The British Business Bank has committed £3 million to TSP Ventures through its Regional Angels Programme. It is the smallest of three such commitments traced this year, which may point to the programme spreading across more angel groups.

A forward looking, practical guide to tokenised cap tables for founders and investors, covering what they record, the benefits, the downsides and the steps to adopt one.

London's Scarlet has raised $50 million to speed up approval of AI medical devices, and its figures show how review time shapes a founder's release pace.

Founders, staff and early investors in UK startups now have more ways to sell shares before an exit. This guide compares private sales, company buybacks, tender offers, crowdfunding secondary markets, PISCES and tokenised shares.

Six months after a poll of UK founders and investors on equity tokenisation, the plumbing has arrived but the case studies have not. Who is ready, who should wait, and what comes next.

The British Business Bank has committed £10 million to Fuel Ventures through its Regional Angels Programme, to widen early stage investment and further funding for portfolio companies.

The British Business Bank joined a $20 million round for Living Optics, an Oxford University spinout making hyperspectral cameras, led by BRV Capital Management and announced on 5 October 2026.

Noah, a UK stablecoin payments start-up, closed a $38m seed round on 7 October 2026, made up of $22m raised last year and a $16m extension.

Seed deals are down and SEIS funds keep selling out. For founders running social enterprises, community interest companies and purpose-led businesses, there's a large pool of non-dilutive money that rarely comes up in startup circles.

Seed stage deal volumes in the UK fell 27 per cent year on year, according to the British Business Bank's Small Business Equity Tracker 2026, even as overall equity investment was propped up by a relatively small number of large AI transactions. Against that backdrop, professionally managed Seed Ent

The amount was not disclosed and neither was the stake. That combination is normal for corporate strategic investment and worth understanding before a founder accepts one.

In case you missed the news, UK company formation fell for a second six-month period in a row, while new business growth became more concentrated in a smaller number of postcodes, according to analysis based on Companies House incorporation records. The pattern points to a wider cooling in company creation, even though some local areas still added new firms at a strong pace.

Investment into UK start-ups more than doubled in the first seven months of 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to new analysis from GlobalData. Total capital deployed rose 113 per cent year on year, even as the number of deals stayed largely flat. For founders who can comma

The round is one of the largest into a UK life sciences company this year, and the capital setting its price came from the United States.

Metris Energy, whose founder spent three years assessing energy technology companies as a venture investor, has raised a seed round that includes her former employer. The round backs software that makes existing renewable energy assets easier to run, rather than new generation capacity.

Sequoia Capital's scout programme, credited with helping the US firm source early stakes in companies including Stripe, has built out a network of scouts across Europe, according to reporting by Sifted published on 11 September. Scouts typically operate with a small allocated pot of between $100,000

London based AI Score has raised 5.4 million dollars in seed funding to scale a platform that gives organisations visibility and control over how generative and agentic AI is actually used across their operations, a founder access story that sits squarely in the UK's crowded but under capitalised en

For founders building outside London, the message from the Treasury this week was explicit: growth capital is being redirected toward the regions, not just topped up in the capital.

A 500,000 pound pilot fund in South Yorkshire is trying to answer a question that most impact investors gesture at but rarely test with real capital: what type of finance actually suits what type of organisation, and can that matching be done well enough to build something much bigger.

European tech funding dropped by around 63 per cent in August compared with July, according to new figures from Tech.eu, as the usual summer slowdown combined with investors pulling back into fewer, larger cheques. Deal volume fell by a smaller but still significant 38 per cent over the same period,