Weekly Soak 🧼 20 Jan 2025

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

Jesse Heasman
January 20, 2025

Bring your dog to work day: Lupa announces a £3m raise for its veterinary operating system

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Last week over £380m in funding was announced, with “AI-powered” dominating the headlines with the technology being applied to vet software, surveillance and beyond… Catch up on all 17 rounds below ⤵️

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£0.5 ➡️ 1m

4T2 Sensors raises £800k in seed funding led by Midven to drive sustainable fluid analysis

🌎 Birmingham, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ Food & beverage

£1 ➡️ 2m

TalentMapper raises £2m from Mercia Ventures and Haatch to help companies tackle the skills challenge

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Funding ⚙️ Human resources

Echo raises £2m from Ridown Group to bring AI-powered meeting assistant to UK businesses

🌎 Southampton, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ AI

Scotmas secures £2.2m investment from Maven to drive innovation in water disinfection technology

🌎 Scottish Borders, United Kingdom 📈 Funding ⚙️ Infrastructure

TRIBE secures £2.4m investment led by Mercia Ventures to fuel growth of natural energy snacks

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Funding ⚙️ Food & beverage

£2 ➡️ 5m

Lupa completes a £3m seed round for its AI-powered veterinary operating system

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ Veterinary

Oh secures £3.5m seed round to build decentralised, uncensored AI infrastructure for digital creators

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ AI

NRG Gyms lands £4m from Puma Growth Partners to continue its rollout of high-value, low-price gyms

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Funding ⚙️ Fitness

£5 ➡️ 10m

Intelex Vision closes £5.6m Series A for AI-powered video analytics for real-time surveillance

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Security

RocketPhone raises £8.5m to commercialise AI-native voice platform for sales teams

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Funding ⚙️ Sales and marketing

£10 ➡️ 20m

Origen secures £10.5m Series A to deploy limestone-based direct air capture technology

🌎 Bristol, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Climate

NatureMetrics raises £20m in Series B funding led by Just Climate to scale biodiversity monitoring solution

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series B ⚙️ Environment

£20 ➡️ 50m

Owlstone raises £22m in the first close of its Series E round to advance its breath-based diagnostics device

🌎 Cambridge, United Kingdom 📈 Series E ⚙️ Medical

BeZero Carbon secures £26m Series C led by GenZero to expand global carbon credit ratings

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series C ⚙️ Climate

>£100m

Cera raises £120m in financing led by BDT & MSD Partners to expand AI-driven home healthcare

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Funding ⚙️ Health

Synthesia secures £150m in Series D funding led by NEA to advance AI video for enterprise communications

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series D ⚙️ AI

🔒 Undisclosed

Unum secures funding from ACF Investors and Origin Capital Partners to expand business class seating

🌎 Crawley, United Kingdom 📈 Funding ⚙️ Travel

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