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Moneybox secures £14m funding

Oxford Capital launches Residential Development Bond

Unlisted secured corporate bond targeting a 7% fixed return over 12 months term Specialist investment manager Oxford Capital has announced the launch of its Residential Development Bond. It is a co-investment alongside Oxford Capital managed funds, allowing investors to leverage Oxford Capital’s due diligence and …

Oxford Capital are one of 10 British VCs To Start Sharing Diversity Data On All The Startups They Meet

Oxford Capital join $8 million investment round in interiors marketplace eporta

eporta connects interior designers, property developers, and offices directly with the world’s best furniture manufacturers, saving them time and money in the process The startup is one of just a handful of UK companies to secure series A investment from a US venture capital firm …

Will Orde – Big finance looks to regulators for the cryptocurrency go-ahead

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An interview with Jan Pace

An interview with Jan Pace, Director of Quickfire, one of our media fund portfolio companies. What impact does Quickfire make on the UK film industry? In the broadest terms, Quickfire acquires independently made feature films from around the world and sells them on to audiences worldwide. …

UltraSoC and Percepio partner to offer first complete embedded analytics platform for real-time systems

Arkivum PERPETUA brings enterprise-class GDPR support to higher education, memory institutions and local authorities

‘Taste Maker’ Aneeqa Khan of eporta interviewed by The Times

Hometree investment

I have published a blog on our recent investment in Hometree. The boiler installation market isn’t one of the first markets that most VCs look to invest in. But we think Hometree is well-placed to grow quickly.

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Guess: Who is the world’s largest purchaser of fax machines?

… the NHS. This astounding fact highlights the opportunity for even simple digital technology to revolutionise healthcare. Our portfolio company Push Doctor is using (by today’s standards) relatively straightforward video chat technology to give patients on-demand access to a doctor. Yet simple technology can have …

Oxford Capital joins $10m Series A funding round in 'connected finance' startup Curve

Curve – the UK fintech startup that combines your cards into one Mastercard®, connected to a mobile app – has closed a Series A funding round of $10m, bringing total funding to $13m. Oxford Capital participated in the funding round alongside a group of global …

Push Doctor raises $26.1M to help people live longer

Europe’s largest digital health provider, Push Doctor, today announced that it has raised $26.1M in a Series B funding round led by Accelerated Digital Ventures (“ADV” – the venture investment company backed by Legal & General, Woodford Investment Management and the British Business Bank) and …

Red Sift win 'Cyber Security Start-Up of the Year' at the Cyber Security Awards

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Oxford Capital invests in HomeTree

We are very pleased to have made an investment in HomeTree. The company is re-thinking the energy space and is starting with home boiler installations, but plans to be able to provide much more convenient and compelling energy services over time. The company has an …

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Rogue AI and what to do about racist algorithms

What happens when machine learning algorithms pick up on human biases? Naturally, the bias scales. This article covers the extraordinary challenge that machine learning practitioners face when they set their algorithms loose on training datasets. What will be the consequences of their data choice? In …

Oxford Capital backs intelligent chip business UltraSoC

Conserative Manifesto and EIS: Conservative Manifesto declares ongoing support for EIS and UK innovation

The Manifesto published today reinforces the importance of supporting UK startups beyond Brexit, through both the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and funding commitment for the British Business Bank (BBB). Specialist investment manager Oxford Capital welcomes this public declaration of support for digital businesses and entrepreneurs. Commenting on …

263 Self-Driving car startups to watch

This is a fantastic graphic showing 263 companies focused on self-driving cars. There are a great number of different sub-components, from services related to maps to algorithms that perform the driving. Enjoy!

Attest hires former Vizeum innovation head and Eventbrite marketer

Oxford Capital announces EIS partnership with Quickfire Entertainment

Oxford Capital Media EIS will invest in film sales agent businesses. Targeting up to 1.2x plus EIS tax reliefs, with opportunity to invest in this tax year. Specialist investment manager Oxford Capital has named Quickfire Entertainment (‘Quickfire’) as a strategic partner for its new EIS …

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AI will fix your photos

Have you ever wished that you’d taken that latest selfie in summer not winter? Or that your photo of a horse was actually a cool and exotic zebra? Good news – the latest research from UC Berkley is looking to fix exactly these problems. Most …

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NIO Eve and next generation self driving car design

NIO (the new name for NextEV) has just announced that Eve, their prototype self driving car, will be launched in 2020. This car starts to hint at the ways that a car primarily designed as a self driving car will look. The car is focused …

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Will DNA ever be a viable medium for storing digital data?

Last week, scientists at the New York Genome Centre published a paper demonstrating 100% fidelity digital data storage on DNA. This is potentially interesting, because DNA is an extremely space-efficient means of storing data. I’m reminded of the mind-blowing fact that each one of my …