The Venture Codex

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.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Paypercut provides a full payments stack for online merchants across Central and Eastern Europe via a single integration, combining card payments, local payment methods, and multiple Buy Now Pay Later providers. Since its EUR 2M pre-seed in July 2025 the company has expanded to serve over 200 merchants across eight CEE markets and evolved from a BNPL aggregator into a full payments platform. Key product features include multi-currency settlement, onboarding fully online in days, payment links and QR payments, and an Express Checkout launching to enable one-tap Apple Pay and Google Pay flows. Paypercut operates through licensed and regulated partners across the EEA and has submitted its own EMI application with the Central Bank of Ireland, expecting authorisation in Q4 2026. The company is also developing stablecoin-based rails for high-volume non-euro corridors (starting with EUR-to-PLN and EUR-to-RON) and has a roadmap extending into treasury, FX, payouts, and embedded financial services.

Participated · Seed · May 2026

Founded by Lloyd Davies and staffed by alumni of CrowdStrike, Recorded Future and Intel 471, Infrawatch develops an Internet Infrastructure Intelligence Layer to identify and monitor the infrastructure behind cyberattacks, phishing campaigns, scams and online abuse. Its platform processes tens of billions of internet events each day to transform internet-scale visibility into actionable intelligence about infrastructure behaviour, potential operators and trustworthiness. The system offers pre-built threat monitoring capabilities alongside tools for creating custom detection rules. Infrawatch is positioning its product for enterprise deployments and plans a public launch later this year. The company is expanding its engineering and research teams and preparing to enter the U.S. market as part of its growth plans.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

Overmind is a London-based startup developing a platform that gives organisations real-time visibility into AI agents, allowing teams to detect deviations and intervene during live operation. The system logs agent behaviour, flags anomalies, and can automatically apply reinforcement learning to improve performance and reliability over time. Founded by Tyler Edwards (CEO), Akhat Rakishev (CTO), and Sam Brunt (CRO), the company targets regulated industries such as legal, healthcare, and fintech where compliance and data-protection requirements are strict. Overmind’s technology addresses adversarial inputs, data-integrity threats, and other security risks that emerge when autonomous agents run without constant human oversight. The newly raised seed funds will be used to expand the technical team, accelerate product development, and scale go-to-market activities. No operating metrics such as revenue or user counts have been disclosed.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

Founded in 2020, Maximum Information is developing the first vendor-agnostic middleware layer for catastrophe risk analytics. Its flagship SaaS platform, MagniPhi, plugs into existing cat-modelling workflows and lets users rapidly compare, stress-test and unify outputs from multiple modelling providers. By exposing the assumptions inside each model, the software enables faster and more reliable underwriting and risk-transfer decisions for re/insurers, brokers and financial institutions. The company positions itself as an analytical foundation for closing the $263 billion global natural-catastrophe protection gap. With natural-cat economic losses reaching $417 billion in 2024 and less than 40 % insured, management believes demand for transparent, vendor-agnostic tools will accelerate. Maximum Information intends to capitalise on this generational opportunity by providing orchestration infrastructure rather than another proprietary model. Financial performance metrics such as revenue or customer count were not disclosed, but the company has now secured seed financing to accelerate product development and customer onboarding.