Hot Pics from Space and 16 More VC Funding Rounds | UK Weekly
Welcome to the UK Weekly from Soapbox. Last week £115m in funding was announced across 17 rounds.
SatVu was founded to give governments access to intelligence they cannot access elsewhere. High-resolution thermal imagery from space reveals activity that is otherwise invisible - day and night - including heat signatures associated with operations inside and around buildings and critical infrastructure.
Anthony Baker, Co-founder & CEO of SatVu on its £30m funding round
The big ones
Grab your thermals SatVu landed £30m in funding led by NATO Innovation Fund to capture hi-res thermal imagery from space
Have a FYLD day FYLD announced its £30m Series B led by Energy Impact Partners to monitor high-risk infra. fieldwork with its intelligence platform
Best of the rest
Automating accounting admin Stacks raised a £17m Series A by Lightspeed to reinvent finance ops with its all-in-one accounting workspace for enterprise teams
The AI DB SurrealDB secured a £17m Series A extension by Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital to develop its multi-model database for storing and managing complex information
Half price genes Tozaro secured £6m in funding led by Mercia Ventures to cut gene therapy manufacturing costs with its Smart Polymer technology
OpenClaw for founders Toyo secured a £3m seed round led by Frontline Ventures to help companies run operational tasks with an AI agent platform
Retail insights Made With Intent landed £2.4m in funding led by PXN Ventures to provide ecommerce websites with customer intent analytics
Auto-3PL Fulfilment.com unlocked a £4m seed round led by Blackfinch to replace manual sourcing with ecommerce fulfilment partner marketplace
The not so Bland Company raised a £2m pre-seed led by Initialized Capital to turn overlooked agricultural byproducts into functional food proteins
SIMplifying business telecoms Meaningful Planet landed seed funding from SFC Capital to monitor and manage business SIM usage across organisations
Full breakdown
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Deal flow?
⏳ 6 months ago
Phoebe raised a £12.6m seed round led by GV and Cherry Ventures to monitor live software systems with AI agents
Aircards secured £3m in capital from Foresight Group to expand global immersive studio offering
Embargo lands £2.6m from investors and angels to supercharge its loyalty and CRM platform for hospitality SMEs
⌛ 12 months ago
Capi Money secured £14m Series A led by Creandum to streamline SME international payments
Safe Intelligence raised £4m seed round led by Amadeus Capital to conduct deep validation of AI models
Atria AI announced its £720k pre-seed funding led by Fuel Ventures to revolutionise legal workflows with AI
Now hiring
Klaris: MedTech compliance platform hiring across engineering ops and product
Stacks: Agentic AI finance platform hiring across engineering and sales
SatVu: Satellite thermal intelligence hiring a VP of sales and other roles
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