Funding year · 2018
32 disclosed rounds
Amounts remain in 3 reported currencies; no FX conversion or undisclosed-amount estimate is applied.
| Date | Company | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-12 | Graphcore | Series D | $200M | Atomico, Sofina (co-lead), Merian Global Investors, BMW iVentures, Microsoft | Siliconrepublic ↗ |
| 2018-11-29 | Aztec | Seed | $2.1M | ConsenSys Labs, Entrepreneur First, Samos Investments, Jeffrey Tarrant (Mov37), Charlie Songhurst | Finsmes ↗ |
| 2018-11-01 | Vizolution | Series B / Growth round | £10M | HSBC (reinvestment), Santander Consumer Finance, Royal Bank of Scotland, Development Bank of Wales, family offices and private investors | Fintechfutures ↗ |
| 2018-10-04 | Hokodo | Seed | €1.9M | Anthemis | Crowdfundinsider ↗ |
| 2018-10-01 | Garrison | Series B | $30M | Dawn Capital | Garrison ↗ |
| 2018-10-01 | Mimica | Seed | undisclosed | Episode 1 Ventures, not disclosed in sources found | Crunchbase ↗ |
| 2018-09-28 | Funding Circle | IPO | £300M primary raise (IPO), implied valuation reported as ~£1.5bn-£2bn depending on source | N/A (public listing), cornerstone investor Anders Povlsen (Bestseller) committed to buy at least 10% of the offering, n/a | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2018-09-26 | Darktrace | Series E | $50M | Vitruvian Partners, KKR, TenEleven Ventures | Cnbc ↗ |
| 2018-09-11 | Ravelin | Series B | £8M | BlackFin Capital Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Passion Capital, Playfair Capital | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2018-09-01 | Evox Therapeutics | Series B | £35.5M | Not stated | Evoxtherapeutics ↗ |
| 2018-08-31 | Duffel | Seed | $4.7M | Blossom Capital, Index Ventures, The Crankstart Foundation (some secondary sources also list Kima Ventures and Y Combinator, consistent with Duffel being a YC Summer 2018 cohort company) | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2018-08-17 | Threads Styling | Series A | $20M (£15.7M) | C Ventures, Highland Europe, D5 Capital (continuing/early-stage investor) | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2018-08-01 | FullCircl | Series C | £8M | Augmentum (£2M tranche), Oak Investment Partners, Notion Capital, VentureFounders | Fintechfutures ↗ |
| 2018-08-01 | Quantexa | Series B | $20M | Dawn Capital, AlbionVC, HSBC | Global ↗ |
| 2018-07-26 | Causaly | Seed | $1M | Marathon Venture Capital, Emerge Education, angels including Matt Clifford, Nadav Rosenberg, Charlie Songhurst | Tech.eu ↗ |
| 2018-07-23 | Brightpearl | Growth | $15M | Cipio Partners, Notion Capital, MMC Ventures | Cipiopartners ↗ |
| 2018-07-19 | Lifebit Biotech | Seed | $3M (£2.25M) | Pentech Ventures, Connect Ventures, Techstars, Beacon Capital, Tiny.vc | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2018-07-19 | Secret Escapes | Series E | £52M (~$68M) | Old Mutual Global Investors (subsequently rebranded Merian Global Investors), existing shareholders (not individually itemized in sources found) | Traveldailynews ↗ |
| 2018-06-27 | Signal AI | Series B | $16M | GMG Ventures (Guardian Media Group), MMC Ventures (largest investor in round), Frontline Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures, LocalGlobe, Kreos Capital (debt) | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2018-06-26 | Peak (Peak AI) | Series A follow-on | £1.5M | MMC Ventures, Praetura Capital | Prolificnorth ↗ |
| 2018-06-26 | Triptease | Series B (extension) | $4M | BGF, Notion Capital | Phocuswire ↗ |
| 2018-06-20 | Beamery | Series B | $28M | EQT Ventures, M12, Index Ventures, Edenred Capital Partners, Angelpad Fund | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2018-06-18 | Panaseer | Series A | $10M | Evolution Equity Partners, Notion Capital, Albion Capital, Winton Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Cisco Investments | PR Newswire ↗ |
| 2018-06-07 | CloudNC | Series A | £9 million | Atomico, Episode 1 Ventures, Entrepreneur First | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2018-06-01 | Healios | Seed | £2.2M | Albion Capital, Spice Capital | Finsmes ↗ |
| 2018-06 | nPlan | Seed | £2.7M | Not disclosed in any source found (company emerged from the Entrepreneur First network) | Privateequitywire ↗ |
| 2018-05-14 | Lyst | Series D | $60M | LVMH, Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, Draper Esprit, 14W | Hypebeast ↗ |
| 2018-05-11 | Zoopla | Take-private buyout of parent ZPG plc | £2.2bn / $3bn | Silver Lake | Bloomberg ↗ |
| 2018-03-22 | Matillion | Series B | $20M (~£14.1M) | Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, YFM Equity Partners | Businesscloud ↗ |
| 2018-03-19 | MPB | Series B | £5m | Mobeus Equity Partners, Beringea | UKTN ↗ |
| 2018-01-29 | Element (Matrix / Element.io) | Strategic investment | $5M | Status.im | Matrix ↗ |
| 2018-01-17 | MUBI | Strategic investment | Undisclosed; reported as similar terms to the 2016 Huanxi Media stake purchase | Times Bridge | Variety ↗ |