The Series D round was co-led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla Ventures to support international expansion and product development.
Sands Capital
Venture CapitalPortfolio
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companies
Investment by month
By category
- SecurTech£709M
- Hardware£175M
- AI/ML£137M
By location
- Boston£668M
- London£178M
- Beverly£175M
Portfolio companies
Papercup
Papercup provides AI video and audio dubbing services featuring expressive synthetic voices.
PolyAI
PolyAI builds advanced voice assistants for enterprise customer service.

Quanta Dialysis Technologies
Quanta Dialysis Technologies provides compact dialysis systems for clinical and home use.

Red Sift
Red Sift provides cloud email security and brand protection platforms.

Snyk
Snyk provides developer security tools to help enterprises build software securely.
Team
Michael Clarke
Managing Partner
Chris Eng
Principal
Chris brings investment and product experience from roles at Sands Capital, YL Ventures, and Promontory Financial Group.
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The company has raised £39.5m from new and existing investors to support its conversational artificial intelligence technology.
"I was extremely impressed with PolyAI’s intuitive and natural conversational abilities and the impact it will have on customer experience"
Snyk secures £160m Series G funding led by Qatar Investment Authority to enhance its developer security platform

The financing round included participation from Evolution Equity Partners, G Squared, Irving Investors, boldstart ventures, Sands Capital and Tiger Global.
"In 2022, I’m proud that Snyk achieved a 100% year-over-year increase in revenue as well as net revenue retention of over 130%,"
Octopus Ventures led the Series A round to support machine learning research and language expansion.
"People retain up to 70% more information when watching videos dubbed in their native language. With truly emotive cross-lingual AI dubbing, we can tackle all forms of content, making video and audio more accessible and enjoyable for everyone. This funding will allow us to double down on our promising research and break into new content categories."
The cybersecurity firm will use the capital to open a US headquarters and expand its product suite.
"To be a genuine partner to our customers, we must help them protect against multiple interconnected threat vectors. As a result, we built a platform that enables rapid iterations across multiple products that all share a solid, enterprise-ready foundation. We are grateful for the support of our investors to scale our platform and deliver even more value to our customers."



