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Perceptic raises a £9m seed round led by Accel to unify drug discovery and development on a single AI platform
Perceptic is an AI operating system for drug discovery and development. Its platform unifies asset scouting, scientific evaluation, and clinical data foundations into a single intelligence layer for pharmaceutical and biotech organisations.


Primer announces £75m Series C led by Sofina for unified payments and finance infrastructure
Primer is a payments infrastructure platform that gives merchants a unified layer across the payments lifecycle, from checkout to payout. The platform helps payments, finance and treasury teams manage transaction data, payment providers and reconciliation from a single system.


Fractile raises £160m from top VCs to deliver chips built to speed up AI inference workloads
Fractile develops chips and systems designed to speed up AI inference workloads for frontier models operating over very long output sequences. The hardware is built to handle large models and long-context inference while reducing the latency and memory bandwidth constraints that limit current AI systems.


Tracebit lands £15m Series A led by FirstMark for cloud-native threat detection platform
Tracebit is a cloud-native threat detection platform for cloud-based businesses. It deploys deception technology across cloud systems to detect attackers early and help security teams respond before damage occurs.


SolveAI raises £37m Series A led by GV to let employees build enterprise software with conversational AI
SolveAI builds software that lets employees create enterprise applications by describing what they need in natural language. It is designed for large organisations that require tools to integrate with existing systems and meet security and compliance requirements.


Clove launches with £10m pre-seed led by Accel to make financial advice accessible, affordable and personal
Clove is building a personal finance and advice platform that combines human advisers with software tools to make regulated financial advice more accessible to people with moderate levels of wealth.


Omnea raises £37m Series B led by Insight Partners and Khosla Ventures to build intelligent procurement orchestration platform
Omnea develops AI-powered procurement software that acts as a single intake and orchestration layer, helping organisations manage supplier requests, workflows and risk across finance, legal and operations teams.


Nory raises £27m Series B led by Kinnevik to revolutionise restaurant operations with AI
Nory delivers an AI-native operating system for restaurants that automates scheduling, inventory, payroll and analysis, helping operators reduce costs and improve profitability.


Recraft raises £22.5m Series B led by Accel to deliver brand-consistent generative AI design at scale
Recraft builds a generative AI design platform that allows creative teams to produce images with consistent brand styles, offering precise control over layout, text and visual elements at scale.


Index and Accel lead £100m Series A for Tessl to reshape how software is built and maintained
Tessl is building an AI-native software development platform that separates application requirements from implementation, allowing developers to specify systems in natural language while AI handles building, testing and maintenance.
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