After an extensive three month nationwide search, 20,000 registrations, 750,000 votes, a 29 hour pitchathon and a two minute final pitch MacRebur and bio-bean are named winners of the Virgin Media Business ‘VOOM 2016’ entrepreneur competition.
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New drink on the block wins £50,000 Crowdfunder Award with VOOM 2016
Start-up business, What A Melon, watermelon water, has won £50,000 and the prestigious Crowdfunder Award after taking part in the UK and Ireland’s largest business competition, VOOM 2016.
European Investment Bank & Funding Circle announce groundbreaking £100m investment into UK SMEs
The European Investment Bank today agreed a £100 million investment in loans to UK small businesses originated through Funding Circle. This investment, alongside £25 million from the Funding Circle SME Income Fund, will enable over £200 million of new loans over 7 years, and provides a further injection of much-needed funding into the UK small business sector.
Andy Murray continues his support of British startups
Tennis champion, world number two Andy Murray announced today that he has made three further investments in British start-ups on the UK’s most active equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs.
UK startup attracts $7.5m in seed from Silicon Valley to shake up SMEs’ people management
A new startup looking to shake up the way businesses manage their people has secured $7.5m in one of UK’s largest ever seed rounds. Launching today on an invite-only basis, hibob is a premium, cloud-based system that securely stores all the people data in a business, presenting it in an easy to use platform and enabling instant data visualisation.
goHenry breaks Crowdcube record with £3.99 million funding
goHenry – a digital banking solution that aims to make kids smarter at managing money than their parents has raised £3.99 million on the world’s first and most successful investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, making it the largest crowdfunded deal on the platform to date.
Plumen to crowdfund lights that benefit your health
Plumen, creator of the world’s first premium low energy light bulb, today launches its first ever equity raise on Crowdcube, the world’s most successful investment crowdfunding platform.
8 steps to getting the right PE investor
If a business is seeking funding – perhaps, for example, it’s appropriate for new or existing management to acquire the business, or perhaps some existing shareholder(s) want to exit – private equity funding should be considered.
BrickVest fulfils user demand for ‘Proptech’ services
BrickVest, the online pan-European real estate investment platform, is announcing it has raised £1 million, closing two oversubscribed investments two months after launch.
DevicePilot closes successful £600k Angel round
DevicePilot has announced the successful completion of its Angel fund-raising round, securing investment of over £600k and reflecting the growing interest from investors in the Internet of Things (IoT) market.
Accomable, the ‘Airbnb for the disabled’, raises record seed round
Accomable, a London-based travel tech startup, which helps disabled and elderly people find adapted hotels and holiday rentals, has raised £300,000 in seed funding – the highest amount ever raised by a business of its kind to date.
Zenos Cars launches £750,000 funding round with Seedrs
Seedrs has announced that it has been selected by innovative sports car manufacturer Zenos Cars for its planned £750,000 funding round.
London set to get its own Silicon Valley tech start-up campus
Silicon Valley-based start-up office provider, RocketSpace, has announced plans to open a ‘state-of-the-art’ campus in London designed specifically for high-growth technology start-ups.
Topshop launches competition to find UKs best wearable tech
British fashion retailer Topshop has announced the launch of ‘Top Pitch’, a start-up accelerator programme for wearable technologies, in collaboration with early-stage investor L Marks.
Backed VC launches community-driven pan-European seed fund
Today marks the public launch of Backed VC, a new 30m EUR pan-European seed-stage fund, whose mission is to be the most collaborative, community-driven fund in Europe.
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