Foundational is developing technology for collecting, processing and delivering precise positioning data for satellites, with applications spanning navigation and positioning, Earth observation and surveying, as well as maritime and aviation.
UK Startup Funding Rounds
Funding for UK startups, with products, round sizes and participating investors.
130 rounds · $13B disclosed · $26.9M median
| Company | Amount | Stage / sector | Lead investor | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundational Foundational is developing technology for collecting, processing and delivering precise positioning data for satellites, with applications spanning navigation and positioning, Earth observation and surveying, as well as maritime and aviation. | £8.2M | Pre-seed Space | — | |
| Metaview Pioneering the interview intelligence category and provides customers with transcripts, analytics, and automated training tools to help interviewers up their game. | $60M | Series C+ HRtech | — | |
| Basecamp Research Basecamp Research combines DNA analysis and environmental monitoring in its BaseDiscovery platform. | $140M | Series C+ Healthtech | — | |
| MAGIC AI provider of an AI powered fitness mirror. | £8M | Series B Sports | — | |
| StandardX StandardX is developing an isotope refinery designed to increase the supply of rare isotopes used in medicine and fusion energy. | £10M | Seed Deeptech | — | |
| Rightcharge Electric car charge point and EV-friendly energy tariff comparison site. | £500K | Growth E-commerce | — | |
| Breedr Breedr is a productivity and marketing platform that’s transforming the livestock supply-chain. | €23M | Series B Agritech | — | |
| Certain Energy Certain Energy develops long-duration energy storage systems using manganese flow batteries to store renewable electricity for later use and support electricity grid operations. | £10M | Series A Energy | — | |
| Itoflow Itoflow uses AI agents to turn investment firms’ strategies into governed workflows that research and test opportunities, monitor portfolios continuously and surface material changes with supporting evidence. | $2.5M | Pre-seed AI | — | |
| Stability AI World’s first community-driven, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) company. | $76M | Series B AI | — | |
| Boldr London-based climate tech startup developing home energy management tools. | $5M | Seed Energy | — | |
| Embedd Embedd uses digital twins and AI agents to automate the integration of chips into software ecosystems, helping semiconductor companies make their hardware easier and faster for developers to build on. | $2.7M | Pre-seed Software | — | |
| Callosum A UK AI infrastructure startup founded by Cambridge neuroscientists offering a counter view to the “monoculture” that believes superintelligence. | $100M | Seed AI | — | |
| Paralo Paralo is developing software to replace the fragmented systems currently used to run golf clubs, spanning membership, tee sheets, competitions, payments, EPOS, food and beverage, marketing, reporting and agronomy. | £270K | Pre-seed Sports | — | |
| Medly AI UK-based EdTech startup. | $8M | Seed Edtech | — | |
| Prevalent AI Prevalent AI develops an AI-powered data platform designed to connect and contextualise data across enterprise systems. | $22M | Growth Software | — | |
| Noggin HQ British fintech Noggin HQ was founded to solve the problem and help the 14 million people in the UK who are facing exclusion due to their credit score. | £2.3M | Seed Fintech | — | |
| Metal Morph Metal Morph is developing an infrastructure-as-a-service solution that recovers industrial materials from municipal and industrial wastewater. | £700K | Pre-seed Cleantech | — | |
| Mindgard The platform is designed to give a comprehensive overview of the issues that arise from security for AI. | $30M | Series A AI | — | |
| Cytix Cytix enables companies to identify high risk vulnerabilities during code development. | $7M | Series A Cybersecurity | — | |
| FlairMakers FlairMakers is a talent-as-a-service platform live in the UK and Romania that is purpose-built for hospitality. It connects hospitality businesses with vetted freelance professionals from the floor to the boardroom, handling training, compliance, contracts, payments and quality. | £500K | Pre-seed Software | — | |
| Cambridge Aerospace Cambridge Aerospace builds defence technology. Its key products include drone interceptor Skyhammer, missile interceptor Starhammer, and radar system Looking Glass. | $300M | Series C+ Cybersecurity | — | |
| Mironid Targeted therapeutic innovation to improve health and quality of life. | $46M | Series B Healthtech | — | |
| Olix The latest generation of AI models achieve breakthrough performance by using vastly more tokens to solve complex problems. As frontier models become more sophisticated, demand is compounding faster than today’s infrastructure can scale. | $312M | Series B Semiconductors | — | |
| Inforcer a provider of Microsoft multi-tenant management solutions. | $50M | Series C+ Software | — |
Pioneering the interview intelligence category and provides customers with transcripts, analytics, and automated training tools to help interviewers up their game.
Basecamp Research combines DNA analysis and environmental monitoring in its BaseDiscovery platform.
provider of an AI powered fitness mirror.
StandardX is developing an isotope refinery designed to increase the supply of rare isotopes used in medicine and fusion energy.
Electric car charge point and EV-friendly energy tariff comparison site.
Breedr is a productivity and marketing platform that’s transforming the livestock supply-chain.
Certain Energy develops long-duration energy storage systems using manganese flow batteries to store renewable electricity for later use and support electricity grid operations.
Itoflow uses AI agents to turn investment firms’ strategies into governed workflows that research and test opportunities, monitor portfolios continuously and surface material changes with supporting evidence.
World’s first community-driven, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) company.
London-based climate tech startup developing home energy management tools.
Embedd uses digital twins and AI agents to automate the integration of chips into software ecosystems, helping semiconductor companies make their hardware easier and faster for developers to build on.
A UK AI infrastructure startup founded by Cambridge neuroscientists offering a counter view to the “monoculture” that believes superintelligence.
Paralo is developing software to replace the fragmented systems currently used to run golf clubs, spanning membership, tee sheets, competitions, payments, EPOS, food and beverage, marketing, reporting and agronomy.
UK-based EdTech startup.
Prevalent AI develops an AI-powered data platform designed to connect and contextualise data across enterprise systems.
British fintech Noggin HQ was founded to solve the problem and help the 14 million people in the UK who are facing exclusion due to their credit score.
Metal Morph is developing an infrastructure-as-a-service solution that recovers industrial materials from municipal and industrial wastewater.
The platform is designed to give a comprehensive overview of the issues that arise from security for AI.
Cytix enables companies to identify high risk vulnerabilities during code development.
FlairMakers is a talent-as-a-service platform live in the UK and Romania that is purpose-built for hospitality. It connects hospitality businesses with vetted freelance professionals from the floor to the boardroom, handling training, compliance, contracts, payments and quality.
Cambridge Aerospace builds defence technology. Its key products include drone interceptor Skyhammer, missile interceptor Starhammer, and radar system Looking Glass.
Targeted therapeutic innovation to improve health and quality of life.
The latest generation of AI models achieve breakthrough performance by using vastly more tokens to solve complex problems. As frontier models become more sophisticated, demand is compounding faster than today’s infrastructure can scale.
a provider of Microsoft multi-tenant management solutions.
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Active investors
| Investor | Rounds | Led | Recent investments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01British Business Bank | 11 | 0 | Certain EnergyAlchemab Therapeutics |
| 02Balderton Capital | 6 | 1 | ItoflowGeordie |
| 03Accel | 5 | 0 | Cambridge AerospacePerceptic |
| 04IQ Capital | 5 | 0 | MindgardRevEng.AI |