London AI Analytics Firm Apexe3 Secures £1.5m Series A at £39.2m Valuation

London-based financial technology company Apexe3 Limited has closed a £1.5m Series A funding round, achieving an estimated post-money valuation of £39.2m. The allotment and filing for the new capital were completed on 25 March 2026.

Founded in December 2018 by Usman Khan and Sharif El Borgi, Apexe3 provides an institutional-grade, multi-asset analytics platform tailored for financial professionals. The company builds AI-driven tools and infrastructure designed to deliver real-time market insights and natural language processing of complex financial data. Its core customer base includes portfolio managers, quantitative analysts, and investment funds operating across global capital markets.

The platform addresses a persistent challenge in the financial services sector: the need to rapidly process and extract actionable intelligence from massive, fragmented datasets. By integrating big data analytics with proprietary cognitive architectures and generative AI models, Apexe3 allows institutions to automate functions, backtest trading strategies, and identify cross-asset liquidity opportunities in real time. The company's technology is designed to redefine workflow efficiency, replacing manual data processing with automated, AI-assisted research and signal generation.

While Apexe3 does not publicly disclose its revenue or profitability figures, recent corporate filings indicate a core team of eight employees, though the company's professional network presence suggests a broader workforce of around 28 staff members.

This £1.5m Series A round represents a significant valuation step-up for the firm. The £39.2m post-money valuation highlights strong investor confidence in the company's underlying technology and market position. While specific investors for this latest equity allotment have not been disclosed, Apexe3 has previously attracted backing from notable industry players. The company raised a seed round in 2019 backed by ConsenSys Mesh, and more recently secured a strategic investment in mid-2024 from Deus X Capital, a family office-backed investment firm. Apexe3 has also previously established strategic partnerships with major technology providers to power its AI agent capabilities.

The Series A round arrives during a period of concentrated investment in the UK artificial intelligence and financial technology sectors. According to a recent report by NatWest and PitchBook, UK AI startups raised more than £6bn in venture capital during the previous year, accounting for over a third of all UK venture funding. Investors are increasingly directing capital toward B2B platforms that demonstrate clear commercial readiness and the ability to solve complex enterprise workflows.

Simultaneously, the broader UK FinTech ecosystem has shown signs of stabilisation following a global market reset. Industry body Innovate Finance reported that UK FinTechs attracted approximately $3.6bn in investment last year, retaining the country's position as the second-largest FinTech market globally behind the United States. Within this landscape, infrastructure and data analytics platforms that serve institutional clients have remained particularly resilient, as financial institutions continue to digitise their operations and integrate machine learning into their investment processes.

Apexe3's latest capital injection will support the continued development of its multi-asset analytics infrastructure and the expansion of its AI-driven applications for the capital markets industry.