The British Business Bank led a £10m funding round to support international demonstration projects and research.
"The renewable power market is held back by its vulnerability to external factors. The answer is long-duration energy storage, and Certain Energy has the technology and now the funding to deliver highly efficient, affordable batteries, based on abundant materials, to make this a reality."
Every round, investor and startup. £152B of it. In a spreadsheet.
CSV exports built for your own models: every round since 2020 with investors and leads, every fund at team-member level, every startup at founder level with Companies House accounts attached.
The Cranfield University spinout secured backing from DSW Ventures and Innovate UK to scale its engineering team and platform capabilities.
"We’re at the point where both advanced manufacturing and AI-native engineering need the same thing: faithful meshes from geometry that legacy tools simply can’t handle. ChopMesh is built natively for exactly that geometry, which uniquely positions us to serve both today’s aerospace and industrial engineers and the fast growing class of Phsyics-AI companies that depend on high-quality mesh data. This funding is a strong endorsement of that mission and the team behind it."
Balderton Capital led the pre-seed round, with participation from angel investors including Cleo founder Barney Hussey-Yeo.
"Our long-term research goal is to build self-improving investment agents. As an agent supports a mandate over months and years, it should learn which approaches continue to hold up, identify promising new signals and recognise when an apparent edge has decayed. Within the parameters set by each investment team, these agents could become a powerful tool for continuous discovery,"
The funding round includes backing from CPCA Business Growth Finance and The FSE Group to support international growth.
"Spotta’s unique combination of patented technology, robust business model, and experienced management team positions them as early leaders in their field."
Seedcamp leads the pre-seed round for the physical AI startup, with participation from a group of international investors.
"The next wave of AI will power factories, vehicles, robots and critical infrastructure, but today, every change in hardware creates huge complexity for software teams, and that friction is already massively slowing innovation,"