Twin Path Ventures led the seed financing for the Belfast biotechnology firm to accelerate its preclinical discovery programmes.
"Ten years ago, I began combining financial modeling expertise with computational biology to create a drug discovery platform. Evolution has spent billions of years perfecting natural defense mechanisms, and now we’re using AI to unlock this wisdom. This isn’t just professional for me; my father died from a drug-resistant infection our healthcare system couldn’t treat. At Queen’s, I built AMPLY to tackle deadly diseases differently, creating technology that will save lives when current treatments fail."
The funding round was led by Dynamo Ventures to support international expansion and product development.
"For as long as humans have existed, so has our desire to sail the open water. It’s no surprise then that maritime—one of the world’s oldest industries—still relies on some outdated practices,"
Fuel Ventures led the pre-seed round to support product development and international growth.
"AVIEL is tackling one of the biggest challenges facing banks and payment service providers today. The team has found a completely unique angle – using intelligence, not just analytics, to stop scams at the source. Their approach is bold, focused and scalable, and we’re excited to back them at this critical stage."
The seed round was led by GapMinder to support product development and team expansion.
"We’re incredibly excited to back the team at Etiq as they build a foundational layer for responsible and scalable AI. With the surge in AI agent usage and machine learning-driven applications, there’s an urgent need for robust tools that help developers monitor, debug, and improve model behavior in real time. Etiq’s technology does exactly that—empowering teams to surface hidden biases, identify edge cases, and continuously improve ML performance. The founders bring a rare combination of technical depth and product vision, and we have strong conviction in their vision to become a category-defining company in the AI tooling space."
The AI-native RegTech startup has secured pre-seed funding to accelerate product innovation, integrations, and team growth.
"While we’re not publicly disclosing specific figures, we’ve raised sufficient capital to execute the next phase of our growth. We’re investing in three core areas: product innovation (deepening our AI-native capabilities with richer regulatory intelligence and more automated workflows), ecosystem integrations (expanding our ability to connect seamlessly with existing financial systems and compliance tools), and team growth (hiring specialists in financial crime ops and AI to support our growing customer base and accelerate execution). Everything we do is focused on solving 95% of the problem that begins after an alert is triggered."
