Nolea Health, a UK-based healthcare staffing platform, announced has it has successfully completed a £1 million funding round. The round was led by Frontline Ventures, with participation from Calm/Storm Ventures and other notable industry figures, including Anne Heraty, former CEO of CPL Resources, and Mahiben Maruthappu, CEO of digital healthcare firm Cera.

Nolea Health is a jobs marketplace that matches mental healthcare clinicians with the right vacant jobs across different healthcare organisations and health systems. The platform's matching algorithm utilises the clinician's profile data, such as experience, education and work preferences, with employers’ job requirements, location, and work culture, to increase the likelihood of successful matches and hires for short-term work opportunities. Once matched, the company hires the clinician to deliver short-term remote-based and in-person mental healthcare. The company said it is creating a national network of mental healthcare professionals and making them discoverable on its transparent jobs marketplace to solve Europe's growing shortages in healthcare staff.

With the recent funding, Nolea Health plans to expand its team and further develop its machine learning-based technology, doubling down on improving its clinical job-matching capabilities. Nolea Health also aims to expand its reliable job marketplace beyond mental healthcare to address workforce planning challenges and staff shortages in other areas of healthcare. Nolea is in beta with a growing network of mental healthcare clinicians and leading mental healthcare organisations, with an initial focus on mental healthcare jobs. It is actively recruiting healthcare clinicians nationally. 

Gig work management app Rodeo has raised £4 million to support its mission to transform the future of gig work. According to Bdaily, the seed round was led by LocalGlobe and supported by Seedcamp and Form Ventures. The investment will enable Rodeo to hire a team to build new tools that put more power into gig workers’ hands.

The app will also use the funding to build a single operating system where gig workers can manage all their work and finances. The app will be monetised by charging businesses who wish to offer work opportunities and financial services to Rodeo’s users.

Rodeo was started in 2021 by Will Day and Alfie Pearce-Higgins to help gig workers manage and maximise their earnings. The Rodeo app has already been used by more than 9,000 Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Just Eat and Stuart delivery drivers to track, manage and optimise their earnings.