22 March

Oxford University Innovation (OUI), the research commercialisation company of Oxford University, has named its new Chief Operating Officer. Dr Adam Stoten, the current Head of Technology Transfer Life Sciences at OUI, will be taking up the newly created position from 1^st April 2017. 

22 March 

Capital Cell’s crowdfunding campaign - Bionure - overfunds with more than €1M and becomes Spain’s largest ever life science equity crowdfunding campaign.  Following the success of Capital Cell in Spain, the company is currently in the pre-launch phase of expanding into the UK market.

22 March 

​Elvie,​ the female-led British company dedicated to developing smarter technology for women’s health and lifestyle, announces today that it has raised £5 million from ​Octopus Ventures and with a participation from female focused VC AllBright​. 

22 March

Goji today announces the launch of the UK’s first diversified peer-to-peer lending proposition, opening access for financial advisers and wealth managers to the fast-growing and attractive P2P and direct lending market.

21 March 

Archangels, has appointed Shaolei McKie as its Investment Executive. Shaolei will support Archangels’ executive team in undertaking due diligence, business performance analysis, legal and investor liaison both for Archangels’ existing portfolio of investee companies and for new investment opportunities.

21 March

The money raised from Draper Esprit will fast-track RavenPack’s mission to transform the way investors gain insights from unstructured data. International investment banking firm EOC Partners acted as advisor to RavenPack on the transaction.

21 March 

French-American start-up Akeneo has raised £10,5 million from Partech and Alven Capital. Akeneo is the leading provider of open-source product information management (PIM) software, a resource that is becoming increasingly important for companies competing in e-commerce. 

21 March 

BrainWaveBank has secured funding from Angel CoFund, techstart NI, Innovate UK and Invest Northern Ireland totalling just over £1m. The majority of the funding is equity-based, with Innovate UK and Invest Northern Ireland providing grant support via their much-coveted innovative R&D schemes.

21 March 

HNW Lending, an alternative lender that provides individual loans of between £50,000 and £1million to borrowers against their valuable assets, has received FCA approval to offer Innovative Finance ISAs (IFISA), with minimum investments of £5,000 per loan.  

20 March 

BGF has backed Sentric Music with an initial investment of £3 million to help accelerate the publisher’s international expansion plans, as well as forming a strategic partnership to fund future acquisitions.

20 March 

Business Durham has appointed Maven Capital Partners as Fund Manager for its Finance Durham LP, the £20m investment fund set up to help businesses located in County Durham. FDLP will commence the investment process from May 2017. 

20 March 

MarketInvoice, the world’s largest peer-to-peer invoice finance platform, has today announced the appointment of Giles Andrews as chairman of the board of directors. He will work directly with co-founders Anil Stocker and Ilya Kondrashov to drive scale in the business as well as chairing and managing the board of directors.