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SyndicateRoom research has revealed that investors in early-stage equities have enjoyed a seventh consecutive year of 30% growth.

Venture Capital firm Hambro Perks has launched a new Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund, which for the first time will enable retail investors to invest alongside the Hambro Perks business.

East Kilbride based SHE Software has secured a £3 million growth capital investment from NVM Private Equity as it prepares to enter international markets with its highly configurable health and safety software and create over 50 new jobs by the end of 2018.

AJ Bell has launched an active management version of its Managed Portfolio Service for financial advisers. 

We Got POP, the London-based FilmTech startup, has completed a fundraising round of £2m.

This latest raise was led by Octopus Ventures with participation from AllBright, Booking.com co-founder Andy Phillipps, and former KKR Partner Henrik Kraft.

We Got POP will use the fund to continue to develop its tech solutions and further expand across US geographical film and TV production markets.

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Draper Esprit has co-led in a $12.3 million fund raising by Evonetix, a Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to enable scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis.

John Gilligan, a private equity and venture capital industry expert, has been appointed as Director of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford’s Finance Lab 

BlackCurve, which provides online retailers with advanced pricing tools to improve their revenue growth and profitability, has secured a seed investment of £500,000 from Mercia Fund Managers and software entrepreneur and investor, Nick Kingsbury.

Founded in 2016 by Charles and Philip Huthwaite, BlackCurve helps its clients find the optimal price for their goods and services through sophisticated pricing algorithms and machine learning.

This investment will be used to expand the company’s core team across sales, software development and data science. Alongside this, BlackCurve will continue to develop its underlying software to deliver even faster accessibility, improved analytics and further scale its client-base through strategic platform integrations.

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