Led · Series A · Apr 2026

Tenzo provides a PerformanceOps platform for hospitality operators that offers real-time visibility across sales, labour, inventory, and operations rather than relying on backward-looking reports. The company works with more than 250 customers and integrates with roughly 100 technology partners across the hospitality stack. Reported customer outcomes include a 15% increase in labour productivity, an 80% reduction in food waste, and 75% less time spent compiling reports. Over the past year Tenzo has added new brands, strengthened its presence in hotels, and pursued further expansion in the US. The business announced a $5M first close of a Series A extension led by Edge.vc and noted the appointment of Jane O’Riordan as Chair. The company framed the funding as supporting continued growth and international expansion.

Led · Equity · Apr 2025

Mindset AI provides an embedded AI agent platform that enables SaaS companies to create user-friendly AI agents that chat in natural language and turn unique content, expertise and IP into product features. The platform is embedded in global SaaS products across learning and development, HR and media, with customers such as Alison, Fuse Universal, SkillPath and Mintra. Its agents now operate within over 2,700 companies and the business reported 120% year-on-year revenue growth, reaching £1M ARR in October 2024. Use cases cited include a client seeing a 900% rise in course enrolments within three weeks and another cutting team workload by 30% in one month. The company plans to expand its APIs, SDKs, no-code tools and develop a natural language programming interface while scaling go-to-market efforts. Mindset is also opening its first US office in Chicago to support its international expansion. Mindset AI offers a SaaS platform that enables management consultancies and professional services firms to customize, brand and launch their own digital platforms. The product incorporates machine learning and AI to personalize users’ experience, drive engagement and increase behaviour-change outcomes. The company says 61% of its app users remain engaged 30 days after first use, versus about 10% for other apps. Mindset AI was founded in 2020 by Barrie Hadfield and is also led by Chief Product Officer Jack Houghton. The firm now employs 35 staff. It intends to use the new funding to hire several key roles, boost sales and marketing, and further enhance the platform.

Participated · Series A · Dec 2024

Next Sense provides a vendor-agnostic smart building platform combining real-time monitoring, AI-driven controls, building simulations and professional services to optimise energy use and meet ESG standards. The platform leverages machine learning integrated with a Building Physics model to deliver automated, science-based optimisation across large property portfolios. Next Sense emerged in February 2024 from the merger of EDGE Next (EDGE Technologies) and Sense by PHYSEE and is a certified B Corporation. It reports a portfolio of over 150 projects and customers including CHANEL, AXA IM, Microsoft and MERLIN Properties, with demonstrable energy savings of consistent 20–30% and up to 40% per project. The company also provides simulations for pre-construction and redevelopment and supports clients in meeting EU CSRD sustainability regulations. Next Sense plans to scale operations globally and enhance its Smart Building Platform to accelerate building decarbonisation.

Led · Equity · Oct 2024

Mindtech Global is a developer of DataOps platforms that produce intelligently engineered synthetic data to train AI vision systems. Its core products, Chameleon and Dolphin, enable data analysis, visualisation and curation to improve AI models and accelerate deployment of customer applications across smart city and other use cases. The company serves sectors including retail, healthcare, transportation and robotics and has operations across the US and the Far East. Led by CEO Steve Harris, Mindtech employs around 25 people. Following a funding round of over £4M led by Edge Investments with participation from Mercia Ventures, the company plans to further develop its technology and expand into Japan, the US and Europe. It also intends to continue partnerships with industry leaders to scale adoption of its synthetic-data platforms. Mindtech is a Sheffield, UK–based provider of an end-to-end synthetic data creation platform for training AI vision systems. Led by CEO Steve Harris, the company's Chameleon platform generates synthetic training data to help computers understand and predict human interactions across retail, smart home, healthcare and smart city applications. In the latest round Mindtech raised $3.7M led by Appen, which also signed a commercial partnership to drive adoption of synthetic data. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Existing investors participated in the round. This investment follows a $3.25M funding round in July 2021. Mindtech Global’s core product, Chameleon, creates unlimited photo‑realistic 3D scenes and synthetic humans to train CCTV and other computer-vision systems without using real-world footage. The platform targets customers including large retailers, warehouse operators, healthcare providers, transportation systems and robotics firms. Mindtech positions synthetic data as a way to avoid privacy issues, reduce bias in training data, and speed up ML development by cutting time spent sourcing and cleaning footage. The company says Chameleon lets teams build and run scenarios thousands of times to teach systems to spot events such as slips, delivery-robot interactions with children, or erratic behavior on train platforms. Management intends to use the new funding to accelerate growth and commercial traction. No operating metrics or valuation were disclosed in the article.

Led · Equity · Jul 2024

Edit Cloud provides a cloud production platform that uses AI to enable high-quality content creation. The platform aggregates cloud-based tools to allow teams to work collaboratively and efficiently. Founded by CEO Simon Green and based in London, the company has secured partnerships with ITV Studios, Adobe, AWS and supporting agencies such as Publicis. Edit Cloud raised £2M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. The company focuses on combining AI technology and cloud tool integration to streamline production workflows.