Novalis Biotech, an early-stage venture capital investor in technologies aimed at revolutionising healthcare, has closed its EUR25 million second fund, the Novalis Biotech Acceleration Fund. Both new and returning investors have participated in the fundraising. The second fund investor base includes institutional investors, such as Participatie Maatschappij Vlaanderen (PMV), family
Ladi Greenstreet and Daisy Onubogu have taken over the leadership of Diversity VC, as CEO and COO respectively. The new leadership team was selected following a competitive application process using blind hiring platform Applied, and were assessed by independent VC and technology professionals. Diversity VC has been led by
Thymia has raised a GBP780k/USD1.1 million in a pre-seed round to scale its platform to assess for and monitor depression. The Thymia technology removes the subjectivity from mental health assessments: instead of answering questionnaires, patients play specially designed video games which use cutting-edge Neuropsychology, Linguistics and Machine Learning to detect
London based Fintech Traydstream Limited has raised USD8 million as part of a Series A funding round from institutional and private investors. gunnercooke Corporate Partner Kyri Papantoniou led the legal side of the investment process, which began in summer last year. Traydstream is a global provider of an AI powered
New investments will help them improve service delivery with their products so that Asian financial institutions signed up will be able to automate the securities lending process and enhance profitability. South Korea: Tru Technologies (Tru), a securities finance technology start-up, announced they had received Series-A investment worth USD3.1 million from
Anterra Capital (Anterra), an international food and agriculture specialist venture capital firm, has held the initial closing of its second food and agriculture technology fund, Anterra F&A Ventures II, raising USD175 million, exceeding the targeted size of the fund. Due to the positive market reception for the fund’s mission and
Distill Ventures (DV) is committed to increasing diversity within the drinks industry through a range of global initiatives, including the launch of a new Pre-Accelerator Programme dedicated to early stage founders from underrepresented groups. DV will aim to invest USD5 million in drinks entrepreneurs over the next 12 months through
Marstone, a digital wealth technology firm, has held the second close of a USD5 million Series A financing round bringing the company’s total funding to over USD20 million. The first close, led by Apex Fintech Solutions LLC, the “fintech for fintechs” powering innovation and the future of digital wealth management,
Acrew Capital and Mubadala Capital have invested USD29.5 million in a Series A financing round for San Francisco-based health and wellness platform Paceline, which rewards its users for exercising with financial incentives. The round was led by Acrew Capital, with participation from Mubadala Capital along with existing investors, and the firms will aim
Plant-based meat brand THIS has secured GBP11 million in a Series A investment co-led by BGF, and Lever VC. THIS has also grown at a record-breaking rate of 530 per cent (April ’21 vs ‘20). Having only launched two years ago, this is one of the highest ever growth rates
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