Funding News
Latest funding rounds from UK startups and their investors
Weekly Briefing: AI, fintech and biotech drive £340m in UK startup funding (8–12 Dec 2025)
CapRelease raises £26.9m to speed retailers' working capital using logistics data
London (UK) - 12/12/2025
Conveyd raises £2.5m to cut UK conveyancing to six weeks with AI
London (UK) - 12/12/2025
Novartis funds Relation to find atopic-disease targets using AI and human data
London (UK) - 12/12/2025
Twin Track closes £5m first close to back UK dual-use deeptech startups
Yonda Tax raises £11.2m to automate cross-border VAT and sales tax filings
London (UK) - 12/12/2025
Qargo lands £24.6m to cut empty running and admin using AI
London (UK) - 12/12/2025
Hello Vet lands £15m Series A to cut veterinary admin using AI
London (UK) - 12/12/2025
£2m seed backs speech-based AI to detect dementia early and personalise care
London (UK) - 12/12/2025
DataWollet raises £1m pre-seed to speed mortgage underwriting via instant data gateway
London (UK) - 12/12/2025
£38m to cut media AI costs and latency via edge inference hardware
London (UK) - 12/12/2025
Cycle Exchange secures £2.4m to expand refurbishment hub and certify pre-owned bikes
London (UK) - 12/12/2025
£24.8m Series A backs first-in-human AAV gene therapy trials to stop seizures
London (UK) - 10/12/2025
Barclays invests to speed banks' AI rollout through United Fintech's modular platform
London (UK) - 10/12/2025
Bolt Insight raises £7m to give brands real-time insight via AI-moderated interviews
London (UK) - 10/12/2025
Matta £11m seed to deliver real-time factory quality control via camera AI
Cambridge (UK) - 10/12/2025
Seed raise backs AttiFin to build UK-law-trained AI for case-ready legal documents
London (UK) - 10/12/2025
December’s Top Investors: The Angels and VCs Backing the Fastest Growing UK Startups
Kodiaq raises £850k from angel investors to pilot metal-free electrolytes for long-duration battery storage
Cambridge (UK) - 10/12/2025
Nu Quantum raises £45.1m to link quantum processors via photonic networking
London (UK) - 10/12/2025
Sprouty raises £413k seed to expand AI-driven parenting assistant to age three
London (UK) - 10/12/2025
£1.8m EIC grant backs probabilistic quantum processor to tackle supply‑chain optimisation
Oxford (UK) - 09/12/2025
Solve Intelligence £35m to automate patent workflows and chart claims with AI
London (UK) - 09/12/2025
Orbital secures £7m to commercialise floating tidal turbines and supply baseload power
Kirkwall (UK) - 09/12/2025
£1.4m backs dry roll-to-roll coating to cut EV electrode emissions
Bristol (UK) - 09/12/2025
Certchain raises £750k to digitise construction certifications and prove competence using AI
London (UK) - 09/12/2025
Angel investor backing helps UrFuture connect Gen Z with employers via AI matching
Manchester (UK) - 09/12/2025
Funding to deploy PCS care-data analytics across children's and adult residential care
Guildford (UK) - 08/12/2025
TomNext lands backing to automate limited partners' diligence and reporting with AI
London (UK) - 08/12/2025
Footium raises £450k from angel investor superstar to launch multiplayer football-management game
London (UK) - 08/12/2025
OceanSaver secures £1.9m to put plastic-free cleaning products on more supermarket shelves
London (UK) - 08/12/2025
Coremont secures £30m to add AI natural‑language interfaces for real‑time multi‑asset analytics
London (UK) - 08/12/2025
Azoma secures £3m to monitor and correct brand appearances in AI assistants
London (UK) - 08/12/2025
Weekly Briefing: AI, fintech and SaaS drive £195.7m in UK startup funding (1–5 Dec 2025)
yuv raises £9.5m Series A to roll out app-connected hair-colour dispensers
London (UK) - 05/12/2025
Shop Circle secures £75.1m to buy enterprise SaaS and embed AI-driven go-to-market
London (UK) - 04/12/2025
Superbo secures funding to automate enterprise workflows using agentic AI and APIs
London (UK) - 04/12/2025
Hypercritical raises £2m pre-seed to generate verifiable control code using formal logic
London (UK) - 04/12/2025
£4m seed backs AI driver coaching using sim and on-track telemetry
London (UK) - 04/12/2025
Feasibly raises £200k pre-seed to speed renewables planning with AI geospatial platform
Durham (UK) - 04/12/2025
Curvestone AI secures £3m seed to preserve multistep accuracy in regulated workflows
London (UK) - 04/12/2025
Ascentra raises £1.5m pre-seed to automate private equity due diligence with AI
London (UK) - 03/12/2025
Pre-seed funds AI-driven platform to turn waste heat into electricity
London (UK) - 03/12/2025
£4.5m seed to automate commercial real estate underwriting with machine learning
London (UK) - 03/12/2025
£25m funds Modo Energy to expand AI valuation models for electrification assets
London (UK) - 03/12/2025
Oneday secures £3.2m to build AI mentor layer, help founders earn MBA
London (UK) - 03/12/2025
Minitap seed backs AI agent to test mobile apps on virtual phones
London (UK) - 03/12/2025
Bourn secures £3.5m to embed receivables-backed working capital in bank accounts
London (UK) - 03/12/2025
HotHouse closes £2.9m pre-seed to grow vaccine adjuvants using AI plant engineering
Norwich (UK) - 03/12/2025
Searchable raises £4m to help brands track AI search engines' recommendations
London (UK) - 02/12/2025
Expedition closes £283.5m fund to back UK founder-led software firms
Sokin raises £37m Series B to simplify cross-border supplier payments with multi-currency accounts
London (UK) - 01/12/2025
£15m to commercialise lab-grown leather, fund cornea trials and boost cell media
Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) - 01/12/2025
Weekly Briefing: AI and fintech drive £130M in UK startup funding (24–28 Nov 2025)
Tyten secures £750k pre-seed funding to automate help desks and guide technicians with AI
London (UK) - 27/11/2025
StirlingX raises £8.3m seed to secure energy networks with drones and AI
Cambridge (UK) - 27/11/2025
Baobab Ventures closes £11.4m fund to back UK AI and robotics founders
Firgun Ventures closes £53m to invest in UK quantum startups
Weekly Briefing: AI, fintech and biotech drive £417M in UK startup funding (17–21 Nov 2025)
Sofinnova Partners closes £574m fund to back UK biotech and medtech startups
Weekly Debrief: Fintech, AI and biotech drive £189M UK startup funding this week (10–14 Nov 2025)