AI auditing platform Warden AI has raised new funding round led by the founders of Onfido, the digital identity verification company acquired by Entrust in 2024. The round also includes participation from Playfair, a leading early-stage VC firm, and will support Warden's geographic expansion and product development.

Opper AI has announced the launch of its Task Completion API, backed by an oversubscribed $3 million pre-seed round. The API is designed to help developers move beyond one-off prompts and fragile prototypes, providing a structured and dependable path to launching AI-powered features in production environments.

The funding round includes backing from Luminar Ventures, Emblem Venture Capital (backers of one of the fastest growing AI startups in Europe - Loveable), Greens Capital, and several prominent angel investors. The Opper founding team - Göran Sandahl, Johan Gustafsson, and engineers from the Unomaly core team - bring more than 50 combined years of experience building automated, production-grade systems.

Startup JammJar is coming out of stealth with a platform designed to overhaul how mortgage brokers operate—by eliminating the admin that slows them down. With backing from early-stage investors Haatch and the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund via fund manager The FSE Group, the company is launching publicly with a goal to become the Al operating system for the UK's mortgage advice industry. 

Mozart AI, a next-gen Music AI Startup on a mission to 10x every artist, has raised £530K in pre-seed funding and unveiled its first product - a revolutionary AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) designed to accelerate and amplify human creativity.

Perci Health, the UK's most comprehensive virtual cancer clinic, has successfully raised a total of £7.7 million funding, after closing a new £3 million round, doubling the original £1.5m target. This includes a £295,000 investment from Macmillan Cancer Support, further solidifying the charity's belief in Perci Health's mission

Giles AI, which supports faster, smarter, and more compliant decision-making by delivering an AI-powered tool that enhances workflows in medical research, clinical trials, regulatory affairs, public health, CRO services and healthcare academia, has raised new funds via the FounderCatalyst platform, a cost-effective and rapid fundraising solution tailored for early-stage startups.

Sweden: Swedish deeptech company Embedl has raised €5.5 million in a pre-series A funding round from Chalmers Ventures, Fairpoint Capital, SEB Greentech, Spintop Ventures, and angel network STOAF. After spinning out from Chalmers University of Technology, and kicking off commercial operations in 2022, Embedl has helped innovative startups and some of the world's largest corporates, such as Kodiak Robotics and Bosch to optimize their products' AI inference efficiency. With the new funding, Embedl will accelerate the commercialisation and launch of its SaaS platform, the Embedl Hub.

Yorkshire is positioning itself at the forefront of the UK's artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, as the newly launched Oberon Yorkshire AI EIS Fund announces plans to invest millions into the region. The fund, developed in association with Yorkshire AI Labs LLP, highlights significant investor confidence in Yorkshire's potential to become a national centre of AI innovation and economic growth.

A UK fintech startup founded to make lending fairer and more inclusive has secured new investment to transform how lenders assess creditworthiness, especially for the 16.2 million UK adults currently misjudged due to limited credit history.

Good With, co-founded by female entrepreneurs Gabriela Isas and Ellie Kallis, has developed a pioneering Readiness Score^TM that blends AI, behavioural psychology, and open banking data to give lenders a more accurate, human-centred view of credit risk.

Altura, an AI-powered bid management startup, has raised €8 million Series A funding as it becomes the first to launch autonomous AI agents to help businesses win more public and private sector tenders, particularly as procurement processes grow more complex. The funding will be used to scale operations and expand into the UK market with a new London office.

Oxford Capital has backed NavLive, a University of Oxford spin-out that uses artificial intelligence and LiDAR to turn any building into an accurate digital twin in minutes. The £4m round has Oxford Capital investing alongside SOSV and existing shareholders Oxford Science Enterprises, Clearance Capital, Britbots and AE Works.

Ankar, a platform leveraging AI agents to transform how innovators and companies across the world capture, protect and monetise their intellectual property (IP), has raised a £3m Seed round led by Index Ventures. They were joined by Daphni, Motier Ventures, Booom and Puzzle Ventures, as well as leading angels including Datadog CEO, Olivier Pomel and Hugging Face CTO, Julien Chaumond. Founded in 2024, the tech is already being embraced by Fortune500 companies.