Digital health startup, Feel, closes £4.5m to clean up the “dirty” nutritional supplement market The health and nutrition company is disrupting the £144bn global market with 60x growth 20 April 2021: Increasingly health-conscious consumers spend £442million a year on nutritional supplements, oblivious to falling foul of poor quality, ineffective nutrients. Feel, the UK-based digital health […]Read More
Odore raises $830k to transform beauty marketing Tuesday 20th April 2021 Odore, the beauty tech start-up working with global brands including Guerlain, Clive Christian and L’Oréal has raised $830k to revolutionise how cosmetics and beauty businesses market their products to consumers. The round was led by SFC Capital and joined by RLC Ventures. Launched by […]Read More
Payhawk raises $20m from Klarna backers QED Investors Payhawk, the platform that unifies all company payments and expense management, closes $20 million Series A financing round, 12 months after raising its seed round. The round is led by QED Investors – a fund that has invested in 18 fintech unicorns including Klarna & Nubank – […]Read More
Goldman Sachs invests £50m in Starling Bank London, 19 April 2021: Starling, the leading UK digital bank, today announces a £50 million investment by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (“Goldman Sachs”). The investment is an extension of the bank’s oversubscribed £272 million Series D funding round announced in March 2021, which valued it in excess of […]Read More
Tees Valley haulage recruitment firm raises £300k to drive growth A recruitment platform which allows haulage operators to reduce costs has raised a further £300,000 to support its expansion plans. Avail Technologies has secured funding from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, and directors […]Read More
UK BNPL Zilch closes $80M Series B as it eyes launch in the USA and Europe First and only UK FCA regulated BNPL has raised a total of $120M after 2019 launch and is now valued at over $500M. Fintech to expand team by 100 & invest in US presence in anticipation of expansion London, […]Read More
Multiplayer Entertainment Platform SharedPlay Raises £1.65M to Make Gaming Social SharedPlay, the home for multiplayer entertainment experiences for the online gaming community, has raised £1.65M in a pre seed round. The proprietary tech platform is being built out by a world class tech team based in both London and Warsaw, Poland. With Forbes calling video games […]Read More
On-Demand Grocery Business Secures £4.5m Investment Beelivery, the UK’s leading on-demand grocery delivery business is further strengthening its position as the market leader in the grocery delivery sector after securing a significant £4.5m investment. The investment will be provided by UKTV Ventures, and GreenBank Capital Inc, a merchant banking business listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange. […]Read More
OCADO INVESTS IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SOFTWARE COMPANY OXBOTICA; ANNOUNCES PLANS TO DEVELOP A RANGE OF VEHICLES THAT WILL BE INTEGRATED INTO THE OCADO SMART PLATFORM. London, 16 April 2021: Ocado Group plc (“Ocado”), the leading online grocery platform and solutions provider, today announces that it has commercially partnered with Oxbotica Ltd. (“Oxbotica”), headquartered in Oxford. The […]Read More
QLM Announces Successful Completion of Seed Round of Funding Following being named among the twelve 2021 BNEF Pioneers last week1, identifying it as one of the most impactful and original technology innovations for advancing the low-carbon economy, QLM is pleased to announce the close of its Seed funding round, securing a total of £3.1 million of investment. The investment is […]Read More