HACE: Data Changing Child Labour, has raised £450,000 in its pre-seed funding round, beating its initial target by 20%. The funding was led by Manchester Angels and includes co-investments from GC Angels, Ada Ventures, Found Capital and individual angel investors.

Sonichem, an East Midlands-based startup that converts low-value forestry by-products into high-value, renewable biochemicals, has secured £1.2 million in Pre-Series A funding including a follow-on investment by ACF Investors. The investment will be used to further develop its technology and finalise plans for a biorefinery plant — the first of its kind.

TSL Professional Products, a broadcast & media technology company, is seeking funding of £1.25m to scale up the business. Check out their investment advert on our Funding Pages website for more information about the company and how you can invest.

Newly launched angel network, Lifted Ventures, is on a mission to drive change in the female founder space.

The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has released a comprehensive report on the ownership of investment companies.

OX Delivers, UK-based emobility start-up, has received a £1.2 million funding grant from Energy Catalyst as the company readies its next-generation affordable all-electric OX4 truck for production.

MIP Discovery, an innovative developer of non-biological affinity reagents designed to accelerate the development and production of cell and gene therapies, has closed a £7m (~$9m USD) Series A financing round led by Mercia Ventures. Existing investor Calculus Capital also participated in the round, along with Angel investors.

A café operator who set out to find an alternative to single-use coffee cups has helped to develop a new re-use system that claims to be the most simple and cost-effective to date.

Alasdair Hood and his team have raised £350,000 from angel investors to launch Delete Cups. The system has already been successfully trialled in the two pop-up cafes he runs in Braintree Village, Essex - Roo and FryBaby - and the company is in talks with other potential users in the UK and Europe.

GameCentric, the region's newest gaming platform at the forefront of connecting brands with gamers, has raised $1.5 million (AED6 million) in capital from a Dubai-based angel investor, Bilal Merchant. The platform went live on December 1st, 2023, right after the funding round. 

Angel Academe has made its 49th investment in a female-founded agri-tech start-up PheroSyn, an innovative agricultural technology company using green chemistry techniques to produce identical copies of nature’s own pheromones, providing an alternative to damaging pesticides.

Oxford Innovation Space, which already runs 32 centres in the UK and Ireland, have come on board to run and operate the Wellsprings Innovation Centre.  The team has over 35 years’ experience in supporting economic growth through a focus on advice, finance, and space.  In that time, Oxford Innovation Space has helped in excess of 7,000 small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to become more sustainable businesses.

Cambridge-based Infersens has launched Cortense®, its first commercially available solution to transform Legionella risk management and dramatically cut water waste.