Weekly Soak 🧼 04 Aug 2025

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

Jesse Heasman
August 04, 2025

Hacker for good: DynaRisk lands £3.5m from YFM Equity Partners to provide cyber tools to protect insurance firm clients

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Last week £100m in funding was announced across 9 rounds. Catch up below ⤵️

£0.5 ➡️ 1m

Productive Machines lands £500k from Digital Catapult to scale CNC software and reshore UK manufacturing

🌎 Sheffield, United Kingdom 📈 Strategic ⚙️ Manufacturing

www.soapbox.vc/feed/productive-machines-500k-equity

Fluid Focus secures £640k funding from Invest NI via Clarendon to reward healthier screentime habits

🌎 Belfast, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Health

www.soapbox.vc/feed/fluid-focus-640k-equity

£2 ➡️ 5m

Jitty lands £3m seed round led by REA Group to reinvent home buying with AI-powered search and collaboration

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ Property

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

DynaRisk lands £3.5m from YFM Equity Partners to take embedded cyber insurance software global

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Insurance

www.soapbox.vc/feed/dynarisk-4m-equity

Centauri Therapeutics secures a further £3.8m from CARB-X to advance antimicrobial candidate into clinical trials

🌎 Cheshire, United Kingdom 📈 Follow-on ⚙️ Biotechnology

www.soapbox.vc/feed/centauri-therapeutics-4m-follow

£5 ➡️ 10m

Due lands £5.5m seed round led by Speedinvest to launch stablecoin payments API for global businesses

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ Payments

www.soapbox.vc/feed/due-6m-seed

£10 ➡️ 20m

Sava raises £14m Series A led by Balderton and Pentland Venture to pioneer real-time biosensing for diabetes care

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Health

www.soapbox.vc/feed/sava-14m-series-a

£20 ➡️ 50m

Unmind secures £27m led by TELUS Global Ventures to expand AI-powered mental health platform in the US

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Strategic ⚙️ Health

www.soapbox.vc/feed/unmind-27m-strategic

Ultromics raises £40m Series C led by L&G, Allegis Capital and Lightrock to expand AI heart failure diagnostics in the US

🌎 Oxford, United Kingdom 📈 Series C ⚙️ Medical

www.soapbox.vc/feed/ultromics-40m-series-c

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