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:
- 1215
- 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
- $57k–$1.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 88 (7%)
- Biotechnology 77 (6%)
- Software 68 (6%)
- Information Technology 49 (4%)
- Manufacturing 47 (4%)
Stage
- Grant 385 (32%)
- Seed 34 (3%)
- Pre-Seed 29 (2%)
- Debt Financing 17 (1%)
- Funding Round 5 (0%)
Country
- United Kingdom 404 (33%)
- United States 13 (1%)
- Ireland 3 (0%)
- Canada 2 (0%)
- France 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Anemo Labs
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Sensors and AI models to digitize our sense of smell for better health. | Grant / Sep 10, 2026 | |
Athernal Bio
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Treating the seeds of cancer | $948.7K / Grant / Sep 09, 2026 | |
KVector
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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
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Strolll Neurotechnology | $4.9M / Debt Financing / Sep 03, 2026 | |
Ki 13
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Ki 13 is a deep-tech venture that develops waste-to-hydrogen technology. | Grant / Sep 02, 2026 | |
Climingo
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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 | |
EcoNomad Solutions
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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. | $230.2K / Grant / Aug 19, 2026 | |
Dragonfly Technology Limited
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Software moves fast, and businesses are losing out. They’re using outdated tools, while watching competitors make strides with AI-first tech. But the fact is, the way teams discover and choose software has been broken for years. Dragonfly is a platform designed to simplify the process of software discovery with clarity, objectivity, and speed.With Dragonfly's proprietary AI-driven technology, businesses can make smarter, faster decisions by connecting their existing tech stack to a dynamic, curated dataset of the world’s most performant tools, to instantly provides contextual, personalised recommendations tailored to your unique challenges, goals, and stage of growth.Dragonfly is built to eliminate the confusion and bias from software selection. No more spreadsheets, vendor hype, or guesswork. With Dragonfly, your team can stay aligned, cut waste, and fast-track research. Whether you're scaling fast or looking for an AI-driven tool to enhance productivity, Dragonfly has you covered today and tomorrow. | $955.2K / Grant / Aug 17, 2026 | |
Versatile RobotX
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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. | Grant / Aug 13, 2026 | |
CN Bio
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CN Bio Innovations, formerly Zyoxel Ltd, is part of the Hong Kong-based, CN Innovations Holdings Limited (CNI). CN Bio develops human organ-on-a-chip platforms for the testing and development of therapeutics for serious human diseases. The company’s leading organ-on-chip disease model is a full viral lifecycle model of hepatitis B (HBV) based onthe culture of primary human hepatocytes in the company’s proprietary LiverChip® platform. The HBV disease model, which is referred to as Quantum-B®, is currently being deployed in drug discovery and research alliances with a number of leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies.Working closely with academic pioneers in the bio-engineering field, and backed by prestigious grant awards from sponsors including the United States Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency and UK Technology Strategy Board, CN Bio continues to develop next generation organ-on-chips which will improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world by fast tracking breakthrough therapies to market. | $243.1K / Grant / Aug 12, 2026 | |
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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 Seed stage. Most of the 1,215 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 $57k–$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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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