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Last week £82m in venture funding was announced across 12 rounds.
When decision-making in alternative assets is opaque, risk doesn't disappear - it just becomes invisible until it isn't. As these markets grow more complex and more visible, institutions need to show not just what they decided, but how.
Yi Luo, Founder & CEO of Eunice on its £6m seed round
The big ones
Total package Origin announced a £22m Series A+ led by Notion Capital for enterprise benefits intelligence platform
Best of the rest
Activewear’s afterlife Epoch Biodesign raised £9m in funding from lululemon and leading VCs for enzymatic nylon recycling
DD-Day Eunice announced £6m seed funding led by Moonfire Ventures and Speedinvest to become the DD infrastructure layer for alternative assets
Emissions tracked Zevero raised £5m in funding from Spiral Capital, Gazelle Capital and Deep 30 for carbon management software
Digital generosity TiPJAR banked £4.5m in funding from YFM Equity Partners for digital tip and service charge management platform
Reliable robots Stateful Robotics raised a £3.6m pre-seed led by Amadeus Capital Partners and Oxford Science Enterprises to help robots operate reliably in the real world
Your new lawyer Keith secured a £2m round led by BackedVC for for AI-native law firm automating conveyancing
Sharpening the circular economy Allday Goods landed £765k in funding led by FIGR Ventures for kitchenware brand crafting pro knives from recycled plastic
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The scout
⏳ 6 months ago
Veridox £1m in funding led by Outward VC to combat insurance fraud with intelligent document and image analysis
Requesty £2m seed led by 20VC to provide secure multi-AI gateway for enterprise developers
Trismik £2.2m pre-seed led by Twin Path Ventures to launch tools for designing and analysing LLM experiments
⌛ 12 months ago
Rival £3.2m pre-seed led by Speedinvest for its AI 2D-to-3D content platform
Firenze £2.5m seed round led by Outward VC to open up Lombard lending for mass affluent investors
Komodo Energy £340k from One Planet Capital and SFC Capital to integrate heat flexibility into energy markets
Now hiring
The hottest roles from the Soapbox UK startup jobs board
Fuse Energy: Renewable energy company hiring across various departments
Outpost: Cross-border payment platform hiring across engineering and GTM
Olix: Photonic AI chip startup hiring across software ad chip architecture
Tracebit: Cybersecurity platform hiring researchers, engineers and their first SDR
Full breakdown
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