NALA, a leading UK fintech company has raised $40 million in Series A funding to support its global expansion and enhance the reliability of payments to Africa by developing its payment rails.

Supercede, the leading reinsurance technology platform, has completed a $15 million Series A funding round from new and existing investors.

Brainspark games has secured £1.4m in angel investment and its 7th Innovate UK ‘Investor Partnership’ grant. £700,000 has been secured, with participation from a range of ‘Super Angels’ consisting of seasoned investors, games and education industry veterans, exited founders and institutional investors. 

OSS Ventures, a leading industrial start-up studio in France, has raised €8.5 million, led by Tikehau Capital, France 2030's French Tech Accélération 2 fund (Bpifrance), Etablissements Peugeot Frères, and business angels including Max Pog.

Sussex-based angel investment group South East Angels has invested in Skyverse, a software startup helping increase safety and reduce costs in air traffic control operations.

Skyverse helps all airports modernise away from traditional processes to a cloud workflow solution that provides more data, transparency, and insight to a control tower. This solution allows regional and general aviation airports to access the same standard of tools typically delivered to the major international airports.

Skyverse’s SaaS tools replace Air Traffic Services’ paper-based processes and a significant volume of repetitious radio and telephone communications. The tools share clearer, faster and richer information between Air Traffic Services and their network of users. This cuts Controller and Assistant workload while improving safety and situational awareness.

Wave Photonics, a Cambridge-based deep tech start-up, has received £4.5M to develop onchip photonics designs for quantum technologies, sensors, and datacentre applications.

The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund and Cambridge Enterprise Ventures led the round, with participation from the Redstone and QAI Ventures’ Quantum Fund, Kyra Ventures, and Deep Tech Labs.  Several angel investors from the UK, EU and US participated in the round, contributing a total in excess of £400k.

Adventuro, the innovative marketplace platform dedicated to adventure sports, has closed its latest funding round with the support of esteemed angel investment network, Lifted Ventures.

Dublin-based tech firm Overcast HQ has raised an $1.2 m bridging round to help the world’s largest brands and broadcasters manage terabytes of video content with AI and a suite of cloud solutions.

EMV Capital, a VC investor specialising in high-growth deep tech companies, has led a c.£3.4m investment round into its portfolio company Sofant Technologies, a leading edge wireless technology company developing next generation phased-array antenna platforms.

The fundraising was led by EMV Capital, syndicated from its cohort of private EIS investors, and joined by Kelvin Capital and Scottish Enterprise. The company is now set to execute its go-to-market strategy, using funds from this investment round to deliver satellite terminals to SatCom operators and their clients in aerospace, defence and security and civilian applications. Sofant has made significant product commercialisation progress, including development contracts with Inmarsat (now part of Viasat), the European Space Agency and a global defence company.

KYMIRA, a smart garment company developing specialist infrared technology to aid recovery in athletes, has again received investment from two Henley Business Angels members, contributing to a £1.1m funding round. The funding round was achieved through private investment and a £500k grant as part of Henley Business Angels’ Investor Partnership with Innovate UK.

Sussex-based angel investment group South East Angels is proud to announce its recent investment in Skyverse - a startup delivering technology solutions to air traffic control teams.