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Lifted Ventures spearheads North of England as gender-smart investment capital of the UK. Lifted Ventures is proudly celebrating its first year of activity, working to proclaim the North of England as the go-to destination for female-founded businesses seeking funding. Established in September 2023 and officially launching in January 2024 ...
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23rd February 2024. Entrepreneurs raise £350k for coffee cup re-use system. A café operator who set out to find an alternative to single-use coffee cups has helped to develop a new re-use system that claims to be the most simple and cost-effective to date.
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Apr 4, 2023 · FRANCE: Fungiball, the revolutionary fantasy tennis platform, has announced a €2.2 million PreSeed funding round, by a combination of private business angels including Adrien Dassault and Stephan Altmuller, with additional support from Cliff Capital and BPI France. The funds will be used to grow the tech team to scale the platform and enhance ...
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Green Angel Ventures backs carbon fibre recycling company Lineat. Green Angel Ventures has made a new investment in Lineat, an innovative sustainable technology in the carbon fibre composite market, as part of a £1.4 million equity raise, with additional investment from the Development Bank of Wales. Lineat is pioneering an award-winning ...
AllFocal gets $5m for optical tech that recreates human vision
5 days ago · AllFocal Optics, the deeptech startup pioneering nanophotonic lens technology for always-in-focus images, has raised fresh $5.3million funding, comprised of a $3.6million (£2.8m) equity raise, led by SpeedInvest, Innovate UK grants and business angels. The new investment, combined with trials with Jaguar Land Rover, the addition of tech veteran Dr Ash Salusbury means AllFocal Optics is on ...
Midven and 51% Club unlock £2m to fuel female entrepreneurship
5 days ago · Birmingham-based venture capital firm Midven, in partnership with The 51% Club, has announced a new initiative that's set to nurture the next wave of high-growth female-led startups. The Fortuna Fellowship is a first-of-its-kind accelerator and will see up to five female-led ventures potentially secure a share of £2 million investment. This groundbreaking initiative has been designed to find ...
Prosper smashes Crowdfunding target raising over £1m - Angel …
Dec 15, 2023 · Wealthtech platform Prosper has closed its first crowdfunding campaign, raising over £1 million and topping up the £3.2m already raised from investors including Monzo’s co-founder Tom Blomfield, Capital One’s co-founder Matt Cooper, and many other high-profile fintech angels. Prosper was founded by fintech entrepreneurs Ricky Knox, Nick Perrett, and Phil Bungey, who previously built ...
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13th September 2024 - 0 comments. A syndicate of 20 business angels led by lead investor Simon Bell has invested £250,000 in Menna.ai, the first small business finance assistant powered by Gen AI. The equity investment has been match-funded with a further £250,000 from the Development Bank of Wales' Wales Angel Co-investment Fund.
New angel investment platform aims to close gender gap
Jun 23, 2023 · A new fintech platform is shaking-up angel investing in the UK by aiming to address the current gender gap. The Obu Angel Investment Platform launched this week, connecting eligible angels with female-founded businesses. The Obu Angel Investment Platform is open to all eligible investors who support its mission to close the gender investment gap. It will focus on female-founded businesses in ...
Archangels...here's to the next 30 years! - Angel News
Mar 24, 2023 · Founded in 1992 by Mike Rutterford and Barry Sealey, Archangels is considered to be the oldest, continuously operating business angel syndicate in the world, and is still going strong. Since then it has invested in 89 early-stage Scottish companies contributing to the growth of the syndicate to become one of the leading angel investment organisations not …