Memorify secures £420,000 pre-seed to build privacy-first AI for organising memories
This article covers Memorify, a healthtech startup that has raised £420,000 in a pre-seed funding round from private investors with support from Sheffield Angels, Anglia Capital Group and FundmyPitch, exceeding an initial £200,000 target and supplemented by an Innovate UK grant. The funding will accelerate product development and expand the startup's privacy-first AI for organising photos, videos and voice notes into retrievable life stories, targeting families and individuals and signalling public-sector interest in ethical AI within the UK healthtech ecosystem.
Memorify has raised £420,000 in a pre-seed funding round from private investors, with support from Sheffield Angels, Anglia Capital Group and FundmyPitch, pushing the round well past an initial £200,000 target. The Sheffield-based company is building a privacy-first platform that turns scattered photos, videos and voice notes into structured life stories; the funding will accelerate product development, expand its AI capabilities and support international growth, with additional backing from an Innovate UK grant.
Why it matters
Many people now store vast amounts of personal media across phones, cloud services and messaging apps, but few consumer tools help turn that material into coherent narratives. Memorify’s approach targets a gap at the intersection of wellbeing, personal legacy and data management: organising memories not just as files but as retrievable stories that families and individuals can revisit.
For the UK healthtech ecosystem, the deal is notable because it frames personal memory and identity as part of wellbeing rather than pure social media, and because Innovate UK support signals public-sector interest in ethical, privacy-first AI applications.
Inside the product
Memorify’s first product, the YOREE app, is slated for launch in July 2026. The app ingests photos, videos and voice notes and applies the company’s tooling to surface timelines, thematic groupings and narrative flows meant to make rediscovery easier. Families are the initial focus, though the company intends the product for anyone documenting milestones, travellers or people preserving personal legacies.
The startup emphasises privacy and ethical AI, claiming the technology is designed to assemble narratives without exposing sensitive content or creating undue inference about users. The firm says funds from the round will go towards expanding those technical capabilities and preparing for international distribution.
Who are the investors?
The round was led by a group of private backers and supported by regional and early-stage networks: Sheffield Angels, Anglia Capital Group and FundmyPitch. The raise exceeded an initial £200,000 target due to strong investor demand. Memorify has also won a competitive Innovate UK grant for work on ethical, privacy-first AI systems, providing non-dilutive validation alongside the equity injection.
Sheffield Angels is a regional angel network that typically connects local founders with early-stage capital. Anglia Capital Group and FundmyPitch similarly operate at the pre-seed and seed ends of the market, helping match startups with private investors and syndicates. That mix of angel support and public grant funding is common for UK startups moving from prototype to market validation.
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Founder perspective
In the announcement, Charlotte Ridley, Founder & CE at Memorify, said:
What struck me wasn’t the absence of memories, it was the absence of structure. The moments existed across devices and platforms, but there was no intelligent system designed to bring them together into a meaningful story. That’s when I realised this wasn’t just my problem, it was a global one. Humanity has never documented so much of its life, yet never felt so disconnected from its memories. We are entering an era where memory is not just data - it is identity, wellbeing and legacy. Memorify exists to help people reconnect with the moments that matter and enable the multigenerational secure storage of those memories.
Ridley’s personal experience — losing her father and finding it hard to gather digital memories — is the origin story for the product and frames the company’s emphasis on secure, long-term preservation and emotional value.
The bigger picture
The Memorify raise reflects continued investor appetite for consumer-facing tools that intersect with wellbeing and data privacy. While major tech platforms continue to host the bulk of personal media, there is space for niche services that add structure and intent around those archives, particularly if they can demonstrate trust and clear privacy practices.
For the UK healthtech scene, Memorify’s positioning — linking memory with identity and wellbeing, and winning Innovate UK support — shows how health-related investment is widening to include digital services that sit between health, social care and personal data management.
The company’s next milestones will be YOREE’s market debut in 2026 and early user growth outside the UK; if it can combine meaningful privacy guarantees with a simple onboarding experience, it may find steady demand from families and individuals looking to preserve multigenerational narratives.
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