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HypeLabs, the leading software-only mesh networking provider raises $3m to strengthen its team and to support its international growth plans Further investment news today with the announcement that HypeLabs, the leading software-only mesh networking provider have secured a $3 million seed round led by innogy Innovation Hub. Other investors in the round include EDP Ventures, Deutsche Telekom, An...
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The lowdown on the investment secured by the Belfast based healthcare startup The Belfast based tech startup, Locate a Locum, which helps locum healthcare professionals find flexible work opportunities, has just announced that it has secured £1m in equity funding. The money raised will be used to grow and scale the business. At present, the business uses its on-demand technology platform to...
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Flat sharing platform plans further business growth bolstered by latest investment More good news on the investment front with the announcement that ideal flatmate, the UK’s first algorithm based flatmate matchmaker has closed its latest funding round with total Seed funding now passing the £2m mark. The platform is based on an algorithm similar to that of dating websites and rather ...
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Funding success will see this startup's development and expansion plans move forward Great news from London-based startup, Perlego who have announced that they’ve closed their Series A fundraising round at a total of £7 million.The funding has been backed by Charlie Songhurst, Dedicated VC, Thomas Leysen (Chairman of Mediahuis and Umicore) as well as further financing from Perl...
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Liverpool based startup factory, Nova launches crowdfunding campaign to help further expansion Nova, the cofoundery that’s enabled over 70 tech businesses, including a Dungeons & Dragons inventory app, a hand hygiene improvement system for hospitals and a foetal monitoring wearable for expectant mums, is launching a fresh round of funding to grow its UK and international expansion. It...
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If you’ve just started a new business, the concept of funding will be both necessary and daunting. News stories talk about companies raising money in different funding rounds – but what do those headlines actually mean?   Harper James Solicitors work with start-ups throughout their evolution, seeing first-hand how the different stages of funding lead to growth. Here the firm...
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Become, a leading online platform for SMBs to find and optimise funding solutions, closes it's own Series A investment round. We take a look at the platform... Become, the tech startup that operates a business lending marketplace to give SMBs more funding choices, have completed their own Series A investment round.  The company provides businesses with tools to improve their fundabilit...
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The angel investment landscape, everything you need to know. Angel Investment Network, founded in London in 2004, is the largest global platform to connect startups looking for funding with investors. Oliver Jones, their Head of Marketing, looks at the data from more than 100,000 businesses and 30,000 angel investors on its UK network.  Despite an uncertain economic climate, the start-up eco...
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If you are an ideas person, you probably have a few great business ideas in the back of your mind already. The unfortunate thing about great business ideas is that they require money to be brought to life. This seems to be the plight of many people who are in the pre-entrepreneur phase (that’s the phase when things are just about to get started). As a self-starter at heart, you will already ...
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What are the main types of financing and investing options that are available to an early-stage Northern Ireland startup? In 17 minutes, we chatted to Paul O'Brien from the Investment team at commercial law firm Tughans, about the NI funding and financing options that are available to a NI startup, from bootstrapping, friends and family, proof of concept funds, angel investors, VC funds, crow...
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