Funding

Celebrity-backed wearable WHOOP raises £575M
Celebrity-backed wearable WHOOP raises £575M

WHOOP, the wearable membership company endorsed by many celebs, has raised $575 million in Series…

How rolling closes are powering deeptech fundraising
How rolling closes are powering deeptech fundraising

Fundraising, as many startup playbooks describe it, should follow a clean arc. Raise a set…

Oxford spinout Stateful Robotics raises $4.8m
Oxford spinout Stateful Robotics raises $4.8m

Stateful Robotics, an embodied AI company spun out from the University of Oxford, has raised…

UK founders: stop confusing a pitch desk with investment readiness
UK founders: stop confusing a pitch desk with investment readiness

Rupert Lyle, FPC Regional’s Investment Director and Fund Principal of the West Midlands Co-Investment Fund…

The rise of women-led investment consortiums: what’s changing in 2026 and why now
The rise of women-led investment consortiums: what’s changing in 2026 and why now

For decades, venture capital was controlled by a select few. In 2026, women-led investment consortiums…

The $5 lottery ticket that changed how I think about funding
The $5 lottery ticket that changed how I think about funding

There are things a $5 lottery ticket teaches you that any millions of dollars in…

Future Worlds: nurturing talent, scaling innovation
Future Worlds: nurturing talent, scaling innovation

Future Worlds, the startup accelerator based at the University of Southampton, has spent the past…

Hosted.ai raises $19M Seed round to help neocloud service providers utilise wasted GPU capacity
Hosted.ai raises $19M Seed round to help neocloud service providers utilise wasted GPU capacity

Hosted.ai has raised a $19 million Seed round led by Creandum, with additional investment from…

VerbaFlo raises $7 million led by Pi Labs to build the AI Communications Platform for Global Real Estate
VerbaFlo raises $7 million led by Pi Labs to build the AI communications platform for global real estate

VerbaFlo announced it has raised a $7 million seed round, led by Pi Labs, with…

Small business lending surged to near-record in 2025
Small business lending surged to near-record in 2025

Gross SME bank lending increased by 9% to £68 billion in 2025, marking the second…

Why faster iteration matters in startups – insights from Ruslan Tymofieiev
Why faster iteration matters in startups – insights from Ruslan Tymofieiev

Speed in startups is an execution standard that directly affects outcomes. While one team is…

Tower raises $6.4m to empower data engineers in the AI era
Tower raises $6.4m to empower data engineers in the AI era

Tower has raised $6.4 million across a pre-seed and seed round to transform how data…

The case for patience CVC
The case for patience

In venture, speed is treated as a moral imperative. Founders are taught to sprint. Investors…

Legora Raises $550M Series D to fuel US growth
Legora Raises $550M Series D to fuel US growth

Legora, the collaborative AI platform for lawyers, has announced it has raised $550 million at…

Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs raises largest-ever seed round
Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs raises largest-ever seed round

Yann LeCun’s, much anticipated startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs), has raised a $1.03 billion…

Qevlar AI raises $30M to scale autonomous SOC
Qevlar AI raises $30M to scale autonomous SOC

Qevlar AI has raised $30 million in funding for its autonomous AI security operations centres…

Isembard raises $50M Series A to open 25 AI-powered factories
Isembard raises $50M Series A to open 25 AI-powered factories

Isembard has raised $50 million in Series A funding, less than 12 months after its…

Augur raises $15 million from Plural to strengthen national security
Augur raises $15 million from Plural to strengthen national security

The UK sovereign AI platform revolutionising the security capabilities of critical national infrastructure – announces…

The state of female funding in 2026
The state of female funding in 2026

The female funding gap has been a steady conversation for years, and while the industry…

UK venture funding surges into AI, NatWest’s ‘Future of UK Innovation’ report finds  
UK venture funding surges into AI

UK venture funding surged into AI in 2025, with investment increasingly concentrated in the UK’s…