Credit Kudos, challenger credit bureau and leader in commercial applications of Open Banking, announced today they have raised £2.2m in their latest round of funding. Funding is led by Ascension Ventures, through its social impact fund Fair by Design, with additional investment from existing investors NFT Ventures and Entrepreneur First’s Next Stage Fund. New backers […]Read More
Tidal energy company Sustainable Marine Energy Limited (SME) has secured equity investment totalling £3.46 million to further develop its PLAT-I tidal energy platform system. The Edinburgh-based business has closed its latest funding round, to which the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB) has committed £1m on behalf of the Scottish Government via the latter’s Energy Investment Fund […]Read More
Portfolio company Cytora, that has developed an AI-powered solution for commercial insurance underwriting, has raised £25 million in a Series B round. New investorEQT Ventures led the round with Parkwalk, Cambridge Innovation Capital and a number of others investors participating. A spin-out of the University of Cambridge, Cytora was founded in 2014 and launched its first product in late […]Read More
Touch Biometrix, the disruptive fingerprint technology company, has received a £2million investment from Deepbridge Capital. The Series A funding through the Deepbridge Technology Growth Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund follows initial seed funding of £150,000 last year. Touch Biometrix is developing a new class of fingerprint sensor for application to consumer electronics such as smartphones […]Read More
April 15, 2019 b Funding round led by signals Venture Capital, with other investors including Talis Capital, Mutschler Ventures, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft and prior backer Cavalry Ventures Announcement signals rapid expansion of ground-breaking, end-to-end digital patient care platform 30,000 Britons have already used new service to navigate their treatment journey, as founders on target to attract […]Read More
London, 15 April 2019 – Insurdata, the award-winning insurtech firm which specialises in the augmentation of peril-specific exposure and risk data via its Exposure Engine Platform, has today announced that it has secured $3 million from a group of investors, led by Anthemis and Menlo Ventures. Funding led by Anthemis and Menlo Ventures Five new VC […]Read More
April 11, 2019 Shedul.com, the world’s fastest growing booking platform for salons and spas, announced today a Series B investment of $20 million, valuing the company at $105 million. The round was led by Partech, an investment firm with hubs in Paris, San Francisco, and Berlin, along with participation from Berlin-based Target Global, Dubai-based BECO Capital, […]Read More
New round led by private and institutional investors including Horizons Labs, TechNexus, and Associated Press London (April 11, 2019) – Trint, the leading automated transcription and editing platform that counts some of the world’s largest media organizations — including The Associated Press, Vice News, The Washington Post, and Der Spiegel — among its enterprise clients, […]Read More
LONDON, UK. – April 11, 2019 – Today, PixelPin, a UK start-up that uses image-based authentication to replace passwords with pictures, has announced it has closed a £1.5M Pre-Series A funding round. The round was led by SBI Investment, a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, which is the biggest internet financial group in Japan known as the formerly SoftBank Investment. SBI […]Read More
April 10, 2019 Verv, the Google-mentored start-up behind a cutting-edge smart energy hub and green electricity sharing platform, today announced that it has raised over £6.5 million in its Series A round led by environmental fund Earthworm. Earthworm has invested £5 million in Verv’s pioneering IoT and renewable energy trading technology that could drive down […]Read More