£300m in Dry Powder, £130m for "Debt Market Intelligence" + 10 More Rounds | UK Weekly
Last week £181m in venture funding was announced across 11 rounds
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Stephen Hunter, Co-founder & CEO of 9fin on its £130m Series C
The big ones
See clearly now 9fin secured £130m Series C led by HarbourVest to build a clearer view of debt markets
Tools of the trade Sona landed a £34m Series B led by N47 for workforce management software focused on frontline businesses
Best of the rest
Spot on Lucida Medical secured £8.7m in funding led by IW Capital to detect early prostate cancer in scans with AI
Celling the dream Semarion raised £2.9m in funding led by Parkwalk to accelerate cell-based drug discovery
The consultant’s consultant Riplo landed a £2.3m pre-seed round led by Cherry Ventures to build an agentic operating system for consultants
Smooth operator Rivulo raised a £375k pre-seed round led by SFC Capital for no-code automation for operations teams
Banked it AccessPay secured majority investment from Accel-KKR for bank integration and payment automation software
Dry powder
British Growth Partnership announced £200m for its inaugural fund to help channel pensions into UK startups with commitments from Aegon UK, Cushon, M&G and the British Business Bank
Bootstrap4F closed Women backing Women fund of funds at £130 million to back female and mixed investment teams
The scout
⏳ 6 months ago
Aspia Space secured £2.3m in funding led by The FSE Group to expand AI-powered Earth observation platform
Trig landed £4.5m seed round led by 20VC to build the AI platform for account management
Paid raised £16m seed round led by Lightspeed to build the economic rails for the AI agent economy
⌛ 12 months ago
POCKLA raised £1.6m seed round led by Venrex to scale AI-powered content strategy platform
Grid Edge secured £2.8m led by Mercia Ventures to scale AI platform cutting energy costs and carbon emissions
Phlux Technology landed £9m Series A led by BGF to expand infrared sensor tech for comms and sensing markets
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