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The London-based startup secured the capital from a group of more than 20 angel investors.
"I left school in Leeds at the age of 18 and landed a job as an apprentice at KPMG in London,"
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The London-based startup secured the capital from a group of more than 20 angel investors.
"I left school in Leeds at the age of 18 and landed a job as an apprentice at KPMG in London,"
The funding round was led by Mercia Ventures with participation from Techstart Ventures and angel investors.
"Corporate gifting is a trillion-dollar industry that spent decades normalising mediocrity because no one built a competitively viable alternative. We started Go Swag with less than £200 and the belief that every gift a company puts its name on either strengthens the brand or quietly undermines it. This funding allows us to take this conviction global, beginning with a major US market expansion. The catalogue is dead and we’re replacing it with smart AI-assisted curation and a better gifting process to match."
The investment will support the company as it extends its platform from hardware into software and security operations.
"I've seen ambitious, talented IT specialists, who should have been building scalable systems, end up repacking boxes and wiping laptops with rags, while also trying to solve the problem of a device stuck at the border. Across thousands of companies, this is not an exception. It is an everyday reality. We built Tequipy so IT can supervise the process instead of executing every step of it by hand."
The investment was led by Plural and will fund factory expansion across Europe and the US.
"Today, hardware companies face a tough choice: either spin up their own vertically integrated manufacturing from scratch, or rely on a legacy Western supply chain that’s been decaying for years. CircuitHub is the alternative: providing remote access to a cutting-edge factory through your browser or your AI agent. Just as software companies share cloud compute, hardware companies can now share our Grid."
The funding round was led by PXN Ventures with participation from IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone.
"What I see right now is that the companies that will make a radical difference in this emerging AI-driven future are all AI-native, lean on real world data, have genuine impact, and are fundamentally deep tech. Imperagen has each of those characteristics, combining them with outstanding people, phenomenal technology and the undeniable swagger you only get from Manchester. It was a no-brainer to join the team and lead this next stage in its growth."