Nossa Data, the fintech start-up that is helping corporates to streamline their ESG reporting, has raised a £1.2m seed round led by Symvan Capital and BGF. The round also brings in prominent angel investors as well as follow-on funding from SFC Capital and Techstars. 

tell.money, the fintech platform that delivers innovative and rapidly deployable Open Banking solutions for banks and other account providers, has closed its growth funding round of £2m.

The One Planet Pizza team first pitched to the Anglia Capital Group Angels in January 2021 and immediately impressed with their big personalities, delicious pizzas and solid business plan. They were successful again in March this year, once again securing equity funding as part of their next fundraising round.  

A record £1.3bn value in UK agri-tech deals was reached in 2021*, showing sustained interest in technologies that offer solutions to the challenges of rising input costs, food security and environmental impacts. Behind the headlines is a strong pipeline of early-stage companies considering the best strategy for investment and the growing number of options for accessing and structuring funding.

Tim Mills, Managing Partner of ACF Investors, about the ups and downs of angel investing and the important role that angels continue to play in backing and nuturing exciting young businesses.

Quin AI, a predictive AI startup founded by two sisters, Gonca Gulser and Gulsah Gulser, has raised £582K funding led by SFC Capital and with participation from NCA, Logo Ventures, and StartersHub. The fund has been raised to scale Quin AI’s activities in the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as further innovations in AI for creating intelligent applications.

Bluezone, an insurtech reinventing life insurance for people with chronic illnesses has announced a £1.5m seed round led by Insurtech Gateway and AV8 Ventures. Oxford Capital, Portfolio Ventures and impactful angel investors including former CEO of AXA, Chief Transformation Officer Aegon Group, former Chairman of NHS England and a leading Fintech angel also participated in the round.

Oliver Woolley of Envestors makes the case for becoming an angel investor and why now is a good time to jump into the pool.

Data suggests Brits are resigning at the highest rate since 2009; it’s been dubbed ‘The Great Resignation’

Panthera Biosciences (Panthera) has secured £10 million of investment from BGF and Gresham House Ventures.

MitoRx Therapeutics secures investment from Science Angel Syndicate to develop its first-in-class therapeutics that target dysfunctional sulfide-signalling in mitochondria to halt the progress of degenerative diseases.

Science Angel Syndicate (SAS) was launched in September 2021 to supportinvestments into frontier scientific discoveries that impact society on a global scale. Leveraging their unique due diligence capabilities they have supported SAS investors to make an investment into MitoRx Therapeutics. 

Science Angel Syndicate co-founders, Dr Ben Miles and Dr Johnathan Matlock will be joining the Advisory Board of Elbow Beach Capital as part of a collaboration agreement.

SFC Capital is calling for urgent action to reinvigorate seed-stage investment and help secure the next generation of innovative businesses emerging across the UK, with SEIS at risk of becoming redundant as a funding mechanism due to startups’ growing funding needs and the impact of inflation.