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Nettle lands a £3.6m seed round led by MTech to help insurers inspect commercial risks five times faster
Nettle is an AI workspace for loss control, bringing risk identification, evidence capture, analysis and reporting into a single platform for commercial insurers. It is built for enterprise insurance teams who need to assess physical risk across more of their portfolio than their risk engineers can reach.


Souk raises a £1.2m pre-seed round led by SVV to reactivate dormant go-to-market partnerships
Souk is an AI partner manager for B2B companies running go-to-market partner programmes. Its autonomous agent, Coco, sources partners, keeps them engaged, tracks performance and manages payouts, focusing on relationships that have gone dormant.


BeCertain raises a £1.7m pre-seed round led by Sure Valley Ventures for AI software that helps dentists interpret X-rays
BeCertain develops an AI software assistant that helps dental clinicians interpret 2D intraoral X-rays. The system detects conditions including tooth decay, bone loss, infections and restoration defects, and provides calibrated confidence levels showing how certain it is in each assessment.


Xylo lands a £2.8m pre-seed round led by CapitalT for AI agents that handle council planning admin
Xylo is a govtech platform built for local government planning departments. Its AI agents handle the administrative work involved in processing planning applications, such as chasing documents, checking submissions and collating responses, so that officers can focus on making decisions.


ManaMind secures a £1.1m pre-seed round led by SVV to develop autonomous QA agents for gaming
ManaMind is an autonomous game testing startup that builds AI agents to test video games. Its platform plays through games, identifies bugs, and generates reports to reduce manual quality assurance work for game developers.


Ralio lands a £1.8m pre-seed round led by Sure Valley Ventures to provide safer infrastructure for agentic payments
Ralio is a payments platform designed for AI agents operating in business financial workflows. It provides infrastructure that allows autonomous systems to transact securely across payment methods such as bank transfers, cards and stablecoins.


Astut lands £1.6m seed round led by East X Ventures and Sure Valley Ventures to commercialise AI for crisis decision-making
Astut develops reasoning-based AI systems for high-stakes decisions, designed for situations where there is little historical data to learn from.


Literal Labs raises £4.6m seed led by Northern Gritstone for logic-based AI that is faster and more energy efficient than neural networks
Literal Labs develops logic-based AI using Tsetlin machines, offering faster, more energy-efficient and explainable alternatives to neural networks for industrial and enterprise machine learning applications.


Capably raises £3m in funding led by Boost Capital Partners to expand intelligent automation platform
Capably offers an intelligent automation platform that lets non technical teams delegate repetitive business tasks to AI while retaining control, visibility and reliability across everyday operational workflows.


Inephany raises £1.8m led by Amadeus to cut LLM training costs with breakthrough AI optimisation
Inephany develops AI optimisation technology that dramatically reduces the cost and time required to train large language models, improving efficiency across neural networks used in AI research and commercial applications.


Vizgard secures £1.5m to enhance defence and public safety using visual autonomy AI solution
Vizgard provides visual autonomy software that runs on low-power hardware, enabling automated threat detection and camera control for defence and public safety systems.
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