Change intelligence startup Overmind raises £4.4m led by Renegade Partners with Four Rivers
At a glance
This article covers Seed funding on 17 September 2025 for Overmind, a London, UK-based predictive change intelligence provider founded by Dylan Ratcliffe. The round raised £4.4m and was led by Renegade Partners with participation from Four Rivers.
What does Overmind do?
Overmind is a predictive change intelligence platform for engineering teams that maps infrastructure and learns change patterns. It predicts impacts of infrastructure changes and provides blast radius analysis to reduce outages and speed reviews.
Why is Overmind useful?
Problem
Engineering teams face unexpected outages and slow, manual change reviews due to unpredictable infrastructure change impacts. This causes deployment risk, long review cycles and reduced capacity for innovation.
Solution
Overmind helps by predicting change impact using real-time infrastructure discovery and change pattern learning. It performs blast radius analysis, scores risks, automates reviews and maps dependencies for safer, faster deployments.
How much did Overmind raise?
Overmind raised £4.4m ($6m) in a Seed round, led by Renegade Partners alongside Four Rivers.
Who invested in Overmind?
Key investors included the following.
- Renegade Partners: a US-based early-stage venture firm known for backing developer tools and infrastructure startups.
- Four Rivers: invests in enterprise software and infrastructure, with a focus on companies scaling across North America and Europe.
- Operator Collective: a network-led investor that pairs experienced operators with startups to accelerate product and go-to-market growth.
- Dan Scheinman: an angel investor with a background in enterprise networking and venture investing.
- Walter Kortschak: a seasoned angel investor experienced in scaling enterprise software and go-to-market teams.
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Who founded Overmind?
Dylan Ratcliffe is the founder and CEO of Overmind.
Where is Overmind based?
Overmind is based in London, UK.
What sector is Overmind in?
Overmind operates in the predictive change intelligence sector. That sector builds tools that predict the impacts of infrastructure changes before they happen. It helps engineering teams avoid outages and speed up change reviews.
Key trends and challenges in infrastructure change management:
Greater use of predictive automation
Teams use predictive tools to spot risky changes before deployment, for example blast radius analysis and dependency mapping.
Rising system complexity
Microservices, multi-cloud and infrastructure-as-code create tangled dependencies, for example services linking across regions.
Trust, governance and false alerts
Teams must balance automation with human review to reduce false positives and meet rules like GDPR audits.
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