Bethnal Green Ventures has led a £1 million pre seed funding round in Vouchsafe, alongside co-investors Seed X Liechtenstein, Biometric Ventures, Fuel Ventures, and strategic angels.

Finalrentals has secured a six-figure Pre-Series A investment, bringing its total funding to over seven figures.

WEARABLE tech start-up UNA Watch has secured more than £300,000 investment from SFC Capital as it prepares to take on industry giants Apple and Garmin with the world's first repairable modular GPS sports watch.

Edinburgh-based UNA Watch, which also won the £100,000 top prize from Scottish EDGE last year, is pioneering a new category of sustainable smartwatches, allowing users to repair, replace, and upgrade components instead of discarding entire devices. The innovation aligns with the growing Right to Repair movement and addresses the mounting e-waste crisis, with 62 million tonnes of consumer electronics discarded annually.

adeus', a registered trademark of Mankind Technologies Ltd, has closed a pre-seed funding round, raising £295,000 from a global network of angel investors spanning the UK, Europe, USA, and Asia.

Just Move In, a leading home setup service provider, has successfully raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by Eos Ventures. This investment will enable the company to expand its innovative platform, streamlining the moving process for homeowners and renters alike.

The Royal College of Art (RCA) - via its Design & Innovation S/EIS Fund hand - and Infinity Asset Management LLP have invested in Reporti, a company developing a real-time incident reporting platform that enhances safety at live events such as concerts, festivals, nightclubs, and sports matches.

UK fintech innovator Bourn has closed a £1.5 million seed round with a mission to transform the SME finance landscape with its Flexible Trade Account (FTA). The funding round was led by Haatch, alongside fintech specialists Love Ventures, Portfolio Ventures, and Aperture, with additional backing from private investors. Founded by Nick Tracey, Roger Vincent and Paul Gambrell, the company also welcomes seasoned fintech executive and former banker Leda Glyptis as a Non-Executive Board Member.

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OneID®, the UK's only provider of bank-verified digital identification services, has secured new funding led by ACF Investors. OneID is one of the leading angel-funded businesses in the world, having raised over £16m from more than 200 UK, Swedish and US Angel Investors. The investment will be used to drive growth and expand operations and services to reach a growing customer base.

Aura Funerals, the digital end-of-life planning and funeral service, has announced a successful £750,000 funding round through Angel Investment Network, the world's largest online angel investment platform. This marks Aura's third successful raise through the network. The funds were raised as part of a larger £3.2m growth funding round.

The University of Sussex Business Angels (USBA) group has announced the latest investment by its local business angels in a pre-seed fundraising round for "last mile delivery" technology platform, Naurt.

Yavrio, a London-based Open Banking fintech, has raised $2.4 million in seed funding to accelerate the fast-growing firm's mission to transform the enterprise resource planning (ERP) space by eradicating error- and fraud-prone CSV file imports.

Fuel Ventures led the round with a $1.9m investment and joins an illustrious group of Yavrio investors which includes Sajid Javid, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Garth Ritchie, former President of Deutsche Bank, alongside Dan Cobley, co-founder of ClearScore and Salary Finance.