A website that operates seven-day 'flash sales' of high-end sporting goods for its members has raised $2.3 million (£1.4 million) in its Series A funding round.
London-headquartered Aframe has added three new institutional investors to a pool of seed and angel backers including former executives at Endemol, Vodafone and AMV BBDO.
Online accommodation booking service HouseTrip has secured $2.7 million (£1.6 million) from venture capital firm Index Ventures in a Series A financing round.
The creator of the Angry Birds smartphone game Rovio has closed a Series A investment round, raising $42 million (£26.1 million) to fund expansion and increase merchandising.
Software VC company Pentech Ventures and Scottish Enterprise’s Scottish Co-Investment Fund (SCF) have led an £810,000 round of funding into Hubdub, a Scottish-based web start-up.
3i and Benchmark Capital Europe have joined forces to back OmPrompt, a provider of semantic integration solutions, in a £5 million series A fundraising.
