United Kingdom logged 20 verified funding rounds in the week ending 11 Oct 2026, totalling ≈$750.9M. Factory anchors the week with a ≈$200.0M in Professional Services. Manufacturing was the busiest sector with 5 deals.
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Deals this week | 20 |
| Total raised | ≈$750.9M |
| Top sector | Manufacturing (5) |
| Most common round | Seed (5) |
| Sources tracked | 94 |
| # | Company | Amount | Round | Sector | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Factory | $200.0M | — | Professional Services | 05 Oct 2026 |
| 2 | Corgi Services | $160.0M | Series B | Construction | 10 Oct 2026 |
| 3 | Basecamp Research | $140.0M | Series C | Technology, Information and Media | 05 Oct 2026 |
| 4 | Universal Quantum | $100.0M | Series A | Manufacturing | 08 Oct 2026 |
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Living Optics, iPercept, Slater and Gordon Lawyers (UK), eEnergy, Klarent Hospitality, pubX, Danu Robotics, Nettle and 7 more closed rounds this week. Sign up to see amounts, round types, sectors and investor lists.
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Factory$200.0M · Professional Services · United Kingdom
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“A company that makes rain just hired someone to sell to ski resorts. That's one of five things we found by reading recent funding rounds through who the companies hired. 400 startups announced venture rounds between 15 and 21 September.”
4 more sources tracked. Read the full press release and reporter coverage.
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Corgi Services$160.0M · Series B · Construction · United Kingdom
The CORGI brand delivers products and services that range across the heating, plumbing and renewables industry and bring to the consumer and the trade a variety of well placed and priced offerings.
“Did you know an insurance startup founded in 2024 doubled its valuation from $1.3 billion to $2.6 billion in just three weeks? Meet Corgi (YC S24). The problem: Startups face real legal and financial risk from day one. Investors can sue over founder decisions, a data breach can hit customers, and AI products can cause harm.”
| # | Investor | Deals |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anchorage Capital | 1 |
| 2 | Anthropic's fund | 1 |
| 3 | Apollo Informal Investments | 1 |
| 4 | Applied Ventures | 1 |
| 5 | Braavos Group | 1 |
| 6 | Breega | 1 |
| 7 | British Business Bank | 1 |
| 8 | BRV Capital Management | 1 |
| 9 | BTSE | 1 |
| 10 | Bynd | 1 |
Manufacturing accounted for 5 of 20 verified deals in United Kingdom this week. The stage mix was 5 early-stage (pre-seed to seed) against 15 Series A or later.
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| Valarian |
| $50.0M |
| Series A |
| Technology, Information and Media |
| 06 Oct 2026 |
7 more sources tracked. Read the full press release and reporter coverage.
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Basecamp Research$140.0M · Series C · Technology, Information and Media · United Kingdom
Basecamp Research trains frontier AI models for therapeutic design.
“A UK startup nobody talks about. Basecamp Research, London. AI that designs medicines. Raised $140m last month from NVIDIA, Anthropic's fund, S32, the NATO Innovation Fund and others. The seed round was May 2020, at £1.30 a share. The Series C was filed at Companies House last month, at £48.86.”
9 more sources tracked. Read the full press release and reporter coverage.
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Gallatin leads with ≈$50.0M Series A · Professional Services
