DPL, the London-based provider of “personality-based” marketing solutions, has raised £1.3 million. The round, led by the Angel CoFund, comes with personnel changes at the top level of management as well as a new advisory board. The UK martech startup provides an automated marketing product based on behavioural science. Combining that data with AI, the […]
UK-based Electronic Theatre has secured £8.6 million in Series A funding in a round led by Project A and Index Ventures, and joined by the likes of Sweet Capital and JamJar Investments, to develop its “new digital entertainment platform”. Electronic Theater was co-founded by Will Dean, who is also the co-founder of the endurance obstacle […]
True is a venture investor with a difference– the firm uniquely specialises in supporting companies in the retail and consumer sector. This focus allows the firm to support its portfolio companies far beyond seed funding, through their industry sector expertise and an extensive network of corporate partners. True was founded by Matt Truman and Paul Cocker […]
Last year, I covered the seed-round of London-based Causaly, a machine learning company that was teaching computers to read. The company is developing a natural language processing AI that seeks to read, understand and interpret all biomedical knowledge ever published. The scale of the problem Causaly is trying to solve grows enormously each day. Every […]
Uncapped, Europe’s first revenue-based finance provider, has set out to help European founders raise working capital without giving up control of their business or going deep into debt. Based in London with an office in Warsaw, the new financing firm has raised a £10 million seed round from White Star Capital, Global Founders Capital, and […]
London-based VC firm Frog Capital has announced the first close of its second scale-up fund, which is expected to accumulate over €150 million. The fund is dedicated to European software companies that earn around €5 million in annual revenue. More specifically, the firm selects software companies that deliver in two main areas: smart data (analysis […]
This morning, ten teams will take the stage at Google’s London Campus to share their companies at the conclusion of the latest Techstars London Startup Accelerator program. Six of the companies will be pitched by their female CEOs. Techstars began its London program in 2013. This current batch is one of the most diverse ever, […]