Weekly Soak 🧼 07 Apr 2025

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

Jesse Heasman
April 07, 2025

Hit subscribe: Unravel raises £5m Series A for its influencer commerce platform for travel

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Last week £780m in funding was announced across 15 rounds. Catch up below ⤵️

<£0.5m

Returnal raises £300k pre-seed led by SFC Capital to power trade-in tech for retailers

🌎 Lincolnshire, United Kingdom 📈 Pre-seed ⚙️ Ecommerce

www.soapbox.vc/feed/returnal-300k-pre-seed

Fireflai raises £415k pre-seed round from DSW Ventures to unify fragmented product data with AI

🌎 Manchester, United Kingdom 📈 Pre-seed ⚙️ Supply chain

www.soapbox.vc/feed/fireflai-400k-pre-seed

£1 ➡️ 2m

Diffblue awarded £1m Innovate UK grant to advance AI-powered code testing with reinforcement learning

🌎 Oxford, United Kingdom 📈 Grant ⚙️ DevOps

www.soapbox.vc/feed/diffblue-1m-grant

POCKLA raises £1.6m seed round led by Venrex to scale AI-powered content strategy platform

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ Marketing

www.soapbox.vc/feed/pockla-2m-seed

£2 ➡️ 5m

Grid Edge lands £2.8m led by Mercia Ventures to scale AI platform cutting energy costs and carbon emissions

🌎 Birmingham, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Property

www.soapbox.vc/feed/grid-edge-3m-equity

Wealthyhood raises £3m seed round led by Global Wealth to expand across Europe and scale B2B platform

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ Wealth

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

Unravel raises £5m Series A led by Nauta Capital to transform travel booking with creator content and AI

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Travel

www.soapbox.vc/feed/unravel-5m-series-a

£5 ➡️ 10m

Limitless Travel raises £6.5m Series A led by Beringea to scale accessible travel platform

🌎 Birmingham, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Travel

www.soapbox.vc/feed/limitless-travel-7m-series-a

Lumai raises £8m Series A led by Constructor Capital to reduce AI data centre costs and energy use

🌎 Oxford, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Semiconductors

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

Sedna raises £8m debt financing from CIBC to scale AI-powered maritime workflow platform

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Venture debt ⚙️ Supply chain

www.soapbox.vc/feed/sedna-8m-venture-debt

Phlux Technology raises £9m Series A led by BGF to expand infrared sensor tech for comms and sensing markets

🌎 Sheffield, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Semiconductors

www.soapbox.vc/feed/phlux-technology-9m-series-a

>£100m

Zepz secures £130m in growth financing led by HSBC to scale cross-border payments

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Debt financing ⚙️ Payments

www.soapbox.vc/feed/zepz-130m-debt

CMR Surgical raises £155m from Trinity Capital and existing investors to scale Versius robotic system globally

🌎 Cambridge, United Kingdom 📈 Debt financing ⚙️ Medical

www.soapbox.vc/feed/cmr-surgical-155m-debt

Isomorphic Labs raises over £450m in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital to scale AI drug design and clinical programmes

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Life sciences

www.soapbox.vc/feed/isomorphic-labs-450m-series-a

🔒 Undisclosed

Seat Unique lands cheque from Harry Kane for its premium ticketing platform for live events

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Angel ⚙️ Hospitality

www.soapbox.vc/feed/seat-unique-angel

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