The seed round will fund content creation, team expansion, and international growth.
"We’ve moved quickly since the inception of Your Juno amid the pandemic, testament to the appetite for a financial education platform built by and for women and non-binary people. It was important for us to ensure our investors reflected our users and so we’re happy to have a strongly female, racially diverse group of investors and advisors who understand our community and can help us in this next stage of our growth"
Fearless Adventures has led a £300k investment round in WalkSafe to support user acquisition and digital marketing.
"As a team at Fearless Adventures, we fundamentally believe in Emma’s vision for WalkSafe, that technology combined with police crime data can genuinely help save lives. The new tech already has national attention and we see this app becoming the leading personal safety service. Emma’s commitment and passion are infectious and made it a very easy investment decision for us. We’re excited to offer them access to high-quality talent and marketing expertise to really scale their business."
The London-based fintech secured backing from Mosaic Ventures alongside over 65 angel investors to scale its engineering team.
"At a time when UK citizens are facing the worst inflation crisis for 30 years, household expenses are the largest component of people’s living costs, and yet most of us are routinely exploited by companies who hack our inattention to sneak in loyalty taxes at every turn. Nous will change that. Unlike anyone else in this field, we’re on the side of households, and we’re building a service to make people’s lives simpler and fairer."
Pluto Digital has invested £4m in the London studio to support growth and launch a new metaverse venture called Emergent Games.
"Emergent Games has a strong ‘game first’ philosophy which means creating absolutely awesome games for all gamers, with an optional crypto element, enhancing the experience for those interested. We believe this approach is not only the right thing to do but removes barriers for players moving into blockchain games."