Netacea, the cybersecurity specialist that helps companies prevent online fraud by protecting them against bot attacks, has raised a further £4m from Mercia Asset Management, which is investing from its own funds and the first Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF I).

Business angels from the FSE Investor Network, in collaboration with investment funds and 

Resalis Therapeutics, which received investment from Italian Angels for Growth (IAG) in March, has announced a strategic equity investment from Sanofi. 

Dorset Business Angels (DBA), the region's leading angel investment network, hosted its final pitch event of 2024 on Monday, November 25th at the Carlton Hotel in Bournemouth. The event saw five innovative startups, two of them local to Dorset, present their investment opportunities to an audience of over 30 investors.

Scottish bio-tech Biotangents has completed a £2.3 million investment round led by Eos and British Business Investments through their Regional Angels Programme, and existing investors and Kelvin Capital and Scottish Enterprise.

Animal Health Angels, a group of veterinary and animal health professionals committed to advancing innovation in the animal health industry, has invested in SageTech Medical as part of an ambitious £650,000 seed round led by EMV Capital.

This investment supports SageTech Medical's pioneering work in developing sustainable solutions for anaesthetic gas capture and recycling-a breakthrough with implications for both human and animal healthcare.

France. Pathway, the data company that builds live AI, has raised $10 million seed funding to build live AI systems that think and learn in real-time as humans do. 

The round was led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Kadmos, Inovo, Market One Capital and Id4, as well as several high-profile angel investors. They join notable previous investors, including Lukasz Kaiser, the company’s very first backer, who is the co-author of Transformers (the “T” in ChatGPT) and the key researcher behind GPT o1 from OpenAI.

Wexler AI, the AI-powered legal fact intelligence platform, has completed a $1.4 million pre-seed funding round led by Myriad Venture Partners, with support from Entrepreneur First, and prominent angel investors at ComplyAdvantage, Moonpig, Tractable, and CreditKudos, fueling Wexler's growth and mission to redefine litigation worldwide.

Newcells Biotech - whose laboratory models help speed up drug development and reduce reliance on animal testing - has raised a further £1.2m from existing investors Mercia Ventures, Northstar Ventures and North East Finance.

Bleap has announced a £1.8 million pre-seed round to launch a self-custodial payments app enabling customers to spend stablecoins 1:1 with a debit card, with no fees and up to 2% cashback on purchases.

Carbon utilisation company Barton Blakeley has raised £2.4m in a funding round, with £1.7m of this coming from Elbow Beach Capital, a seed investor in climate-related technologies.

Stackfix, the AI-powered software comparison platform, has raised $3M in Seed funding to speed-up software buying for small businesses globally.

Chalfen Ventures led the round, with participation from Seedcamp and helloworld, alongside prominent angel investors such as Paul Forster (Founder of Indeed.com), Mehdi Ghissassi (Head of Product at DeepMind), Matt Clifford (Chair of Entrepreneur First and ARIA), Alice Bentinck (Co-Founder of Entrepreneur First), and Charlie Delingpole (Founder of ComplyAdvantage).