Weekly Soak 🧼 25 Nov 2024

British Design Fund leads £500k round into Good Boost to transform aquatic rehabilitation with AI
⚙️ Health
📈 Seed
🤝 British Design Fund
🔗 Good Boost

TalentLynk secures £335k pre-seed from Haatch to revolutionise recruitment with AI-powered communication platform
⚙️ Recruitment
📈 Pre-seed
🤝 Haatch
🔗 TalentLynk

QantX Ventures leads £600k round into Light Trace driving photonic chip innovation with its LightCraft platform
⚙️ Semiconductors
📈 Seed
🤝 QantX Ventures
🔗 Light Trace

Dote secures £1m seed funding to launch AI-driven parenting ecosystem
⚙️ Family
📈 Seed
🤝 Various angels
🔗 Dote

MannyAI raises £1.3m pre-seed led by Dreamcraft Ventures to transform fashion supply chains with AI-driven production hubs
⚙️ Supply chain
📈 Pre-seed
🤝 Dreamcraft Ventures; Alante Capital; Plug and Play EMEA; Carbon13; Ventures Together; PDS Ventures
🔗 MannyAI

Virtue Drinks secures £2m from BrewDog founder James Watt and England football star Eberechi Eze
⚙️ Food & beverage
📈 Angel round
🤝 Eberechi Eze; James Watt
🔗 Virtue Drinks

Heal Capital leads £2.2m seed round into Heim Health to power at-home healthcare with advanced workforce optimisation
⚙️ Health
📈 Seed
🤝 Heal Capital; Form Ventures; Portfolio Ventures; Houghton Street Ventures
🔗 Heim Health

Qminder secures £2.5m seed funding led by Practica Capital to revolutionise service flow management
⚙️ Facilities
📈 Seed
🤝 Practica Capital; Metaplanet; BADideas; Various angels
🔗 Qminder

Tewke closes £2.6m seed round to support the launch of their flagship home energy control product
⚙️ Sustainability
📈 Seed
🤝 Undisclosed
🔗 Tewke

Property tech pioneers Street Group raise £3.3m from Praetura to scale award-winning estate agent technology
⚙️ Property
📈 Funding
🤝 Praetura Ventures
🔗 Street Group

Popp AI raises £3.6m seed led by Emerge and SuperSeed to bring conversational AI to enterprise recruitment
⚙️ Recruitment
📈 Seed
🤝 Emerge; SuperSeed Ventures
🔗 Popp AI

X-ray technology innovator Silveray lands £4m seed led by Northern Gritstone to launch its first product next year
⚙️ Semiconductor
📈 Seed
🤝 Northern Gritstone; ACF Investors; Empirical Ventures; Deeptech Labs; Hamamatsu Ventures
🔗 Silveray

Cytomos secures £5m led by Archangels to scale up production of cell-analysis technology
⚙️ Biotechnology
📈 Funding
🤝 Archangels; Old College Capital; Scottish Enterprise; British Business Bank
🔗 Cytomos

Little Journey raises £6m Series A led by Par Equity to redefine the way the world delivers paediatric care
⚙️ Health
📈 Series A
🤝 Par Equity; Mercia Ventures; Octopus Ventures; Calm/Storm Ventures
🔗 Little Journey

Konsileo raises £8m to expand UK operations with tech-driven commercial broking model
⚙️ Insurance
📈 Growth
🤝 Committed Capital; ACF Investors
🔗 Konsileo

Echion Technologies raises a further £10m from Barclays and BGF to accelerate commercial growth
⚙️ Batteries
📈 Growth
🤝 Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital; BGF
🔗 Echion Technologies

Retail payments platform Kody raises £16m Series A to grow its global team and product offering
⚙️ Payments
📈 Series A
🤝 Undisclosed
🔗 Kody

Toscafund and Penta Capital invest £25m to boost CellPoint Digital's airline payment orchestration and global growth
⚙️ Payments
📈 Growth
🤝 Toscafund; Penta Capital
🔗 CellPoint Digital

Nivoda raises £40m led by Northzone to transform the global diamond supply chain
⚙️ Supply chain
📈 Series B
🤝 Northzone; Avenir; Headline; Abstract Ventures; Canaan Partners
🔗 Nivoda

KKR leads £300m Series C for Lighthouse to accelerate AI-driven growth in the hospitality tech market
⚙️ Hospitality
📈 Series C
🤝 KKR; Spectrum Equity; F-Prime Capital; Eight Roads Ventures; Highgate Technology Ventures
🔗 Lighthouse

Interactive education platform Amazy.uk welcomes JuneX Capital Partners to its ongoing pre-seed round
⚙️ Education
📈 Pre-seed
🤝 JuneX Capital Partners
🔗 Amazy.uk

Safe Workplace secures South West Investment Fund equity investment via FSE Group
⚙️ Human resources
📈 Seed
🤝 FSE Group; Fuel Ventures
🔗 Safe Workplace