The London-based startup has secured pre-seed funding from Haatch Ventures and the British Business Bank to expand its team and defence operations.
"We spent years watching companies drown in their own data. The information was there, but getting to it meant waiting on overloaded engineering or data teams, with dozens of tasks ahead of yours! We started Dataline Labs because we believed there had to be a faster way – and now we’re proving it with a vote of confidence from investors and the MoD."
The pre-seed round was backed by Haatch and Nicolas Dessaigne to support product development.
"Too many businesses are forced to guess where their marketing budget is working. We built Decima2 to replace assumptions with evidence, so teams can confidently invest in what actually drives results. This funding allows us to double down on building a product that makes advanced optimisation accessible, not intimidating."
The funding was backed by Ufi Ventures and Haatch to support expansion across major British contractors.
"Traditionally, demonstrating your team and subcontractors have the skills they need to meet regulation or mandatory technical competencies relied on manual card checks, managing spreadsheets and fragmented skills matrices. Certchain makes all this centralised, digital and live. What used to take months can be done in minutes, enabling our clients to take a more proactive standards-based approach to skills management and compliance – with continuous monitoring, forecasts, and alerts on emerging risks and issues across your organisation and supply chain"
The funding round includes a strategic minority investment from NatWest Group alongside other backers.
"2025 has been a year of validation, proving that SMEs and their funding partners need a more modern, data-driven approach to working capital. This investment round is a huge vote of confidence. It shows that established banks see the same opportunity we do: to bring liquidity closer to the point of need and help businesses fund growth more dynamically. Our goal is to reinvent the business overdraft for SMEs. When working capital flows easily, businesses invest, hire, and grow. That’s how we make finance work for the real economy again."
