Funding News
Latest funding rounds from UK startups and their investors
Dragonfly AI raises £5m to predict ad impact using neuroscience
London (UK) - 28/01/2026
Bleap raises £4.36m to enable instant, low-cost cross-border payments using stablecoins
London (UK) - 28/01/2026
Sokin secures £72.6m debt to embed multi-currency payments into business workflows
London (UK) - 28/01/2026
LUX closes £277,500 pre-seed to deploy on-site hydrogen production, storage and dispensing
Oxford (UK) - 28/01/2026
GoCanopy raises £1.8m seed to turn unstructured documents into single real-estate record
London (UK) - 27/01/2026
Flowla raises £1.8m seed to automate follow-ups via no-code digital sales rooms
London (UK) - 27/01/2026
Raylo secures £30m to offer LG TVs on subscription via device finance
London (UK) - 27/01/2026
Evaro raises £18.3m Series A to embed NHS‑licensed prescription services into apps
Norwich (UK) - 27/01/2026
£4m seed backs autonomous AI lab to speed drug and agrochemical development
London (UK) - 27/01/2026
Summize raises £40m to automate contracts using AI in productivity, CRM tools
London (UK) - 27/01/2026
Orbital secures £44m to digitise real estate law using AI and mapping
London (UK) - 26/01/2026
Voxelo raises £300k pre-seed to convert short videos into 3D product models
Manchester (UK) - 26/01/2026
MyARC raises £1.5m seed to deliver personalised training, nutrition via automated plans
London (UK) - 26/01/2026
Synthesia raises £150m to deploy conversational agents for workplace learning
London (UK) - 26/01/2026
Weekly Briefing: healthtech, AI and greentech drive £200.6M in UK startup funding (19–23 Jan 2026)
Pre-seed to cut incident investigations from days to hours via AI agents
London (UK) - 22/01/2026
£2m seed to test autonomous AI protecting satellites from jamming and attacks
Lincoln (UK) - 22/01/2026
Optalysys raises £23m to commercialise photonic chips for Generative AI, post‑quantum workloads
Leeds (UK) - 22/01/2026
Antidote raises £3.7m seed to cut law-firm write-offs with AI billing checks
London (UK) - 21/01/2026
£26.1m to test AI-designed vaccine to prevent recurrence after oesophageal cancer surgery
London (UK) - 21/01/2026
Fimple secures £7.45m to roll out composable cloud‑native core banking across GCC
London (UK) - 20/01/2026
Stream raises £67m to expand pensions and cut payday loans via payroll
London (UK) - 20/01/2026
Allocation Strategy raises £1.6m seed to stress-test institutional portfolios using capital-market models
London (UK) - 20/01/2026
Emergent raises £50m to help everyday builders monetise software using AI agents
London (UK) - 20/01/2026
Eolas secures £8.9m to speed NHS access to local guidance via AI
London (UK) - 20/01/2026
£357k pre-seed backs LaunchLemonade's no-code platform to build and sell AI agents
London (UK) - 20/01/2026
£9m to professionalise grassroots football back office using payments and attendance tracking
Belfast (UK) - 19/01/2026
LabCycle raises pre-seed to recycle contaminated lab plastic into high-grade pellets
London (UK) - 19/01/2026
Equitable Earth raises £10.9m to speed digital certification of nature-based carbon credits
London (UK) - 19/01/2026
Wrisk secures £12m series B to embed branded car insurance via telematics
London (UK) - 19/01/2026
£9.7m funds Elyos' voice AI to automate calls and bookings for trades
London (UK) - 19/01/2026
£1.7m seed to commercialise cell-free enzyme manufacturing for high-value molecules
London (UK) - 19/01/2026
£1.8m seed backs Gutology’s US, German expansion and trials for microbiome-friendly toothpaste
London (UK) - 19/01/2026
Weekly Briefing: biotech, saas and greentech drive £131.9M in UK startup funding (12–16 Jan 2026)
Ionech raises £2m seed to pilot air-to-electricity cells in commercial fridges
Oxford (UK) - 16/01/2026
BirdsEyeView secures seven-figure funding to power machine-learning wildfire model with satellite data
London (UK) - 15/01/2026
Midnite raises £26m to expand internationally and develop in‑house sportsbook platform
London (UK) - 15/01/2026
£200k pre-seed to replace single-use plastics using supplier marketplace and cost modelling
London (UK) - 15/01/2026
Shoutt.ai raises £525k pre-seed to surface personalised freelance gigs via AI
London (UK) - 15/01/2026
£4m seed backs Cyb3r Operations to enable real-time supplier cyber risk monitoring
London (UK) - 15/01/2026
Allos AI raises £4m seed to reformulate complex generics using Causal AI
Oxford (UK) - 14/01/2026
Haiqu secures £8m to launch hardware-aware OS to cut quantum compute costs
London (UK) - 14/01/2026
Spot Ship secures £1m pre-seed to cut chartering to hours with AI
London (UK) - 14/01/2026
Incentifi closes £150k pre-seed to pilot workplace rewards app to reduce absenteeism
London (UK) - 14/01/2026
bit.bio expands cell-programming human cell manufacturing for toxicology to replace animal testing
Cambridge (UK) - 13/01/2026
Trybe raises £23m to modernise spa operations with embedded payments and AI
London (UK) - 13/01/2026
Karavel raises £1.25m pre-seed to centralise compliance workflows with AI
London (UK) - 13/01/2026
Verna secures £3m seed to make nature recovery commitments measurable with AI
London (UK) - 13/01/2026
£8.9m extension enables end-to-end antibody expression and validation on benchtop microfluidics
Cambridge (UK) - 13/01/2026
Axol raises £2.1m to scale iPSC models and expand US operations
Cambridge (UK) - 13/01/2026
£2.5m seed backs OutSee to validate Nomaly AI genomics targets in lab
Cambridge (UK) - 12/01/2026
AgileRL secures £5.5m to cut reinforcement learning costs using distributed training
London (UK) - 12/01/2026
Weekly Briefing: AI, biotech and fintech secure £1.94B in UK startup funding (5–9 Jan 2026)
Weekly Briefing: Greentech, fintech and AI attract £1.07B in UK startup funding (29 Dec–2 Jan 2026)
Most Active UK Investors (January 2026 Edition): Angels and VCs Writing Cheques
Weekly Briefing: AI, greentech and biotech lead £256M in UK startup funding (15–19 Dec 2025)
Weekly Briefing: AI, fintech and biotech drive £340m in UK startup funding (8–12 Dec 2025)
Twin Track closes £5m first close to back UK dual-use deeptech startups
December’s Top Investors: The Angels and VCs Backing the Fastest Growing UK Startups
Weekly Briefing: AI, fintech and SaaS drive £195.7m in UK startup funding (1–5 Dec 2025)
Expedition closes £283.5m fund to back UK founder-led software firms
Weekly Briefing: AI and fintech drive £130M in UK startup funding (24–28 Nov 2025)