, the transatlantic growth capital investor, has added 

, a Chicago-based dental group reinventing the dental experience, to its portfolio. The new investment was part of a $25 million Series B funding round and will be used to open 8—12 more dental practices in Chicago; expand into new markets in 2024 and 2025; and grow the corporate team to support Dentologie’s 60,000 patients and near-200 employees.

Following a $16 million Series A round in 2022, Dentologie began to expand its reach in downtown Chicago, growing from four locations to what will be 10 by year-end 2023. Gregg Kaplan, the founder and former CEO of Redbox DVD Rental, invested in both rounds and joined as CEO at the Series A close. Kaplan grew Redbox from launch in 2002 to over $2 billion in revenue in 11 years.

“Dentistry is a huge, highly fragmented and unsophisticated industry plagued by low customer satisfaction,” said Kaplan. “Dentologie brings a differentiated approach, combining hospitality with the patient experience and cutting-edge dental care. My focus is building patient-facing technology that facilitates better communication, price transparency, accessibility, and an overall improved omnichannel experience for Dentologie patients.”

“Dentologie's novel approach to dentistry and its focus on an enhanced patient experience sets it apart from traditional dental practices,” says William Blake, partner at Beringea.“This capital infusion will allow Dentologie to bring its innovative concept to urban neighborhoods throughout the United States, and we're pleased to support CEO Gregg Kaplan and his team as they methodically scale the business.”

Founded in 2013 by dental school best friends Dr. Suhail Mohiuddin, Dr. Hany Kurdi, and Dr. Oussama Founas, Dentologie is a tech-enabled, patient-focused dental group for urban professionals that is reinventing the dental experience. Dentologie provides expert care for cleanings, cavities, Invisalign and teeth whitening at its seven Chicago dental studios in the South Loop, Streeterville, Bucktown, West Loop, Clark & Diversey, Gold Coast, River North and more. Dentologie serves 60,000 patients and employs nearly 200 team members. For more information, please visit 

Beringea U.S. invests in Chicago-based Dentologie  as part of a $25 million Series B funding round

With funding round complete, Optilogic looks to advance
SaaS supply chain network design innovation

Beringea U.S., a transatlantic venture capital investor that seeks to create lasting success for rapidly scaling entrepreneurial companies, has co-led an investment in supply chain network design software innovator 

. The funding will accelerate research and development of Ann Arbor-based Optilogic’s supply chain network design software platform.

Optilogic plans to expand go-to-market programs across manufacturing, distribution, logistics, consumer goods, and retail industries; grow sales and marketing functions; and fund research and development for its 

Automatically compare hundreds of future-state supply chain scenarios to select the most resilient designs

Implement incremental strategic supply chain changes on realistic timelines

Develop action plans to reduce the impact of supply chain disruptions

Design supply chains that balance cost, service, risk, and sustainability

Pressures of persistent economic and political uncertainty expose the weaknesses of traditional supply chain network design technologies that are slow, require costly capital and IT investment, and have lengthy implementation processes. SaaS-based Cosmic Frog 

network optimization runs 40% faster than competitor solutions

 to allow hundreds of models and scenarios to run in parallel on enterprise-scale computing resources.

"The Optilogic team has developed an impressive cloud solution, one that moves the industry forward in ways that are unique and differentiated from competitors and incumbents,” says Ben Bernstein, principal at Beringea. “We are excited to back a team from our home state that has had proven success before. We look forward to helping the company realize their vision and scale the business in a way that allows their customers to design optimized supply chain systems with a superior user experience."

Optilogic CEO and Founder Donald A. Hicks, sees this funding as a significant step in the company’s growth. “This new investment partnership recognizes the critical nature of the technology we’re building: Optilogic gives any company the ability to envision and design a future supply chain without having to stumble into it. To not just reach the ‘efficiency curve’ of the current supply chain, but to shift the entire curve.”


Optilogic offers cloud-native supply chain network design solutions that enable businesses to evaluate trade-offs across financial performance, service levels, and systemic risk to design resilient supply chains even in the most dynamic, challenging environments. Its 

 supply chain design solution tackles enterprise data at scale, runs models faster than ever, automatically converts legacy models, and requires no IT footprint. Cosmic Frog is the only supply chain design platform to combine 

 engines, and includes a risk rating on every scenario. Solutions include network design, intelligent greenfield analysis and site selection, M&A analysis, near-shoring/reshoring, CapEx planning, cost-to-serve, product flow, and many more. 

Beringea U.S. co-leads investment in Ann Arbor-based Optilogic 

, the leading medical imaging data and AI platform, has raised $54 million in Series D funding. This latest round was co-led by Novalis LifeSciences LLC and NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm. Microsoft also participated in the round, along with Beringea and other returning investors.

The funding will fuel Flywheel’s continued growth in its two primary markets (public sector healthcare and pharmaceutical companies) while accelerating expansion in other markets, including providers, payers, system integrators, and software companies seeking to harness the value of their data for AI development. The capital infusion will also help Flywheel extend its global reach into key geographies, particularly across Europe.

“Flywheel’s products transform healthcare innovation by empowering organizations to efficiently and securely ingest, curate and share medical imaging data for accelerated research and AI development,” said Flywheel CEO Jim Olson.

“Beringea is excited to partner with leading growth capital providers and innovative strategic partners to further foster Flywheel’s growth and advance the use of AI to bring efficiency to healthcare development processes,” said William Blake III, partner at Beringea and board director at Flywheel.

Flywheel is the pioneering medical imaging data and AI platform powering healthcare innovation through streamlined medical imaging data management, curation and analysis. Flywheel helps organizations turn complex imaging data into analysis-ready datasets for accelerated research

and AI development. Flywheel offers comprehensive solutions for pharma companies, providers, payers, system integrators, AI developers and academic medical centers to get optimum value out of their data assets. Flywheel is an Invenshure-founded company headquartered in Minneapolis, with offices in the Bay Area, St. Louis, and Budapest. For more information on our mission and products, visit 

Flywheel announces $54 million Series D funding round

Built environment engagement platform Commonplace secures £2.1m to tackle development and real estate’s need for community data insights

, the citizen engagement platform that uses rich data gathering to inspire thriving places and facilitate planning success, has announced investment of £2.1m from  innovation and proptech investors led by Beringea, the transatlantic venture capital firm, alongside Grosvenor Property UK, The Conduit Impact Fund, Concrete Ventures, Oxford Innovation Finance and Foundation Ventures. This round of investment will fuel Commonplace’s continued expansion, enabling its growing client base to demonstrate the positive impact their work has on the communities they service.

Commonplace is the UK’s most advanced social engagement tool for the built environment. It has already powered more than 3,000 projects for 200 councils and real estate developers, which have engaged more than 6.5 million people across the UK. Its user-friendly, insights-based online platform is used by the cities of London, Leeds and Liverpool, and developers Lendlease, Landsec and Barratt Homes. Internationally, Commonplace has been used to engage with citizens in North America, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and Australasia.

The business provides a digital platform for place and infrastructure developers, local government, architects, and built environment consultancies to collect data from key stakeholder groups including residents and businesses. Typical uses include urban regeneration schemes, high streets, housing developments, pedestrian and cycling schemes and major infrastructure projects. It allows customers to understand the aspirations and concerns of their local audiences, enabling them to create places that respond better to these needs, with greater support.  Having already reached 9% of the UK population, Commonplace’s growth is projected to see over 25m people taking part in conversations about their place in the next few years.

 of its Alternative Investment portfolio last year, designed to deploy capital into early-stage companies capable of accelerating the attainment of its ambitious environmental, social, and commercial goals. Grosvenor’s investment in Commonplace will be the UK property businesses’ fourth in an early-stage company.

Mike Saunders, Co-founder and CEO of Commonplace, commented: “We’re super excited to be joining forces with these leaders in placemaking and proptech to accelerate our mission to inspire thriving places, powered by insights and collaboration. Moving beyond our sector’s aspiration to deliver social value, our work will allow users to define, plan for, target and then evidence the positive impact their buildings and places have on those who live and work in them. Just as environmental measurement frameworks are now supporting our decarbonisation journey, Commonplace’s increased product focus on social value will become a critical support to analyse and understand the ‘S’ in ESG.”.

“It’s vital that people are connected to the places they live, work or play, and have a constructive voice in shaping them. As the government seeks to address housing shortages, cost of living and the pressing need for infrastructure, community collaboration will be key to its success.”

Andy Doyle, Innovation Director at Grosvenor Property UK commented: “Great places are only created and managed through early, open, and two-way engagement with the experts – the people who live and work there. This is a fact that Government and many businesses are now increasingly facing, but are unsure how to effectively augment traditional face to face conversations with digital platforms. Commonplace’s technology powers more inclusive and extensive participation and improves our ability to understand and respond to local knowledge and needs.

As an investor, we see real value in the role Commonplace can play in improving the voice local stakeholders have in the future of their places and as a client we will be applying this within our portfolio to help evolve our own extensive engagement activity, and direct our passion to create high-quality places.”

Eyal Malinger, Investment Director at Beringea, commented: “Commonplace is the enabler of true citizen engagement. Its software enables all levels of government and organisations to listen to the voices of their citizens, customers, and communities, wherever they are. We are excited to be supporting Mike and his team on their journey.”

Commonplace and Grosvenor join forces to lead sector focus on citizen engagement

Funding round led by Mercia will drive expansion in social value sector

 (SVP), the UK’s leading platform for measuring and monitoring social impact, has secured £8.5m in a Series B funding round led by Mercia with support from existing investor Beringea.

This investment will enable SVP to tap into growing demand from the public and private sectors, and launch a new Social Value Academy to help educate business leaders and embed social value into business decision making and delivery.

Founded in 2014 by Guy Battle, former lead sustainability partner at Deloitte, SVP enables organisations to attribute a financial measure to the social good they deliver to communities, people, and the environment. It also helps them identify opportunities to increase their positive impact.

The company, which is based in London with an office in Manchester, today supports more than 16,000 users, from UK public sector bodies such as the NHS and Met Office to global corporates such as Accenture, Vodafone and Fujitsu. SVP is used by over 100 public sector buyers nationwide and is supported by the Local Government Association.

In total, it has enabled users to track over £17bn of social value, up from £2bn at the time of its Series A in 2020. It is also on course to hit its pledge of helping organisations deliver £100bn of social value by the end of 2026.

Measurement of non-financial impact has become increasingly important as organisations face greater regulation and scrutiny of the public, investors and other stakeholders. Since 2012, the Social Value Act has required UK public sector bodies to evaluate ‘economic, social and environmental well being’ as part of public tendering processes, and social value can account for up to 30 per cent of the total weighting when awarding tenders.

Guy Battle, founder and CEO of Social Value Portal, commented: “These are really exciting times for our business and we are delighted that Mercia has invested in us alongside Beringea to help us scale and support more organisations to deliver a positive contribution to society and the planet. This investment will allow us to continue to improve and innovate, making it easier for members to provide more social good.”

Mercia was investing from its Northern Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and its EIS funds. Adam Watts, software investor at Mercia, commented: “Corporates are facing increasing pressure from customers and shareholders to demonstrate their ESG credentials. However reporting on Social impact is more complex than reporting on Environmental and Governance and has often been overlooked.

“Social Value Portal has established itself as the market-leading platform for social impact reporting, and the company’s growth since its last funding round is testament to management’s understanding of the challenges customers face. We are delighted to be partnering with Guy and his team to further develop the platform, and capitalise on its unique position in the market.”

Maria Wagner, Partner, Beringea added: “Since our initial investment in 2020, Social Value Portal has firmly established itself as a leader in measuring and reporting social value for organisations and corporates, or the “S” in ESG. Having successfully secured this round of investment, SVP now has a tremendous opportunity to build on this progress and continue to expand.”

‘Tech for good’ platform that measures social impact raises £8.5m

 has announced an investment of $15 million from Delta-v Capital. EDITED is the provider of the world’s leading AI-driven merchandising experience platform, helping retailers improve predictability in their business by intelligently connecting data, driving insights and automating actions. With EDITED, retailers can infuse data into every strategic decision in the product life cycle.

The growth funding round was led by Delta-v Capital, with support from original investor Wavecrest Growth Partners, alongside original investor groups Beringea and Hermes GPE. Beringea's U.K. funds first invested in EDITED in 2020. 

“In speaking with EDITED’s customers, we heard again and again that they couldn’t imagine doing their jobs without EDITED. That type of advocacy is a clear indication of a company that has found a product-market fit. We are excited to partner with Doug and the leadership team as they capitalise on their market leadership position by further investing in growth,” said Colin Barclay, Partner at Delta-v.

The funding comes on the heels of significant momentum for EDITED. Last year, EDITED saw strong, capital-efficient growth despite difficult market conditions. The company will use the investment toward accelerating product development, investing in partnerships, and opportunistic M&A that will expand EDITED’s value proposition to customers.

“Retailers need to be able to make faster, more surgical decisions, with higher levels of predictability and confidence. With this additional funding, we can continue investing in our platform and allow merchandisers to positively impact their customer experience with powerful insights, fuelled by machine learning,” said CEO Doug Kofoid.

EDITED receives $15M funding from Delta-v Capital to accelerate growth

Investment in healthcare review platform, which has been used by more than 50m patients to date, also backed by existing investors Keen, Amadeus, and Guinness Ventures


Doctify, the leading global platform for patient reviews of health and social care, has today announced that it has secured $10m in a growth round led by Beringea, the transatlantic venture capital firm. The funding round was also backed by existing investors Keen Venture Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, and Guinness Ventures.

Doctify was launched in 2015 by Stephanie Eltz and Suman Saha, who met as trainee surgeons, to address the lack of a trusted or transparent online platform for patient reviews. While the likes of TripAdvisor, Trustpilot, and Glassdoor had enabled consumers around the world to search easily for verified feedback on products, services, and experiences, this model had yet to cut through in global healthcare.

Andreessen Horowitz, the leading venture capital firm, 

recently argued that the largest company in the world will

 be a consumer health tech company given the scale of the market opportunity. The US healthcare industry alone is valued at $4tn - by comparison, 

$2.9tn is spent on leisure travel globally

, and yet travellers can access more than 1bn reviews through TripAdvisor. Doctify is aiming to respond to Andreessen Horowitz’s call.

Since its foundation, Doctify has rapidly established itself as one of the world’s leading platforms for collecting patient reviews. Its platform has today been used by more than 50m patients across the UK, Germany, Austria, UAE, and Australia to find trusted information on clinicians, dentists, care homes, and healthcare practices. Doctify aims by 2025 to have enabled more than 100m patients globally to choose healthcare with confidence.

Doctify also provides vital tools for healthcare providers looking to understand and benchmark their care better, helping providers build a successful practice in a digital world. By collecting and publishing patient feedback in unprecedented numbers, healthcare providers can demonstrate quality of care and expertise, and improve patient experiences and outcomes. The platform has been used to connect patients with more than 25,000 healthcare providers globally, including internationally recognised healthcare providers including Cleveland Clinic, The Royal Marsden, HCA, The Mayo Clinic, and Priory Group.

The funding, which brings total investment in the company to more than £22m, will be used to accelerate growth in key international markets, invest in product, sales and marketing, and expand the team.

Stephanie Eltz, CEO and co-founder of Doctify, commented: “Our health is the most precious thing we have. With Doctify, we are working on building the world’s most important healthcare platform to help millions of patients. We are excited to welcome our new investors Beringea whom we first met years ago, and we are delighted with the support of our existing investors.”

Carrie Babcock, Investment Manager at Beringea, commented: “With referrals, we trust our GP or friends and family when really, that is just a single opinion. Many insurers make referrals to doctors they have the best rates with. Doctify is solving the healthcare journey through patient reviews but also by publishing professional endorsements between doctors. Doctify is giving patients information about their providers that really matters to them. It makes no sense that consumers remain in the dark about healthcare providers, while they can find thousands of reviews for a holiday rental!

“As qualified surgeons who have undergone their own health scares and challenges, Stephanie and Suman are powerhouses who acutely understand the needs of modern patients and would not accept the status quo. We are incredibly excited to be enabling Doctify to scale its vital product to millions more patients globally.”

Doctify secures $10m growth round led by Beringea to drive global growth

Seltzer company aims to expand operations across Europe, as well as growing Australian business


DASH, the zero-sugar, zero-calorie seltzer company known for infusing wonky fruit in its drinks, has announced the completion of an £8.7 million Series A funding round.

The round was led by transatlantic investors Beringea, which has previously backed Monica Vinader, Lucky Saint, and Papier. New investors who took part included Johnny Sexton, Ireland’s rugby captain; and David Milner, DASH’s chairman and former CEO of F&B titans Tyrells, Lily’s Kitchen and St Pierre Bakery.

Listed in more than 10,000 stores globally, B-Corp certified DASH currently leads the UK seltzer category with a 39% share of value sales. Its products are listed in Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Starbucks, British Airways and many more, with 61% of all sales coming through online channels.

Other investors in the round included the founders of Sipsmiths, Beavertown, and former Manchester United footballer Patrice Evra. The seltzer category is forecasted to be worth £290m+ in the UK in the next few years.

Alex Wright, DASH’s co-founder, commented: “This is a big moment for DASH. This latest investment gives us the firepower we need to change the way people look at soft drinks for good.

“It’s clear that people want a genuine alternative to the sugary soft drink, one that’s healthy and uncompromising on taste. But until now, there’s been no other option.

“It’s brilliant to welcome big hitters who share our vision, and want to join us on the next part of the DASH journey. From Beringea’s team, to international sports stars, it’s amazing to see how many people believe in using wonky fruit to create delicious, healthy drinks”

The funding will be used to support DASH’s growth and expansion plans, including increasing production and distribution, and investing in research and development. DASH also plans to expand into new markets across Europe, and to increase its presence in Australia, where it has a growing market share.

Luke Edis, Investment Manager at Beringea, commented: “Beringea sees tremendous potential in DASH. While seltzer is a multibillion-dollar industry in the US, it is a product that has vast potential for growth in the UK and Europe. As the UK’s leading seltzer, DASH is driving the rise of this increasingly valuable category. Its sustainable product, using wonky fruit and veg to reduce food waste, is resonating with consumers looking for a healthy, flavourful drink and we believe it can go from strength to strength across the UK and into Europe.”

DASH's rapid growth has kept pace with market leaders in recent years - the company has demonstrated a 3-year CAGR of 94%.

​​Notable moments from the past year include a highly successful viral marketing campaign, where a 

 was banned from the London Underground by the TFL. The campaign reached over three million people across social media in under two days.

DASH is a certified B Corp and frequently partners with organizations, including FareShare and the London Soup Kitchen, to support local communities.

DASH has gained a loyal following among health-conscious consumers, including high-profile names such as David and Victoria Beckham, who are looking for tasty, sustainable alternatives to traditional sugary sodas. The company's unique flavors, such as cucumber, peach and mango, have helped them stand out in a crowded marketplace. DASH uses high-quality, natural ingredients in all of its drinks, sourced from local farms.

DASH Water raises £8.7m and targets European expansion 

Beringea, the transatlantic growth capital investor, has added the conversational intelligence company 

to its U.S. portfolio. The investment was part of a $20 million Series B funding round for the Indianapolis-based company, which helps healthcare clients listen to customer voices at scale and derive insights to increase positive healthcare outcomes.

Authenticx plans to use the capital infusion to further innovate in machine learning and product engineering, fuel sales and marketing efforts, and continue to expand the business. The funding round comes after a significant period of growth for the company, with 64 new employees, a 2.5x increase in ARR, and a doubling of its customer base; clients using the Authenticx platform now include five of the top 10 leading global pharmaceutical companies.

Unsolicited customer feedback is a valuable resource for healthcare and life science organizations. After analyzing 100 million conversations with healthcare customers for its 

 report, Authenticx identified multiple disruptive themes in contact centers, including failure to provide anticipated information via callbacks, callers becoming stuck between two or more healthcare entities, and conflicting information offered by different sources. Access to these comprehensive insights from actual customer conversations enables decision makers to develop effective strategies for addressing customer frustrations.

“By listening at scale, business leaders can feel confident that the strategies they implement in their organization are backed by data generated from the authentic words of their customers,” said Amy Brown, CEO of Authenticx. “Whether identifying areas of frustration for customers or listening for good news, conversational data can be used to revolutionize the patient experience and remind the workforce of their noble purpose. With this funding, we’ll be able to continue driving innovation in conversational intelligence and machine learning to streamline the patient journey and help staff do their best work.”

“We were impressed by how quickly Authenticx became the go-to solution for healthcare organizations seeking powerful insights from vast amounts of customer interaction data,” said Michael Gross, managing partner at Beringea.“ By using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing (NLP) technology, Authenticx can help healthcare organizations draw meaning from unstructured data to answer questions, provide quality service, or enhance customer support. It’s an exciting advancement for the healthcare industry as it strives to better serve its patient populations.”

Beringea U.S. invests in Authenticx as part of a $20 million Series B round

With existing customers including Vitality, PwC and Siemens, Arctic Shores harnesses cognitive neuroscience to reveal true potential and soft skills capabilities, fostering greater workforce diversity and quality


Arctic Shores, the Manchester-based psychometric assessment provider, today announced that it has secured a £5.75m Series B investment to accelerate the development of its soft-skills assessment and international expansion, specifically in Europe. Praetura Ventures, a Manchester-based venture capital firm, along with London-based private equity firm, Calculus Capital, led the transaction with participation from existing shareholder Beringea.

Founded in 2014 by Robert Newry and Safe Hammad, Arctic Shores has become a market leader in hiring for potential and soft skills. At a time when organisations across the world are facing an acute skills crisis, increasing digitisation of work, and the need to adapt rapidly, the need to assess for potential and soft skills has never been greater.

Arctic Shores is leading the way to help employers build the diverse, successful workforce of tomorrow by enabling organisations to widen their talent pools, unearthing high-quality candidates often overlooked by CV screening and traditional tests. Organisations that rely on the CV and outdated selection criteria like degree qualifications are falling behind those that are taking a more progressive approach - not just in skills but also diversity.

To date, Arctic Shores has helped pioneering organisations like Vitality, PwC, Thales, TalkTalk and Arcadis, objectively assess more than three million candidates worldwide, while at the same time improving their quality of hire and reducing their cost of hire.

Robert Newry, co-founder and CEO of Arctic Shores, said: “This next phase of investment will help Arctic Shores to realise its mission to help companies see more in people and transform recruitment so that potential will count as much as hard skills or experience.”

“Companies are being squeezed by a lack of specific skills which is driving up salaries and recruitment costs. On top of that, there is a cohort of experienced workers soon to retire, and an increasingly digitised economy creating many new roles for which no prior experience exists. If companies recruit in the same way they have always done, then they will fail. Arctic Shores gives businesses a unique and proven way to escape this experience trap by assessing for potential so that companies can train up the skills. Companies like PwC, Siemens and Airbus are leading the way into the future by recognising that the CV is no longer fit for purpose and adopting a soft skills centric hiring approach."

Helen Verwoert, operational partner at Praetura Ventures and ex-chief people officer at Dr. Martens, and Alexander Crawford, Co-Head of Investments, at Calculus Capital, will join the board.

Helen Verwoert, operational partner at Praetura Ventures, said: “The recruitment landscape is changing rapidly. The challenges employers face today are fundamentally different to those we’ve seen in previous years. And new challenges need new tools. As we scaled the team at Dr. Martens, we constantly looked for new and innovative ways to help us develop our edge in the ‘race for talent’. Arctic Shores’ platform gives its clients that edge by broadening the talent pool, hiring based on real skills and removing bias from outdated practices. I look forward to supporting them with Praetura's More Than Money promise as they continue to grow.”

Alexander Crawford, Co-Head of Investments, Calculus Capital said: “Arctic Shores, which has an impressive list of clients in over 40 countries, has developed a fantastic platform which allows employers to hire based on candidates’ potential, without bias, using scientifically proven behaviour-based assessments. Arctic Shores has a particularly strong and experienced management team, and we look forward to working with them to grow and scale the company over the next few years.”

The investment will accelerate the adoption of Arctic Shores’ new self-configure platform, and with the increasing demand for soft skills assessments, the company is launching an innovative update to assessing workplace intelligence. Following growth in Germany including major contracts with Airbus Siemens and Schneider Electric, the investment will further Arctic Shores’ European presence and market capability to accelerate in this region.

Arctic Shores closes £5.75m Series B to spearhead the soft-skills assessment market and accelerate growth

Raise represents the largest alcohol-free beer investment in Europe and will be used to grow into the continent's leading independent alcohol-free beer


Lucky Saint, the UK’s leading independent alcohol-free beer, has secured a Series A funding round of more than £10 million, led by consumer and technology growth investor, Beringea, and the fund of innocent smoothie’s founders, JamJar Investments. The round is the largest ever raised by an alcohol-free beer brand in Europe.

Other new and existing investors in the round include Warburtons chairman Jonathan Warburton, and adam&eveDDB co-founders James Murphy and David Golding. They joined Karmarama’s founder, Ben Bilboul, VP of Meta Northern Europe Steve Hatch, Wahaca CEO and co-founder Mark Selby, and Rugby World Cup winner Will Greenwood.

Lucky Saint’s continued success reflects a growing shift in UK drinking culture, with a recent 

 finding that 1 in 3 pub visits are now alcohol-free.

The record investment will allow Lucky Saint to consolidate its position as the UK’s largest independent alcohol-free beer, accelerating the distribution of its draught offering and kick-starting planned expansion into Europe.

The funding will also enable a significant expansion of the Lucky Saint team, with several hires already made.

Founded by Luke Boase in 2018, the company has seen revenue sales growth of 180% year-on-year since launching. Lucky Saint is now available in 5000 pubs, bars, and restaurants (including over 60 Michelin-starred venues), as well as major retailers such as Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Ocado, Marks & Spencer and Majestic.

This year Lucky Saint is forecasting the biggest Dry January to date, predicting a rise in their sales of over 100% and an increase in Dry Jan participation of 25% to over 10 million people.

Luke Boase, founder and CEO of Lucky Saint, said: "This is a big moment for Lucky Saint. This latest investment will ensure further success for the company in the UK and help us build a globally recognised alcohol-free brand. We all know JamJar's track record in supporting and driving great consumer brands, and with Innocent as their story, we know we've got an exceptional team behind us.

Over half of the UK want to moderate their alcohol consumption. More people than ever before are looking for a great-tasting alcohol-free beer. We've become the category leader, and the UK largest independent alcohol-free brand, because we've been totally focused on quality. It will remain at the heart of everything we do as we continue our very ambitious growth plans.

We feel we've just scratched the surface of this opportunity. This investment will kickstart our launch into European markets and put more Lucky Saint in pubs up and down the UK. And with 1 in 3 pub visits now alcohol-free, we are unbelievably excited that our own pub and brand HQ is launching in central London where it all began 4 years ago. It'll be a chance to showcase the Great British pub and our amazing industry."

Adam Balon of JamJar said: "We have loved being part of Lucky Saint’s growth story since working with them in 2021. Their journey is part of a massive cultural shift with consumers as our relationship with alcohol is undergoing big and irreversible change. Lucky Saint has responded to this moment with the best product and strongest brand in the category, and we are delighted to back them again.

There is big momentum behind this whole movement, as alcohol-free options increasingly become the first choice in pubs and hospitality. We are so excited for Luke, Emma and their team - we're confident they will deliver on their ambition to be a defining brand that led the charge to a healthier, better way to drink and have fun."

Lucky Saint secures record-breaking investment in the alcohol-free category through £10m Series A

, a leading electronic regulatory (eReg)/electronic Investigator Site Files (eISF) solution provider for clinical research sites, academic medical centers, hospitals, health systems, sponsors and contract research organizations, has been acquired by 

 a leader in cloud-based software solutions for the clinical research industry.

The partnership of RealTime and Complion bolsters the combined organization’s position as a leading provider of eClinical solutions to make clinical research processes more efficient and compliant. The addition of Complion’s eReg offering adds another best‐of‐breed product to RealTime’s Site Operations Management System, a fully integrated suite of products that include CTMS, eRegulatory, eSource, Pay, Text, eConsent, participant engagement and other eClinical solutions and services.

Complion’s eRegulatory solutions automate investigator regulatory compliance, eliminate paper, redundancies, and manual processes as well as alleviate the site monitoring burden to facilitate faster study startup.

“Complion founder Rick Arlow and his team have built a valuable platform designed to move research faster and eventually allow life-saving therapies to reach the patients who need them most,” said William Blake III, Complion board member and partner at Beringea. “The new combined organization advances the critical mission of Complion to connect investigators and trial sponsors to automated investigator regulatory compliance while adding to RealTime’s foundational, innovative solutions.”

RealTime Software Solutions acquires Beringea U.S. portfolio company Complion

Beringea leads Series B for the platform for analysing millions of online interactions between a company and its customers

The Series B funding round – led by transatlantic venture capital firm Beringea – will enable Chattermill to continue its expansion across the US and Europe, and grow its platform capabilities to help more businesses truly understand their customers.

Chattermill has built the first Unified Customer Intelligence platform that applies deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) to easily understand customer experience data and provides businesses with actionable insights.

Co-Founded in 2015 by Mikhail Dubov and Dmitry Isupov at Entrepreneur First, Chattermill has grown to an 80-person team, headquartered in London.

Customer experience has never been more critical to businesses as they fight harder to attract and retain customers in today’s economic climate.


Chattermill, the Unified Customer Intelligence platform, today announced a $26m Series B funding round to double down on its growth, expanding its platform capabilities to meet its vision as the first true Unified Customer Intelligence Platform. The Series B was led by Beringea, with participation from previous investors DN Capital, Ventech, Runa Capital, btov Partners, SVB, and new investors Blossom Street Ventures.

Chattermill analyses millions of interactions between a company and its customers, from feedback data to social media. It empowers businesses to easily unify their customer experience data, and uses deep learning-based AI to deliver actionable insights that help companies deliver loyalty and growth-driving customer experiences. Chattermill works with leading brands, including Amazon, Uber, H&M, and Zappos, to power their CX programs.

Since raising its $8m Series A in 2020, the Entrepreneur First alumnus Chattermill has more than doubled its team, and hit 200 per cent of its new business revenue and pipeline targets in Q1 ‘22. Chattermill has seen customers like Uber and JustEat triple their usage, having seen the impact the platform can drive. The company was ranked #1 in G2’s Momentum Grid Report for Text Analytics and has been named a High Performer in the Feedback Analytics Software category.

In the current economic downturn, customer experience is critical. In the UK, more than 8 million adults have cancelled monthly outgoings to combat rising bills and 76 per cent of customers who claim to be loyal to a brand would still buy from competitors if it were cheaper or more convenient.

Mark Shepherd, Investment Manager at Beringea, commented, “Customers today share vast amounts of feedback online across a wealth of platforms and channels, providing a huge opportunity for businesses to drive performance through customer insight. However, the current solutions in the market lack flexibility and accuracy when analysing this unstructured customer feedback across a wide range of sectors. Chattermill has, therefore, enabled a blue-chip roster of clients to tap into a ‘data gold mine’ that had previously been out of reach – the highly-scalable, intuitive product that Mikhail, Dmitry, and their exceptional team is demonstrating immense opportunity as proven by their rapid growth.”

Analysing customer experience data at scale to uncover meaningful insights is a difficult task, but it is the key to building great customer experiences. Today, customer experience data is spread across dozens of sources – including surveys, reviews, support conversations, product feedback and social media. Traditional analytics tools struggle to support the volume of feedback, and manual analysis is too time-consuming for CX teams to do. Chattermill solves this problem.

Mikhail Dubov, CEO & Co-Founder of Chattermill, said, “Building a customer experience strategy for large businesses is incredibly difficult, and it must be data-driven. Today, CX plays a huge part in any business's success – especially in these challenging economic times. We believe there is no other technology that can provide the level of efficiency and insight needed for CX teams to succeed – this is why we are trusted by major brands like Amazon and Uber. Our goal is that our AI is able to analyse over a billion pieces of customer feedback for our clients.”

Speaking on their work with Chattermill, Steve Crolic, Associate Director Voice of the Customer at HelloFresh, said, “Chattermill is an integral part of our success in delivering our market-leading customer experience. We were one of the first brands to recognise the impact Chattermill could have in making sense of our customer data. Over our years working together, it has been a crucial tool in improving the HelloFresh experience to keep our customers happy and, better still, keep them coming back for more.”

Dubov continued, “Raising a Series B in the current economic environment can be challenging, and the fact we were able to raise this round is a huge testament to our product. This further validates the market demand for our vision and technology, enabling us to build the Unified Customer Intelligence category, expand the range of insights we deliver to users, and further develop our solutions.”

Konstantin Vinogradov, London-based General Partner at Runa Capital, added, “Customer experience is crucial, but many businesses still lack proper AI-based tools to analyse data to help improve it. Chattermill has built a comprehensive tech product suite that brilliantly solves this issue for enterprises. Having worked with the founders for some time, we at Runa are impressed by their results and resilience, and consider this team as capable of building a true category leader.”

Chattermill is headquartered in London. The funding will support its continued organic expansion in the US and Europe as well as its growing partner network across the world. Chattermill is growing its team and is hiring across Engineering, Data and Commercial functions.

Chattermill secures $26m Series B to analyse over a billion pieces of customer feedback for businesses

Cloud-based data processing platform is enabling energy and utilities to make better decisions with data


Gorilla, the innovative energy tech scale-up, today announced that it has secured £5.2 million in its Series A. The investment will enable further development to its platform and help energy companies continue to adapt to the changing energy landscape with greater speed, efficiency, and agility. Led by the transatlantic venture capital fund Beringea, with participation from PMV and VLAIO, Gorilla is set to significantly expand both its team and range of solutions.

Gorilla’s powerful and intelligent cloud-based platform is already being used by British Gas, ScottishPower, Shell Energy, Engie and other major players. The platform enables them to gather and process the vast amounts of data they need to respond to the current energy crisis which also helps to drive the energy transition towards net zero. Gorilla currently operates with a workforce of more than 40 employees at its offices in London, Antwerp, and Melbourne.

Part of the solution lies hidden in the increased market volatility generated by an emerging decentralised energy market and the vast amount of data that comes with that evolution. However, until now, processing that data and extracting the necessary insights has been a cumbersome, complicated and, for many energy companies, an insurmountable task. That is precisely where Gorilla comes in. Gorilla’s cloud-based data processing platform is capable of processing enormous amounts of data, thus accelerating the pace of innovation and enabling energy and utility companies to make giant leaps forward in terms of efficiency and performance.

Gorilla expects to see an exponential growth in the demand for data services in the energy sector over the coming years. In fact, Bloomberg predicts that energy companies will triple their investments in the transition to 100% green, renewable energy by 2025 and double them again by 2030. In order to capitalise on this trend, Gorilla recently raised over £5 million from Beringea and Belgian public sector organisations PMV and VLAIO.

Ruben Van den Bossche, co-founder and CEO of Gorilla: “The energy transition is also transforming the way the energy market works. Our data-driven applications make it easy for energy companies to develop new price plans and offer new products. Which, in turn, encourages more flexible and sustainable energy consumption while helping consumers manage their energy bill. Think of innovative solutions for electric cars and IoT devices. But also solutions that make more efficient use of existing infrastructure, thereby reducing the need for additional expenditure.

“The need to rethink the way we produce, distribute and consume energy is more urgent than ever. We stand at a turning point in our history. Gorilla is here to help the energy sector become carbon-neutral faster and more cost-effectively.”

Eyal Malinger, partner at Beringea, commented: “The Gorilla team has built a collaborative, cloud-based, high-performance modelling platform, which provides 100 times greater performance than legacy spreadsheet-based solutions. Energy companies are facing an exponential growth in data processing requirements, and – as decarbonisation continues to accelerate – it has never been more critical to provide our energy sector with digital tools that can manage the greater complexity and volatility that comes with this transition. Gorilla does exactly this, and we are excited for the next chapter of its growth.”

Beringea leads £5.2m Series A for Gorilla to digitise the energy transition

Beringea leads Series A for supply chain marketplace for construction SMEs


Digital procurement startup, YardLink, announces a $17.5m Series A funding round to transform the construction industry.

YardLink becomes a one-stop supply chain service for construction SMEs as funding sees company double its headcount and expand its supplier network nationwide.

Suppliers and contractors are unified in one digitally centralised system, bringing greater speed, transparency, flexibility, and sustainability to the industry as a whole.

Series A was led by Beringea, with participation from Amplifier, and existing investors Speedinvest and FJ Labs.


YardLink is reinventing the future of construction procurement for SMEs across the UK  with its full-service supply chain management software. Having initially focused on heavy equipment rental, YardLink’s rapid expansion and extra funding means that contractors can now gain instant access to a growing number of over 500 highly vetted suppliers of tools, equipment, bulk materials, fuel, waste management and beyond.

These suppliers can be sourced, booked, and paid for directly through a single user-friendly digital platform. This not only streamlines the procurement process but it is also far more environmentally friendly by linking up contractors with approved local suppliers and helping to reduce the carbon footprint of every project.

This long-overdue leap into the digital age for the building industry is the brainchild of YardLink CEO, Neeral Shah.

“Construction is one of the least digitised industries with over 95% of supply chain transactions still being conducted over the phone, email and pen and paper. Coordinating multiple suppliers and deliveries across time constrained projects is a real challenge that results in delays and costly project overruns. YardLink connects construction customers with their supply chain on a single digital platform, enabling contractors to manage their entire supply chain, streamlining procurement and ultimately helping them increase their profit margins” says Shah.

The new round was led by Beringea, with participation from Amplifier, and existing investors Speedinvest and FJ Labs. The fresh funds will be used to expand YardLink’s product offering to become the only place customers can access the entire construction supply chain, helping to cut overheads, speed up supply and reduce costly delays. YardLink will also double its headcount, currently at 55 staff, over the next 12-18 months as it more tightly integrates with its supply chain to offer real-time availability across all products.


Maria Wagner, Partner at Beringea, commented: “In an industry that has struggled to embrace new technologies, and where supply and demand are fragmented, YardLink has the potential to establish itself as the go-to marketplace for construction supplies. Neeral and the team have built a business that enables a fast, reliable and cost-effective way for renting equipment or purchasing materials. The efficiency of the process also facilitates a lower environmental footprint. We are excited to join them on their journey!”

Yardlink secures $17.5m funding to digitise the construction supply chain

Beringea U.S., the transatlantic venture capital investor, participated in 

 $30 million Series D financing round, meant to fuel worldwide commercialization of its 

SoftVue™ 3D Whole Breast Ultrasound Tomography System (SoftVue™)

. The fund’s closing follows the first sale of the SoftVue™ System, to Detroit-based Karmanos Cancer Institute, where the technology was conceived. Beringea first invested in Delphinus Medical Technologies in 2013.

“Every day it becomes increasingly obvious that we have delivered a game-changer technology to transform dense breast screening,” said Mark J. Forchette, president and CEO of Delphinus Medical Technologies. “When potential customers hear that SoftVue™ finds more cancers, delivers an exceptional patient experience and efficient patient workflow the same day as the mammogram without costly staff additions, they recognize the value for their patients. Our series D will support the robust commercial strategies and efforts needed to help sites quickly adopt this solution for their patients.”

Forty percent of women in the U.S. have dense breast tissue, and they have a four-to-six-times greater risk of developing breast cancer. Mammography alone misses about half the cancers in women with dense breasts, as dense tissue and cancer both appear white on mammogram images. SoftVue was developed to address this unmet clinical need and provides a new annual screening solution for this historically underserved population.

SoftVue™ is indicated for use as an adjunct to digital mammography in the screening of asymptomatic women with dense breast tissue. SoftVue™ enhances dense breast screening and identifies up to 20% more cancers with greater accuracy and potentially fewer biopsies than full field digital mammography (FFDM) alone. The SoftVue™ exam is completed with no compression or radiation, and its PMA indication for use allows SoftVue™ exams to be performed at the same appointment as screening mammograms, facilitating a streamlined workflow and rapid delivery of results.

“With this latest infusion of capital, Delphinus is poised to commercially penetrate the entire U.S. market, bringing life-saving technology to the nearly forty percent of women who are not adequately served by traditional mammography alone,” said Michael Gross, board director of Delphinus Medical Technologies and managing director of Beringea. “Mark and his team have persevered because they believed deeply in the promise of the SoftVue™ system, and it’s exciting to help their vision become a reality for so many patients.”

About Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc.

Headquartered in Novi, Mich., Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc. is a pioneering medical imaging company that has developed SoftVue™, featuring the first circular array transducer technology. The patented technology is a 3D whole breast ultrasound tomography system that delivers no radiation, requires no compression, and images the entire breast with a single scan.

SoftVue™ has previously received three 510(k)s, and the PMA approval for dense breast screening adjunct to mammography expands the company’s existing platform of approvals to include breast cancer screening in asymptomatic women with dense breast parenchyma after confirmation that the breast density composition is BI-RADS c or d at the time of screening mammography. The device is not intended to be used as a replacement for screening mammography. SoftVue can be used at the same visit as screening mammography, and the SoftVue images are intended to be interpreted with the mammogram results to enhance screening.

Delphinus Medical Technologies raises $30 million Series D round

Beringea U.S., the transatlantic venture capital investor, has led a $12.9 million Series A financing round in 

, a recommerce software and service provider. The company intends to use the newly invested capital to enhance its solution and accelerate the growth of its recommerce network.

Rush ReCommerce has developed an end-to-end solution for home goods ecommerce returns and excess products. Most returns, especially bulky items, end up stuck in warehouses or may be disposed of due to high shipping and processing costs. With Rush ReCommerce’s solution, products are returned directly to Rush’s network and processed with specialized software that evaluates products for greater recovery. The company is pioneering resale of open box home goods online, through its flagship marketplace 

Rush ReCommerce has processed over 225,000 products with a retail value of $60 million and has helped save over 5 million pounds of products from landfills. With its multi-faceted approach to tackle this ever-growing problem, the company's mission is to turn the negative aspects of returns into positives for retailers, suppliers, customers, and the environment. Rush ReCommerce is currently working with 150 manufacturers and brands to handle their online return volume.

Rush ReCommerce CEO and Co-Founder Doug Nielsen has spent the majority of his career in home furnishings ecommerce: “Online returns are a huge problem for ecommerce players. The returns create dents in the sellers' customer experience and profits. We are working to pound out those dents. We’re excited to partner with like-minded investors who recognize this growing problem and are committed to helping support our mission.”

“The market needs addressed by Rush ReCommerce’s solutions will only grow as the ecommerce model displaces brick-and-mortar shopping for even large home goods purchases,” said William Blake III, Rush ReCommerce board director and partner at Beringea. “By bringing bulky products that would otherwise end up in a landfill back into the circular economy, Rush ReCommerce is a platform for brands to profitably meet sustainability goals.”

Beringea U.S. leads $12.9 million series A funding round in Rush ReCommerce

Funding partners include Beringea, Cushman & Wakefield & Fifth Wall

, the company setting the global standard for technology in the built world through education and certification via WiredScore and SmartScore, has today announced it has raised US$15M in Series B funding.

Led by Beringea UK, WiredScore is also partnering with key participation from notable strategic and venture fund investors including Cushman & Wakefield, Crow Holdings, and Taronga Ventures, in addition to core returning investors Fifth Wall, Bessemer Venture Partners and Jona Capital.

This round brings WiredScore’s total funds raised to date to US$28M. Capital from this round in particular will be aimed at further accelerating WiredScore’s vision of becoming recognised and trusted as the leading voice for tech in the built world.

William Newton, President and MD, WiredScore, commented: “In recent years, the real estate industry has been well and truly put through its paces. Confronted with macro economic, political and societal change, the world must place a new emphasis on how we interact with our buildings and the role they play in our future.

“For the industry to rise to these challenges we must put technology at the heart of our strategies. But not technology for technology’s sake, instead by focusing on the outcomes that technologies can drive for the users of real estate. Only then will we have a lasting impact.

“I am delighted that our new investors will allow us to accelerate our plans to further empower the built world and those who live, work and connect in it, enabling us to bring connected, smart real estate to one billion people in the next decade.”

The news follows a year of aggressive expansion for WiredScore, both domestically and internationally. Most notably, the company has expanded into 13 new countries, boosting its presence across Northern and Central Eastern Europe as well as debuting in APAC with the opening of its Singapore office. Most recently, WiredScore launched its Accredited Professionals Program within the UK and North America with companies including CBRE, C&W, JLL, Lendlease as well as Savills. The program, which equips individuals with the skills needed to best advise their clients on delivering profound, world-class connectivity and smart tech, currently boasts in excess of 650 professionals from over 275 companies.

Over the next 24 months, WiredScore plans to expand its geographic footprint across North America and APAC as part of its mission of making the world’s buildings smart and better connected.

Eyal Malinger, Partner at Beringea, commented: “WiredScore has firmly established itself as a leader in the real estate industry for prioritizing and enhancing a tech-enabled approach. There is a current, very real problem facing the sector: developers, consultants, and real estate owners are desperate to make buildings smart, well connected and competitive, but there are few common frameworks for evaluating these attributes which is hampering innovation globally.

“WiredScore solves this dilemma by providing globally recognized standards, giving landlords, developers and tenants clear direction on how to deliver and operate in buildings that place technology at their heart.”

“We are excited to be a part of this journey with WiredScore and to have our people join the Accredited Professionals Program, which enables Cushman & Wakefield to provide world-class services to our clients by drawing on global best practices for in-building technology,” said Oliver Skagerlind, Global Head of Client & Business Solutions at Cushman & Wakefield. “Through this relationship, we can support our employees and clients in staying on the cutting edge of advancements in technology that are transforming real estate. We look forward to expanding on our success in Europe to offer the program to Cushman & Wakefield colleagues around the world.”

WiredScore is empowering people and spaces through tech, setting the global standard for tech in the built world via certification and education. Since its inception in early 2013, over 800m square feet of commercial and residential space has committed to WiredScore certification, impacting 8 million people across 27 countries.

WiredScore closes $15m Series B round

As investment in creative and data analytics rises, CreativeX secures $25M to help marketers measure their content against four indicators of long-term brand growth: creative quality, brand consistency, compliance, and representation.

 - provider of an industry-first creative data platform to the world’s leading brands - has today announced $25 million in funding from Guggenheim Investments, on behalf of certain clients, with participation from Beringea, the Brandtech group, and Conviction.

The creative element of marketing is known to have the largest influence on sales uplift (47%, 

) but how it works is the least understood part of the marketing mix. Whilst CMOs have realized their creative work needs to do more as an effectiveness lever (

) they are missing a confident and effective way to centrally measure, scale, and improve creative work.

The reasons why are complex: 84% of marketing content is visual (and increasing with the rise of new platforms like TikTok), there is cross-industry internal complexity within marketing organizations, and an incredibly high volume of content being created across multiple platforms, brands, markets and languages.

CreativeX provides a new and unique data source to leading brands such as Nestle, Facebook, PepsiCo and others to measure the creative element of marketing against global excellence goals, with products and workflows from CreativeX to implement change at scale.

CreativeX offers a creative data platform that automatically analyzes all of a brand's in-flight and pre-flight image and video content to determine how that content stacks up relative to industry best practices - as well as the brand's own creative criteria for success.

Using this data, CreativeX gives marketers a customizable global view into everything ranging from creative quality to the representation of people in their ads, providing a measurable framework for tracking and achieving creative excellence as content production continues to rise.

Started in 2015, CreativeX technology is now used by 30+ of the world's largest advertisers, powering creative decision making across 5,000+ brands, 1,000+ agencies, and across 130+ markets. Today’s funding announcement marks an important milestone in accelerating the marketing and advertising sector’s ability to know how their creative drives brand growth.

Anastasia Leng, Founder and CEO, said: “Marketers are waking up and recognizing their creative for what it is: a major untapped competitive advantage to drive media efficiencies and long-term brand growth. CMOs are responding to the overwhelming research surrounding the impact of creative by launching Centers of Creative Excellence and rebuilding their insights and production capabilities to scale content production in a data-backed way.”

“CreativeX is committed to solving the industry's most complex problem – how to optimize the creative element to build effective marketing,” said Evan Cummins of Guggenheim Investments. "We are excited to support CreativeX as it shapes the fast-evolving space of data-empowered creative excellence.”

Anastasia Leng, concluded: “This funding round, by far the largest in CreativeX history, is a testament to the impact our technology can have on the advertising industry, not only by reducing the $10B+ of wasted spend on creative that’s not set up to succeed, but also by bringing a layer of data to help marketers make creative more accessible, more representative, and better for long-term brand growth.”

CreativeX raises $25m Series B as CMOs shift focus to creative excellence

$5.2 million investment will further help scale the platform and tackle the increasing demand for 3D content


CGHero, a platform enabling companies, brands, studios and content producers to collaborate with teams of the world’s leading CGI, 3D, VFX and AR/VR talent, has announced a $5.2 million investment led by Beringea.

The funds will be used to further scale the platform as the need for 3D content and specialist talent continues to grow with the introduction of the Metaverse. As companies race to establish themselves alongside Meta, formerly known as Facebook, there is an increasing need for content to populate these experiences. To date, the platform has been responsible for delivering content across 1,000 productions for companies including Netflix, Disney, Epic Games, SEGA, NHS, BBC, Valvoline, LG and Unilever.

Eyal Malinger of Beringea commented: “CGHero sits at the intersection of two fundamental trends shaping the global economy: the rise of the metaverse and the future of work. As we see the widespread adoption of AR and VR, demand for 3D content – and the specialist talent required to develop it – will increase dramatically.”

Jonathan Lloyd, CEO of CGHero, said: “It is exciting to bring together incredible teams from around the world to create next-generation immersive content and experiences. The scale of projects we are seeing is unprecedented, and entire worlds of content are needed. Our growing team will enable us to support more clients and build on our platform capabilities to meet the demand.”

Jonathan has been in the computer graphics industry for over 15 years in senior management roles and was the former VP of Strategic Development and Product Development at TurboSquid, the world’s leading 3D marketplace.

In order to scale up its capacity to deliver these projects, CGHero has announced that the investment funds will also be used to significantly expand its Manchester-based team with plans to further expand its operations into the US later this year. The company is currently recruiting for multiple roles across marketing, sales, development, product and operations, including positions as CFO, Senior QA Engineer and Associate Producer.

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CGHero raises $5.2m investment led by Beringea

Financing to fuel continued growth in pharmaceutical and clinical diagnostic markets

, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven genomics company, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., announced the completion of a $20 million Series B financing round. The funds will expand the company’s commercial operations and the development of its genomic data hub, which serves genetic testing labs, hospitals, pharmaceutical and biopharma companies. Genomenon leverages AI to organize the world’s genomic knowledge and put it at the fingertips of doctors and clinicians to diagnose patients with rare and genetic disease and cancer, and researchers to help create precision medicine targeted at molecular drivers of disease.

“Coming on the heels of a successful 2021 where the company once again more than doubled its revenue and customer base, Genomenon will use the new funds to grow its commercial team to reach new customers around the world,” said Mike Klein, Genomenon CEO. “Our AI-driven technology enables genomic insights to support clinicians in patient diagnosis and scientists developing precision medicines.”

Genomenon’s Mastermind Genomic Search Engine is used by more than 1,000 genetic testing labs and hospitals worldwide to provide clinical insight into the scientific literature on genomic data. Its Prodigy Genomic Landscapes are used by top Pharma and biopharma companies to gain a profound understanding of the genetic drivers and clinical attributes of any genetic disease, from rare diseases to cancer. These datasets enable Pharma to accelerate target discovery, identify genetic biomarkers for clinical trial stratification, and develop companion diagnostics for regulatory approval.

“As proliferation of sequencing drives exponential growth in the new frontier of genomic informed precision medicine, Genomenon’s AI driven technology platform is the ideal solution to bring life changing therapies to patients while enabling Pharma to more efficiently discover and develop new targeted therapies,” said Michael Gross, managing director at Beringea. “We are excited to partner with Genomenon’s world-class management team to continue to drive industry wide adoption of this transformational platform.”

A comprehensive understanding of genomics is essential to advancing precision medicine, and Genomenon uniquely meets that need in ways that have led to quick adoption in the market. The company makes the Mastermind Genomic Search Engine freely available to a broad range of scientists, academics, and clinicians. Its user base of nearly 20,000 extends to more than 140 countries.

Beringea U.S. Leads $20 million Series B Round in Genomenon, Inc.

Extended Series B funding round includes successful $3.5m crowdfunding round backed by hosts, guests, and fans of Plum Guide


Plum Guide has announced that it has extended its Series B funding round to raise a total of $31m. The investment, which builds on a $9m cash injection led by Beringea late last year, strengthens the company’s position to capitalise on the ‘revenge travel’ boom. The round also incorporates $3.5m raised through a successful crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, which enabled Plum Guide’s fans, guests, and hosts to invest in its future growth.

The investment will allow Plum Guide to accelerate its growth as it creates the definitive list of the world’s most extraordinary holiday homes. Plum Guide’s distinctive vision, to create a world-class trust mark for travel, has been core to the company’s success to date which sees it outranking all competitors as the most recommended homestay company.

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