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Deals of the Week, December 4 to 11 – Growth Business roundup 11 Dec 2020
Growth Business roundup of Deals of the Week December 4 to 11, listing seed funding, venture capital and crowdfunding deal of note
Staze crowdfunds £500,000 for staycation app
Staze, the new app which puts under-occupied holiday rentals at the fingertips of last-minute bookers, has closed its first crowdfunding round at £500,000.
The £500,000 investment will enable Staze to employ a full-time team to grow its UK staycation property listings from 4,000 to 80,000 by the end of 2021, as well as launching its pan-European arm.
Investors crowd treasury management developers round with £500,000
Crowd Data Systems plans to use the capital to increase R&D, sales and marketing, as it expands its cloud-based apps into cash and treasury management.
Illuminate Financial invests in Net Purpose, pioneer in impact data
LONDON, Dec. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Net Purpose, a global impact data provider, has completed a $2.5m round led by Illuminate Financial, with participation from Revent Ventures; Jim O Neill, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management; Kevin Gould, Co-Founder of Markit; and J Jeffry Louis, former chairman of Gannett Co
. They join existing and new investors, including the Louis family; Matt Cooper, Co-Founder of Capital One Bank and Chairman of Octopus Investments; Sari Miller, Managing Partner, Impact Ventures LLC; Stefano Bernardi from Atomico s Angel Programme; Matt Robinson, Founder of GoCardless and Nested; and Vlad Tropko, Managing Director of Digital Horizon.
Cleo, the AI-powered ‘financial assistant’, raises $44M Series B led by EQT Ventures
Cleo, the London-founded “financial assistant” that takes the form of an app and chatbot and now counts the U.S. as its largest market, has raised $44 million in Series B funding.
Leading the round, which I understand actually closed earlier this year, is EQT Ventures. Also participating are existing investors Balderton Capital, LocalGlobe and SBI.
They join much earlier investors such as Entrepreneur First, Taavet Hinrikus, Matt Robinson, Errol Damelin, Niklas Zennström, Alex Chesterman and Ian Hogarth all well-known names in London’s tech investment community.