The funding from the Sustainable Innovation Fund will support research and development for remote industrial battery management systems.
"This is a really exciting time for enee.io. The Innovate UK grant will enable us to expedite the development process and bring forward the launch of a viable product which we believe will have a significant impact on both the future of industrial battery management in the UK and the uptake of renewable power globally, particularly in developing economies."
The seed round was led by IQ Capital with participation from Episode1, Join, and Seraphim Capital.
"2021 will be the year when Natural Intelligence will challenge deep learning in solving some of the most fundamental short-comings in autonomous applications and this funding round will set Opteran on a path to be at the forefront of this next wave. Already in a position to demonstrate the technology, we are confident that Natural Intelligence will become highly sought after as the way to deliver lightweight, low-cost and effective autonomy in a radically new way that will open up huge growth opportunities for robotics."
Silicon Valley Bank provided the debt financing to support the company in expanding its real-time payments platform.
"We are very excited to deepen our partnership with TransferGo as we look forward to being a part of their growth story as it expands its cycle of innovation to attract more customers to a faster, cheaper and more accessible way to send money around the world,"
The photography start-up secured the capital from its online audience to scale operations and technology.
"brands can have their desired photos taken within 24 hours, in other words, their photos can be done quicker than they even check their emails the next day. We manage all the logistics to ensure the content is ready to download and be used quicker than quick. This is unheard of in the space of photography; think of it like the Mcdonalds Drive-Thru of content."
YFM Equity Partners has led a Series A investment into Leeds-based marketing automation platform Force24.
"In a competitive space traditionally dominated by huge American vendors, we’ve grown – at times against all odds – because we have long stood in the marketer’s corner and are not prepared to lose sight of our values. We take great time and effort to ensure our relationships with clients come first and results second. This has been crucial to our 98% retention rate."
