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📣 Foundational emerges from stealth with a £8m pre-seed round led by Inflection [fund] to scale satellite laser ranging for precise orbital positioning 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ↓ 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿: Deep tech 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲: Pre-seed 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: £8.2m 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: Inflection [fund], BACKED VC, Type One Ventures, Final Frontier, Adjacent 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: Hira Virdee, Dave Gooding 𝗛𝗤: London, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ↑ for the full write-up

📣 DIG Ventures closes Fund III with £90m to back European startups building enterprise and cloud infrastructure 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ↓ 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿: AI 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲: Pre-seed, Seed 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: £90m 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: Ross Mason, Melissa (Lester) Klinger, Rytis Vitkauskas 𝗚𝗲𝗼: UK & Europe Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ↑ for the full write-up

📣 Metaview unlocks a £45m Series C led by Insight Partners to automate hiring with sourcing and screening agents 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ↓ 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿: HR 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲: Series C 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: £45m 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: Insight Partners, GV (Google Ventures), Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural, Garuda Ventures 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: Siadhal Magos, Shahriar Tajbakhsh 𝗛𝗤: London, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ↑ for the full write-up

📣 Zenithon AI raises £7.5m in funding led by BACKED VC for ML models that solves complex physics 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ↓ 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿: Deep tech 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲: Equity 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: £7.5m 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: BACKED VC, Lunar Ventures, MMC Ventures, SOSV 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: Alex Higginbottom, Abetharan A. 𝗛𝗤: London, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ↑ for the full write-up

A year ago in UK VC… ⏳ ⏳Requesty raised £2m seed led by 20VC to provide secure multi-AI gateway for enterprise developers ⏳ Trismik secured £2.2m pre-seed led by Twin Path Ventures to launch tools for designing and analysing LLM experiments ⏳ Synthesized landed £15m Series A led by redalpine to automate the most difficult parts of testing with agentic AI And six months ago… ⏳ Keith raised a £2m seed round led by BACKED VC for AI-native law firm automating conveyancing ⏳ Stateful Robotics secured a £3.6m pre-seed led by Amadeus Capital Partners and Oxford Science Enterprises to help robots operate reliably in the real world ⏳ Eunice AI announced £6m seed funding led by Moonfire and Speedinvest to become the DD infrastructure layer for alternative assets ... In the Soapbox newsletter every week 👀

📣 Inovus Medical lands £7m extension led by PXN Group to provide surgeons with surgical simulation training 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ↓ 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿: Health 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲: Extension 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: £7m 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: PXN Group, Mercia Ventures, Unorthodox Ventures, Liverpool City Region Seed Fund (LCR Seed Fund) 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: Elliot Street, Jordan Van Flute 𝗛𝗤: St Helens, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ↑ for the full write-up

📣 Dyad secures a £7.5m Series A led by Sangha Capital SA for its system that converts clinical documents into structured data for GP patient records 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ↓ 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿: Health 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲: Series A 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: £7.5m 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: Sangha Capital SA, Carbide Ventures, Bill Tai 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: Alexander Tayler, Steven Hamblin 𝗛𝗤: London, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ↑ for the full write-up

📣 Something & Nothing | B Corp™ unlocks £5m in funding led by Venrex for premium soft drinks built on flavour 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ↓ 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿: Consumer 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲: Equity 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: £5m 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: Venrex, Rianta Capital, ACF Investors, The Source Ventures 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: Oliver Dixon, Rupert Pugsley 𝗛𝗤: London, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ↑ for the full write-up