The pre-seed round was backed by angel investors including Alex Chesterman alongside Innovate UK.
"Most AI startups are building better tools. At Atheni, we are building master craftspeople. Organisations can tell you how many people have access to AI, but not whether anyone is using it to think more clearly, challenge an assumption or do work they couldn’t do before. That is the gap. Atheni measures it and shows organisations how to close it."
The London deeptech startup secured backing from Ascension Ventures to scale its voice biometrics technology.
"Voice is the last unencrypted frontier in enterprise security, and generative AI just made the stakes existential. Voxmind’s physics-based approach, on-device deployment, and existing OEM footprint give them a structural advantage that’s very difficult to replicate. Excited to lead this round and back the team as they scale."
Outward and Triple Point Ventures co-led the pre-seed round, which will fund team expansion and platform development.
"I know from first-hand experience how broken infrastructure intelligence is today: fragmented data, noisy feeds, and taped-together workflows, where 'real-time' detection often means static daily updates in practice. Enterprises cannot keep up by patching together narrow intelligence feeds while the internet changes beneath them. That is why we built Infrawatch from the ground up: to turn one of the most underutilised aspects of cybersecurity into a practical defence layer that empowers defenders to act earlier and stop threats before they reach their customers, users or systems."
Bloodaxe Studios has secured pre-seed backing via the FounderCatalyst platform to fund its slate of original genre films.
"Bloodaxe Studios completed their funding round using the FounderCatalyst platform, all for a fixed fee of £1,495. A very exciting phase of growth lies ahead."