Led · Seed · Aug 2026

Hoplon AI develops an agentic cyber operations layer intended to help organizations manage fragmented security tooling, accelerate incident response, and meet compliance needs. The founders, including Anas Amer (co-founder, CTO and CPO) and Yannis, met while at Just Eat; the founder story emphasizes resourcefulness and early customer wins. The team says it is onboarding vendor integrations rapidly and adding new security use cases weekly, and the company recently launched a new website. Public communications highlight product momentum but do not disclose revenue, user counts, or other operating metrics. Financially, Hoplon announced a $1M seed round led by Haatch and noted support from HSBC Innovation Banking. The company positions the raise as early-stage capital to continue expanding integrations and product capabilities.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

Founded in 2025 by Dr Stuart Wilson and Daniel Camilleri, Kinematic Trees develops a robot-agnostic software integration layer that captures specialist robotics expertise in modular components which can be reused, combined and adapted across different hardware platforms. The platform is inspired by principles of natural intelligence and aims to make advanced robotics easier to deploy across sectors including manufacturing, healthcare, education and the creative industries. Kinematic Trees is engaged in both commercial activity with robotics providers and research into embodied artificial intelligence and cognitive architectures. The startup raised £585,000 in pre-seed funding to support product development, expand commercial and engineering teams, and pursue international deployment. The company plans to announce its first factory deployments and new partnerships during the second half of 2026.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

Prolo combines AI with human procurement specialists to act as an outsourced procurement team for SME contractors, enabling orders via WhatsApp, email or phone. The platform sources competitive pricing from a nationwide network of more than 185 suppliers and provides access to trade rates and specialist plant hire typically reserved for larger contractors. Prolo offers flexible credit terms of up to 90 days to help customers manage cash flow and take on larger projects. Founded by serial proptech entrepreneur James Morris-Manuel, the company aims to modernise long-standing inefficiencies in construction procurement. Prolo plans to expand its sales and marketing efforts and accelerate development and rollout of new technology and product features following its seed raise. The company has focused on addressing price transparency and procurement manual processes that have disadvantaged smaller contractors.

Led · Seed · Jun 2026

Friday4:30 offers an end-to-end incident management system designed to replace ad-hoc crisis manuals and spreadsheet-based processes, guiding teams from initial alert through to resolution. The platform launched in July 2025 and the company was incorporated in September 2025, with the founders reporting early revenue and customer intent. It targets mid-market food and drink brands and is positioned as a live incident-management tool distinct from compliance-focused audit and paperwork platforms. The founders are Emma Sykes (chair), who has decades of food crisis management experience, and her son Jack Sykes (CEO), who built the prototype using AI-assisted development tools. The company has formed an advisory committee with food, quality assurance, customer service, and technology experts from the UK and US and plans to use its recent funding to commercialize and acquire early customers. The firm is entering a market where product-recall management was a $2.13 billion market in 2024 and where recalls rose 15% between 2020 and 2024.

Led · Equity · Jun 2026

Breaking Change builds software infrastructure that helps game studios model, simulate and maintain complex systems in modern games—such as vehicles, weapons, progression and economies—using simulation technology combined with AI-assisted authoring. The company’s platform aims to accelerate development and reduce bespoke engineering time by enabling studios to build deeper gameplay systems more efficiently. Breaking Change was founded by a team with backgrounds in games, simulation, robotics and AI, led by co-founder and CEO Dr Jonathan Quinn and co-founder/CTO Ben Laws, and includes senior engineers James Munro and Ivo Hinov. The business has received prior grant and programme support from Media Cymru, Innovate UK and the UK Games Fund, and founder backing from the Royal Academy of Engineering. With the new funding package, Breaking Change intends to expand headcount, progress its simulation and AI R&D, and begin piloting its technology with game studios in 2026 as it prepares for wider commercial adoption. The company is advancing toward market launch while leveraging both public grant support and institutional equity investment to fund growth.