The big ones
Agents on the hiring floor Metaview closed a £45m Series C led by Insight Partners to automate hiring with sourcing and screening agents
Best of the rest
Sat nav for satellites Foundational emerged from stealth with an £8m pre-seed round led by Inflection to scale satellite laser ranging for precise orbital positioning
Fast forwarding physics Zenithon raised a £7.5m seed round led by BACKED for ML models that solves complex physics
The surgical sandbox Inovus Medical landed a £7m extension led by PXN Group to provide surgeons with simulation training
A pop of flavour Something & Nothing unlocked £5m in funding led by Venrex for premium soft drinks built on flavour
Home testing for cancer patients 52North raised £3.2m in funding led by Macmillan Cancer Support to support urgent cancer care diagnostics
GTM agents Revnu secured a £2.3m seed round led by PXN Ventures to help early-stage companies automate growth
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Dry powder
Northcote Equity closed Northcote Fund II at £250m to back founder-led technology businesses in the UK and Ireland
DIG Ventures launched its £90m Fund III to back European startups building enterprise and cloud infrastructure
The scout
⏳ 6 months ago
Riplo landed a £2.3m pre-seed round led by Cherry Ventures to build an agentic operating system for consultants
POCKLA raised a £1.6m seed round led by Venrex to scale its AI-powered content strategy platform
Lumai secured an £8m Series A led by Constructor Capital to reduce AI data centre costs and energy use
⌛ 12 months ago
Paid landed a £16m seed round led by Lightspeed to build the economic rails for the AI agent economy
Trig raised a £4.5m seed round led by 20VC to build the AI platform for account management
Healsgood secured a £2.5m seed extension from Octopus Ventures to cut NHS bank and agency staffing costs with AI
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