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, and jobs. Innovate U.K. is based in Swindon.
- Total investments:
- 1252
- 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 241 (19%)
- Biotechnology 188 (15%)
- Software 176 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 134 (11%)
- Medical 118 (9%)
Stage
- Grant 902 (72%)
- Pre-Seed 56 (4%)
- Seed 53 (4%)
- Debt Financing 27 (2%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (0%)
Country
- United Kingdom 937 (75%)
- United States 28 (2%)
- Ireland 4 (0%)
- Canada 3 (0%)
- Australia 3 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aileen Thompson
Interim Director of Communications
|
Interim Director of Communications | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Chris Coonick
Programme Manager, Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund
|
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital health optimisation company, helping how people understand and optimise their health, fitness and longevity. | $6.1M / Seed / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Founded by researchers from the University of Cambridge & UCL, Alchera Technologies has a strong and rich pedigree of world-leading machine learning and computer vision sensing technologies.At Alchera, they exist to help their clients build responsive, human-scale intelligence into their cities, transport systems and public and privatespaces.They believe very strongly in the benefits of delivering state of the art data platforms that give you information in real-time and at the highest possible levels of accuracy, without violating the safety and privacy of the people these systems are designed to serve.They never collect personal information and their system is built for privacy-by-design. | $926.4K / Grant / Oct 13, 2026 | ||
| Neela Biotech is a chemical manufacturer that produces fuel from waste using AI and synthetic biology. | Grant / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| TextureJet designs, develops, and deploys machine tools and technologies for surface processing in high value manufacturing. | $172.1K / Grant / 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 develops a hybrid multi-agent artificial intelligence platform to design systems-level therapies and cancer combination treatments. The company simulates how dynamic complex diseases behave and interact to optimize drug combinations and sequencing from billions of possibilities, aiming to minimize residual disease. | $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 | ||
| See all 1252 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 1,252 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Innovate UK invest in?
Innovate UK typically joins rounds of $143k–$3.5M at Seed, $62k–$1.8M at Grant and $58k–$1.3M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Innovate UK's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Innovate UK took part in.
How do I contact Innovate UK?
Public channels for Innovate UK include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
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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