Boardly Secures £85k Pre-Seed to Streamline Board Management with AI

London-based artificial intelligence startup Boardly Limited has raised £85k in a pre-seed funding round, bringing its estimated post-money valuation to £2.3m. The round was filed on March 10, 2026, following an allotment of shares on May 23, 2025. Specific investors in this round were not named in the company filings.

Founded on September 13, 2023, Boardly operates an AI-powered platform designed to modernise governance reporting and board management. The company addresses the administrative bottlenecks associated with corporate governance, specifically targeting the inefficiencies of version control, formatting inconsistencies, and time-consuming minute-taking that plague traditional board meetings. Preparing for board meetings often requires compiling data from multiple sources, leading to fragmented workflows. By replacing traditional Word documents, PowerPoints, and PDFs with unified digital board and committee packs, the platform allows executive teams to create polished reports accessible via web, desktop, and mobile applications.

The core of Boardly's technology relies on GPT-4o integration. The platform features an AI report writing assistant that can generate, proofread, condense, and refine board reports based on user prompts. Additionally, it offers voice transcription capabilities that generate meeting minutes in seconds, allowing users to delete the raw audio transcripts once the final minutes are approved. The system also includes automated task management to reduce email clutter and is backed by Google Cloud infrastructure, featuring biometric login and encryption for data security.

Boardly currently operates with a single employee and maintains a headquarters presence in San Francisco alongside its London base. Financial metrics such as revenue and profit or loss were not available in the latest accounts.

This latest £85k pre-seed injection follows two earlier pre-seed allotments in April 2025. On April 1, 2025, the startup raised £25k at a £2.1m valuation, followed shortly by a £50k raise on April 17, 2025, at a £2.2m valuation. In total, Boardly has secured £160k across these three close-proximity tranches, steadily increasing its valuation as it builds out its governance reporting technology.

The funding aligns with strong continued investment in the UK artificial intelligence and software-as-a-service sectors. In 2025, UK AI startups raised over £3.4 billion in venture capital, representing 30% of all British VC funding. London remains the epicentre for this activity, capturing 61.8% of early-stage equity funding nationwide. As corporate governance and automated reporting become increasingly digitised, early-stage investors continue to back AI-driven workflow solutions emerging from the capital.