The seed round was co-led by Emerge and SuperSeed Ventures to accelerate growth across enterprise recruitment teams.
"We saw how rigid and impersonal recruitment processes were failing both companies and candidates. During a time when human connection mattered more than ever, conversations were missing from the equation. We created Popp AI to fix that—by making it possible to engage candidates in meaningful dialogue, even at scale."
KKR leads a £295m growth investment in commercial intelligence platform Lighthouse to drive product innovation and international expansion.
"We’re extremely grateful to the 70,000+ hospitality providers, who have placed their trust in Lighthouse, I couldn’t be more energized by what we’re working towards. We’re just getting started in making hospitality data and tools more powerful, accessible, and affordable. This investment by KKR significantly accelerates our ability to enhance our commercial platform through expanded AI capabilities and additional data sets, enabling us to better serve our existing customers while continuing to expand across the hospitality market."
Praetura Ventures has backed the property tech start-up in a minority investment round to accelerate product development and team expansion.
"Our family has deep roots in the property industry, so we’ve seen first-hand the manual and complex processes that agents face. Moving home is also one of life’s most stressful experiences, and we have always firmly believed that modern technology is the key to making life easier for both agents and homemovers. Now, as the established choice for forward-thinking estate agents, Praetura’s support allows us to accelerate our agent-centric approach to ensure Street customers are the agents of choice for buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants."
The pre-seed round was backed by Haatch to accelerate platform development and international expansion.
"Today’s recruiters are incredibly busy and have to constantly switch between their work and personal mobiles, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, and other channels to communicate with candidates and clients. None of these conversations are being tracked in the CRM or brought together in one place. Recruiters are spending up to two hours a day on manual tasks like writing up call notes, gathering messages and updating CRMs."
The seed round was led by Heal Capital to support platform development and expand community-based care pathways.
"For a long time, healthcare was rooted in the community. This brought so many benefits to both patients and practitioners, but in recent decades it’s become completely cost-ineffective to deliver it. Meanwhile, secondary care is becoming increasingly bottlenecked, with waiting lists at an all-time high and discharge delays keeping patients in hospital longer than they need. Our mission with Heim Health is to build the digital infrastructure needed to change this; revitalising community-based care and moving more healthcare from the hospital into the home through scalable modes of delivery."