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Mobeus Equity Partners has led a £3.8 million funding round for SuperCarers, an online platform that’s addressing the acute UK care crisis. SuperCarers connects people seeking at-home care with experienced, independent carers. Mobeus provided £2.1 million of development capital, alongside other investors, including JamJar Investments and Seneca Partners.

IW Capital has completed its latest deal with Elevation Financial Group, an independent financial advisory firm.

Research from the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) using Morningstar data shows which investment companies have performed best if you’d invested the maximum ISA limit on a lump sum basis annually, since the launch of ISAs.

Sheffield-headquartered Independent Forgings & Alloys, one of Britain’s leading independent aerospace and industrial forgers, has received an £8.5m capital investment from BGF to support its growth plans. The funding will help fuel a number of investment initiatives designed to enhance IFA’s manufacturing and testing capabilities, delivering new commercial opportunities.

Cardiff-based Simply Do Ideas, the education technology firm that helps people build and test their ideas, has raised £550,000 in its latest funding round. The money was secured from angel investors led by the company’s Chairman, Ashley Cooper, alongside the Development Bank of Wales. 

Streetbees, a global research platform that is being used by the world’s biggest consumer companies, has raised $5.1 million in Seed funding to date. BGF Ventures led the round and early investors including UKBAA Member Octopus Ventures and LocalGlobe also participated.

Hummingbird Technologies, the UK’s leading drone and satellite enabled data and imagery analytics business for precision agriculture, has announced the completion of a £3 million fund raise, taking its total funding to over £4m. Its backers include The European Space Agency, Sir James Dyson, Newable Private Investing and Velcourt, the UK’s largest commercial farming operation.

The G20 must work towards an agreement to adopt common regulations for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, says the boss of deVere, one of the world’s leading independent financial services organisations.

Gorilla in the room, a developer of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) products for the market research industry has secured a seed investment from Mercia Fund Managers to scale the company’s product pipeline and support its international growth.

Founded in 2016, Gorilla in the room provide researchers with the tools they need to acquire more robust data to predict why and how consumers buy products. The company won the Market Research Society’s “Best Data Solution 2017” for its approach and it currently works with a number of high-profile clients including Ipsos, one of the largest market research organisations in the world, and agencies within multinational advertising group WPP.

CoInvestor Connect, CoInvestor’s alternative asset investment platform for sophisticated private investors, has expanded its offering with the addition of private equity funds to the platform.

CoInvestor has continually strengthened its offering since its inception in 2016, transforming the management of alternative assets by di

NVM Private Equity has invested £3 million of growth capital into Maidenhead-based branded food business The Primal Pantry.  With a vision to be a leading and trusted real food brand, the investment will be targeted at growing retail distribution and in-store visibility along with driving brand awareness through consumer marketing channels.