Funding News
Latest funding rounds from UK startups and their investors
Weekly briefing: HRtech, Healthtech and Agtech drive £1.7bn in UK startup funding (9–13 Mar 2026)
Tropic raises £78.6m Series C to scale gene-edited banana and rice production
Norwich (UK) - 13/03/2026
Kinewell lands £750,000 pre-seed to cut offshore wind cabling costs with AI
Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) - 12/03/2026
AmpliSi raises £2m pre-seed to commercialise porous silicon anodes for EVs
Sheffield (UK) - 12/03/2026
Combat Medical £2.6m seed funds heated bladder chemotherapy trial avoiding cystectomy
London (UK) - 12/03/2026
Spotlight Pathology raises £1.4m seed to speed blood cancer diagnosis using AI
Liverpool (UK) - 11/03/2026
Hosel raises £500k pre-seed to authenticate and price second-hand golf equipment
Edinburgh (UK) - 10/03/2026
Outpost raises £13m to assume tax liability and operate local payment rails
London (UK) - 10/03/2026
SPORTL raises £250,000 pre-seed to convert spare gym capacity via pay-as-you-train app
London (UK) - 10/03/2026
CrawlJobs raises seed to surface jobs from employer sites with AI crawler
London (UK) - 10/03/2026
Avvoka secures £14m to turn precedent into supervised drafting with generative AI
London (UK) - 10/03/2026
DealFlowAgent raises £563,000 pre-seed to speed owner-led SME exits with conversational AI
London (UK) - 09/03/2026
Nscale raises £1.5bn to deploy renewable-powered AI data centres and GPU compute
London (UK) - 09/03/2026
Cytotrait secures £3m seed to boost yields via chloroplast and mitochondrial edits
Manchester (UK) - 09/03/2026
Augur raises £11m to protect infrastructure and venues using cameras and sensors
London (UK) - 09/03/2026
ILS seed to automate post-close fund work with side-letter, MFN tracking
London (UK) - 09/03/2026
Isembard raises £37m to roll out 25 component factories using MasonOS
London (UK) - 09/03/2026
BIOCAPTIVA raises £1.6m seed to commercialise magnetic beads for liquid biopsy prep
Edinburgh (UK) - 09/03/2026
SWURF raises £200,000 pre-seed to deploy private meeting pods and venue app
Edinburgh (UK) - 09/03/2026
Preventr secures £10m to scale passive fire protection and AI building-safety analytics
York (UK) - 09/03/2026
GoodShape secures £8m venture debt to cut employee absence via real-time data
London (UK) - 09/03/2026
QFEX secures £7m to build exchange for perpetual futures on traditional assets
Cambridge (UK) - 09/03/2026
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)
ALORA secures funding to validate gene-edited traits boosting yield under heat stress
Norwich (UK) - 05/03/2026
Diligent AI £1.9m seed backs AI agents to automate KYC and AML
London (UK) - 05/03/2026
LifeCellsNI raises £590,000 pre-seed to build Northern Ireland’s first HTA-licensed cryogenic biobank
Londonderry (UK) - 05/03/2026
Plato raises £260k pre-seed to embed auditable AI study assistant in courses
Leeds (UK) - 05/03/2026
Memorify secures £420,000 pre-seed to build privacy-first AI for organising memories
Cambridge (UK) - 05/03/2026
Vivox AI raises £1.3m seed to automate financial‑crime checks, onboarding with modular AI agents
London (UK) - 04/03/2026
Mutable Tactics lands £1.6m pre-seed to give drones local decision-making in communications-denied environments
Cambridge (UK) - 04/03/2026
Shellworks raises £11.25m to scale Vivomer biodegradable packaging production via fermentation
London (UK) - 04/03/2026
Oxa raises £77m to commercialise autonomous vehicle software for industrial sites
Oxford (UK) - 04/03/2026
ROXFIT raises £1.9m seed to build AI-powered training and race-day wearable analytics
London (UK) - 04/03/2026
The Present Tree lands £1.8m seed to upgrade supply chain and systems
Belfast (UK) - 03/03/2026
Antiverse raises £7m to advance AI-designed antibodies into later-stage preclinical development
Cardiff (UK) - 03/03/2026
Bindbridge raises £2.8m seed to design AI molecular glues for crop protection
Cambridge (UK) - 03/03/2026
Most Active UK Investors (March 2026 Edition): Angels and VCs
Ivee lands £745,000 seed to certify staff with verified AI skills profiles
London (UK) - 02/03/2026
Seedcamp backs 3 UK startups in the last 30 days
Payr secures £1.56m seed to let tenants pay rent with credit cards
London (UK) - 02/03/2026
Outpost Bio lands £2.6m pre-seed to predict drug-microbiome interactions via automated labs
London (UK) - 02/03/2026
Weekly Briefing: AI, Healthtech, Proptech drive £1.3bn in UK startup funding (23–27 Feb 2026)
Encord raises £44.4m to ready video and sensor data for production-grade robots
London (UK) - 27/02/2026
Alpa raises £2.6m pre-seed to deliver restaurants' real-time P&L from POS feeds
London (UK) - 26/02/2026
ThreatAware Series A funds agentless discovery and AI workspace for North America
London (UK) - 26/02/2026
Callosum raises £7.5m to run multi-model AI across mixed-chip data centres
London (UK) - 26/02/2026
Sero wins growth funding to retrofit social housing and monitor energy performance
Cardiff (UK) - 26/02/2026
Tetra AI secures £450k pre-seed to optimise NHS theatre lists with AI
London (UK) - 25/02/2026
Kinfolk lands £7m to automate HR via agents in Slack and Teams
London (UK) - 25/02/2026
Dwelly secures £69m to consolidate fragmented rental market and scale AI marketplace
London (UK) - 25/02/2026
SolveAI raises £33.3m to turn natural-language prompts into production-ready enterprise apps
London (UK) - 25/02/2026
BeyondMath secures seed funding to run simulations in seconds with generative physics
London (UK) - 25/02/2026
Wayve secures £1.11bn to launch Uber robotaxi trials with onboard AI
London (UK) - 25/02/2026
Enginuity raises £500,000 pre-seed to commercialise dormant patents using multi-agent AI
London (UK) - 24/02/2026
Power Protocol secures £2.2m seed to expand blockchain infrastructure for cross-title tokens
London (UK) - 24/02/2026
SFC Capital pre-seed funding: 4 UK startups backed in the last 30 days
UK Startups London (UK) - 24/02/2026
Weekly Briefing: healthtech, AI and supply chain drive £120.9M in UK startup funding (16–20 Feb 2026)
Weekly Briefing: AI, fintech and biotech drive £116.9m in UK startup funding (9–13 Feb 2026)
Weekly Briefing: fintech and healthtech drive £530m in UK startup funding (2–6 Feb 2026)
Most Active UK Investors (February 2026 Edition): Angels and VCs Writing Cheques
Weekly Briefing: AI, healthtech and ecommerce drive £321.3M in UK startup funding (26–30 Jan 2026)
Weekly Briefing: healthtech, AI and greentech drive £200.6M in UK startup funding (19–23 Jan 2026)
Weekly Briefing: biotech, saas and greentech drive £131.9M in UK startup funding (12–16 Jan 2026)
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