British Design Fund provided £125k towards the seed round to support premises relocation and engineering hires.
"Releasing seized fasteners is a massive operational challenge across many industries, with current manual methods often leading to damage to assets and costly delays. With our technology, we aim to help reduce costs, increase operator safety, and provide certainty during maintenance scheduling."
YFM Equity Partners has provided a £2m follow-on investment to support the e-learning platform's global growth.
"We are delighted to continue to partner with YFM for the next phase of our growth. I have greatly valued working with James and the YFM team as we have expanded our sales reach internationally and continue to help our customers to create impactful elearning by unlocking knowledge from any employee."
The Manchester-based psychometric assessment provider has secured Series B backing from Praetura Ventures and Calculus Capital to scale its soft-skills platform across Europe.
"This next phase of investment will help Arctic Shores to realise its mission to help companies see more in people and transform recruitment so that potential will count as much as hard skills or experience."
OMRON Ventures joins existing backers including abrdn, Environmental Technologies Fund, and Granpool Innovative Investments in backing the TechBio platform.
The seed round was led by Par Equity with support from Techstart Ventures, Nile HQ, and notable entrepreneurs.
"HR tech is a fast-growing segment, and what Rich, Craig and the team have built in terms of the technology to support sourcing, onboarding, and helping to retain staff, in such a short amount of time is a remarkable achievement."