Category: Success stories

Kabbee, the price comparison service for London’s best minicabs, has completed a £3.8m Series A funding round with a view to accelerating its growth in London led by Octopus Investments and Simon Dixon.

Duane Jackson got kicked out of school at 15 and, five years later, was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, for trafficking 6,500 ecstasy tablets, served two years in prison in the UK. “On his release, he found it hard to get a job because of this black hole on my CV,” So he launched the startup, called KashFlow. Now with revenues at around £2 million he has sold the company to the IRIS Software Group.

Original Dragons’ Den star Rachel Elnaugh has become the first crowdfunder to smash the target on the unique new platform launched by Angels Den.

London Business Angels investors, Angel CoFund, Rainbow Seed Fund and others invest in risk management solutions company

Dattch, currently one of 17 startups in the Wayra London incubator cohort, has just closed a £100,000 angel small seed round, with three angel investors — including Yannick Pons and Andy Phillips.

British education technology startup Flooved has completed its first significant round of funding from angel investors.

Front Up Rugby, a forward thinking and innovative menswear brand, have once again bypassed the banks and turned to the crowd to raise the money it requires to fund second stage growth.

High Performance Computing (HPC) Wales has announced six new funded PhD studentships in computational science at Welsh universities, taking the total inward investment attracted into Wales by the venture to £2 million.

Kevin McCloud, of Channel 4’s Grand Designs, has become the latest high-profile entrepreneur to turn to “crowdfunding” to raise money from private investors for his property business.

Glentham Capital – the newly formed film investment business of fund manager Nicola Horlick has reached it’s target of gaining £150,000 of seed capital, for a 10 per cent equity stake.

The private venture capital company, Audere Capital, has taken a significant minority stake in the PR and media engagement company Cake Communications.

London-based LIQUITY today announced that it has successfully closed its £150,000 SEIS-approved Founders’ Round in under two months.

A £10.5million deal has been announced which will accelerate growth and fund innovative new developments to its platform for marketers, according to email and SMS marketing experts, Pure360.