Big Pi Ventures led the seed round for the cloud-native business intelligence platform, with backing from Propelling Tech Ventures and strategic angels.
"Astrato is the execution layer of the modern data stack. It connects directly to the cloud and gives teams a unified space to explore, act, and collaborate on data without duplication, IT bottlenecks, or licensing friction. Unlike legacy BI vendors pushing continuous price hikes, our usage-based model means customers only pay for what they consume, making Astrato accessible for both lean startups and global enterprises."
Backed Ventures and Middlegame Ventures led the seed round to support the formal launch of the cloud financial control platform.
"Cloud Capital is shifting the dynamic and giving finance leaders the tools to run cloud like any other major investment. Unlike traditional optimization tools, Cloud Capital takes a “100% FinTech” approach to cloud infrastructure, treating it like a financial asset, not just an engineering cost, precisely quantifying and pricing commitment risk based on our proprietary, free-to-use forecasting platform. Other tools help engineers save money. We help CFOs manage risk. We’re building financial infrastructure – a control layer for cloud that gives companies a new way to finance and optimize cloud like any other major investment."
The investment round was led by Nauta with participation from LAUNCHub, Lunar Ventures, and Techstart.
"This funding accelerates our vision: applying synthetic data and Visual AI to solve the $800 billion problem of inefficiencies in CPG supply chains. We’re growing our computer vision engineering team and deepening our commercial footprint across the UK, European and US markets. Our platform is already a new benchmark for retail image recognition – this investment enables us to scale that impact globally."
Fuel Ventures leads a £3m investment in 51toCarbonZero to scale operations internationally and upgrade its AI capabilities.
"Our continued investment in 51toCarbonZero underscores our confidence in their mission and the impressive progress they’ve made since our previous investment. The 51toCarbonZero team have developed a platform that not only addresses the urgent need for emissions management but also empowers companies to take actionable steps towards sustainability. We’re excited to support their expansion into new markets and industries."
The fixed income technology specialist has raised £19m from backers including Citadel Securities and BlackFin Tech.
"TransFICC is providing a piece of critical infrastructure for Fixed Income markets. We are excited by the pace of innovation taking place in this space and fully embrace Steve, Judd and Tom’s vision to make TransFICC the go-to solution for all market participants to electronically trade any Fixed Income product."
