OurCrowd, a global leader in equity crowdfunding, today announced that it will invest $2.5m in Scopio Labs, a developer of an advanced digital microscopy and diagnostics platform. This is OurCrowd’s 23rd healthtech investment for a total of $80m, making it the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform for healthcare investments.

WiseAlpha has raised £626,760 on Crowdcube, the UK’s biggest crowd investment platform, in just 7 days, 125% over its original target.  430 investors have invested so far in return for 8.92% equity. The highest amount from a single investor was £150,000. WiseAlpha’s pitch remains open for investment for another 17 days.

Britain’s investors are increasingly focusing their attention on traditional asset classes such as property in the current political climate, according to new research by peer-to-peer lending platform Kuflink Ltd. 

Just two months after raising their latest round of funding, Sheffield startup Tutora are making waves yet again today as they celebrate ranking 77th on the Startups 100 List. 

Mark Brownridge, Director General of the EIS Association, discusses the Conservative election manifesto proposal for new Enterprise Investment Scheme incentives for digital businesses.

The Conservative Manifesto commits to “help innovators and startups, by encouraging early stage investment and considering further incentives under our world leading Enterprise Investment Scheme and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (page 78).  It also commits to “opeoffices of the British Business Bank in Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Manchester and Newport (page78).

David Mott, Managing Partner of EIS manager, Oxford Capital, commented on the proposals.

Mobeus announces the latest closing of Mobeus Equity Partners IV LP taking total commitments to over £140 million and expects to complete fundraising by the summer. Fund IV is Mobeus’s first institutional fund, and alongside Mobeus’s existing VCT business, brings the firm’s total Private Equity Funds under Management to £360 million.

Robocath, a medical robotics start-up that designs and develops innovative solutions for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, today announces the conclusion of a new round of fundraising worth €4.7 million ($5.2M) led by M Capital and Normandie Participations.

Fintech firm Growth Capital Ventures is set to help ambitious businesses in the North access capital to grow from a £57.5m investment fund.  GCV recently secured a £1.1m investment from Maven Capital Partners and is now working closely with Maven to help other high growth businesses access capital to grow.

IT recruitment platform talent.io is on the verge of further expansion after securing a major wave of investment into the business. Paris-based talent.io will press ahead with growth plans in France, Germany and the UK fresh from receiving a boost of €8m from two of its original financial backers Alven Capital and Ventech.

Sugru, the world’s first mouldable glue, closed its second successful crowdfunding campaign at the weekend after raising £2m from 2740 investors with leading equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube.

Private equity fundraising for investment into companies across Europe hit its highest level since 2008 last year at €74.5 billion, a 37% year-on-year increase, according to new data released today by Invest Europe.

The full report is free to download from its website, investeurope.eu.