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📣 Edify Systems lands a £3m seed round led by Calculus Capital to help quick service restaurants automate ordering, forecasting and back-of-house operations 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ⤵️ ⚙️ Hospitality 📈 Seed 💰 £3m 🤝 Calculus Capital 🧑 Ed Barry 🌎 London, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ⬆️ for the full write-up

📣 Lune & Wild raises £2m in a Series A led by Guinness Ventures for chef-crafted baby and children's food 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ⤵️ ⚙️ Consumer 📈 Series A 💰 £2m 🤝 Guinness Ventures; Angels 🧑 Lara Rodgers; Nadia Simonds 🌎 London, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ⬆️ for the full write-up

📣 Crimson closes a £1.9m seed round led by Y Combinator to expand its case intelligence platform built for litigation and arbitration teams 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ⤵️ ⚙️ Legal 📈 Seed 💰 £1.9m 🤝 Y Combinator; Symphony Ventures; Twenty Two Ventures; Amino Capital; Eight Capital; SAV (Scale Asia Ventures); Progressive Ventures 🧑 Mark Feldner; Amine Amor; David Strömbäck 🌎 London, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ⬆️ for the full write-up

📣 Perceptic raises a £9m seed round led by Accel to unify drug discovery and development on a single AI platform 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ⤵️ ⚙️ Life sciences 📈 Seed 💰 £9m 🤝 Accel; Air Street Capital; Elder Gull; Angels 🧑 Tilman F.; Martin Copes; Mohamed Zaki T. 🌎 London, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ⬆️ for the full write-up

📣 Transition VC closes Fund II with £110m to back founders operating across hardware, software and deep tech 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ⤵️ ⚙️ AI; Deep tech; Energy; Climate 📈 Early stage 💰 £110m 🌎 UK; Europe; US Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ⬆️ for the full write-up

📣 Geordie AI raises a £22m Series A led by Balderton to help enterprises monitor and govern autonomous AI agents 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ⤵️ ⚙️ Cybersecurity 📈 Series A 💰 £22m 🤝 Balderton; Crosspoint; General Catalyst; Ten Eleven Ventures 🧑 Henry Comfort; Hanah-Marie Darley; Benji Weber 🌎 London, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ⬆️ for the full write-up

🆕 TODAY Orbital Industries has announced £37m in Series B funding led by Plural with nVentures, Radical Ventures, Compound and Fly Ventures. They've built Orb — an AI engine that simulates the quantum mechanical behaviour of atoms. It can model 100,000 atoms at once, 10x faster than tools from Microsoft and Meta. What used to take a decade of materials discovery can now be done in months. They're pointing it at AI's big problem: Data centres can't keep up with GPU heat and density. The answer — PFAS-free cooling fluid for chips, already being developed with AWS. Congrats Jonathan Godwin, James Gin-Pollock & Daniel Miodovnik 👏 — Full article in comments

New startup jobs are live on the Soapbox jobs board... Here’s where I’d be looking 👀 VP Engineering @ Rowden M&A Associate @ Dwelly Creative Director @ Nscale  Head of Growth Marketing @ Fresha Full Stack Engineer @ Elliptic  Principle Systems Engineer @ Spaceflux Finance Ops Manager @ Multiverse The Soapbox jobs newsletter highlights fresh roles from the last 100 🇬🇧 startups to raise venture capital. Link in comments 🔗

📣 Caudal Energy raises £4.3m in funding led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Empirical Ventures to develop predictable tidal power technology 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ⤵️ ⚙️ Energy 📈 Equity 💰 £4.3m 🤝 Oxford Science Enterprises; Empirical Ventures; Carbon Zero Capital; The Creator Fund 🧑 John Kennedy; Hilary Struthers; Adrian Thomas 🌎 Oxford, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ⬆️ for the full write-up

📣 Orbital Industries lands £37m Series B led by Plural to build data centre hardware with AI model 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ⤵️ ⚙️ AI 📈 Series B 💰 £37m 🤝 Plural; NVIDIA; Radical Ventures; Compound; Fly Ventures 🧑 Jonathan Godwin; James Gin-Pollock; Daniel Miodovnik 🌎 London, United Kingdom Hit 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 ⬆️ for the full write-up