AntennaWare, a wearable technology company based in Belfast has secured £300,000 following a successful seed funding round led by QUBIS and Techstart Ventures as part of Invest Northern Ireland’s Access to Finance fund. AntennaWare was founded in 2020 as a spin-out from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) addresses the need for dedicated, high-performance antenna solutions for wearables, […]Read More
loyalBe raises $1m for its open banking loyalty platform Leading on from an exciting partnership with Visa, Belfast-based fintech company, loyalBe, has secured $1m investment in an oversubscribed investment round led by Techstart Ventures with support from and Clarendon Fund Managers and angels. The company plans to use the funds to expand into the Irish […]Read More
Tradefeedr completes successful fund-raising round, with backing from IPGL • Group raises $3 million to finance growth and development • IPGL, the private investment company run by Michael Spencer, founder and former CEO of ICAP and NEX, becomes cornerstone investor • Seth Johnson, former CEO of NEX Markets and CME Cash Markets, also backs funding […]Read More
Bowmark Capital backs buy-out of Totalmobile Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has backed the buy-out of Totalmobile, the UK’s leading independent Field Service Management software provider. Totalmobile has over 700 customers and 250,000 mobile-workforce users across the public services (government, local authorities, health and emergency services), property, facilities management, transport and infrastructure sectors. […]Read More
15 September 2020 Kernel Capital are pleased to confirm that it has increased its investment in B-Secur Ltd, a Belfast-based Health Tech Company to £1.45M. Existing co-investors Accelerated Digital Ventures, Wharton Asset Management and new investors Clarendon Fund Managers have also participated in the latest investment round which completed in August 2020. B-Secur has […]Read More
Automated lip-reading company Liopa gains Future Fund support for innovation Belfast start-up Liopa is among the first Northern Irish companies to receive Future Fund support for its development of automated lip-reading technology. Belfast-based start-up Liopa, a spin-out from Queen’s University Belfast and The Centre for Security Technologies (CSIT) has received significant investment for its research in automated lip reading technology. Investment in […]Read More
July 20, 2020 Health tech company Neurovalens raises more than £5 million to advance medical device approvals of its neurostimulation technology Northern Ireland founded scale-up business aims to treat conditions including diabetes, insomnia, anxiety and obesity Neurovalens, a global healthtech company headquartered in Belfast and San Diego, has raised £5.1 million in funding, which will be […]Read More
Green Angel Syndicate closes deal with Belfast green-tech company StormHarvester in €2 million new investment 22 July 2020 Belfast-headquartered green technology firm StormHarvester is announcing the conclusion of a €2 million investment round, and is today launching a major new recruitment drive. The new investment will allow StormHarvester to accelerate the international roll-out of its […]Read More
BrainWaveBank, an AI startup focused on developing a neurocognitive platform for in-home assessment and remote monitoring of central nervous system disorders, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, and psychiatric conditions such as depression, today announced the closing of a €1.2 million financing round led by Par Equity and supported by Techstart Ventures, Co-Fund II, Angel CoFund, and British […]Read More
Belfast-based Cloudsmith raises £2.1m seed to launch first universal artifact caching service for software developers Belfast-based tech firm Cloudsmith has closed an equity investment round of £2.1m.The round was led by Frontline Ventures and co-investors MMC Ventures, and locally by Techstart Ventures through its Invest NI fund, Techstart. Cloudsmith’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offers an advanced logistics […]Read More