Trismik Raises £2.2M Pre-Seed Round
Trismik, a Cambridge, UK-based science-grade LLM evaluation startup, has raised £2.2 million in a pre-seed funding round.
The round was led by Twin Path Ventures, with participation from Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, Parkwalk Advisors, Fund F, Vento Ventures, and angel investors from Ventures Together.
Twin Path Ventures is a dedicated pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom. It focuses on backing exceptional founders building transformative technologies. The firm invests in state-of-the-art AI companies, providing both capital and strategic guidance to help startups scale.
The investment will enable Trismik to launch its adaptive AI evaluation platform, expand its team, and accelerate development of tools for classical and adaptive model evaluation, experiment tracking, and enterprise-grade compliance, as it prepares for a 2026 enterprise release.
Founded by Nigel Collier, Rebekka Mikkola, and Marco Basaldella, Trismik is a science-driven AI company spun out of the University of Cambridge, developing adaptive evaluation infrastructure for AI systems. Its evaluation platform applies psychometric principles, the same methods used to measure human intelligence, to AI models, such as Item Response Theory (IRT) and Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT). Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, Trismik’s vision is to expand the platform into a comprehensive environment for designing, running, and analyzing LLM experiments, including fine-tuning and prompt engineering.
Funding Details
Company: Trismik
Raised: £2.2M
Round: Pre-Seed
Funding Date: September 2025
Lead Investor: Twin Path Ventures
Additional Investors: Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, Parkwalk Advisors, Fund F, Vento Ventures, Ventures Together
Company Website: https://www.trismik.com/
Software Category: AI Evaluation / LLM Testing / MLOps