Most rounds:

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Largest Round:

🇬🇧 Arweave $8,300,000

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom — $17.7m

Arweave

Raised: $8.3m (Seed)

Category: Blockchain, FinTech, Data Storage

Description: Arweave are developing the ‘permaweb’ which looks just like the normal web, but all of its content — from images to full web apps — is permanent, retrieved quickly, and decentralized — forever.

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and Coinbase Ventures.

Location: London, England, UK.

Rest Less

Raised: $3.9m (Seed)

Category: Recruiting, Staffing

Description: Rest Less is a social enterprise startup offering jobs, volunteering and guidance for the over 50s. The online platform offers fulfilling opportunities to work, volunteer or find a new career path.

Investors: Octopus Ventures, QED Investments and 1818 Capital.

Location: London, England, UK.

Sonantic

Raised: $2.5m (Seed)

Category: AI, Voice

Description: Sonantic is a startup that has developed “human-quality” synthetic voice know-how for the video games and leisure business. Sonantic enables game developers to access “expressive, realistic voice acting”.

Investors: AME Cloud Ventures, Entrepreneur First and EQT Ventures.

Location: London, England, UK.

Emma

Raised: $2.5m (Seed)

Category: FinTech, Financial Services, Apps

Description: Emma is a financial app advocate that helps users avoid overdrafts, find wasteful subscriptions, and allows users control of their finances.

Investors: Connect Ventures, Algaé Ventures and Tiny VC.

Location: London, England, UK.

Labworks

Raised: $500k (Seed)

Category: Voice, Gaming, Alex Skills

Description: Labworks.io is the leading creator of viral voice-activated games for Amazon and Google devices. Read more here.

Investors: RLC Ventures

Location: London, England, UK.

Chatable Apps

Raised: $Unknown (Seed)

Category: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Description: ChatableApps — Worlds First Neuroscience-led AI Hearing Aid App, making everyday conversation accessible to everyone, everywhere.

Investors: Mark Cuban.

Location: London, England, UK.

🇮🇳 India — $15.5m

Leap Finance

Raised: $5.5m (Seed)

Category: Financial Services, Education

Description: Leap Finance is a fintech startup for Indian students pursuing international higher education. Leap Finance offers loan products and services that help Indian students pursue overseas education.

Investors: Sequoia Capital India

Location: Bengaluru, India.

Trell

Raised: $4m (Seed)

Category: Financial Services, Education

Description: Trell is a location-based network which helps users to explore experiences and annotating places around them (similar to TikTok by the looks of it).

Investors: Sequoia Capital India, BEENEXT, Fosun Capital and others.

Location: Bangalore, India.

Airmeet

Raised: $3m (Seed)

Category: Events, Software, Remote

Description: Airmeet is an online events platform with a focus on 1-to-1 interactivity amongst attendees.

Investors: Global Founders Capital, Accel India and others.

Location: Bangalore, India.

QTalk

Raised: $3m (Seed)

Category: Events, Software, Remote

Description: QTalk is a Smart Dialer designed to make phone conversations fun & stress-free, including caller reasons, games and live shared-browsing.

Investors: Accel India and Lightspeed India.

Location: Bangalore, India.

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🇫🇮Finland — $4.7m

Aibidia

Raised: $4.7m (Seed)

Category: Information Technology, Data, Analytics

Description: Aibidia is a data and analytics company established to digitalise and enhance the way future professionals work and live.

Investors: Global Founders Capital and icebreaker.vc.

Location: Helsinki, Finland.

🇺🇦Ukraine — $1.5m

Respeecher

Raised: $1.5m (Seed)

Category: Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Information Technology, Software

Description: They build high fidelity voice cloning (voice conversion) systems using deep neural networks.

Investors: ff Venture Capital and others.

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine.