Axial3D, a leader in creating AI-powered 3D medical imaging algorithms, automated planning and patient specific 3D solutions, has announced the completion of a new investment round totalling USD 18.2 million

Wilder Sensing, a developer of software for biodiversity monitoring using audio and Artificial Intelligence (AI), has secured a £300,000 equity investment from the South West Investment Fund, via appointed Fund Manager The FSE Group.

This forms part of a £700,000 investment round that also includes Oxford Innovation Finance and Cambridge Angels. The new funding will enable the company to create 15 new jobs, increasing its capacity to deliver cutting-edge solutions in biodiversity data collection and analysis.

MADRID, Spain: Dcycle, Spain's leading ESG data management platform, has closed a €6 million Series A round led by Samaipata, with continued support from existing investors Ship2B Ventures, Sabadell Venture Capital, Draper B1, Decelera Ventures, and Angels Capital.

Oxford Innovation Finance's EIS Growth Fund and OION Angel Network have invested over £315,000 in Peacock Technology, a specialist in engineering and robotic automation with a focus on machine vision and AI for agriculture.  Peacock Technology develop advanced solutions, particularly in dairy farming, to improve efficiency, sustainability and animal welfare. Their services extend from design and prototyping to full-scale automation and deployment, with a strong emphasis on addressing environmental and operational challenges in food production.

Netacea, the cybersecurity specialist that helps companies prevent online fraud by protecting them against bot attacks, has raised a further £4m from Mercia Asset Management, which is investing from its own funds and the first Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF I).

Bleap has announced a £1.8 million pre-seed round to launch a self-custodial payments app enabling customers to spend stablecoins 1:1 with a debit card, with no fees and up to 2% cashback on purchases.

Qminder has secured €3 million in seed funding led by Practica Capital - its first investment in Estonia from its latest fund and Qminder's first institutional funding. The round also included Jaan Tallinn's Metaplanet, BADideas.fund syndicate, and strategic angel investors from Toggl, Veriff, Pipedrive, Wise, and Twilio.

Bristol start-up, Good Boost, has secured a £150,000 investment from British Design Fund, as part of a £500,000 funding round, to accelerate the development of its world-first, AI-driven, aquatic rehabilitation technology.

Good Boost is aiming to transform swimming pools and community spaces into therapeutic places for rehabilitation, wellbeing, and healthy ageing. The company's unique digital aqua paddles make it possible to quantify human movement in water, aiding patient recovery and athlete conditioning programmes.

According to co-founder and CEO, Ben Wilkins, the pioneering technology is a game-changer for patients, physiotherapists, players and coaches, giving them the ability to analyse and evaluate aquatic rehabilitation interventions accurately for the first time.

Northern Gritstone has led a £4 million Seed extension into the Manchester digital X-ray technology company Silveray.

The University of Sussex Business Angels (USBA) group has backed a significant £1.1m fundraising round for cyber security SaaS platform, CybaVerse. USBA angels joined institutional backers including FSE Group, Haatch, Founder & Lightening in recognising the potential of the CybaVerse AI platform.

AllFocal Optics, the deeptech startup pioneering nanophotonic lens technology for always-in-focus images, has raised $5.3million funding, comprised of a $3.6million (£2.8m) equity raise, led by SpeedInvest, Innovate UK grants and business angels.

The new investment, combined with trials with Jaguar Land Rover, the addition of tech veteran Dr Ash Salusbury means AllFocal Optics is on track to be the first in the world to deliver ultra-thin lenses that recreates human vision for a better and more comfortable virtual experience.

adCAPTCHA, a new specialist security verification platform, has launched with £1m funding to tackle the ‘bots epidemic' and protect organisations against cyber fraud. The London-based company, founded by industry veteran and entrepreneur Alfie Scarborough, equips organisations with the capability to identify and block bots through its sophisticated in-house developed patent-pending human verification technology.