The CEO of Midland-based CorrosionRADAR is a finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year at the first ever English Women’s Awards 2018.

BGF has appointed Sophie Birch to its Talent Network team, which helps BGF-backed companies gain unparalleled access to a group of more than 5,000 board-level non-executives, business leaders and sector expert

Labstep, the platform for researchers that captures real-time scientific data and connects lab groups enabling information sharing and reproducibility, announces today that it has raised £1 Million from angel investors. The company will use the funds to double its team to 12, launch a marketplace for lab supplies and add features that streamline how scientists will outsource elements of their research. 

Tuesday 19th June saw over 300 leading entrepreneurs and early-stage business investors gather at the stunning Liverpool Cathedral UK Business Angels Association’s annual UK Angel Investment Awards 2018.

Jenny Tooth, CEO of UKBAA presented the awards, they recognise outstanding achievement, identifying some of the most innovative and disruptive businesses across the UK; and the angel and early-stage investors that have backed them. We received nearly 300 nominations which was a record for the UKBAA Awards , so it was very challenging for our 24 expert judges to make their decision.

A  highways technology company which has amassed a huge library of data about the UK’s road network has secured a £2.7m investment from BGF to further expand its ground-breaking ‘roadscape’ services.

Gaist captures and analyses continuous, high-definition imagery – 900 times the detail of Google Maps – about road conditions and the highways network. The company has developed this into revolutionary and IP-rich proprietary software, which can be imported into the asset management systems of highways network operators, local authorities, mapping companies, major utilities and other blue-chip firm.

Live Better With, a healthcare e-commerce platform founded by entrepreneur Tamara Rajah with the aim of helping people with long-term medical conditions, has secured significant new funding to expand its online marketplace and scale up its team. 

AdoRx Therapeutics, a UK based drug discovery company focused on the identification of new cancer therapeutics, today announced that it has closed an initial $10 million investment round financed by Epidarex Capital and CRT Pioneer Fund (‘CPF’).

The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association has commissioned a new nationwide sentiment study to analyse those that constitute the future of the UK workforce - charged with picking up the post-Brexit pieces and driving an EU-free private sector forward. 

Business owners are being supplied with useful advice in order to help them keep the stress of relocating their business to a minimum.

BGF has invested £3m of growth capital into Cardiff-headquartered DevOpsGroup, a UK professional services company specialising in DevOps engineering consultancy and training. This deal represents BGF’s first investment in Wales since it announced the launch of its Cardiff office earlier this year. 

Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate, has been recognised as the UK’s Lead Angel Investment Syndicate of the Year by the UK Business Angels Association. T

he accolade follows a record year of investment for the world’s oldest business angel syndicate in 2017/18, during which it led with £11.2m of investment from its own members, supplemented by a further £6.8m of cash from co-investors, including Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scotland’s main economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise. 

Rcapital has supported the MBO of CHS Engineering Services Limited from its former private equity investor.  CHS Engineering Services is a specialist engineering consultancy focussing principally on servicing clients in the aviation sector.