The Development Bank of Wales led the round with a £500k investment alongside private investors.
"OpenGenius is excited to gain this investment; it will play a big part in the company’s development over the next year as we continue to expand our international customer base."
The Series A round was led by Nauta Capital with participation from Mercia Fund Managers, and will be used to double the team and enhance product offerings.
"We’re delighted to announce that Nauta has invested into BlackCurve. Their track record speaks for itself, and their advice and support to date has been excellent. We look forward to partnering together on this exciting chapter of our journey. With our existing investor, Mercia, following on too, it is a further proof point of the potential for us to shake up the price optimisation software market and help more retailers optimise their prices."
The indoor farming startup has raised undisclosed capital to support its expansion plans.
"Just Vertical has been received incredibly well generating over six figures in revenue over the last year while seeing steady growth in their recurring revenue line of business. At the same time, our growing technology has managed to save 2.6 million liters of water and eliminate 74 million miles of food transport. These dual benefits for business and the environment have been recognized globally, most recently with Just Vertical winning the People’s Choice Award at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE."
MMC Ventures led the seed round to support international expansion and technological scaling.
"Cyber-attacks are one of the greatest concerns for the modern business. Organisations’ networks are becoming increasingly complex and accelerated tech adoption creates additional noise for attackers to hide within. Meanwhile, attacker innovation is growing, and their techniques evade current cyber defence tools, which are unable to differentiate between genuinely malicious threats and merely new or unusual activity."
Beringea led the £2.4m investment to help DeepCrawl scale its presence in the UK and US markets.
"DeepCrawl has demonstrated its ability to build a platform that delivers tangible impact for global companies with highly complex and technical website architecture,"