Three young entrepreneurs have secured their first investment thanks to the Development Bank of Wales and M-SParc's Angel Network. The investment marks the first major step for Pelly and its platform for managing sporting talent.

Gateshead-based Wordnerds' innovative AI customer insight analysis tool has gained the company £720,000 of investment from Northstar Ventures as part of a £1.6m a funding round.

Several well-known organisations such as Sainsbury's, M&S, Network Rail and the Department for Work and Pensions are using Wordnerds' product, which enables them to identify in real time how customers talk and what they talk about.

Implement AI, a fast-growing innovator in managed AI agent solutions, has raised £250,000 initial seed investment from SFC Capital, the UK's leading seed-stage investor. This funding will accelerate Implement AI's mission to help businesses harness the power of AI to drive growth, optimise operations, and enhance workforce productivity.

Partful, the Manchester-based manufacturing aftersales technology solution provider, has raised £5 million Series A funding to develop its 3D SaaS platform and accelerate the company's growth within the $640bn aftermarket sector.

France. Pathway, the data company that builds live AI, has raised $10 million seed funding to build live AI systems that think and learn in real-time as humans do. 

The round was led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Kadmos, Inovo, Market One Capital and Id4, as well as several high-profile angel investors. They join notable previous investors, including Lukasz Kaiser, the company’s very first backer, who is the co-author of Transformers (the “T” in ChatGPT) and the key researcher behind GPT o1 from OpenAI.

Wexler AI, the AI-powered legal fact intelligence platform, has completed a $1.4 million pre-seed funding round led by Myriad Venture Partners, with support from Entrepreneur First, and prominent angel investors at ComplyAdvantage, Moonpig, Tractable, and CreditKudos, fueling Wexler's growth and mission to redefine litigation worldwide.

Stackfix, the AI-powered software comparison platform, has raised $3M in Seed funding to speed-up software buying for small businesses globally.

Chalfen Ventures led the round, with participation from Seedcamp and helloworld, alongside prominent angel investors such as Paul Forster (Founder of Indeed.com), Mehdi Ghissassi (Head of Product at DeepMind), Matt Clifford (Chair of Entrepreneur First and ARIA), Alice Bentinck (Co-Founder of Entrepreneur First), and Charlie Delingpole (Founder of ComplyAdvantage).

Eden AI has raised €3 million in its latest seed round. This funding, led by Galion.exe with participation from 50 Partners and prominent business angels like Olivier Pomel (Co-Founder of Datadog), Sébastien Pahl (Co-Founder of Docker), and Alix de Sagazan (Co-Founder of ABTasty), marks a pivotal step forward in Edenn AI's mission to revolutionize AI integration for businesses.

LaennecAI, a pioneering medical AI company based in Cardiff,has announced the successful completion of its pre-seed funding round. The company has secured investment from SFC Capital and OVC Ventures, along with grant funding from the Welsh Government, Innovate UK, and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). This combined support will accelerate the development of LaennecAI's software that turns every smartphone into an advanced digital stethoscope, aiming to bring healthcare closer to patients and usher in a new era of self-care

AI KAT, a pioneering brand-building company using AI technology to revolutionise brand creation and management, announced that it has secured £290,000 in funding. The investment was led by SFC Capital, the UK's leader in early-stage investments.

Scalpel AI, a London-based medtech transforming the management of surgical tools and implants using computer vision, has raised £3.8m ($4.8m) in a funding round led by Mercia Ventures, with participation from Tensor Ventures and private investors.  The investment will enable Scalpel AI to scale its global operations and roll out its technology with major players in the healthcare supply chain, including sterile services, hospitals, and prominent third-party logistics (3PL) services such as GlobalMed Logistix (GMLx).

Diffblue, creators of the world's first fully autonomous generative AI-for-code software, has secured $6.3 million in new capital as it reaches a record six-month period with 326% net new ARR growth from the prior six months. Toffer Winslow (formerly StackState, Dynatrace, RSA Security) has also been appointed as Diffblue's new CEO to drive the firm's next stage of growth.