Weekly Soak 🧼 24 Feb 2025

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

Jesse Heasman
February 24, 2025

Frock swap: CRESS raises pre-seed funding to expand its pre-loved school uniform platform

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Last week over £225m was deployed across 14 rounds. Catch up below ⤵️

<£0.5m

CRESS secures £230k pre-seed funding from GC Angels to expand pre-loved school uniform platform

🌎 Manchester, United Kingdom 📈 Pre-seed ⚙️ Sustainability

www.soapbox.vc/feed/cress-230k-pre-seed

PlanningHub raises £300k from Fuel Ventures to transform UK property planning with AI

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Property

www.soapbox.vc/feed/planninghub-300k-funding

Alfa raises £500k pre-seed funding led by Fuel Ventures to build AI-powered recruitment agent

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Pre-seed ⚙️ Recruitment

www.soapbox.vc/feed/alfa-500k-pre-seed

£0.5 ➡️ 1m

Atria AI secures £720k pre-seed funding led by Fuel Ventures to revolutionise legal workflows with AI

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Pre-seed ⚙️ Legal

www.soapbox.vc/feed/atria-ai-720k-pre-seed

£1 ➡️ 2m

FLIT secures £1.2m from ACF Investors and Cambridge Angels to scale production of its folding e-bikes

🌎 Cambridge, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Micromobility

www.soapbox.vc/feed/flit-1m-funding

Augmetec raises £2m seed round led by Fuel Ventures to transform regulatory investigations with AI

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ Regulation

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

£2 ➡️ 5m

Safe Intelligence raises £4m seed round led by Amadeus Capital to conduct deep validation of AI models

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ AI

www.soapbox.vc/feed/safe-intelligence-4m-seed

£5 ➡️ 10m

Nodes & Links raises £9.5m Series B led by ETF Partners to drive AI-powered efficiency in construction

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series B ⚙️ Construction

www.soapbox.vc/feed/nodes-links-10m-series-b

£10 ➡️ 20m

Capi Money raises £14m Series A led by Creandum to streamline SME international payments

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Payments

www.soapbox.vc/feed/capi-money-14m-series-a

£20 ➡️ 50m

Cambridge GaN Devices raises £25m in Series C funding to scale energy-efficient semiconductor technology

🌎 Cambridge, United Kingdom 📈 Series C ⚙️ Semiconductors

www.soapbox.vc/feed/cgd-25m-series-c

£50 ➡️ 100m

Luminance raises £60m in Series C funding led by Point72 to scale legal-grade AI platform

🌎 Cambridge, United Kingdom 📈 Series C ⚙️ Legal

www.soapbox.vc/feed/luminance-60m-series-c

>£100m

Ori raises £110m to scale cloud-based access to Nvidia superchips

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Software infrastructure

www.soapbox.vc/feed/ori-110m-equity

🔒 Undisclosed

Finalrentals raises six-figure pre-Series A to expand car rental tech platform internationally

🌎 Cardiff, United Kingdom 📈 Angel ⚙️ Travel

www.soapbox.vc/feed/finalrentals-angel

FundMyPitch secures pre-seed funding led by Lazaroo-Hood Group to expand early-stage investment platform

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Pre-seed ⚙️ Wealth

www.soapbox.vc/feed/fundmypitch-pre-seed

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