Pembroke VCT plc is a venture capital trust established in 2013 and managed by Pembroke Investment Managers LLP, investing in growth stage companies across consumer, business services, and technology sectors.
Andrew serves as chief executive officer of Pembroke VCT and chairman of Pembroke Investment Managers LLP. He previously held a directorship at Oakley Capital Limited.
The funding round was co-led by Pembroke VCT and Airbridge Equity Partners to support product development and team expansion.
"This funding marks an exciting new chapter for CybaVerse. Having such a high calibre of investors onboard validates our vision to design and deliver innovative solutions that empower MSPs and SMEs. With this investment, we will accelerate CybaOps development, enhance AI-driven features, and expand our team to bring smarter, more scalable security to MSPs and SMEs, all while staying true to our mission of simplifying cyber security for everyone."
Ingenii VC and Pembroke VCT provide follow on funding to support the rollout of Ryft's unified omnichannel payment infrastructure.
"Since launching our automated online payment solutions, we’ve had repeated calls to bring the same simplicity and speed to integrated payments. Businesses processing both in-person and online payments – whether they’re marketplaces, franchises, or acquirers – have lacked a truly competitive solution, leaving too many relying on cumbersome and unnecessarily complicated end-of-month reconciliations and reporting. With the launch of our omni-channel payment platform, Ryft will enable businesses operating online and in-store to efficiently process, manage, and monetise payments at scale in a secure and compliant way. In turn, allowing them to maximise the value of every transaction."
Pembroke VCT led the five million pound financing round to support the scale-up of artificial intelligence storage systems.
"With a team that has repeatedly scaled and exited category-defining businesses, and early validation from some of the most complex customers in the world, we believe PEAK:AIO is positioned to be a critical enabler of the AI revolution."
The round was jointly led by Edge VC and Pembroke VCT to support international expansion and product development.
"As AI evolves, so does the gap between businesses adopting it and those being left behind. AI talent is in short supply, and costs are high. Companies need solutions that let them deploy AI agents without heavy investment in AI teams or long development cycles. We’re making AI agent creation as easy as writing a Google Doc, so that SaaS companies can embed AI without friction."
The Series A round was led by EdenBase to accelerate technology development for acquiring banks and drive international expansion.
"Acquiring banks and most businesses were built for the one-to-one transactions of Commerce 1.0. However, in the era of Commerce 2.0, where transactions within a single marketplace involve numerous parties, financial institutions are struggling to deliver payment operations that meet the evolving needs of their customers. As a result, they’re unable to compete with the likes of Stripe Connect and Adyen whose solutions currently dominate the payments ecosystem despite high fees, complicated integrations, poor support, and prolonged payment wait times. At Ryft, we have the technology that allows acquiring banks to overcome these hurdles and we’re actively exploring several strategic partnerships to solve this issue in the payments industry."
