The mobile challenger bank secured the capital from thousands of crowd investors after reaching its target in less than two minutes.
"We’re the first bank to enable customers to become shareholders through a crowdfunding platform. Our customers are already helping us to build the bank from the ground up by alpha testing the mobile app. They deserve to be a real part of our journey to be a bank that people can trust and puts them back in control of their finances. We want to continue to involve them in future funding rounds."
Bristow Group and MMC Ventures have backed drone inspection provider Sky-Futures in a $5.7m investment round.
"This partnership between Bristow and Sky-Futures enables us to rapidly expand the operational delivery of drone-based inspection services in the global oil and gas market. We’re really excited because it allows us to enhance our advanced technology platform that powers industrial data capture and analysis, providing our clients with increasingly valuable and actionable information. We’re working on automating the entire analysis process using algorithms to provide a high degree of confidence to engineers. This will enable more efficient operations, planning and maintenance of the infrastructure."
The investment round was led by Atomico with participation from JamJar Investments and several angel backers.
"Farmdrop is on mission to fix the food chain by making it easy to buy the best food from the best local producers. We believe everyone deserves a more delicious world and this investment will help us continue to improve the product and spread the word about the Farmdrop revolution."
The funding round features participation from a syndicate of backers including Salesforce Ventures and Technology Crossover Ventures.
"In our last financial year, we grew our international new business by more than 500%, and with our world-class technology and relentless commitment driving innovation, market position and momentum, coupled with a multi-billion dollar opportunity, we look forward to continuing our impressive growth trajectory while helping our global customer base grow their businesses with improved efficiency and greater customer advocacy."
The parking platform secured its capital from over 2,900 investors in a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign.
"We’ve been overwhelmed by the positive response to our crowdfunding campaign. The way that the public have got behind JustPark and put their faith in us has been a huge vote of confidence, and genuinely humbling. We’re now looking forward to the next stage of our growth and to working alongside a loud, proud collective of our most passionate users to bring parking into the 21st century."
