Four Days and £146m to 14 Startups — UK Weekly
Plus a new £110m fund to back founders in deep tech
The big ones
The AI skeleton Orbital Industries landed £37m Series B led by Plural to build data centre hardware with AI model
Agent’s bodyguard Geordie raised a £22m Series A led by Balderton Capital to help enterprises monitor and govern autonomous AI agents
Best of the rest
Bio-unity Perceptic raised a £9m seed round led by Accel to unify drug discovery and development on a single AI platform
Blue ocean territory Caudal Energy secured £4.3m in funding led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Empirical Ventures to develop predictable tidal power technology
Brick by bin Mykor announced £4m in funding led by Clean Growth Fund for construction materials grown from agricultural and industrial waste
A gift worth giving Go Swag closed £3.7m led by Mercia Ventures to help brands refresh their outdated corporate gifting
The secret barrister Crimson landed a £1.9m seed round led by Y Combinator to expand its case intelligence platform built for litigation and arbitration teams
Voice verification Voxmind secured £550k led by Ascension Ventures for on-device voice biometrics that authenticate users and detect deepfakes
AI deep dive Atheni raised £350k from angels to help organisations move beyond surface-level AI use
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Dry powder
Transition closed Fund II with £110m to back founders operating across hardware, software and deep tech
The scout
⏳ 6 months ago
Tyten raised £750k in funding led by Fuel Ventures and Concrete Ventures to transform repairs in facilities management
Neuracore secured £2.2m in pre-seed funding led by Earlybird VC to streamline infrastructure for robotics teams
StirlingX landed £8m seed round led by Rokos Capital Management to expand secure drone and data technology
⌛ 12 months ago
SCI Semiconductor raised £2.5m in funding led by Mercia Ventures to build memory safe chips for cybersecurity
Volteras closed £8m Series A led by Union Square Ventures to expand EV and energy data platform
Stotles announced £10m Series A led by Headline and Acton to transform how companies win public sector contracts
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