Three New Funds Have £160m to Deploy to British Founders — UK Weekly
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The big ones
Critical infra thinking 1001 raised £22m Series A led by Lux Capital to build AI system for critical infrastructure operators
Magnetic attraction Gaussion unlocked £21m led by BGF and AlbionVC to enable rapid battery pack charging with external magnetic field
Best of the rest
Guarders of the grid StirlingX landed £15m Series A led by Ventura Capital and Rokos Capital Management to build sovereign data intelligence platform for critical infra
What did Claude say? geoSurge raised a £9m seed round led by AlbionVC to help brands shape how they’re represented inside AI systems
Mind your language Lucida AI secured £5.3m in a seed round led by Velocity Capital for its speech-to-speech AI platform for language coaching
Brainwave moment Neuronostics raised £3m in funding led by Empirical Ventures and The FSE Group for platform that diagnoses epilepsy from brain activity recordings
Paving the way for speech Saltroad raised £1.5m in funding led by Techstart Ventures to build an AI-enabled speech and language therapy workforce
Building watts next Build secured backing from Index Ventures to accelerate data centre infrastructure development
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Dry powder
Osney Capital closed Fund I at £60m to back early-stage founders in UK cybersecurity
Tapestry VC launched £60m Fund III to back repeat founders across Europe and North America
Ruya Ventures closed £40m Solo GP fund to back deep tech founders
The scout
⏳ 6 months ago
GIN E-bikes raised £200k in funding from Toloka.vc to expand its PLUTO electric bike subscription service across London
MAIA Technology secured £4m Series A from Molten Ventures to deliver modern portfolio management to hedge funds
AgileRL landed a £6m seed round led by Fusion Fund to speed up reinforcement learning for training AI models
⌛ 12 months ago
Inclutech landed £400k in funding from Innovation Ulster and Clarendon to develop safety platform for high-risk victims
MediShout unlocked £6.5m Series A led by Heal Capital to digitise hospital-supplier infrastructure
AssetCool raised £10m Series A led by Energy Impact Partners to scale robotic grid upgrade technology globally
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