Weekly Soak 🧼 24 Mar 2025

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

Jesse Heasman
March 24, 2025

ID please: Vouchsafe raises £1m pre-seed to tackle global identity verification

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Last week £90m was announced across 9 rounds. Catch up below ⤵️

£0.5 ➡️ 1m

Bioniq lands over £800k from Manchester United’s Diogo Dalot to expand personalised supplements offering

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Angel ⚙️ Fitness

www.soapbox.vc/feed/bioniq-800k-angel

Vouchsafe raises £1m pre-seed led by Bethnal Green Ventures to tackle ID poverty

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Pre-seed ⚙️ Regulation

www.soapbox.vc/feed/vouchsafe-1m-pre-seed

£1 ➡️ 2m

Elaniti raises £1.3m in venture and Innovate UK funding to advance AI-driven soil intelligence platform

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Agriculture

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

Qlarifi lands £1.4m pre-seed led by HoneyComb Asset Management and Carthona Capital to enhance BNPL credit reporting

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Pre-seed ⚙️ Fintech

www.soapbox.vc/feed/qlarifi-1m-pre-seed

£2 ➡️ 5m

ReactWise raises £2.5m pre-seed led by Y Combinator to transform big pharma with AI and self-driving labs

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Pre-seed ⚙️ Life sciences

www.soapbox.vc/feed/reactwise-3m-pre-seed

Eventum Orthopaedics secures £3.8m from Mercia Ventures to expand rollout of knee replacement device

🌎 Yorkshire, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Medical

www.soapbox.vc/feed/eventum-orthopaedics-4m-equity

ABEX raises £5m from MMC Ventures to advance ML-powered execution technology for digital asset trading

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Fintech

www.soapbox.vc/feed/abex-5m-equity

£10 ➡️ 20m

Brainomix completes £14m Series C led by Parkwalk Advisors to advance AI imaging technology in healthcare

🌎 Oxford, United Kingdom 📈 Series C ⚙️ Medical

www.soapbox.vc/feed/brainomix-14m-series-c

£50 ➡️ 100m

Maxion Therapeutics raises £58m in Series A led by General Catalyst to advance KnotBody pipeline

🌎 Cambridge, United Kingdom 📈 Series A ⚙️ Biotechnology

www.soapbox.vc/feed/maxion-therapeutics-58m-series-a

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