The pre-seed round drew backing from Fuel Ventures, SyndicateRoom Access EIS, and angel investors including The Gay Investor Network.
"We wanted our first investment to show exactly what our members can back: a founder who has done it before, going after a huge market that technology has barely touched. Atlian is that company."
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.
The round was led by Bridford Group, with participation from Amuse and various industry angels.
"I started producing music when I was 13, and over the years I’ve been lucky enough to work with some incredible artists and producers. So much effort that goes into the creative process gets lost purely because of disconnected tools and current creator tools felt outdated. This investment will support our growth and ambition to be the single source of truth in the industry, just like Notion is for businesses. There is an opportunity here to improve tools available to creators and build CHAOS, to replace music’s outdated and fragmented software. We are grateful to our investors and industry leaders backing our vision."
The Liverpool university spinout raised the capital to drive commercialisation and platform development in materials discovery.
"Materials innovation underpins progress across multiple sectors from energy to manufacturing and electronics. Matter Machine brings together exceptional scientific expertise, unique technology capabilities and a highly scalable commercial opportunity"
— Gordon Sanghera, Head of Commercialisation Strategy
The financing round was led by Elbow Beach to support pilot-scale trials of the company waste-to-fuel platform.
"Aviation’s fuel bill is only going one way, and the industry urgently needs alternatives that can scale commercially. Too much SAF technology solves for cleaner fuel without solving for cheaper or more available fuel, largely because it still depends on limited feedstocks like waste cooking oil. Neela’s approach is different as it builds on infrastructure that already exists across Europe, avoiding the capital costs that have held back other SAF players, while its low-energy process gives it a credible route to cost parity with fossil jet fuel. It’s that combination of capital efficiency and genuine potential for commercial deployment that convinced us to lead this round from pre-seed through to pilot."
The round was led by Fuel Ventures with participation from Manchester Angels and industry angels.
"We’ve seen it so many times that each deal is treated as if it is siloed from the rest of the GTM – this doesn’t and shouldn’t have to be the case. The answer to any deal is there, just no one knows how to find it – Doris does."