Founded by designer Junior Magalhães, the studio now counts Marfin Co. founder Ivan Cordeiro Junior as a partner and sells product design, brand and engineering to well-funded startups and global brands, with engagements from US$30,000 a month.
Cambridge-based bit.bio has closed a $25m (about £19m) Series D backed by existing investor M&G Investments and Abcam founder Dr Jonathan Milner, months after its Series C. The company says paid vial volumes are up 76% in 2026 and active customers up 40% year to date.
UK proptech Supa has raised £21m in seed financing, combining an equity round co-led by 2150 and OpenOcean with a debt facility from a UK lender, to fund further acquisitions of residential block management firms. The company already oversees about 20,000 homes through seven local agencies and reports revenue growth of more than 700% since its first deals in late 2025.
London-based Tallia, which was known as Revax until recently, has raised a €4m ($4.5m) seed round co-led by Outward VC and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). The company builds AI research and drafting software for tax and accountancy firms.
Kent's Discovery Park has admitted 10 companies and 13 founders to the eighth cohort of its Discovery Spark accelerator. The programme ends with an investor pitch day on 3 December, and its 77 alumni have so far secured more than £6.5m in UKRI funding.
UK start-ups raised £439m in the week to 6 November, according to Startupmag's weekly tally, but four transactions worth a combined £347m accounted for roughly 79% of the money. One of those four, an £79.4m facility for NexGen Cloud, was debt rather than equity.
National Grid Electricity Transmission has agreed to buy more than 70 acres at Dorman Point on Teesside to build what would be the UK's largest electricity substation. It would feed a neighbouring data centre site with up to 3.2GW of capacity, which sources say could be the biggest in Europe.
Revolut has started offering UK personal loans of between £2,000 and £25,000, repayable over one to five years. It is the London fintech's first significant move into consumer credit since it received its full UK banking licence earlier this year, and it has 13m customers in the UK.
Quantexa, the London data and AI company last valued at $2.6bn, has signed a multi-million-pound, three-year contract with the Insolvency Service. It follows a £175m, 10-year agreement with HM Revenue and Customs in May.
Fuse, the London energy supplier valued at $5bn (£3.7bn), has launched Fuse Compute, with its first 128 Nvidia B300 GPUs due online in December and a plan to scale to 1,024 GPUs by the second quarter of 2027.
