Pixel-Flo, a University of Sheffield spin-out developing MicroLED manufacturing technology, secured £5.25 million in seed funding led by Northern Gritstone. The company aims to address manufacturing challenges in MicroLED displays through its Continuous-Flow Mass Transfer process.
French voice AI startup Gradium raised $30M in a seed round extension, bringing total funding to over $100M. The round included new investors like Nvidia and followed a $70M first tranche led by Firstmark and Eurazeo. The company builds tools for developers to create voice applications and plans to expand its research and operations.
Aardaia, an agritech startup developing new crop varieties from wild plants, secured €5 million in seed funding led by Point Nine. The company uses genomic and computational methods to breed crops without genetic modification, with its first product, the aardaker, designed to reduce reliance on imported protein crops.
Whering, a UK-based digital wardrobe platform, has secured $7 million in seed funding led by eBay Ventures and Google AI Futures Fund. The company, founded in 2021, enables users to digitize their wardrobes, plan outfits, and promote circular fashion. The funding will support AI-driven features like personalized outfit recommendations and virtual try-ons, as well as expansion of resale integrations.
UK battery materials startup TaiSan, founded by a former chess champion, raised £4.65M in a seed round to develop next-generation sodium batteries for electric vehicles and power tools.
Cambridge-based startup Worldmodeldata has raised £7 million in seed funding led by Iona Star Capital. The company builds a database of video game-generated training data for AI systems, targeting a shortage of high-quality datasets for world models and robotics. Funds will support scaling data licensing agreements and developing a library of one million hours of training data by 2025.
Unbounded, a newly launched startup using AI to help companies provide direct mobile answers, has raised 80 million SEK from major investors. CEO Carl Lindberg states their solution is unique internationally.
geoSurge, a UK-based DeepTech AI company, raised €10 million in a Seed round led by AlbionVC to expand its teams, infrastructure, and Corpus Engineering discipline. The funding aims to help brands understand and influence their representation in AI-generated outputs.
Zinova appoints Mats Persson Bergius as CEO with plans to start lending to Swedish businesses this autumn after receiving 45 million SEK in funding from Tommy Jacobson.
London-based procurement software company Omnea has launched the Omnea Future Founders Fund with European angel fund Firedrop. The initiative offers employees with at least five years of tenure $250,000 in seed funding to launch their own ventures, along with mentorship and networking opportunities.