WeGift reaps rewards with £4m in Series A funding
Digital rewards platform WeGift has secured £4m in a Series A funding round to boost its plans for international growth. The funding round was led by Fred Destin from Stride.vc with participation from...
View ArticleEntrepreneurial duo launch construction startup raising £725k investment
Environmental management platform Qualis Flow that tracks, monitors, and predicts project environmental risk has raised £725k seed funding. This round of investment is being led by Pi Labs, the...
View ArticleTiny dancers come to Newcastle with pre-school ballet franchise
A ballet school specifically for children aged six months to seven years is coming to Newcastle later this year. Tiny Toes Ballet, the UK’s only pre-school ballet syllabus to be integrated with the...
View ArticleNew owners for East Yorkshire industrial development
A commercial site which became part of one of the largest industrial developments in East Yorkshire has changed hands. Hull-based developers Allenby Commercial sold Priory Tec Park to Castle Square...
View ArticleChamber enters new era to celebrate century
An organisation looking after the business interests if North Shields has expanded its interests with a rebranding. The North Shields Chamber of Trade and Commerce has re-launched itself as the North...
View ArticleB2B marketplace startup for jewellery tech overfunded on Crowdcube
Today (July 2), B2B marketplace MarketOrders has overfunded on Crowdcube.com, raising a total of £448,420 from 214 investors. The startup plans to use the funding to officially launch its platform,...
View ArticleiProov founder and CEO Andrew Bud talks deepfakes, identity verification and...
“You can’t trust what you see, you have to prove what you see in order to check that it’s real.” Technology entrepreneur and iProov founder and CEO Andrew Bud’s view encapsulates a growing challenge...
View ArticleWakefield community network secures £10k from local programme
Home-Start Wakefield has increased its services after securing a £10k investment from Coalfields Community Investment Programme. The scheme has been delivered by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. The...
View Article‘Millennial’ investment platform more than doubles crowdfunding target with...
Investment platform tickr has exceeded the £500k target of its crowdfunding campaign by more than double. The crowdfunding campaign, which launched on Seedrs in April, has now closed, securing a total...
View ArticleSustainable tech firm secures adidas investment in $2.9m seed funding round
A tech firm committed to providing a solution to consumer waste has secured $2.9m in a seed funding round. Stuffstr, which specialises in maximising the lifetime use of consumer products, received...
View ArticleHigh-end health club secures £4m investment with private equity firm
Ten Health and Fitness has secured a £4m growth capital investment from Foresight Group. The investment underpins Ten’s plans to roll out the brand to additional locations across Greater London, aiming...
View ArticleLondon confectioner grows global reach with Lloyds facility
A London-based confectionery business has doubled its turnover and grown its international footprint after securing a working capital facility from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. Jealous Sweets, which...
View ArticleSimba founder launches pet care brand with £5m investment
A new Yorkshire-based subscription model pet wellbeing brand launches today after securing £5m in seed funding. Co-founded by entrepreneur and founder of sleep tech firm Simba James Cox, Leeds-based...
View ArticleMaven supports growth of design firm with £3m funding
Private equity firm Maven has led a £3m funding round for a Northern guided design platform for kitchen and bathroom retailers. Manchester design specialist DigitalBridge has secured the investment...
View ArticleNewcastle Business School bags £100k to drive forward budding entrepreneurs
Fledgling entrepreneurs at Northumbria University have been granted £100k investment to get their startups ready for post-graduation. The fund begins this year, over a period of five years. In order to...
View ArticleGateshead training startup wins place on prestigious $25k Microsoft programme
A regional startup has secured a place on a global Microsoft programme. SUB 10, which aims to transform corporate training, launched in February 2019 and has now been accepted on to the Microsoft for...
View ArticleUniversity of Leeds healthcare startup succeeds in Nexus funding programme
Comma Care Limited has achieved a place on the Institute for Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)’s Investment Readiness Programme. Comma Care Limited is a member of Nexus-based SPARK,...
View ArticleYorkshire business partners with Dubai firm to boost Middle East growth
A Yorkshire business solutions firm has teamed up with a Dubai-based management company to aid its expansion to the Middle East. West Yorkshire-based Pro-Reliability Solutions has joined forces with...
View ArticleWater-saving tech startup secures £2.5m seed funding from environmental investor
A tech startup that aims to prevent water leaks in UK properties has secured £2.5m in seed funding from an environmental fund manager. Hero Labs has secured the investment in a round led by Earthworm...
View ArticleBGF: £238m invested in Yorkshire and North East businesses
BGF (formerly the Business Growth Fund) has announced it has committed £238m to companies across the North East and Yorkshire since 2011. The news came as part of the national firm’s announcement that...
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