Funding

Financial crime start-up Mimiro raises £23m

AI platform profiles potential bank clients for links to crime and terrorism

Funding

Recruiter Samuel Knight using equity boost to add 40 staff

Gresham House Ventures invests undisclosed sum into Newcastle-based recruiter

Funding

Retail analytics platform ContentSquare raises £45m in new funding round

Platform customers include IKEA, Matalan, LVMH and L’Occitane.

Entrepreneurs

Married couple behind Grenade bars win entrepreneur of the year

Husband and wife join list that includes breakthrough start-ups BrewDog and Cambridge Satchel Co

News

Number of foreign buyers acquiring UK companies falls by 11% in Q4

Brexit uncertainty means EU buyers have adopted a 'wait and see' approach

Funding

Firefly school learning platform raises further £5m from Downing Ventures

'EdTech' software is widely adopted by independent schools.

Funding

TV analytics platform Admo.tv raises £5m to expand UK presence

Series B funding will capitalise on boom in global TV analytics market

Private equity

Private equity buyout deals to slow down in face of Brexit uncertainty

But Q4 2018 private-equity deals hit 10-year high in run-up to Christmas

Funding

Augmentum Fintech invests £8m in small business lender Iwoca

Series D investment is part of a much bigger February funding round

News

Oxfordshire-based EnergyTec campus grows by 17% in nine months

Harwell Campus brings together 61 organisations involved in low-carbon energy research.

Funding

Newable launches £10m EIS fund to help grow technology startups

Angel investor scheme targets tech firms in medicine, automation and space industry

Funding

Roadside assistance platform Urgent.ly raises £16m in funding

Top car marques including Jaguar Land Rover, BMW and Porsche co-invest in breakdown platform