Funding News
Latest funding rounds from UK startups and their investors
UK Startup Funding Report: £121.6m raised across Healthtech, AI and Greentech (20–24 Apr 2026).
GOODFOLIO raises £500k pre-seed to hire teams for enterprise AI workflow deployments
London (UK) - 24/04/2026
Naturbeads secures €4.1m seed to produce cellulose microspheres replacing plastic microbeads
Bath (UK) - 23/04/2026
DOJO AI secures £4.4m to automate marketing workflows with multi-agent AI
London (UK) - 23/04/2026
Youtility raises seed to personalise bank engagement using behavioural decision science
23/04/2026
Cloudsmith raises £53m to secure AI-driven software supply chains with artifact management
Belfast (UK) - 23/04/2026
Locai raises £1m pre-seed to run on-device inference and protect sensitive data
London (UK) - 22/04/2026
QMatter secures £900k pre-seed for quantum compression to shrink drug discovery simulations
London (UK) - 22/04/2026
Calibre raises £2.4m pre-seed to identify root health drivers via causal AI
London (UK) - 22/04/2026
Arrival secures pre-seed to cut renters' utility setup to under three minutes
Crawley (UK) - 21/04/2026
Exergy3 secures £10m seed to supply industry with heat from thermal storage
Edinburgh (UK) - 21/04/2026
Firenze raises £6m to expand embedded Lombard platform for portfolio-backed loans
Manchester (UK) - 21/04/2026
Alesi Surgical secures £7m to remove surgical smoke using electrostatic precipitation
Cardiff (UK) - 21/04/2026
inploi secures £3m seed to automate high-volume recruitment and cut manual work
London (UK) - 21/04/2026
Goldwise raises £500k pre-seed for mobile app enabling retail fractional bullion trading
20/04/2026
£25m backs Rivan to inject synthetic gas into grid from renewables, CO2
London (UK) - 20/04/2026
Lua raises £4.3m to build operating system for human–agent workforces
London (UK) - 17/04/2026
UK Startup Funding Report: £196.4m raised across AI, Foodtech and Biotech (13–17 Apr 2026).
urfuture raises £1.7m seed to overhaul entry-level hiring using social, behavioural data
Manchester (UK) - 17/04/2026
£6.25m backs buyout to scale Best.Energy energy-saving IoT sensors across estates
Bristol (UK) - 17/04/2026
TopStylista raises £250,000 pre-seed to align employee presentation using digital styling
Exeter (UK) - 17/04/2026
All Things raises £3.5m to fund cottage‑cheese expansion into Tesco and US
London (UK) - 16/04/2026
Wayve raises £44m to deploy portable AI Driver across vehicle compute platforms
London (UK) - 16/04/2026
Helical secures £7.4m to turn foundation models into decision-ready in-silico discovery workflows
London (UK) - 15/04/2026
The Little Loop secures £750k pre-seed to power white-label retailer take-back schemes
Brighton (UK) - 15/04/2026
Lightcast raises £19.9m to commercialise Envisia benchtop using light‑controlled droplet assays
Cambridge (UK) - 15/04/2026
Gizmo lands £16.2m series A to convert notes into AI flashcards
London (UK) - 15/04/2026
openmoove lands £700k pre-seed to streamline transactions with a single communication layer
Cardiff (UK) - 15/04/2026
StirLight secures £1.25m pre-seed to provide real-time weld quality assurance via sensors
Derby (UK) - 15/04/2026
Ascension lands £1.7m seed to trial geothermal leaching for critical minerals
Oxford (UK) - 15/04/2026
TraqCheck raises £5.9m to automate sourcing, screening and background checks with AI
London (UK) - 14/04/2026
Archangel Lightworks raises £10m to deploy TERRA‑M for secure laser links
Oxford (UK) - 14/04/2026
Wamo secures €10m to expand multi-currency accounts and AI-driven embedded lending
London (UK) - 14/04/2026
Ralio raises pre-seed to enable AI agents to transact with auditable verification
London (UK) - 14/04/2026
Clean Food Group to produce yeast-derived oils via fermentation at industrial scale
London (UK) - 14/04/2026
Altilium secures £18.5m to build UK plant recovering nickel, lithium and graphite
Plymouth (UK) - 13/04/2026
Round raises £4.5m to automate treasury, payments and payroll via rule-based workflows
13/04/2026
UK Startup Funding Report: £94.4m raised in Data, Agtech and Quantum (6–10 Apr 2026)
Qoro raises £560k pre-seed to orchestrate hybrid quantum-classical workloads with minimal code
London (UK) - 10/04/2026
Redgate Software secures growth funding to boost AI-driven database automation and governance
Cambridge (UK) - 09/04/2026
Apex B2B raises £1.3m seed to build cloud-native commerce for mid-market wholesalers
London (UK) - 09/04/2026
Serve First raises £5m to convert surveys and reviews into frontline action
Milton Keynes (UK) - 09/04/2026
MillTech to automate FX hedging with AI and expand into North America
London (UK) - 08/04/2026
Narwhal Labs secures £20m to automate regulated communications with autonomous agents
Bristol (UK) - 08/04/2026
Fieldwork Robotics lands £2.2m seed to trial raspberry-harvesting robots, easing labour shortages
Cambridge (UK) - 08/04/2026
Trent AI secures £9.8m to build continuous security for autonomous AI agents
London (UK) - 07/04/2026
Fermtech seed raise: £2.5m to scale Koji Cocoa via shell fermentation
Oxford (UK) - 07/04/2026
Fivium secures BGF backing to digitise public-sector casework with AI-powered eCase SaaS
London (UK) - 07/04/2026
SAMP Technology £4m seed to fund predictive maintenance and underwriting analytics
London (UK) - 07/04/2026
Most Active UK Investors (April 2026 Edition): Angel Investors, VC Firms and CVCs
UK Startup Funding Report: £186.2m raised across AI, Fintech and Healthtech (30 Mar–3 Apr 2026).
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
Weekly briefing: HRtech, Healthtech and Agtech drive £1.7bn in UK startup funding (9–13 Mar 2026)
Seed investor MMC Ventures backs 3 UK startups (30 days)
Weekly Briefing: biotech, agtech and regtech drive £112.7M in UK startup funding (2–6 Mar 2026)
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