Nuke From Orbit, a fintech startup based in the UK, has raised £500,000 in a pre-seed round to take its product to market. The startup, which aims to revolutionise mobile security, attracted leading investors with its innovative approach to protecting financial accounts and personal identifiable information (PII).

The funding comes from several UK-based companies and investors, including Oliver Bridgen, Co-Founder & COO of specialist FX broker Ballinger Group, and Jordan Hallows, founder of Wey Bridging Finance.

Jenson Funding Partners has announced a strategic collaboration with Simon Andreas Hofmann and Mitul Ruparelia, founders of Fortius Partners, to leverage our collective experience with early-stage businesses.

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London-based Cogna has raised £3.76m to transform how traditional industries solve unique, difficult problems.

The funding round was led by Hoxton Ventures, with participation from Notion Capital and Octopus First Cheque Fund, and a roster of angel investors including Stan Boland (Founder, Icera); Hermann Hauser (of Amadeus Capital Partners); Professor Neil Lawrence (DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, Cambridge); Zayd Enam and Tim Shi (Founders of Cresta); Ping Wu (CEO of Cresta); and Aviv Nevo, Nick Elliot (Helsing).

Arksen is launching its first public equity round of up to £6m to continue its growth and expansion to the US and other key markets. 

Arksen is aiming to build the world’s ultimate adventure company. Arksen is a premium adventure lifestyle brand making award winning explorer vessels, overland vehicles and performance apparel designed and built to empower the next generation of explorers.

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Mint Ventures as invested in the UK’s best-selling bone broth brand, Freja as part of their £2m fundraise to help drive international expansion and new product development. 

London startup, Koalaa, whose world-first soft prosthetic arms are aiding independence for individuals with limb differences around the world, has closed a funding round of $1.2 million led by British Design Fund.

Circadian Lighting Limited, trading as Circadacare, has raised £1.3 million led by the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Northstar Ventures, alongside angels, with additional grants of £358,000 provided by Innovate UK through the Healthy Ageing Innovate UK (HAIA) grant and £80,000 Longitude Prize on Dementia for its ground-breaking technology.

Northstar Ventures has appointed a new board member, Judith Hartley, former CEO of British Business Investments.

Yurtle, a London-based insurtech helping workplaces combat caregiver burnout, has closed a seed funding round of £1.37m co-led by Insurtech Gateway and Mustard Seed Maze, to grow its team and roll out the world’s first digital care ally.  Yurtle envisages a world where everyone has the choice to live independently as they age. To do so, we must empower informal social care networks to deliver care support in a sustainable and effective manner.

Validient , a Newport-based tech business that is helping the professional services sector to keep up with increasing regulatory compliance, has secured a second investment of £200,000 from the Development Bank of Wales and £100,000 from Wesley Clover.

Graide, a University of Birmingham spinout whose assistive AI-based platform helps teachers mark student homework, has raised £1.65m to expand in the UK and target new markets in the US and Canada.  The funding has come from XTX Ventures alongside existing investors Mercia Ventures, the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), SFC Capital and private investors.