Weekly Soak 🧼 27 May 2025

Wull Technologies raises £300k from GM Advance and University of Manchester to scale rigid sheep wool insulation panels

Persi raises £660k pre-seed led by Haatch and ESM to fix broken fashion personalisation with human-centred AI

PlaySafe ID raises £840k pre-seed led by Early Game Ventures to tackle cheating and abuse in games with digital ID

Envoke raises £1m seed extension from Mercia to expand virtual training platform for lab staff

Sparxell awarded £1.6m EIC grant to scale bioinspired colourants from Cambridge lab to industry

Sention raises £3.7m seed round led by Twin Path Ventures to commercialise AI-powered battery diagnostics

Penfold raises £3.9m led by Gresham House Ventures to expand digital pension platform for SMEs

Signatur Biosciences raises £5m seed led by The Discovery Lab to decentralise breast cancer prognostic testing

Rivan raises £10m seed led by Plural to scale synthetic fuel systems for heavy industry

Converge raises £16m in funding led by ABN AMRO to scale AI platform cutting concrete emissions

Butternut Box secures £65m debt funding from Liquidity to expand European production of fresh dog food

CellCentric raises £90m Series C led by RA Capital and Forbion to advance first-in-class cancer drug