£520m into Voice, Volts and Veins — UK Weekly
Last week £518m in venture funding was announced across 22 startups.
The big ones
Upgrading data centres OQC unlocked £260m in a Series C led by Bullhound Capital to deploy superconducting quantum computers in data-centre environments
In-house rules Wordsmith raised £55m Series B from Highland Europe and Index Ventures to bring end-to-end operations platform to in-house legal teams
Feeling vein? IMU Biosciences secured £40m Series A led by IQ Capital and Molten Ventures to decode the immune system with high-resolution blood analysis
Under pressure Apoha landed £27m in funding led by Singular to measure how molecules and materials behave under real-world conditions
Going, going, gone Tilt raised £20m in fresh funding led by TQ Ventures for auction app connecting buyers and sellers through live video
Best of the rest
Literal machine learning Gigaton announced £20m Series A led by Plural to replace industrial control stack with self-learning AI software
Funnel vision Airspeed raised a £15m Series A led by DN Capital to deploy autonomous AI agents across GTM workflows
Bots for joints Flok Health landed £9.5m in a Series A led by Albion VC to deliver the first AI-operated physiotherapy clinic
Plank you very much Circular11 secured £2.4m led by Vectr7 to turn hard-to-recycle plastic waste into composite lumber for construction
Voice of the world AethexAI unlocked a £2.2m pre-seed round led by 4DX Ventures to scale end-to-end voice agents across enterprises in Africa and the Middle East
The AI library Poindexter Labs landed a £2m seed round led by Episode 1 to supply frontier AI labs with expert STEM training data
Before it goes rusty Hexigone raised £1.2m in funding led by Future Planet Capital to develop smart corrosion inhibitors that activate as metal begins to corrode
Edify on their £3m seed round led by Calculus to help quick service restaurants automate ordering, forecasting and back-of-house operations
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The scout
⏳ 6 months ago
Mater-AI raised £1.5m pre-seed led by Twin Path Ventures to develop novel thermoelectric materials for clean energy applications
Minitap landed £3m seed round co-led by Moxxie Ventures and Mercuri to speed up mobile app development with AI
Curvestone AI secured a £3m seed round led by MTech Capital to bring reliable AI automation to regulated industries
⌛ 12 months ago
AUAR secured £5.1m led by Planet A to scale robotic micro-factories for affordable timber housing
Latent Technology raised £6m seed round led by AlbionVC and Spark to pioneer real-time generative animation
Labrys unlocked £15m Series A led by Plural to support secure team coordination in high-risk environments
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Now hiring
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