Isometric raises £30m led by AVP and Lowercarbon Capital
This article covers Isometric, an AI startup that has raised £30m in a series A funding round led by AVP. The funding will be used to deepen Isometric's AI certification technology and expand its Certify platform to support faster, more auditable verification for regulators, permit authorities, investors and industrial and decarbonisation projects.
Isometric, an AI startup that automates industrial certification, has raised £30 million in a series A funding round led by AVP (formerly AXA Venture Partners). The cash injection, which also includes participation from existing institutions Plural and Lowercarbon Capital and personal investments from Kleiner Perkins chairman John Doerr and former Summit Partners MD Walter Kortschak, will be used to deepen Isometric’s AI certification technology and expand its Certify platform across industrial certification markets. The funding matters because faster, machine-assisted certification could speed permitting and investment decisions for industrial and decarbonisation projects that today stall on manual checks.
Why it matters
Certification is a gatekeeper for industrial projects: regulators, permit authorities and investors require proof that projects meet safety, regulatory and sustainability standards before they can proceed. That process is typically slow and fragmented, spanning dozens of registries and certifiers with different formats and quality standards. Isometric’s approach aims to reduce the time and friction of that verification step by applying AI to evidence review, which could accelerate project timelines and make claims more auditable and consistent.
Inside the product
Isometric’s Certify platform uses autonomous AI agents to ingest and cross-check millions of data points behind certification claims — from sensor feeds and satellite imagery to supply chain records and laboratory results. Rather than relying on spot checks and inference from samples, the platform flags discrepancies and surfaces cases that need human expert judgment, while enabling continuous coverage alongside human verifiers.
The company is also consolidating certificates and records onto a single public registry, aiming to create a common standard and searchable source of truth across multiple certifiers and standards bodies. Isometric says the platform already supports more than 200 industrial projects and publishes certificates from its verifications.
Who are the investors?
The round was led by AVP (formerly AXA Venture Partners). Existing institutional backers Plural and Lowercarbon Capital participated, and there were personal checks from Kleiner Perkins chairman John Doerr and Walter Kortschak, former managing director at Summit Partners. AVP’s involvement brings a prominent growth investor to the table; François Robinet, Managing Partner at AVP, framed the firm’s decision as a strategic bet on algorithmic verification of industrial claims.
In the announcement, François Robinet, Managing Partner at AVP, said:
Certification has always forced a choice between speed and rigor. Isometric has eliminated that compromise. Eamon and the team have built a genuinely category-defining company, and their agentic AI platform has the potential to transform certification across the industrial economy. We're thrilled to partner with them as they scale that vision.
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Founder perspective
Isometric was founded in 2022 by Eamon Jubbawy, who previously co-founded identity verification company Onfido. Onfido verified more than one billion identities and identified 25 million fraudsters prior to its acquisition by Entrust for $650 million. Isometric initially proved its technology in carbon removal, where it says it is the largest certifier by contracted volume, with contracts covering over 16 million tonnes to date.
In the announcement, Eamon Jubbawy, Founder & CEO at Isometric, said:
For decades the certification industry faced a tradeoff between speed and rigor. Do it fast or do it right. With Isometric, industrial companies can get both. AI agents are here, and they're making the certification process instant and invisible, unleashing the potential of the industrial economy.
The company lists customers including Microsoft, Anglo American, JPMorganChase and Boeing, and claims accreditation from ICVCM, ICROA and CORSIA. It also notes it employs what it describes as the largest team of carbon removal scientists and engineers among certifiers.
In the announcement, Blair McDougall, Minister for Economic Transformation, said:
Isometric is exactly the kind of frontier AI success story we want to see built and scaled in the UK - turning world-leading ideas into global businesses that attract top international investment. This investment shows how, with the right support to access talent and scale, Britain can be the best place in the world to grow the next generation of world-changing companies.
The bigger picture
Isometric’s raise sits at the intersection of AI, automation and decarbonisation — sectors attracting capital as industry and policymakers push major infrastructure and emissions-reduction projects. The company’s early traction in carbon removal certification is notable: rigorous verification is a persistent bottleneck in voluntary and compliance carbon markets, and credible third-party certification is important for buyer trust.
The deal will likely draw attention from AI investors looking for applications that combine machine learning with domain expertise and regulatory interfaces. For regulators and project developers, the test will be whether automated verification can achieve the transparency and robustness required by standards bodies and auditors, particularly as more industrial actors rely on digital evidence chains.
This funding episode illustrates growing investor appetite for UK-founded AI companies building industrial compliance and verification tools. If Isometric can translate its carbon removal credentials into other heavy industries, it could help reduce friction in permitting and investment across European industrial projects while placing new demands on regulators to adapt standards for algorithmic verification.
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