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Ahead of the tax year-end deadline, Blackfinch Ventures has completed investment deals valued at £11m into 17 early-stage UK companies. The funds were raised through Blackfinch’s Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) portfolios, which invests in innovative UK early-stage technology companies operating across a variety of sectors, as well as the Blackfinch Spring Venture Capital Trust (VCT), which invests primarily in technology-enabled companies that are already generating revenues and building their customer base.As a result of the rapid deployment of funds, Blackfinch investors benefit from instant ownership of highly diversified investment portfolios while also being eligible to claim tax reliefs for the 2022/2023 tax year.For the Blackfinch EIS portfolios, a total of £7.8m was invested into 17 companies, whilst for the Blackfinch Spring VCT, a total of £3.2m was invested into 13 companies. Funds will be used by investee companies to expand their teams, deliver exciting product developments, ramp up sales activity and kick start international expansion plans.   .  . The move sees three exciting new businesses join the ever-growing Blackfinch Ventures portfolio, with MarTech 3D, RideTandem and Up Learn collectively securing a total of £2.7m. A further 14 companies, including Watchmycompetitor, Culture Shift, Clientshare, Illuma, StaffCircle and Tended received follow-on investments to reach their next stage of growth. Commenting on the new investments, Dr Reuben Wilcock, Head of Ventures at Blackfinch, said: “Once again we are proud to be backing some of the UK’s most talented founders and their teams, while also assembling well-diversified tech-led portfolios for a growing number of Blackfinch investors.He continued: “This year’s investment activity builds on last year’s funding efforts, where we completed 12 deals