Blackwood Seven, the Copenhagen based provider of real-time AI powered media planning software, today announces a fundraising round of €17 million to support expansion of the business across Europe, the US and Asia.

A revolutionary new wheelchair which is set to improve the lives of disabled people who need to go off-road, has secured a £25,000 loan from the Development Bank of Wales as working capital to meet order requirements from all over Europe.  Manufactured by Off-Road Engineering Limited, the ‘HexHog’ has been designed to bring together the functional attributes of a wheelchair and an all terrain vehicle (ATV). It features a flexible chassis, which keeps all six wheels in contact with the ground - even on the most rugged of terrain.

Barclays has launched a new £500m growth fund* for small and medium-sized businesses in the North of England as part of the bank’s commitment to support the Government’s Northern Powerhouse initiative. 

Companies in Northern Ireland (NI) raised £32.8m of equity capital in 2017 but are failing to attract larger rounds of investment, according to a new report released by Catalyst Inc.

HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and a joint initiative of Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIreland, today announces that its new London Syndicate plans to invest €3 million in Irish start-ups over the next three years. Earlier this year, HBAN partnered with the New York-based Digital Irish Angels (DIA) Syndicate, making the London Syndicate the second of HBAN’s international business angel groups. 

Hammersmith and Fulham is taking on the likes of Old Street, King’s Cross and Croydon as it establishes itself as London’s leading hub for tech, science and creative industries.

Proparco and FMO will provide the senior debt for the 51 MWp solar PV park. The project, majority-owned by Neoen alongside Rekamniar Frontier Ventures and MPC Caribbean Clean Energy Fund, will be commissioned in the first half of 2019.

IW Capital - the debt, equity and EIS investment specialist based in the heart of Mayfair - has announced its latest milestone of growth with the launch of its first secured debt fund.

Equipped with an impressive arsenal of global industry firsts, the P2P platform last year announced that it had surpassed a staggering £130m in global currency traded since its inception.

TxCell SA, a developer of cellular immunotherapies based on regulatory T cells (Tregs) for inflammation, autoimmunity and transplantation, and Lonza Pharma & Biotech, one of the world’s leading and most-trusted suppliers to the pharmaceutical, biotech and specialty ingredients markets, has announced entering into a Master Service Agreement for the manufacture of TxCell’s HLA-A2 CAR-Treg cellular product (TX200), which is in development for the prevention of chronic rejection after organ transplantation. 

One of the world’s largest independent financial services organisations has added Bitcoin Cash and EOS to its cryptocurrency exchange app, as a new global survey reveals that 35 per cent of wealthy investors will have exposure to cryptocurrencies by the end of 2018.

Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active SME investors has invested £750,000, as part of a £1m investment round, in Airtime Rewards Ltd.  Manchester based Airtime is an innovative digital customer loyalty programme which enables shoppers to be rewarded, with a unique reward currency, that can be converted into a monetary credit on their mobile phone account or for additional mobile data.