Cumulus Neuroscience has closed a £3.5 million investment round. The funding round was led by a £1.5m investment from Whiterock's Growth Capital Fund, alongside £1.25m from the Investment Fund for Northern Ireland's equity fund, run by Clarendon Fund Managers, £0.3m from Angel CoFund and £0.2m from Co Fund NI.

Transparency and investor protection must be paramount as private markets open up to retail investors, Ocorian, the specialist global provider of services to high-net-worth individuals and family offices, financial institutions, asset managers and corporates, says.

LumenStream, the award-winning climate tech company which is revolutionising energy efficiency through its innovative "Lighting as a Service" model, has successfully secured £1.2m in investment.

Munich-based Robotic-Startup Filics, developer of innovative solutions for autonomous load carrier handling, has completed a new financing round. The new investors include Sandwater, Alven, F-LOG Ventures, and the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, alongside Bayern Kapital, business angels Andrei Danescu (founder and CEO of Dexory) and Helmut Schmid (CCO of Filics and former CEO of Agilox), and with continued participation from Capnamic and 10x Founders. 

Ignite, the Ford Family Foundation's flagship pitching event for social entrepreneurs seeking funding, has launched its 2025 event.

The grant competition for social entrepreneurs emerging from UK universities is now open for entries after last year's six finalists shared more than £300,000 in funding for their start-up businesses.

upLYFT, a pioneering company in the smart technology sector, has completed a £500,000 investment through the Deepbridge Capital UK Innovation Seed Fund, alongside TIME Interconnect (HK) Limited.

This significant investment will enable upLYFT to accelerate the development and market introduction of its intelligent wearable technology. The funding will support product enhancement, team expansion, and operational scale-up to meet growing demand across the healthcare and sports sectors.

Beverage and supplement brand Neutonic has raised £2.7 million in its first funding round. The investment, backed by a high-profile group including fitness influencer Kayla Itsines, and Grenade founder Alan Barratt, will accelerate Neutonic's mission to become a global leader in nootropics.

The fifth annual Investing in Women Code report was launched in London this week with key findings highlighting the strides made by the initiative.

Up from 12 founding signatories when it launched in 2019, the Investing in Women Code represents an increasingly powerful ambition to back the UK's women-led businesses.

Anya, a HealthTech company utilising advanced AI to deliver personalised, 24/7 care to women, empowering them to take control of their health, has received investment from five Henley Business Angels members, contributing towards Anya's seed round and marking the network's second-largest investment in a company to date.

The British Business Bank has made a second investment under its new co-investment strategy as part of its £350m Regional Angels Programme into Portal Biotech, a developer of a real-time, single-molecule protein sequencing technology. The company has raised £27 million ($37m) in an oversubscribed round led by Earlybird and NATO Innovation Fund.

South Yorkshire tech startups are being offered support to validate their new early-stage ideas through a new incentive programme launched to boost the region's tech startups.

The support comes from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority funded TECH SY project, which is offering either financial grants or support from a specialist consultancy to promising startups in South Yorkshire as part of the wider aim to help scale up our tech eco-system.

Mozart AI, a next-gen Music AI Startup on a mission to 10x every artist, has raised £530K in pre-seed funding and unveiled its first product - a revolutionary AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) designed to accelerate and amplify human creativity.