| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.09.2026 | Claret Capital Secures €575M for European Tech, Life Sciences Growth | Claret Capital Partners has finalized its €575 million Fund IV. This significant growth debt fund targets Europe's burgeoning technology and life sciences sectors. It provides flexible, non-dilutive capital. The firm exceeded its €500 milli... |
| 07.09.2026 | Claret Capital Partners exceeds target with €575M growth debt fund for European innovators | Claret Capital Partners has closed its fourth European Growth Capital Fund at €575 million, exceeding its €500 million target. Including affiliated discretionary mandates, the fund will make growth debt investments in technology, life scien... |
| 07.09.2026 | Claret Capital Partners Raises €575M for European Growth | Claret Capital Partners Closes €575M Fund IV
London-based Claret Capital Partners has raised €575 million through Fund IV and an affiliated discretionary mandate. This surpassed its original €500 million fundraising target. The firm complet... |
| 09.09.2025 | Applied Systems Acquires Cytora | Applied Systems, a Chicago, IL-based global provider of cloud-based software that powers the business of insurance, acquired Cytora, a digital risk processing platform for the insurance industry.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Th... |
| 03.05.2025 | Why Invest in University Spinouts? | Anne Dobrée, Investment Director at Parkwalk Advisors, recently joined Jonathan Moyes from Wealth Club to discuss all things EIS and university spinout investing. With her extensive experience, including her tenure as Head of Ventures at th... |
| 03.05.2025 | What is a Knowledge Intensive company? | Knowledge intensive companies are important because they fuel innovation, help develop new technologies and tend to lead to economic growth. Many of these companies have a unique approach to creating value, primarily through intellectual ex... |
| 11.03.2025 | UK firms lead AI race, whilst regulation holds back EU | - |
| 30.12.2024 | University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund X launch |
We are delighted to announce the launch of our University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund (UCEF) X. The Fund is managed by Parkwalk in conjunction with Cambridge Enterprise, the university’s research commercialisation arm, backing the very be... |
| 30.12.2024 | Growth Investor of the Year 2024 Winner | We are delighted to announce that Parkwalk was announced Growth Investor of the Year at the 2024 Growth Investor Awards! It was a fantastic event celebrating the incredible achievements of companies and individuals driving innovation and gr... |
| 07.05.2024 | Parkwalk – EIS explained: what is the Enterprise Investment Scheme?
Conclusion | The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) is a useful tax planning tool for investors to take advantage of 5 generous tax benefits*, as well as investing in some of the brightest minds and world-changing innovations in the UK. Our CEO, Moray W... |
| 30.11.2023 | Cytora & ZestyAI Partner to Boost Commercial Property Underwriting | Cytora, the leading digital risk processing platform, is pleased to announce a partnership with ZestyAI, a pioneer in leveraging artificial intelligence for property risk assessment. ZestyAI’s integration into the Cytora platform equips com... |
| 23.07.2023 | AI for execs: How to cut through the noise and deliver results | Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here
AI has dominated discussions, not only in the global tech scene but in the business world at large. Such has been the impact of applications like Chat... |
| 13.12.2021 | Agreement advances Allianz’s mission of building a scalable, data-driven commercial insurance business model | Agreement with Cytora will power Allianz’s mission of building a scalable, digital and data-driven commercial insurance business model
Agreement with Cytora Limited advances Allianz’s mission of building a scalable, digital and data-driven ... |
| 09.04.2021 | SAGE GROUP PLC
Finance Futurists: Tom Coward on the real difference between a good and great CFO | The Finance Futurists are an elite group of leaders who embrace constant evolution as a necessity in the ever-changing world of finance.
More than number-crunchers, these leaders represent a new era for finance - one defined by a shift from... |
| 27.01.2021 | A year in review: Business update January 2021 | Cambridge has always been at the forefront of innovation. As the leading venture capital investor in Cambridge, CIC plays a central role in commercialising this innovation for the benefit of society. In the last year, CIC’s existing portfol... |
| 22.06.2020 | Annual results for the year ended 31 March 2020 | Expansion to 30 portfolio companies and 46% increase in net asset value, reinforcing CIC’s position as the most active series A investor in the Cambridge ecosystem
Cambridge Innovation Capital plc (CIC), the venture capital investor enablin... |
| 17.03.2020 | Announcing: the UK companies joining Future Fifty 8.0 | Today we are delighted to welcome the new additions to our programme for late-stage tech companies. The prestigious Future Fifty.
The longest-running and most successful accelerator programme for late-stage tech companies in Europe, Future... |
| 18.04.2019 | London-based AI startup Cytora ropes in a huge funding to enhance data-driven business insurance | Insurance, in general, supports businesses mitigate risk, protect their employees and provides them the confidence to achieve their goal/ambition during the uncertain condition. Notably, the insurance also contributes to the economy as well... |
| 17.04.2019 | London AI startup Cytora raises £25m from Swedish backer EQT Ventures | |
| 17.04.2019 | London-based commercial insurtech startup Cytora raises £25 million | Cytora, a British startup that provides AI-powered products for the commercial insurance industry, has landed £25 million in a funding round led by EQT Ventures, with participation from Cambridge Innovation Capital, Parkwalk, and several an... |
| 17.04.2019 | Cytora Secures £25M in Series B Funding | Cytora, a London, UK-based provider of AI-powered solutions for the commercial insurance industry, raised £25m in Series B funding.
The round was led by EQT Ventures, with participation from existing investors Cambridge Innovation Capital, ... |
| 17.04.2019 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, April 17 | AIRBNB’S GRAND PLAN
While no one was looking, Airbnb has quietly turned into a powerful investor in Silicon Valley.
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My colleague Danielle Abril reports:
Airbnb’s in... |
| 16.04.2019 | Daily funding roundup - April 16th, 2019 | Spur raised $8M; Flowspace secured $12M; Checkerspot landed $13M; Zencargo closed $19M
Skoove: Skoove is the easiest way to learn piano, with the world's first interactive online piano lessons. Skoove has raised €3 million from Caparuca, MG... |
| 16.04.2019 | Cytora secures £25M Series B for its AI-powered commercial insurance underwriting solution | Cytora, a U.K. startup that developed an AI-powered solution for commercial insurance underwriting, has raised £25 million in a Series B round. Leading the investment is EQT Ventures, with participation from existing investors Cambridge Inn... |
| 19.06.2018 | MS Amlin partners with Cytora to deploy AI underwriting | MS Amlin, a leading global reinsurer, and Cytora have announced a new partnership to deploy artificial intelligence into commercial underwriting processes.
As a result of this deal, MS Amlin will use Cytora’s products, powered by its Risk E... |
| 12.06.2018 | Cytora awarded ‘Best AI Product in Insurance’ at CogX Awards | Cytora has won ‘Best AI Product in Insurance’ at the 2018 CogX Awards, which took place in London.
This award celebrates Cytora’s Risk Engine technology, which transforms the way insurers target, select, and price risk by applying artificia... |
| 02.03.2018 | Cytora Raises £4.4M in Funding | Cytora, a London and Cambridge, UK-based AI driven insurance tech company, raised £4.4m in funding in December 2017.
Backers included Cambridge Innovation Capital and range of investors including insurance companies QBE and Starr.
The compa... |
| 05.12.2017 | 16 Artificial Intelligence Startups in the UK Raising Some Serious Capital | With the boom of artificial intelligence companies in the UK, it seems that a new company launches every week in the UK. In a government report, they called for a UK strategy to advance AI. The subsequent budget included a £270m investment ... |
| 13.01.2017 | Cytora announces Series A funding | “The love story between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy is more complicated than the story between Mr. Bingley and Jane. This is reflected in the violent zig zag of the time series” – Data Engineer at Cytora – Andraz Hribernik – uses natural langua... |
| 13.01.2017 | Cytora Raises €2.4M in Series A Funding | Cytora, a Cambridge and London, UK-based geopolitical risk analytics spin-out from the University of Cambridge, raised €2.4m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Parkwalk Advisors (via the Parkwalk Opportunities Fund) with participatio... |
| 13.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, January 13 | INNOVATION HYPERBOLE COMPLEX
We’re on the cusp of a three-day weekend and Fortune is closing its latest magazine issue, which means I’m letting let you all write today’s column.
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| 12.01.2017 | London-based AI startup Cytora raises £2.4 million to help businesses quantify risk | The London-based AI startup Cytora has just raised £2.4 million in Series A funding led by Parkwalk with participation from Cambridge Enterprise, iLexIR and a high-profile group of angels including Alan Morgan, Paul Forster and Matthew Gran... |
| 01.10.2015 | Cytora Raises Second Funding Round | Cytora, a Cambridge- and London, UK-based provider of an event detection technology that enables organizations to manage their risk exposure using web data, raised its second funding round.
The terms of the funding were not disclosed.
The r... |
| 03.06.2015 | Winning tech firms announced for the 2nd EY Startup Challenge | Winning tech firms announced for the 2nd EY Startup Challenge
03-06-2015
Following a rigorous selection process, EY has today announced the ten successful tech startups that beat over 100 other hopefuls from across Europe to undertake the s... |
| 07.01.2015 | Political risk, SME and data tools to headline at FinTech Innovation Lab London 2015 | The FinTech Innovation Lab London has returned for its third year
Seven startup financial services companies have been chosen by the FinTech Innovation Lab London, which returns to the city for its third year running. Candidates include a w... |
| 08.04.2014 | Angel investors gather for new entrepreneur pitches | Angel investors gather for new entrepreneur pitches
08-04-2014
Around 100 investors from the Cambridge innovation cluster and London investment scene will meet in London this Thursday (10 April), to hear up-and-coming entrepreneurial teams ... |
| - | Parkwalk – continues impressive investment rate | Parkwalk has invested over £60 million into university spin-outs so far in 2019. |
| - | Parkwalk – named the most prolific AI investor in the UK | Research firm Beauhurst has released data to show that Parkwalk are the most prolific investors into UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) since 2011, with 19 deals across 8 of our portfolio companies, including University of Oxford spinout Oxbot... |
| - | Cytora – Secures £25m Series B for its AI-powered insurance underwriting solution | Portfolio company Cytora, that has developed an AI-powered solution for commercial insurance underwriting, has raised £25 million in a Series B round. New investor EQT Ventures led the round with Parkwalk, Cambridge Innovation Capital and a... |
