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(26)Finance Agency Wants to Put the Agency Business Through Its Own Audit
The London venture is assembling badges, benchmarks, peer rooms and deal flow for an industry that still buys on introductions and instinct. The useful idea is the stack; the unresolved question is who will trust it.
Floom Made Local Florists Clickable - Then Came the Hard Part
Lana Elie turned a bad bouquet into a marketplace for independent florists. Nine years, several funding rounds and one hard reset later, Floom found an owner that speaks fluent flower shop.
The startup teaching AI to hire humans
A former DeepMind scientist and a SoftBank operator built voice AI that interviews people about what they are actually good at - then sells that expertise to hedge funds, AI labs and consultancies. Andreessen Horowitz just put in $22.75M.
Two Doctors Left the NHS to Build the Tutor They Never Had - Now 400,000 Students Are Testing the Bet
Medly is trying to sell the useful half of private tutoring - diagnosis, practice and feedback - for £24.99 a month. Its hardest lesson was that an AI marker is only as good as the messy answers it can understand.
Zapnito
A personalized community & knowledge hub for every customer.
ToucanTech
The London company betting that schools, universities and membership groups would rather run their whole community - website, database, donations and all - from a single system than from a drawer full of subscriptions.
SentiSum
AI-native CX intelligence that tells you what's breaking, what it's costing, and what to fix.
Velaris
Get complete visibility of every customer and process. Predict churn and expansion with AI-enriched intelligence. Orchestrate personalized customer journeys. All from one AI platform.
Kaizan
Kaizan is the AI platform for client service professionals - AI Helpers that work 24/7 to grow client ROI, satisfaction and revenue.
Disciple
The London company behind branded community apps for the Rolling Stones and hundreds of quieter passion groups wants creators to stop renting their audiences from Facebook.
Chattermill
A new kind of customer intelligence platform, purpose-built for the agentic era. Trusted by CX, product and insights teams from the world's leading enterprises.
Polymateria
Polymateria is a London-based materials science company that has developed Biotransformation, a masterbatch additive that lets everyday polyolefin plastics fully biodegrade in the open environment within about a year - breaking down into a wax that microbes consume, leaving only CO2, water and biomass with no microplastics. Its technology underpins the BSI PAS 9017 standard and is sold to converters and brands worldwide through its consumer-facing Lyfecycle brand.
Capsa AI
Capsa AI is a London- and New York-based startup building an 'AI operating system' for private capital. Its platform indexes a firm's fragmented institutional knowledge - deal memos, emails, CRM notes and documents - and layers agentic AI across the fund lifecycle, from sourcing and due diligence to portfolio monitoring and back-office work. Founded in 2023 by Danyal Ozduzenciler and Callum Downie, the company raised an $18M Series A in June 2026 (about $20M total) to help private equity and private credit firms move faster and surface insights with full source traceability.
Duel Tech
Duel is a London-founded B2B SaaS company that runs a Brand Advocacy Platform, helping consumer retail brands recruit, activate and scale tens of thousands of customers, creators, fans, employees and ambassadors into a measurable word-of-mouth growth channel. Founded in 2017 by adventurer-turned-entrepreneur Paul Archer and games developer Naio Tsarouchis, and certified as a B Corp, Duel powers advocacy programs for brands including Charlotte Tilbury, Lush, ELEMIS, Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch and Pandora, and raised a $16M Series A in September 2025.
Nory
Nory is an AI-native restaurant operating system that unifies business intelligence, inventory, workforce management and payroll into a single control centre for hospitality operators. Founded by restaurateur Conor Sheridan, it plugs into a restaurant's existing tech stack and uses real-time data plus predictive analytics - and a crew of 'agentic' AI assistants - to forecast demand, plan staffing, manage ordering and keep the P&L on track. Operators report cutting operating costs by nearly 20 percent and reducing food waste by up to 50 percent. Backed by $62.6M in funding, Nory serves multi-site groups from Black Sheep Coffee to the Jamie Oliver Group and is expanding into the United States.
Omnea
Omnea is an AI-native procurement orchestration platform that turns the slow, fragmented process of requesting, vetting, buying and renewing suppliers into a single, governed workflow. Founded in 2022 by former Tessian executives Ben Freeman and Ben Allen, the London- and New York-based company gives employees one 'front door' to make purchase requests in natural language, then automatically routes those requests to the right people and systems while tracking spend, risk and renewals. It serves enterprises including Spotify, Wise, MongoDB, Albertsons and Adecco, and has raised over $75M from Insight Partners, Khosla Ventures, Accel and others.
Orbital
Orbital (formerly Orbital Witness) is a London- and New York-based legal AI company building software that automates the paperwork-heavy work of real estate law. Its flagship product, Orbital Copilot, is a domain-specific AI agent that reads title reports, leases, surveys and contracts the way a real estate lawyer would - extracting key terms, flagging risk and drafting reports in a fraction of the usual time. Founded in 2018 by Will Pearce and Edmond Boulle, Orbital supports around 200,000 property transactions a year for more than 5,000 professionals at firms including Clifford Chance, Slaughter & May, Mishcon de Reya and BCLP, and raised a $60M Series B in January 2026 to expand in the United States.
Synthesized
Synthesized is a London- and New York-based enterprise software company that automates the creation of production-realistic test data. Its AI-driven platform generates, masks, and subsets data from sensitive systems so teams can validate software, database migrations, and AI agents before they reach production - all while preserving privacy and meeting regulations such as GDPR. Founded in 2020 by Cambridge machine-learning PhD Nicolai Baldin, the company counts Deutsche Bank and UBS among its customers and raised a $20M Series A in September 2025.
Zeelo
Zeelo is a TransitTech company that runs an AI-powered smart bus platform for organizations. It designs, manages and optimizes group transport programs - corporate shuttles and school buses - connecting employees and students to work and education. Rather than owning vehicles, Zeelo pairs its software (rider, driver and client apps plus data-led route optimization) with a virtual fleet of 10,000+ vehicles from vetted operators, delivering managed, carbon-neutral shuttle services across the US, UK and Ireland for more than 1,000 organizations.
Jack & Jill
Jack & Jill is a London-based AI recruitment startup that replaces job boards and resume submissions with two conversational AI agents. Jack works for candidates - getting to know their skills and goals in a 10-minute conversation, scanning millions of jobs daily, and introducing them directly to hiring managers, all for free. Jill works for companies, learning what a team needs and surfacing well-matched people on a success-based fee. Founded in early 2025 by Omnipresent founder Matt Wilson and Kular.ai founder Saaras Mehan, the company raised a $20M seed round led by Creandum in October 2025.
Kular
Kular is a London-based, Y Combinator-backed AI lead generation platform that finds and books qualified customers for businesses over email, LinkedIn, and AI voice - and only charges when it works. Instead of selling software seats or campaign hours, Kular runs the outreach itself and bills per positive reply or booked meeting, aligning its revenue with the results it delivers. The platform serves over 1,000 companies and is built by a team of MIT, Cambridge, and Oxford graduates.
Picnic
Picnic is a London-born ad-tech company building user-first advertising for the open web. It packages social-media-style ad formats - Stories, swipe-to-act, emoji reactions - and delivers them on premium publisher inventory, aiming to make ads people actually engage with rather than ignore. Founded in 2017 by Matthew Goldhill, Picnic pairs its creative formats with PIQ, an inventory-quality platform, and ships every campaign carbon neutral, claiming roughly 50% lower emissions than the industry standard.
Quantum Boost
Quantum Boost is a London-based deep-tech startup building an AI formulation assistant for the chemicals and materials industry. Its platform uses Bayesian optimization and machine learning to help R&D scientists design smarter experiments, cut the number of lab trials needed to hit a target, and surface insights from existing experimental data. The company claims its approach reaches formulation targets roughly 2-5x faster than traditional Design of Experiments (DoE), and serves teams working on inks, paints and coatings, pharmaceuticals, and specialty chemicals.
Telescope
Telescope is an AI-driven lead generation and outreach platform that lets B2B sales teams describe their ideal customer in plain English and instantly surface matching companies and people from a database of 900M+ verified profiles and 50M+ companies. It then automates personalized outreach across email and LinkedIn, warms up mailboxes for deliverability, and consolidates replies into a single inbox - replacing a stack of separate prospecting tools. Founded in 2021 by Dr. Reza Javan and backed by Sequoia Capital and Entrepreneur First, the London-based company says it is used by 20,000+ companies.
Fifth Dimension
Fifth Dimension is a London-based AI company building a decision-intelligence platform for real assets. Founded in 2023 by Dr. Kate Jarvis and Johnny Morris, its flagship AI assistant, Ellie, pulls unstructured data from leases, surveys, and deal documents, organizes it into formatted templates, and automates the document-heavy workflows that slow down real estate investors, lenders, and asset managers. In May 2026 it raised a roughly $26M (€22M) Series A led by HV Capital to scale across the UK and US.
Mimica
Mimica is a London- and New York-based process intelligence company that records how people actually work - every click and keystroke - and turns that raw activity into end-to-end process maps. Those maps double as a roadmap for automation and, increasingly, as the training context that lets enterprise AI agents operate reliably in the real world. Founded in 2018 by Tuhin Chakraborty and Raphael Holca-Lamarre out of Entrepreneur First, Mimica serves over 30 large enterprises, including multiple Fortune 500s, and raised a $26.2M Series B in September 2025.