22.02.2022

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2022

London technology provider Weavr completes £29.5m Series A funding

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: GBP 29.5M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Anthemis Group (https://www.anthemis.com/) Force Over Mass Capital (https://www.fomcap.com/) Headline (https://headline.com/) Latitude (https://latitudeventures.vc/) Mubadala Capital Ventures (https://www.mubadala.com/en) QED Investors (https://www.qedinvestors.com/) Seedcamp (https://seedcamp.com/) Tiger Global Management (https://www.tigerglobal.com/) UFP Fintech (https://www.utdfirst.com/ufpfintech/)

22.02.2022

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2022

Global electronics company backs Porotech $20m Series A

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 20M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Ameba Capital (http://www.amebacapital.com/) Speedinvest (https://www.speedinvest.com/)

22.02.2022

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2022

ANZ invests $50 million in climate finance firm Pollination

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 50M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: ANZ Bank (https://www.anz.com.au/personal/)

21.02.2022

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2022

Payhawk becomes first-ever Bulgarian unicorn after raising $100M

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 100M €

USD 1B

Valuation

Investors: Sprints Capital (https://sprintscap.com/) Endeavor Catalyst (https://endeavor.org/) HubSpot Ventures (https://www.hubspot.com/ventures) Jigsaw VC (https://jigsaw.vc/) Greenoaks (https://www.greenoaks.com/) QED Partners (https://www.qedinvestors.com/) Earlybird Digital East (https://www.moltenventures.com/seed-funds/earlybird)

16.02.2022

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2022

Genesis raises $200M in Tiger-led round to grow its finance-focused low-code application platform

Founded: 2012

Investment Raised: USD 200M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Accel (https://www.accel.com/) Illuminate Financial (https://www.illuminatefinancial.com/) Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com/) Salesforce Ventures (https://www.salesforce.com/company/ventures/) Tiger Global Management (https://www.tigerglobal.com/) Tribeca Early Stage Partners (https://www.tribecaesp.com/)

16.02.2022

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2022

Atom bank raises more than £75m to fuel growth as it heads toward IPO

Founded: 2014

Investment Raised: GBP 75M €

GBP 360M

Valuation

Investors: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (https://www.bbva.com/en/) Infinity Investment Partners (https://www.infinityinvestmentpartners.com/) Toscafund Asset Management (https://www.toscafund.com/)

16.02.2022

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2022

Centauri Therapeutics Closes £24 Million GBP Series A Investment Round

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: GBP 24M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Animatrix Founders (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/animatrix-founders) Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (https://www.boehringer-ingelheim-venture.com/) Evotec (https://www.evotec.com/en) Kent Life Science LLP (http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/company/OC420283/KENT-LIFE-SCIENCE-%28GP%29-LLP) Novo Holdings (https://www.novoholdings.dk/) Wren Capital (https://www.wrencapital.co.uk/)

16.02.2022

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2022

London luxury travel firm Plum Guide gets £23m injection to tap into ‘revenge travel’

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: GBP 23M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Beringea (https://www.beringea.com/) Hearst Ventures (https://www.hearst.com/ventures) Latitude (https://www.latitudeim.com/) Talis Capital (https://www.taliscapital.com/)

15.02.2022

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2022

Secret Escapes Survived Pandemic Thanks to $74 Million Fundraising

Founded: 2010

Investment Raised: USD 74M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Secret Escapes’ shareholders

15.02.2022

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2022

Sharegain Accelerates Global Growth by Raising a $64 Million Series B Led by WestCap

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: USD 64M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Blumberg Capital (https://blumbergcapital.com/) Citi (https://www.citi.com/ventures/) EJF Capital (https://www.ejfcap.com/) Kessler family office (https://kesslerfoundation.org/) Maverick Ventures Israel (https://www.maverick.vc/) Optiver Principal Strategic Investments (https://www.optiver.com/psi/) Rhodium (https://www.rhodium.co.il/) SixThirty (https://sixthirty.co/) WestCap (https://www.westcap.com/)

15.02.2022

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2022

Britishvolt kicks off funding round with $54 mln from Glencore

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 54M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Bank of America (https://www.bankofamerica.com/) Citibank (https://www.citi.com/) Glencore (https://www.glencore.com/) Peel Hunt (https://www.peelhunt.com/)

14.02.2022

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2022

Tripledot Studios raises $116M for mobile games

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 116M €

USD 1.284B

Valuation

Investors: Access Industries (https://www.accessindustries.com/) Eldridge (https://www.eldridge.com/) Lightspeed Venture Partners (https://lsvp.com/) The Twenty Minute VC (https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/)

14.02.2022

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2022

Stationery startup Papier secures $50m funding to fuel expansion in US market

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: USD 50M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Beringea (https://www.beringea.com/) dmg ventures (https://www.dmgventures.co.uk/) Felix Capital (https://www.felixcap.com/) Kathaka (https://www.kathaka.net/) Lansdowne Partners (https://www.lansdownepartners.com/) Singular (https://singular.vc/)

14.02.2022

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2022

Hydrogen fuel startup Bramble Energy raises £35m

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: GBP 35M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: BGF Ventures (https://www.bgf.co.uk/) HydrogenOne Capital (https://hydrogenonecapitalgrowthplc.com/) IP Group (https://www.ipgroupplc.com/) Parkwalk Advisors (https://parkwalkadvisors.com/) UCL Technology Fund (https://www.ucltf.co.uk/)

14.02.2022

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2022

Investors Fired Up About Fusion As First Light Fusion Sparks $45M Series C

Founded: 2011

Investment Raised: USD 45M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Braavos Capital (https://bravoscap.com/) Hostplus (https://hostplus.com.au/) IP Group (https://www.ipgroupplc.com/) Oxford Sciences Innovation (https://oxfordscienceenterprises.com/) Tencent (https://www.tencent.com/)

11.02.2022

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2022

FNZ raises US$1.4bn in new capital from CPP Investments and Motive Partners to accelerate transformation in the global wealth industry

Founded: 2004

Investment Raised: USD 1.4B €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: CPP Investments (https://www.cppinvestments.com/) Motive Partners (https://www.motivepartners.com/)

10.02.2022

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2022

KraftPal Technologies Raises US$123.9 million from Pasaca Capital

Founded: 2011

Investment Raised: USD 123.9M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Pasaca Capital (https://pasacacapital.com/)

10.02.2022

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2022

UK headquartered fintech, Vitesse PSP, secures $26 million in Series B funding to drive further digitisation of the insurance market

Founded: 2013

Investment Raised: USD 26M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Hannover Digital Investments GmbH (https://www.hannover-digital-invest.com/) Octopus Ventures (https://octopusventures.com/) Prime Ventures (https://www.primeventures.com/) Ron Kalifa Shane Happach

10.02.2022

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2022

FloodFlash Raises $15m Series A led by Buoyant Ventures and Featuring Munich Re Ventures

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 15M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Buoyant Ventures (https://www.buoyant.vc/) Insurtech Gateway (https://insurtechgateway.com/) LocalGlobe (https://localglobe.vc/) MS&AD Ventures (https://msad.vc/) Munich Re Ventures (https://www.munichre.com/mrv/en.html) Pentech Ventures (https://pentech.vc/) PropTech1 Ventures (https://proptech1.ventures/) Sony Financial Ventures (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sony-financial-ventures)

08.02.2022

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2022

GoCardless valued at $2.1 Billion after raising $312 Million

Founded: 2011

Investment Raised: USD 312M €

USD 2.1B

Valuation

Investors: BlackRock Private Equity Partners (https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-us/strategies/alternatives/private-equity) Permira (https://www.permira.com/)

08.02.2022

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2022

Selina raises $150M to dish out flexible loans that leverage home equity

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 35M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Broadhaven Capital Partners (https://www.broadhaven.com/) Global Founders Capital (https://www.globalfounderscapital.com/) Lightrock (https://www.lightrock.com/) Picus Capital (https://www.picuscap.com/)

07.02.2022

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2022

Microbiotica Raises £50m to Advance Pipeline of Microbiome-based Therapeutics

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: GBP 50M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Tencent (https://www.tencent.com/) Seventure Partners (http://www.seventure.fr/en/) IP Group (https://www.ipgroupplc.com/) Flerie Invest (https://flerie.com/) Cambridge Innovation Capital (https://www.cic.vc/) British Patient Capital (https://www.britishpatientcapital.co.uk/)

06.02.2022

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2022

Prime Focus arm DNEG raises USD 400M

Founded: 1998

Investment Raised: USD 400M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Arbor Ventures (https://www.arborventures.com/) Fairfax Financial Holdings (https://fairfax.ca/) Novator Partners (https://novator.co.uk/)

04.02.2022

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2022

London’s digital asset manager Qredo courts $80 million from 10T Holdings and Coinbase

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 80M €

USD 380M

Valuation

Investors: 10T Holdings (https://10tfund.com/) Alumni Ventures (https://www.av.vc/) Avalanche (https://www.avalabs.org/) Coinbase Ventures (https://www.coinbase.com/de/ventures) GMF Capital (https://gmfcapital.com/) GoldenTree Asset Management (https://www.goldentree.com/) HOF Capital (https://www.hofvc.com/) Kenetic (https://kenetic.capital/) Kestrel 0x1 (https://www.kestrel0x1.com/) Kingsway Capital (http://www.kingswaycap.com/) Liberty City Ventures (https://www.libertycityventures.com/) Nural Capital First Light (https://www.firstlightllc.com/) Raptor Group (https://www.raptorgroup.com/) Rovida Kruptos Assets (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rovida-kruptos-assets) SVK Crypto (https://www.svkcrypto.com/) Terra (https://www.terra.money/) tokentus investment AG (https://tokentus.com/) Vectr (https://vectr.com/)

03.02.2022

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2022

Veed, an online video editing platform, picks up $35M from Sequoia

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 35M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Sequoia Capital (https://www.sequoiacap.com/)

02.02.2022

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2022

Nuclera raises $42.5M towards launch of new protein 3D printer that “makes drug discovery accessible”

Founded: 2013

Investment Raised: USD 42.5M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Amadeus Capital Partners (https://www.amadeuscapital.com/) British Business Bank (https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk/) E Ink (https://www.eink.com/) Future Planet Capital (https://futureplanetcapital.com/) G. K. Goh (https://www.gkgoh.com/) M&G Investments (https://www.mandg.com/) RT Partners (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rt-partners)

01.02.2022

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2022

London tech firm GWI closes on unicorn status

Founded: 2009

Investment Raised: GBP 133M €

USD 670M

Valuation

Investors: Permira (https://www.permira.com/)

28.01.2022

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2022

Rapid-Delivery Startup Zapp Raises $200 Million for Supply Chain

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: USD 200M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: 468 Capital (https://www.468cap.com/) Atomico (https://atomico.com/) BroadLight Capital (https://www.broadlightcapital.com/) Burda Principal Investments (https://www.burdaprincipalinvestments.com/) Lightspeed Venture Partners (https://lsvp.com/) Vorwerk Ventures (https://vorwerkventures.com/) Lewis Hamilton

26.01.2022

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2022

SKC consortium invests $80m in UK anode startup Nexeon

Founded: 2006

Investment Raised: USD 80M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: SKC (https://www.sk-inc.com/en/)

25.01.2022

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2022

Crypto payments firm BCB Group raises $60m

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 60M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: BACKED VC (https://www.backed.vc/) Blockchain.com (https://www.blockchain.com/) Circle (https://www.circle.com/en/) Cowa Ventures (https://cowa.ai/ventures/) Digital Currency Group (https://dcg.co/) Foundation Capital (https://foundationcapital.com/) L1 Digital (https://l1.digital/) LAUNCHub Ventures (https://launchub.com/) Menai Financial Group (https://menai.io/) Nexo (https://nexo.io/) North Island Ventures (https://www.northisland.ventures/) Pantera Capital (https://panteracapital.com/) PayU (https://payu.in/) Profluent Ventures (https://www.profluenttrading.com/) Rockaway Blockchain Fund (https://rbf.capital/) tokentus investment AG (https://tokentus.com/) Wintermute Trading (https://www.wintermute.com/)