Upscale (venture capital)

Amicable’s vision is to transform how people end relationships Traditional law firms still dominate the divorce market, but the landscape is changing Shifting attitudes to separation, court reform and technological advancement present a global opportunity to disrupt the market amicable’s tech-enabled divorce service is uniquely positioned to capitalise on this Its approach to working with couples has been endorsed by the High Court, proving there is a better way to end relationships amicable also has a co-parenting app to improve ongoing co-parenting relationships and run The Divorce Podcast, an industry-leading podcast covering all aspects of separation

Arctoris is a tech-enabled drug discovery company It combines its unique automation platform, Ulysses®, with advanced machine learning approaches and a world-class team of seasoned drug hunters to guide and rapidly progress its wholly owned and partnered drug discovery programs in oncology and neurology

CGHero is a collaborative talent platform for digital artistry in the media and entertainment industry, offering flexible access to over 6,000 'heroes' with vetted skills to deliver a wide range of creative production work including 2D, 3D, Animation and VFX

Clue is a SaaS investigation case management and intelligence platform used by governments, police, private, and non-profit sectors globally to help counter threats including fraud, organised crime, modern slavery, corruption, environmental crime and more

Cord’s direct messaging tool enables someone to have a conversation with a person who wants to hire them Every message is instant and in real-time All the information is relevant and transparent Cord’s infrastructure underpins these interactions and handles the deep complexity required to distribute people at scale

CreditEnable is a global credit insights and technology company that enables intelligent lending to SMEs It applies proprietary data analytics, deep learning and AI to build solutions to the world’s biggest financial challenges It provides decision optimising solutions to help SME lenders grow efficiently and support SMEs to prepare for and access affordable credit from formal financial institutions CreditEnable’s lender solutions enable profitable growth by substantially reducing the time involved with underwriting SME loans, provide efficient access to quality borrowers and improve the quality of SME loan books The firm’s borrower solutions help SMEs better understand lenders’ credit requirements, get prepared for debt and secure the capital they need at an affordable rate

Cumulus Neuroscience was formed to revolutionise how brain health is measured and analysed at a massive scale, thus enabling breakthroughs in therapy development and diagnosis for conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer's It has developed and validated a neuro-assessment platform to frequently and objectively sample a broad spectrum of brain health domains including EEG, cognition, language, mood and sleep Its technology has been sold to pharma and biotech customers and is currently being used in Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials

Deazy is the smart, flexible and scalable way for businesses to engage vetted developers, fast It has built a closed ecosystem of vetted global development teams, a tech platform to intelligently match and facilitate the end-to-end process of finding developers and building dev squads, and a delivery team to minimise risk of delivery by using Deazy

Dishpatch is a leading platform connecting the authentic chefs with food lovers nationwide It democratises access to the best restaurants by delivering pre-prepared food to customers' doors each week; diners do not have to travel and make reservations at restaurants and can enjoy food prepared by the same chefs in the comfort of their own home, at a far reduced cost than eating at the restaurant Dishpatch essentially combines an e-commerce front end built on Shopify, with an in-house food manufacturing and fulfilment operation - allowing next-day delivery to 98% of the UK's population

Duel is a brand advocacy SaaS platform that helps consumer retail brands grow through the advocacy of their customers and fans Brand advocacy the single most effective way to grow consumer retail brands, yet the vast majority of marketing time and budget is spent on advertising- which has tripled in cost since COVID, crippling brands' go to market Duel lets brands engage with, manage and scale communities of 1000s of advocates through gamified, tiered-based programs

Eatron is a fast-growing, UK-based, software scaleup dedicated to making ‘software-defined vehicles’ a reality for vehicle manufacturers & automotive Tier-1 suppliers (e g Knorr Bremse, Mahle) worldwide to speed up the realisation of net-zero mobility Eatron develops and sells/licenses its products to automotive industry for serial production use in the new electric vehicle (EV) programs Its first product is a unique edge-cloud connected BMS (battery management system including software and hardware) and the second is an intelligent motion software platform for adaptive suspension controls both targeting EV applications

Fable Data turns banking data into revenue Its compliance technology sits within a bank anonymously reading millions of accounts every day This gives Fable Data an unrivalled measure of consumer and SME economic activity in real time, from which it produces Data As A Service insight products on the macro economy, regions, sectors and on how individuals brands are performing

Flavourworks is a leading, next-gen entertainment studio pioneering immersive storytelling with cinematic games and interactive video content With a unique methodology and best in class proprietary touch video technology, it sits at the intersection of filmed entertainment and gaming, both industries generating >$100bn in annual global revenue

Flock is reinventing insurance for commercial motor fleets It is a fully digital MGA reinventing fleet insurance with a data-driven approach It leverages immense amounts of data (telematics data, hyperlocal weather data, crime data, etc ) to quantify driving risk in real-time, enabling fleet customers to reduce risk by providing them with risk insights, and incentivising safer driving with lower premiums; with Flock, safer fleets pay less

Helpthemove is a software company that automates processes that relate to moving home The core software is a solution that integrates with the councils, water and energy companies to automate change of tenancies The UK’s leading energy companies, letting agents, insurance and reference providers all utilise this software to drive huge administration efficiencies The software is free to use and is monetised by recurring transactional services offered to the landlords or incoming tenants

Housekeep is an online marketplace connecting consumers with local, vetted home services professionals Housekeep's tech matches customers with local, trusted professionals and it assigns these professionals local, dense travel routes – reducing travel time and increasing utilisation Housekeep cleaners earn 50% more, due to in-house job allocation and route optimisation technologies, which reduce travel & boost cleaner utilisation This tech's saved £8 million in travel costs for cleaners & saves 1000 tonnes of CO2 emissions/year Having found product-market fit in home cleaning, Housekeep has now expanded into deep and end of tenancy cleaning, as well as tradespeople services in a bid to 'own the home'

Humanising Autonomy teaches machines to understand human behaviour to ensure human-to-machine interactions are safer, pleasant and most importantly, more human Imagine if machines could understand the nuances of human behaviour in the same way an experienced driver can predict if a pedestrian is about to cross the road, a person on an electric scooter will turn quickly, or if a bicyclist is about to ride around a car door or a pothole Human Autonomy's ethical computer-vision software understands and predicts human behaviour so to quickly, safely and accurately provide the context around the interactions between people and machines, whether it’s a vehicle, a traffic control, a digital advertisement or any other automated machine In an ethical way, we can understand, infer and predict a full spectrum of pedestrian behaviours

i6 Group is revolutionising fuel management for airlines, airports, and into-plane operators by digitalising the entire fuel supply chain Its fuel management platform seamlessly connects business functions to drive operational efficiency and environmental accountability across the globe It connects the entire fuel supply chain in real-time through cloud-based software, secure technology, and i6-enabled vehicles and carts Today, its proprietary technology combines fuel monitoring, inventory management, and airline connectivity - offering the most accurate and advanced fuel management platform available

Indra Renewable Technologies Ltd operates across two highly innovative and fast-moving industries: electric vehicles (‘on vehicle’ technology) and smart energy (‘off vehicle’ technology) The business develops and manufactures smart energy products, including an electric vehicle Smart Charger, a Vehicle to Grid (V2G) charger and vehicle battery systems Its vision is to deliver a world of net-zero transportation, enabled through intelligent home charging technology

Juno is a simpler, clearer and faster way to manage major life events – like moving home or dealing with the death of a loved one It delivers regulated legal services through its own law firm, staffed by experienced lawyers and paralegals, underpinned by industry-defining legal automation technology It has started with conveyancing - the legal work needed for home sale and purchase - with plans to expand over time into all the other major life events that people face, first in the UK and then overseas

Lunio is a SaaS (software as a service) platform offering automated invalid traffic (IVT) prevention to digital marketers It identifies invalid users across marketing campaigns ( including bots, fraudsters, competitor traffic, non-interested users) and protect against these by building powerful invalid user pools that are then excluded across campaigns This allows for the surgical removal of IVT, bots and invalid users, leading to cleaner more actionable marketing data and eliminating wasted advertising spend that was previously going to bot/competitor/IVT activity

Membr is a powerful cloud-based gym management software with a global footprint in 25 countries across four continents While its headquarters are based in Manchester, it powers fitness clubs worldwide, including New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, Benelux, Morocco, Bahrain, Qatar, Indonesia and the UK As an innovative gym management software, Membr places the individual at the heart of that experience By delivering a member-centric platform that keeps exercisers connected, active and engaged, it enables fitness clubs to create stronger bonds with members and ultimately bring a real difference in their lives Its vision is to create a data-driven SaaS platform that helps gym owners to better understand the membership behaviour, needs and wants of their customers in real time

Penfold is the digital pension that addresses the core problem at the heart of the £8trn UK pension market and gets people saving enough for retirement Penfold provide a mobile and desktop application for customers to open, combine and manage their pension savings Its mission is to be the pension that stays with people throughout their life and gets them saving enough for retirement The Penfold app helps users set up a pension or consolidate their old pots into one, and then through a range of personalised tools helps change their savings behaviour and get on track with their retirement goals, all enabled by a backend platform

Placed is a talent attraction and recruitment software built for high churn service sectors and the next generation of job seekers On the B2C side, it has built a mobile app with a matching algorithm that automatically connects gen Z job seekers to relevant opportunities and curated content about all things work Through a marketplace candidates can explore, browse and access useful resources, quizzes and follow employers that are interesting to them No CVs are needed and candidates are instead prompted with engaging questionnaires to create profiles that help bring their personalities to life On the B2B side, it offers software that employers of all sizes in the service sector (retail, hospitality, care, call centres) can access the next-gen job seeker and showcase their brands The platform is used by individual site managers to chat and book candidates in for interviews, whilst their HQ can access invaluable data on their recruitment process; from attract to hire

PlayerData exists to revolutionise the way athletes train It is doing this by providing athletes and teams of all sizes and levels access to their performance data PlayerData services clubs across the UK, giving teams, coaches and athletes easy and affordable access to their data so they can control their performance

Playter is a B2B Buy Now, Pay Later fintech that is the creator of 'post purchase' BNPL Its platform helps ambitious SMEs instantly convert their invoices into BNPL, spreading the cost of their bill over 6-12 months

RESPONSIBLE exists to fight for a circular future in fashion Its technology enables fashion brands to offer their customers an effective trade-in option in store and online when they consider a new purchase Its systems facilitate the logistics related to the movement or refurbishment of products that are traded in for resale or recycling as well as general returns It also manages the resale and recycling of products on behalf of fashion partners, enabling them to control and benefit from the secondary market of their manufactured goods RESPONSIBLE reduces the number of products going to landfills while making money from processing fees and resale revenues

Scan com is the platform that makes diagnostic and preventable medical imaging accessible to all It integrates with private hospitals and diagnostic centres via a proprietary API, and make their spare capacity available to patients via a website (Scan com) and a B2B portal/API

Skrap is a B2B marketplace for construction hire services and equipment, making the journey seamless for contractors to order via mobile and web app