Innovative digital payments company, Pomelo Pay (Pomelo) has raised USD10 million in a Series A round led by UK-based independent investment firm Inference Partners. The investment will allow the company to expand its presence across global markets including Europe and Asia, starting with plans to double their workforce in London,
Caixa Capital Risc, the venture capital subsidiary of CriteriaCaixa, has sold its portfolio company Sanifit Therapeutics to Vifor Pharma, a global pharmaceutical company that aims to become an industry leader in iron deficiency, nephrology and cardio-renal therapies. Under the terms of the agreement, Vifor Pharma will acquire 100 per cent
LoQus23 Therapeutics (LoQus23), a company discovering small molecule therapies that target aberrant DNA mismatch repair (MMR) to treat Huntington’s and other triplet repeat diseases (TRDs), has closed its GBP7 million extended seed round. LoQus23 secured the financing from Novartis Venture Fund (NVF) and its founding investor the Dementia Discovery Fund
Borderless Capital, a Miami-based venture capital firm dedicated to the Algorand ecosystem, has closed PLANETS.Fund, a USD10 million fund focused on building a green data economy. The fund will invest in the ecosystem surrounding PlanetWatch, the world’s first decentralised indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring network built on the Algorand
YFM Equity Partners (YFM), has once again seen the offers for its two managed Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) fully subscribed in a matter of weeks. After launching on 22 September, it has already succeeded in raising GBP60m of committed funds as it continues to invest in SMEs nationwide, with a
Octopus Titan VCT’s latest offer closed on Thursday 18 November, having raised its full fundraising target of GBP200 million in four weeks. Meanwhile demand for VCTs is soaring, already raising almost 3.65x as much as the total raised at this point last year. Managed by Octopus Ventures, one of
Edge Investments has raised GBP85 million for its second venture fund, Create the Future, which is targeting a final close at GBP100 million. The British Business Bank, the cornerstone investor in the fund, has committed GBP50 million through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme, which aims to increase the supply of
Cyber Manufacture Co, a narrative-based Web3 platform behind the next generation NFT project GAMA, has closed a USD6 million pre-Series A funding round led by Synergis and Collab+Currency.
European venture capital fund KOMPAS has launched a USD160 million early-stage fund that will back breakthrough innovations that accelerate the adoption of digital technology and industrial automation in the real estate, construction, and manufacturing sectors, and dramatically reduce waste and CO2 emissions. The new fund will be managed by Partners
Judo, a mobile experiences platform company, has secured seed funding of USD3 million, in a round co-led by TenOneTen Ventures and Freestyle Capital. The company raised capital after operating profitably to realise the market potential of its category-defining platform, which has been built to meet the needs of the most
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