Cambridge Photon Technology (CPT), a deeptech spin-out from the University of Cambridge, has raised £1,556,000 in new funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its photon-multiplier technology. The pre-Series A round combines £926,000 in equity investment with a £630,000 grant from Innovate UK’s Investor Partnerships: Clean Energy and Climate Technologies programme.

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Legal complexity is one of the biggest hidden barriers to growth for UK startups and SMEs. GitLaw, founded by UK entrepreneur Nick Holzherr, has raised a $3 million pre-seed round to power the launch of its agent – part of GitLaw’s platform built for startups and small businesses, not law firms – that helps teams draft, review, and negotiate contracts in minutes, for free.

Swiss battery startup BTRY AG has raised $ 5.7 million in an oversubscribed seed round. The funds will accelerate the industrialisation of its ultra-thin solid-state batteries – a new category of energy storage combining fast charging, extreme temperature stability, and intrinsic safety in one of the world’s thinnest formats.

Bumblebee Power, an Imperial spinout pioneering next-generation wireless charging, has been awarded funding support by the UK Space Agency for a project with MDA Space, a trusted mission partner to the rapidly growing space economy, to advance the use of wireless power in space.

LambdaVision, a biotech innovator leveraging microgravity to manufacture its investigational protein-based artificial retina to help patients regain sight lost to retinal degenerative diseases, has closed a $7 million seed funding round co-led by Seven Seven Six and Aurelia Foundry Fund, with additional support from Seraphim Space, providing runway into 2027.

Fashion technology startup Fit Collective, founded by Savile Row-trained designer Phoebe Gormley, has raised £3 million in pre-seed funding, marking the largest round ever raised by a solo female founder in the UK.

Rolo Robotics, the robotics startup behind APAC’s first fully autonomous hot food kiosks, has announced the close of an oversubscribed funding round backed by A2D Ventures, BEENEXT, Seedstars, TIS Japan, Antler, Lotus One Investment, and Blueprint Ventures.

Human Health, the patient-first precision health platform founded by former Canva product leaders dedicated to giving everyone access to personalised healthcare, has secured £4.1 million from LocalGlobe, Airtree, and Skip Capital. The Seed round also saw participation from notable angels, including Arvind Rajan (Cricket Health), Eric Salama (former Kantar CEO) and David Shein (GP at OIF Ventures).

mimic, a Zurich-based robotics company, has raised $16 million in funding led by Elaia, alongside Speedinvest, to deploy its frontier physical AI across industries, enabling robots to handle complex, dexterous tasks that conventional machines cannot.

octonomy, the German-founded AI company building agentic systems for complex enterprise support and service workflows, has announced the successful completion of a new seed round totalling $20 million, led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital, with participation from Capnamic, NRW.Bank, and theTechVision Fund. This brings octonomy’s total funding to $25 million since its founding 15 months ago.

Antidote, a new London-based accelerator, has launched with £2.5 million in funding from Fulgur Ventures, Initial Capital, and a group of private angel investors.

Simon Sansome, the creator of Snowball, a startup mobile app that describes itself as ‘the Trip Advisor for the disabled community’, secured backing from all five moguls on the hit BBC show, Dragons’ Den.

Legora, the collaborative AI platform for lawyers, has announced the completion of a Series C round of $150 million at a $1.8 billion valuation, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with significant investment from existing investors ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Redpoint Ventures, Benchmark, and Y Combinator, to accelerate its global expansion and growing product roadmap.

Uluu, an Australian startup which turns seaweed into a plastic alternative, has raised over £7 million ($16 million AUD) in Series A funding to build a demonstration plant for the industrial production of its materials.

Zempler, a digital bank serving startups and microbusinesses, has announced a new partnership with iwoca, one of Europe’s leading SME lenders, to expand its SME offering and make business lending more accessible.

Tracxn has released its UK FinTech Report for 9M 2025, highlighting key investment and ecosystem trends across the country’s financial technology sector. The report captures funding, IPO, acquisition, and investor activity during the nine-month period ending September 2025.

SpinDrive has raised new growth funding. The company’s frictionless machinery products enable industrial end-users and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to achieve higher energy efficiency and productivity, while reducing operational emissions, maintenance costs, and pollution from oil-based lubricants.

Formalize, a rapidly scaling compliance software company, has raised €30 million in a Series B funding round to accelerate its mission of becoming Europe’s leading platform for governance, risk, and compliance.

Chainguard, the trusted source for open source, announced $280 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF). This investment, which will help Chainguard meet growing demand and accelerate its mission to make open source software trustworthy by default, follows the company’s Series D fundraise in April and marks $636 million total secured in the past six months and $892 million in total.