Sequoia and Lightspeed Lead £800m Superintelligence Bet — UK Weekly

Last week 20 startups announced £933m in venture funding

May 05, 2026

The big ones

Top of the class Ineffable Intelligence landed over £800m in a seed round led by Sequoia and Lightspeed to develop superintelligence with RL
British Lime Forest secured £27m Series B extension from VC investors to expand shared e-bike services across London
Robo-brickie All3 raised a £19m seed round led by RTP Global to automate construction with robotics

Best of the rest

Drugs in low orbit BioOrbit landed a £9.8m seed round co-led by LocalGlobe and Breega to manufacture pharmaceutical drugs in space
Drinking for clarity Neutonic secured £4.5m in funding from angels to scale functional drinks and supplement brand
Find me an engineer Dex raised a £4m seed round led by Notion Capital to match companies with engineers using an intelligent recruiter
See the sea Online Oceans announced £4m in funding led by Seraphim Space to build autonomous maritime surveillance fleets
Let’s hear it auryx raised £1.5m pre-seed round led by Celero Ventures to turn ordinary earbuds into health monitors
Agents in the lobby ManaMind secured a £1.1m pre-seed round led by SVV to develop autonomous QA agents for gaming

The scout

⏳ 6 months ago

Marleybones secured £2.5m funding led by TAW Ventures to redefine premium dog dining with its “Pantry Fresh” meals
Tessaract raised £4.6m in funding led by Mercia Ventures to modernise law firm day-to-day operations
PACT unlocked £15m Series A led by Forbion and HV Capital to scale sustainable collagen-based material

⌛ 12 months ago

Etiq AI announced a £750k seed round led by GapMinder to scale AI debugging platform for data scientists
Ceto raised a £3.6m seed round led by Dynamo Ventures to modernise maritime operations and risk with AI
Arondite landed a £9m seed round led by Index Ventures to power safe human-machine collaboration in defence

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