Innovate UK
VC Fund
Swindon, United Kingdom
Innovate UK is a VC fund in Swindon focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. Innovate U.K. is a NPO that offers funding services to support science and technology innovations.The organization offers services and information on births, deaths, marriages, business, self-employed, childcare, parenting, citizenship, law, disabled persons, transportation, education, environment, housing, money, tax, travel, immigration, andjobs. Innovate U.K. is based in Swindon.
- Total investments:
- 1242
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 76%
Last updated:
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Industries Innovate UK invests in
Stages Innovate UK invests in
Countries Innovate UK invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 26 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $143k–$3.5M
- Grant
- $62k–$1.8M
- Pre-Seed
- $58k–$1.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 240 (19%)
- Biotechnology 187 (15%)
- Software 176 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 132 (11%)
- Medical 118 (10%)
Stage
- Grant 897 (72%)
- Pre-Seed 56 (5%)
- Seed 51 (4%)
- Debt Financing 27 (2%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (0%)
Country
- United Kingdom 931 (75%)
- United States 27 (2%)
- Ireland 4 (0%)
- Canada 3 (0%)
- Australia 3 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aileen Thompson
Interim Director of Communications
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Interim Director of Communications | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Chris Coonick
Programme Manager, Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund
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Programme Manager, Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
John Whittall
Lead Technologist, Sustainable Agriculture and Food
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Lead Technologist, Sustainable Agriculture and Food | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jonny Voon
Innovation Lead - Digital (Internet of Things and Distributed Ledgers)
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Innovation Lead - Digital (Internet of Things and Distributed Ledgers) | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Liam Winder
Innovation Lead
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Innovation Lead | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 26 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 North Health aims to improve healthcare with a medical device that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the risk of neutropenic sepsis for patients undergoing chemotherapy. | Grant / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system. | $1.8M / Seed / Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| Productive Machines that enable machining companies to be faster to the best part, first time, in an automated way. Unlike competitors who are stuck in a labour intensive iterative cycle to produce parts.Productive Machines have a digital twin of the physics, mechanics, dynamics, distortion and vibration of the machining process for metalcutting, enabling the company to test millions of parameters in simulation to enhance CAM and Gcode to improve productivity and part quality.Productive Machines is a spin out from the UK Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) | $1.5M / Debt Financing / Sep 21, 2026 | ||
| Big Picture Bio is a developer of an AI-driven platform designed to identify, design, and optimize cancer combination therapies. | $936.4K / Grant / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Sensors and AI models to digitize our sense of smell for better health. | Grant / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Treating the seeds of cancer | $948.7K / Grant / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| KVector creates communication and sensing solutions with high gain and efficiency from X-band to sub-terahertz bands and beyond. Modern antenna systems are built by KVector. | $1.3M / Grant / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
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Strolll Neurotechnology | $4.9M / Debt Financing / Sep 03, 2026 | |
| Ki 13 is a deep-tech venture that develops waste-to-hydrogen technology. | Grant / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Climingo provides a vendor-neutral software platform for evaluating and selecting weather and climate data providers. The company focuses on helping organizations compare forecast performance using their own locations, decision thresholds, and operational requirements. Its platform benchmarks accuracy across multiple vendors, modelling assumptions,resolutions, update frequencies, and geographies. Users can validate historical performance, conduct multi-vendor comparisons, and identify provider combinations that align with operational risk and decision needs. Climingo primarily serves sectors that depend on high-stakes weather and climate decisions, such as energy, insurance, infrastructure, and climate risk management. The service is delivered as an online SaaS product, including self-service trials to support procurement workflows and operational planning. | $393.9K / Pre-Seed / Aug 27, 2026 | ||
| See all 1242 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Innovate UK invest in?
Innovate UK invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Software startups, most often at Grant and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1,242 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Innovate UK's check size?
Innovate UK typically joins rounds of $143k–$3.5M at Seed, $62k–$1.8M at Grant and $58k–$1.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Innovate UK participates in.
How do I contact Innovate UK?
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Who are the partners at Innovate UK?
The team at Innovate UK includes Aileen Thompson (Interim Director of Communications), Chris Coonick (Programme Manager, Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund) and John Whittall (Lead Technologist, Sustainable Agriculture and Food), among 26 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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