No Trophy but £156m to English Startups – UK Weekly
All the latest UK ventures rounds, jobs and highlights from the past week
The big ones
Nationalising GPUs Valarian raised a £37m Series A round led by NEA to provide sovereign control over AI workloads
Money moving at Velocity announced £28m Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark for stablecoin treasury and settlement infrastructure
You are the weakest link Risk Ledger unlocked £24m Series B led by Axiom Equity to deliver network-first supply chain security platform
Best of the rest
Bad news for QA Meticulous raised £11m in funding from Chemistry to automatically generate and maintain test suites for engineering organisations
Greasing the cogs Gridcog secured £7m in a Series A round led by ABB for its energy flexibility modelling platform
UK’s sense of direction Silicon Microgravity secured £6m led by West Hill Capital for UK-built semiconductor sensors used in defence and space navigation
Cementing seeds Prolo landed a £4.2m seed round led by Triple Point Ventures to modernise procurement for SME construction firms
Down to the foundations Saible raised £2.9m from investors for fintech software that pays every tier of a construction supply chain
Your dentist was guessing BeCertain secured a £1.7m pre-seed round led by Sure Valley Ventures for AI software that helps dentists interpret X-rays
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The scout
⏳ 6 months ago
Ionech announced a £2m seed round from Elbow Beach to generate clean energy from ambient air
Cyb3r Operations landed £4m in funding led by Octopus Ventures to give firms visibility into third-party cyber risk
Haiqu raised an £8m seed round led by Primary Venture Partners to cut the cost of running quantum applications
⌛ 12 months ago
Inyanga Marine raised £3.7m from The FSE Group and others to advance tidal energy demonstrator
Opper AI unlocked £2.2m pre-seed from Luminar Ventures, Emblem and Greens Ventures to launch task completion API for AI developers
Inntelo AI secured £500k pre-seed round led by Haatch to scale AI concierge for hotels
Next events
⏰ Tonight: Founders Table: Class of H1 2026 with NatWest — A dinner to celebrate the founders who raised in H1
Now hiring
The hottest roles from the Soapbox UK startup jobs board
DeliveranceAI: Agentic operating system hiring across all departments
Rowden: Engineering comms systems for defence hiring across all departments
Gonini: Fulfilment-as-a-service platform hiring across ops and engineering
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