Following the success of last year’s inaugural Seed Capital Investment Fund, The Dyers’ Company has launched the Fund for a second year. This initiative is designed to support innovation and the commercialisation of business ideas within the colouration industry. The deadline for applications is 15th December 2023.

An online branded series presented by Innovate Finance has launched on BBC.com, highlighting the groundbreaking work fintechs are doing to help make finances more manageable and accessible for people across the world.

o2h group, the creators of innovative SciTech communities, has launched the Cambridge Wide Open Day, offering a unique insight into the city best known as the ‘UK Centre of Science & Technology’. The inaugural event will take place on Wednesday 14^th June 2023, kicking off with an exclusive breakfast to introduce investors to the latest cohort of science and tech businesses set for growth beyond their own frontiers.

EBAN has launched the Manifesto For a Gender Balanced Angel Investing Ecosystem.

Aegiq, a start-up developing solutions to enable wide-scale adoption of quantum technologies around the world, today announces that it has received grant funding from Innovate UK, part of UK Research & Innovation, to develop a field-deployable high-performance quantum light source integrated solution in partnership with Fraunhofer CAP.

Konstantin Sidorov, a long-time angel investor and the Founder and Chief Exec of the London Technology Club (LTC), talks to us about his experience as an entrepreneur and an investor.

Guy Rigby and David Murray will shortly attempt to become the oldest pair ever to row across any ocean as they prepare for their Atlantic crossing in this year’s Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. They will leave the Canaries on 12th December in their 24-foot ocean rowing boat, “The Entrepreneur Ship”, hoping to reach Antigua sometime in February 2022.

The call for public nominations will soon close for this year’s prestigious Bold Woman Awards, celebrating incredible British female entrepreneurs.

Independent think-tank, 2° Investing Initiative (2DII), has launched its retail investment platform, MyFairMoney, which aims to provide transparent, impartial information for retail investors looking to marry their sustainability preferences with personal investment decisions. MyFairMoney becomes the only UK solution incorporating multi-data inputs into its analysis of the 3,000 funds on the platform whilst remaining 100% non-profit.

Honeycomb Network, an Imperial College London spinout developing smart charging and storage infrastructure for e-scooters and e-bikes to accelerate micromobility adoption in the UK, has secured £127,000 in pre-seed funding from SFC Capital, the UK’s most active seed stage investor. The funding will support the development of prototypes of the company’s storage and charging pods and rollout of a pilot scheme. 

Global co-investment platform Shojin Property Partners has secured the junior funding element of a £7m student accommodation scheme in Leicester.

TrustedHousesitters, the world’s largest pet-sitting network, has secured $10m in Series A funding to continue expanding into the US market and, despite travel restrictions over the last 18 months, is already seeing revenue at twice pre-pandemic levels.