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Recent investments

Seed
£3.7M

LocalGlobe has led a £3.7m seed round for quantum software developer Phasecraft, with participation from Episode1 and previous backers.

"Already in the past two years quantum hardware has surpassed expectations, achieving milestones that seemed decades away. By pioneering new advances in quantum software, Phasecraft can take quantum theory from research to reality, faster. With new funding and supporters, we can be part of building the foundations of the quantum computing industry, making useful applications available quicker than ever thought."
— John Morton
Seed
£2.1M

The seed round was led by IQ Capital with participation from Episode1, Join, and Seraphim Capital.

"2021 will be the year when Natural Intelligence will challenge deep learning in solving some of the most fundamental short-comings in autonomous applications and this funding round will set Opteran on a path to be at the forefront of this next wave. Already in a position to demonstrate the technology, we are confident that Natural Intelligence will become highly sought after as the way to deliver lightweight, low-cost and effective autonomy in a radically new way that will open up huge growth opportunities for robotics."
— David Rajan, CEO
Series A
£4.0M

BGF Ventures has led a £4m Series A round into biometric authentication platform AimBrain.

"We know that financial institutions have a big problem with fraud prevention – and customers are not getting the best experience. That’s why we built a platform that uses behavioural, facial and voice data to identify customers accurately, quickly and securely."
— Andrius Sutas, Co-founder