YFM Equity Partners backed the digital funeral planning provider to support its expansion and marketing efforts.
"Aura is well positioned at a point of structural change in the funeral services market. The team has built a differentiated, digital-first proposition that combines strong regulatory foundations with a high-quality customer experience. Importantly, they are doing so with a clear sense of purpose – helping to modernise and improve an industry that has historically underserved consumers. We were particularly impressed by the strength and ambition of the team, and their vision to build a broader end-of-life planning platform."
The British Business Bank has backed the warehouse robotics provider as part of its recent Series C round.
"The UK consistently produces companies with market-leading technology, which need greater domestic backing to scale globally. The Bank is stepping up to ensure companies like Dexory have the capital they need to innovate and expand here in the UK. We are working with fund managers to create deeper pools of capital and are increasing the scale of our co-investing activity, which directly increases the size of funding rounds for high-potential UK companies."
MiddleGame Ventures led the financing round with participation from Further Ventures and Unusual Ventures.
"Financial markets are ultimately systems of resource allocation. To allocate well, we must first see the economy clearly, not in fragments but as an interconnected whole. Theia exists to map the unmapped, to make visible the structure of the global economy."
The London startup raised the capital from Moonfire Ventures, Speedinvest and Openspace Ventures to scale its compliance and monitoring technology.
"When decision-making in alternative assets is opaque, risk doesn’t disappear – it just becomes invisible until it isn’t. As these markets grow more complex and more visible, institutions need to show not just what they decided, but how. We’re building the infrastructure that makes that process structured, transparent and defensible – without stripping away professional judgement."
Notion Capital led the Series A+ round to accelerate platform development and international partnerships.
"The biggest barrier in global benefits has always been the lack of a single source of truth. It is a problem we have been trying to solve for fifteen years, and it simply was not possible without AI. That is the unlock that makes it possible to digitise one of the most inefficient areas of enterprise spend. Benefits data is complex, scattered, inconsistent, and constantly changing, exactly the kind of problem AI can solve. Origin creates the first trusted source of truth for benefits information, giving organisations visibility into their total global spend for the first time, so they can optimise it, run benefits operations far more efficiently, and deliver a better experience to employees everywhere."
