The funding was led by PXN Ventures with participation from Scottish Enterprise, Archangels and the European Space Agency.
"Businesses are increasingly aware that nature loss and climate risks have direct implications for financial performance, supply chains and long-term resilience. The challenge is turning complex environmental data into information that can support real business decisions. Earth Blox was built to bridge that gap, helping organisations see clearly where environmental change affects value and where investment today can strengthen future performance."
Fly Ventures led the pre-seed round, which will fund product depth and pilot launches.
"Once memory becomes an input to workflows, automation, or system decisions, approximate recall is not enough. We think memory has to become structured, inspectable, and reliable by design."
Fuel Ventures backed the initial close of a pre-seed round intended to accelerate customer acquisition ahead of regulatory deadlines.
"As these requirements become enforceable, studios will need infrastructure that captures AI asset lineage – prompts, models, workflows – automatically, not spreadsheets and best-effort manual processes."
The pre-seed round was led by Arāya Ventures to support the development of the startup's creative AI workspace.
"First Concepts has a simple mission to transform creative context from something fragile and ephemeral into a structured, compounding asset. We are building an operating system that understands the value of creative thinking and taste. This will transform creative workflows for teams around the world."
Ribbit has led a £13m Series A investment into Outpost to scale its cross-border compliance and payments infrastructure.
"Brexit, shifting tariffs, and regulatory fragmentation have made cross-border commerce more hostile than at any point in the last two decades. Merchants are forced to choose between spending millions on consultants and local entity setup, or carrying enormous risk on payments and compliance. Outpost exists to eliminate that trade-off. We’ve built the only infrastructure that handles everything from local payment processing to full tax liability, allowing companies to treat international expansion with the same ease as selling locally."
