Weekly Soak 🧼 30 Jun 2025

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

Jesse Heasman
June 30, 2025

Worth a shot: Pimentae raises £1.5m in funding to expand its tequila drinks range across Europe

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Last week £150m in funding was announced across 9 rounds buoyed by PhysicsX £100m Series B. Catch up below ⤵️

£1 ➡️ 2m

Elyndra raises £1.1m led by Outward VC to scale AI platform for the social care sector

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Health

www.soapbox.vc/feed/elyndra-1m-equity

Pimentae raises £1.5m led by FIGR Ventures to expand premium tequila brand across UK and Europe

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Food & beverage

www.soapbox.vc/feed/pimentae-2m-equity

OutSee raises £1.8m seed round led by Ahren Innovation Capital to advance AI-driven genomic target discovery

🌎 Cambridge, United Kingdom 📈 Seed ⚙️ Life sciences

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

£10 ➡️ 20m

Zeelo raises £17m Series B led by Blue Earth Capital to scale AI-powered shared transport platform

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series B ⚙️ Travel

www.soapbox.vc/feed/zeelo-17m-series-b

£20 ➡️ 50m

Metaview raises £25m Series B led by GV to scale its AI tools for hiring interviews

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series B ⚙️ Recruitment

www.soapbox.vc/feed/metaview-25m-series-b

£50 ➡️ 100m

PhysicsX raises £100m in Series B led by Atomico to scale AI-native engineering software for manufacturing industries

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Series B ⚙️ AI

www.soapbox.vc/feed/physicsx-100m-series-b

🔒 Undisclosed

FourTwoThree launches with backing from NatWest, NAB and SC Ventures to help enterprises and SMEs cut carbon emissions

🌎 London, United Kingdom 📈 Strategic ⚙️ Climate

www.soapbox.vc/feed/fourtwothree-strategic

Our Rainwater raises funding from SFC Capital to scale data-driven rainwater management platform

🌎 Exeter, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Infrastructure

www.soapbox.vc/feed/our-rainwater-equity

Enate lands funding from Scottish Equity Partners to scale process orchestration software for global service providers

🌎 Glasgow, United Kingdom 📈 Equity ⚙️ Process automation

www.soapbox.vc/feed/enate-equity

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