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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in United Kingdom (July 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 Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
43 United Kingdom, United States, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.1M–$46M
Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund
43 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Grant, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $119k–$4.3M
Par Equity
VC Fund
40 United Kingdom, United States, Brazil Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Computer $1.4M–$14M
Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
39 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $327k–$7M
SFC Capital
VC Fund
36 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $127k–$2M
Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
34 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$3.9M
The FSE Group
VC Fund
33 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Debt Financing Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $111k–$2.6M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
31 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2.1M–$48M
Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
30 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $382k–$9.5M
IQ Capital
VC Fund
28 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.3M–$44M
Ascension
VC Fund
28 United Kingdom, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Internet $229k–$4.5M
Seraphim Space
VC Fund
28 United Kingdom, United States, Italy Seed, Series A Aerospace, Software, Information Technology $1.5M–$30M
Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
27 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Debt Financing Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $18k–$4.1M
Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund
27 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $900k–$43M
Foresight Group
VC Fund
26 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Private Equity, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $655k–$8.3M
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
26 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$33M
Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund
25 United Kingdom, United States, Hungary Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $196k–$14M
7percent Ventures
VC Fund
25 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $125k–$7M
Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
24 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $3.2M–$22M
Midven
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $152k–$2M
Kelvin Capital
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $144k–$25M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $549k–$33M
Newable Private Investing
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $196k–$5.2M
MMC Ventures
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.3M–$54M
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund
22 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $458k–$14M
Antler
VC Fund
20 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $108k–$28M
Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
20 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $655k–$25M
Oxford Capital
VC Fund
20 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.5M–$16M
IP Group
VC Fund
19 United Kingdom, United States, Australia Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics $393k–$23M
Seedrs
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage $39k–$4.6M
Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $39k–$10M
Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, FinTech $380k–$18M
Equity Gap
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $428k–$18M
SOSV
VC Fund
17 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.7M–$39M
Salica
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Secondary Market Software, Information Technology, Health Care $700k–$21M
Accel
VC Fund
16 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.6M–$74M
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VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$18M
Martlet Capital
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $191k–$9.5M
Cur8 Capital
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $500k–$19M
Blackfinch Ventures
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $505k–$17M
Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $524k–$13M
Angels Den
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Software $33k–$763k
Deepbridge Capital
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $152k–$15M
Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $1.3M–$168M
Future Planet Capital
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Convertible Note Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $670k–$7.3M
Innovate UK
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $58k–$3.7M
Low Carbon Innovation Fund
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland Seed, Series A Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy $300k–$28M
Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $650k–$30M
BOOST&Co
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, United States, Malta Debt Financing, Series A Software, Information Technology, Telecommunications $2M–$5.9M
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 43 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 277
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $1.6M–$13M; Series B $2M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Paragraf — We Work to Develop Innovative and Useful End Products from Novel Materials. Our Analogue Sensors Are Designed to Provide Accurate Field Gradient Mapping & Alignment.
  • Psyomics — Technology to support better mental health assessment - accelerating patients to the right care pathway, first time.
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Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 43 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 362
  • Round size: Seed $375k–$3.9M; Grant $119k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

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.
  • Cumulus Oncology — Cumulus Oncology develops anti-cancer therapies for clinical settings in areas of high unmet need. We target key pathways to improve the efficacy and outcomes of current and experimental therapies. Cumulus has the backing of a successful entrepreneur in the oncology field and is led by a team of senior professionals and industry partners fromacross the drug discovery and development sector. Together, we offer a wealth of experience and deep insights into optimum approaches for improved cancer patient outcomes.
  • Smart Green Shipping — smart green shipping alliance. economically, socially and environmentally superior shipping solutions.
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Par Equity
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 40 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, Information Technology, Computer
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Series A $2.6M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • TriVirum — We are TriVirum, Inc., an early stage medical device company using leading edge semiconductor and signal processing technology to build new, innovative medical devices.
  • Trivium — We are an Edtech that promotes Microsoft academic programs to schools and universities around the world. We inspire educators, students, and IT professionals through Microsoft Education tools and Microsoft Role-Based Certification. We offer professional development programs for educators and IT professionals.
  • Nova Pangaea Technologies — NPT is a cleantech company that has developed a revolutionary process technology called REFNOVA. REFNOVA allows customers to converts non-food plant residues into sustainable products such as biochar, activated carbon, biofuel, biopolymers and biochemicals. Our products help customers replace fossil based products and enable decarbonisation.
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 39 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Speak with our Entrepreneurship and Investment teams, 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:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 208
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$3.1M; Series A $1.6M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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.
  • Pneumagen — Pneumagen focuses on developing glycan targeted carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs) as a new universal therapeutic modality for the treatment of respiratory tract infections (RTIs) and cancer. Founded in 2016, the Company is a spin-out from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and has access to world-class scientific expertise and capabilitiesin glycobiology.
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SFC Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 36 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 489
  • Round size: Seed $127k–$2M; Pre-Seed $164k–$839k
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Neubond — Neubond develops wearable devices for stroke mobility rehabilitation. These devices provide autonomous assistance and therapy during daily activities, integrating rehabilitation into the patient's daily life regardless of their motor capabilities. Neubond's solutions are designed to be intuitive and effective, aiming to improve thequality of life for individuals undergoing rehabilitation.
  • Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
  • Traknova — Traknova provides an AI-powered fleet management platform that helps companies track, manage, and protect vehicles and mobile assets. The platform offers real-time GPS tracking, live monitoring, and telematics data to give operators constant visibility over fleet movements and status. Users can access an intuitive dashboard with historical tripinformation, engine status, and alerts for events such as geofence breaches or unauthorized use. Traknova also supports integrated hardware, including tracking devices and online cameras, to strengthen asset security and streamline recovery when issues arise. The system is designed for fleets across industries, such as service businesses and vehicle rental operators, that need clearer scheduling, better time management, and improved operational control. By consolidating these tools into one platform, Traknova enables data-led fleet planning and day-to-day decision-making.
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 34 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Seed $249k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glaize — Made-to-measure stick-on gel manicures that are chip-free, long lasting and vegan. Easy to apply (just stick on), even easier to remove (simply peel off).
  • Gigged.AI — Fill skill gaps using our on-demand talent network. Get AI-powered, real-time visibility over your employee and agent capabilities to power internal mobility.
  • Product Guru — Although there has been a significant change of pace in the technology used within the retail sector, the process of finding the products that drive the market has really remained at a stand-still. With more and more small, specialist suppliers driving innovation in the sector, it has been harder than ever for buyers to be able to consider alloptions.
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The FSE Group
VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 33 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$2.6M; Debt Financing $111k–$786k
  • Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Alvant — Alvant is an advanced materials technology group specialising in the design, development and production of aluminium composite components for demanding engineering applications.
  • Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
  • TruePlayers — Trueplayers is a computer game development company that specializes in mobile games. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Falmouth, Cornwall.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 31 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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 387
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$21M; Series B $7.5M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Turtl — Create personalized interactive content experiences that excite, engage and convert your audience with Turtl's intuitive content software.
  • Sprout.ai
  • Minimum — Take control of your organization's carbon accounting and management with granular, robust and auditable emissions data.
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 30 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
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$3M; Series A $2M–$9.5M
  • 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.
  • MNS
  • Orthofuse — Orthofuse is a medtech company that provides orthopaedic solutions using 3D-printed implant systems designed to improve the safety and efficiency of surgical procedures.
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IQ Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 28 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
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$13M; Series A $4.5M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Virti — Discover how our Immersive Learning Platform powers impactful & engaging learning experiences to transform enterprise workplace training.
  • Nyobolt — Nyobolt develops high-power energy storage systems based on advanced lithium-ion battery technology designed for rapid charging and sustained high performance. The company focuses on battery systems that enable very fast energy replenishment, supporting applications where downtime needs to be minimized. Its technology combines specialized anodematerials, cell design, battery management systems, and power electronics to achieve high charge and discharge rates. The platform is used in sectors such as robotics, data centers, industrial equipment, and electric mobility where consistent high power delivery is required. It also develops integrated energy solutions that support demanding workloads like automated logistics systems and high-performance computing infrastructure. Nyobolt’s approach emphasizes optimizing cycle life, thermal stability, and energy density for repeated fast charging environments.
  • Imperagen — Imperagen combines AI, QM/physics-based simulations, and high throughput lab testing to deliver true, verified enzyme improvements faster with lower cost.
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Ascension
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 28 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Seed $229k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $445k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
  • GEEIQ — GEEIQ is the intelligence platform brands use to plan, activate and measure marketing in virtual worlds like Roblox, Fortnite and ZEPETO.
  • ReBorn® Homewares — ReBorn purpose is to transform the sustainability of the global homewares industry. We are committed to creating the most stylish and planet-friendly homewares, and driving collective change in the UK and beyond .Our five key principles are: 1.Recycling Waste 2.Local production 3.Circular Design 4.Stylish Solutions 5.Collaborative Power
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Seraphim Space
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 28 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, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $2.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • aXenic — aXenic are leaders in optical modulators for satellite and aerospace communications.
  • Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
  • Deep Planet — Improve grape yields and wine quality, reduce irrigation and predict changes through satellite monitoring and AI. No sensors required.
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund · Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom · 27 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, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 238
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$3.3M; Debt Financing $18k–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Forth — Forth are a group of clinical and digital experts who are passionate about healthcare. They’re part of a new breed of digital healthcare companies who are transforming people’s relationship with their health by using technology to give them more information and help them gain greater control.
  • Design and Supply — Design and Supply provides products and services primarily for the construction industry, offering Jansen-certified products and British SBD solutions. The company manufactures and supplies items, including steel doors. Additionally, Design and Supply caters to design enthusiasts by offering artwork, fine furniture, antiques, and decor.
  • Reacta Healthcare
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Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 27 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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 B, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 237
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$9.2M; Series A $2.6M–$30M; Series B $6.8M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Tenzo — Tenzo is a restaurant analytics and AI forecasting platform for restaurants, pubs and cafes. Tenzo makes running restaurants easy with full data visibility.
  • Slamcore — Positioning, mapping and perception | State-of-the-art visual SLAM turns sensor data into actionable, spatial understanding for your vehicles.
  • Unifyr — IDC MarketScape Leader 2025. AI-native PRM platform for partner onboarding, enablement, deal registration, and through-channel marketing.
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Foresight Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 26 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, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$7.3M; Private Equity $2.1M–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lillicoco — Lillicoco source fine antique jewellery and vintage jewellery in the UK, and ship worldwide. FREE Express International Shipping on All Orders. Quick & Simple 14-Day Returns.
  • SenseAI
  • Envair Technology — Your single source provider of next generation isolators, fume cupboards, downflow booths, biosafety cabinets and other clean air systems.
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 26 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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: 337
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Dataform — Develop and operationalize scalable data transformations pipelines in BigQuery using SQL.
  • CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
  • Circular — Developers-focused job platform for Software Developers, DevOps, Data Science & more. Sign up now and get access to successful hiring processes in Spain, Remote.
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Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 25 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, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Hungary

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$2M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Sen — Sen's vision is to democratize space using video to inform, educate, inspire and benefit all humanity. Sen's mission is to stream real-time videos from space to billions of people, gathering news and information about Earth and space and making it universally accessible.
  • Gentronix — Gentronix is a contract research organisation (CRO) providing a wide range of screening and safety services, including genetic toxicology screening and regulatory genotoxicity studies.
  • Haystack — Giving techies the tools to uncover, explore and discover the tech landscape with full anonymity - showcasing opportunities that match their interests, values and tech stack.
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7percent Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 25 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: 176
  • Round size: Seed $701k–$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

  • Breeze — Cargo insurance reinvented.
  • Vosbor — Vosbor is a grain and oilseed trading platform. Discover how we foster transparency in global agricultural commodity markets.
  • Paddington Robotics — Paddington Robotics specializes in implementation of AI, robotics, software and hardware solutions in real life.
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 24 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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 355
  • Round size: Series A $3.2M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.4M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
  • Gymbox — Making sweating enjoyable drives everything Gymbox does. From our unique exercise classes and nightly resident DJs, through to our larger than life personal trainers, at Gymbox there is undeniably a culture of fun.
  • Nuada — MOF Technologies take innovative organisations from ideation to commercialisation using our proven MOF development expertise & patented technology.
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Midven
VC Fund · Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom · 23 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $152k–$1.7M; Series A $393k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
  • IDenteq — IDenteq provides software solutions for utility companies facing issues like non-notification, tenancy changes, and fraud. It offers a SaaS platform that enhances data management and security for energy suppliers. Identeq serves as an alternative to traditional credit reference agencies.
  • Unloq AI — Unloq AI creates embedded, co-created technologies that link your business objectives to actual AI-enabled execution.
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Kelvin Capital
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 23 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, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $144k–$1.3M; Series A $1.7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • novosound — Novosound is an award winning Scottish sensors company utilising thin-film processes to eliminate conventional limitations in ultrasound sensors.
  • Chromacity — Chromacity manufacture the next generation of ultrafast lasers. Discover our fixed wavelength femtosecond lasers and picosecond OPOs.
  • Biotangents — Biotangents develops veterinary diagnostic tests to detect infectious diseases in livestock (bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD), mastitis, bovine respiratory disease (BRD), brucellosis) using our highly adaptable molecular diagnostic technology, Moduleic Sensing.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 23 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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 552
  • Round size: Seed $980k–$8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$4.1M; Series A $4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Bikemap — Bikemap is the crowdsourced cycling map & navigation of the world. With the help of more than 2.3M users in 100 countries, Bikemap helps you find the best cycling route from A to B - every time. Users shared more than 4M cycling routes in all corners of the world - and within the Bikemap Premium subscription, tens of thousands get access tooffline, routing, map features.
  • morgana — Morgana is reshaping the mortgage industry in Latam. With a 5x faster application process, in-depth market knowledge, privileged access to data, and superb team, we are a groundbreaking digital mortgage broker that will shortly be competing with banks.
  • 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.
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Newable Private Investing
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 23 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Newable: Helping over 20,000 businesses thrive annually with tailored financial products, advice, and flexible workspace solution

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$3.9M; Series A $1.3M–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
  • NuVision — NuVision™ is a spin-out company from the University of Nottingham, incorporated July 2014. The company was established to commercialise high quality and affordable biotherapies for treating ‘front of the eye’ disease and trauma. Dr Andrew Hopkinson, the Principal Research Fellow in Academic Ophthalmology, Division of Clinical Neuroscience at theUniversity of Nottingham, founded NuVision™. The business is co-owned by the founders, Dr Andrew Hopkinson (Chief Scientific Officer), Professor Harminder Dua (co-founder), the directors Mr Byran Lister (CEO) and Dr Helen Shaw (Chairman), and the University of Nottingham.
  • RAB Microfluidics — We diagnose early signs of failure in lubricated machinery and prevent equipment failure using our patented microfluidic technology and AI technology.
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 23 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Investing in technology companies at Seed and Series A.

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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: 231
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $2.4M–$20M; Series B $6M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $124M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Gardin — We believe in a world in which everyone has the right to access high quality, nutritious food that is good for you and for our planet. Our environmental issues are real, something, somewhere needs to change. Gardin promises to create the step-change required by deploying its technology.
  • ABEX — ABEX Capital focuses on algorithmic trading for digital assets using machine learning and high-frequency trading engines. It offers "Algorithmic Best Execution" solutions for institutional clients and is registered with the FCA for cryptoasset activities
  • sable bio — We provide comprehensive, quantified, and flexible Target Safety Intelligence to assist toxicologists, informaticians, and drug discovery scientists in delivering safe and effective new treatments.
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UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund · Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 22 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, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $458k–$5.9M; Series A $2.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • MFX — MFX is a platform designed to accelerate the development and manufacturing of cell and gene therapies.
  • Silveray — Silveray develop affordable large-area direct conversion detectors for the X-ray imaging market.
  • 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
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 20 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: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1821
  • Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$755k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Deja — Modern Rituals & Natural Products from the Ancient Science of Ayurveda
  • Enoki Inc — Multiplayer-enabled tools for developers. Enoki has 18 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
  • Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 20 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, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 202
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$5.3M; Series A $2.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bright — Bright Network has a range of graduate careers available. Whatever the sector you want to go into Bright Network will help you find your dream job.
  • ProofID — We are identity experts. We manage all aspects of your IAM program, from design and deployment, through to optimisation and ongoing support.
  • Guru Systems — Intelligent technology for the future of heat. Guru Systems provides market-leading hardware and data analytics platforms for heat networks, gas boilers and heat pumps. Our technology improves the performance of these systems for residential developers, heat suppliers, customers and our planet.
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Oxford Capital
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 20 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: 149
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.9M; Series A $3.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $56M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.
  • Archangel Lightworks — Archangel Lightworks is integrating space and air assets using laser communication.
  • Oxford Quantum Circuits — Oxford Quantum Circuits developing technology using the power of quantum to do things which have never been achieved before, from enabling life-changing drug discoveries to developing new battery technologies.
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IP Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 19 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: Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Seed $393k–$7.6M; Series A $2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2014

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.
  • Slamcore — Positioning, mapping and perception | State-of-the-art visual SLAM turns sensor data into actionable, spatial understanding for your vehicles.
  • AudioScenic — THE NEW DIMENSION IN SOUND
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Seedrs
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 18 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, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 186
  • Round size: Seed $65k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $39k–$505k; Equity Crowdfunding $186k–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% 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.
  • OurPetsLife
  • The Cookaway — The Cookaway offers an exciting range of world cuisine menus put together by our expert chefs and available to buy as a recipe box.
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · 18 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$2.2M; Series A $851k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • H2CHP — H2CHP's Free Piston Engine Technology enables your transition to green energy with the reliability & confidence of fuel flexibility.
  • NunaBio — NunaBio operates as a privately-owned specialist DNA development company. NunaBio engaged in CRO (Contract Research Organizations) and CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation) activities.
  • MySalesCoach — MySalesCoach offers Despite overwhelming evidence that sales coaching has the greatest impact on rep development and success, managers typically devote less than 5% of their time to coaching a team that craves and deserves coaching to reach their full potential.
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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, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$4.5M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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.
  • Aibuild — Ai Build is a London based company developing Artificial Intelligence and Robotic technologies for large scale additive manufacturing. We believe additive manufacturing is the core technology for achieving a sustainable environment and a highly efficient on-demand economy.We are a team of creative and enthusiastic people with strong background inthe areas of 3D printing, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, computational design and physics. We are partnering with some of the world’s most innovative companies and investors to bring our disruptive Autonomous Large Scale 3D Printing technology into a wide range of industrial applications. Our purpose is to empower factories of the future to make Manufacturing easy, smart, sustainable and affordable.
  • Artificial Labs — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.
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Equity Gap
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 18 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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $428k–$3M; Series A $2.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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
  • SeaWarm
  • Gutsy Health — Gutsy Health is a health and wellness website.
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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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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 16 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$8.8M; Series A $8M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Qovery — Qovery is a DevOps automation tool that lets developers deploy and scale applications on their cloud by simplifying and automating infrastructure so tech teams can focus on what matters most: building great products.
  • Nuclia — With Progress Agentic RAG, auto-index files and documents, streamlining use cases with LLMs and AI agents.
  • ConfigHub Inc. — ConfigHub will unify and centralize software infrastructure configuration in a way that existing tools do not.
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Salica
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 16 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, Series A, Secondary Market
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 204
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$5M; Series A $5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • SURI (Sustainable Rituals) — A world-class clean that doesn’t cost our planet. SURI is the new, sustainable electric toothbrush. Delivering an effective clean with innovative plant-based materials.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 16 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1948
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Series A $4.5M–$41M; Series B $9.5M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • MetraTech — MetraTech Corp. simplifies and enables global commerce innovation, while helping businesses respond to an ever changing customer and partner relationship landscape. They empower businesses to embrace change through a unique agreements-based billing, commerce and compensation solution that models and supports fluid, personalized, multi-partyagreements for customers, partners and suppliers. They automate business processes and business models to address rapidly changing or complex business strategies. Their products are deployed globally, and their customers use MetraTech to innovatively create and securely collect revenue, provide settlement to partners and manage their customer lifecycle in 12 languages, 28 currencies and 90 countries. Customers include Arkadin, Bell, Concur, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), CETIP, The City of Chicago, GRU Sao Paulo International Airport, GXS, Intercall, LifeLock, Microsoft, PGi, Telia Sonera, Telus, and Telmore. The company is headquartered in Boston, with offices in London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro. MetraTech is a venture-backed, privately held company whose investors include Accel Partners, Meritech Capital and Vesbridge Partners.
  • Simplivity — Simplify and accelerate your IT with the AI-driven intelligence and exceptional data efficiency of HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure.
  • Shift Technology — Shift Technology delivers AI-native decision automation and optimization solutions built specifically for the global insurance industry. Addressing several critical processes across the insurance policy lifecycle, Shift helps insurers achieve faster, more accurate claims and policy resolutions. Shift has analyzed billions of insurance transactionsto date and was presented Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Global Claims Solutions for Insurance Market Leadership Award.
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Episode 1
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 16 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: 141
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $5.1M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
  • 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.
  • ThirdEye — ThirdEye is building the world’s first real-time CCTV powered AI assistant to put in the hands of public space workers. Our context aware alert systems detect relevant events in CCTV streams and deliver notifications to staff members in real-time while our analytics tools make data-driven decision making available to brick-and-mortar retailers. Wekeep our clients productive and competitive in an ever evolving market.
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Martlet Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 16 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Martlet Capital is an early-stage investor based in Cambridge, providing patient capital to deep technology and life science startups with high growth potential. Investing in the future.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $525k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $191k–$851k; Series A $1M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xampla — Xampla's natural plant polymer technology is the innovative technology powering materials to change the world with plastic-free replacements and more.
  • Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
  • AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
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Cur8 Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Invest in High-Growth Startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.9M; Series A $6.3M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
  • Tewke — Tewke is a London based company that was founded in 2020 developing technology to deliver energy savings through AI enabled home automation. Tewke's mission is to reduce energy consumption in homes whilst elevating everyone's living experience.Tewke's first product, Tap, is an intelligent light switch that can be installed into anyhome without rewiring. This acts as the backbone of Tewke's energy control and home automation platform, and has already won international awards, such as the Red Dot Design Award.
  • ODIN Space — ODIN Space provides mission-critical intelligence for the entire Space sector,
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Blackfinch Ventures
VC Fund · Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom · 15 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

We're passionate about supporting the UK's most talented founders of high growth technology businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $720k–$5.5M; Series A $505k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • H2CHP — H2CHP's Free Piston Engine Technology enables your transition to green energy with the reliability & confidence of fuel flexibility.
  • 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.
  • Currensea — Currensea is a creator of a travel debit card that connects customers to a high street bank account and reduces fees.The company's product links to any UK bank account and reduces exchange rates and transaction fees abroad without setting up and managing a new bank account to get better rates. It also allows users to top up prepaid cards,allowing them to make payments while traveling without opening a new bank account and at a lower cost.Currensea was established in June, 2018 by James Lynn, and Craig Goulding in London, England.
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Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 15 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:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Netacea — Netacea takes a smarter approach to bot management. Intent Analytics™ powered by machine learning quickly and accurately distinguishes bots from humans to protect websites, mobile apps and APIs from automated threats while prioritising genuine users. Actionable intelligence with data-rich visualisations empowers you to make informed decisions aboutyour traffic. The Netacea approach offers incredible speed, accuracy and transparency, solving the growing problem of credential stuffing and account takeover at scale. The technology is designed to complement existing controls such as WAF rulesets, rate limiting and threat databases to provide a deep analysis of all website visitors, actionable intelligence and real-time threat.The Netacea approach continuously monitors your web traffic to pinpoint the difference in automated bot activity vs genuine visitors, keeping you ahead of evolving bot threats. Choose to automatically block, redirect or challenge automated attacks in real-time, or receive alerts notifying you of potential threats. With access to rich dashboards and data, you can easily identify and stop account takeover attempts early in the attack chain.Learn more at www.netacea.com
  • Semble — The integrated clinical system for managing your patients' medical data and admin tasks.
  • Locate Bio — Locate Bio is a regenerative medicine development company focused on orthobiologics. Locate Bio exists to help surgeons improve the lives of people with debilitating spinal conditions. We are curious about what is possible, but ground all our work in robust scientific evidence. We relentlessly pursue high-value opportunities with clear unmetclinical needs.
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Angels Den
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Join 21,000+ investors backing the top 4% of UK startups. Access vetted, tax-efficient (SEIS/EIS) investment opportunities and exclusive pitch events.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $33k–$763k; Angel $79k–$354k
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
  • OnCare — Home care software | care management system
  • SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.
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Deepbridge Capital
VC Fund · Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom · 15 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Deepbridge is a different kind of investment manager. They work closely with financial advisers and investors to design innovative products, ranging from investment in technology growth companies to asset-backed renewable energy projects. They also partner with innovative and committed management teams to help UK based companies realise theirpotential and become successful leading-edge businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $152k–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • HeadBox — HeadBox connects corporate event planners with 100,000+ unique, inspiring, iconic, and creative spaces worldwide for meetings and events.
  • Touch Biometrix — Welcome at Touch Biometrix. Find out more about The Future of Fingerprint Biometrics!
  • Spotlight Pathology — Spotlight Pathology develops decision support tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to help in the diagnosis of blood cancers.
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 15 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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$49M; Series B $13M–$168M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $327M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AlveoGene — Transforming Rare Respiratory Disease Outcomes Using Inhaled Gene Therapy
  • Salience Labs — Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany.
  • Caudal Energy — Porpoise Power develops a tidal energy system using oscillating hydrofoil technology inspired by dolphin swimming mechanics.
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Future Planet Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 14 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, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 169
  • Round size: Seed $670k–$7.3M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $23M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Unloq AI — Unloq AI creates embedded, co-created technologies that link your business objectives to actual AI-enabled execution.
  • Nourished — At Nourished we create innovative. personalised nutrition stacks that are truly unique to you. Vegan, waste-free and always made to order.
  • NeoVac — NeoVac is creating revolutionary, unique and proprietary next-generation lipid nanoparticles to enable better RNA vaccines and treatments for various diseases.
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Innovate UK
VC Fund · Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom · 14 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 763
  • Round size: Seed $367k–$3.7M; Grant $62k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $58k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Icaruus
  • ProtectBox — Cybersecurity award-winning NetZero comparison marketplace that lets you find and buy all your cybersecurity in one place.
  • Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services — Symbiosis Pharma is a biologics CMO offering rapid access to aseptic fill finish manufacturing slots across vaccines, ATMPs, mAbs & more
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Low Carbon Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom · 14 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, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.9M; Series A $632k–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Switchd — Switchd automates the process of switching energy tariff. You sign up once and our custom algorithm checks the market every day. We then switch you securely and hassle free so you can relax and save.
  • Ablatus Therapeutics — Ablatus Therapeutics Ltd, a medical device company, has been founded to develop and commercialise a novel tissue ablation technology to treat the most challenging and often inoperable, solid cancer tumours.
  • Natural Resources
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 14 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

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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: 188
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5.5M; Series A $6.8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Klu.ai — Klu.ai is a generative AI platform that simplifies the process of designing, deploying, and optimizing AI applications.The company integrates major large language models (LLMs) such as Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, GPT-4, and over 15 other models, enabling rapid prompt/model experimentation, data gathering, and user feedback. The platformoffers features like Klu Actions for content generation, business operations workflows, content analysis, and summarization, as well as optimization techniques for A/B testing and fine-tuning support for models like OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4. Klu.ai is committed to data privacy and security, providing data obfuscation and redaction features to protect sensitive information.Klu.ai is founded by Stephen M. Walker II in 2022 and is located in San Francisco, California.
  • Layla AI — Layla operates as a travel discovery platform.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
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BOOST&Co
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 14 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

BOOST&Co offers term loans, venture debt and invoice financing for innovative, fast-growing SMEs. Looking for funding? Get in touch today

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Malta

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Debt Financing $2M–$5.9M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Swyft — The original sofa in a box with 100 day returns, 24 hour delivery, 15 year frame guarantee & easy clean fabrics. Swyft makes beautiful living easy.
  • Simplestream — We are Simplestream, an award-winning and best-in-class provider of next-generation TV solutions to some of the biggest players in the broadcast, sport, and media industry.
  • Diamond Logistics — UK logistics company providing reliable parcel delivery, courier services and fulfilment solutions for businesses nationwide.
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Hardware Investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 3.8k deals from 3.4k investors.

3.4k
investors
in United Kingdom Hardware startups
3.8k
deals
in United Kingdom Hardware startups
$2.5M
median round
in United Kingdom Hardware startups
39%
lead investors
lead at least one round
27%
Seed
most common funding stage
80/20
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