Funding News
Latest funding rounds from UK startups and their investors
Multiverse secures £52m to deliver AI skills training via skills‑mapping platform
London (UK) - 15/05/2026
Recursive Superintelligence secures £483m to automate scientific discovery with self‑improving AI
London (UK) - 15/05/2026
UK Startup Funding Report: £1133.4m raised across Fintech, AI and Biotech (11–15 May 2026).
Iceotope raises £19.2m to deploy precision liquid cooling for denser AI racks
Sheffield (UK) - 14/05/2026
Earswitch closes seed to validate in-ear sensors for continuous blood pressure monitoring
Manchester (UK) - 14/05/2026
PANTA seed backing funds cloud automation of index design, calculation and delivery
London (UK) - 14/05/2026
Fractile raises £160m to deliver chips reducing latency and boosting memory bandwidth
London (UK) - 14/05/2026
Rowden Technologies secures £25m to expand UK sensing and communications hardware production
Bristol (UK) - 13/05/2026
Elliptic raises £88.7m to expand on-chain analytics for real-time risk monitoring
London (UK) - 13/05/2026
Tolemy Bio secures £1.2m seed to interpret and direct cells using AI models
Cambridge (UK) - 12/05/2026
Adfin lands £13.2m to cut SME late payments with AI payment rails
London (UK) - 12/05/2026
Paymentology raises £128.6m to modernise card issuance with cloud-native processing
London (UK) - 12/05/2026
Infex Therapeutics backs RESP‑X antibody, MET‑X metallo‑beta‑lactamase inhibitor to tackle resistant Gram‑negatives
Alderley Park (UK) - 12/05/2026
Isomorphic Labs raises £1.5bn to push IsoDDE AI-designed drugs into clinical trials
London (UK) - 12/05/2026
Happl secures £8.1m to automate cross‑border benefits compliance with AI
London (UK) - 12/05/2026
AskEd raises £100,000 pre-seed to deploy voice AI for out‑of‑hours student recruitment
Brighton (UK) - 12/05/2026
White Circle secures £8m to monitor live AI behaviour via single API
London (UK) - 12/05/2026
H2CHP raises £1.5m seed testing free-piston linear generator for resilient local power
Durham (UK) - 12/05/2026
Envoke raises £1.6m seed to cut lab downtime with virtual simulations
Leeds (UK) - 12/05/2026
Fifth Dimension raises £19m series A to speed underwriting using workflow-trained AI
London (UK) - 12/05/2026
ThatRound pre-seed to replace cold outreach and match founders using language models
London (UK) - 12/05/2026
Nscale secures £581.1m to build 115MW Narvik data centre to host GPUs
London (UK) - 11/05/2026
Meatly secures £10.4m series A to build pilot facility for cultivated meat
London (UK) - 11/05/2026
Scarlet Therapeutics raises £3.2m seed to reduce donor dependence with lab‑grown RBCs
Bristol (UK) - 11/05/2026
Esk seed funding to adapt screen IP for touring with in-house AV
Edinburgh (UK) - 11/05/2026
Kaizan raises seed to spot client risk, boost revenue via communications data
London (UK) - 11/05/2026
Startup funding report UK: £481.3m raised across Biotech, Health and SaaS (4–8 May 2026).
Quinas Technology raises seed to commercialise ULTRARAM persistent memory for AI
London (UK) - 08/05/2026
Ethos raises £16.7m to assess expertise via voice chats and work samples
London (UK) - 07/05/2026
Kohort raises £5.15m to automate campaign optimisation using predictive lifetime-value models
London (UK) - 07/05/2026
Quantum Motion secures £120m series C to build data‑centre silicon‑transistor quantum processors
London (UK) - 07/05/2026
CodeWords secures £6.6m to deploy AI agent automating workflows for non-technical teams
London (UK) - 07/05/2026
Beauhurst raises £7m to expand decision-grade private company data for due diligence
London (UK) - 07/05/2026
Nyobolt secures £44m to power robots and edge AI with fast‑charging batteries
Cambridge (UK) - 07/05/2026
Asterix Health pre-seed backs remote UK‑registered GPs to ease NHS GP shortages
London (UK) - 07/05/2026
Checkstep raises £3m seed to automate content moderation and compliance using AI
London (UK) - 06/05/2026
CellCentric secures funding to move oral epigenetic inhibitor into relapsed myeloma trials
Cambridge (UK) - 06/05/2026
NunaBio raises £6.5m to build UK enzymatic, cell-free synthetic DNA capacity
Newcastle (UK) - 06/05/2026
OpenTrade raises £12.5m to power regulated stablecoin yields via curated vaults
London (UK) - 06/05/2026
SugaROx raises £2.5m seed to fund trials and regulatory data for trehalose-6-phosphate
Hertfordshire (UK) - 06/05/2026
WaiV Robotics secures £5.53m seed to recover VTOLs with gyro-stabilised landing pad
London (UK) - 06/05/2026
Most active UK investors: angels, VC firms and corporate venture capital
EnteroBiotix raises £19m for Phase 2b IBS-C trial of full-spectrum microbiome therapy
Glasgow (UK) - 05/05/2026
Barocal raises £7.4m to commercialise refrigerant‑free solid‑state cooling for data centres
Cambridge (UK) - 05/05/2026
Cytospire Therapeutics raises £61m to advance pan-gamma delta T cell first-in-human trials
London (UK) - 05/05/2026
UK Startup Funding Report: £930.4m raised across AI, Healthtech and Construction (27 Apr–1 May 2026).
Ecodetect secures £490,000 pre-seed to develop product and run pilot projects
Gaerwen (UK) - 01/05/2026
Spaceflux secures £9m to improve space surveillance with ground-based optical systems
London (UK) - 01/05/2026
Kigen secures £10m to shore up device lifecycle security with GSMA‑certified eSIMs
Cambridge (UK) - 01/05/2026
Highway Data Systems raises £1.25m seed to automate roadside testing with sensors
Glasgow (UK) - 30/04/2026
StudentCrowd raises £6.7m to bring verified reviews and AI search to US
London (UK) - 30/04/2026
ManaMind raises £1.1m seed to automate game QA with autonomous agents
London (UK) - 30/04/2026
auryx raises £1.5m seed to turn earbud microphones into continuous health monitors
Cambridge (UK) - 30/04/2026
Online Oceans secures seed to provide persistent maritime coverage via solar vessels
London (UK) - 30/04/2026
UK Startup Funding Report: £121.6m raised across Healthtech, AI and Greentech (20–24 Apr 2026).
UK Startup Funding Report: £196.4m raised across AI, Foodtech and Biotech (13–17 Apr 2026).
UK Startup Funding Report: £94.4m raised in Data, Agtech and Quantum (6–10 Apr 2026)
UK Startup Funding Report: £186.2m raised across AI, Fintech and Healthtech (30 Mar–3 Apr 2026).
Most Active UK Investors (April 2026 Edition)
Archangels invests in 3 Edinburgh startups across £15.2m of funding rounds
Weekly Briefing: AI, fintech and hrtech drive £149.1m in UK startup funding (23–27 Mar 2026)
Fuel Ventures leads 2 rounds, backs 3 UK startups totalling £9.9m
Weekly Briefing: Biotech, AI and data drive £142.4m in UK startup funding (16–20 Mar 2026)
Seed investor Haatch backs 3 UK startups in the last 30 days
UK Startups Stamford (UK) - 16/03/2026
Seed investor MMC Ventures backs 3 UK startups (30 days)
Most Active UK Investors (March 2026 Edition): Angels and VCs
Seedcamp backs 3 UK startups in the last 30 days
SFC Capital pre-seed funding: 4 UK startups backed in the last 30 days
UK Startups London (UK) - 24/02/2026
Most Active UK Investors (February 2026 Edition): Angels and VCs Writing Cheques
Most Active UK Investors (January 2026 Edition): Angels and VCs Writing Cheques
December’s Top Investors: The Angels and VCs Backing the Fastest Growing UK Startups