The Manchester-based cyber security platform raised £3m from backers including Senovo and Passion Capital.
"We successfully gain access to organisations’ data and systems every time and it’s almost always as a result of human behaviour or error. As an example, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is often touted as a key cyber defence – yet we find that an average of 32% of employees accept MFA authentication requests sent by attackers, essentially opening the door for them. The traditional awareness training approach simply doesn’t improve behaviours like this – hacking people is still too easy."
The London proptech startup has raised its first outside capital to expand its team and enhance its automated land discovery tools.
"Given the amount of information that must be located and then analysed, sourcing sites is often a huge challenge for property developers; it’s like searching for a needle in a haystack. Understanding this first-hand, we created SearchLand to take pain, complexity and time out of the site-sourcing process."
The London-based customer relationship management platform has secured seed backing from Point Nine Capital, Balderton Capital, and Headline to scale its engineering operations.
"Modern businesses need flexible and collaborative tools that grow and adapt as their operations do, but too many teams are stuck using rigid, unyielding CRM tools that aren't built for the 21st Century. Attio is the antidote. It allows companies to remove manual data entry, drawing from existing data streams like email and calendars, to create a complete dataset before building total customizable workflows on top, empowering teams with the exact workflow they need. We're really excited about the potential for Attio to transform how companies approach CRM and are looking forward to working with our brilliant investors to achieve it."
The funding round was led by LearnStart to build out the mobile learning platform for startup operators.
"Riya started off in business, then became more technical. I was a computer science graduate, but knew I wanted to have a company, so I followed the traditional route, went to Harvard and did my MBA."
The seed round was led by Pi Labs with participation from Sugar Capital, 7percent Ventures and notable angel investors.
"Our vision is that every physical space will become digitally connected, enabling an entirely new type of interaction with the world around us. These 'smart spaces' will unlock rich information and transform billions of daily interactions for shoppers and retailers. Right now, the biggest players in tech are working on building next-generation augmented reality wearables, and we’re building the killer consumer use-cases for this transformative technology. In the future, providing a frictionless digital experience in a physical location will become as essential for every business as having a website is today."
