Jack & Jill raises £30m led by Air Street less than a year after a $20m seed London AI recruitment company Jack & Jill has raised £30m in a round led by Air Street Capital, roughly eleven months after announcing a $20m seed led by Creandum. The round's stage, post-money valuation and dilution were not disclosed.
AI £30m View on map
Sheffield's Tickets for Good raises £3.9m from NPIF II and Finance Yorkshire to take key-worker ticketing global Tickets for Good has raised £3.9m from a syndicate led by NPIF II – Mercia Equity Finance, with Shaping Impact Group, Finance Yorkshire, Leansquare and private investors joining, to fund international expansion and 10 new jobs in Sheffield over three years.
Startups £3.9m View on map
AI Score raises £4m seed led by Fuel Ventures as founding backer GALLOS follows on London-based AI Score has closed a £4m seed round led by Fuel Ventures, with founding investor GALLOS Technologies following on, taking the 2025-founded governance startup's total raised to roughly £4.7m. The valuation was not disclosed.
Funding £4m View on map
Stafford's Strolll lands £4.3m from Innovate UK alongside an IW Capital-led equity round Strolll, a Stafford-based software-as-a-medical-device company building augmented reality neurorehabilitation tools, has secured £4.3m (€5m) from Innovate UK across a £3.6m innovation loan and a £700k grant, plus a separate equity round led by IW Capital with Cleveland Clinic and Future Planet Capital Regional participating.
Funding £4.3m View on map
Ponda closes a £1.4m crowdfunding round as 256 new investors join the Bristol biomaterials firm's cap table Bristol-based Ponda has closed a crowdfunding round at £1.4m (€1.6m) on Republic Europe, roughly seven times its £200,000 minimum target, adding 256 new shareholders to its register. The listing offered 15.8% of the company at £12.54 a share, implying a post-money valuation of about £8.9m.
Funding £1.4m View on map
Itoflow raises £1.8m pre-seed led by Balderton as its investment agents monitor $3bn in assets London-based Itoflow has closed a $2.5m (£1.8m) pre-seed round led by Balderton Capital, with Cleo founder Barney Hussey-Yeo among the angels backing a company founded only this year.
Funding £1.8m View on map
Embedd raises €2.3m pre-seed led by Seedcamp to automate chip integration for physical AI London-based Embedd has closed a €2.3m ($2.7m) pre-seed round led by Seedcamp, with eight further funds joining the cap table. Valuation and ownership terms were not disclosed.
Funding €2.3m View on map
HexSeed raises £600,000 led by Carbon13 to grow diamond coatings on AI data centre chips Aberdeen-based HexSeed Technology has closed more than £600,000 in early-stage funding led by climate-tech venture builder Carbon13, with the Net Zero Technology Centre and Italian firm Vento participating. The round also unlocks an Innovate UK Partnership Grant awarded provisionally earlier this year.
Startups £600,000 View on map
Oshen raises £3.65m led by Lunar Ventures to triple output of its ocean-sensing robots Plymouth-based Oshen has closed a £3.65m round led by Lunar Ventures, with AlbionVC, Twin Track and Concept Ventures joining alongside angel backers. The four-year-old marine robotics company is tripling production of its C-Star vessels and has 100 more on order.
Funding £3.65m View on map
EcoNomad Solutions raises £400k as British Design Fund puts £230k into small-farm biogas Harpenden-based EcoNomad Solutions has closed a £400,000 round built from £230,000 of equity from the British Design Fund, an Innovate UK Investor Partnership grant and follow-on support from existing backer Beeches Group. The blended structure limits dilution on a cap table that remains founder-controlled.
Startups £400k View on map
Callosum raises $100m seed led by Atomico in the UK Sovereign AI Fund's first cheque London-based Callosum has closed a $100m (£73.5m) seed round led by Atomico, with Plural, DCVC and the UK Sovereign AI Fund participating. It is the first investment made by the government's £500m sovereign fund and one of the largest seed rounds ever raised by a British company.
AI $100m View on map
Medly raises $8m seed led by Felix Capital as its AI exam tutor passes 400,000 UK users London edtech Medly AI has closed an $8m (£5.9m) seed round led by Felix Capital, with existing backers Eka Ventures and Ada Ventures following on 18 months after the platform launched.
AI $8m View on map
Kenoteq secures £900k led by Kelvin Capital as it builds towards a £2m round Edinburgh sustainable materials company Kenoteq has banked almost £900,000 in a first tranche led by Kelvin Capital, alongside the Scottish Enterprise Co-Investment Fund and existing shareholders. The round remains open and the company is targeting £2m in total.
Funding £900k View on map
Noggin HQ raises £2.3m seed led by Blackfinch Ventures as it wins FCA credit reference agency status Newcastle-based Noggin HQ has closed an oversubscribed £2.3m seed round led by Blackfinch Ventures, taking total funding to roughly £3m, and has secured Financial Conduct Authority authorisation to operate as a credit reference agency — one of only a handful granted in the UK in the past decade.
Fintech £2.3m View on map
FlairMakers raises £500k pre-seed led by SFC Capital to build hospitality staffing infrastructure The London-based talent platform has closed a £500,000 pre-seed round led by SFC Capital, with angel investors including existing backers participating. Terms and valuation were not disclosed.
Funding £500k View on map
Cytix raises £5m Series A led by Northern Gritstone to police AI-written code Manchester cybersecurity startup Cytix has closed a $7m (£5.1m) Series A round led by Northern Gritstone, which put in £3m, to scale a platform that assesses the security risk of software changes generated by AI coding tools.
Funding £5m View on map
Edgify raises $9m (£6.7m) Series A+ to scale its edge-AI loss-prevention platform London-based Edgify has closed a $9m (£6.7m) Series A+ round led by Rank Ventures and Mangrove Capital Partners, taking total funding to $25m (£18.5m) as it targets a $15.8bn retail computer-vision market.
AI $9m View on map
Vertical Aerospace raises $100m (£74m) to push its Valo eVTOL towards certification Bristol-based Vertical Aerospace has secured $100m (£74m), combining a $40m cheque from Mudrick Capital Management, $35m of fresh equity from existing and new backers and a $25m draw on its preferred equity facility, to fund certification of its Valo aircraft.
Funding $100m View on map
Alfa AI raises £1m seed led by Sake Bosch as James Caan joins its AI recruitment platform London-based Alfa AI has closed a £1m seed round led by Sake Bosch to scale its AI-powered recruitment platform, and has appointed former Dragons' Den investor James Caan CBE as a strategic adviser.
Tech £1m View on map
Mironid raises €39.9m Series B led by the Scottish National Investment Bank to advance rare kidney disease drug Glasgow biotech Mironid has raised a €39.9m ($46m) Series B led by the Scottish National Investment Bank, with Roche Venture Fund and Sofinnova Partners among the participants, to push its lead kidney disease candidate towards the clinic.
Funding €39.9m View on map
OLIX raises €270.5m Series B at a €2.8bn valuation to challenge the AI inference chip market London-based AI chip designer OLIX has closed a €270.5m ($312m) Series B at a €2.8bn ($3.3bn) valuation just two years after it was founded, with Arm, Hudson River Trading and Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings among the backers.
Funding €270.5m View on map
Naked Energy closes £27m Series B as Great British Energy makes its first solar bet with £7.5m Crawley-based Naked Energy has closed a £27m Series B, with a final £8.875m tranche led by Great British Energy's first major solar investment of £7.5m alongside Barclays Climate Ventures, to fund a new UK manufacturing facility for its solar-thermal technology.
Funding £27m View on map
Wordsmith raises £10.4m Series B extension, taking total funding to about £62m Edinburgh legaltech Wordsmith has added $14m (£10.4m) to its Series B in an extension led by Intact Private Capital, lifting total funding raised to roughly $84m (£62m) as the company pushes further into North America.
Funding £10.4m View on map
Humanoid raises $152m Series A at a $1.35bn valuation to become Europe's first humanoid-robotics unicorn London-based Humanoid has closed a $152m Series A led by Prime Movers Lab, minting a $1.35bn post-money valuation and what backers call Europe's first pure-play humanoid-robotics unicorn — with strategic cheques from Bosch and Schaeffler landing on the register.
Funding $152m View on map
