Pryynt bagged a £2m seed round, Mercia Fund Managment invested £150,000 in Customer Clever and Berlin’s Point Nine Capital opened their third investment fund.
More detail emerged about the government’s plans on surveillance while in the US the bill allowing security services to operate a mass collection of data has expired.
Meanwhile a BBC reporter accidentally reported ‘the Queen is dead’.
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