The Doncaster platform secured its second investment round from backers including the Finance Yorkshire fund to scale operations.
"We’re delighted to have reached this next stage of growth in our journey to transform the procurement process in the construction industry. This investment will allow us to scale up, achieve extended growth, and begin creating efficiencies throughout the entire built environment supply chain."
The oversubscribed round was co-led by Mercuri and Sure Valley Ventures to expand the engineering and enterprise sales teams.
"Ittybit was created to address the pain we felt handling large videos in our previous companies. We built the media tools we wished we’d had access to, and are making them available to all developers, because robust media workflows shouldn’t be so expensive or complicated that only the largest tech companies can access them."
The Development Bank of Wales led the round to support the commercialisation of the company's caregiving technology.
"The elderly population is rapidly growing, and the care sector is struggling to keep pace. We need over a 50% increase in paid carers by 2030 to ensure adequate care. The current situation calls for innovative AI solutions, like Hestia, to address the urgent need for caregivers and fulfil the care sector’s economic and job creation potential,"
Barclays Bank led the seed financing alongside Main Set, bringing total funds raised in the round to £4m.
"I couldn't have asked for a better group of investors – all of whom have been incredible cheerleaders for our mission to modernise the wealthtech space. I am excited to demonstrate to the market how we will not only enable organisations to offer incredible, omni-channel wealth management products to clients, but to do so at high speed and with cost efficiency,"