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Venture Capital Funding

PayPal backed e-commerce platform Cloud IQ raises additional £4m

PayPal joins returning investors Nauta Capital, Juno and Finance Wales to back e-commerce optimisation specialist, Cloud IQ.

Alternative Finance for Business

Food tech start-up fresh-range raises £300k in 24 hours

Bristol-based start-up, fresh-range has raised over £300,000 via crowdfunding to make ethical buying from local producers as convenient as from mass retailers.

Venture Capital Funding

Ethical mattress business Leesa Sleep raises £17m

Leesa Sleep, the socially conscious luxury mattress company has recently raised £17.6 million series B funding in a round led by One Better Ventures.

Venture Capital Funding

Heartbeat authentication business B-Secur raises £3.5m

Belfast-based ECG biometric authentication company B-Secur raises £3.5 million to grow further.

Venture Capital Funding

Receipt Bank raises $50m series B funding from Insight Venture Partners

The funding boost will allow the company to further develop its patent-pending bookkeeping automation technologies, including an investment into artificial intelligence.

Venture Capital Funding

Privitar closes $16m in Series A funding as businesses turn to data privacy technology

At a time when data privacy dominates the business headlines, Privacy engineering software company, Privitar, eyes further growth after securing $16m in a round led by Partech Ventures.

Alternative Finance for Business

Natural sports nutrition brand TRIBE raises £1.75m on Crowdcube

Following a brief over-funding phase, TRIBE’s fundraising total finished at £1.75 million from a total of 1,833 investors, who now hold a 24.14 per cent equity in the brand.

Venture Capital Funding

Bicycle Therapeutics secures £40m Series B funding

Cambridge Innovation Capital has invested as part of a £40 million Series B financing round for Bicycle Therapeutics.

Alternative Finance for Business

RateSetter hits highest valuation at £200m after recent funding round

RateSetter is now one of the highest valued UK P2P lenders to date at £200 million after the company's recent £13 million funding boost to launch a new Innovative Finance ISA product.

Alternative Finance for Business

Independent film Kat and the Band exceeds £400k funding target on SyndicateRoom

Independent UK film, Kat and the Band, has been fully funded at its target of £400,000 on SyndicateRoom this week, backed by female-focussed production company, Boudica Indigo.

Company Flotations

Eve Sleep: An inside look at the first retail IPO of 2017

eve Sleep announced its IPO on AIM earlier this month, with a market cap of around £140 million. Luke Hakes, Investment Director at Octopus Ventures, shares an inside look at the first retail IPO of 2017 in the UK.

Venture Capital Funding

AI camera start-up secures £3m to boost road safety for autonomous vehicles

Vivacity Labs, a UK-based AI camera start-up that aims to ease congestion, has secured £3 million in funding from Innovate UK and private investors to roll out a city-wide deployment in Milton Keynes.

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Accounting and Finance Software

Desktop vs cloud accounting: What to consider 

What are the key differences between desktop and cloud accounting software, and what should you consider when it comes to choosing a solution for your business

Accounting and Finance Software

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Opinion

Boosting confidence in outsourcing your customer service function to call centres in Africa

CCI Kenya discusses why outsourcing key of your business processes to call centres in Africa may be beneficial