Ichötà blends AI and human curation to deliver a matchmaking service aimed at diaspora professionals, emphasizing compatibility, trust and cultural understanding. The founder says the product was inspired by personal experience moving to the UK and finding mainstream dating apps reductive. Ichötà has been developed while the founder participated in the Bruntwood SciTech x Lifted Ventures incubator and recently pitched at Lifted Ventures Demo Day. The company has just closed the first £350,000 of a pre-seed round and submitted HMRC Advance Assurance for SEIS/EIS. Funds from the round are earmarked to continue building the platform and to attract investors and strategic partners. No user, revenue or valuation metrics were disclosed in the article.

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Jul 2026