The investment from Poland state-backed fund Vinci makes the government a shareholder in the $11bn voice technology company.
Santander
CorporateSantander backs the North East Property Fund to support local infrastructure and housing projects.
Portfolio
8
companies
Investment by month
By category
- eCommerce£770M
- CleanTech£410M
- Uncategorised£300M
- Telecoms£84.0M
- AI/ML£9.3M
- Other£3.4M
By location
- Manchester£770M
- United Kingdom£494M
- London£309M
- Bristol£3.0M
- Cardiff£350K
Portfolio companies
ComplyStream
An AI-native RegTech platform that streamlines post-alert compliance operations.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs builds artificial intelligence voice and audio generation technology for creators and enterprises.
Freedom Fibre
Freedom Fibre provides full fibre broadband connectivity to homes across the North West.
Friska
Friska operates a chain of healthy eating food-to-go restaurants.

Jenny Kate
Jenny Kate creates luxury British homeware items inspired by nature.
Statera Energy
Statera Energy develops and operates flexible energy storage and generation assets for the UK power network.
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Team

Andrew Mulliner
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Matthew Thomas
Matthew brings banking and finance experience from roles at Barclays and Santander.
Charlotte Lees
Charlotte brings structured finance and corporate banking experience from roles at Santander and the Royal Bank of Scotland. She previously spent time in corporate finance advisory and audit at EY.
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Tom Bamber
Tom brings finance and banking experience from roles at Graphene Commercial Finance, 2XL Commercial Finance, Santander UK, and Barclays Corporate Banking.
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Stephen Carmichael
Relationship Director
Stephen brings corporate banking and finance experience from senior roles at Santander UK, Lloyds Banking Group, and Bank of Scotland.
LinkedInRecent investments
The AI-native RegTech startup has secured pre-seed funding to accelerate product innovation, integrations, and team growth.
"While we’re not publicly disclosing specific figures, we’ve raised sufficient capital to execute the next phase of our growth. We’re investing in three core areas: product innovation (deepening our AI-native capabilities with richer regulatory intelligence and more automated workflows), ecosystem integrations (expanding our ability to connect seamlessly with existing financial systems and compliance tools), and team growth (hiring specialists in financial crime ops and AI to support our growing customer base and accelerate execution). Everything we do is focused on solving 95% of the problem that begins after an alert is triggered."
A syndicate of 13 banks and financial institutions backed the £410m debt financing round.
"This milestone is not just a win for Zenobē but marks a significant leap forward in the movement towards a clean, low-carbon transportation sector in the UK."
Lloyds Bank led the debt syndicate to back the development of large scale battery storage and flexible generation infrastructure.
"Lloyds’ commitment to Statera, through one of the largest battery storage debt financing deals in the UK to date, is testament to the quality of our projects. Our Thurrock BESS project is strategically located near to Greater London providing further energy system resilience to this key demand centre. We are delighted to have worked with Lloyds, the syndicate of lenders, and Statkraft in achieving this significant milestone."
Equitix led the financing alongside a debt facility from Santander to support regional infrastructure expansion.
"We are looking forward to investing in and developing Freedom Fibre's network roll-out. We believe Freedom Fibre is a strong business, operating in an essential infrastructure sector that has a critical role in providing connectivity for both the people and the economy of the North West. This sizeable investment further enhances Equitix's network infrastructure that distributes essential utilities to over 6.3 million customers across the UK and Europe. Freedom Fibre's network roll-out will continue our strategic aims to provide local communities with affordable, high-quality essential infrastructure."


