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Last week £132m in venture funding was announced across 18 rounds.
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Eliot Brooks, Co-founder & CEO of Cocoon on its £11m Series A
The big ones
Bio-scaffolding Mestag Therapeutics secured £30m to advance fibroblast immunology cancer therapies
Best of the rest
Laying cyber traps Tracebit landed £15m Series A led by FirstMark for cloud-native threat detection platform
Carbon copy Cocoon raised £11m Series A led by 2150 and Brick & Mortar Ventures to unlock new supply of cement replacement materials
Property lingo VerbaFlo landed a £5m seed round led by Pi Labs to power global real estate communications with conversational AI
Scratching the surface Sequential unlocked £2.6m in funding led by Sparkfood and Corundum Systems Biology for non-invasive testing of skin health ingredients
The trust issue Signals secured an £880k seed round from strategic investors to help publishers evaluate integrity of research
The creative stack First Concepts raised a £750k pre-seed round led by Arāya Ventures to coordinate the workspace stack for creative teams
Ancient crafts, modern ways Hydra Manufacturing secured £320k in funding from SFC Capital to develop ceramic manufacturing systems
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The scout
⏳ 6 months ago
Conduct emerged from stealth with £9m seed led by Creandum to transform ERP operations with AI agents
Plumerai secured £6.5m Series A led by Partech and OTB Ventures to scale vision LLMs for edge devices
Hiverge raised £3.7m seed led by Flying Fish Ventures to build an algorithm factory for tailored business optimisation
⌛ 12 months ago
ABEX raised £5m from MMC Ventures to advance ML-powered execution technology for digital asset trading
Eventum Orthopaedics secured £3.8m from Mercia Ventures to expand rollout of knee replacement device
Qlarifi landed £1.4m pre-seed led by HoneyComb Asset Management and Carthona Capital to enhance BNPL credit reporting
Now hiring
The hottest roles from the Soapbox UK startup jobs board
Runware: Powering AI media generation hiring for various engineers
Ankar AI: Developing agents for IP management, hiring across departments
Artificial Labs: Digital underwriting startup hiring across engineering and design
Modo Energy: Energy startup hiring for commercial and engineering roles
Full breakdown
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