08.09.2021

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2021

‘Thin file’ loans startup Koyo closes USD 50M Series A led by Force Over Mass

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 50M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Seedcamp (https://www.seedcamp.at/) Matt Robinson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattrobinson/) Frontline Ventures (https://www.frontline.vc/) Forward Partners (https://forwardpartners.com/) Force Over Mass Capital (https://www.fomcap.com/)

08.09.2021

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2021

Cambridge-based Pet Medix has raised GBP 27M to revolutionize pet healthcare

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: GBP 27M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Tencent (https://www.tencent.com/) Parkwalk Advisors Kyoritsu Corporation (http://www.kyoritsu-chem.com/en/about/profile.html) Digitalis Ventures (https://digitalisventures.com/) Cambridge Innovation Capital (https://www.cic.vc/)

08.09.2021

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2021

Close this content TechCrunch AI-driven voice assistant PolyAI raises USD 14M round led by Khosla Ventures

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 14M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Sands Capital (https://www.sandscapital.com/) Point72 Ventures (https://p72.vc/) Passion Capital Khosla Ventures (https://www.khoslaventures.com/) Entrepreneur First (https://www.joinef.com/) Amadeus Capital Partners (https://www.amadeuscapital.com/)

07.09.2021

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2021

Insurtech Marshmallow becomes just the second Black-founded unicorn in the UK

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 85M €

USD 1.2B

Valuation

Investors: Scor (https://www.scor.com/en) Passion Capital (https://www.passioncapital.com/) Investec (https://www.investec.com/en_int/welcome-to-investec.html)

07.09.2021

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2021

Owlstone Medical raises USD 58M in Funding

Founded: 2004

Investment Raised: USD 58M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Horizon Ventures (https://horizonsventures.com/)

07.09.2021

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2021

EnteroBiotix raises over USD 21M in Series A Financing to Advance its Microbiome Drug Pipeline

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 21M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Thairm Bio (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/thairm-bio) SIS Ventures Scottish Enterprise Kineticos Ventures (https://kineticos.com/)

07.09.2021

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2021

Elvie (Chiaro Technology) secures GBP 12.7M in Series C follow-on investment from investors, including co-founder of Blume Equity

Founded: 2013

Investment Raised: GBP 12.7M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Westerly Winds (https://www.westerly-winds.com/) IPGL Hiro Capital (https://hiro.capital/) Blume Equity

06.09.2021

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2021

OLIO raises USD 43M Series B to take a bite out of global food waste

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: USD 43M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: VNV Global (https://www.vostoknewventures.com/) Rubio Impact Ventures (https://www.rubio.vc/) Octopus Ventures (https://octopusventures.com/) Lugard Road Capital (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lugard-road-capital) Lord Waheed Alli Jason Stockwood DX Ventures Accel (https://www.accel.com/)

01.09.2021

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2021

Olsam Group raises USD 165M in Series A Equity and Debt Funding Round

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: USD 165M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Elevat3 Capital (https://elevat3.vc/) Apeiron Investment Group

30.08.2021

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2021

Homeppl completes seven figure funding round

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: GBP 1M €

GBP 10Million

Valuation

Investors: European Super Angels Club (https://superangels.club/) ParticleX (https://particlex.com/)

29.07.2021

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2021

Connected car insurance startup Flock raises $17M Series A led by Chamath Palihapitiya

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: USD 17M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Anthemis Group (https://www.anthemis.com/) Dig Ventures (https://www.dig.ventures/) Social Capital (https://www.socialcapital.com/)

27.07.2021

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2021

Onto raises $175 million in Series B to expand EV subscription service in the UK

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 175M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Achmea Innovation Fund (https://www.achmeainnovationfund.nl/en/) Alfvén & Didrikson (https://www.alfvendidrikson.com/) Campden Hill Capital (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/campden-hill-advisers) JamJar Investments (https://www.jamjarinvestments.com/) Jim O’Neill Legal & General (https://www.legalandgeneral.com/) TotalEnergies Ventures (https://ventures.totalenergies.com/en) Vlerick Group (https://www.vlerickgroup.be/en/605-2/)

26.07.2021

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2021

London-based SEDNA raises €28.8M from Insight Partners, others to reimagine emails; here’s how

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: EUR 28.8M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Chalfen Ventures Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com/) SAP.iO (https://sap.io/) Stride.VC (https://stride.vc/)

23.07.2021

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2021

Tulipshare launches with $1M in Pre-Seed

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: USD 1M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Speedinvest (https://www.speedinvest.com/)

22.07.2021

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2021

Yoobic raises $50M for its chat and communications app aimed at frontline and service workers

Founded: 2014

Investment Raised: USD 50M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: BNF Capital (https://www.perwyn.com/) Felix Capital (https://www.felixcap.com/) Highland Europe (https://www.highlandeurope.com/) Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com/)

20.07.2021

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2021

Soldo raises $180M for its business expense management platform

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: USD 180M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Temasek (https://www.temasek.com.sg/en/index) Sunley House Capital (https://www.adventinternational.com/) Citi Ventures (https://www.citi.com/ventures/) Accel (https://www.accel.com/) Battery Ventures (https://www.battery.com/) Dawn Capital (https://dawncapital.com/)

20.07.2021

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2021

Leo Cancer Care raises $25.3M in Series B Funding

Founded: 2013

Investment Raised: USD 25.3M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Alumni Ventures Group (https://www.avgfunds.com/) Cosylab (https://www.cosylab.com/) Global Ventures (https://www.global.vc/) Serra Ventures (https://serraventures.com/) Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (https://www.warf.org/)

19.07.2021

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2021

Food distribution platform Collectiv Food raises £12 million

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: GBP 12M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: VNV Global (https://www.vostoknewventures.com/) VisVires New Protein (https://www.visviresnewprotein.com/) Octopus Ventures (https://octopusventures.com/) Norrsken VC (https://www.norrsken.vc/) Partech (https://partechpartners.com/) Colle Capital (https://colle.vc/) Mustard Seed

16.07.2021

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2021

Butlr Technologies raises $7.9M in Seed Funding

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 7.9M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Hyperplane (https://hyperplane.vc/) Collective Union Labs (https://unionlabs.com/) 500 Startups (https://500.co/) SOSV (https://sosv.com/) E14 Fund (https://www.e14fund.com/) Tectonic Ventures (https://tectonicventures.com/) Scott Belsky (http://www.scottbelsky.com/investing-backup) Chad Laurans (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/chad-laurans) Sunny Vu (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sonny-vu)

15.07.2021

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2021

Bower Collective wants to eliminate plastic waste, gets £2.1M funding

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: GBP 2.1M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Oxford Capital (https://oxcp.com/) Doehler Ventures (https://www.doehler-ventures.com/) Dharmash Mistry (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/dharmash-mistry)

15.07.2021

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2021

KodyPay raises US$3.25M in Funidng

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 3.25M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Yao-Yun Chang (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/yao-yun-chang) Adam Knight (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/adam-knight) Hank Uberoi (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/hank-uberoi) Cognition Foundry (https://cognitionfoundry.com/) Paul Rippon (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/paul-rippon) Alok Sama (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/alok-sama)

14.07.2021

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2021

Railsbank raises USD$70M in Funding

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: USD 70M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Anthos Capital (https://anthoscapital.com/) Central Capital (https://www.centralcapital.vc/) Cohen and Company (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/betsy-cohen-2) Outrun Ventures (https://www.outrunventures.com/)

14.07.2021

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2021

YuLife raises $70M in Series B Funding

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: USD 70M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Target Global (https://www.targetglobal.vc/) Eurazeo Latitude (https://latitudeventures.vc/) Creandum (https://www.creandum.com/) Notion Capital (https://notion.vc/) Anthemis (https://www.anthemis.com/) MMC Ventures (https://mmc.vc/) OurCrowd (https://www.ourcrowd.com/)

13.07.2021

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2021

OnBuy raises £35M in Series A+ Funding

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: GBP 35M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Bring Ventures Norway Post venture arm Fuel Ventures (https://fuel.ventures/) Guy Hands (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/guy-hands) Knut Frängsmyr (https://www.linkedin.com/in/knut-fr%C3%A4ngsmyr-5382a924/?originalSubdomain=se) Richard Goulding (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/richard-goulding-9b23)

13.07.2021

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2021

Hyperexponential raises $18M in Funding

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 18M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Highland Europe (https://www.highlandeurope.com/)

13.07.2021

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2021

Bimble raises $2.48M in Seed Funding

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 2.48M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Dimitris Panagopoulos Vikram Kumar Mark Davies

13.07.2021

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2021

Moneyhub raises $18M in Total Funding

Founded: 2013

Investment Raised: USD 18M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Sir Peter Wood SPWOne (https://spwone.com/)

13.07.2021

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2021

Tide raises $100M in Series C Funding

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: USD 100M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Apax Partners (https://www.apax.com/) Anthemis (https://www.anthemis.com/) Augmentum (https://augmentum.vc/) Jigsaw (https://jigsaw.vc/) Local Globe/Latitude (https://localglobe.vc/) SBI (https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/english/company/group/sbinvestment.html) SpeedInvest (https://www.speedinvest.com/)

13.07.2021

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2021

MiNA Therapeutics receives $15M Equity Investment from Eli Lilly and Company

Founded: 2008

Investment Raised: USD 15M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Eli Lilly and Company (https://www.lilly.com/)

13.07.2021

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2021

Kuano.ai raises £1M in Seed Funding

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: GBP 1M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: ACF Investors (https://www.acfinvestors.com/) o2h Ventures (https://o2h.com/) syndicate of Cambridge-based angel investors (https://cambridgeangels.com/)