Balderton Capital and Exor Ventures have led a seed round to help finance clinical trials and expand manufacturing capabilities.
"At SAVA we are tackling preventable illness by building a new operating system for health monitoring. Our microsensor will revolutionise healthcare by making world-leading monitoring technology available to all. With this capital, we can accelerate our goal of creating a new paradigm for healthcare – preventative, personalised and painless."
The British children's audio startup has secured £18m in fresh capital, featuring a £8.7m contribution from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan.
"We both had nagging concerns around the effects of excess screen time for young children, with potential negatives around sleep disruption, fine motor control development and addictiveness of screens making us think twice about putting our kids in front of a screen. We’re actually both technophiles and big believers in the power of the internet and tech as a force for good. Screens aren’t always bad! Also, having met whilst working together in the digital music world, we really wanted to give our kids easy access to music and other audio content. So we came up with the idea of a connected, screen-free audio device that kids could be fully in control of using physical smartcards."
Addition led the Series B round with participation from Chevron Technology Ventures, Legal & General, Braavos Capital, and Oxford Science Enterprises.
"As we approach the culmination of the NIST project, we expect newly-ratified standards to help drive rapid adoption of PQC across the technology supply chain. Led by an industry-leading team with decades of experience, PQShield has quickly established itself as a leading authority in post-quantum cryptography for hardware and software. We are excited to see the business continue to build on its existing commercial success and further enhance its efforts in protecting our digital future."
The seed financing was co-led by UKI2S and Cambridge Enterprise Ventures to support the commercial deployment of photonic chip designs.
"The team has spent the past few years building and experimentally validating our design technology – it’s exciting to have the resources to begin deploying it to solve real industry problems."
The London fintech secured the financing facility from Deutsche Bank to support sales growth and future public market plans.
"We’re thrilled to announce the financing as it marks a transformative step in Zilch’s journey. With this new securitisation, we’re poised to triple sales volumes and achieve significant capital efficiencies as we continue to drive billions in commerce to our retail network and, in turn, hundreds of millions in savings and subsidies to our customer base."