The funding round includes participation from Sustainable Future Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Elbow Beach Capital, and WakeUp Capital to expand international reach.
Hearst
Venture CapitalHearst Ventures is the global venture capital division of Hearst and one of the most active corporate venture funds.
Portfolio
6
companies
Investment by month
By category
- LogisticsTech£74.0M
- AI/ML£44.8M
- Marketplace£22.7M
- PropTech£14.0M
- FinTech£11.3M
By location
- Bristol£74.0M
- London£70.1M
- United Kingdom£22.7M
Portfolio companies
Huboo
Huboo provides software-driven eCommerce fulfilment services for online retailers.

Plum Guide
Plum Guide curates a selective collection of holiday homes by vetting properties for quality and design.
Signal AI
Decision augmentation platform transforming corporate intelligence through artificial intelligence.

The Plum Guide
The Plum Guide curates and verifies top-tier holiday rentals for discerning travellers.
Vyne
Vyne builds a challenger payment platform for merchants using open banking.
sees.ai
sees.ai builds autonomous aerial solutions for critical national infrastructure.
Team
Megumi Ikeda
Managing Director
Shaneel Parekh
Principal
Recent investments
The funding round was co-led by Sustainable Future Ventures, Hearst Ventures and Elbow Beach to accelerate autonomous drone operations.
"sees.ai sits at the intersection of two defining megatrends of our time – the application of AI to unlock new levels of efficiency, and the global transition to clean energy. Their autonomous inspection technology has the potential to transform how critical infrastructure is managed, delivering safer, faster and more scalable insights. SFV is excited to back this outstanding team as they scale their solution, which is both commercially compelling and vital to the net zero transition."
The investment was led by Beringea with participation from Talis Capital, Hearst Ventures, and Latitude.
"With British consumers spending more in 2022 than in previous years, there is no room for error and so we strive to set that global standard for quality in the travel sector that has previously been lacking. We are catering to discerning global travellers who simply expect the best; they want unique properties in exciting destinations for a homestay in comfort and style and this investment will allow us to scale up to meet that demand."
Highland Europe led the round with participation from abrdn, Redline Capital, MMC, Hearst and GMG Ventures.
"Our vision at Signal AI is to transform business decision making through augmented intelligence. We are thrilled to have Highland Europe and abrdn join us in this latest round and appreciate the continued belief and support of our existing investors. The investment will allow us to continue to attract the best in class ML and AI product engineering talent, to scale our AIQ platform, grow our international hubs and advance the use of our decision augmentation solution with some of the world’s biggest companies."
The financing round was led by Beringea with backing from Talis Capital, Hearst Ventures and Latitude, alongside a public crowdfunding initiative.
"We are catering to discerning global travellers who simply expect the best. They want unique properties in exciting destinations for a homestay in comfort and style"



