The London startup will use the capital to advance product development and commercial deployment of its food waste dyes.
"Synthetic dye is used in everything from clothing to bedding and cosmetics. But this type of dye is highly toxic, carcinogenic and incredibly polluting."
Elbow Beach backed the follow-on investment to accelerate commercial launches and robotic harvesting expansion.
"Food manufacturers are facing several significant challenges; together, these issues are creating a challenging environment for food manufacturers, but also opportunities for innovation and growth. We offer food manufacturers a number of ways to respond to these challenges and opportunities, along with the ability to diversify and localise their protein sources."
The Exeter-based travel technology business has secured equity funding led by The FSE Group.
"Travel to events is often expensive, inefficient, and environmentally damaging. STAXY exists to change that. Our technology gives fans better options and clubs better data. With this new investment, we’ll be able to build on our early momentum, deepen our technology offering, and scale our impact across the events industry."
Lifted Ventures led the seed investment alongside Mint Ventures.
"We are truly honoured to join BindEthics on their mission to replace harmful glues and support the critical healthy ageing sector. This is exactly the kind of purpose-led, women-led innovation that is aligned with our members investment values."
The funding round includes a £770k investment from the South West Investment Fund to support tidal technology development.
"This latest funding round is crucial to the next stage of this project, allowing us to build a demonstrator that includes a number of turbine improvements and developments. We're delighted that our investors are backing us on this journey to be part of such an important step in tidal energy infrastructure."