The British brand worked with PACP Consumer Hub to complete its early growth raise.
"Ira not only brings a highly credible period cup to market, but also donates to local villages in her home of Bangalore, where women and girls suffer from period poverty – a great example of truly giving back to the community."
Oxford Innovation Finance's Angel Network has backed Aura in a £560k seed round to expand its digital funeral planning platform.
"Aura has a mission to encourage the conversation about death within families instead of shying away from it. Built on the personal experiences of our Founder and Chairman Paul Jameson, Aura exists to ensure everyone can make a plan to look after their families when they are gone whilst embracing every bit of life while they are here. Our platform creates a society where planning for death is embraced and supported with the power of connection and compassion, redefining funeral planning and delivery. This investment will enable us to develop our solution to end-of-life planning and support that’s really changing lives."
The Chester-based cycle insurer has secured £3.4m in a round led by Puma Private Equity to scale customer acquisition and European growth.
"We’re stoked to close this round and onboard Puma Private Equity as we accelerate growth in the UK and Europe, the next big step in our mission to protect the world’s riders. Working with a company aligned with our values combined with their depth of experience in international growth across a wide range of technology-enabled sectors is a perfect match for Bikmo."
The funding round was led by Dorset Business Angels to support the rollout of a new car trading platform.
"At Honk Honk we decided that we wanted to go full end-to-end cycle, not only allowing the general public/consumers to sell their cars to dealers but also allowing dealers to sell their inventory back to the general public. We also arrange finance and provide buying and selling support and home collections and deliveries. We launched on 1st September 2023. The launch has been staggered, initially launching just the selling part of the journey of cars to dealers. We plan to launch the buying part of the journey (dealers to consumers) in January 2024."
The funding round follows the company securing default browser status on Apple devices and precedes a planned Series A in 2024.
"Being awarded default browser status by Apple is a huge milestone for the Chatloop team, who have worked tirelessly for the last ten months to ensure our app meets Apple’s stringent integration requirements. Our world-class browser is faster than both Chrome and Safari and default browser status across Apple’s products means that billions of people across the world can now enjoy the benefits of Chatloop every time they go online."