UKs leading entrepreneurs and business owners tell us the secrets of their business success
‘Farm to Fork’ healthy eating brand Mindful Chef overfunds by 250% with £1 million raised on Seedrs and adds triple grand slam winner Andy Murray, Olympian gold medallist Victoria Pendleton and rugby champion Will Greenwood to its growing list of high profile investors.
MarketInvoice has announced a £7.2 million investment led by MCI.TechVentures Fund of MCI Capital, a listed Polish private equity group.
Weed-killing robots and ultra-sensitive storage technology for UK apples to help food security and sustainability share bumper £16 million investment
Fertility app Natural Cycles has raised $6M Series A funding from Bonnier Media Growth and existing investors Sunstone and E-ventures to aid international expansion and perform new clinical studies.
Realla.co, a commercial property search engine and marketing automation business, has raised £1.5m from a group of property and technology investors led by Kirsh Family Office and Lloyd Dorfman’s Esselco Group.
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 – 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.
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 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, 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.
Blis, the global pioneer in advanced location data technology, has announced that it has secured $25 million in funding from major new investors Endeit Capital, Beringea US and Unilever Ventures, alongside additional credit facilities provided by Silicon Valley Bank.
Healthy ice cream brand Wheyhey, which boasts model David Gandy among their investors, is on course to achieve a successful venture capital round of up to $5m having secured a place in on the California-based Thrive accelerator for foodtech startups.
Airhop, the Bristol-based trampoline park operator, is ready to bounce towards growth with a £6m loan from Santander, which will see the company open 18 new venues across the UK and Europe.
A London start-up that sells mattresses in a compact box has raised cash from a clutch of high-profile entrepreneurs, including a co-founder of Innocent Drinks.
Digital Mums, an organisation that trains mums to be social media managers and work flexibly around family life, has secured an investment round worth £285,000.
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