The Week VCs Bet on British Robots, Tinnies and Weeds — UK Weekly
Last week a mega £558m was injected into 15 British startups
The big ones
A material world CuspAI announced £335m Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA to design new semiconductor, energy and advanced manufacturing materials
Little robots Humanoid unlocked £114m Series A led by Prime Movers Lab to deploy humanoid robots across industrial manufacturing and logistics
Weed fighters Moa Technology secured £22m Series C led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Supernova to help farmers protect their harvests from crop-killing weeds
My Arrakis. My Dune. Arrakis raised a £22m Series A led by Blossom Capital to install AI agents into industrial companies’ mission-critical operations
Best of the rest
Premium Tinnies MOTH secured £11m in funding led by Puma Growth Partners to accelerate rollout of its premium canned cocktails
You might want this breath test TidalSense announced £14m in funding from VCs to roll out AI-driven breath test for lung disease
Warmer (and richer) for winter Furbnow landed a £2.5m seed round led by Future Planet Capital to scale platform for home energy-efficiency retrofits
Plant-based thermals Ponda secured a £2.4m grant led by DEFRA to scale plant-based insulation and restore UK wetlands
Northern marketers PolyBox raised £700k in funding to automate data reporting in real-time for marketing teams
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The scout
⏳ 6 months ago
LaunchLemonade secured a £350k pre-seed led by Spring Syndicate and Ventures Together for its no-code AI agent platform
Corvera raised £1.5m in funding led by Firstminute Capital to automate supply chains for consumer goods brands
Elyos AI landed a £10m Series A led by Blackbird Ventures to build AI agents for trade business ops
⌛ 12 months ago
Modern Baker raised £2.4m Series A led by Adjuvo to scale nutrient-dense ultra-processed foods like SUPERLOAF
Spaceflux unlocked a £5.4m seed round led by UKI2S, Foresight and Blackfinch to scale global satellite tracking network
Magentic emerged from stealth with £4m seed led by Sequoia Capital to drive AI savings across global supply chain
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Now hiring
The hottest roles from the Soapbox UK startup jobs board
Humanoid: Advanced industrial robots hiring across all departments
CuspAI: AI materials discovery platform hiring engineers and researchers
ManaMind: QA agents for gaming hiring across ops and engineering
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