Manchester start-up Orka raises £29m to scale worker tech products
by David Prior Manchester-based Orka Technology Group has raised £29million in its latest funding round. The fundraise was a mixture of debt financing from Sonovate and equity funding involving the British Business Bank Future Fund and existing investors, including Peter Searle, the former UK CEO of Adecco. It takes the total raised by Orka to £31.5m since the company launched in 2017. As well as growing Orka Pay, the start-up will use the funding to double its headcount to 50 in 2021 and invest in its full portfolio of tech solutions for shift workers, which also includes the company’s f...