Alokik focuses on minority investments in financial infrastructure as a partner at 7RIDGE. He previously managed fintech strategic investments at Eight Roads and holds board positions at several companies.
Alston brings startup founding and fintech operating experience to his role as partner at Eight Roads. He previously co-founded payleven and held roles at Travelex.
The Series A round included backing from British Patient Capital, F-Prime Capital, and Sofinnova Partners.
"Tenpoint Therapeutics has been built on the pioneering work of its scientific founders who are recognised leaders in ocular therapies. Their vision combined with research excellence provides the best foundation to develop treatments that could be gamechangers for millions of patients worldwide. Through Future Fund: Breakthrough, we are delighted to support this truly innovative British business with the funding to take the business to the next level."
Eight Roads led the Series B financing round with backing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Episode 1, Dynamo Ventures, and Moguntia Capital.
"We founded Raft as an AI-first company because we saw an opportunity to empower freight forwarders and customs brokers with technology, and take pressure off their operational teams so that they could focus on their customers instead of their keyboards,"
The Series C financing was led by Advent Life Sciences with backing from several new and existing institutional investors to accelerate product development and scale operations.
"We are delighted to partner with Proximie and a world class group of investors as the company expands its global footprint and product capabilities. The company is a perfect fit for our ethos of backing best-in-class innovative life sciences businesses that have the capability to positively impact human health and healthcare delivery in paradigm changing ways."
The round was led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Eight Roads.
"With third-party data disappearing, paid social delivering diminishing returns and consumers increasingly overwhelmed by endless brand advertising, our technology puts advocacy at the heart of marketing to reconnect marketers and consumers. The most successful brands are realising how this can drive growth, increasing customer acquisition and returns across the marketing activity spectrum."
The round was led by Eight Roads with participation from Maersk Growth, Local Globe and Crane.
"At 7bridges, we are uniquely positioned to help businesses enhance, and future-proof, their supply chains in ways that are more sustainable, resilient, cost-effective and efficient. By harnessing our artificial intelligence to make coherent rapid and adaptive decisions across channels, product categories, geographies and service providers we’re able to transform multiple elements of the supply chain, from planning to execution, inbound and outbound logistics, inventory optimisation to customer experience."
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