Bolt Mobility, the ‘Tesla on two wheels’, has today closed it’s oversubscribed (by over 200%) fundraising campaign, which raised over €3 million on equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs. The European startup is on a mission to take petrol-guzzling, environmentally harmful scooters off the road, permanently. 

More than a third of UK companies (35%) with fewer than 250 employees are changing their business strategy as a result of Brexit, according to new research from Albion Capital, the independent investment manager.

The Law Society, the representative body for solicitors in England and Wales, has partnered with Seedrs, the most active investor into UK private companies, to connect its members with innovative legaltech startups looking for investment

Tifosy, the world’s first and only fully licensed sports crowdfunding business, has successfully raised £1m equity through its own platform. More than 10,000 fans have already invested through the platform and Tifosy has worked with more than 15 clubs in England and Italy. Now, it is now scaling up to extend its operations across other European markets and into other sports, including rugby and cricket.

BotSkill has secured a £250,000 investment led by the British Robotics Seed Fund (BRSF). The investment is the second in an ongoing series that have been made into UK’s robotics-focussed start-ups by the fund.

Chris Hulatt and Simon Rogerson, Co-Founders of London-based Octopus Group, were named ‘EY Entrepreneur Of The Year UK 2017 overall winner’ at an awards ceremony in London last night.

The winners of the BVCA Responsible Investment Awards 2017 were announced today at the BVCA Summit in London as we celebrated the outstanding Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance practices within the private equity and venture capital community.

SyndicateRoom has supported Warwick Audio in a £2.2m funding round, as part of a larger financing activity bringing in more than £3m to the company. The funds will support Warwick Audio as it prepares to push its patented technology into the automotive market. The round was backed by leading private investment firm, Mercia Technologies.

IW Capital has announced the launch of its series B investment round for one of the UK’s leading fintech scale-ups -WeSwap.  The funding will enable the company’s expansion into the Asian market, in addition to a host of new products including a corporate offering for 2018.

Albion Capital Group announces the sale of its stake in Hilson Moran Holdings Limited, a leading engineering services group in the UK and Middle East, to Tyrens AB, a Swedish technical consultancy, generating a 3x return and 43% IRR.

Intertrust; a leading global provider of high-value fund, trust and corporate services, has been appointed as fund administrator to the UK’s first female founded, specialist private equity firm, Vaultier7 (V7). 

YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has tappointed Steve Harrison as Portfolio Director. Based in the Leeds office, Steve will be focussed on actively managing YFM’s growth and buy-out investments as part of the portfolio team led by David Bell. With over 19 years’ industry experience, Steve joins from Santander Corporate Bank, where he was a Director in Santander’s Growth Capital team for five years.