The oversubscribed funding round was led by Portage Ventures with participation from F Capital and existing investors.
"Happl began with a simple belief: benefits should be easy to understand, easy to manage and easy to implement. What we’ve built goes far beyond that, a global platform that removes complexity at scale and connects employees with solutions that truly reflect their needs."
The London-based AI start-up exceeded its target in an oversubscribed round backed by angel syndicates and customer-investors.
"Community has always been at the heart of LaunchLemonade. During this pre-seed cycle, that community compounded trust and carried our story and helped us show what LaunchLemonade can offer in the AI space."
The pre seed round was led by Twinpath Ventures with participation from a syndicate of institutional and angel investors.
"If we want to trust AI, our methods have to be as rigorous as our ideas. Benchmark saturation is creating problems in every domain, from general knowledge, to reasoning, math, and coding. Scientists, researchers and technical teams face mounting pressure as evaluation is exploding in importance and has become essential for tying AI to trust. We need an evaluation framework that scales and can support this."
IW Capital led the seed investment round to help the fitness technology developer scale operations and expand into new markets.
"AI has evolved chatbots and image generation, but areas such as using it to train in health and wellness are yet to be disrupted. We are proud to have developed the largest exercise tracking detection software of its kind to lead this charge. We have changed the lives of 1,000s of customers over the last 18 months who have collectively logged 46,000 hours of personal training using our innovative AI Mirror and we plan to 5x this over the next year."
The pre-seed round was backed by investors including firstminute capital and Tuesday VC.
"Building my first startup straight out of university and scaling it to a team of over 500, I knew we had to become an effective learning organization. Yet I couldn’t find a simple way to equip our teams with the learning opportunities they needed to continuously grow their skills, learn more, and move faster."
The funding round was co-led by Octopus Ventures and Anthemis Group with participation from various angel investors and funds.
"The main hurdle for many parents to effectively save for their children’s future is a lack of awareness about what they can do and a lack of tools that help them do that easily. The money we’ve raised today is going to give us the opportunity to change this, providing better education to families and building financial products and tools solely designed for families."