital. Other investors include Frontline, Hearst Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures and LocalGlobe.

Nasstar has announced that its Financial Director, Niki Redwood has today been recognised as part of the CEO Today Business Women of the Year Awards 2018. The awards celebrate women who are the driving force behind their business, whilst also driving the equality agenda within their organisation and beyond.

The UK’s tech industry is leading the way in the creation of billion-dollar businesses despite Brexit fears, according to research released today by technology investment bank GP Bullhound.

Nine companies which have been backed by BGF are in the London Stock Exchange Group's 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain 2018, including Medigold Health, PPS Equipment and The Coaching Inn Group.

Mercia Technologies' investment Crowd Reactive, which trades under its EventsTag brand, has acquired Excelerated Applications Limited, the developer of a sophisticated radio-frequency identification (RFID) event engagement platform.

NVM Private Equity has invested £1.5 million of growth capital into Newcastle based hiPSC company Newcells Biotech alongside existing investors Northstar Ventures, who have provided a further £500k bringing the total round to £2 million.

Founded in 2015 and headquartered at the world-renowned International Centre for Life in Newcastle (an incubator space for young and established biotechnology companies) Newcells is a successful, early-stage, life-sciences spinout from Newcastle University, which is leading the way in the development of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs) for efficacy and toxicity testing in the drug development sector.

Draper Esprit and the Earlybird Digital West partner group have entered into a Strategic Partnership Agreement to share dealflow, investment resources and expertise to coinvest together in high growth European technology companies.

easyCoffee’s plan to roll out 800 vending machines nationally in the next year have been given a boost following a £10 million investment by Stellar Asset Management. The UK’s only value coffee chain - part of the ‘easy’ family of brands that includes easyJet - has enjoyed rapid growth since it launched in 2016 and recently installed its 50^th vending machine in the market, matched by serving its millionth cup of coffee in its eight coffee stores.