The Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund is delighted to announce an investment in Spotta. Spotta has developed a proprietary ultra-low power IoT insect pest monitoring technology. Insect pests cost the economy over $500 billion a year by spreading diseases, killing crops and damaging business reputations. Spotta’s technology is supporting businesses and farmers worldwide, to protect against disruption and financial losses.

COAT Paints has achieved a place on the 2025 edition of The Sunday Times 100, the prestigious annual ranking of Britain’s fastest-growing private companies, supported by Barclays Private Bank, S&W, Oracle NetSuite and Singer Capital Markets. The league table takes on the baton from The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 series, which celebrated the country's leading entrepreneurs for 24 years.

BetterPoints has been selected as one of five finalists in the Sustainable Cities Challenge. These finalists were chosen by a panel of expert judges following a rigorous evaluation of solutions aimed at increasing the use of existing low- and zero-carbon transport modes in the city of Venice.

Industry expert Gary Barker and fintech specialist Rob Barnett has joined the Bamboo Auctions board to support its growth and business expansion plans. Gary Barker, former CEO at Reapit, CTO at Countrywide, and NED at proptech firms, brings over 20 years' experience in property technology. Rob Barnett has spent much of his career working in large international businesses and more recently NED at ContentCal and Chairman at Detected.

The Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund is pleased to announce our latest investment into Kirontech. Kirontech’s offering combines an AI driven Health Insurance Platform (HIP) using machine learning to examine big data with speed and accuracy, and domain expertise with knowledge of traditional medical rules to detect, investigate and manage fraud, abuse, waste and errors (“FAWE”) in medical payments data. The solution aims to optimise decision making, reduce costs and improve overall outcomes for health insurers.  It also improves the loss ratio for the global medical claims payment industry.

Springpod, a leading provider of free virtual work-based learning experiences for students, has secured a $2.5 million strategic investment from American Student Assistance® (ASA) to support its expansion in the U.S. As part of this growth, Springpod has officially changed its legal domicile, establishing itself as a U.S. company.

The Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund (BEF) is pleased to announce an investment in Carradale Futures. Carradale’s SOPHIA platform supports healthcare providers to protocolise care by enabling them to embed within their organisations a library of digitised, optimised standard operating procedures (“SOPs”).

The Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund is pleased to announce an investment in Zinc Systems, who specialise in Critical Event Management (CEM) software. Their flagship platform, SYNAPSE, is a SaaS solution designed to empower risk, security, and safety leaders.

The BEF team is pleased to announce its March investment into COAT Trading Ltd, t/a COAT Paints. COAT is a climate-positive paint company with B Corp certification, selling a unique range of colours and 100% accurate peel and stick samples directly to homeowners and design professionals online at www.coatpaints.com. 

We are delighted to announce the launch at Bayes of our new investment LLP, a £15m fund set up with the generous support of Peter Cullum CBE, through the Cullum Family Trust.