Tag: UK

Smart home insurance service Neos has raised £1m in a seed round from Eos Venture Partners.

London financial news and intelligence platform CityFALCON has hit its £150,000 crowdfunding target in less than a month. The company attracted 120 investors to its campaign on Seedrs.

London-based fraud detection startup Ravelin has raised £3m in a Series A round of funding. The investment was led by Playfair Capital with existing backers Amadeus Capital and Passion Capital.

Funderbeam has raised $2.6m in a new round of ventures funding from Draper Associates, Thomson Reuters and IQ Capital.

Facebook Messenger-based chatbot Plum has raised $500,000 in a seed round of funding led by 500 Startup’s microfund. The round also saw local angel investors participate.

Thomson Reuters is partnering with Imperial College London to take on big data challenges in FinTech, as well as the legal world.

Banking giant Santander’s UK operation is partnering with alternative financing site Crowdfunder to provide £200,000 to community projects through the bank’s Changemaker Fund.

London-based credit score provider Aire has raised $2m in a new round funding. The investment was led by White Star Capital with existing backers Sunstone Capital and Accion Venture Lab also participating.

FinTech accelerator Octopus Labs has announced the first five startups that will join its first programme this summer.

Artificial intelligence-driven due diligence processor Luminance has raised $3m in a new round of funding from Invoke Capital Partners.