UKs leading entrepreneurs and business owners tell us the secrets of their business success
Ensygnia, a mobile payments company pitching itself as the “visual equivalent of NFC”, has closed its final seed-funding round. After little more than a year since starting operations, the firm saying that it has raised more than $3.3 million in cash and services, a level believed to be a record for a UK startup.
Business Growth Fund (BGF), established to help the UK’s growing small and medium sized businesses, has announced a £6m investment in Petrotechnics, the global leader of software solutions to improve frontline operational performance and risk management in hazardous industries.
Octopus today announced that it has led a £2.95 million investment round into Conversocial, a market leader in social customer service solutions that has already created an impressive client list including Tesco, Waitrose, Barclaycard, Groupon, Hertz and Net-A-Porter.
Three-time entrepreneur Ed Bussey today announces the successful closure of £1 million investment in Quill, the pioneering content creation platform he founded in 2011.
Hyperoptic, the UK’s leading provider of fibre-to-the-home broadband technology, today announced that it has received an equity investment commitment of £50 million led by Quantum Strategic Partners Ltd.
BankToTheFuture.com, the crowdfunding platform that allows people to invest in start-ups and mature businesses, has announced that it is providing an investment platform for Fabfob, the latest venture by Wowcher founder, Nick Brummitt, who has chosen cowdfunding over traditional venture capital funding.
Software developer Beyond Verbal has launched a patented technology that can extract, decode, and measure a full spectrum of human emotions from a person’s raw voice which saw a $2.8 million round of funding led by prominent angel investor Kenges Rakishev, and new VC, Genesis Angels.
The Manchester based disruptive online recruitment company Hiring-Hub.com is celebrating triple-digit growth during the first quarter of 2013 with month-on-month revenues leaping 260% from January to March.
Zalando was founded in 2008 as a shoe retailer for the German fashion market. One year later, they began to ship their goods to Austria, and they have continued to expand across Europe.
An app created by Seventeen-year-old Nick D’Aloisio who took time off school to develop the Summly smartphone app has been acquired by web giant Yahoo in a deal understood to be worth just under £18 million pounds.
Key Capital Partners has confirmed that it has invested £2 million for a minority stake inspecialist recruitment firm EarthStream, which supplies specialist staff to the global energy & resources sectors.
Early stage, Cambridge based, life science company, Sphere Fluidics, has closed a £1.6m funding round which included a £133,000 investment by a syndicate of London Business Angels and its EIS Approved Roundtable Syndicate Fund 2012.
A tidal energy platform specialist, Sustainable Marine Energy (SME), working closely with Cranfield University, has completed a £150k SEIS eligible funding round which was corner-stoned by a £133k investment by a London Business Angels (LBA) syndicate, including a £40k investment by the LBA SEIS Roundtable Syndicate Fund 2012.
Manchester-based online recruitment technology company Hiring-Hub.com has secured a “significant investment of over £500k” from John Laithwaite Partners LLP, placing a seven-figure valuation on the business.
NewVoiceMedia, the provider of Cloud contact centre services, has announced that it has secured $20m funding from new investors Highland Capital Partners Europe and MMC Ventures, as well as existing shareholders Notion Capital and Eden Ventures.
