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Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) United Kingdom investments
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund	8
Par Equity	6
LocalGlobe	6
SFC Capital	6
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	5
Low Carbon Innovation Fund	5
Longwall Venture	5
Scottish Investment Bank	5
Regenerate Ventures	5
Sustainable Ventures	4
Octopus Ventures	4
Perivoli Innovations	4
Development Bank of Wales	4
Metavallon VC	4
Forward Partners	4
Parkwalk Advisors	4
Notion Capital	4
Future Planet Capital	3
Innovate UK	3
Green Angel Ventures	3
David Rowan	3
True Ventures	3
Acceleris Capital	3
AgFunder	3
The Yield Lab Europe	3
Pymwymic	3
Scottish Enterprise	3
STFC Innovation Ltd	3
Counteract	3
Fly Ventures	3
Pale blue dot	3
IQ Capital	3
Ceres Agri-Tech	3
Equity Gap	3
Oxford Capital	3
Apex Black	2
South Central Ventures	2
New Climate Ventures	2
GM&C Life Sciences Fund	2
Mustard Seed	2
Novo Holdings	2
Sistema_VC	2
Happiness Capital	2
Sustainable Ocean Alliance	2
HackCapital	2
Nick Boyle	2
BACKED VC	2
SVG Ventures	2
Carbon13	2
AI Seed	2

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UKI2S, formally the Rainbow Seed Fund, is an investment fund backed by the government, providing seed funding to science & technology start-ups and SMEs

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

MitoRx Therapeutics — Developing revolutionary mitochondrial-protective therapeutics which reverse mitochondrial dysfunction to arrest decline in muscular dystrophy and neurodegeneration. MitoRx Therapeutics' first-in-class first-in-target platform has potential to arrest the progression of some of the most challenging diseases.
Oxford Space Systems — Oxford Space Systems is a multi-award-winning, record-breaking venture capital backed, space tech business that's developing a new generation of deployable antennas and space structures for the global satellite industry. Using both innovative design techniques such as origami and novel proprietary materials developed by the company, OSS'structures are lighter, less complex and lower cost than alternatives in commercial demand. Founded in late 2013, OSS set a record for the space sector with it's AstroTube Boom: the fastest development of a new product from concept to successful deployment on orbit in under 30 months. Today, the 18 strong and growing OSS team is a diverse mix of international graduates and experienced space industry professionals, with over 100 years of combined space sector experience. OSS investors include a small syndicate of UK venture capital funds together US based investors, Space Angels. Oxford Space Systems has successfully completed a number of UK government supported co-developments with leading European satellite builders as well straight commercial contracts in both Asia and the US. As part of its planned expansion, OSS move into its own custom facility at the Harwell Space Cluster in August 2018, giving it the largest clean room at the cluster. The facility will meet required security standards to undertake UK government defense & security contracts. .
Laverock Therapeutics — Laverock Therapeutics is developing a gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable, allogeneic cell therapies.

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Computer
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cyacomb — Cyacomb has created a ground-breaking digital forensic tool helping law enforcement, cloud companies and social media to fight against harmful online content.
Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
Artus — Artus is a revolutionary heating and air conditioning product. Applications include residential, commercial and high-precision environments.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Qogita — A leading global wholesale supplier that offers a wide variety of products, brands, and categories across geographies.
Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.
Victory League — The virtual home for football fandom.

SFC Capital, the UK's most active seed investor (PitchBook, 2020), provides capital and support to British startups. By combining its Angel Network and Seed Funds, SFC has created a unique model that allows investors to get exposure to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, either directly or through a diversified portfolio curated and managedby SFC’s expert team. In 2020, SFC received a £10m allocation from Business Investments as part of the Regional Angels Programme in support of SFC's mission to back promising early-stage companies from every corner of the UK.SFC Capital is an Appointed Representative of SFC Capital Partners Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 736184).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Graide — Give more feedback, faster than ever. Deliver assignments and get immediate insights into student performance. Use artificial intelligence to help you grade.
North AI — North AI operates as an AI start up company for media sector.
PulmoBiomed — Pulmobiomed has developed a best-in-class exhaled breath condensate device, capable of capturing Covid-19 particles in as little as 5 seconds. Pulmobiomed a biotechnology company is working with industry leaders in integrating their diagnostic capabilities into our PBM-Hale device. Pulmobiomed techn

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Magma — Join a community of 1mln+ artists and studios using Magma to brainstorm and ideate through digital painting on a shared canvas in real-time. Start collaboartive drawing session directly in your browser, no software installation required.
Magma — Join a community of 1mln+ artists and studios using Magma to brainstorm and ideate through digital painting on a shared canvas in real-time. Start collaboartive drawing session directly in your browser, no software installation required.
Atomic Industries — Building the future of manufacturing, end-to-end automation of tool and die making

Low Carbon Innovation Fund is a venture capital fund, providing equity finance for SME’s based wholly or partially in the East of England.The Fund is supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It uses £20.5M from the ERDF which will be matched with over £30M private sector investment – generating a total of over £50M ofinvestment in the East of England. So far the Fund has invested over £8.5M alongside £26M private co-investment in 26 investments.Turquoise International manages the Fund on behalf of the Adapt Low Carbon Group at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The Fund builds on the region's world class low carbon economy and is the largest European Regional Development Fund-funded project in the region. The Low Carbon Innovation Fund was launched in September 2010 and will run until December 2015.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Adaptavate — Adaptavate is leading the carbon change in the construction industry
weekly.shop — Zero waste, sustainable groceries with no single use plastic and no throwaway packaging. All in one place and easy to use. Our products are in specially designed ZEROWARE containers. Shop fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs and dairy, fruit juices, meat and fish, bread, dry goods, home and personal care products.
Archipelago Technology — Archipelago's patented rotating drum inkjet technology facilitates high-speed, controllable coating of substrates using paints and adhesives.

Longwall Ventures invests in innovative, UK based, early stage companies in the healthcare, science and engineering sectors

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical Device, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Wayland Additive — Wayland Additive Limited is a West-Yorkshire based company pushing the boundaries of electron beam 3D printing. Wayland’s goal is to develop, manufacture and sell metal Additive Manufacturing (“AM” – 3D printing) machines to industrial end-users such as major players in the aerospace and medical industries.
Caristo Diagnostics — Our AI powered CaRi-Heart technology uncovers coronary inflammation, atherosclerosis, and plaque progression on cardiac CT. Learn more about our award-winning technology
Lightcast Discovery — Flexible control over droplet number, occupancy, location and movement. Enabling efficient, multi-step workflows with unprecedented flexibility.

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Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
Administrate — Manage 100% of enterprise training operations with configurable training management software, designed to scale with your organization.

Regenerate Ventures is a specialist venture capital firm investing in tomorrow's sustainable agriculture

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BigSis — for agricultural pests, mosquitoes and other applications
Agreed Earth — Agreed Earth is developing the information hub for regenerative agriculture to assist farmers in making money naturally by streamlining their operations.
Green Bioactives — Green Bioactives is a research and experimental development on biotechnology company. Plant-derived bioactive compounds. The most reliable and sustainable source of bioactive compounds for the cosmetic, pharmaceutical, food and agricultural industries.

Welcome to the home of Climate Tech. We are a full service ecosystem empowering sustainable start-ups to scale through community, investment, innovation and workspace.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Biotechnology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Israel, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

PlantSea — PlantSea manufactures and develops sustainable products using seaweed and aquaculture materials. It offers bioplastics items as biodegradable alternatives. PlantSea is based in Gaerwen, England.
Uplift360 — Uplift360 is a greentech startup working in advanced material circular economy (redesign, reuse, regenerate and recycle), uniquely focused on the defence and security sector.
Danu Robotics — AI Powered Robotics Waste Management System

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Haiper — Haiper is a generative AI startup building perceptual foundation models for next-generation visual content creation.
Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.

Perivoli Innovations is a venture investment Trust established in 2016 by the Perivoli Trust. It donates profits to the Perivoli Foundation, a UK Charity, whose principal focus is Africa.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Adaptavate — Adaptavate is leading the carbon change in the construction industry
Greenspark — Turn your e-commerce business into a force for good, increase sales and engage your customers in climate action with Greenspark.
Downforce Technologies — Downforce Technologies is a pioneering leader in science-led, data-driven land management solutions focused on optimising soil health, soil organic carbon levels and biodiversity. With over 30% of the world's soil already degraded, urgent action is needed to address this pressing global challenge. Our platform offers a complete,high-resolution view of the land's carbon profile, enabling precise analysis and site-specific strategies for optimizing carbon levels.

Development Bank of Wales is formed in 2001 by the Welsh Assembly Government. Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bikmo — Bikmo exists to enable you to ride more.We build awesome insurance products to protect our customers for unexpected events, use technology to make taking out and managing your policy ultra-simple, and provide exceptional customer experiences through our team of bike geeks.We’re now 5 years into our mission to enable anyone, anywhere, to protecttheir lifestyle, so they can spend more time enjoying it. And, become the brand that resonates with and protects the passion and drive behind the bike and adventure sports community.At the heart of our business is a bunch of bike and adventure sports geeks who choose to spend their free time in the epic wild places our earth has to offer and we want to continue to be able to do just that.
Hope Macy — Hope Macy is a dynamic and expanding financial technology company. Its primary focus is on consumers who require additional security in managing their money, as well as those in the subprime sector.
Validient — Digitally automated compliance and due diligence solutions. Empower your business with the ultimate advantage.

Metavallon VC focuses on early stage (Pre-Seed and Seed) investments across sectors in Greece and Europe. With an affinity for B2B models, deep technology, and strong ties with Greece, we back pioneering teams and work alongside ambitious entrepreneurs operating at the forefront of business and technology innovation.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Greece, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Langaware — Our use of language and speech can provide a window into our brain's health. When we speak, complex neural networks work together to form our thoughts and ideas. Utilizing our patented system and proprietary biomarkers.
Trucksters — We are a transportation company that focuses on providing long distance FTL trucking service through an innovative relay system based on artificial intelligence. We achieve transit times similar to air transport while reducing the costs of traditional road transportation.
Feel Therapeutics — Feel develops Biomarkers and Digital Therapeutics to bring objective data and measurement in the way we diagnose, manage and care for Mental Health.

Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

PocDoc — PocDoc is a pioneer in the field of smartphone-based fast disease testing.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe safeguards critical infrastructure with AIoT devices, enhancing asset health and security while reducing cloud data transfers.
APEXX — The APEXX payment gateway consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.

Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009,anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth.Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
Adsilico — Adsilico redefines medical device innovation.
Wayland Additive — Wayland Additive Limited is a West-Yorkshire based company pushing the boundaries of electron beam 3D printing. Wayland’s goal is to develop, manufacture and sell metal Additive Manufacturing (“AM” – 3D printing) machines to industrial end-users such as major players in the aerospace and medical industries.

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Increase your sales efficiency by 65% with Xaver. Enhance productivity and unlock more time for customers using our specialised AI-driven sales solutions tailored for the financial sector, ensuring every agent becomes a high-achieving expert.
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Tomorrow Things — TomorrowThings builds digital twins in a one-click fashion to enable sustainability with the power of simplicity.

Brilliant Ideas. Brilliant People. Brilliant Minds.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
United Kingdom, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Captura — Captura mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
Regent — We build all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes with technology available today.
Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool

Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

North AI — North AI operates as an AI start up company for media sector.
SökerData — SökerData is a biotechnology company that provides research, and data analysis solutions for disease-related datasets.
Aelius Biotech — Aelius biotech specialise in the development of models of the mucosal surfaces of the human body. We currently have the capability to model the gastrointestinal tract and the airways, and are in the process of developing model systems to simulate the mucosal surfaces of the eye and cervico-vaginal tract.

Green Angel Syndicate is the only UK angel investment syndicate specialising in the fight against Climate Change and Global Warming.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

heata — heata supports people living in fuel poverty, It enables companies to significantly reduce their carbon footprint while saving families up to £450 per year on their energy bills. It is a ground-breaking green distributed compute network that uses computation waste heat to heat people's homes' water.
Mykor — Mykor manufactures low-carbon mycelium insulation made from biomass and powered by biotech.
Albotherm — Smart transitioning coating technology - A bright idea for shade.

David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

EWOR — Build a successful company with EWOR
Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.

A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

AccessPay — AccessPay develops and offers cloud-based payment and cash management solutions. The company’s cloud-based service provides ease of integration with any ERP, TMS, or other back-end systems. It also enables the straight-through processing of domestic and international payments via BACS, FPS, CHAPS, and SWIFT. By connecting an organization’s backoffice systems with its banks and providing a consolidated view of all banking relationships, AccessPay gives corporate enterprises real-time visibility of all cash balances and offers a detailed analysis, which helps financial professionals maximize the use of working capital. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Synadia Communications — Synadia | Secure, decentralized, secure global utility, powered by NATS for IoT, microservices and all digital systems.
Lykos Therapeutics — Lykos is aspiring to challenge the status quo through the development of novel therapies and therapeutic approaches to treat mental health conditions.

Acceleris Capital are an FCA authorised and regulated Venture Capital House offering deal by deal investment opportunities to private investors and family office.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Power Roll — Power Roll has reinvented solar to generate energy anywhere and everywhere, using any surface.
Reacta Biotech — Reacta Biotech has been established to develop, manufacture and commercialise oral food challenge materials to pharmaceutical standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
Vertical Future — Vertical Future is a technology company focused on building a better, more sustainable urban food production and supply system.

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Varaha — Varaha generates carbon credits through its tech solutions.
Neatleaf — Sustainable agriculture with optimal yields through data-driven understanding and comprehensive automation for everyone.
Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.

The Yield Lab Europe is a €50m early stage Agrifood and Ag Tech fund which comprises an accelerator and a larger follow-on fund, investing in high tech companies with the potential to significant disrupt and improve our current systems of global food production, and to improve the environmental sustainability of the industry. The main fund invests€1m each into 10-12 companies over several follow on rounds, with the strongest accelerator companies expected to progress to the main fund. The Yield Lab Europe is also part of a global network of Agrifood Tech funds, with global headquarters in St Louis USA, and sister funds in LATAM and Singapore.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Ireland, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

BiOceanOr — BiOceanOr harnessed the power of Marine Biology and AI to deliver bio-guided services that optimize fish welfare and fish growth, while supporting aquaculture sustainability standards
Solasta Bio — Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection.
Micron AgriTech — Micron Agritech is home to the Micron Kit, and allows farmers and vets to test animals on site for parasites and get results within 30 minutes

Founded in 1994, Pymwymic is the “Put Your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community”, a co-owned organisation of European wealth holders who take a frontrunner role in the transition towards investing with care for people and planet. A community that consists of over 150 individuals, families, entrepreneurs and angel investors of differentbackgrounds, ages and nationalities. We currently invest through the Pymwymic Healthy Ecosystems Impact Fund, a venture capital fund for companies that seek to conserve and restore our ecosystems, with a specific focus on sustainable food systems. By combining our knowledge, passion and money, we bring credibility to the impact investing industry and continuously push for higher standards until investing with care for people and planet is is the new norm.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
The Netherlands, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aura Imaging — Aura Imaging is proud to lead the aura photography industry. Learn all about aura photography & find top of the line equipment. Click here to start your journey
Trapview — Trapview is an integrated pest management decision support tool providing real-time insights about pest population dynamics from your fields.
OneThird — Blockchain, Food Loss, Food Waste, Food Tech, Supply Chain, Big Data, Ag Tech, Digitization, AI, Shelf Life Prediction, Quality Assessment, Fresh Produce, Dynamic Routing, UN SDG 12.3, Spectroscopy, Mobile App, and NIR Spectroscopy

Scotland's business advice, support and funding agency. Explore our products and services to find the right support for your business and apply online today.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Itza — Itza offers digital learning media and technology business focused on teens.
ilosta — Ilosta specializes in developing novel technology to reduce the cost, time, and dangers associated with monitoring the health of engineering structures and extending their lifespan without requiring human intervention.
QuickBlock — Interlocking blocks is the best way to summarise how QUICKBLOCK works to a novice. Our interlocking blocks click together to build desired structures.

STFC Innovation Ltd

Investment focus

Laser, Agriculture, Electronics
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MIRICO — Detect, localise and quantify emissions with MIRICO's revolutionary technology. Find out how we can help you with your gas monitoring today.

Carbon removal innovation through research, development and early stage investment

Investment focus

Natural Resources, Environmental Engineering, Building Material
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Adaptavate — Adaptavate is leading the carbon change in the construction industry
Parallel Carbon — Affordable direct air capture technology based on wind, sunshine, and abundant minerals. Carbon removal and reduction, in Parallel.
Agricarbon — Find out how to measure soil carbon with our scientifically rigorous and cost-effective services. Soil carbon measurement that is rigorous, cost-effective, and trusted by multinational project developers and companies.

Fly is a first check VC for technical founders solving hard problems. We invest from day-zero to seed, backing founders from all over Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.
Lakera AI — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
Orbital Materials — Orbital Materials: Building novel solutions for clean air, water and energy with AI.

We invest in diverse and ambitious founders building scalable companies that help us reduce or reverse climate change.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ember — Travel by electric bus between Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth, Kinross and more. Brand-new buses, affordable fares and real-time tracking.
Cosmic Aerospace — Cosmic Aerospace is a pioneering aerospace technology company dedicated to advancing the boundaries of propulsion systems and enabling innovative solutions for space exploration. The company collaborates with leading space agencies, research institutions, and commercial partners to design, test, and implement these groundbreaking technologies.
Pelikan Mobility — Building a new type of EV leasing company for commercial fleets: tech-enabled and operations-centric.

IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including toApple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Mindgard — Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to cyber threats against their AI models.Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely and securelymove into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation.Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing.The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world.
Tagomics — Tagomics transform disease diagnosis through comprehensive multitopic profiling.
Nu Quantum — Home NU QUANTUM Nu Quantum is a quantum networking start-up building the entanglement fabric essential to scaling quantum computers.

Ceres drives high-quality agri-tech innovation by providing translational funding and expertise to partner universities.

Investment focus

Fruit, AgTech, Farming
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FruitCast — FruitCast provides innovative AI-enabled data analytics and yield forecasting for soft fruits. Individual fruit numbers, weight, and maturity of millions of berries are measured non-destructively every day. When combined with other data sources, algorithms can anticipate yield up to six weeks in advance.

Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses based in Scotland

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ilosta — Ilosta specializes in developing novel technology to reduce the cost, time, and dangers associated with monitoring the health of engineering structures and extending their lifespan without requiring human intervention.
QuickBlock — Interlocking blocks is the best way to summarise how QUICKBLOCK works to a novice. Our interlocking blocks click together to build desired structures.
Mocean Energy — At the forefront of global wave energy industry, Mocean Energy pioneers technology for accessing the untapped potential of ocean waves.

Helping individuals and institutions invest in Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Media companies since 1999.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Scan.com — Use scan.com to find the best medical imaging centers near you Find an MRI scan, CT scan, X-ray Scan, or other diagnostic imaging scan with scan.com.
HelloSelf — The UK's Trusted Online Private Clinical Therapy Service
TextMine — Legislate is an easy-to-use contract management platform which provides a suite of customisable contracts for businesses and landlords.

Apex Black. Investing in founders boldly reimagining our world with deep innovation.

Investment focus

Fashion, 3D Technology, Textiles
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

MeVitae — end-to-end D&I recruiting tools straight into your application tracking system to combat unconscious and algorithmic bias
Materra — Materra is a planet-centric technology company working towards climate-resilient cotton agriculture. We are on a mission to accelerate the transition to a net-positive fashion industry, in harmony with people and planet.
Cerebra — At Cerebra, we are driven by a desire to shape a sustainable world where everybody can make better decisions. We give retailers the power to boost their businesses using data-driven direction without guesswork. Cerebra’s No-Code Decision Intelligence solution analyzes all available external signals and applies this to the company’s internal data,providing the path to optimal results based on the desired business outcome. This is how we leverage the full potential of connected data.Backed by Notion Capital and Wing.vc, Cerebra is on a fast-growth trajectory and is hiring great talent to shape the future of retail together.

South Central Ventures is dedicated to investments in startups, small and medium globally oriented technology companies in SE Europe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Serbia, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

AdScanner — AdScanner made its mission to empower data-driven TV advertising to increase effectiveness, transparency, speed, reduce manual, complicated, delayed reports and also to make TV more interconnected and comparable with digital channels. Our approach is to combine proprietary technologies and data.
Pixyle.ai — Pixyle.ai’s image recognition software detects fashion items in images. It's accurate and integrates seamlessly with any tech stack.The company help fashion retailers deliver visual AI solutions that allow shoppers to visually search for products and get relevant similar product recommendations on their e-commerce platforms, improving bothcustomer engagement and conversion rates. Their automatic tagging and business intelligence solutions enable retailers to save time, reduce costs, and make smarter decisions.
Mily Technologies — Mily Tech is a delivery analytics platform tailored for last-mile deliveries. It collects your data and gives it spatial context to help you quickly understand when, where and what happens on the field.

New Climate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in innovative carbon reduction and avoidance technology companies. We take an active and diversified investment approach that leverages our energy, food/ag tech, climate tech, traditional tech, finance, regulatory, market analysis, and investing experience. At New ClimateVentures, we partner with entrepreneurs to navigate the early stages of company development and growth by applying our operational, investment, team-building, and mentoring experience and providing access to our global network of investors, startups, and corporations to help founders achieve success.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

3E Nano — 3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.
Cloverly — Integrate sustainability into every transaction with carbon estimates. Neutralize the impact in real-time with carbon reduction solutions from Cloverly.
Protein Evolution — Discover a world without plastic waste through sustainable practices that create a circular world.

The GM&C Life Sciences Fund is a seed and early stage venture capital fund targeting life sciences businesses located in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire & Warrington region. The Fund is managed by Catapult Venture Managers ("Catapult Ventures").The Fund is based at Alderley Park, which is well recognised as a site ofnational importance, being the largest life sciences campus of its kind in the UK with more than 500,000 sq. ft. of top-end laboratory and related space and facilities. Until recently, the Park was the R&D headquarters for AstraZeneca.Since 2002, Catapult Ventures has backed a significant number of companies across a broad range of life sciences, including therapeutics (such as Abzena and Oxford BioTherapeutics), medical devices (such as Monica Healthcare and Probe Scientific), contract research organisations (such as R5 Pharmaceuticals and FDAS), diagnostics developers (such as Lumora and Biofortuna), as well as developers of technology used in healthcare applications (such as Oxford Cryosystems and Accutronics). The Fund is the result of a collaboration between Cheshire and Warrington Enterprise Partnership, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Cheshire East Council, and Manchester Science Partnerships.

Investment focus

Health Care, Science/Engineering, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Flynotes — Flynotes is a digital software platform helping dentists deliver personalised patient care
Panthera Biopartners — Panthera Clinical Research - Industry leading clinical trials company committed to supporting research for generations to come.
QV Bioelectronics — Manchester-based start-up QV Bioelectronics is developing innovative electrotherapy devices for the treatment of certain types of brain tumours.

Mustard Seed enables the creation and evolution of world-class businesses that generate positive and sustainable outcomes. They believe that solving big social and environmental problems drives commercial success in the long run. They seek scalable solutions to gaps currently left unfilled by government and industry in the areas of economicinclusion, education, environmental sustainability, health, and family and community.Mustard Seed invests in and incubates socially and environmentally impactful start-ups. They connect a dynamic and influential network of global members with exceptional entrepreneurial talent across the world. They also develop bespoke impact measurement frameworks and support established companies to align profit and impact through tailored strategies and effective deployment of their resources.Mustard Seed was co-founded by Alex Pitt and Henry Wigan, first classmates at the London School of Economics and later colleagues at Goldman Sachs. In 2013 Henry and Alex observed a rising appetite for socially-minded entrepreneurship among the world’s most talented graduates. They also observed a critical lack of capital to adequately meet this need. They started Mustard Seed to bridge the gap.

Investment focus

Software, Data and Analytics, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

Novo Holdings is a world-leading life science investor with a focus on creating long-term value.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Revagenix — Game-changing approach to anti-infectives
Orbis Medicines — Orbis Medicines is a novel macrocyclic chemistry and computational platform for high-throughput drug discovery.
Claris Biotherapeutics — Claris Biotherapeutics develops a topical formulation intended to cure corneal wounds, ulcers, and scars. The formulation creates a recombinant hepatocyte growth factor which accelerates the healing process, providing healthcare providers noninvasive therapeutic treatment.

Venture capital firm that backs growth-stage technology companies.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

NFWare — The World's Fastest Network Functions Virtualization. High-Performance NFV applications for carriers, data centers and enterprises
FinalPrice — New era in travel. Your search stops here and your savings begin! Private travel club for travel enthusiasts and professionals
KisanHub — KisanHub Agri-Food Supply Chain Software helps Producer Groups to transform their supply chain and improve margins with greater visibility and data driven insights. With all your supply and procurement data together in one convenient dashboard, you can better predict supply and make the most of demand. Choose from a suite of software modules thatwork seamlessly to provide fast access to crop progress, weather information, satellite imagery, stock levels and delivery schedules.

Happiness Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in startups that aim to improve the world’s happiness. The firm helps entrepreneurs to co-create a happier world as a global community. Its investment portfolio covers seed to growth-stage companies in the US, Europe, Israel, China, and Hong Kong, with the focus on the future of food, health,education, and work.Happiness Capital was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, AgTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

GOZEN — Transforming our material world. We create advanced biomaterials to unlock earth-centric design.
Gozen — Transforming our material world. We create advanced biomaterials to unlock earth-centric design.
Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.

SOA develops leaders, cultivates ideas, and accelerates solutions to the biggest problems facing our ocean through the Leadership and Accelerator programs

Investment focus

Sustainability, CleanTech, Marine Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
Hohonu — Science-Driven Water Monitoring to Improve Climate Change Adaptation; Governments, businesses, are installing Hohonu sensors to help them understand their water risk
bound4blue — bound4blue provides Rigid Sails Technologies for vessels which deliver fuel consumption reductions of up to 40%.

Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PoLoPo — PoLoPo is a biotech company that produces proteins on a large scale and according to specifications. PoLoPo develops a "superAA" plant by employing directed metabolic engineering techniques and fully utilizing plants' capacity as various metabolite and green protein factories. A significant amount of free amino acids can be producedby the superAA. The increased production of amino acids is then translated into an increase in the scale at which proteins are produced in plant organs.
twig bio — twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup. twig bio using AI and robotics to find sustainable replacements for harmful ingredients.
Cultivated Biosciences — Cultivated - Creamy, dairy-free indulgence

In 2010, Nick founded Lightsource Renewable Energy, then just a six-person start-up, which quickly grew over 5 years to become Europe’s largest solar developer and operator and a recognised global leader. In his role as Group CEO, Nick’s dynamic leadership and vision has driven the company to tremendous success and in December 2017, Lightsourceannounced a strategic partnership with BP which has committed aggressively to accelerate the low carbon transition. The company has rebranded to Lightsource BP in affirmation of this powerhouse commitment which is set to shape the future of global energy delivery. Nick previously sat at Board and Senior Director level in a number of leading retail financial service companies. Throughout his career, Nick has always been recognised for his entrepreneurial skill and success in pairing retail financial products with low-risk, predictable investments.

Investment focus

Biofuel, Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Better Origin — At Better Origin, our mission is to fix the broken food chain by converting waste into high-value insect products.
Better Origin — At Better Origin, our mission is to fix the broken food chain by converting waste into high-value insect products.

BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders at Seed in Europe. Welcome to Different.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Lopay — Lopay gives you more control, more flexibility, and instant access to the money you earn.
0G Labs — 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.
Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.

We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Mi Terro — We are an advanced material company that engineers upcycled agricultural waste into sustainable and affordable plastic-alternative and paperless biomaterials for food, fashion and packaging industries. Our proprietary technology can potentially apply to any agricultural waste, from plants to dairy.
Continuum Ag — The mission of the Billion Bushel Challenge is to build awareness, foster creativity, and enable collaboration between farmers and biofuel manufacturers.
Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende

Carbon13 is the venture builder for the climate-emergency

Investment focus

Sustainability, Environmental Consulting, Biotechnology
Pre-Seed, Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Infyos — Infyos helps battery players overcome opaque and high-risk supply chains through supplier visibility and risk identification.
Materials Nexus — Accelerating change to net-zero materials
Pattern Project — Manny - Digital Twin and AI for On-Demand Garment Manfacturing

Every year they invest £100,000 each in up to 20 early-stage startups using the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning to build great products and businesses that solve real world problems.In exchange for the investment, they look to receive 5-10% equity. We’re able to lead rounds and help startups raise more through introductionsto their network of angels and VCs.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

9fin — Everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one platform. Our full suite of high yield data products is loved by Investment Banks, Sales & Trading, Law Firms, Asset Managers and Hedge Funds.
Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Symbiotica — Symbiotica operates as an AI research firm focussed on trade execution challenges presented by modern capital markets. We've engineered a platform that facilitates full visibility of all pools of liquidity (natural trading interest) across a complex and fragmented European trading landscape.

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