Foresight has invested several million pounds into PowerLinks Media Limited.  

Seedrs has closed the first trading cycle that has been open to all investors on it’s pioneering Secondary Market. The London-based early stage equity investment platform launched its secondary market in June 2017 and last week announced the next advancement which allows all investors, whether previous shareholders or not, to buy shares on the market.

The Centre for Entrepreneurs (CFE) has analysed Companies House data which shows that 589,008 new businesses launched in 2017 – a drop from 657,790 in 2016.

Finnish fintech company Zervant, which provides online invoicing software for small business and entrepreneurs across Europe, has announced €6 million in funding. The investment was led by Tesi, along with Northzone, NFT Ventures and Conor Venture Partners. 

Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, is backing the buy-out of ASK4 Limited, the fast-growing internet solutions provider.  

The lazy man’s analysis of European culture goes something like this.

The EISA recently commissioned a nationally representative survey to identify what is causing such a shortage of women across the UK’s financial landscape.

BGF has opened a permanent office in Belfast to help it build even closer connections to businesses and advisors in Northern Ireland and drive further investment.

3 Years, 100 Investments, over £100m raised, nearly 1,000 jobs created 

According to PitchBook, these are the 11 most active backers in European machine learning and AI startups since 2015.

Bodle Technologies is aiming to transform how and where we interact with displays after attracting £6m in Series A funding.

The Week That Was is released every week by OFF3R. At OFF3R you can compare investments from leading equity crowdfunding and peer to peer lending sites through to robo-advisors and stocks and shares ISAs.

Turbulent markets shock investors, a successful SpaceX rocket launch & Seedrs’ opens up its secondary market to all investors.