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Welcome to the 12th Edition of Techcelerate Investment Deal News, which captures the investments made over the last week in the UK.

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A total of £142.91 million was raised by 16 companies over the last 7 days:

1. Manchester based HealthTech company Biorelate, which makes it easy to analyse scientific trends and connections has raised £700k Seed investment from Maven (£200k), Manchester Tech Trust (£350k) and Catapult Ventures (£150k).  
2. Kidlington based InsureTech company Setoo, which offers insurance and protection as a service raised £7.12 million Series A from Kamet Ventures.
3. Oxford based HealthTech company Oxford VR, which transform mental health for millions with state-of-the-art immersive technology raised £3.2 million Series A from Oxford Sciences Innovation, University of Oxford, Force Over Mass, RT Capital and GT Healthcare Capital Partners.
4. Oxford based Autonomous vehicles company Oxbotica raised £14 million Series A from IP Group, Parkwalk Advisors and AXA XL to accelerate the deployment of self-driving vehicles.
5. Brighton based EdTech company Learning People, which provides online training in IT, coding and digital marketing raised £1.91 million Series A investment from Talis Capital for its geographical expansion.
6. London based FinTech company and Techcelerate Partner Funding Options raised £5 million Series B investment from ING Ventures.
7. London based FinTech company ‌Divido, which offers instalment payment solutions for e-commerce sites and offline merchants raised £11.4 million Series A from Dawn Capital, DN Capital, Initial Capital, MasterCard and American Express Ventures.
8. London based Fintech company Cleo, which offers a digital assistant for consumers to manage their finances has raised £7.66 million Series A investment from Balderton, LocalGlobe, Niklas Zennstrom, Taavet Hinrikus and Simon Franks.
9. London based FinTech company Modulr, which provides bank accounts for business payments raised £10.5 million Series A investment from Blenheim Chalcot.
10. London based FinTech and PropTech company MortgageGym, which provides aregulated mortgage robo-adviser raised £3.8 million Series A from LSL Property Services and GoCompare Group.
11. London based FinTech and PropTech company LendInvest, which offers P2P online mortgage lending platform raised £30.5 million Series C investment from Atomico, GP Bullhound and Tiger Management.
12. London based RetailTech company Primary Bid, which allows retail investors to gain access to discounted equity offerings of publicly listed companies has raised £2 million Seed investment from Lombard Odier, family offices and business Angels to expand in Europe.
13. London based MealDelivery tech company Allplants raised £7.5 million Series A investment from Octopus Ventures, Felix Capital, VerlInvest, Jack Harries, David Milner and Simon Nixon to help fuel the plant-based movement forward.
14. London based MarketPlace company Rated People, which helps to connect homeowners with tradespeople raised £5.2 million Series C investment from Downing Ventures and Channel 4.
15. London based InsureTech company Shepper, which carries out on-demand inspections on assets raised £4.13 million Series A investment from Aviva Ventures, Idekapital Fund and Angel investors to boost product development and international marketing efforts.
16. London based ARTech company Blippar, which offers software for augmented reality, artificial intelligence and computer vision raised £28.2 million Series E from Qualcomm Ventures and Candy Ventures.

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