Praetura Ventures led the Series A round with backing from Force Over Mass and Illuminate Financial Management.
"With our background in highly regulated businesses, we are seeing enormous appetite for our proprietary technology; not only from businesses required to comply with MiFID II, but also for enterprises that are looking to leverage AI as a core component of their business for efficiency gains and revenue generation."
— Charlie Henderson, Co-founder and joint managing director
Merian Chrysalis Investment Company has led a £19.2m Series D funding round for artificial intelligence processor firm Graphcore.
"We believe the machine intelligence market will show substantial growth in the coming years and that Graphcore is well positioned to generate material revenues,"
The conversational platform formerly known as Dazzle has raised its first seed financing from corporate and government backers.
"The response to our tech and proposition has been incredible. We’ve always believed that we had a transformational product with HelloDone so to have such strong backing gives us even more confidence. Businesses have to start meeting consumers where they are, on WhatsApp, on Facebook Messenger, on Alexa and all the other messaging channels. HelloDone is scaling it’s conversational platform using natural language processing to enable businesses in the Transport, Home Delivery and Utilities space to solve customer needs via messaging channels and voice assistants. It’s an amazing platform and the funding will enable us to capture the growth potential we believe exists."
The London-based esports betting platform raised the funds to support its platform development and growing user waitlist.
"We have been in an Alpha for half a year now and are already seeing significant turnover. We are building everything in-house and are keen to offer the best experience for esports fans in the market. Customers have been loving the platform and we in turn are fine-tuning the product specifically for them. Every day, our waitlist for access keeps growing and we are extremely pleased with the way the product been received so far."