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Top 50 Manufacturing VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
SFC Capital
VC Fund
69 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $123k–$2.5M
Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
63 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $3.4M–$22M
Par Equity
VC Fund
52 United Kingdom, United States, Brazil Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $103k–$4.3M
Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
51 United Kingdom, United States, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $991k–$44M
The FSE Group
VC Fund
40 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $106k–$5.4M
Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
33 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $19k–$5.5M
Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund
28 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $119k–$8.4M
Foresight Group
VC Fund
27 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Seed Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $648k–$8.3M
SOSV
VC Fund
27 United States, China, Canada Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $50k–$5M
Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
25 United Kingdom, United States, France Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $199k–$7.5M
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund
25 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $582k–$5.9M
Future Planet Capital
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States, Singapore Seed, Convertible Note Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $670k–$5.1M
Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $648k–$8.3M
Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
22 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $1.3M–$168M
Innovate UK
VC Fund
22 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $58k–$3.5M
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund
VC Fund
21 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $68k–$6.3M
Oxford Technology Management
VC Fund
19 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $33k–$8.5M
IP Group
VC Fund
19 United Kingdom, United States, Australia Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $265k–$68M
Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $375k–$12M
Midlands Engine Investment Fund
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Portugal Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $257k–$3.3M
NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $326k–$14M
Venrex
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Fashion, Software $425k–$18M
IQ Capital
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.3M–$40M
Low Carbon Innovation Fund
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy $212k–$18M
Kelvin Capital
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $167k–$4.5M
Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, United States, Hungary Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $250k–$14M
Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $197k–$5.7M
NPIF - FW Capital Debt Finance
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, United States Debt Financing, Seed Manufacturing, Construction, Mechanical Engineering $144k–$920k
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.1M–$43M
NPIF – Mercia Debt Finance
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, Industrial, Information Technology $127k–$683k
British Design Fund
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, Health Care, Medical Device $123k–$1.3M
Newable Private Investing
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $196k–$5.6M
HSBC UK
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Retail $1.1M–$280M
Longwall Venture
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom, Germany, Philippines Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device $818k–$27M
Kindred Capital
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$73M
Equity Gap
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, SaaS $157k–$18M
Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $576k–$13M
Empirical Ventures
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care $924k–$5.8M
BACKED VC
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain $1.9M–$100M
TSP Ventures
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom Seed, Series A Manufacturing, CleanTech, Automotive $1M–$13M
Clean Growth Fund
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Sustainability $3M–$23M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $313k–$24M
Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $46k–$10M
Northern Gritstone
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Electronics $2.5M–$27M
Eos
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $1.5M–$47M
Ascension
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $250k–$10M
Foresight Williams
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Semiconductor $654k–$30M
Green Angel Ventures
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Energy, Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting $669k–$15M
Archangels
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $867k–$6.3M
FW Capital
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Construction, Manufacturing, Real Estate $326k–$5.7M
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SFC Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 69 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 53 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 783
  • Round size: Seed $123k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$858k; Venture - Series Unknown $201k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Obsero — Obsero is an AI search intelligence platform and consultancy designed for marketing and communications teams. The platform tracks, measures, and optimizes how brands surface, get cited, and are recommended across Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI search assistants.
  • SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
  • NEARHUMAN — Nearhuman develops intelligent safety systems for micromobility and other physical-world devices. The company focuses on edge AI and computer vision that run directly on vehicles such as e-scooters and e-bikes to detect hazards, monitor pedestrian proximity, and support real-time decision making. Its flagship product, Scootrr, is an AI-powered safety platform that enables on-device perception, automatic deceleration, and safety analytics without reliance on cloud connectivity. Nearhuman designs its technology to integrate with existing shared micromobility fleets, collaborating with operators, vehicle manufacturers, and research partners. The company also provides dashboards and tools that turn on-vehicle events into route-level safety intelligence for stakeholders such as fleet operators and city authorities. Its work spans hardware vision kits, embedded firmware, perception models, and supporting software for deployment and monitoring.
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 63 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 608
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$21M; Private Equity $6.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
  • Arran Aromatics —
  • Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
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Par Equity
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 52 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 305
  • Round size: Seed $253k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $103k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $122M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
  • PathXL — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
  • Skylark Lasers — UniKLasers specialises in single frequency, continuous wave DPSS lasers at mid- to high power. Suitable for Raman, Holography, Interferometry, Microscopy, Metrology, Quantum Technologies, and more
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 51 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 338
  • Round size: Seed $991k–$4.9M; Series A $1.6M–$14M; Series B $1.8M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
  • MoA Technology — We harness the principles of natural selection to accelerate discovery for better, safer herbicides so farmers can continue to feed the world.
  • Quantum Motion — Quantum Motion delivers scalable silicon-based quantum computing using standard semiconductor manufacturing technology.
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The FSE Group
VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 40 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Round size: Seed $294k–$2.6M; Debt Financing $106k–$633k; Venture - Series Unknown $485k–$5.4M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
  • Amino —
  • Alchera Technologies — Alchera's AI-powered, cloud-based software platform provides real-time data on the movement of vehicles and pedestrians around cities and major infrastructure
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund · Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom · 33 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 296
  • Round size: Seed $279k–$3M; Debt Financing $19k–$3.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $383k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Reacta Biotech — Reacta Biotech has been established to develop, manufacture and commercialise oral food challenge materials to pharmaceutical standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
  • MeOmics Technology — MeOmics Technology is a biotech company with a focus on improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental health illnesses. The company operates in the manufacturing industry and has a team of 9 employees. The team includes experts in Neuronal Cell Biology and Neuropsychopharmacology. The company's mission is to leverage technology to enhancethe understanding and treatment of mental health conditions.
  • Outlook Expeditions — Outlook Expeditions provide overseas educational expeditions, adventure travel and service-learning projects for schools.
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Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 28 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 35 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 403
  • Round size: Seed $387k–$4.3M; Grant $119k–$4.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $681k–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CSignum — Revolutionising underwater communications with electromagnetic technology for seamless data integration between surface & submerged devices.
  • GLORIAH — Nurse founded, natural intimate hydration oils and gels for menopause.
  • SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
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Foresight Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 27 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 232
  • Round size: Seed $648k–$7.3M; Private Equity $2.1M–$8.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $979k–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $120M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Vertal — Vertal is a food waste recycling company
  • 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.
  • Industrial Engineering Plastics — Industrial Engineering Plastics delivers specialist thermoplastic fabrication, DW154-compliant ductwork, machining, and plastics distribution
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 27 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3729
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.6M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
  • Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
  • Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 25 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 291
  • Round size: Seed $331k–$3.1M; Series A $1.7M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $199k–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Corvidae — Corvidae is a software company that provides data analysts, digital marketing, e commerce, and paid media solutions.
  • IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
  • RoslinCT — We are the prefered global partner for cell and gene therapy solutions. With our wealth of expertise and infrastructure, we can support you at every step of your advanced therapy journey.
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UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund · Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 25 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 151
  • Round size: Seed $582k–$5.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Zentraxa — NATURE ENGINEERED FOR PURPOSE Through millions of years of evolution, nature has found solutions to the most difficult problems. Inspired by the diversity of nature, we precision engineer bespoke biomaterials to meet the toughest challenges across
  • StandardX — StandardX is a deep-tech company building the isotope refinery powered by a scalable, compact particle accelerator platform.
  • SILVIA BIO — SilVia Bio develops technologies to analyze and optimize mammalian cell factories used in biomanufacturing. The company focuses on identifying critical parameters that limit bioproduction yield and product quality in cell systems such as CHO and HEK cells. Its platform provides cell profiling services that generate interpretable data on manufacturing-relevant bottlenecks. Based on these insights, SilVia Bio designs and supplies precision media additives formulated to address specific rate-limiting cellular processes. The offerings are intended for biopharmaceutical and biomanufacturing teams seeking to improve titre, cell performance, and consistency in production processes. SilVia Bio also collaborates with industrial partners to apply its platform within real manufacturing environments.
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Future Planet Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 23 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

Brilliant Ideas. Brilliant People. Brilliant Minds.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 288
  • Round size: Seed $670k–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $23M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Unloq AI — Unloq is a Decision Intelligence Platform that turns your company data and live market signals into governed strategic recommendations. Approved, tracked, measured.
  • Nourished — At Nourished we create innovative. personalised nutrition stacks that are truly unique to you. Vegan, waste-free and always made to order.
  • K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 23 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 231
  • Round size: Seed $783k–$5M; Private Equity $981k–$6.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $648k–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • KubeNet — We are KubeNet - a multi-award winning technology solutions provider based in Glasgow. Whether it's Managed IT, IT Support, Cloud, Connectivity, Voice or Cyber Security, we're by your side as your trusted technology partner.
  • Tixserve — Secure, Trackable, Interactive Digital Tickets for Live Events
  • ReadyGo Diagnostics — ReadyGo Diagnostics has invented a novel “Diagnostic Pen”. Low cost, intuitive to use from the raw sample, the ReadyGo Pen will be a game-changer in the newly emerging consumer diagnostics market, offering a yes/no answer in minutes, based on molecular analysis.
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 22 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing 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 on challenges 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, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$45M; Series B $9.1M–$168M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $299M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • OMass Therapeutics — OMass Therapeutics is a drug discovery company exploiting novel mass spectrometry platforms to develop therapeutics against challenging disease targets.
  • Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
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Innovate UK
VC Fund · Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom · 22 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 90 in the past 12 months

Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1251
  • Round size: Seed $143k–$3.5M; Grant $62k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $58k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neela Biotech — Transforming organic waste into carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuels through innovative biotechnology and AI.
  • Stride Health Group — Digital health optimisation company, helping how people understand and optimise their health, fitness and longevity.
  • Alchera Technologies — Alchera's AI-powered, cloud-based software platform provides real-time data on the movement of vehicles and pedestrians around cities and major infrastructure
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Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund
VC Fund · Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom · 21 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank.It is a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, which aims to end the historic North / South divide and create economic prosperity in the North of England on par with London and the South East.Thegovernment firmly believes that SMEs form the foundation of the region’s future growth. NPIF therefore aims to nurture regional entrepreneurship by providing investment and support for small and medium businesses between 2016 and 2021. NPIF's funding will support new and growing SMEs, create jobs and encourage and attract additional private sector investment.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $68k–$1.7M; Debt Financing $74k–$794k; Venture - Series Unknown $120k–$6.3M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $498M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Brace-Yourself — Brace-Yourself is a specialist retailer focused on Orthopaedic bracing, sports supports, and rehabilitation equipment.
  • Acrol Air Conditioning — Acrol Air Conditioning specializes in the design and installation market for marine air conditioning and refrigeration services.
  • Human Capital Investment Group — HCIG is a recruiting platform that works with experienced operators to develop and scale specialist businesses in the areas that will drive global investment over the next decade, including transportation, natural resources, data centers, energy, engineering, and mission-critical construction.
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Oxford Technology Management
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 19 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

Oxford Technology's SEIS fund and EIS fund enable private investors to access high growth technology startup opportunities and support UK innovation. SEIS and EIS tax reliefs offer downside protection, whilst gains can be tax free.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $33k–$2.2M; Series A $786k–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • OrganOx — OrganOx Limited was founded in 2008 to exploit normothermic preservation technology invented by Prof Peter Friend and colleagues and further developed by Prof Constantin Coussios at the University of Oxford.
  • HydRegen — HydRegen is a biotechnology company that provides sustainable solutions for chemical manufacturing. HydRegen was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Metacarpal — Metacarpal design upper-limb prosthetics without compromise. We aim to make the most robust, functional hand prosthesis that people love wearing because it works so effectively and looks so beautiful. Be proud to show your artificial side!
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IP Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 19 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing 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 create value out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 234
  • Round size: Seed $265k–$7.6M; Series A $2.4M–$30M; Series B $7.9M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $50M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Eight19 — Eight19, located in Cambridge, UK, develops and manufactures plastic photovoltaics for energy harvesting, for the internet of things and for off-grid applications. Through the innovative use of industry-standard, high-volume, roll-to-roll processes and solution-based organic photoactive materials, the company has a highly cost-effective route forscaling-up its technology to supply the largest markets. Eight19 is currently producing modules on a small scale for commercial partners with applications in indoor energy harvesting for wireless sensor and controllers, signage and display, and outdoor power for portable electronics. Our plastic PV modules benefit from flexibility, thinness, light-weight and robustness.
  • Matter Machine — Matter Machine is an AI-driven materials discovery company that creates technologies that use materials chemistry, machine learning, and automated experimentation to speed up the discovery and optimization of next-generation materials.
  • Mach42 — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 18 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing 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 that the Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds. Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $446k–$3M; Series A $2M–$9.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $375k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
  • Orthofuse — Orthofuse designs and manufacturers advance orthopaedic solutions using 3D printing technology. Their focus is on bringing precision and simplicity to complex surgical procedures, creating implants and systems that fit naturally into a surgeon's workflow while delivering dependable outcomes.
  • Singular Photonics — Singular Photonics is a startup that creates SPAD-based image sensors.
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Midlands Engine Investment Fund
VC Fund · Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom · 18 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity and debt investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$2.7M; Debt Financing $257k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $466k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ace Padel — Ace Padel is a club operator and expanding a network of community-focused padel venues, offering court bookings,
  • School of Coding — School of Coding is affiliated with the reputated org, invites you to apply for sept. intake Explore our courses and start your world-class education.
  • 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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NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 16 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing 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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $326k–$2.7M; Series A $980k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $656k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medcotec — Medcotec is a medical technology start-up that designs innovative powder transfer valves to make pharmaceutical manufacturing safer, cleaner, and more cost-effective.
  • Envoke — The engagement Platform for your Virtual Instrument.
  • Candid Hospitality — Candid Hospitality is an innovative recruitment platform created particularly for the hospitality industry.
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Venrex
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 16 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $425k–$3M; Series A $6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Observable Space — OurSky is a modern developer platform for space applications. We provide real-time observational data and analysis of objects and activities in space. Built as an open, community-driven resource for the new space age engineer.
  • Integral Privacy Technologies — Integral focuses on compliantly connecting health data in a secure and efficient manner, serving as the only end-to-end regulated insights platform transforming compliance barriers into competitive advantage. We offer a range of products and services to help businesses accelerate their data processing, collaborate securely, and unlock new insights.Our software provides robust security and privacy protections while enabling seamless collaboration with regulated data. Our flagship offering is Expert Certifications-as-a-Service, which allows companies to work with de-identified data to discover novel insights and make innovative business decisions. Unlike traditional methods conducted by consultants that take months, our automated expert certification software drastically reduces processing time to mere hours.Through our expertise in privacy-enhancing technologies and deep understanding of healthcare data complexities, we help enterprises extract bespoke, actionable insights from regulated data that aren't available anywhere else, making us a valuable asset for any company looking to compliantly work with regulated data.
  • Something & Nothing — Our Premium Sodas are made with the highest quality natural juices, extracts and botanicals for elevated refreshment.
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IQ Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 15 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

IQ Capital is a dedicated European deep tech venture capital firm, built on the conviction that frontier technology will underpin the next generation of globally significant companies. We back founders leveraging scientific breakthroughs to build enduring global businesses. We have invested in over 100 of Europe's most ambitious deep tech teams across six funds since 2005.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$13M; Series A $4.7M–$40M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
  • Imperagen — Imperagen is a biotechnology research company focused on enzyme engineering, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology.
  • Undecimal Bio — Undecimal Bio operates as a platform biotechnology company that develops targeted delivery mechanisms for small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics. The company utilizes a proprietary platform that combines combinatorial chemistry libraries with transformer-based artificial intelligence to discover molecular conjugates capable of guiding genetic medicines to specified cells outside of the liver. This approach aims to circumvent traditional delivery constraints to expand the reach of RNA therapeutics into a broader range of therapeutic areas and human organs.
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Low Carbon Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom · 15 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing 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 of investment in the East of England. So far the Fund has invested over £8.5M alongside £26M private co-investment in 26 investments. Turquoise International manages the Fund on behalf of the Adapt Low Carbon Group at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The Fund builds on the region's world class low carbon economy and is the largest European Regional Development Fund-funded project in the region. The Low Carbon Innovation Fund was launched in September 2010 and will run until December 2015.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $212k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $450k–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Cellexcel — Cellexcel is a biomaterials research company that develops technology for enhancement of water resistance of biomaterials.
  • Kubos Semiconductors — Kubos Semiconductors is develop and commercialize cubic-GaN for high efficiency, low-cost LEDs using intellectual property.
  • Advanced Electric Machines — Our magnet free motors help manufacturers build more sustainable vehicles and products. See how we can help you today.
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Kelvin Capital
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 15 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kenoteq — Discover Kenoteq, pioneering the sustainable construction revolution with our innovative, ultra low-carbon building materials.
  • Aurora Avionics — Accelerating launch-vehicle development with flexible and modular avionics platforms.
  • Sofant Technologies — Sofant is developing a low cost RF MEMS technology that solves power consumption and heat problems in high frequency phased array antenna systems.
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Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 14 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.
  • Distil.ai — Distil.ai is a software platform that helps businesses to understand their customers’ behavior and identify buying signals.
  • MRC Engineering — MRC Engineering Providing a different option to the UK Rail Industry for Telecoms Design. Nationally renowned design specialists who provide extraordinary ...
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 14 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$4M; Pre-Seed $197k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $477k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Go Swag — Branded swag people want to keep, designed, sourced, stored and delivered by one team to 180+ countries. Managed programmes, Studio projects and Select.
  • Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
  • Farmdrive — Farmdrive helps supply chain partners create transparent, effective, and resilient operations from farm to shelf by streamlining data collection and simplifying farm management.
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NPIF - FW Capital Debt Finance
VC Fund · Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom · 14 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

NPIF - FW Capital Debt Finance is a fund managed by FW Capital and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund . NPIF is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank and supported by the European Regional Development Fund and European Investment Bank. As a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, which aims to create economic prosperity in the North of England, NPIF provides commercial finance to support small and medium sized businesses in the region. FW Capital manages both the £92.8m Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund for the North West and the £69.4m Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund for Tees Valley and Cumbria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Construction, Mechanical Engineering
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Debt Financing $144k–$920k
  • Lead/follow: 89% lead, 11% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EAST AT HOME — East At Home produces and sells products that enable customers to cook British Indian Restaurant style food at home. The company offers Heat & Eat curry sauces in various recipes, including options such as madras, korma, bhuna, vindaloo, and jalfrezi. It provides spice kits with pre-portioned blends and instructions so home cooks can recreate restaurant style curries with minimal preparation. East At Home also supplies BIR ingredients such as base gravies, spice mixes, pastes, and tomato bases that mirror those used in curry houses. Its products are sold primarily through its ecommerce store, with curated bundles for curry nights and recipe resources that support consistent home cooking results. The range targets home cooks who want to replicate takeaway-style curries using convenient, purpose-made sauces and ingredients.
  • Wade Construction Management — Wade Construction Management is a business that offers project management and construction services to the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Robinsons Facilities Services Ltd — Robinsons Facilities Services is a reliable and efficient commercial service and breakdown company.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing 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, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 442
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$22M; Series B $8M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
  • Living Optics — Living Optics is commercializing next generation imaging technology which leverages a compact camera system based on breakthroughs in hardware design and software processing.
  • Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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NPIF – Mercia Debt Finance
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 13 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

NPIF–Mercia Debt Finance is designed for SMEs that can demonstrate growth potential. As SMEs grow, larger amounts of finance can be needed to move them to the next level. Funding might be for hiring staff, purchasing machinery, moving premises, or even as working capital to finance a big order.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Debt Financing $130k–$683k; Venture - Series Unknown $127k–$654k
  • Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sheffix — Sheffix provides ironmongery and hardware solutions to both trade professionals and domestic customers.
  • BatchdUK — Batch’d provide an essential service to the Yorkshire artisan bakery community by giving them access to a larger market.
  • East Yorkshire Hydraulics — East Yorkshire Hydraulics Limited specializes in hydraulic engineering services. The company designs, builds, installs, and services hydraulic systems for various industrial applications. With a commitment to health and safety, they have achieved CHAS certification. The company operates in the mechanical or industrial engineering industry andemploys around 20 people.
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British Design Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

British Design Fund supports enterprise and innovation in the UK by investing in, and supporting, early-stage, well-designed, product businesses. The Fund works with extraordinary entrepreneurs with scalable products who are ready to accelerate growth and build long term value and thriving stand-out businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $133k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $123k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $190k–$650k
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LabCycle — LabCycle is the world's first company to recycle hazardous plastic waste from laboratories (service) as well as the first to create 100% recycled laboratory consumables (product). Working with public and private labs, we are driving the circular economy of lab plastics to reduce the 5.5m tonnes of lab waste annually. A few highlights of ourprogress to date: • Proven impact - saving 90% of CO2 emissions & 93% energy compared to current alternatives: incineration and autoclave (LCA available upon request).• Technological validation creating the world's first 100% circular lab consumables including petri dishes, test tubes and more.• Secured commercial contracts with the NHS, several private companies and also universities. We are raising £1.5m to scale our patent pending technology to serve our growing demand after over 150+ organic expressions of interests following our feature in BBC news. The funding will establish the first automated decontamination system of our network, recycling over 350 tonnes annually, saving over 1000+ tonnes of carbon.
  • Versatile RobotX — Versatile RobotX is a University of Essex spin-out that develops autonomous, field-ready agricultural robotics to address critical industrial challenges like labor shortages and environmental sustainability. Combining artificial intelligence, machine vision, and biomimetic neural movement control, the company designs modular, highly dextroussystems capable of executing adaptive harvesting tasks.
  • EcoNomad Solutions — EcoNomad Solutions is an agritech startup for the sustainability of smallholder farming around the world. The company develops sustainable, affordable, and reliable solutions that manage resources for smallholding farms and rural communities. It also delivers small-scale technology for sustainable resource management and agricultural wastereduction.EcoNomad Solutions develops a small-scale anaerobic biodigester and a range of supplementary products and services that will practically help small farms to overcome waste disposal issues and generate an additional revenue stream.EcoNomad Solutions was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England, UK.
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Newable Private Investing
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
  • Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
  • EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology
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HSBC UK
VC Fund · Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 46 in the past 12 months

HSBC UK provides financial products and services and long-term general and industrial credit services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Retail
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $8.1M–$187M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$280M
  • Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kromek — Kromek Group plc supplies and develops radiation detection solutions based on cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) and other material, for applications within the medical imaging, civil nuclear, security screening and homeland security markets. We also work with OEMs, govts and other agencies to design and build new solutions.
  • NRG Gym — Join NRG Gym. Game-changing gyms with state-of-the-art equipment and group classes for unbelievable value. Everything you need to train how you want to 24/7.
  • Kibou — Kibou operates a group of Japanese restaurants and bars offering contemporary and classic dishes inspired by the streets of Tokyo. The company serves handmade sushi and sashimi, ramen with pork, chicken or vegan broth, katsu curry, tempura, bao buns, gyoza and other hot dishes. Its menus include vegan and gluten-free options, kids’ dishes andJapanese-inspired desserts and afternoon tea. Kibou also runs standalone cocktail bars in its sites, pouring Japanese-inspired cocktails, highballs, Japanese whiskies, sake, umeshu and Japanese-brewed beers. In addition to everyday dining, Kibou provides private dining, group celebrations, tasting menus and Japanese whisky and sake tasting events. The company offers click and collect takeaway and works with delivery partners at selected locations.
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Longwall Venture
VC Fund · Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $818k–$5.4M; Series A $2.8M–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $98M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • OrganOx — OrganOx Limited was founded in 2008 to exploit normothermic preservation technology invented by Prof Peter Friend and colleagues and further developed by Prof Constantin Coussios at the University of Oxford.
  • Kinomica — Kinomica is a proteomic-data science and diagnostics company specializing in cell signalling. Kinomica offers KScanTM, a powerful suite of advanced proprietary bioinformatics and phosphoproteomics analytical methods that can provide direct activity measurements of multiple endogenous kinases and comprehensive cell signalling network coverage.
  • Lightcast Discovery — Flexible control over droplet number, occupancy, location and movement. Enabling efficient, multi-step workflows with unprecedented flexibility.
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Kindred Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 11 in the past 12 months

A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $7.9M–$33M; Series B $8M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $8M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
  • Bios Life — Bios Life is a technology-enabled healthcare company built to empower individuals to proactively manage their cancer risk, redefining personalized cancer screening and survivorship.
  • Scarlet — Scarlet certifies software medical devices. We’re Europe's only Notified Body specialised in software and AI, and have crafted a certification process that is built for software, and is thus significantly more efficient.This is how we deliver on our mission to hasten the world’s transition to accessible healthcare: by enabling manufacturersto release their medical software and AI to those who need it without unnecessary delays.We are designated as a UK Approved Body by the MHRA, and an EU Notified Body by the Dutch Ministry of Health and the European Commission.
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Equity Gap
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Mirna — Soon to be launched, our AI-powered MI:RNA platform is designed to detect a range of diseases prior to the development of clinical signs. This groundbreaking
  • QuickBlock — QUICKBLOCK delivers training environments, deployable infrastructure and force protection solutions for defence and security organisations worldwide.
  • Gutsy Health — Gutsy Health is a health and wellness website.
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Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • StratoBayes — Automated stratigraphic correlation with quantified uncertainty, built on Bayesian statistical inference.
  • Camena Bioscience — Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications. It has engineered new nucleic acid synthesis technology which improves the quality and speed of synthesis. Its multi-enzymatic technology takes one approach to DNA, RNA, and XNA synthesis, offering increased accuracy over existingPhosphoramidite synthesis technology.Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
  • Warwick Acoustics Ltd — Warwick Acoustics is a UK-based technology company specialising in the development of HighRes Audio solutions for the automotive and headphone markets based on its patented High Precision Electrostatic Laminate technology (HPELs). Their ultra thin, lightweight HPELs deliver audiophile performance across a bandwidth several octaves greater thantraditional moving coil speakers in a form factor that is less than one quarter the weight, and one tenth of the thickness. In addition, HPELs offer designers unparalleled flexibility to shaped and form a speaker to individual design requirements.
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Empirical Ventures
VC Fund · Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

Empirical Ventures is a specialist VC and venture builder backing the world's boldest early-stage deep-tech and life-science companies, built by scientists.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $924k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • MintNeuro — MintNeuro is pioneering the use of semiconductor technology in next-generation neural implants.
  • BoobyBiome — BoobyBiome harnesses breast milk microbiome science to develop products to improve infant health
  • Optera — Optera are a leading specialist structural repair company located in the West Midlands, which provides the ideal base for giving national coverage. Optera offer specialist structural solutions to problems widely encountered within the domestic property sector and are engaged daily to provide solutions to the Insurance market place.
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BACKED VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 11 in the past 12 months

BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe. We provide founders with an extensive support system to catalyse their development as a company operators and leaders. Through our Founder Experience Platform and energetic portfolio community we help entrepreneurs across all areas of a startup: from talent management to business development, further fundraising and international expansion. Founded in 2015 by partners Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, we invest across sectors including BioTech, Blockchain, Financial Services, Advanced Manufacturing, and more. Investments to date include Hutch, Thought Machine, LabGenius, THIS, Enterprise Alumni, and many more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9.6M; Series A $7M–$59M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $100M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Dubsof — Dubsof aggregates a business's fragmented operational data from emails, accounts, and spreadsheets to create a centralized database and build custom applications tailored to manage their specific daily workflows.
  • Foundational — Foundational is a startup focused on satellite laser ranging (SLR) automation.
  • Sensible Biotechnologies — Engineering cells to make better mRNA.
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TSP Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

TSP Ventures is a Venture Capital & Strategic Advisory firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, CleanTech, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.2M; Series A $10M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TaiSan — A polymer-electrolyte sodium battery for the e-bike and scooter fleet.
  • Nanomox — Sustainable advanced materials
  • PES Technologies — Discover PES, the leading precision environmental and agricultural management platform. Optimise land use and improve sustainability.
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Clean Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Expert capital for founders solving the hardest problems in clean technology and staying by their side for the long run.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Sustainability
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$6.1M; Series A $4.9M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.6M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $132M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • HydRegen — HydRegen is a biotechnology company that provides sustainable solutions for chemical manufacturing. HydRegen was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Gigaton — Carbon Re is a climate tech company using cutting-edge AI solutions to decarbonize cement and steel. Get in touch with us today!
  • Cambridge Electric Cement — Cambridge Electric Cement is a sustainable cement start-up. Its breakthrough process co-recycles steel and cement to produce a low carbon, circular cement product that offers very low emissions[1], circular, and scalable alternative to existing cement production.
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 19 in the past 12 months

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 256
  • Round size: Seed $674k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $313k–$2M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $126M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Score — AI Score is the intelligence-led AI governance platform for enterprise. Monitor AI risk, prove compliance and capture value in real time. Book a demo.
  • Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
  • Affinity Labs — We build software companies with category-defining creators.
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Round size: Seed $46k–$1.4M; Series A $295k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • OneClickComply — OneClickComply automates ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials and 240+ standards: evidence from 13,000+ tools, one-click fixes and an in-house audit team.
  • Land Digital — Land Digital is a tech, web design, web creation, content marketing, digital marketing, SEO, and mobile application agency.
  • Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.
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Northern Gritstone
VC Fund · Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

Northern Gritstone is an investment firm focused on investing in advanced materials, energy, health technology and cognitive computation.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$7M; Pre-Seed $2.7M–$6.2M; Series A $3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Imperagen — Imperagen is a biotechnology research company focused on enzyme engineering, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology.
  • Matter Machine — Matter Machine is an AI-driven materials discovery company that creates technologies that use materials chemistry, machine learning, and automated experimentation to speed up the discovery and optimization of next-generation materials.
  • SILVIA BIO — SilVia Bio develops technologies to analyze and optimize mammalian cell factories used in biomanufacturing. The company focuses on identifying critical parameters that limit bioproduction yield and product quality in cell systems such as CHO and HEK cells. Its platform provides cell profiling services that generate interpretable data on manufacturing-relevant bottlenecks. Based on these insights, SilVia Bio designs and supplies precision media additives formulated to address specific rate-limiting cellular processes. The offerings are intended for biopharmaceutical and biomanufacturing teams seeking to improve titre, cell performance, and consistency in production processes. SilVia Bio also collaborates with industrial partners to apply its platform within real manufacturing environments.
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Eos
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Eos invests in, & commercialises, science & technology, from local seed-stage to global scale, with a focus on improving lives.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $1.6M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TaiSan — A polymer-electrolyte sodium battery for the e-bike and scooter fleet.
  • Nami Surgical — Despite advances in robotic surgery, integrated ultrasonic energy remains unavailable in wristed robotic surgical systems
  • Scarlet Therapeutics — Scarlet Therapeutics is developing the novel red blood cell-based therapeutics (tRBCs) generation platform.
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Ascension
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 326
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $790k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $21M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
  • Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
  • Neela Biotech — Transforming organic waste into carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuels through innovative biotechnology and AI.
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Foresight Williams
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

An Enterprise Investment Scheme (“EIS”) that will invest into early-stage, unquoted companies that are developing disruptive technology and pioneering innovations. The Fund represents a collaboration between Foresight Group and the Williams Advanced Engineering business (part of the Williams Group). Foresight will be launching and managing theFund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$4.9M; Series A $5.7M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $654k–$8.9M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $54M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Living Optics — Living Optics is commercializing next generation imaging technology which leverages a compact camera system based on breakthroughs in hardware design and software processing.
  • Phlux Technology — We develop, manufacture and supply innovative communication and vision components
  • Cambridge GaN Devices — Cambridge GaN Devices develops transistors designed to bring widespread adoption of GaN technology in consumer electronics.
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Green Angel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$3.7M; Series A $6.1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mykor — Mykor develops and scales the next generation of building insulation that considers both human and planet health using industrial residues and mycelium for a 100% circular product.
  • Metal Morph — Metal Morph's mission is to advance the transformation of wastewater treatment plants into circular supply chains.
  • Sorted — Sorted is helping waste management companies to sort their recycled materials more efficiently.
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Archangels
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Established in 1992. Archangels is the oldest continuously operating business angel syndicate in the World. Investing in IP-rich tech & life sciences companies in Scotland, UK.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $867k–$6.3M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CSignum — Revolutionising underwater communications with electromagnetic technology for seamless data integration between surface & submerged devices.
  • Earth Blox — Earth Blox provides a platform for analyzing geospatial data through a visual interface for environmental and land analysis. The system enables users to build workflows using satellite imagery and other earth observation datasets without requiring extensive coding knowledge. It supports applications such as deforestation tracking, carbonmonitoring, agriculture assessment, and land use analysis.The platform integrates data sources and processing tools to help users generate insights, automate analyses, and export results for reporting or further use. It also allows collaboration across teams by sharing workflows and outputs within a unified environment. Earth Blox supports organizations working with geospatial intelligence by simplifying access to large-scale environmental data and analysis tools.
  • iGii — Integrated Graphene enable better products with a revolutionary design for manufacture process producing the world's highest quality pure 3D Graphene Foam, Gii.
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FW Capital
VC Fund · Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups

FW Capital is a fund management company making commercial investments in businesses with strong growth potential. It is part of the DBW Group, the largest investment group of its type operating in the UK.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Construction, Manufacturing, Real Estate
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Debt Financing $326k–$2.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $330k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Double Puc — Bristol based independant cafe and caterer
  • Tailfin Cycling — Explore premium bike frame bags, bike racks and other biking gear designed for racing, bikepacking, or daily commutes. Beautiful, lightweight, and easy to use.
  • Lemon Properties — Lemon Properties is a property constructor in the northeast.
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Manufacturing VC funding in United Kingdom at a glance

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in United Kingdom Manufacturing startups
$1.5M
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Grant
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