The big ones
Supply chains got beefy Breedr unlocked £20m Series B led by Partech to digitalise the global cattle supply chain
Best of the rest
Juice boxes Certain Energy raised a £10m Series A led by British Business Bank for long-duration battery storage on the clean energy grid
Your radiator’s side hustle Boldr landed £3.6m in funding led by Unconventional Ventures to turn home heating and cooling systems into grid capacity
The junior’s worst enemy Itoflow unlocked a £1.8m pre-seed round led by Balderton to automate investment research and portfolio monitoring with AI agents
It’s raining money Climingo raised £290k in funding led by Carbon13 for independent benchmarking of weather forecaster accuracy
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Summer standouts
Highland Europe closed its £950m Fund VI to back European growth stage founders
White Star Capital closed its £185m Fund IV to back founders scaling internationally at Series A and B
Cambridge Aerospace landed £222m Series C led by DFJ Growth for low-cost drone interceptor missiles
OLIX unlocked £240m Series B led by Fundomo to develop specialised AI inference chips for each stage of token production
Callosum secured a £75m seed round led by Atomico to optimise AI workloads across the best models and chips
The scout
⏳ 6 months ago
Tetra secured a £450k pre-seed round from angels for surgical scheduling software for hospitals
Kinfolk raised a £5m seed round led by AlbionVC to shift manual HR workflows with agentic AI
SolveAI landed £37m Series A led by GV to let employees build enterprise software with conversational AI
⌛ 12 months ago
Yottar raised £750k pre-seed led by Haatch to unlock grid capacity and accelerate the energy transition
Mantic emerged from stealth with £3m pre-seed led by Episode 1 to develop judgmental forecasting systems with AI
Synkka launched with pre-seed led by Ascension to build AI workforce for parcel delivery operations
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