Emblem
Kemp House, 152 - 160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom
Overview
Emblem is a gifting platform for businesses startups and scale-ups. Emblem is headquartered in London.
- Total investments
- 12
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 6
- Active investors
- 2
Sector focus
- Business Development
- Finance
- Financial Services
Investment portfolio
- Palette
Participated · Seed · Aug 2026
Palette is building an operating system for companies to work with multiple AI agents while keeping their internal context, workflows and knowledge durable. Its Palette Desktop application enables teams to use agents such as Claude Code and Codex directly on files and folders, with options to choose cloud-based or local models depending on speed, capability and data control needs. The broader Palette OS includes a company-owned context library, shared AI skills and a connector gateway to let tools be connected once and used across multiple agents. Palette Desktop is available to paying customers and the Palette OS is being used by design partners. The company raised €3 million in a 2025 pre-seed round and plans to use the proceeds to grow sales and continue product development.
- Pivot
Participated · Series B · May 2026
Pivot offers an AI operating system for enterprise procurement and finance teams that centralizes sourcing, approvals, purchasing, invoicing, payments, budgets, expenses and reporting. The platform integrates with ERP and financial systems and supports complex multi-entity environments to provide real-time visibility into committed spending. Pivot emphasizes AI-driven workflow automation and agentic AI to shift manual procurement tasks to automated processes while preserving financial controls and reporting accuracy. Since launching in 2023, the company has expanded to more than 25 countries and processes approximately $3 billion in invoices annually. Customers named by the company include DoorDash, Lemonade and Flix. Pivot plans to use new funding to accelerate agentic AI development, deepen ERP integrations and expand into additional enterprise markets.
- Skye
Participated · Seed · Dec 2025
Skye is a Stockholm-based energy-technology company focused on reducing electricity expenditure for energy-intensive industrial customers across Europe. Its software dynamically controls and shifts factory power consumption, enabling clients with thin margins to improve profitability while lowering energy bills by 30-50%. Since launching, Skye has achieved 3× revenue growth in just three months, underscoring rapid early traction. The company positions itself as a category-defining solution for demand-side energy optimisation, delivering cost savings that can triple an industrial plant’s profitability. Skye’s team includes Tor Espen Steinvik, Linus Frosteryd, Andreas Lundgren, Caroline Vernet and Matteo Varisco, who are collectively driving quick product iterations and market expansion. The recent seed financing provides capital to accelerate rollout across additional European industrial sites and further develop its intelligent control technology.
- altrove AI
Participated · Seed · Oct 2025
Altrove AI is a Paris-based deep-tech company whose proprietary platform combines artificial intelligence, automated lab synthesis, and self-learning characterisation to discover new materials in weeks rather than years. The technology has already produced rare-earth-free and cobalt-free magnetic materials for high-performance motors, along with non-toxic, lead-free compounds for sensors and actuators. By reducing dependence on imported resources, the company aims to bolster European industrial sovereignty. Altrove has secured more than a dozen partnerships with major automotive, energy, and heavy-industry players, and it expects the first products to launch within two years. Founded in 2024 by CEO Thibaud Martin and CTO Dr. Joonatan Laulainen, the startup plans to scale production from gram-scale samples to industrial volumes in the same timeframe. Including its latest seed round, Altrove AI has raised $14 million to date, capital earmarked for laboratory expansion, team growth, and production scaling.
- Volta
Participated · Equity · Oct 2025
Volta provides an AI-driven B2B commerce platform that unifies catalogue management, ordering, and customer relationship workflows in a single interface. The software integrates with existing ERP, CRM, PIM, and WMS systems, eliminating up to 90 % of manual tasks such as order entry and price updates. Beyond automation, Volta layers data-driven recommendations, opportunity detection, and AI-guided decision-making to give sales teams more time to focus on customers. The product specifically targets SMEs and mid-market distributors who still rely on fragmented, manual processes like Excel and email. By bringing B2C-level simplicity to B2B trade, the company hopes to close the digital gap that currently limits efficiency and growth across the sector. Volta plans to use its newest capital to accelerate its commercial launch, further develop its AI capabilities, and expand its team. Including the latest raise, the startup has secured €11 million in total funding to date.