Union Square Ventures led the round, with participation from Ribbit Capital and Slow Ventures.
"We believe that money should work the same way everything else on the internet works – that it should be easy to use, it should be fast, and it should be global,"
The London-based University College London spin-out secured backing from Autotech Ventures, UCL Technology Fund, and BGF to fund its commercial market entry.
"In many applications, we are observing that efforts to rapidly electrify are delayed or blocked due to the cost of raising the ceiling of battery performance,"
The funding round was led by Puma Private Equity and will support the creation of a financial services-specific large language model.
"The financial Services industry does not need AI models that can quote Shakespeare, it needs AI models that deliver transparency, trust and above all correctness. The way to achieve this is to develop small, highly tuned language models, trained on financial services data, reviewed by financial services experts for specific financial services use cases."
Oshen Holdings led the Series A round with backing from DSW Ventures, SFC Capital, and Boundary Capital.
"I would like to thank all our investors for their trust and support. Our success in continuing to raise investment despite the difficult market conditions over the last few years is testament to their belief in the company’s commercial potential and our world-class team. The funds will be used to complete the pre-clinical testing of our first medical device product range and our preparations for entry into the orthopaedic market."
Seaya led the Series A investment to help the workforce platform expand its product suite and grow in North America.
"We started our business because we believed that the next generation deserved a new way to operate their professional lives, and we realised that if we could reimagine career infrastructure end-to-end for the 21st century, businesses would also be enabled to operate in a more agile way, one that drives more efficient growth."