| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.01.2025 | Synthesia: The Rise of AI-Powered Video Communication | In the world of technology, change is the only constant. Today, we witness a seismic shift in how businesses communicate. Enter Synthesia, a London-based company that has redefined video communication through artificial intelligence. Recent... |
| 16.01.2025 | Synthesia's Ascent: A Beacon in the AI Landscape | In the bustling world of artificial intelligence, Synthesia stands tall. The London-based startup has just doubled its valuation to a staggering $2.1 billion. This leap follows a $180 million funding round, a testament to its growing influe... |
| 16.01.2025 | Создатель ИИ-аватаров Synthesia привлек $180 млн при оценке в $2,1 млрд | Финансирование серии D удваивает оценку стартапа Synthesia до $2,1 млрд, заявила компания в среду. Венчурная компания NEA Management возглавила раунд, в который вошли Atlassian Ventures и инвестиционный инструмент Penny Pritzker. Предыдущие... |
| 15.01.2025 | AI video platform Synthesia raises $180M, doubling valuation to $2.1B
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The London-based company said toda... |
| 15.01.2025 | Synthesia UK’s Most Valuable GenAI Media Firm Following £147M Round | AI-powered enterprise video communications platform Synthesia has announced it has secured a $180 million (£147m~) Series D funding round.
This latest funding round brings the London-based tech company’s total capital raised to over $330m (... |
| 15.01.2025 | Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1bn and pledges commitment to UK | One of the UK’s most hyped AI startups has doubled its valuation to $2.1bn, following a $180m funding round, and has pledged that the UK will remain its headquarters.
Synthesia, founded in 2017, makes AI-powered corporate videos and has bec... |
| 05.12.2024 | PocDoc: £5 Million Raised To Advance Diagnostic Testing For Cardio | PocDoc is a company transforming access to cardio, metabolic, and renal diseases by enabling patients to use smartphone-based technology to undertake screenings that offer almost instant results in workplaces, communities, and at home. This... |
| 30.11.2024 | PocDoc: Pioneering Digital Diagnostics with a £5M Boost | In the heart of Cambridge, a health-tech revolution is brewing. PocDoc, a startup that emerged in 2020, has just secured £5 million in pre-A funding. This is not just another investment; it’s a lifeline for a company on a mission to transfo... |
| 29.11.2024 | PocDoc Raises £5M in Seed Follow On Funding | PocDoc, a Cambridge, UK-based health-tech startup, raised £5M in Pre-A funding.
Backers included MMC Ventures, Molten VC and Simplyhealth Ventures, and KHP Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to support its continued rapid growth... |
| 26.11.2024 | Cambridge-based PocDoc raises €5.9 million in pre-A funding for digital diagnostics | UK health-tech startup PocDoc has announced the successful completion of a €5.9 million pre-A funding round, marking the reportedly largest raise at this stage for a UK digital diagnostics company. The investment round was led by MMC Ventur... |
| 15.11.2024 | Unlocking the Green Frontier: A Call to Action for Climate Investment | The world stands at a crossroads. On one side lies a future of sustainable growth, where green technologies flourish and industries transform. On the other, a stagnation fueled by outdated practices and a reliance on carbon-heavy products. ... |
| 15.11.2024 | Tangible secures £4M funding to bridge climate hardware financing gap | Climate hardware fintech Tangible has secured £4.0 million in funding.
Tangible helps harness the potential of asset-backed financing structures through innovative software that facilitates the structuring, modeling, and management of trans... |
| 09.10.2024 | Blecon raises $4.6M to enhance Bluetooth’s potential for commercial IoT deployments | Blecon has raised $4.6 million Seed funding, advancing its mission to unlock the full potential of Bluetooth Low Energy for IoT Connectivity.
Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, by seasoned IoT experts from ARM, AWS, and Mic... |
| 23.09.2024 | London-based Simpler raises €9 million to transform the checkout experience | Simpler, a platform transforming the way merchants handle checkout by providing a unified, one-click buying experience across all channels, has raised €9 million from new and existing investors, including VentureFriends, MMC Ventures, Lamda... |
| 11.09.2024 | Ogre AI: Powering the Future of Energy with AI Innovation | In the heart of Europe, a quiet revolution is brewing. Ogre AI, a Romanian-British startup, is making waves in the energy sector. With a recent funding boost of €3 million, the company is poised to reshape how we forecast energy generation ... |
| 11.09.2024 | London-based energy tech Ogre AI bags €3 million to enhance grid efficiency | Ogre AI, a Romanian-British energy tech startup focused on data science and specialized in providing AI-based forecasting solutions for the energy sector, recently closed a new investment round of €3 million.
VERBUND X Ventures, the corpora... |
| 03.07.2024 | Что такое «ИИ-пиар» и почему это проблема? | В этом году Amazon столкнулась с критикой в адрес технологии Just Walk Out, установленной в ее физических магазинах. Предполагалось, что покупатель может зайти в одну из точек Amazon Fresh или Amazon Go, выбрать товар и просто уйти. Система... |
| 13.06.2024 | 13 UK-Based VCs Invested in 15 Romanian Startups, with Seedcamp Leading in Deals | Romania, UK ~
Company:
UK/Romania Business, in cooperation with CMS, Endeavor Romania and How to Web, published their “Technology Report: Understanding and Advancing the UK/Romania Opportunity”.
The report, launched yesterday at the Palace ... |
| 13.07.2021 | Lookiero, Europe’s leading personal shopping service, raises $30 million | Lookiero, the online personal shopping service, today announces that it has closed a $30 million funding round led by the family-backed private equity and growth capital investor Perwyn, with follow on investment from existing investors MMC... |
| 02.05.2020 | Report: UK Blockchain or DLT Firms are Increasingly Using Traditional Fundraising Methods, Not ICOs | A recent study published by VC firm, MMC Ventures, reveals that the United Kingdom’s blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)-focused companies are increasingly turning to traditional fundraising options and strategies.
The study c... |
| 30.04.2020 | MMC Ventures Releases Report on Blockchain and Crypto | London, UK-based venture capital firm MMC Ventures has released a new research report looking at blockchain and crypto finding that the industry is alive and represents the future.
The research, titled “Crypto Winter or Crypto Spring? Reaso... |
| 30.04.2020 | How is coronavirus impacting the funding landscape for startups? | When the spread of the coronavirus was declared a ‘pandemic’ by the world health organisation a few weeks ago, at EU-Startups we saw a slowing down of funding news which lasted about two weeks.
However things have started to pick up again, ... |
| 26.04.2020 | Top 25 Machine Learning Startups To Watch In 2020 | istock |
| 21.04.2020 | Paul Turton, CEO of Pact Coffee, on coping with the COVID-19 crisis | MMC first invested in Pact Coffee in 2014. Since then the business has experienced ups and downs like many growing startups. In 2016 a new CEO, Paul Turton, was appointed to implement a turnaround plan. The plan worked, the business became ... |
| 21.04.2020 | MMC leads $12m funding for Peak, the enterprise AI System provider | We're excited to announce that Peak, the AI-driven data analytics provider, has raised another $12m in a Series A extension round led by MMC and other existing investors. The new investment brings Peak's total funding to $18m. MMC first bac... |
| 15.04.2020 | Live-in care specialist, Elder, sees a 50% rise in inquiries amid Covid-19 safety concerns | Elder is seeing a 50% rise in inquiries for its full time, in-the-home service from both families with dependent relatives and carers themselves. The hike comes amid increasing safety concerns about the residential care sector's vulnerabili... |
| 14.04.2020 | Hospitals using Current Health tech to monitor Coronavirus patients at home | Current Health offers the leading FDA-cleared, AI-powered patient management platform. Hospitals, including Baptist Health, an eight-hospital system operating mostly in Kentucky, are using Current Health for remote patient monitoring. The i... |
| 13.04.2020 | TechRound interview James Hirst, COO and Co-Founder of Tyk | MMC first backed API management business, Tyk, in 2019. We led the company's £4 million series A round. The business was founded in 2014 and until then the business had been bootstrapped and taken no external investment.
In this interview,... |
| 11.03.2020 | Coronavirus update from Managing Partner, Bruce Macfarlane | Below is a note from MMC Managing Partner, Bruce Macfarlane, providing an update on the impact on MMC and our portfolio companies from the coronavirus.
We have been asked by several clients to provide a commentary on the impact on MMC and ... |
| 17.02.2020 | Custodian for digital assets, Copper, rasies $8m to expand | This fundraise follows Copper’s announcement that it will provide prime brokerage services for Europe’s leading UK-regulated institutional manager of digital assets, Nickel Digital Asset Management, on its second fund Digital Gold Instituti... |
| 06.02.2020 | Masabi announces latest investment from Shell | Masabi has announced its latest investment from energy producer, Shell. This investment is an extension to Masabi’s recent $20 million growth funding round. Shell's investment will help support the global expansion of Masabi’s Justride plat... |
| 24.01.2020 | MMC backs commodity pricing prediction business, ChAI, in $1.7m seed round | We’re excited to announce our investment in ChAI as part of a $1.7 million seed round alongside Passion Capital and Dynamo Ventures.
ChAI uses AI and machine learning to provide “signals” to help assess potential changes to commodity price... |
| 20.01.2020 | MMC doubles down on digital health startup, Elder, as it announces £8.2 million fundraise | We're delighted to continue partnering with Pete and the team at Elder as they announce an £8.2 million funding round.
Elder is one of the UK's fastest-growing startups and has delivered more than 350,000 days of care in more than 300 town... |
| 10.12.2019 | $11.5m Series A to Fuel Current Health’s International Growth | Scottish medtech company Current Health has raised $11.5 million (£9m) as part of a Series A funding round led by MMC Ventures.
The investment marks a major milestone for the Edinburgh-based company (formerly known as Snap40) as it plans fo... |
| 03.12.2019 | The Top Five Mistakes Companies Make With AI | |
| 24.11.2019 | Our decentralised future? A blockchain primer | In 2018, expectations for blockchain technology, and the value of blockchain currencies, fell to earth. The blockchain ‘winter’ has been bitter.
There are signs of green shoots. Corporate blockchain adoption has reached a ‘turning point’ (... |
| 23.11.2019 | The ‘circular economy’: we’re investing in a sustainable future | At MMC Ventures we’re making an exciting, emerging theme — the ‘circular economy’ — a priority for understanding and investment. The circular economy, which involves maximising value from resources and minimising waste, presents both an eco... |
| 18.11.2019 | MMC launches £100m Scale Up Fund to support long term partnerships | At MMC we believe that to be an effective partner to the exceptional entrepreneurs we back, the only viable approach to investing is to deepen our own understanding and commitment and to provide real support as companies scale.
Today, we'r... |
| 18.11.2019 | MMC Ventures Launches £100M Scale Up Fund | MMC Ventures, a London, UK-based research-led venture capital firm, launched a new £100m scale up fund.
The Scale Up Fund, which was raised from institutional investors, will provide primary capital to current portfolio companies that have ... |
| 18.11.2019 | MMC Ventures outs new £100M ‘Scale Up’ fund to double-down on its portfolio at the later stage | MMC Ventures, the London-based VC that typically invests at seed and Series A via the various funds it manages, has launched a new £100 million “Scale Up” fund to provide expansion capital to its later-stage portfolio companies.
This is a m... |
| 13.11.2019 | MMC backs Belfast-based Cloudsmith in £2.1m seed round | We're proud to be supporting Cloudsmith as the team build for the next stage of software development. Cloudsmith’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offers an advanced logistics platform for software developers, operators and vendors, who need t... |
| 29.10.2019 | The 50 most inspiring, prominent, and influential black voices in UK tech | It’s no secret that diversity is a challenge in the tech world, with the tech industry lagging behind the rest of the economy on almost every diversity metric.
But in the week in which a tech founder was named at the top of the #powerlist2... |
| 22.10.2019 | Signal AI Raises $25 Million Series C funding round | We’re very proud to be continuing our support for Signal AI, one of the leading companies transforming how executives make sense of the information explosion, as it announces the successful completion of its $25 million Series C funding rou... |
| 14.10.2019 | Artificial Intelligence By The Numbers: 10 Facts About AI | This is a special post from Hewlett Packard Labs, a powerful innovation engine for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Hewlett Packard Labs helps customers and address everything from IT trends to complex consumer and social challenges
If yo... |
| 23.09.2019 | Lookiero cierra una ronda de $19M liderada por MMC Ventures, acuden All Iron Ventures, Bonsai, 10X, Fondo Santander Smart, Seed Bizkaia y GCRPV | 23/09/2019
Nota de prensa
LOOKIERO CIERRA UNA RONDA DE $19 MILLONES LIDERADA POR MMC VENTURES, ACUDEN ALL IRON VENTURES, BONSAI PARTNERS, 10X, FONDO SANTANDER SMART, SEED CAPITAL BIZKAIA Y GCRPV.
Lookiero, el servicio líder en personal s... |
| 23.09.2019 | Fashion startup Lookiero bags $19m: “We’re not worried about Stitch Fix” | Introducing AI to the world of fashion has proven to be a lucrative affair. Look at Stitch Fix, a US-based women’s clothing recommendation service, which pulled in over $1.5bn in annual revenue and has grown at pace since its initial public... |
| 20.09.2019 | In-Q-Tel Joins $8.8M Series A for Red Sift | Red Sift, the cognitive data platform that provides cloud-based email security solutions, today announced it has closed a $8.8m investment round from research-led VC MMC Ventures. New investor In-Q-Tel, Inc. (IQT) the US not-for-profit stra... |
| 20.09.2019 | MMC leads $19 million round for Bilbao-based Lookiero | Lookiero, is Europe’s leading personal shopping startup and we're very pleased to have led its $19 million funding round with support from existing investor All Iron Ventures, and new investors Bonsai Partners, 10x and Santander Smart. The ... |
| 19.09.2019 | MMC leads $8.8m Series A funding round for cybersecurity business, Red Sift | Cofounders Rahul Powar and Randal Pinto
We're proud to have led the $8.8m investment round for Red Sift, the cognitive data platform that provides cloud-based email security solutions. New investor In-Q-Tel also invested alongside existing... |
| 19.09.2019 | London-based cybersecurity startup Red Sift raises €8 million Series A | London–based Red Sift, a cognitive data platform that provides cloud-based email security solutions, has raised €8 million investment round led by MMC Ventures along with new investor In-Q-Tel, the CIA-backed venture capital firm, and exist... |
| 16.09.2019 | MMC backs fintech company, TreasurySpring, in £2 million round | We’re very pleased to announce our support of TreasurySpring, the fintech company unlocking multi-trillion dollar short-term funding markets.
We invested alongside ETFS Capital in a £2 million round. The company has now raised over £3.5m s... |
| 03.09.2019 | Smart Capital: Why money is just the start | MMC Partner and Head of Research, David Kelnar, presenting at a recent event with MMC Venture Partner Dr Janet Bastiman.
In a competitive venture market standing out as a fund of choice can be the difference between top-quartile and medioc... |
| 13.08.2019 | We’re investing in the future of healthcare | Author: Tom Moon
At MMC Ventures, Healthcare is a key area of research and investment. I’m excited to invest in start-ups that will reshape the way I practised medicine.
I began my career as a doctor in the NHS and invested approximately ... |
| 18.07.2019 | Are Food Delivery Apps the Death Knell of Home Cooking? Gousto Says No with Extra £30m Funding | In a hapless stab at morbid and click-baity headline writing, the Swiss bank UBS released a report this time last year entitled “Is the Kitchen Dead?”
The report concluded with an obvious and possibly underwhelming ‘No, not yet.’ However, U... |
| 15.07.2019 | Gousto raises further £30 million | UK recipe box company Gousto has secured an additional £30 million through its latest funding round. MMC Ventures is one of the earliest investors in Gousto and this round was led by private equity firm Perwyn. The additional funding takes ... |
| 12.07.2019 | MMC leads £4 million funding round for API management business, Tyk | We are proud to announce our investment in Tyk Technologies, the industry-leading API gateway and management platform.
We led the £4 million round and the funding will be used to accelerate Tyk’s presence in rapidly-growing markets, specif... |
| 09.07.2019 | Fashion software company, Unmade, raises £4.75m to fund continued expansion | We are excited to support Unmade's £4.75 million investment alongside Octopus Ventures and Felix Capital.
Founded by Hal Watts, Kirsty Emery-Laws and Ben Alun-Jones, Unmade was started with the mission to reimagine both the design and manu... |
| 02.07.2019 | MMC takes home 'Early Stage Fund of the Year' at the UKBAA Awards | This Award recognises the most active and impactful VC / Early Stage Fund in the UK that is bringing both investment and strong added value to build and scale their portfolio businesses and that demonstrates a key focus on co-investing with... |
| 27.06.2019 | MMC announces Qflow, the first investment from its Greater London Labs programme | We're proud to have backed the brilliant team at Qualis Flow as they aim to drastically reduce the impact construction work has on the local and global environment. Founded by Brittany Harris and Jade Cohen, two ex-construction professional... |
| 20.06.2019 | Introducing The AI Playbook: your blueprint for AI success | Embracing AI can seem daunting
AI is today’s most important enabling technology. Leading startups, scale-ups and enterprises are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to unlock revenue growth and cost savings at the expense of their competito... |
| 14.06.2019 | ‘The Disruptors’ — Unique insight into Europe’s 1,600 AI startups (Part 1) | For our groundbreaking State of AI report we undertook a unique, company-by-company analysis of AI startups across Europe, and spoke with hundreds of AI entrepreneurs, to deliver unprecedented insight into the European AI ecosystem. We’re e... |
| 14.06.2019 | ‘The Disruptors’ — Unique insight into Europe’s 1,600 AI startups (Part 1) | For our groundbreaking State of AI report we undertook a unique, company-by-company analysis of AI startups across Europe, and spoke with hundreds of AI entrepreneurs, to deliver unprecedented insight into the European AI ecosystem. We’re e... |
| 03.06.2019 | MMC Ventures Launches £52M Seed Fund | UK-based venture capital firm MMC Ventures has launched the £52m MMC Greater London Fund as part of the Mayor of London’s new initiative – the Greater London Investment Fund.
The MMC Greater London Fund (GLF) will enable investment into inn... |
| 30.05.2019 | Mayor Sadiq Khan allocates €59 million to MMC Ventures to support early-stage businesses in London as part of his economic development plan | The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has tagged €113 million to support startups in the city through his launch of The Greater London Investment Fund. The fund will invest in 170 companies that have previously had difficulties securing investme... |
| 30.04.2019 | Masabi secures $20m funding to accelerate global growth | Masabi, the company bringing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ticketing and payments to public transport, today announced a $20 million growth funding round with investment led by new investor, Smedvig Capital. MMC Ventures and other existing i... |
| 08.03.2019 | Top startup news for today, Friday, March 8, 2019 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Friday, March 8.
Chinese startups are advertising for attractive women to ease coders’ stress. Even though it is against the Chinese law, startups in China a... |
| 05.03.2019 | New research identifies ‘the age of the AI entrepreneur’ | New research identifies ‘the age of the AI entrepreneur’
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A report released today from venture capital firm MMC Ventures, in association with Barclays, shows that one in 12 new startups in Europe is an AI company – compared with j... |
| 05.03.2019 | Forty per cent of AI start-ups in Europe aren't involved in AI | Forty per cent of all new supposedly artificial intelligence start-ups in Europe don't actually use AI in any key part of their business.
That's according to a new report that claims to have examined 2,830 technology start-up companies in t... |
| 21.02.2019 | AI cyber defender Senseon secures $6.4m to redefine industry approach | AI cyber defender Senseon secures $6.4m to redefine industry approach
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Senseon, the next generation AI platform for cyber defence, has announced the completion of a seed funding round of $6.4m. The seed funding will support Senseo... |
| 21.02.2019 | AI cyber defender Senseon secures $6.4m to redefine industry approach | Senseon, the next generation AI platform for cyber defence, has announced the completion of a seed funding round of $6.4m. The seed funding will support Senseon’s scaling of technology and presence in EMEA and the US.
Leading the investment... |
| 23.01.2019 | MMC backs AI-powered Growth Intelligence again with £1.7m funding round | MMC- backed Growth Intelligence has raised £1.7m funding, led by 24Haymarket, to help marketers and sales leaders drive faster growth with AI.
Founded in 2013, Growth Intelligence helps high profile brands, including American Express, FedE... |
| 07.01.2019 | MMC continue to back Gousto as the business announces another £18m funding |
UK-leading meal kit company, Gousto, has raised another £18m in equity funding -
bringing the total raised since launch to £75m. Attracting new investment from global health influencer, Joe Wicks, along with all existing shareholders: MM... |
| 20.09.2018 | NewVoiceMedia acquired by Vonage in $350m deal | We want to congratulate the team at NewVoiceMedia on finding their new home with Vonage, yesterday’s announcement is a reflection of their years of hard work and dedication. CEO Denis Fois, has done a great job driving the business to this ... |
| 07.08.2018 | MMC announces its newly-formed advisory board and venture partner programme | We are pleased to announce the appointment of senior advisers to help guide the firm’s next phase of growth. Following major investment into our research function over the last two years, the new advisory board and venture partners will enh... |
| 06.05.2018 | StorageOS Raises $8M from Bain Capital Ventures, MMC Ventures, 645 Ventures | StorageOS Announces General Availability of Persistent Container Storage Solution
To drive expansion of its cloud native storage solution, the company also announces $8 million Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures
KubeCon, Copenhag... |
| 06.05.2018 | StorageOS Raises $8M from Bain Capital Ventures, MMC Ventures, 645 Ventures | StorageOS Announces General Availability of Persistent Container Storage Solution
To drive expansion of its cloud native storage solution, the company also announces $8 million Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures
KubeCon, Copenhag... |
| 31.03.2018 | Episode 2 of Beyond The Hype: AI podcast released | We recently announced MMC Ventures’ new podcast series: “Beyond The Hype: Artificial Intelligence”. Over the series we've interviewed the world’s leading AI technologists, entrepreneurs and corporate executives to go ‘beyond the hype” and d... |
| 31.01.2018 | MMC Ventures promotes Head of Research, David Kelnar, to Partner | Following a highly successful 2017, we are delighted to announce the promotion of Head of Research, David Kelnar, to Partner.
MMC Ventures has focused on the technology sector since it was founded in 2000. Under David Kelnar’s leadership M... |
| 11.12.2017 | MMC Ventures backs AI predictive maintenance company, Senseye, in £3.5m series A funding | Senseye, the leader in predictive maintenance software, has raised £3.5 million for its Series A funding round led by MMC Ventures. The round was also supported by existing investors Breed Reply, IQ Capital and Momenta Partners.
Senseye's ... |
| 29.11.2017 | MMC Ventures backs APEXX in $4 million round | MMC has backed APEXX, the fintech provider bringing much-needed transparency, efficiency and competition to the payments industry, alongside Forward Partners and Alliance Venture.
The global APEXX network is made up of payment service prov... |
| 11.09.2017 | UK data analytics company Peak raises £2.5 million | Peak, a data analytics company based in Manchester, has raised £2.5 million in a Series A round led by MMC Ventures.
Peak provides data analytics-as-a-service and will invest the new funds in machine learning and AI to accelerate its sales ... |
| 31.08.2017 | Sky-Futures secures $4m investment from Japanese conglomerate Mitsui | Whilst on the UK trade mission to Japan led by Prime Minister Theresa May, Sky-Futures confirm a $4m investment and partnership with industrial giant, Mitsui.
Sky-Futures is a specialist provider of drone-based inspection services to the g... |
| 22.08.2017 | MMC Ventures leads additional £1.2m funding for StoryStream | StoryStream, the content acceleration experts, announced today that it has raised £1.2m additional funding, led by MMC Ventures, to advance its offering with Artificial Intelligence (AI).
With this latest investment, StoryStream will use A... |
| 31.07.2017 | MMC portfolio company Love Home Swap sold to Wyndham Worldwide | We are proud to announce the sale of MMC Ventures portfolio company Love Home Swap to Wyndham Worldwide, a leading US-based hospitality company. The deal included the sale of all shares and a successful exit for MMC investors.
Love Home Sw... |
| 08.06.2017 | EIS – In Good Company | EIS companies are traditionally thought of as below the radar of institutional interest being both too small and too high risk to warrant their attention. Today however large corporates and multinational companies are challenging that perce... |
| 16.05.2017 | The MMC Ventures Artificial Intelligence Investment Framework | Artificial intelligence — specifically, machine learning (ML) — is a powerful ‘enabling technology’ that represents a paradigm shift in software capability. But how do we, as investors, evaluate early stage software companies that put ML at... |
| 16.05.2017 | The MMC AI Investment Framework: 17 success factors for the age of AI | Artificial intelligence?—?specifically, machine learning (ML)?—?is a powerful ‘enabling technology’ that represents a paradigm shift in software capability. (New to AI? Read our Primer and UK Market Map). But how do we, as investors, evalua... |
| 12.04.2017 | EIS CGT Deferral – Tackling the ‘terrible tax change’ on buy-to-let | Landlords who directly own mortgaged buy-to-let residential property are facing a seismic change to their financial position as they cease to be able to run the arbitrage between rental income and cheap debt.
As of April 6th 2017 interest ... |
| 06.04.2017 | Henry Emson: VCTs vs EIS - compare and contrast | Within the tax-efficient investment arena there are two leading products for those seeking to benefit from government investment incentives - venture capital trusts (VCTs) and companies that qualify under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (E... |
| 15.03.2017 | VC Firm MMC Ventures Announces Promotions | MMC Ventures, a London, UK-based venture capital firm, has announced some senior promotions and appointments.
The firm promoted two new partners – Simon Menashy and Ameerul Miah (who also becomes Chief Operating Officer).
Simon Menashy has ... |
| 15.03.2017 | After a successful 2016, MMC announces series of promotions | We are delighted to announce significant senior appointments, most notably the promotion of two new partners - Simon Menashy and Ameerul Miah, who also becomes Chief Operating Officer. We have also added to our executive team with Victoria ... |
| 23.02.2017 | Gousto and Bloom & Wild join the Tech City Future Fifty |
Gousto and Bloom & Wild have been included in the 2017 Tech City 'Future Fifty' cohort. The programme recognises the UK's fastest growing technology companies and provides network opportunities, private partnerships and unique links t... |
| 16.02.2017 | Agtech Funding (& Exit) Sheet: Wilbur-Ellis Invests in AgCode, Miyoko’s Kitchen Raises $6m Series B, Verizon Acquires Skyward, more | Verizon has acquired Skyward, a drone operations management platform. Last year Skyward partnered with PrecisionHawk to offer farmers and other industry customers a package of technology tools. It operates in other industries too. Verizon V... |
| 17.01.2017 | Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe - David Benigson of Signal Media | David Benigson, CEO and founder of recent MMC investment Signal Media, has been included in the media category of the 'Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe'.
The programme recognises innovators from across the continent and inclusion is based upon ve... |
| 09.01.2017 | AI in the UK: Landscape and learnings from 226 startups |
With every paradigm shift in technology, waves of innovation follow as companies improve and then reimagine processes. Today we are in the early stages of the global artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. Machine learning algorithms, wh... |
| 08.01.2017 | How to claim EIS relief on your EIS Fund investments | EIS relief is claimed on an investment-by-investment basis; each Investee Company applies to HMRC for authorisation* to issue the relevant EIS certificates (known as EIS3 certificates) to investors. The EIS3 certificates are forwarded to In... |
| 19.12.2016 | Breathing Buildings acquired by Volution Group plc | Breathing Buildings has been sold to Volution Group plc. The acquisition involved the sale of all shares and a successful exit for MMC investors.
Breathing Buildings was formed in 2006 as a spin-out from the University of Cambridge, collab... |
| 14.12.2016 | UK-based Signal Media raises £5.8 million for AI-powered news gathering | UK-based Signal Media, a company that uses artificial intelligence to scan and analyse news stories, has raised £5.8 million. Investors include MMC Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Frontline Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures, and Local Globe.
Sign... |
| 10.11.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: BioConsortia Closes $12m Debt/Equity Round, Privateer Raises $40m, more | BioConsortia, an ag biotech company commercializing and developing microbes for crop enhancement, completed a $12 million raise. This includes an $8 million equity round from bigwig VCs Khosla Ventures and Otter Capital, both existing inves... |
| 03.11.2016 | UK-based Gousto gets £10 million to deliver more recipe kits | Gousto, a meal recipe delivery startup from the UK, has raised £10 million in new funding from BGF Ventures, Unilever Ventures, MMC Ventures, Angel CoFund, and Barclays to accelerate its growth.
The company said it delivers recipe kits for ... |