A new intelligence-led startup, AVIEL Intelligence, has emerged from stealth with an ambitious mission: to stop financial scams before they happen. Founded by ex-Google operators, the former UK director of what3words, and leading intelligence experts, AVIEL Intelligence has secured a £350,000 pre-seed investment round led by Fuel Ventures, one of the UK's leading early-stage venture capital firms. The round also includes backing from Cambridge Angels and a range of other angel investors including respected experts across the cybersecurity industry.

Trusted, a UK-based technology startup transforming how B2B enterprises harness customer advocacy, has closed a £1 million pre-seed funding round led by Fuel Ventures. The investment will accelerate the development of Trusted's platform, which empowers businesses to convert their happiest customers into their most powerful growth engine.

Astrato, the cloud-native BI platform that empowers teams to build and share live, self-serve analytics directly on top of their cloud data warehouse, has raised a $5 million seed round led by Big Pi Ventures, with participation from Propelling Tech Ventures and more than 30 strategic angels from the global data and analytics community.

Homemove, the innovative proptech brand which allows users to manage their complete home move process from a single, easy to use platform, has announced the successful completion of a $5 million funding round led by Fuel Ventures with co-investors including the Blandford Family Office, and Oxford Innovation.

Co-founded by James Freestone and Louis O'Connell-Bristow, in a highly fragmented industry, Homemove creates a seamless moving experience, by centralising everything in one place. From research to completion, homemove offers holistic oversight, easy management, and real-time updates, significantly cutting down administrative delays and improving customer confidence.

CSignum, the leading provider of wireless technology extending IoT communications beneath the surface, has completed a £6 million Series A funding round. The investment will accelerate growth of its EM-2 family of products which are transforming the way critical wireless sensor data is transmitted from submerged environments to networks above.

Early-career hiring platform Vizzy has raised £3.65 million in a seed round led by Adjuvo, with participation from notable angels including former Workday executive Rob Wells and former England Rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward.

Cloud Retail, the e-commerce software platform founded by Marat Bolatov and Artur Shamalov and formerly known as Jiffy, which provides full-stack software solutions for any vertical to transform sales to online and build a robust ecommerce system, has successfully raised $2.2 million led by I2BF Global Ventures and Somersault Ventures with many existing investors, including business angels, participating.

Hammer Missions an AI company revolutionising how owners, architects, engineers and contractors inspect built structures, has raised £1.4 million in new funding with participation from ACF Investors, and angel investors including Graham Hunter (Founder and former Chair at GeoSLAM), Martin Grant (former CEO, Energy at Atkins) and Stephen Bullock (serial tech investor and former President at E100 Angels).

The funding will accelerate its AI technology development and strategic expansion into North America.

London-based startup Loby, founded by Adrian Zabica, Christian Brown, Julio-Cezar, and Andrey Dobrov, has developed an app that helps Gen-Z find apartments and roommates in order to reduce their rental costs.

A UK company whose energy management app rewards consumers for switching off appliances at peak times has raised a further £700,000 from the North East Venture Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Mercia Ventures, and private investors.

A technology spin-out of the Alacrity Foundation has closed a significant six-figure equity investment pre-seed round led by SFC Capital, the Development Bank of Wales and a syndicate of business angels.

Ryft, a PSD2 and FCA-approved decentralised payments innovator, has successfully raised £5.7 million Series A funding for the development of technology that will empower acquiring banks, like Clearhaus, to compete with Stripe Connect, Adyen, and similar payment providers in the market. The round, which takes total investments in Ryft to £7.4 million, was led by EdenBase, with participation from GPOS Investments, British Business Bank, Pembroke VCT, Sidebyside, and Ingenii VC. The fundraising round was also joined by strategic angel investors, including executives at PayPal.