HelmGuard raises £5.4m seed co-led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline as ex-Palantir founder targets the US London-based HelmGuard has closed a £5.4m seed round co-led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline, with FinTech Collective, Stage 2 Capital and Entrepreneurs First joining the cap table. Terms were not disclosed.
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Sheffield's SCI Semiconductor raises £5m in an oversubscribed round led by PXN and Mercia through NPIF II SCI Semiconductor has closed a heavily oversubscribed £5m round co-led by PXN Ventures and Mercia Ventures, both deploying Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II capital, with cyber security seed specialist Osney Capital, US firm Black Opal Ventures and private investors also participating. The Sheffield company has already booked more than £2m of orders and £7.7m of government contracts.
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CloudNC raises $20m led by Nimble Ventures as Lockheed Martin's venture arm joins the cap table London-based CloudNC has raised $20m (about £15m) in new investment capital led by US firm Nimble Ventures, with Lockheed Martin's corporate venture fund LM Ventures, Calculus Venture Capital and Entrepreneur First all taking part. Neither the round stage nor a valuation was disclosed.
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Veridue raises $4m pre-seed led by Episode 1 to automate energy infrastructure due diligence London-based Veridue has closed a $4m (€3.44m) pre-seed round led by Episode 1 Ventures, with HTGF and Pi Labs participating alongside angels including Aurora Energy Research co-founder Cameron Hepburn and former QuantumBlack chief executive Jeremy Palmer. The two-year-old company sells an AI diligence platform for renewables and data centre transactions.
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Jack & Jill raises £30m led by Air Street less than a year after a $20m seed London AI recruitment company Jack & Jill has raised £30m in a round led by Air Street Capital, roughly eleven months after announcing a $20m seed led by Creandum. The round's stage, post-money valuation and dilution were not disclosed.
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Sheffield's Tickets for Good raises £3.9m from NPIF II and Finance Yorkshire to take key-worker ticketing global Tickets for Good has raised £3.9m from a syndicate led by NPIF II – Mercia Equity Finance, with Shaping Impact Group, Finance Yorkshire, Leansquare and private investors joining, to fund international expansion and 10 new jobs in Sheffield over three years.
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AI Score raises £4m seed led by Fuel Ventures as founding backer GALLOS follows on London-based AI Score has closed a £4m seed round led by Fuel Ventures, with founding investor GALLOS Technologies following on, taking the 2025-founded governance startup's total raised to roughly £4.7m. The valuation was not disclosed.
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Stafford's Strolll lands £4.3m from Innovate UK alongside an IW Capital-led equity round Strolll, a Stafford-based software-as-a-medical-device company building augmented reality neurorehabilitation tools, has secured £4.3m (€5m) from Innovate UK across a £3.6m innovation loan and a £700k grant, plus a separate equity round led by IW Capital with Cleveland Clinic and Future Planet Capital Regional participating.
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Ponda closes a £1.4m crowdfunding round as 256 new investors join the Bristol biomaterials firm's cap table Bristol-based Ponda has closed a crowdfunding round at £1.4m (€1.6m) on Republic Europe, roughly seven times its £200,000 minimum target, adding 256 new shareholders to its register. The listing offered 15.8% of the company at £12.54 a share, implying a post-money valuation of about £8.9m.
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Itoflow raises £1.8m pre-seed led by Balderton as its investment agents monitor $3bn in assets London-based Itoflow has closed a $2.5m (£1.8m) pre-seed round led by Balderton Capital, with Cleo founder Barney Hussey-Yeo among the angels backing a company founded only this year.
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Embedd raises €2.3m pre-seed led by Seedcamp to automate chip integration for physical AI London-based Embedd has closed a €2.3m ($2.7m) pre-seed round led by Seedcamp, with eight further funds joining the cap table. Valuation and ownership terms were not disclosed.
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HexSeed raises £600,000 led by Carbon13 to grow diamond coatings on AI data centre chips Aberdeen-based HexSeed Technology has closed more than £600,000 in early-stage funding led by climate-tech venture builder Carbon13, with the Net Zero Technology Centre and Italian firm Vento participating. The round also unlocks an Innovate UK Partnership Grant awarded provisionally earlier this year.
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Oshen raises £3.65m led by Lunar Ventures to triple output of its ocean-sensing robots Plymouth-based Oshen has closed a £3.65m round led by Lunar Ventures, with AlbionVC, Twin Track and Concept Ventures joining alongside angel backers. The four-year-old marine robotics company is tripling production of its C-Star vessels and has 100 more on order.
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EcoNomad Solutions raises £400k as British Design Fund puts £230k into small-farm biogas Harpenden-based EcoNomad Solutions has closed a £400,000 round built from £230,000 of equity from the British Design Fund, an Innovate UK Investor Partnership grant and follow-on support from existing backer Beeches Group. The blended structure limits dilution on a cap table that remains founder-controlled.
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Callosum raises $100m seed led by Atomico in the UK Sovereign AI Fund's first cheque London-based Callosum has closed a $100m (£73.5m) seed round led by Atomico, with Plural, DCVC and the UK Sovereign AI Fund participating. It is the first investment made by the government's £500m sovereign fund and one of the largest seed rounds ever raised by a British company.
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Medly raises $8m seed led by Felix Capital as its AI exam tutor passes 400,000 UK users London edtech Medly AI has closed an $8m (£5.9m) seed round led by Felix Capital, with existing backers Eka Ventures and Ada Ventures following on 18 months after the platform launched.
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Kenoteq secures £900k led by Kelvin Capital as it builds towards a £2m round Edinburgh sustainable materials company Kenoteq has banked almost £900,000 in a first tranche led by Kelvin Capital, alongside the Scottish Enterprise Co-Investment Fund and existing shareholders. The round remains open and the company is targeting £2m in total.
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Noggin HQ raises £2.3m seed led by Blackfinch Ventures as it wins FCA credit reference agency status Newcastle-based Noggin HQ has closed an oversubscribed £2.3m seed round led by Blackfinch Ventures, taking total funding to roughly £3m, and has secured Financial Conduct Authority authorisation to operate as a credit reference agency — one of only a handful granted in the UK in the past decade.
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FlairMakers raises £500k pre-seed led by SFC Capital to build hospitality staffing infrastructure The London-based talent platform has closed a £500,000 pre-seed round led by SFC Capital, with angel investors including existing backers participating. Terms and valuation were not disclosed.
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Cytix raises £5m Series A led by Northern Gritstone to police AI-written code Manchester cybersecurity startup Cytix has closed a $7m (£5.1m) Series A round led by Northern Gritstone, which put in £3m, to scale a platform that assesses the security risk of software changes generated by AI coding tools.
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Edgify raises $9m (£6.7m) Series A+ to scale its edge-AI loss-prevention platform London-based Edgify has closed a $9m (£6.7m) Series A+ round led by Rank Ventures and Mangrove Capital Partners, taking total funding to $25m (£18.5m) as it targets a $15.8bn retail computer-vision market.
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Vertical Aerospace raises $100m (£74m) to push its Valo eVTOL towards certification Bristol-based Vertical Aerospace has secured $100m (£74m), combining a $40m cheque from Mudrick Capital Management, $35m of fresh equity from existing and new backers and a $25m draw on its preferred equity facility, to fund certification of its Valo aircraft.
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Alfa AI raises £1m seed led by Sake Bosch as James Caan joins its AI recruitment platform London-based Alfa AI has closed a £1m seed round led by Sake Bosch to scale its AI-powered recruitment platform, and has appointed former Dragons' Den investor James Caan CBE as a strategic adviser.
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Mironid raises €39.9m Series B led by the Scottish National Investment Bank to advance rare kidney disease drug Glasgow biotech Mironid has raised a €39.9m ($46m) Series B led by the Scottish National Investment Bank, with Roche Venture Fund and Sofinnova Partners among the participants, to push its lead kidney disease candidate towards the clinic.
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OLIX raises €270.5m Series B at a €2.8bn valuation to challenge the AI inference chip market London-based AI chip designer OLIX has closed a €270.5m ($312m) Series B at a €2.8bn ($3.3bn) valuation just two years after it was founded, with Arm, Hudson River Trading and Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings among the backers.
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Naked Energy closes £27m Series B as Great British Energy makes its first solar bet with £7.5m Crawley-based Naked Energy has closed a £27m Series B, with a final £8.875m tranche led by Great British Energy's first major solar investment of £7.5m alongside Barclays Climate Ventures, to fund a new UK manufacturing facility for its solar-thermal technology.
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Wordsmith raises £10.4m Series B extension, taking total funding to about £62m Edinburgh legaltech Wordsmith has added $14m (£10.4m) to its Series B in an extension led by Intact Private Capital, lifting total funding raised to roughly $84m (£62m) as the company pushes further into North America.
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Humanoid raises $152m Series A at a $1.35bn valuation to become Europe's first humanoid-robotics unicorn London-based Humanoid has closed a $152m Series A led by Prime Movers Lab, minting a $1.35bn post-money valuation and what backers call Europe's first pure-play humanoid-robotics unicorn — with strategic cheques from Bosch and Schaeffler landing on the register.
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