Funding year · 2017
33 disclosed rounds
Amounts remain in 3 reported currencies; no FX conversion or undisclosed-amount estimate is applied.
| Date | Company | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-08 | Chattermill | Seed (follow-on) | £600k (≈€681k); cumulative total to date £935k | Entrepreneur First, Avonmore Developments, Angel investor Jeff Kelisky (Seedrs CEO) | Itpro ↗ |
| 2017-12-06 | Cytora | Series A | £4.4M | Starr Global Holdings, QBE Ventures, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Cambridge Enterprise, Parkwalk Advisors | Cytora ↗ |
| 2017-11-30 | APEXX Global | Seed | $4M (~£3.2M) | Forward Partners, MMC Ventures, Alliance Ventures | UKTN ↗ |
| 2017-11-29 | Luminance | Series A | $10M | Talis Capital, Invoke Capital, Slaughter and May | Legaltechnology ↗ |
| 2017-11-13 | Trouva | Series A | $10M | BGF Ventures, Index Ventures, Octopus Investments, LocalGlobe, Playfair Capital, Downing Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank | UKTN ↗ |
| 2017-11-02 | Wise | Series E | $280M (valuation $1.6B; included a secondary component) | Old Mutual Global Investors, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Sapphire Ventures, Mitsui & Co., World Innovation Lab, Andreessen Horowitz, Richard Branson, Baillie Gifford (participating) | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2017-11 | Graphcore | Series C | $50M | Sequoia Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Dell Technologies Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, Atomico, C4 Ventures, Draper Esprit, Foundation Capital, Pitango Venture Capital | Wikipedia ↗ |
| 2017-10-11 | TransFICC | Seed | €1,000,000 | Illuminate Financial, Main Incubator | Transficc ↗ |
| 2017-10-04 | Secret Escapes | Series D | $111M (equity plus a Silicon Valley Bank debt facility; exact equity/debt split not disclosed) | Temasek, Idinvest Partners (existing investor, via Growth Fund II), Silicon Valley Bank (debt facility) | Indexventures ↗ |
| 2017-09-27 | Onfido | Series C | $30M (press) / $25.46M (Crunchbase — minor discrepancy) | Crane Venture Partners, Microsoft Ventures (M12), Salesforce Ventures, existing investors | Finsmes ↗ |
| 2017-09-11 | Peak (Peak AI) | Series A | £2.5M | MMC Ventures, Praetura Capital | Peak ↗ |
| 2017-09-01 | FiveAI | Series A | $14M | Lakestar, Notion Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, Kindred | Finsmes ↗ |
| 2017-08-21 | Prodigy Finance | Series C | $40 million | Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, AlphaCode | Indexventures ↗ |
| 2017-08-21 | Prodigy Finance | Debt facility (announced alongside Series C, part of combined $240M raise) | $200 million | Undisclosed global investment bank, None named | Indexventures ↗ |
| 2017-07-30 | Carwow | Series C | $39M | Vitruvian Partners, Accel Partners, Balderton Capital | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2017-07-20 | Graphcore | Series B | $30M | Atomico, Individual AI figures: Demis Hassabis, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Pieter Abbeel, Scott Gray, Zoubin Ghahramani | Bloomberg ↗ |
| 2017-07-11 | Darktrace | Series D | $75M | Insight Venture Partners, Summit Partners, KKR, TenEleven Ventures | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2017-06-29 | By Miles | Seed | £1M | JamJar Investments, Insurtech Gateway | Coverager ↗ |
| 2017-06-01 | Bicycle Therapeutics | Series B | £40M | Vertex Ventures HC, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Longwood Fund, Novartis Venture Fund, SR One, SVLS, Atlas Venture | Svhealthinvestors ↗ |
| 2017-06-01 | Soldo | Series A | $11M | Accel | Soldo ↗ |
| 2017-05-30 | Panaseer | Seed extension | $3.25M | Paladin Capital Group, Evolution Equity Partners, Albion Ventures, Notion Capital, Winton Ventures | Paladincapgroup ↗ |
| 2017-05-17 | Appear Here | Series B | $12M | Octopus Ventures, Simon Venture Group, Balderton Capital, MMC Ventures, Meyer Bergman, Playfair Capital | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2017-05-16 | Papier | Series A | £2.94m ($4m) | Felix Capital (per Wikipedia and search-aggregated press summaries, no directly-fetched primary press release confirming a single lead was located), JamJar Investments, Downing Ventures | Wikipedia ↗ |
| 2017-05-16 | VivaCity Labs | Seed | £1.6m | Not clearly distinguished / no single named lead in press, Downing Ventures, London Co-Investment Fund, Tracsis (plus a separate £1.7m non-equity Innovate UK grant) | UKTN ↗ |
| 2017-04-25 | Babylon Health | Series B | $60M | Kinnevik AB, Vostok New Ventures, Hoxton Ventures | Aibusiness ↗ |
| 2017-04-24 | Token.io | Series A | $18.5M | Octopus Ventures, EQT Ventures, OP Financial Group | Token ↗ |
| 2017-04-22 | Runa (formerly WeGift) | Pre-seed | $3M | Ascension (Ascension Ventures), Unnamed additional participants (aggregator lists 5 total investors in this round) | Crunchbase ↗ |
| 2017-04-05 | Triptease | Series B | $9M | BGF Ventures, Notion Capital, Episode 1 Ventures | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2017-03-22 | Elvie | Series A | £5M | Octopus Ventures, AllBright | Privateequitywire ↗ |
| 2017-03-01 | Garrison | Series A | £12M | Touchstone Innovations | Garrison ↗ |
| 2017-02-27 | Dealflo | Series B | £10M | Holtzbrinck Ventures, Frog Capital, Notion Capital (existing shareholder) | UKTN ↗ |
| 2017-01-18 | Faradion | Series B (explicitly labeled by contemporary press) | £3.2m syndicate (Mercia's direct tranche up to £1.9m: £1.3m initial + £600k milestone-based) | Mercia Technologies, Finance Yorkshire Seedcorn Fund, Haldor Topsoe A/S | Finsmes ↗ |
| 2017-01-11 | Funding Circle | Series F | $100M | Accel, Union Square Ventures, Baillie Gifford, Index Ventures, DST Global, Ribbit Capital, Rocket Internet, Sands Capital Ventures, Temasek | Venturebeat ↗ |