Funding
Small businesses across the UK will benefit from new Government funding and support to help them invest in sustainability, to cut their operating costs, and boost their business.
AttiFin AI, a UK legal-AI startup, has secured £5 million in seed funding ahead of its planned launch in early 2026. The funding marks a significant endorsement of the company’s ambition to build Britain’s first enterprise-grade AI platform trained specifically on UK and devolved law.
A team of experts with over 15 years of experience in funding businesses has launched Aneli Capital, a fund to support early-stage startups in the Baltics, Poland, and other Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The €35 million fund will primarily focus on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as well as robotics, space, photonics, and energy startups, with the goal of helping them grow and become ready for follow-on investors.
The agentic vibe-coding platform, Emergent, has announced a strategic investment from Google’s AI Futures Fund. Launched in May 2025, the fund supports AI startups with capital, early access to cutting-edge AI models, and direct support from Google’s experts. Emergent will leverage this investment and support to further accelerate talent acquisition, product development, and expansion of its platform across the globe.
Quantum Dice has secured a €2 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme, with the project now officially underway following its October kick-off.
European technology investing can no longer be relegated to the continent’s economic sideline. New movement in the sector and regular activity over the past few years have made it one of the primary infrastructures on which other industries and services are built. Every month, Zubr Capital publishes a brief look at how this European tech sector is evolving, not just to summarise, but to better understand what the market is building towards.
The Invest in Women Taskforce, which was established to support female entrepreneurs in the UK, has announced Nationwide and the British Business Bank as new partners in the UK’s first female-led Fund of Funds that targets first close of £130 million, subject to final terms, relevant approvals, and signing.
Orbital Marine Power, the Scotland-based operator of one of the world’s most powerful tidal turbines, has secured a multi-million pound investment to advance its international commercial projects and contribute to the wider decarbonisation of energy.
Melt&Marble has raised €7.3 million in Series A funding to scale production and bring its first ingredients to market. Designed to deliver enhanced functionality, taste and even health outcomes, the company’s ingredients offer sustainable, high-performance alternatives to conventional oils and fats for use in personal care and food applications.
Track Titan, the AI-powered “Strava for motorsport”, has raised a $5 million seed round co-led by Partech and Game Changers Ventures, the fund led by Alpine F1 co-owner Roger Ehrenberg.
Brevo, a European leader in customer engagement software, has closed its latest €500 million financing round, officially becoming a unicorn.
Across the United States, a new industrial age is taking shape. Trillions of dollars in infrastructure, from energy projects and advanced manufacturing to data centres and critical mineral facilities, must be built in the next decade. But large construction projects are slower and more expensive today than they were half a century ago.
Mirror Security, a research-driven cybersecurity company spun out of University College Dublin, has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding to scale its breakthrough encryption platform for AI security.
Gravis Robotics has announced a new wave of industry partnerships alongside $23 million in fresh funding.
Adam Reynolds, Co‑Founder & Managing Partner at ISH, explains how startups can avoid common post-funding pitfalls and scale sustainably.
Gosta Labs, a Helsinki-based healthtech company founded by the ex-Kaiku Health founders, has closed a €7.5 million seed round to scale its AI operating system for complex medical specialties.
Global Work AI, the AI-native job-search platform focused exclusively on job seekers, has secured a $2.4 million follow-on investment from existing backers Pre-Seed to Succeed, Yellow Rocks, Smart Partnership Capital, AltaIR Capital, and TMT Investments. The new round brings the company’s total funding to $3.7 million.
The global fintech Revolut has announced the completion of a share sale, which values the company at $75 billion.
For many founders, raising funding can be something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, capital unlocks growth, on the other, funding can come with strings attached, and in some cases, a loss of strategic control.
Buildroid AI, an AI robotics startup, has emerged from stealth with $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Tim Draper, known for backing Tesla, SpaceX, Skype, and Robinhood. The startup has also announced the launch of its first block-laying robot, built using BIM-to-BUILD simulation.
