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Affinity Labs secures £1.5m pre-seed round led by Fuel Ventures to build house of creator-led software brands
Affinity Labs is a house of creator-led software brands that launches and scales products co-founded with leading content creators. Affinity Labs combines creators' audiences with proprietary technology to build and grow new digital brands.
Stride raises a £4.6m seed round led by Arāya Ventures to offer diagnostics-driven preventative health memberships
Stride is a digital-first health optimisation company offering a diagnostics-driven preventative health membership. The service combines DNA, blood and gut testing with personalised insights to help people understand, track and improve their health data over time.
Alchera Technologies raises a £2.7m seed round led by Maven Capital Partners to analyse transport network data with AI
Alchera Technologies provides an AI platform that helps local authorities, highways operators and their advisors analyse transport and contextual data. The software supports decisions on roadworks planning, bus performance, traffic analysis and network resilience using validated, real-world evidence.
52North raises £3.2m in funding led by Macmillan Cancer Support to support urgent cancer care diagnostics
52North is a medical technology spin-out from the University of Cambridge developing the Aster biomarker platform and Neutrocheck, a rapid finger-prick blood test. Neutrocheck supports remote triaging of chemotherapy patients at risk of neutropenic sepsis to reduce unnecessary emergency hospital visits.
SolarSub secures a £1.3m pre-seed round led by Sustainable Ventures to develop passive cooling technology for solar modules
SolarSub is a United Kingdom solar technology company developing passive cooling technology for photovoltaic modules. SolarSub’s technology is designed to reduce module operating temperatures without pumps or moving parts, increasing energy yield and reducing heat-related degradation for solar asset owners and operators.
Adaptavate secures £4m in funding package to develop carbon-negative construction products
Adaptavate develops patented Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) processes for making low-carbon and carbon-negative construction products, including its flagship Breathaboard. Wallboard manufacturers license the technology so they can produce carbon-storing wallboard with their existing infrastructure and supply chains.
Dragonfly Advanced Materials secures £1m in funding led by Northstar Ventures to make silica materials cheaper to manufacture
Dragonfly Advanced Materials manufactures silica aerogels, a material that combines low density with strong insulative properties, fire retardancy and water resistance. Its patented process simplifies production and reduces reliance on expensive solvents, making aerogels more accessible to customers in coatings, energy, construction, transport and industrial manufacturing.
Anemo Labs raises a £700k pre-seed round led by Zinc and SFC Capital to build electronic nose that detects disease signals in smell
Anemo Labs develops electronic nose hardware paired with AI models that detect and classify disease-related volatile organic compounds in urine. The platform is built for clinicians and individuals who need a non-invasive way to screen for disease, with early diagnostic validation running alongside clinical partners.
KVector raises £3.8m in funding from VCs to develop low-power radar antennas
KVector develops a beam-steered antenna built on engineered metamaterial surfaces for radar and satellite communications systems. Designed to deliver the performance of an active electronically steered array at lower weight, cost and power draw, the technology targets applications where the size and power demands of conventional antennas have been the constraint.
Strolll secures £4.3m in funding from Innovate UK and IW Capital for augmented reality neurorehabilitation
Strolll is a software as a medical device company that delivers neurorehabilitation through off-the-shelf augmented reality glasses. The clinically proven and patented platform blends digital content with the real world, allowing neurorehabilitation providers to treat patients living with neurological disorders in both clinic and home settings.
Ki 13 unlocks a £3.7m seed round led by HICO Investment Group to make green hydrogen and CO₂ from biomass
Ki 13 runs an electrochemical process that converts lignocellulosic biomass into separate streams of green hydrogen and biogenic CO₂. Both outputs serve as feedstocks for makers of synthetic fuels and chemicals, including sustainable aviation fuel, e-methanol and e-methane.
Pure Capture Innovations secures a £530k pre-seed round led by SFC Capital to strip micropollutants out of water with carbon-based absorbents
Pure Capture Innovations is an Oxford-based deep-tech company developing sustainable carbon-based adsorbent materials for water purification. The materials target PFAS, persistent micropollutants and other contaminants of emerging concern, and are designed to work with the treatment infrastructure water companies and industrial users already operate.
Climingo raises £290k in funding led by Carbon13 for independent benchmarking of weather forecaster accuracy
Climingo runs an independent marketplace for weather forecasting that benchmarks major forecasters and AI models against a customer's exact location, variables and decision thresholds. Scoring covers accuracy, event detection and false alarm rate, helping weather-exposed businesses identify which forecaster to trust.
EcoNomad Solutions raises £400k in funding led by British Design Fund for small-farm waste-to-energy systems
EcoNomad Solutions builds the BioNomad®, a patented anaerobic digestion system that captures methane from organic farm waste and converts it into biogas for heating, cooking or electricity, alongside high-quality biofertiliser. Designed for small and mid-sized livestock farms in colder climates, the system serves dairy, beef, pig and poultry operators, including off-grid and rural communities, that existing digesters are too large or too expensive to serve.
Dragonfly lands £700k in grant funding from Innovate UK to help businesses assess security risk across entire software stacks
Dragonfly is a technology intelligence platform built on a knowledge graph of more than 300,000 software vendors. Organisations use it to decide which tools to adopt and whether those technologies can safely and effectively work together.
Versatile RobotX lands £1m led by British Design Fund to automate harvesting and crop handling with robotic systems
Versatile RobotX builds low-cost robotic systems that automate labour-intensive farm tasks such as harvesting and crop handling. The platform combines AI, machine vision, embedded intelligence and robotic manipulation, and is aimed at growers facing high labour costs and staffing shortages.
CN Bio secures a £180k Innovate UK grant to develop organ-on-a-chip system for drug behaviour predictions
CN Bio provides organ-on-a-chip systems that recreate key aspects of human tissue biology in the laboratory. Its PhysioMimix microphysiological systems give drug discovery and development teams decision-ready data on drug safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics without relying on animal studies.
Aurrigo raises £1.4m in UK government funding to deploy autonomous vehicles for airport security patrols and runway inspections
Aurrigo builds autonomous vehicles for airports, including the Auto-Shuttle®, Auto-DollyTug® and Auto-Cargo®. The vehicles are designed to carry out routine airside work such as security patrols, perimeter and runway inspections and moving aircraft support loads, for airport operators whose staff currently do that work on foot and by vehicle alongside moving aircraft.
Perceptual Robotics lands £4m led by Investing for Purpose for autonomous drone inspection of wind turbine blades
Perceptual Robotics is a technology company working in drone automation and AI services for wind turbine blade management. Its services run from field inspection technology through to data processing and repair management, helping operators, service providers and blade experts detect and prioritise damage and keep turbines generating.
PolyBox raises £700k in funding to automate data reporting in real-time for marketing teams
PolyBox provides a real-time platform that brings market data together for marketing teams and turns it into reports, forecasts and models. Built by marketers for marketers, the platform is designed to be used without in-depth technological knowledge.
Ponda secures a £2.4m grant led by DEFRA to scale plant-based insulation and restore UK wetlands
Ponda is a biomaterials company behind BioPuff, a natural insulation used in jackets and accessories as a replacement for goose down and petroleum-based fills. The material is derived from bulrush, a wetland crop cultivated on restored peatland.
Dogtooth Technologies secures £14m in funding from VCs to scale autonomous robotic crop harvesting
Dogtooth Technologies designs and manufactures robots that autonomously identify and harvest delicate fruit and vegetable crops for commercial growers. Its systems combine computer vision, AI and precision robotic manipulation to navigate growing environments and pick ripe produce with the accuracy needed for large-scale farming operations.
Respiro Diagnostics raises a £1m pre-seed round led by Zinc Venture Capital and SFC Capital to develop breath-based liquid biopsy for lung cancer
Respiro Diagnostics has developed a breath-based liquid biopsy platform for the early, non-invasive detection of lung cancer and other diseases of the lung. Its device captures a liquid breath sample in minutes and profiles the DNA, RNA and protein within it, giving clinicians a route to earlier detection and more targeted treatment without invasive tissue biopsies.
VASO Global secures £5m in funding to turn recycled glass into structural building panels
VASO Global converts waste glass into high-performance structural composite panels used to build modular homes and other buildings. Its combination of digital design, integrated manufacturing and semi-autonomous construction is aimed at people and organisations needing affordable, thermally efficient, low-carbon homes built more quickly than through traditional methods.
Apoha unlocks £27m in funding led by Singular to measure how molecules and materials behave under real-world conditions
Apoha has built a platform that measures how molecules, formulations and materials behave under real-world conditions, generating a new class of empirical data it calls Liquid State Intelligence. Its first product, VIBE, takes a microscopic sample, applies controlled stresses in liquid, and captures the resulting wave patterns as more than 1,000 behavioural descriptors - used by pharma, food and materials companies to predict product performance before costly late-stage failure.
Gnosis Health raises £1.1m led by SFC Capital to build digital healthcare assistant for Parkinson's disease
Gnosis Health is building MAXine, a digital healthcare assistant for Parkinson’s disease. MAXine uses data from wearables, patient reported outcomes and behavioural patterns to support patient self-management and communication with care teams.
DEScycle unlocks £5.5m in funding to recover critical and precious metals from electronic waste
DEScycle is building a distributed, modular metals processing platform to recover critical and precious metals from electronic waste. Its proprietary ionometallurgy process enables lower-capital, lower-energy recovery closer to where materials are generated, turning domestic waste streams into sovereign metal supply.
TympaHealth secures £2m Innovate UK loan for AI guidance platform supporting community ear and hearing care
TympaHealth provides ear and hearing health technology for community care settings. Its platform helps pharmacists, care providers, audiologists and GPs perform ear examinations, wax removal and hearing checks.
H2CHP raises £1.5m from Northstar Ventures and Blackfinch Ventures for fuel-flexible generators built for changing power demands
H2CHP develops distributed electric generators that can run on hydrogen, ammonia, biofuels and e-fuels. The technology is designed for applications including data centres, ports, construction sites, backup power systems and microgrids, while reducing reliance on permanent magnets and rare-earth materials.
Altilium secures £19m in funding from UK government for EV battery recycling facility
Altilium is a clean technology company that develops processes to recover critical materials from end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. It produces battery-grade materials such as nickel, lithium and graphite for reuse in new battery manufacturing.
StirLight secures £1.3m in funding from VC investors to bring real-time weld inspection to manufacturers
StirLight is an advanced manufacturing business developing a process monitoring platform for friction stir welding. Its StirSense system provides real-time data analysis to help manufacturers verify weld quality during production.
Ascension secures £1.7m in funding from UKI2S and Innovate UK to tap geothermal critical mineral reserves
Ascension develops technology to recover critical minerals from underground geothermal systems. It enables extraction from volcanic rock deposits without surface mining, reducing environmental impact and reliance on concentrated supply chains.
ClotProtect secures £1.2m in funding from Innovate UK and Lifted Ventures for blood clot patient safety technology
ClotProtect develops medical technology designed to improve patient safety by reducing risks associated with blood clots. Its solutions aim to help healthcare providers prevent complications linked to clotting.
Carbogenics secures £2.2m in funding led by Green Angel Ventures to tackle biomass waste with carbon removal tech
Carbogenics converts hard to recycle biomass waste into biocarbon products used in energy, water and industrial processes, aiming to remove carbon permanently while improving performance in sectors such as biogas and wastewater treatment.
Ionech announces a £2m seed round from Elbow Beach to generate clean energy from ambient air
Ionech converts ambient air thermal energy into electricity using high-voltage processes, targeting energy-intensive equipment such as refrigeration, HVAC systems and data centres.
IVFmicro raises £3.5m in pre-seed funding led by Northern Gritstone to improve IVF success rates
IVFmicro develops a microfluidic device that improves embryo culture in IVF treatment, increasing the number and quality of embryos while reducing handling and variability in fertility clinics.
Anaphite secures £1.4m Series A follow-on to advance dry coating technology for EV batteries
Anaphite is advancing dry coating methods for LFP cathodes and graphite anodes, focusing on enabling large-scale battery manufacturing with lower energy demand and reduced emissions.
InvenireX secures £2m in seed funding led by DSW Ventures to accelerate DNA nanotechology detection
InvenireX develops programmable DNA nanotechnology for ultra-sensitive disease detection, combining nanoscale structures, microfluidics and AI to identify genetic markers far earlier than existing methods.
Planet Smart raises £750k pre-seed led by General Inception and Vertical Venture Partners to tackle plastic waste in nappies and pads
Planet Smart creates biodegradable superabsorbent materials designed to replace fossil-based plastics in nappies and sanitary products, offering high performance while breaking down naturally without microplastic pollution.
Limetrack lands £1.3m in funding from Innovate UK and angels to scale its IoT smart bin for commercial food waste
Limetrack develops IoT-enabled food waste bins that automatically measure waste and emissions, helping organisations cut costs, meet recycling regulations and reduce environmental impact.
Aquark Technologies secures £1.4m Innovate UK contract to strengthen UK's telecoms infrastructure with cold atom devices
Aquark Technologies builds compact quantum timing devices based on cold atom technology, designed to keep telecoms networks running when satellite signals fail.
Fit Collective secures £3m pre-seed led by AlbionVC to help fashion brands fix sizing and reduce returns
Fit Collective uses data science and AI to help fashion brands improve garment sizing decisions before production, reducing returns, waste and overproduction caused by poor fit.
Rem3dy Health secures £1.4m funding led by Borski Fund and Future Planet Capital to advance personalised stackable nutrition gummies
Rem3dy Health develops personalised nutrition products using 3D printing technology, creating stackable gummy supplements tailored to individual health needs and preventative care goals.
Intelligent Energy secures £17m ATI Programme award to develop hydrogen fuel cell system for zero-emission aircraft
Intelligent Energy designs hydrogen fuel cell systems for aviation, developing modular high power platforms for eVTOL and short range aircraft that focus on efficiency, thermal management and scalable zero emission propulsion.
Good With lands £200k from EHE Ventures to fix broken credit scores with AI-powered readiness score
Good With develops an AI-powered credit readiness score that combines behavioural insights with open banking data, helping lenders assess borrowers more fairly while expanding access to credit for underserved consumers.
NavLive raises £4m seed round led by OSE to launch real-time AI scanner for architecture and construction
NavLive develops a handheld AI-powered scanning device that creates real-time, high-precision building surveys, enabling architects and construction teams to generate instant 2D and 3D models on site.
MindSpire raises £850k pre-seed round led by SFC Capital to launch vagus nerve stimulation wearable
MindSpire develops a wearable device that uses personalised vagus nerve stimulation and AI to help users regulate stress, focus and nervous system performance.
Diffblue awarded £1m Innovate UK grant to advance AI-powered code testing with reinforcement learning
Diffblue develops autonomous AI software that generates and maintains unit tests for Java code, using reinforcement learning and code execution to improve software quality without manual test writing.
Elaniti raises £1.3m in venture and Innovate UK funding to advance AI-driven soil intelligence platform
Elaniti develops AI and DNA-based soil intelligence tools that decode microbial activity, helping agribusinesses improve yields, reduce synthetic inputs and build healthier, more resilient soils.
ReactWise raises £2.5m pre-seed led by Y Combinator to transform big pharma with AI and self-driving labs
ReactWise develops AI-driven software and robotic laboratories that optimise pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, reducing experimental work and speeding the path from discovery to scalable production.
Prorizon secures £400k pre-seed funding from GC Angels to enhance AI-driven mental and physical performance management
Prorizon provides an AI enabled platform that combines physical and psychological data to help individuals and teams monitor stress, prevent burnout and manage long term performance in high pressure environments.
Mulder raises £500,000 in a pre-seed led by SFC Capital to revolutionise medical device traceability
Mulder builds a blockchain-based compliance and traceability platform for medical device manufacturers, supporting regulatory reporting, recalls and end-to-end visibility across increasingly complex global supply chains.
RoboK secures £1m from UKRI to advance AI safety in UK ports and warehouses
RoboK builds computer vision software that turns industrial CCTV into proactive safety and efficiency tools, detecting hazards and operational risks in ports, warehouses and logistics environments.
BeamXR secures £500k led by Creative UK to develop live streaming software for augmented and virtual reality headsets
BeamXR develops live streaming software for augmented and virtual reality headsets, enabling creators and developers to broadcast immersive experiences directly to platforms such as Twitch, TikTok and YouTube.
AUAR secures £340k Innovate UK grant to scale timber housing construction platform
AUAR develops robotic micro factories and software that automate the design and manufacture of timber housing components, enabling faster, lower cost and more predictable construction.
Laennec AI raises pre-seed to revolutionise healthcare with AI-powered medical devices for home use
Laennec AI develops AI-powered medical devices and software that allow patients to monitor chronic conditions from home, supporting earlier detection and continuous clinician oversight outside traditional healthcare settings.
Stroke rehabilitation platform Reneural raise pre-seed round led by SFC Capital and supported by Innovate UK
Reneural builds a virtual reality rehabilitation platform for stroke survivors that supports early hospital discharge and remote therapy, combining immersive exercises with tools designed to improve engagement, recovery outcomes and ongoing clinical oversight at home.
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