Funding News
Latest funding rounds from UK startups and their investors
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
WholeSum raises pre-seed to make unstructured text auditable using statistical inference
London (UK) - 07/04/2026
Airspection lands £300,000 pre-seed to cut offshore turbine downtime with wind-powered drones
Glasgow (UK) - 07/04/2026
Vuabl raises £220k pre-seed to roll out smartphone LIDAR property condition reporting
Glasgow (UK) - 07/04/2026
Quantcore raises £2.5m seed to build UK manufacturing of niobium superconducting components
Glasgow (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).
Sona raises £34m to cut frontline labour costs with AI demand forecasting
London (UK) - 01/04/2026
REG Technologies secures growth finance to speed onboarding and due-diligence monitoring internationally
London (UK) - 01/04/2026
Perfect Moment secures £9.1m revolving credit and equity to shore up liquidity
London (UK) - 31/03/2026
9fin raises £128.8m to surface credit opportunities using AI and proprietary data
London (UK) - 31/03/2026
Riplo raises £2.3m pre-seed to modernise consulting workflows with AI agents
London (UK) - 31/03/2026
Semarion raises £2.9m seed to scale optically barcoded microcarriers for drug screening
Cambridge (UK) - 31/03/2026
Accesspay secures Accel-KKR majority to bolster bank connectivity and automate payments
Manchester (UK) - 31/03/2026
Rivulo raises £375,000 pre-seed to automate operations via conversational no-code
London (UK) - 30/03/2026
Aura closes growth round to expand online funeral plans and local providers
London (UK) - 30/03/2026
Lucida Medical secures £8.7m to enable same-day prostate diagnosis with AI MRI
Cambridge (UK) - 30/03/2026
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)
Giraffe360 raises £7.5m to cut listing times with camera, LiDAR and AI
Manchester (UK) - 27/03/2026
Theia Insights raises £6m to build AI economic map for private markets
Cambridge (UK) - 26/03/2026
Allday Goods raises £765,000 pre-seed to launch recycled-plastic knives, enter new markets
London (UK) - 26/03/2026
Keith secures £2m seed to cut conveyancing times with AI agents
London (UK) - 26/03/2026
Dexory raises £8.5m to improve inventory accuracy using robots and digital twin
London (UK) - 26/03/2026
Voxelo secures £650k pre-seed to convert product video into 3D/AR assets
Manchester (UK) - 25/03/2026
Vuelo secures £56m to embed personalised AI payment plans into trip discovery
London (UK) - 25/03/2026
Zevero raises £5m to automate Scope 1–3 emissions data for procurement decisions
London (UK) - 25/03/2026
Epoch Biodesign secures £9m to commercialise enzymatic recycling for Nylon 6,6 production
London (UK) - 25/03/2026
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
Weekly Briefing: AI, Healthtech, Proptech drive £1.3bn in UK startup funding (23–27 Feb 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)
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