Bioniq, which is renowned for its personalized nutritional supplements based on blood biomarker data, has signed up football star Diogo Dalot, right-back for Manchester United and the Portugal national team, as an investor, contributing over €1 million.

Dalot joins the global football icon Cristiano Ronaldo, who became a major investor in 2024, and brought Bioniq's total valuation to $82 million. Dalot's investment marks another milestone in Bioniq's mission to make personalized health accessible to athletes and everyday individuals worldwide.

Qlarifi, a fintech start-up transforming credit reporting for Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL), has completed a pre-seed funding round backed by a combination of HoneyComb Asset Management, Carthona Capital and a selection of angel investors including Australian rugby legend John Eales, raised $1.8m USD to accelerate the company's mission of bringing repayment transparency to the BNPL industry.

UK agritech startup Elaniti has closed its recent funding round with participation from early-stage biotech investor biotope by VIB, Planetary Impact Ventures and Paulig Group's CVC arm, PINC.

Komodo Energy, the Cambridge based software company tackling the energy grid challenge of electrifying heat, has raised £340,000 from investors who deeply understand energy flexibility markets and have backed other critical energy flexibility players at their earliest stages such as Electron, Piclo and Ev Energy.

Bolt Cover, a pioneering insurtech company, has successfully raised £380,000 through FundMyPitch (FMP), marking 19% of its current funding round.  The company, founded by Jamie Hamer, is transforming the insurance industry with a scalable and transparent approach to asset protection.

ET Capital is launching a new investment fund designed to make investing in Cambridge's thriving startup ecosystem more accessible to investors, particularly individuals. The fund will invest in a broad range of technology-based businesses to enhance its risk and return profile, and offer the benefits of the attractive SEIS and EIS tax relief schemes where appropriate

Healsgood, the pioneering healthtech company behind Flexzo AI, has successfully closed a £1.5 million funding round to revolutionise staffing and operational efficiency across the NHS. The oversubscribed round, led by Fuel Ventures, signifies strong investor confidence in Healsgood's vision of dramatically reducing patient waiting times and NHS service delivery failures across the UK.

Rival, a startup that develops technology to enable millions of users to create and share 3D content, has come out of stealth and announced it has raised a $4.2 million pre-seed round, led by Speedinvest, with participation from New Renaissance Ventures and high-profile angels.

Rival has created a platform that allows users to browse through immersive 3D short-form content in their spatial computing headset, in a similar fashion to how TikTok or Instagram Reels work with conventional videos.

The highly effective sales coaching platform developed by MySalesCoach has netted the company a further £935,000 of investment from Northstar Ventures as part of a £1.1m funding boost.

Eventum Orthopaedics, a UK medtech company whose device could revolutionise knee replacement surgery has raised a further £3.8m from NPIF II - Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia Ventures as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II), Mercia’s EIS funds and private investors including leading surgeons.

Eventum's QuadSense device helps surgeons to precisely cut and place the kneecap in total knee replacements. Currently over 2 million patients a year have knee replacements globally, yet around 20% are not fully satisfied with the outcome. Eventum believes the key to improving success rates is the position of the kneecap, which plays a crucial role in the knee's function.

Reactwise has secured $3.4 million in pre-seed funding, including a competitive Innovate UK grant, to enable AI-driven robotic laboratories and speed up pharmaceutical manufacturing R&D. 

Bethnal Green Ventures has led a £1 million pre seed funding round in Vouchsafe, alongside co-investors Seed X Liechtenstein, Biometric Ventures, Fuel Ventures, and strategic angels.