A new fintech platform is shaking-up angel investing in the UK by aiming to address the current gender gap. The Obu Angel Investment Platform launched this week, connecting eligible angels with female-founded businesses.

York based Amelia started Cool Crutches in 2006 with her mother Clare, after she suffered a spinal injury in a quad bike accident that left her partially paralysed from the waist down.

Fund IV will be deployed across North America, Europe, India and Southeast Asia. Sector focuses for the fund are broad, including AI/ML, enterprise software, fintech, e-commerce, and edtech.

Founded by a group of former corporate bankers, led by CEO Riccardo Balasmo, Delega set out in 2020 to create a simple and intuitive solution for the market having faced issues of managing bank signatories on a nearly daily basis themselves.

The investment will enable NML to ramp up sales in the rapidly growing e-mobility sector while establishing a foothold in the much larger global industrial market. 

Founded in 2015, SuperScale offers a comprehensive SaaS analytics platform which helps game developers and publishers identify revenue-boosting strategies, as well as expert publishing and game management services to grow game earnings.

Upfront Diagnostics, a healthcare company focused on discovering novel biomarkers that can be applied to medical diagnosis, has announced a seed funding round of £1.6 million.

The Net Zero Technology Centre has announced the appointment of Peter Mather as its new Chair, promoting him from his previous role as a Senior Independent Director on NZTC’s Board which he has held since April 2022.

Quant unveiled Overledger Platform: the infrastructure used in Project Rosalind - the Bank of England and Bank for International Settlements’ retail CBDC project.

Of those that reported they currently run a single side hustle, more than two fifths (42%) of them are considering starting a second side hustle.

However, while L&D professionals are getting on the front foot with AI, only 37% of respondents say their organisation has arranged AI training in the past year.

The payments industry has long been seen as the backbone of financial services. New technologies and regulations have recently revolutionised payments to better serve everyone who pays and gets paid. Contributing to a £125bn global industry, the UK payments industry is also a tremendous British success story.

Martin brings over 25 years of international experience in the private capital market and a mission-aligned passion for sustainability to Naked Energy’s leadership.

With a nationwide workforce of more than 400, Clinical Partners supports approximately 40,000 patients annually. The company is growing rapidly, and this acquisition underlines its commitment to enhancing its capacity to serve as many people as possible.

IQ Capital differentiates itself with a unique blend of PhD-level deep tech expertise across sectors combined with wide-ranging experience of helping early-stage founders to commercialise their tech.

The funding will enable WorkBuzz to pursue international expansion, enhance sales and marketing, and deliver new tech innovations to its growing roster of clients.

ATMOS specialises in the development and manufacturing of space capsules capable of safely returning any cargo from space, regardless of scale. Its highly innovative Phoenix capsules represent the first sustainable solution for a large range of payloads and experiments.

The funding will enable Oliva to expand its network of skilled therapists, launch in new markets and languages, develop their pioneering ‘Oliva Care Model’, and leverage AI to enhance their human-to-human online care journeys.

Ten of the most promising start-ups in Northern Ireland have each been awarded £10,000 proof of concept (POC) grants following their involvement in Catalyst’s early-stage entrepreneurship programme Co-Founders.

Art of Cloud has announced the appointment of Liz Rhodes as its new CEO. Rhodes, 49, was previously COO at the Leeds-based Salesforce consultancy and has helped oversee a period of record growth.