The pre-seed round was backed by angel investors including Alex Chesterman alongside Innovate UK.
"Most AI startups are building better tools. At Atheni, we are building master craftspeople. Organisations can tell you how many people have access to AI, but not whether anyone is using it to think more clearly, challenge an assumption or do work they couldn’t do before. That is the gap. Atheni measures it and shows organisations how to close it."
The London-based industrial technology company secured funding from Plural and NVentures to scale its non-toxic cooling fluids and modular data centre infrastructure.
"When people imagine a better future, they think about physical things: technologies that give them more freedom, more time, more life. AI will get us there faster. Frontier AI gives us PhD-level expertise across every discipline, meaning small, agile teams can move from materials discovery to commercial hardware in a way that simply wasn't possible before, so what used to take a decade, we can now do in months."
The seed round was backed by Y Combinator and will support US market expansion and product development.
"Crimson is built specifically for litigators, giving them a faster and more reliable way to understand the case file, assess the evidence, and produce high-quality work grounded in the full matter context."
The Bristol biotech secured the backing to expand manufacturing capabilities and grow its footprint across European markets.
"Decarbonising construction cannot come at the expense of cost or performance. The challenge has been scaling biomaterials industrially and integrating them into real construction supply chains."