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Top 50 Hardware VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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
Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund
40 United Kingdom, United States, Japan Grant, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $104k–$4.8M
Par Equity
VC Fund
39 United Kingdom, United States, Brazil Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $380k–$14M
Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
39 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $327k–$7M
Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
39 United Kingdom, United States, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $982k–$46M
Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
32 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $183k–$3.5M
Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
29 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $270k–$9.5M
SFC Capital
VC Fund
29 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $162k–$2.2M
Ascension
VC Fund
28 United Kingdom, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Internet $229k–$4.1M
IQ Capital
VC Fund
28 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.3M–$44M
The FSE Group
VC Fund
28 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Debt Financing Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $65k–$2.6M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
28 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.9M–$48M
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–$3.7M
Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund
27 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Series B, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $900k–$43M
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
Midven
VC Fund
24 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $152k–$2M
7percent Ventures
VC Fund
24 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $125k–$7M
Newable Private Investing
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $196k–$5.2M
Foresight Group
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Private Equity, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $655k–$8.5M
MMC Ventures
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.2M–$54M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
21 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $549k–$38M
Oxford Capital
VC Fund
20 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Mobile $1.5M–$16M
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund
20 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $393k–$14M
Kelvin Capital
VC Fund
19 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $144k–$25M
Antler
VC Fund
19 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $104k–$29M
Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Series A, Private Equity Software, Health Care, Information Technology $3.2M–$22M
Seedrs
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage $39k–$5M
IP Group
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Australia Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics $393k–$23M
Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $39k–$9.7M
Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, FinTech $350k–$18M
Equity Gap
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $428k–$18M
SOSV
VC Fund
17 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Martlet Capital
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $191k–$9.5M
Episode 1
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $974k–$17M
Accel
VC Fund
16 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.5M–$74M
Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $655k–$25M
Angels Den
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Software $33k–$763k
Cur8 Capital
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $500k–$19M
Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $1.3M–$168M
Blackfinch Ventures
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $720k–$17M
Deepbridge Capital
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $152k–$15M
Salica
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Secondary Market Software, Health Care, Information Technology $700k–$21M
Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.7M–$39M
Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $524k–$13M
BOOST&Co
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, United States, Malta Debt Financing, Series A Software, Information Technology, Telecommunications $2M–$5.9M
Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $650k–$30M
NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Downing Ventures
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $550k–$13M
Clarendon Fund Managers
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $440k–$2.6M
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Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 40 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, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$3.8M; Grant $104k–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • RAB Microfluidics — We diagnose early signs of failure in lubricated machinery and prevent equipment failure using our patented microfluidic technology and AI technology.
  • 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 · 39 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, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$8M; Series A $1.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Verlume — Subsea energy storage and remote power generation for the energy transition, low carbon offshore operations and zero emission hydrocarbon production.
  • Cyan Forensics — Cyan Forensics builds and sells new technologies to help law enforcement, social media companies, and cloud providers to find and block harmful content from paedophiles and terrorists.
  • Manus Neurodynamica — Manus Neurodynamica is a triage device to support early diagnostics in Parkinson's disease.
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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.
  • Administrate — Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program.
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 39 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: 259
  • Round size: Seed $982k–$5M; Series A $1.6M–$13M; Series B $2M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
  • PhoreMost — PhoreMost is a new-model drug discovery company based in Cambridge, UK: Using its core expertise to open up new ‘druggable’ target space and working with a global network of co-invested academic and industrial collaboration partners, we aim to bring a wide array of novel ‘targeted’ therapies more efficiently to market and pass these cost savingsonto patients.
  • Bramble Energy — Bramble Energy is an innovator energy technology company that designs and manufactures high-performance, low-cost, and fuel cell stack. The company ability to leverage the global high-volume PCB industry means that they are the first fuel cell company with the manufacturing capacity to supply gigawatts of fuel cell hardware, something the batteryindustry has spent many years and £B’s to achieve.Bramble Energy specifically uses a printed circuit board (PCB) technology to form the structural parts of the fuel cell. It also provides products including modular PCBFC stacks, H20:20W PCBFC system, custom design PCBFC, and 500W PCBFC stack.Bramble Energy was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 32 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: 153
  • Round size: Seed $183k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $410k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biomage — Cellenics is a single cell data analysis software. It starts with a 10X Chromium count matrix produced by Cell Ranger. Unlike Loupe, the Cellenics platform is an end-to-end tool, which allows you to perform single cell RNA-seq data processing, multiple sample data integration, visualisation, differe
  • Heysummit — Build beautiful virtual events, conferences, courses, and more to engage with your audience and grow your community through events-based marketing.
  • BrainWaveBank — BrainWaveBank has developed a first-in-class wearable electroencephalography (EEG) device to conveniently and non-invasively measure the mechanisms that underpin neurological disorders and therapies. Our platform can securely gather, store and analyse data from many thousands of users, building neurocognitive profiles of individuals and populationsor demographic groups. This easy-to-scale and distributable approach will help clinical professionals to transform our understanding of brain health and develop the next generation of treatments.BrainWaveBank was founded in January 2015 and has offices in Belfast , Northern Ireland and Dublin, Ireland.
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 29 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: 131
  • Round size: Seed $270k–$2.9M; Series A $2M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MNS
  • FLIT — Unfold Your Next Adventure. Discover the compact folding electric bike purpose-built for commuters, urban explorers and weekend tourers.
  • AVIEL Intelligence — Prevent APP fraud with the highest quality of intelligence. Use AVIEL intelligence to help prevent your customers making payments to scammers - and from receiving payments related to scams.
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SFC Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 29 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: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 378
  • Round size: Seed $164k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $162k–$840k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Elaitra — Elaitra’s breast cancer platform includes a Generative LLM for voice-based patient engagement, and a unique AI reading tool that helps doctors read 3D X-Rays. Operating in USA & UK. FDA 510(k) and UK regulator approved.
  • Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
  • WeFindFlats — Live and work anywhere, without housing worries.
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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: 212
  • Round size: Seed $229k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $445k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Vidsy — Vidsy is the creative technology platform that helps global brands and agencies create high-performing video ads. Connect with our global network of creators and streamline your content creation process.
  • Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
  • ComplyStream — ComplyStream enables faster and smarter FinCrime alert resolution by unifying your fragmented data, communication and workflows in a single AI-native platform.
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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: 190
  • 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

  • Molyon — Molyon is creating the next-generation energy storage system: the lithium-sulfer battery. Molyon offers long-life lithium-sulfur batteries that have twice the energy density of existing lithium-ion batteries on the market.
  • 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.
  • Nu Quantum — Nu Quantum has been pioneering quantum networking technology since 2018. Our market-leading expertise is uniquely positioned to deliver a distributed quantum...
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The FSE Group
VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 28 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: 182
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$2.6M; Debt Financing $65k–$633k
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% 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.
  • MyPeople
  • Torsion Information Security — Torsion integrates with your existing collaboration systems, working with business users to monitor and control access as business circumstances evolve.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 28 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 369
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$13M; Series A $3M–$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

  • Wazoku — Wazoku - Where Innovation Works Wazoku
  • CertiVox — CertiVox solutions deliver simple, powerful information security to all things Internet (mainframes, too!), protecting business and individual privacy through the cloud and at rest. CertiVox was founded in 2009 to provide technology and services based on a simple belief: that everyone deserves the right to secure their information exchangessimply and easily. CertiVox's leading-edge encryption, key management and identity management solutions are currently in use at hundreds of the world’s leading corporations and used by individuals across the globe to protect their privacy.The companies passion is to create and share unique, cutting-edge cryptographic innovations for enterprise cloud computing and all things Internet. CertiVox are the only company in the global market today that has the technology in place to arm businesses and individuals with easy-to-use certificateless security solutions for any device and platform.Whether you are a business that wants to safeguard your company’s intellectual property, an ISV or SaaS provider that needs to embed cryptography and key management into your application, or an individual who wants to preserve the privacy of your personal data, CertiVox gives you the power to secure your information for all things Internet.CertiVox’s leading-edge solutions – including MIRACL (Multiprecision Integer and Rational Arithmetic C/C++ Library) Cryptographic SDK, on-demand encryption Key Management Service (KMS) and Identity Management Service (IDMS) – enable cloud service providers, independent software vendors (ISVs), communication providers, and smart device and semiconductor manufacturers to secure their voice and data communication solutions with ease.The PrivateSky Secure Information Exchange Service (SIX) gives individuals, businesses and their partners and customers easy-to-use tools to quickly encrypt email, files and documents without complex infrastructure or user burden. Compliance with mandatory encryption and privacy statues has never been easier.The bottom line: CertiVox's revolutionary certificateless cryptography, identity and key management solutions have taken the hassle out of Internet security, making it easy to securely exchange your information in any form, any time.
  • Mojo — Join 600,000+ men worldwide using AI-powered coaches to build a performance mindset and take back control of their love lives.
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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: 155
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $2.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ODIN Space — ODIN Space provides mission-critical intelligence for the entire Space sector,
  • Deep Planet — Improve grape yields and wine quality, reduce irrigation and predict changes through satellite monitoring and AI. No sensors required.
  • SatVu — SatVu captures high resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth.
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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: 221
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$3.7M; Debt Financing $18k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Tourhub — tourhub - We collect tours from hundreds of suppliers around the world and provide an easy way for you to search and find those that are of interest.
  • Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
  • Hope Macy — Hope Macy is the decisioning and origination layer that modern consumer lenders build on.
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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:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 234
  • 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

  • Pimloc — Pimloc's deep learning platform enables private businesses and public organisations to protect sensitive or personal data in video, to maintain safe online environments and to manage video security.
  • XYZ Reality — XYZ Reality - The world's first Engineering-Grade augmented reality system for construction.
  • Altana — Altana powers trusted trade for governments and businesses worldwide. Map supply chains, manage tariffs, ensure compliance, and build resilience with AI.
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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: 333
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Wefarm — Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS.Since its founding in 2015,Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.
  • 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.
  • Victory League — Victory League is a profit-driven sports entertainment organization that uses mass-market events and media manipulation to benefit athletes financially.
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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: 135
  • 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.
  • 4D Medicine
  • Role Mapper Technologies — Automate and transform how you design and manage job descriptions across your organisation. Hire, retain and grow an inclusive and diverse workforce with AI powered Intelligent Job Design.
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Midven
VC Fund · Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom · 24 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: 121
  • 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

  • Eyoto — The future of eyecare technology, advanced tele-optometry solutions for the global optical industry. Creators of the world's first remote digital slit lamp.
  • Online Poundshop — Online Poundshop is an online-only, 24 hour, single priced retailer.Since launch in February 2014, Poundshop.com has created a new online shopping solution for customers keen to take advantage of pound shop savings. The huge range of everyday household essentials including cleaning products, batteries, toiletries, kitchen items, snacks, treatsand toys is now available with the convenience of home delivery. We are based in Exeter, Devon.In October 2014, the managerial and marketing teams of the UK’s 2 premier online single price retailers, Poundshop.com and Hereforapound.com joined forces. More exciting plans are only a few clicks away starting with our brand new look website and bigger than ever range of pound shop favourites!
  • Halo X Ray Technologies — HALO X-ray Technologies - next generation X-ray diffraction technology for the aviation security, medical and process control markets.
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7percent Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 24 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: 169
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$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.
  • Circuit Mind — Circuit Mind enables electronics engineering companies, teams, and engineers to design reliable electronic systems faster and without errors.
  • INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space
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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

  • 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
  • Elemendar — Elemendar is building Artificial Intelligence that reads cyber threat reports by humans and turns them into industry-standard structured information.
  • 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.
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Foresight Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 23 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, Health Care
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 193
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$5.2M; Private Equity $2.1M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ruleguard — Ruleguard is an regulatory technology platform for financial sector firms that helps you manage and evidence compliance across your organisation. Features include automated horizon scanning, rules mapping, SMCR compliance, third party oversight tools, breach management and regulatory checklists.
  • Bloemteknik — Bloemteknik develops, manufactures, and distributes high-quality modular lighting solutions for vertical farms and greenhouses. All solutions are cooperatively tailored with our growers to maximize production and reduce cost-of-ownership.
  • DA Languages — Dals provides expert translation and interpreting services in 500+ languages for public and private sector clients across the UK.
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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: 214
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Series A $2.4M–$20M; Series B $6M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $124M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • YuLife — Meet YuLife - the all-in-one platform for group insurance, employee benefits, wellbeing, engagement, and global rewards your people love and actually use.
  • Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
  • Snowplow — Snowplow gives teams complete flexibility and control over how behavioral data is collected, structured, processed, modeled and stored.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 21 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: 528
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M 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!
  • MinersAI — Unlock valuable insights from intricate geological data with Miners AI. Our AI-driven platform empowers exploration teams to make informed decisions and optimize mining operations.
  • Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.
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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, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • 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

  • eporta — eporta is Europe's leading B2B commerce platform for the furnishings industry, active in over 80 countries around the world.
  • UltraSoC Technologies — UltraSoC Technologies is an independent provider of SoC infrastructure to enable rapid development of embedded systems based on advanced SoC devices. Its head office is in Cambridge and it has research and development labs in Colchester.
  • Intent HQ — Intent builds AI that understands human intent. On-device processing. Zero personal data exported. 300M+ profiles. 49 patents.
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UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund · Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 20 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: 131
  • Round size: Seed $393k–$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

  • HonuWorx — HonuWorx is a subsea robotics company founded with a mission to replace surface vessels with underwater deployment platforms.
  • NanoSyrinx — NanoSyrinx is an award-winning, discovery stage biotechnology company based in the UK. We are using synthetic biology approaches to develop protein nanosyringes as a completely novel modality for intracellular delivery of protein and peptide biologic drugs.
  • Aquark Technologies — Aquark Technologies develops atom systems to develop quantum applications, including atomic clocks, sensors, and navigation systems. Aquark develops a technique to miniaturize cold atom systems using unique laser geometry that is based on more than 10 years of proprietary research at the University of Southampton.
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Kelvin Capital
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 19 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: 79
  • Round size: Seed $144k–$1.3M; Series A $1.7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • 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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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 19 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: 1206
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $104k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Qeeper — On-demand property maintenance across London, Edinburgh and Brighton
  • Twisty — Use our character engine to make your message come alive
  • EnterMeme — meme.market is where you coin the best meme
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 18 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, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 309
  • Round size: Series A $3.2M–$21M; Private Equity $6.5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Origin Tech — Origin Tech is a UK-based water technology company that has won numerous awards. Our commitment is to minimize water waste and maintain the integrity of water supply systems globally.
  • CHS Healthcare — CHS Healthcare Has Been Working In Partnership With The NHS For 20 Years, Providing Specialist Support Schemes Across The UK. Get In Touch Today.
  • Evolution Aqua — Evolution Aqua is a designer, manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of water filtration products and associated equipment, primarily focused on the aquatics industry for both indoor and outdoor fish care.
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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: 183
  • Round size: Seed $65k–$2M; Pre-Seed $39k–$505k; Equity Crowdfunding $154k–$5M
  • 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.
  • Residently — Simplifying the rental process: from finding the perfect pad to furnishing and sourcing expert local home services, all at the tap of a button.
  • OurPetsLife
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IP Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 18 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: 191
  • 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.
  • Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
  • AccelerComm — Our patented, market-leading IP solutions for 4G and 5G are configurable for quick, high-performance implementations across a wide range of applications.
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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: 190
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$1.8M; Series A $851k–$9.7M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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.
  • CellRev — high expertise in the designing and testing of self-assembling peptides providing different benefits when culturing adherent cells in vitro.
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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: 164
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$4.2M; 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

  • 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.
  • MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.
  • Adclear — Instant approvals for financial promotions. Real-time marketing. Zero bottlenecks. Transform manual compliance into automated confidence. Scale your marketing operations while reducing risk. Adclear empowers your team to move fast and stay compliant.
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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, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $428k–$3.1M; 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
  • Gutsy Health — Gutsy Health is a health and wellness website.
  • LendingCrowd — Business loans - LendingCrowd fund ambitions by enabling SMEs across Britain to access fast and flexible business loans, with no early repayment fees.
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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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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–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $191k–$851k; Series A $1M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nu Quantum — Nu Quantum has been pioneering quantum networking technology since 2018. Our market-leading expertise is uniquely positioned to deliver a distributed quantum...
  • AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
  • Focal Point Positioning — FocalPoint's software enables reliable GNSS in urban environments, mitigating multipath and enabling advanced vehicle autonomy.
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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: 133
  • Round size: Seed $974k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $5.1M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
  • SwiftShift — We are America's only Care Team Managed home health company empowering nurses and aides with control and autonomy over their home care efforts, instead of treating them like robots who work shift to shift.
  • 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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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: 1877
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$40M; Series B $10M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Rally — Invest in collectibles for as little as $50 per share, on Rally
  • XFactor — XFactor.io is a platform with constant sales performance monitoring, real-time recommendations, and live analytics.
  • 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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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 16 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: 194
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$5.2M; Series A $2.6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Near-Life — The simplest, fastest platform for learning teams to create high quality interactive video and VR simulations
  • Novatus Advisory — Novatus Advisory - Successfully guiding enterprises through the ever-changing Risk and Regulation Landscape
  • Chorus Intelligence — Trusted suppliers of digital investigation software that enables our customers to confidently turn data into intelligence and evidence.
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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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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: 67
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $6.3M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% 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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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: 166
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $5M–$46M; Series B $8.5M–$168M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $327M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Pepgen — PepGen empowers nucleic acid therapeutics to go the distance. PepGen's ambition is to unlock the potential of nucleic acid therapeutics by leveraging the drug delivery capabilities of their innovative product engine. PepGen's initial focus is on the application of this technology to the efficacious delivery of antisense oligonucleotides,and they are advancing novel conjugate therapeutics to the clinic.
  • Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
  • Quantum Motion — Quantum Motion delivers scalable silicon-based quantum computing using standard semiconductor manufacturing technology.
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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, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $720k–$7M; Series A $1.4M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow

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.
  • 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.
  • Teamed — Your international employment platform. Payroll, taxes, compliance and benefits for the best teams on earth.
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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: 84
  • Round size: Seed $152k–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% 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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Salica
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 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, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 197
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$4.4M; Series A $5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Abound — Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans. It aims to expand access to low-cost personal credit by using the UK’s new Open Banking standard to analyze consumers’ historical bank statement data. Open Banking data allows us to build a granular view of customers’ financial circumstances, properlyunderstand their affordability, and place less reliance on credit reference agency scores.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
  • Semble — The integrated clinical system for managing your patients' medical data and admin tasks.
  • Pangaea Data — Find & connect with more patients, at scale, for therapies, clinical trials and drug discovery studies.
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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 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: 122
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$8M; Series A $8M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% 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.
  • Mycelial — Mycelial is a computer company that develops computer software to unlock values in the most constrained environments. It delivers software from the ocean floor to interstellar space, enabling users with a solution in the most sensitive environments where instantaneous decision-making meets life and death.Mycelial was established in 2021 and isbased in New York.
  • ConfigHub Inc. — ConfigHub will unify and centralize software infrastructure configuration in a way that existing tools do not.
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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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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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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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NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 13 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Mercia Equity Finance is a regional investor that focuses initially on uncovering the hidden value. It uses both of its managed funds and its proprietary capital to invest across four distinct asset classes: venture, private equity, and debt, referred to as their 'Complete Capital Solution’. It aspires to be the first choice for investors,investees, and employees, and, by aspiring to be the first choice, they believe that Mercia will deliver superior returns for business owners, shareholders, and fund investors alike.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Suiso — Suiso is developing a breakthrough microwave-driven pyrolysis process which generates Hydrogen by decarbonising Natural/Bio Gas. Ventured backed and based in Sheffield UK, Suiso is a winner of the BEIS Low Carbon H2 Supply scheme. It plans to deliver shipping container sized Hydrogen generators, with a capacity to provide of up to 1,000kg ofHydrogen daily. A competitive benchmarking exercise, in the BEIS study, has confirmed that Suiso will have the lowest cost of H2 in a number of key H2 applications and lower Carbon emissions than grid powered electrolysis. By producing Hydrogen at the point of use, Suiso eliminates the expensive distribution costs incurred by large scale centralised H2 producers, one of the primary obstacles to the widespread adoption of Hydrogen. Suiso’s process reduces CO2 emissions by 97%+ versus steam methane reforming, utilizes 80% less energy than electrolysis and has very low equipment capital costs making it one of the most affordable Hydrogen production technologies. Suiso captures the Carbon in the Natural/Bio-Gas in the form of solid Carbon Black which has significant commercial value in the production of tyres, batteries, inks, other applications.
  • Salesfire — Salesfire's industry-leading, all-in-one CRO solution can Boost your conversion rate and maximise revenue across your website. Book a consultation now.
  • Mindtech — Mindtech are developing solutions around AI and visual processing. Mindtech aim is to enable complete solutions for anyone who needs intelligent visual processing. We focus on the solution, using whatever technology is required to solve the real world problem, not for example, using AI for AI’s sake, but employing machine learning as part of anoverall system, as appropriate. We focus on the provision of tools and datasets for training AI systems
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4.7M; Series A $3.2M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Flock — Fair and flexible motor fleet insurance for cars, vans, and mixed fleets. Expert support, online policies and stress-free claims. For UK fleets of 20+ vehicles.
  • BBC Maestro — BBC Maestro is a brand new e-learning service, where courses are taught by the most experienced creators in the world.
  • e.fundamentals — Monitor, Measure and Manage your eCommerce performance with our Digital Shelf Analytics software. Get Unrivalled Support, plus a 4x ROI Commitment.
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Clarendon Fund Managers
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 13 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

We ensure that businesses in Northern Ireland with growth aspirations can access equity finance to reach their potential.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $440k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $735k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $17M in 2003

Portfolio highlights

  • Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
  • PathXL — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
  • TeamFeePay — TeamFeePay is a software company for football club management.
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Hardware VC funding in United Kingdom at a glance

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3.3k
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in United Kingdom Hardware startups
$2.6M
median round
in United Kingdom Hardware startups
46%
lead investors
lead at least one round
28%
Seed
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