Led · Equity · Feb 2026

Founded in 2021, mea Platform develops proprietary, insurance-specific AI products that rapidly improve combined ratios and margins by automating submission ingestion and broader operational workflows. The company’s domain-specific language model and insurance knowledge graph allow fast, non-invasive deployments that can cut operating costs by up to 60%. mea currently supports live client deployments across 21 countries and has processed more than $400 billion in gross written premium through its platform. Customers include global names such as AXIS, CNA, The Hartford, Markel, SCOR, Lloyd’s of London, and Accenture. Despite extensive tech spending in the sector, many insurance processes remain manual, giving mea a large addressable market estimated at roughly $2 trillion in annual industry costs. The company has been intentionally bootstrapped since inception and is now in its fourth consecutive year of profitable growth. The new capital will accelerate product development and customer engagement as mea expands its agentic AI capabilities across all (re)insurance operations.

Led · Equity · Nov 2023

Braincube offers an IIoT manufacturing data platform that connects to and upgrades manufacturing data into tangible business insights to improve operational efficiency, quality, productivity, and sustainability. The platform is used across manufacturing sites in 35 countries and serves verticals including food and beverage, pulp and paper, building materials, and tires and plastics. Customers include global manufacturers such as Bridgestone and International Paper. Braincube employs over 250 people across France, Europe, the United States, and Brazil. Founded in 2008 and led by Laurent Laporte and Sylvain Rubat, the company intends to use the newly raised funds to support its global position in the manufacturing software industry.

Led · Series B · Sep 2021

Tyk provides an open-source API gateway and management platform that helps engineering teams manage, monitor, and secure APIs. Its offering is used in highly regulated industries including financial services, healthcare, and government, and customers include Societe Generale, Starbucks, and Domino’s. The company currently has over 100 staff globally. Tyk raised $35 million to accelerate further growth and plans to double its team size within the next year. The firm is seven years old and has raised $40.5 million in total to date. Tyk Technologies provides an API management platform and gateway that acts as a security and management layer between APIs, enabling companies to share data securely with third parties and sell services through indirect channels. Its product helps engineering teams build web platforms and scale APIs across sectors including retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, media and the public sector. Client customers include Starbucks, Domino's, Sephora and the UK Ministry of Justice. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Martin Buhr and operates from London with a Singapore office opened in 2017. Tyk raised a £4m Series A to support growth and expansion. The firm intends to use the funds to accelerate its expansion into the US and to grow engineering teams across EMEA and APAC, including opening an Atlanta office in the summer.

Led · Equity · Apr 2021

Basis Technologies provides the only complete automated DevOps and test automation platform engineered specifically for SAP systems. Organisations across the world use its technology to support transitions from legacy on-premise SAP to modern cloud-hosted SAP systems and to accelerate delivery of business innovation. Its enterprise customers include BP, Procter & Gamble and Booking.com. The company employs more than 70 people with headquarters in the UK and additional offices in the US, Australia, Germany and Hungary. SEP's $25 million investment will be used to accelerate product development and increase adoption through expansion of global sales and partnership capabilities. Basis aims to further enhance its proposition to address a reported $1.5 billion per annum global enterprise DevOps for SAP market.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2021

LoveCrafts is a London-based online community and marketplace for crafters that evolved from LoveKnitting and LoveCrochet into a combined LoveCrafts platform. The company operates a designer patterns marketplace (historically cited at 33k patterns) and provides craft materials and supplies across multiple categories. Founded in 2012, LoveCrafts reports over 1 million customers in 200 countries and employs about 140 staff across London, Kyiv and New York. It recently raised an additional $22M (approx €18.2M) from existing backers and took on capital alongside Silicon Valley debt provider TriplePoint Capital. The raise accompanies the acquisition of Massachusetts-based WEBS, which the company says makes it the market leader in North America in needlecraft. Proceeds are earmarked to expand into new craft categories and geographies as LoveCrafts aims to grow its share of a global craft market it values at over $100B. LoveCrafts operates an online ecosystem of content, commerce and community for makers, enabling project planning, purchasing supplies and sharing creations. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Soho, London, with distribution centres in Missouri and Manchester. Its product set includes editorial content, marketplace commerce and community features designed to ignite inspiration and help makers manage projects. The company plans to use the new funding to scale operations and expand internationally. It will invest in its platform technology to improve user connections and to launch additional crafting sites. LoveCrafts completed a LoveCrafts operates a combined social platform, designer marketplace and e-commerce storefront with dedicated sites for knitting (LoveKnitting.com) and crochet (LoveCrochet.com). The platform lets makers find inspiration, buy designs and purchase the supplies and equipment needed to complete projects. Revenue is generated from sales of designs on the designer marketplace and from the sale of supplies, which are stocked in warehouses in the U.S. and Europe serving makers in over 100 countries. The company says it will use new capital to invest in technology and to grow revenue, naming the U.S. and German markets specifically. LoveCrafts is London-headquartered and has raised $30 million in total to date. It aims to capture a meaningful share of the estimated $100 billion crafts industry by growing its global community of makers. LoveCrafts runs online marketplaces for crafters, operating loveknitting.com and offering yarn, needles, patterns, books and accessories. The company has expanded via acquisition of Yarnmarket.com (USA) and the launch of loveknitting.de. It plans to unveil a new marketplace, LoveCrochet, in April 2015 and intends to use new funding to develop the platform and scale globally. LoveCrafts was co-founded in 2012 by Edward Griffith, Nigel Whiteoak and Cherry Freeman and is based in London, UK. The company has previously raised seed funding from True Capital and Venrex and is actively hiring. Its current financing round provides capital to support product development and international growth.