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Nexcade secures a £4.5m seed round led by Project A Ventures to expand its AI agent platform for freight forwarding

8 Jul 2026

Nexcade secures a £4.5m seed round led by Project A Ventures to expand its AI agent platform for freight forwarding

Nexcade builds AI agents for freight forwarders. Its platform captures unstructured work from emails, attachments, conversations and spreadsheets and turns it into structured workflows that automate quoting, pricing, rate procurement and customer communication.

Dessn

15 May 2026

Dessn raises £4.5m led by Connect Ventures for product design and prototyping inside live codebases

Dessn is a design-in-production platform for product teams. The platform lets designers and product managers prototype and explore products directly inside their company’s real codebase without needing to run code locally or use developer tools.

Nexcade

7 Oct 2025

Nexcade raises £1.9m pre-seed led by Connect Ventures to bring AI automation to global freight forwarding

Nexcade builds AI automation tools for freight forwarders, streamlining pricing, quoting and procurement by structuring unstructured communications across complex logistics workflows.

Cloud Capital

23 Apr 2025

Cloud Capital emerges from stealth with £6m from Backed and MiddleGame Ventures to help CFOs manage cloud infrastructure

Cloud Capital helps finance teams forecast and manage cloud infrastructure spend by treating cloud usage as a financial asset, giving CFOs visibility into risk, commitments and long term costs.

Plain

10 Feb 2025

Plain raises £12m Series A led by Battery Ventures to build the future of B2B customer support

Plain develops a collaborative B2B customer support platform that unifies email, chat and tools like Slack, enabling support, engineering and success teams to resolve issues faster using shared workflows and AI assistance.

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