Oxbotica secures £34.45 million Series B investment led by bp
- 6 January 2021
OXBOTICA RAISES $47 MILLION TO DEPLOY AUTONOMY SOFTWARE PLATFORM AROUND THE WORLD Oxbotica raises $47 million cementing its position as a global leader in autonomous vehicle softwareInvestment raised from across the globe including Australia, China, UK, and the USA with bp ventures a lead investorOxbotica demonstrates the commercial viability of its universal autonomy software platform, deploying in industries today London, UK, Wednesday 6th January 2021: Oxbotica, a global leader in autonomous vehicle software, has announced the completion of a $47 million Series B investment with partners across the globe led by bp ventures. The funding will accelerate Oxbotica’s commercial deployment of
read morePeptone secures £1.84 million Seed investment led by Hoxton Ventures
- 8 January 2021
Peptone’s protein engineering operating system which speeds up medicine development secures $2.5m investment 8 January 2021, London, UK: In a year that has seen scientists heralded as heroes and the future of protein-based medicine has sat at the coalface of a pandemic, one startup is looking to increase the pharmaceutical industry’s chances of developing future medicines quicker than ever before. Peptone, the computational physics company, has built the world’s first protein engineering operating system and, thanks to $2.5 million seed round led by Hoxton Ventures and supported by dRx Capital, a venture arm of Novartis Pharma AG, Founders Factory and
read moreHero Wellbeing secures £825k Seed investment from Mercia
- 21 December 2020
Digital wellbeing company set for healthy future as it raises £825k A healthtech platform has raised £825,000 investment from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, to support its continued growth. The funding will allow hero to further enhance its software platform and develop its marketing strategy. The Leeds-based company helps organisations to deliver tailored health and wellbeing programs and offers services ranging from coaching and training to medical screening and health and nutrition advice. What makes hero unique is its Navigator platform, which can track the impact of different wellbeing
read moreKinomica secures £3.9 million Seed investment led by BGF and
- 17 December 2020
KINOMICA SECURES £3.9M INVESTMENT FOR PIONEERING CELL SIGNALLING TECHNOLOGY TO AID PRECISION MEDICINE DEVELOPMENT The deal cements the business’ ambition to become a world-leader in cell signalling bioinformatics by 2022 Proteomic-data science and diagnostics company, Kinomica, has secured £3.9m in funding for pioneering technology that could prove integral to the development of new drug treatments. KScan™, a next-generation biomarker and molecular diagnostics platform, has been designed to aid the development of kinase inhibitor drugs for treating cancer patients and other conditions. It can be utilised at every stage of the drug development process; from generating novel drug targets, to investigating
read moreGraphcore secures £164 million Series E investment led by Ontario
- 29 December 2020
We’re delighted to announce that Graphcore has raised $222m of investment to help support the company’s continued global expansion and further accelerate future IPU silicon, systems and software development. The Series E funding round is led by Ontario Teachers’ Pensions Plan Board and adds funds managed by Fidelity International and Schroders as new investors. Also participating in this round are existing Graphcore investors, including Baillie Gifford and Draper Esprit. Get Deal News in your inbox every Monday This investment brings the total funds raised by Graphcore to more than $710 million, with the company expecting to have over $440 million of cash on hand post-closing to support future growth.
read moreGreenback Recycling Technologies secures £8 Series A investment
- 17 December 2020
Greenback Recycling Technologies closes £8m series A and convertible loan financing round The funding will enable Greenback to further develop its ecoVeritas certification, data and compliance systems. The successful series A financing of £3.6m was led by a consortium of private investors, with an additional £4.3m in convertible loans provided by investors including the UK government. Greenback has had a successful first full year of operations, including acquiring leading packaging compliance company ecoVeritas and investing in advanced recycling company Enval. LONDON, UK — Greenback Recycling Technologies, an advanced recycling technology company focused on creating certified circular solutions for packaging waste,
read moreEartex (t/a Eave) secures £2 million Series A investment from
- 27 October 2020
Eave raises £2m to improve noise protection standard for construction workers Tech startup which has already succeeded in disrupting construction health and safety market with its hearing protection system secures Series A investment from Pembroke VCT LONDON: Eave, a UK-based tech startup which has developed a unique hearing protection system for construction workers, has secured a £2m investment from Pembroke VCT. Eave is already supplying many of the biggest construction companies in the UK—including Galliford Try Highways, Costain-Skanska Joint Venture, Ferrovial, VolkerLaser, Skanska-Costain-Strabag, and BAM Nuttall—and plans to use Pembroke’s investment to accelerate its growth and international expansion through 2021. Eave’s
read moreSmartify CIC secures £1 million Seed investment from Pembroke VCT
- 11 November 2020
Pembroke VCT invests £1 million into Smartify to deliver virtual arts education and expand global partnerships Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on building the brands of tomorrow, has made an initial investment of £1 million into Smartify, the app named by New Scientist as the ‘Shazam and Spotify for art’. Smartify, founded in 2015 by four friends; Anna Lowe, Thanos Kokkiniotis, Nick Mueller and Ron Rijmoet, helps people make meaningful connections with art whilst providing museums with next generation digital technology. Partnering with over 160 museums worldwide, the app instantly identifies two million digitised artworks and has achieved the status of the
read moreeSwapp secures £350k Pre-Seed investment
- 4 November 2020
eSwapp raises £350,000 pre-seed round for its AI-powered skill swapping and data platform eSwapp, a London based startup with a Machine Learning-powered platform for colleagues to swap skills and for organisations to gain data insights into skill demands, has recently raised £350,000 from a private angel investor. 20 years ago, so many of our favourite brands were born in a founder’s garage. These days, brands often find their beginnings in a coffee shop. For eSwapp, this couldn’t be more true. Uyen Ngo, a former marketer for multinationals such as Danone and GlaxoSmithKline, loved her morning fuel so much, she wanted
read moreInformation Grid (t/a Infogrid) secures £11.6 million Series A led
- 1 December 2020
Infogrid raises $15.5m to make any building smart, reducing costs while benefiting the environment Rapidly growing Infogrid will use the funding to accelerate expansion - particularly across the US London, 1 December: Infogrid, the artificial intelligence technology company that automates facilities management and makes any building smart, has raised $15.5m Series A funding from a combination of UK and US investors. The round was led by Northzone with participation from JLL Spark, Concrete VC, The Venture Collective, Jigsaw VC, a leading global real estate investment group, and a large international asset owner. The funding will be used to accelerate Infogrid’s
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