ScrubMarine, a UK-based startup growing subsea robotics and knowledge methods for inspection and upkeep, has closed its €849k ($1 million) pre-Seed spherical to speed up engineering, broaden its staff, and transfer into the subsequent part.
PXN Ventures North Of England, SFC Capital, and strategic angel buyers Colin Greene and Graham Westgarth supported the spherical. Based on The Times report, SFC Capital and PXN Ventures have been the lead buyers.
Commenting on the spherical in a LinkedIn post, Rohith Devanathan, co-founder and CEO of ScrubMarine, stated, “The maritime world runs world commerce, however a lot of its infrastructure nonetheless depends upon legacy processes. We’re constructing autonomous methods designed to function in a few of the hardest environments on the planet.”
Based by Rohith Devanathan and Clyne Albertelli, and primarily based in Whitehaven, Cumbria, ScrubMarine is on a mission to develop autonomous robotic methods for maritime inspection and upkeep.
The corporate claims to make underwater operations safer, extra environment friendly and scalable than conventional strategies, that are usually sluggish, labour-intensive, high-risk, and expensive.
The maritime robotics startup creates compact, deployable underwater robots that may cater to companies similar to hull cleansing and inspection, in addition to offshore upkeep of wind and oil constructions.
Based on the corporate, its platform combines modular subsea robotics with cloud-based analytics. This supplies steady perception into vessel and offshore asset situation.
Earlier this 12 months, ScrubMarine was accepted into the 2025 World Enterprise Innovation Programme (GBIP), hosted by Innovate UK and the UK Division for Transport. In 2024, the corporate raised almost €229k (£200k) in pre-Seed funding led by Praetura Ventures.
