The pre-seed funding round was led by QVentures with participation from Wayra UK to support blockchain infrastructure development.
"We are very excited to be leading Ocyan's funding round and joining the board of a company revolutionising the enterprise market for blockchain applications"
The Series A round was led by Tencent with participation from Graphene Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Rakuten, Fidelity, and Vickers Venture Partners.
"Today’s announcement amplifies our commitment to global markets, whilst fuelling our industry momentum as we continue to build Everledger. Having this strong investor cohort join us at this stage in our development is both validation of the innovation we’ve displayed to date, and a statement of future intent. They will support us in bringing more visibility to good business practices in industries that impact millions, if not billions of people in developing countries."
The Series A round was led by Earthworm with participation from InnoEnergy, Crowdcube, and Centrica to accelerate international expansion and product development.
"At Earthworm we are driven by sustainability and Verv represents a brilliant example of ‘enabling’ technology. Its energy metering, analytics and renewable energy trading platform will help millions to reduce energy consumption, to shift their demand to minimise cost and CO2."
— Will Brocklebank, Head of Projects and Partnerships
The machine learning start up more than doubled its initial target with backing from 1030 investors.
"We are thrilled to have support from 1030 new crowd investors as we embark on a journey from start-up to scale-up. Since our Crowdcube raise in 2017, we have gained interest worldwide for our smart hub technology and blockchain-based energy trading platform and we are excited to take on new markets and customers with propositions which span energy efficiency, insurance, elderly care and renewables."
The funding round was led by angel investor Ashley Cooper with participation from Angels Invest Wales and Hambro Perks Insurtech Gateway.
"David and his co-founders make an impressive team who have developed a massively scalable, market leading technology that addresses a real need in a huge growth sector. Our investment syndicate is excited to be backing DAS and I am delighted to have led this funding round accessing the Wales Angel Co-investment Fund."