The Birmingham-based smart electric vehicle startup has raised funds to expand manufacturing and advance autonomous mapping.
"We are delighted that AIN investors have backed our vision of transforming the mobility sector with a powerful and portable alternative to full size Smart EVs such as Polestar, Tesla and Lucid. There is simply no 2-wheel EV platform on the planet that would take all large 4-wheel EV perks and make them portable, from eliminating range anxiety to worldwide tracking to supercharging."
Royal Mail Group has backed the NHS-integrated pharmacy platform in a pre-seed round to help local healthcare providers expand their digital services.
"The pandemic has outlined the necessity of community healthcare and the power of digital delivery. In the UK today, it is estimated that just 3% of all prescriptions are ordered digitally, with most UK pharmacies still lacking the ability to digitise their services. This places undue pressure on the wider NHS and prevents an estimated 18 million GP consultations being transferred to community pharmacists, who are equipped to manage many health conditions that would typically be associated with GP care. Today’s investment will help local pharmacies across the UK adapt, survive and thrive by arming them with the necessary technology to exist in our houses as well as on our high street."
Jenson Funding Partners provided the capital as part of an ongoing round to support team expansion and product development.
"My experience of travel, personally and professionally, has historically been like buying an album in a record store – it’s a fixed item and you get what you’re given."
Lightbird Ventures led the pre-seed round, which will fund team expansion as the company addresses strong demand from enterprise clients.
"We’re very excited to announce this new funding as we embark on the next stage of our growth journey. Having personally experienced the pains of designing and personalising countless sales assets and navigating complex buyer journeys throughout my career, I’m confident trumpet is the answer to these industry-wide problems. The platform provides salespeople with a no-code solution to create live, centralised and personalised microsites which can be used across the entire sales cycle. This seamless experience speeds up, and optimises buyer journeys whilst reducing the growing amount of admin salespeople are faced with. Covid-19 accelerated digital transformation like never before and we are well-positioned to provide the perfect tool to help stimulate a digital shift in B2B sales and the initial data coming out of the Beta is extremely exciting."
The pre-seed investment was led by Kevin Beales and will fund platform development and community growth.
"I built Grid Finder to solve a problem for what I thought was a relatively niche group of sim racers I’d been racing with online. 6 months later, over 1000 esports communities had listed themselves on Grid Finder and I realised this was a real opportunity to build a useful suite of tools that solves problems for over 1.8 million sim racers and hundreds of millions of casual online racers worldwide."