Techstart Ventures is a venture capital fund manager operating in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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."
Forward Partners led the seed plus financing to help the healthcare technology firm scale its operations in the United States and Europe.
"This investment enables us to focus on the growth of our customer base in the US, develop our customer success strategy and expand our AI capabilities to further enable discovery in healthcare. We are delighted to welcome Forward Partners to the board and feel their commercial insights will help drive the business to increased success."
The seed round was led by LAUNCHub Ventures with participation from Lunar Ventures, Techstart, and 7% Ventures.
"We are amassing the largest 3D product repository in retail, aiming to reach over 100,000 products this year. The sky’s the limit: a streamlined process of adding any existing product to our database in minutes is in place,"
Octopus Ventures leads a £3.5m seed round in Touchlab to advance robotic electronic skin technology.
"Touch is the final frontier for robot interaction and entry into physical environments – enabling true dexterity and safety. We have taken on this challenge by developing a ‘full-stack’ solution; retrofittable e-skin that gathers the data, software to make sense of it, and integration to ensure it works in demanding applications – from grocery grasping to telerobotics in extreme environments. Octopus’ expertise propel us to achieve e-skin’s full potential and create a step-change in robotics."
The seed round was led by Patrick Edwardson with participation from Techstart Ventures and other investors.
