Materials Market, the innovative online marketplace for heavy side building materials, has raised £2 million in a funding round led by its existing backers Fuel Ventures, with participation from new investors Active Partners (whose investments include household names like Soho House and Honest Burgers) and an assortment of experienced angel investors. In addition to the new funding, Materials Market also welcomed two new directors to the board: James Mackenzie (ex MD of Travis Perkins & Toolstation with extensive experience in the digital building materials space) and Thomas Studd (former partner at Vitruvian whose portfolio experience includes two-sided marketplaces such as AnyVan, Carwow and Lalamove).

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.

WineFi, a London-based fintech, has raised £1.5m in seed funding led by Coterie Holdings, a British fine wine group, with participation from SFC Capital, Founders Capital and several angel investors. The funding will be used to enhance WineFi's data-driven platform for fine wine investment, aiming to open up the asset class to a wider range of investors.

Mindset AI, an embedded AI agent platform, has raised £4.3 million in funding to expand its operations in the UK and open an office in the US. 

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.

Fuel Ventures has led an investment round for pioneering climate-success company, 51toCarbonZero, the first platform to ensure effective corporate transition to net zero while boosting clients' business performance. The £3 million funding round, which includes contributions from angel investors, follows a previous investment by Fuel Ventures and reflects the significant growth 51toCarbonZero has achieved since then.

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.

Cloud Capital, a startup founded by repeat SaaS entrepreneurs, has launched out of stealth with $7.7 million in funding to help CFOs regain financial control of their cloud infrastructure. As AI accelerates cloud usage, Cloud Capital is launching the first FinTech platform built for cloud. It helps companies forecast usage, unlock savings, and eliminate the financial risk of long-term commitments.

Aichitect, the first AI-powered platform designed by an architect to revolutionise and streamline construction and development projects, has closed a pre-seed funding round of £300k, led by SFC Capital.