The funding comes from Mercia Ventures to back the launch of the North East technology platform.
"For two decades, the digital economy has been built on data that consumers generate but never benefit from. Surff exists to change that. We’re building the infrastructure layer for decision data – the missing signal that brands have lost as cookies disappear and agentic commerce replaces the buying journey. Consumers get to own and earn from the data they create. Brands get a clearer picture of how decisions actually happen. I’m especially proud to be building this in the North East, where the talent and ambition are world-class."
Winfred reads them overnight, pulls out the facts, checks them against Companies House and files them. It was built by C8VA, who do the same kind of work for other businesses: turning messy, unstructured material into something you can search, count and rely on.
Maven Capital Partners led the investment to support international expansion and product development.
"As the first investment delivered through the Greater Glasgow Innovation Cluster, this funding demonstrates the Funds role in strengthening connections between investors and innovative businesses in the region."
Surface Ventures led the pre-seed round to support product development and team expansion.
"The assumption that bigger is always better needs to go. Specialized SLMs routinely outperform frontier models at role-specific tasks—with greater efficiency and reliability. We’re building the infrastructure and developer tooling to bring those benefits to the enterprise."
The investment round was led by Partech and OTB Ventures with support from Acclimate Ventures and existing backers.
"We are at an exciting point in time where powerful Vision LLMs are now both accurate and cost efficient enough to open up valuable new use cases, thanks to our combination of on-device Tiny AI with cloud-based Vision LLMs. We’re going to make it possible for everyone to have their own AI security guard and assistant that never gets distracted, so they feel safer and calmer than ever before. It will warn you about a stranger in your backyard, a leaking water pipe, or simply help you find your keys. And it’s not just for the home, but for retail, offices, warehouses, elderly care and more. The trust of our partners and investors allows us to bring powerful AI into the physical world, beyond desktops and the cloud."
Technology entrepreneur Mark Boost backed the cloud workstation platform in a round that brings its total funding to £700k.
"Computle is tackling a real challenge with impressive ingenuity. They’re giving architects, VFX professionals, and engineers the power and speed they’ve been missing in the cloud."
