The pre-seed round will back research and development as well as sales and marketing expansion.
"Machine learning is more and more integral to products and services we use every day – and to decisions that businesses and governments make about us – but without a widely-accessible way of identifying and eliminating bias, it could cause significant damage to our society by further entrenching discriminatory decision-making despite our best intentions and without us even realising."
The financing round was led by IQ Capital with participation from Hambro Perks and Ascension Ventures.
"This latest round of investment is a great recognition of our customers' success through our breakthrough AI and a product focused approach. With our existing investors reaffirming their support of the company and new investors with vast experience in the life sciences industry coming on board, we are on course to achieve our core mission of improving patient outcomes through a highly profitable and sustainable business model. In the past 12 months, the company has grown 15 times through the successful deployment of PIE in the biopharmaceutical industry, partnerships with healthcare data providers and significant contributions to peer review publications, which demonstrates that we are leading in this sector. This funding will accelerate this success by providing the resources to strengthen the team, explore new use cases, and expand into new markets."
CarVal Investors provided the funding and took a seat on the board as the cleantech company targets global markets.
"We are delighted to have completed our investment in Social Energy and are very much looking forward to helping to support their ambitions over the coming years."
The convertible debt round was led by Luxor Capital and brings new capital to support engineering and industrialisation plans.
"Luxor Capital seeks to back transformative companies and management teams who can generate growth and value over the long term. Volta Trucks started from first principles designing the Volta Zero and, as a result, has created an innovative vehicle that takes full advantage of electrification. We are confident customers will be delighted by Volta Trucks’ relentless focus on performance, efficiency, safety, and customer service. We look forward to helping establish Volta Trucks as a leading global electric truck brand."