After a challenging year, many mid-market businesses are looking for growth opportunities in 2025, but they’ll need finance to succeed.

Despite Christmas having a reputation for being a quiet time for fundraising, many founders will continue negotiating rounds over the holiday season.

tiun, a fintech helping media providers to attract, engage and convert younger audiences, has announced a $2.5 million pre-seed funding round led by Founderful. The funds will kick-start their efforts to become Europe's preferred way to pay for online media.

bp Ventures has invested $9 million into Zingbus, leading its Series A funding round. The startup, headquartered in Delhi, has built a tech solutions platform for electric bus operators and their customers travelling between cities. Zingbus’ platform provides front and back end digital infrastructure for bus operators, including pricing, fleet management and route optimisation services, together with a dedicated ticketing marketplace.

Transformative freight procurement and management tool Loadar has raised a $4 million seed funding round, led by Frontline Ventures with follow-on participation from existing investor Techstart Ventures. Founder and CEO Ciaran Doherty will use the funds to grow the team headcount and expand to the US, building on the success to date in Europe.

TG0, a company reshaping the human-machine interface landscape, has closed a £4.5 million Series B funding round led by NetmindAI with additional support from WP Health.

Raising your first round of funding is often painted as a rite of passage for a startup, the shiny trophy that signals you’re on your way to unicorn status. But here’s the truth that gets glossed over in all the LinkedIn celebration posts: not everyone raises when (or even if) they think they will.

Over 3 million cases of fraud are reported in the UK every year, shockingly it accounts for nearly 40% of all reported crime. To tackle this, financial institutions are turning to AI but AI requires large amounts of data and access to that data is a challenge.

Baller League, the 6x6 football league with a rapidly growing fan base, has announced that it has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by EQT Ventures. This follows an $8 million round closed in Summer 2024.

Embeddable, an award-winning developer tool for building interactive customer-facing analytics directly within software applications, has announced the close of its oversubscribed €6 million seed funding round.

KHP Ventures has launched the Innovations in Mental Health (IMH) Fund, which is dedicated to accelerating technologies with the potential to transform mental health outcomes. Portfolio companies will be supported through a first-of-its-kind delivery partnership with the UK’s largest mental health provider, the South London, and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM).

Startup Maisa confirms it has completed a $5m pre-seed round funded by NFX and Village Global, VCs backed by many of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs.

The grant landscape has come on leaps and bounds in the last decade. Not only has the UK broadened its horizon to include societal innovation, but it has strengthened its regional focus to help communities and industries across the country.

ANYbotics, a specialist in AI-driven robotic inspection solutions, has raised an additional $60 million, bringing its total funding to over $130 million.

Ayan Capital, a London-based fintech, has successfully raised £2.8 million in equity funding which will be used to expand halal car finance and other Islamic finance products in the UK.

The German energy startup SpotmyEnergy has secured fresh capital amounting to 10.5 million euros in a seed financing round.

In an exciting development for the culinary and hospitality industry, Yhangry has successfully raised over $1 million in investment within a mere two weeks. This funding round has attracted notable investors, including TV personality Ollie Locke, Co-Founder of Mr & Mrs Smith Tamara Lohan, and Michael Seibel the MD of Y Combinator. With plans to expand into the US market in 2025, Yhangry is poised for significant growth.

SatVu, a pioneer in climate technology, has secured a €1 million project to reduce its time-to-market and scale up its operations by partnering up with one of the world’s foremost independent energy and commodities trading companies.  

AgriRobot, a pioneering agritech company developing safety software for autonomous agricultural robots, has announced the successful first closing of its latest funding round. This investment brings the total capital raised by the Danish innovator to more than €2.5 million and will fuel AgriRobot’s mission to revolutionise agriculture by enabling safe and efficient autonomous agricultural operations.

Nscale, the hyperscaler engineered for AI, has announced that it has raised $155 million in Series A funding to accelerate expansion across Europe and North America. Led by Sandton Capital Partners, with participation from Kestrel, Bluesky Asset Management, and Florence Capital, this oversubscribed funding round signals strong confidence in Nscale’s path to building the hyperscaler, purposely engineered for AI.