The big ones
The whole orbit Open Cosmos landed £260m led by Lightrock to design, build and operate European satellite missions end-to-end
Double-agents Jack & Jill unlocked £30m Series A led by Air Street Capital to run dual-agents on both sides of hiring market
Best of the rest
Payment architect’s Ryft unlocked £20m Series B led by Gresham House Ventures to serve marketplaces and platforms with multi-party payments architecture
Glamourising supply chains Magentic closed £13m Series A led by Felicis to put AI workers inside the procurement teams of global manufacturers
Contracts in need of a Resolutiion raised £8m led by LocalGlobe and Cherry Ventures to build the AI infrastructure for commercial risk and dispute resolution
Cutting out the guilt MicroLub landed £7.5m in funding led by Northern Gritstone to help food manufacturers cut fat without losing taste or texture
What’s the damage? Expanse emerged from stealth with £4m led by Crane Venture Partners for software that sizes AI workloads before they run
Your personal banker’s here Quartz raised a £2.8m pre-seed round led by Daphni to give everyone their own personal banker
Sending watts into the sky Space Solar won a £1.3m ARIA contract to beam wireless power from the ground to stratospheric aircraft
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Dry powder
Intrepid Growth Partners closed debut fund at £390m to back AI founders in the UK-Canada corridor
Crane Venture Partners raised £360m across four funds to back inception-to-seed founders in Europe, North America, India and APAC
The scout
⏳ 6 months ago
Chalkie secured a £3m round from TriplePoint Ventures for curriculum-aligned lesson planning software
VerbaFlo landed a £5m seed round led by Pi Labs to power global real estate communications with conversational AI
Cocoon Carbon raised £11m Series A led by 2150 and Brick & Mortar Ventures to unlock new supply of cement replacement materials
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Plumerai secured £6.5m Series A led by Partech and OTB Ventures to scale vision LLMs for edge devices
Implement AI landed £1.3m seed round led by Nigel Wray to scale its operating system for AI digital workers
TransHumanity raised £400k pre-seed led by SFC Capital to launch AptIq, an agentic AI platform for transport data
Now hiring
The hottest roles from the Soapbox UK startup jobs board
Nscale: AI compute & data centre platform hiring across all departments
Humanoid: AI and robotics company hiring across engineering and hardware
Open Cosmos: European space infra. startup hiring for various engineering roles
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