Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Noggin HQ builds alternative credit scoring technology that analyses permissioned banking transaction data to identify creditworthy customers missed by traditional systems. The company was founded by Evangeline Atkinson and Laura Mills after they experienced being declined for credit despite steady work and bill payments. Noggin has secured Financial Conduct Authority credit referencing authorisation, enabling it to supply cashflow-based credit data to FCA-authorised lenders. The startup has completed pilot programs and plans to use its recent funding to move into wider market adoption. Financially, Noggin raised a £710k pre-seed round led by Oxford Capital and has now closed an oversubscribed £2.3m seed round led by Blackfinch Ventures with participation from Oxford Capital, Bethnal Green Ventures and angel investors including Alastair Douglas.

Participated · Series C · Jun 2026

Oxford Quantum Circuits, founded as a spinout from Oxford University in 2017 and based in Reading, develops superconducting quantum computing hardware and supporting software. The company deploys its machines in data centres and offers access to customers and researchers as a cloud service. OQC targets business and government customers, citing demand from financial services, defence and security companies for secure quantum technology. It positions itself to move from long-term promise toward near-term commercial delivery and plans to scale internationally and advance its technology roadmap. The company recently strengthened its financial position by raising a £260 million Series C to accelerate commercialization and market expansion. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the provided article.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

NavLive is a UK reality-capture technology company spun out of robotics research at the University of Oxford. Its core product is a handheld LiDAR scanner that fuses edge-based AI with SLAM to deliver instant 2D and 3D site data, RICS-grade 1:100 surveys, and direct scan-to-BIM outputs. The system has already been deployed on live projects by engineering and construction firms such as Jacobs, AtkinsRéalis and Mace. NavLive employs 15 people and operates from offices in London and Oxford under CEO Chris Davison and CTO Dr. David Wisth. The company recently closed a £3.3 million seed round and previously secured a £700,000 Innovate UK grant, providing capital to scale its team and accelerate product development. With the new funding, NavLive plans to expand adoption of its technology across the wider built-environment sector.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

Structured AI builds AI-powered software that automates quality assurance and quality control processes for construction projects using proprietary computer vision and optical recognition models. The platform inspects complex construction drawing sets and field work to identify potential QA/QC issues and provide recommendations while retaining human oversight for final decisions. The company aims to integrate its technology directly into design authoring software to offer automated engineering recommendations similar to a spell-check function. Structured AI is led by CEO Raymond Zhao and is based in the United States. Financially, the company has raised $4.2 million in a seed round announced June 10, 2026, bringing total funding to $5 million. The new capital will be used to further develop its computer vision and optical recognition capabilities.

Led · Series A · Mar 2025

TurinTech develops Artemis, an "evolutionary AI" platform designed to optimize, validate, and evolve enterprise codebases to reduce inefficiencies and resource usage. The company positions Artemis as distinct from LLM-only code assistants by focusing on refinement, validation, and evolutionary selection of data structures and implementations. Artemis is being launched at NVIDIA's GTC event, with a full platform release planned later this year. TurinTech traces the product's ideas to a 2018 research paper by cofounder Dr. Leslie Kanthan describing a Darwinian approach to data structure selection. The founders are Dr. Leslie Kanthan (CEO), Mike Basios (CTO), and Fan Wu (Chief Science Officer). The company says several large blue-chip players and banks have joined its early adopter program ahead of general release. TurinTech.ai provides a platform that automates software optimisation, enabling autonomous evolution of software and AI systems to accelerate performance improvements while cutting time, energy and costs. Its Optimisation Automation suite can be customised across industries and is being used in the finance sector to optimise algorithmic trading. The company says the technology allows smart optimisation at scale, reducing resources and costs for clients. Founded in 2017 by four UCL computer science researchers as a University College London spin‑out, TurinTech.ai has gained traction and support from leading cloud enterprises. It has received research grants and cloud resources from Microsoft, Google and Amazon to support research and development. The newly raised funds will be used to hire additional data scientists and deepen the Optimisation Automation suite.