Every week we highlight new funding successes from companies bringing about change in their industries.  We amplify the voice of companies delivering on tech innovation whilst also utilising remote work, or being clear on the importance of D&I to their brand. All ingredients that talent.ai focus on when selecting the best startup funding rounds of the last 7 days.

We see these journeys as an inspiration, offering insights to other founders, startups and innovators looking to evolve their stories into something extraordinary.  We know the hard work behind these accomplishments and consistently seek to recognise and applaud those involved from leadership, founders and their entire teams. 

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Series Unknown

One Moto

CEO & Co-Founder – Adam Ridgway

One Moto is one of the UK’s leading electric vehicle ecosystems manufacturers, offering private and commercial EVs like motorcycles, bikes and scooters. One Moto aims to decarbonize transportation and become the leading EV option in the market.

The London-based company received one of the biggest funding rounds of the week securing a £120 Million venture round from several investors. The funds will inject a massive boost into One Moto’s plans for European expansion, their products have until now just launched in the UK and UAE.

One Moto is already talking about building its first Europe-based production plant to meet EV demands and secure its positioning in the market. It’s full speed ahead on this moto ride!

Series B

Anyfin

CEO & Co-Founder – Mikael Hussain

CTO & Co-Founder – Sven Perkmann

COO & Co-Founder – Filip Polhem

Anyfin is a smart finance platform aimed at helping its users improve their finances and gets the most out of financial products. Cutting out the middlemen to get more beneficial interest rates for users and using technology to simplify finances for all.

Stockholm-based Anyfin secured an important startup funding of $30 Million in Series B led by London-based VC Northzone, and existing investors for the young fintech startup. The founders CEO Mikael Hussain, CTO Sven Perkmann and COO Filip Polhem all have previous decades of experience with tech giants like Spotify, Klarna and iZettle, making this a second-generation startup of sorts, and adding a superb background for success.

Funds will be geared towards growth in Europe primarily, and with the cost of living crisis and people preparing for tougher times, this might be Anyfyn opportunity to shine!

Series A

Multus

CEO & Co-founder – Cai Linton

COO & Co-founder – Reka Tron

CTO & Co-founder – Kevin Pan

Multus is an AgriTech recent star that creates the key ingredients for scaling-up cellular agriculture, and meat production sustainably. Multus CEO Cai Linton is confident “That our unique approach to growth media will play a key role in making cultivated meat a sustainable and affordable choice for all.”

London-based Multus received a $9.5 Million Series A funding round led by Mandi Ventures, a VC group focused on startup funding in disruptive technology in food and agriculture, it also includes a £2.15M grant from Innovative UK.

All funds will go towards the construction world-leading facility for cellular protein production, the first of its kind in the UK. Multus and other Agritech companies are working incredibly fast to close production gaps between traditional and innovative methods, bringing sustainable change to tables near us!

aiOla

CEO & Co-founder – Amir Haramaty

COO – Anat Assaf

aiOla is a manufacturing inspection processes management tool that offers voice plus image recognition and the power of advanced AI modelling to help automate, streamline and bring inspections to the digital world.

Tel-Aviv’s aiOla can understand technical jargon in different accents and intonations, unifying warehouses across huge manufacturing productions. The company received significant baking for their product with a $25 Million Series A funding round of $25 million in a Series A round of funding led by New Era Capital.

Manufacturing is one of the industries fast accepting the benefits of AI and automation. For aiOla CEO Amir Haramaty the future is clear “aiOla’s proprietary and patented natural-language interface technology is perfectly positioned to take advantage of the “gold rush” in AI adoption”

Seed

PLAI Labs

CEO & Co-founder – Chris Dewolfe 

CEO & Co-founder – Aber Whitcomb

PLAI Labs uses its team’s advanced knowledge in social media, gaming and technology to develop the next-generation social media platforms with the aim of creating the next hundred million user product.

LA-based PLAI Labs is spearheaded by experienced executives, most coming from the gaming studio Jam City and MySpace. The company just secured an impressive $32 Million Seed round led by crypto investment firm a16z to further develop its projects.

Funds will focus on growing teams so they can continue to develop a decentralized social media platform coupling Web3 and AI. As PLAI Labs executive vice president of marketing and operations, Josh Brooks puts it “The metaverse is a lonely place unless there’s a social connection”