Weekly Soak 🧼 02 Jun 2025

The definitive round-up of venture capital fundraising news | 🇬🇧 edition

Jesse Heasman
June 02, 2025

Pulling strings: Stotles lands £10m to help private sector suppliers grow their revenue in the public sector

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Last week £190m in funding was announced across 11 rounds, bolstered by a huge growth ticket for payments start-up Dojo. Catch up below ⤵️

£0.5 ➡️ 1m

RoxFit raises £800k pre-seed round led by DSW Ventures to scale hybrid fitness platform

🌎 York, United Kingdom 📈 Pre-seed ⚙️ Fitness

www.soapbox.vc/feed/roxfit-800k-pre-seed

£2 ➡️ 5m

SCI Semiconductor lands £2.5m in funding led by Mercia Ventures to build memory safe chips for cybersecurity

🌎 Sheffield, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Semiconductors

www.soapbox.vc/feed/sci-semiconductor-3m-equity

Ankar secures £3m seed round led by Index Ventures to redefine IP management with AI agents

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ AI

www.soapbox.vc/feed/ankar-3m-seed

Ad Signal raises £3m from Foresight to drive sustainable media content management

🌎 York, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Content and publishing

www.soapbox.vc/feed/ad-signal-3m-equity

NavLive raises £4m seed round led by OSE to launch real-time AI scanner for architecture and construction

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ Construction

www.soapbox.vc/feed/navlive-4m-seed

£5 ➡️ 10m

Velocity secures £7.4m pre-seed led by Activant to power stablecoin-based global finance infrastructure

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Pre-seed ⚙️ Payments

www.soapbox.vc/feed/velocity-7m-pre-seed

Volteras lands £8m Series A led by Union Square Ventures to expand EV and energy data platform

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Energy

www.soapbox.vc/feed/volteras-8m-series-a

Applied Computing raises £9m seed from Stride.VC and Repeat.vc to deploy superintelligent AI for legacy energy infrastructure

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ AI

www.soapbox.vc/feed/applied-computing-9m-seed

Stotles lands £10m Series A led by Headline and Acton to transform how companies win public sector contracts

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Sales

www.soapbox.vc/feed/stotles-10m-series-a

>£100m

Dojo secures £140m growth funding from Vitruvian to scale European payments expansion

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Growth ⚙️ Payments

www.soapbox.vc/feed/dojo-140m-growth

🔒 Undisclosed

Motion raises funding from sector specialists to digitise care home workflows and boost family transparency

🌎 Sheffield, United Kingdom 📈 Angel ⚙️ Health

www.soapbox.vc/feed/motion-angel

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