At Vortex IQ, we’ve spent the past 18 months building something foundational: an AI-powered Agentic Automation Platform that helps e-commerce businesses turn insights into action — instantly, intelligently, and at scale.

Today, we’re excited to share that we’re preparing to raise our £5 million Seed round, to accelerate our next phase of growth, deepen product innovation, and fuel global expansion.

Here’s why we’re raising, what we’ve achieved, and how we plan to scale from here.

Where We Started

Vortex IQ was born from a simple, stubborn insight:

E-commerce teams are drowning in data — but still act manually.

While others focused on dashboards and reports, we built the infrastructure for AI agents that act: making changes, optimising content, updating prices, fixing errors, triggering alerts — all from natural language prompts, securely executed via APIs.

From that vision, we’ve built a working platform now used by 130+ e-commerce brands.

Traction to Date

  • £700K ARR from early adopters
  • 130+ paying customers across BigCommerce, Shopify & Adobe Commerce
  • Partnerships with global brands including Krispy Kreme and British Airways
  • Selected for TechCrunch 200, Raise Summit winner (x2), Microsoft Pegasus, GoFocal Demo Day
  • Launched Agent Builder Studio & MCP Server with strong developer uptake
  • First to market with AI-powered backup, rollback, and staging agents for e-commerce
  • Upcoming Agent Marketplace for developers, agencies, and platforms

Why Now

We’re at an inflection point in the AI space:

  • LLMs are powerful — but still isolated
  • Businesses are demanding outcomes, not insights
  • Infrastructure is shifting towards agentic execution

With Vortex IQ, we’ve validated:

  • A clear need for automation beyond dashboards
  • A repeatable GTM strategy with agencies and platforms
  • A modular, API-first product architecture that scales with customers

Now it’s time to scale the platform, the partnerships, and the commercial flywheel

Where the £5M Will Go

Product & Engineering

  • Expand Agent Builder Studio
  • Open Agent Marketplace
  • Broaden multi-platform support (WooCommerce, Salesforce, custom APIs)

Go-To-Market & Sales

  • Grow our partner success team
  • Launch co-selling programmes with BigCommerce & Shopify agencies
  • Expand to US and MENA markets

Enterprise Readiness

  • SOC2 certification

Advanced RBAC, audit logs, agent governance features

What We’re Looking For

We’re speaking with:

  • Sector-focused VCs in AI infrastructure, dev tools, and e-commerce SaaS
  • Strategic angels who bring deep network value in enterprise, GTM, or marketplaces
  • Co-investors aligned with ethical AI, open standards, and global scale

We’re building with long-term focus, technical depth, and a capital-efficient mindset.

Final Word

This raise isn’t about survival — it’s about scale with purpose.

We’re creating the infrastructure layer for the Agentic AI Economy:
One where any team can deploy intelligent agents to solve real problems — instantly.

If you share our belief that the future of work will be powered by intelligent agents, we’d love to talk.

To receive our full investor deck or schedule a conversation:
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