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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in United Kingdom (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in United Kingdom Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Par Equity
VC Fund
85 United Kingdom, United States, Brazil Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $103k–$4.3M
SFC Capital
VC Fund
73 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $123k–$2.5M
Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
65 United Kingdom, United States, France Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $199k–$7.5M
Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
59 United Kingdom, United States, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $991k–$44M
Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund
55 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $119k–$8.4M
Seraphim Space
VC Fund
48 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Aerospace, Software, Information Technology $70k–$25M
Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
46 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $197k–$5.7M
Kelvin Capital
VC Fund
42 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $167k–$4.5M
The FSE Group
VC Fund
42 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $106k–$5.4M
Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
41 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $3.4M–$22M
Ascension
VC Fund
41 United Kingdom, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $236k–$10M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
40 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.1M–$43M
Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund
39 United Kingdom, Singapore, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning $54k–$41M
Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
37 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $19k–$5.5M
Foresight Group
VC Fund
36 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Seed Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $648k–$8.3M
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
36 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$30M
Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund
35 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $800k–$56M
IQ Capital
VC Fund
34 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.3M–$40M
Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
33 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $375k–$12M
7percent Ventures
VC Fund
32 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $125k–$7M
MMC Ventures
VC Fund
28 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.4M–$54M
Future Planet Capital
VC Fund
27 United Kingdom, United States, Singapore Seed, Convertible Note Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $670k–$5.1M
IP Group
VC Fund
27 United Kingdom, United States, Australia Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $325k–$68M
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund
27 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $582k–$5.9M
Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
27 United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $46k–$10M
Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
26 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $648k–$15M
Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund
26 United Kingdom, United States, Hungary Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $250k–$14M
Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
25 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics $1.3M–$168M
Seedrs
VC Fund
25 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, FinTech $44k–$3.4M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
25 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $411k–$33M
Newable Private Investing
VC Fund
24 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $196k–$5.6M
Innovate UK
VC Fund
24 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $58k–$3.5M
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VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $951k–$18M
Antler
VC Fund
23 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Salica
VC Fund
22 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Secondary Market, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $645k–$346M
Aster
VC Fund
21 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Energy, Software, Manufacturing $281k–$27M
Accel
VC Fund
20 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.3M–$75M
Charlie Songhurst
Angel
20 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$24M
Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund
19 United Kingdom, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $576k–$13M
Oxford Capital
VC Fund
19 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.7M–$16M
Equity Gap
VC Fund
19 United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, SaaS $157k–$18M
Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund
19 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2.2M–$37M
Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$18M
Crowdcube
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, Spain, France Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Seed Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software $108k–$4.9M
SOSV
VC Fund
17 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Praetura Ventures
VC Fund
17 United Kingdom, Australia, Germany Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $261k–$7.2M
Cambridge Innovation Capital
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2M–$73M
YFM Equity Partners
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States, Belgium Private Equity, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $3M–$10M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
16 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.5M–$102M
Low Carbon Innovation Fund
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy $118k–$22M
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Par Equity
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 85 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 299
  • Round size: Seed $416k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $103k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $122M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
  • PathXL — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
  • Skylark Lasers — UniKLasers specialises in single frequency, continuous wave DPSS lasers at mid- to high power. Suitable for Raman, Holography, Interferometry, Microscopy, Metrology, Quantum Technologies, and more
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SFC Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 73 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 56 in the past 12 months

Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 777
  • Round size: Seed $123k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$858k; Venture - Series Unknown $201k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
  • Anemo Labs — We develop highly selective polymer-based sensors to detect gas VOCs in the ppb range, in real-time. We combine custom hardware with Machine Learning to characterize smells
  • INTELLIGENT MASS SPEC SOLUTIONS — Intelligent Mass Spec Solutions develops urine-based mass spectrometry and machine learning diagnostics for adrenal cancer.
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 65 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Speak with our team, who can help you find sources of finance, engage with funders and secure investment to grow your business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 287
  • Round size: Seed $331k–$3.1M; Series A $1.7M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $199k–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

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. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
  • Administrate — Manage instructor-led training with Administrate. Plan, schedule, communicate, resolve issues, and report on training operations from one platform.
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 59 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 337
  • Round size: Seed $991k–$4.9M; Series A $1.6M–$14M; Series B $1.8M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
  • MoA Technology — We harness the principles of natural selection to accelerate discovery for better, safer herbicides so farmers can continue to feed the world.
  • Quantum Motion — Quantum Motion delivers scalable silicon-based quantum computing using standard semiconductor manufacturing technology.
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Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 55 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 35 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 401
  • Round size: Seed $387k–$4.3M; Grant $119k–$4.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $681k–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CSignum — Revolutionising underwater communications with electromagnetic technology for seamless data integration between surface & submerged devices.
  • Calterra — Calterra is an climate-tech firm that uses AI and satellite/drone data to monitor & verify carbon & biodiversity outcomes.
  • SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
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Seraphim Space
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 48 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem. They are an ambitious team with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences in Venture. Collectively they have over 100 years’ experience, investing in over 180 early and growth stage businesses, returning more than £750 million to theirshareholders.They are also fortunate to have one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and experts in Earth Observation on board. They work closely with their portfolio companies and always strive to create meaningful value and endeavour to ensure that the full value of their network and partners is utilised.The backing of leading global corporates in the Space sector and the leading Space related Governmental Agencies in the UK and Europe brings significant value. They are able to leverage their capital, industry leading knowledge and networks, creating an ecosystem that delivers real results for your business. From roots to market, sales and marketing, partnerships, follow-on capital, and M&A they can deliver value creation across the company growth cycle globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Aerospace, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 225
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.7M; Pre-Seed $70k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $100M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • aXenic — aXenic are leaders in optical modulators for satellite and aerospace communications.
  • Zenithon — Zenithon is building machine learning models to provide a step change in the development and optimization of technology.
  • Hubble Network — Connect a Bluetooth device to a global satellite network, delivering affordable, low-power tracking and monitoring for diverse industrial and commercial applications.
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 46 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$4M; Pre-Seed $197k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $477k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Go Swag — Branded gifts for people you work with
  • Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
  • Foresight — Foresight turns regulatory change into confident action. Compliance-critical teams see every change that affects their products across chemicals, sustainability, product safety, ESG, and HSE, with the evidence to act.
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Kelvin Capital
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 42 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Kelvin Capital was founded in 2009 and has since raised a total of over £50million into 28 portfolio companies. We invest venture capital in revenue generating growth companies which have the potential to deliver significant return to their investors. They also invest in companies that require capital to grow their business. For the right companywith the right team, Kelvin Capital provides the investment and the support needed to deliver the true potential of their business.The Kelvin Capital team has a combined 30 years experience of working with new businesses and understands both the challenges and opportunities, which will be encountered during the high growth phase. The team has built up extensive networks, which will be made available to assist and support the portfolio businesses. Kelvin Capital will actively promote the portfolio businesses through its website and social media activities raising their awareness and profile. The entire Kelvin Capital team is focused on the success of their portfolio of businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $167k–$1.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $485k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kenoteq — Discover Kenoteq, pioneering the sustainable construction revolution with our innovative, ultra low-carbon building materials.
  • Aurora Avionics — Accelerating launch-vehicle development with flexible and modular avionics platforms.
  • Sofant Technologies — Sofant is developing a low cost RF MEMS technology that solves power consumption and heat problems in high frequency phased array antenna systems.
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The FSE Group
VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 42 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

The FSE Group provides growth finance and support for ambitious UK businesses, helping SMEs start, scale and succeed through tailored funding solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 277
  • Round size: Seed $294k–$2.3M; Debt Financing $106k–$696k; Venture - Series Unknown $485k–$5.4M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
  • SageTech — Integrating simply, seamlessly and universally into existing anaesthetic equipment, the practical solution is supported by an easy to use, fully managed...
  • Amino —
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 41 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 605
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$21M; Private Equity $6.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Citrus-Lime — Support notifications from the CitrusLime team. Please note that we don't see tweets sent to this account
  • Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
  • Thames Card Technology —
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Ascension
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 41 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.

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  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 325
  • Round size: Seed $236k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $790k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $21M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
  • Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
  • Honest Mobile — It's time for mobile done right. Explore SIM-only plans that include bills that go down, support in seconds and a shrinking carbon footprint as standard. One of the UK's top-rated mobile networks.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 40 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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.

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  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 440
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.8M–$22M; Series B $8M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
  • Metris Energy — The AI-native operating system for renewable energy.
  • Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 39 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 485
  • Round size: Seed $54k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $55k–$2.7M; Series A $5.1M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $133M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • ByteAsk — Derisk your AI agents
  • Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
  • Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund · Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom · 37 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 294
  • Round size: Seed $279k–$3M; Debt Financing $19k–$3.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $383k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • nisien.ai — Nisien.ai uses industry-leading AI for the detection, defence and resolution of online harm, for better online safety and digital wellbeing.
  • Design and Supply — Design and Supply are specialist manufacturers and suppliers of Industrial Steel Doors and Architectural Products.
  • MeOmics Technology — MeOmics Technology is a biotech company with a focus on improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental health illnesses. The company operates in the manufacturing industry and has a team of 9 employees. The team includes experts in Neuronal Cell Biology and Neuropsychopharmacology. The company's mission is to leverage technology to enhancethe understanding and treatment of mental health conditions.
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Foresight Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 36 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 230
  • Round size: Seed $648k–$7.3M; Private Equity $2.1M–$8.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $979k–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $120M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Vertal — Vertal is a food waste recycling company
  • Welding Engineers — Welding Engineers has been in business since 1966 and is a major independent door company specialising in the manufacture, installation, repair and maintenance of all types of Industrial Doors and Shutters, Steel Fabrication, Lift Gates and Shutters, Industrial Roofing and Structural Glazing.
  • Industrial Engineering Plastics — Industrial Engineering Plastics delivers specialist thermoplastic fabrication, DW154-compliant ductwork, machining, and plastics distribution
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 36 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 32 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 440
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.1M; Series A $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Phase0 — Payment platform for construction projects
  • Resolutiion — Resolutiion provides AI-powered software for managing commercial conflict, delivery risk, and business relationship performance. The platform supports organizations with dispute detection, workflow automation, contract monitoring, issue resolution, and operational risk management across customers, suppliers, workforce teams, and commercialpartnerships. Its system uses AI-driven analysis to identify relationship friction, monitor delivery performance, and support structured resolution processes. Resolutiion also provides commercial intelligence tools, reporting, and collaboration features for enterprise delivery and governance management.
  • Maven Robotics — Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general purpose AI robots.
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Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 35 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Amadeus Capital Partners, Venture Capital For Technology Companies. We Back Entreprenuers To Win. Contact Our Experienced Team Of Investors Today

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 277
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$9.2M; Series A $2.6M–$30M; Series B $7.2M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • iPremom — iPremom is a healthcare technology company that develops molecular diagnostic solutions for the early detection and prediction of pregnancy complications, particularly preeclampsia.
  • Slamcore — Positioning, mapping and perception | State-of-the-art visual SLAM turns sensor data into actionable, spatial understanding for your vehicles.
  • Respiro Diagnostics — Respiro is harnessing insights from the breath to detect lung cancer earlier, non-invasively, and without scans or radiation. Built for use in everyday care settings.
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IQ Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 34 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 214
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $4.7M–$40M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
  • Imperagen — Imperagen is a biotechnology research company focused on enzyme engineering, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology.
  • Nuclear Turbine — Delivering advanced nuclear generation for markets where the cost of electricity is a growth constraint.
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 33 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$3M; Series A $2M–$9.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $375k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
  • Orthofuse — Orthofuse designs and manufacturers advance orthopaedic solutions using 3D printing technology. Their focus is on bringing precision and simplicity to complex surgical procedures, creating implants and systems that fit naturally into a surgeon's workflow while delivering dependable outcomes.
  • Singular Photonics — Singular Photonics is a startup that creates SPAD-based image sensors.
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7percent Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 32 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Venture X is our top-notch financial investment firm Webflow Template created for modern VC and investor firms looking for a dark mode website design.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 205
  • Round size: Seed $405k–$7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $39M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • cheMastery — Echo handles repetitive tasks with accuracy and precision, allowing your chemists to tackle high-value challenges.
  • Vosbor — Vosbor is a digital grain & oilseed trading platform providing a spot and forward market to reconcile trade data & securely share documents.
  • Paddington Robotics — Paddington Robotics specializes in implementation of AI, robotics, software and hardware solutions in real life.
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 28 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

MMC is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in exceptional entrepreneurs across Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 261
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $2.9M–$19M; Series B $10M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $129M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenithon — Zenithon is building machine learning models to provide a step change in the development and optimization of technology.
  • ABEX — Algorithmic Best Execution for digital assets driven by an ultra low latency, high frequency, agency trading engine and enhanced by deep quantitative research.
  • Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
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Future Planet Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 27 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Brilliant Ideas. Brilliant People. Brilliant Minds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 287
  • Round size: Seed $670k–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $23M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Unloq AI — Unloq is a Decision Intelligence Platform that turns your company data and live market signals into governed strategic recommendations. Approved, tracked, measured.
  • Nourished — At Nourished we create innovative. personalised nutrition stacks that are truly unique to you. Vegan, waste-free and always made to order.
  • K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
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IP Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 27 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 231
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$7.6M; Series A $2.4M–$30M; Series B $7.9M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $50M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Eight19 — Eight19, located in Cambridge, UK, develops and manufactures plastic photovoltaics for energy harvesting, for the internet of things and for off-grid applications. Through the innovative use of industry-standard, high-volume, roll-to-roll processes and solution-based organic photoactive materials, the company has a highly cost-effective route forscaling-up its technology to supply the largest markets. Eight19 is currently producing modules on a small scale for commercial partners with applications in indoor energy harvesting for wireless sensor and controllers, signage and display, and outdoor power for portable electronics. Our plastic PV modules benefit from flexibility, thinness, light-weight and robustness.
  • MAKO — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
  • Mach42 — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
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UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund · Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 27 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Round size: Seed $582k–$5.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Zentraxa — NATURE ENGINEERED FOR PURPOSE Through millions of years of evolution, nature has found solutions to the most difficult problems. Inspired by the diversity of nature, we precision engineer bespoke biomaterials to meet the toughest challenges across
  • StandardX — StandardX is a deep-tech company building the isotope refinery powered by a scalable, compact particle accelerator platform.
  • INTELLIGENT MASS SPEC SOLUTIONS — Intelligent Mass Spec Solutions develops urine-based mass spectrometry and machine learning diagnostics for adrenal cancer.
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · 27 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 270
  • Round size: Seed $46k–$1.6M; Series A $295k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • OneClickComply — Automate SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and 10+ frameworks. OneClickFix remediates 1,000+ controls automatically. Trusted by 30+ organisations.
  • Land Digital — Land Digital is a tech, web design, web creation, content marketing, digital marketing, SEO, and mobile application agency.
  • Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 26 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Round size: Seed $783k–$5M; Private Equity $981k–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $648k–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • KubeNet — We are KubeNet - a multi-award winning technology solutions provider based in Glasgow. Whether it's Managed IT, IT Support, Cloud, Connectivity, Voice or Cyber Security, we're by your side as your trusted technology partner.
  • Tixserve — Secure, Trackable, Interactive Digital Tickets for Live Events
  • ReadyGo Diagnostics — ReadyGo Diagnostics has invented a novel “Diagnostic Pen”. Low cost, intuitive to use from the raw sample, the ReadyGo Pen will be a game-changer in the newly emerging consumer diagnostics market, offering a yes/no answer in minutes, based on molecular analysis.
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Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 26 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Hungary

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2.1M; Series A $1.3M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $394k–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.
  • Distil.ai — Distil.ai is a software platform that helps businesses to understand their customers’ behavior and identify buying signals.
  • MRC Engineering — MRC Engineering Providing a different option to the UK Rail Industry for Telecoms Design. Nationally renowned design specialists who provide extraordinary ...
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 25 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$45M; Series B $9.1M–$168M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $299M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • ReEmerge — ReEmerge is a medical technology company that specializes in cognitive network restoration therapy.
  • MCatalysis — Manufacturing drop-in liquid commodities from distributed hydrocarbon feedstocks below commodity cost with small modular refining.
  • Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
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Seedrs
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 25 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 312
  • Round size: Seed $45k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $44k–$488k; Equity Crowdfunding $125k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
  • LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
  • OurPetsLife — At OurPetsLife, our mission is to empower pet owners with innovative, reliable, and accessible Pet products trusted by the professionals. From dog food, supplements for pets, shampoo, pet treats, dental care & much more.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 25 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 674
  • Round size: Seed $797k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
  • Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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Newable Private Investing
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 24 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Newable exists to power business growth. Our strategy of Buy, Grow, Realise focuses on the regulated B2B market.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$3.1M; Series A $1.5M–$5.6M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
  • Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
  • EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology
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Innovate UK
VC Fund · Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom · 24 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 90 in the past 12 months

Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1242
  • Round size: Seed $143k–$3.5M; Grant $62k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $58k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
  • 52 North Health — At 52 North we are developing fully-integrated clinical, AI and medical-device based systems.
  • Productive Machines — Productive Machines Chatter-free Milling Software Optimization Service for every Machine Shop. Apply our recommended spindle speeds and feed rates to your specific machine settings and make the best part, faster, right first time.
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VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 23 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

We build relationships early, make decisions quickly, but engage with you for the long term. Our focus is getting B2B software companies at Pre-Seed and Seed to a successful Series A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $951k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $3.2M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $96M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Veridue — Veridue uses AI to automate M&A due diligence and project finance for renewable energy.
  • SimplyCook — SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.SimplyCook boxes contain 4 easy to follow recipes and 4 ingredient kits. Each kit is designed to provide perfect taste-containing ingredient blends devised by professional chefs.
  • Mantic — Mantic is a world-class technical team on a mission to solve the next AI grand challenge: predicting global events with superhuman accuracy, and deploying this capability to power radically improved decision-making in business and government.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 23 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2382
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
  • myluigi.ai — Luigi is an AI-Powered Full-Stack Game Growth-as-a-Service platform designed to help mobile game studios scale user acquisition, engagement and lifetime value without adding headcount. Its dual-engine architecture automates and operates everything from ad campaign creation and real-time creative optimization to personalized in-game offers and LTVforecasting—delivered through a single, easy-to-integrate and unified dashboard. With a flexible per-title pricing model and powerful machine-learning insights, Luigi empowers mid-sized and indie developers to reduce CPI, boost retention and chart a clear path toward sustainable growth and seven-figure ARR.
  • RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
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Salica
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 22 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 249
  • Round size: Seed $645k–$4.3M; Series A $3.9M–$19M; Secondary Market $60M–$346M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $12M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
  • CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
  • Modern Milkman — Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based milk delivery company.
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Aster
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 21 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Round size: Series A $1.8M–$20M; Series B $7M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $281k–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $283M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
  • Aether Fuels — Enabling a net zero world through sustainable liquid fuels.
  • Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 20 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2492
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $4.3M–$40M; Series B $10M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $750M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Vectra AI — Vectra AI, the cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks from modern attacks.
  • MobStac — Developer of a cloud-based mobile marketing platform designed to connect the digital and physical worlds through the use of innovative technology. The company's platform is based on the principals of proximity marketing and engage customers in a personalized, context-aware way that leverages indoor location and proximity, enabling businessesand brands to leverage BLE beacon technology to deliver context-rich experiences to their end users.
  • Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 20 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 25 in the past 12 months

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 258
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.1M; Series A $2.9M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeit AI — Zeit AI, founded by former Palantir engineers, generates a structured data base atop your tabular data files which you can query using natural language. For example, you suspect an efficiency in your organisation and you have a bunch of data files, instead of reading through all of them one by one in excel, you explore them in Zeit AI. Theycurrently offer a two-week pilot program where their engineers develop tailored solutions for data challenges involving CSV, Excel, or PDF files.
  • Mantic — Mantic is a world-class technical team on a mission to solve the next AI grand challenge: predicting global events with superhuman accuracy, and deploying this capability to power radically improved decision-making in business and government.
  • Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
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Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 19 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $576k–$3.2M; Series A $2.2M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $659k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $38M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • StratoBayes — Automated stratigraphic correlation with quantified uncertainty, built on Bayesian statistical inference.
  • Camena Bioscience — Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications. It has engineered new nucleic acid synthesis technology which improves the quality and speed of synthesis. Its multi-enzymatic technology takes one approach to DNA, RNA, and XNA synthesis, offering increased accuracy over existingPhosphoramidite synthesis technology.Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
  • Warwick Acoustics Ltd — Warwick Acoustics is a UK-based technology company specialising in the development of HighRes Audio solutions for the automotive and headphone markets based on its patented High Precision Electrostatic Laminate technology (HPELs). Their ultra thin, lightweight HPELs deliver audiophile performance across a bandwidth several octaves greater thantraditional moving coil speakers in a form factor that is less than one quarter the weight, and one tenth of the thickness. In addition, HPELs offer designers unparalleled flexibility to shaped and form a speaker to individual design requirements.
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Oxford Capital
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 19 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.9M; Series A $3.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $66M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Flyttr — Flyttr is the leader in developing and deploying biosecurity countermeasures against critical pest threats that spread disease, threaten food security.
  • 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.
  • Noggin HQ — The next generation of credit referencing is coming. Look busy.
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Equity Gap
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 19 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $428k–$3M; Series A $2.8M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $157k–$6.3M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mirna — Soon to be launched, our AI-powered MI:RNA platform is designed to detect a range of diseases prior to the development of clinical signs. This groundbreaking
  • QuickBlock — QUICKBLOCK delivers training environments, deployable infrastructure and force protection solutions for defence and security organisations worldwide.
  • Gutsy Health — Bloated after eating? Tired of feeling like sh!t? Are you really doing all the right stuff for your gut? We'll help you make good gut choices
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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 19 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Crane is a London based VC firm investing and building seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep technology businesses across Europe. Our strategy is to support founders in building and executing their go-to-market strategy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $2.9M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $2.2M–$16M; Series A $10M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Expanse — Expanse helps companies unlock more capacity from their GPU clusters.
  • Outerlimit — Outerlimit provides AI security and governance for agentic AI systems, with controls for identity, access, risk assessment, and activity.
  • OLIX — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 18 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 202
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
  • Artificial Labs — Artificial connects brokers and insurers across the specialty market. Underwriting technology and placement tools to move risk faster, with less in the way.
  • Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
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Crowdcube
VC Fund · Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom · 18 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced investor, we make it simple to buy and sell shares in Europe's most exciting high-growth businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1052
  • Round size: Seed $376k–$4.9M; Convertible Note $246k–$3.8M; Equity Crowdfunding $108k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.3M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • ROLEY's — ROLEY’S is a beverage company that produces vitamin-enriched lager. Its drinks are formulated with B-vitamins such as B3, B5, B6, and B9 and contain minimal sugar and carbohydrates. The company aims to offer an alternative beer option that aligns with modern nutrition and wellness preferences.
  • Emerald — Comprehensive in-clinic biomarker testing, GP-reviewed results with past health data integration and personalised action plan. Designed to help you understand your risks earlier and act with medical support.
  • When in Rome | B Corp™ — We bring you craft wines made by small, independent producers and sold in convenient, eco-friendly bag-in-boxes at a great price with free delivery.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 17 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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Praetura Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom · 17 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Praetura Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs with more than money since 2011. Click to find out more about how we can help businesses and investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 167
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$7.2M
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $123M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Tended — Tended creates advanced solutions to change how people work and improve employee safety across high-risk industries. Through a combination of wearable technology and behavioural science, Tended's main focus is to drive positive behavioural change, which has proven benefits on both an individual and organisational level.Tended'ssolutions are currently improving safety across industry-leading companies in sectors including construction, manufacturing, utilities and logistics.
  • Holdson — Holdson is an electrochemical polishing machine tool supplier aiming to address the issue of inconsistent surface finishes on additive manufactured components.The technology is producing intellectual property through patents, providing a competitive advantage in the advanced machinery industry.
  • PEAK:AIO — PEAK:AIO delivers software-defined storage for AI, enabling fast, scalable data infrastructure and optimized GPU utilization.
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Cambridge Innovation Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 16 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

As a team, we have a passion for science and its potential to drive change. Through our expertise and our position in one of the country's most powerful science and technology ecosystems, we're able to identify and support the most promising entrepreneurs in knowledge intensive businesses and help them achieve their vision.With our financial backing and expert guidance, we're excited to enable the pioneers in life sciences and deep tech to create world-leading companies whose unique ideas bring financial success and global impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$31M; Series A $2.6M–$73M; Series B $8.2M–$61M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $332M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Immutrin — Immutrin is a biotechnology company developing next‑generation antibody therapies designed to clear systemic amyloid deposits and reverse amyloidosis, this company lead asset targets ATTR cardiomyopathy, a severe and progressive form of amyloidosis, and its antibody represents a potential best‑in‑class treatment engineered to selectively andspecifically remove established amyloid fibrils.
  • Trent AI — Trent AI creates AI applications and agent security management software. It aids in risk assessment and mitigation in systems utilizing autonomous or semi-autonomous software agents. The company's technology monitors agent activity across APIs, tools, and workflows. It continuously assesses security posture via iterative scanning andcontextual understanding of system architectures.
  • TRIMTECH Therapeutics — Transformative treatments for CNS and inflammatory disorders by selectively destroying disease-causing protein aggregates
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YFM Equity Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 16 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

YFM Equity Partners is an independent private equity business owned by its senior management and investment team. They invest up to £10 million of equity through offices in Leeds, London, Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$10M; Private Equity $3M–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $115M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • DynaRisk — DynaRisk is a cyber security company. DynaRisk combines personal risk factors with external data and algorithms to determine an individual’s level of risk online.
  • GEEIQ — GEEIQ helps brands decide if, where and how to show up in gaming: audience data, partner and platform comparisons, and measurement your stakeholders trust.
  • New Net Technologies — A complete change & configuration Management solution for every configurable item within your IT estate
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 16 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1579
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$16M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • PanGenetics — PanGenetics B.V. develops monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of immune mediated diseases.PanGenetics is a clinical development company that specializes in taking antibodies from the late research stage through to clinical proof of concept. The company is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands with an office in Cambridge, UK. PanGenetics employsa lean business model with manufacturing and clinical development activities outsourced to specialist providers. Apart from PG110, the other clinical program of PanGenetics is PG102, a CD40 antagonist for treatment of autoimmune diseases which is currently being evaluated in a clinical study in psoriatic arthritis patients
  • Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
  • The Cambridge Satchel Company — Beautiful leather satchels and music bags in a variety of sizes, colours - backpack or shoulder strap styles. Made in England, the traditional school satchel is back and looking better than ever.
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Low Carbon Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom · 16 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $118k–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • 8power — 8power focus on the global water community to offer an end-to-end condition based maintenance (CBM) to prevent failure and lower costs
  • Kubos Semiconductors — Kubos Semiconductors is develop and commercialize cubic-GaN for high efficiency, low-cost LEDs using intellectual property.
  • Natural Resources — Natural Resources is a manufacturing company that develops sustainable and biodegradable paper fibre containers.
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Hardware Investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 5k deals from 4.2k investors.

4.2k
investors
in United Kingdom Hardware startups
5k
deals
in United Kingdom Hardware startups
$1.9M
median round
in United Kingdom Hardware startups
37%
lead investors
lead at least one round
27%
Seed
most common funding stage
78/22
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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