UK funding year · 2014
2014 UK funding rounds
21 disclosed startup and growth-company rounds are retained for this year. Amounts remain in 2 reported currencies; no FX conversion or undisclosed-amount estimate is applied.
| Date | Company | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12-31 | Onfido | Series A | $4.5M | Wellington Partners, 9 investors total per Crunchbase, individual names not fully itemized in sources checked | Crunchbase ↗ |
| 2014-12-14 | Carwow | Series A | £4.6M | Balderton Capital, Episode 1 Ventures · 1 additional source-listed | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2014-11-26 | Appear Here | Series A extension | £5M | Balderton Capital | Balderton ↗ |
| 2014-10-30 | Touchlight | Series A | undisclosed | Downing (Downing Ventures' first investment in the company) · 1 additional source-listed | Downing ↗ |
| 2014-10-14 | Bicycle Therapeutics | Series A | £20M | Not stated | Crunchbase ↗ |
| 2014-07-16 | Funding Circle | Series D | $65M | Index Ventures, Accel Partners, Union Square Ventures, Ribbit Capital | Indexventures ↗ |
| 2014-07-09 | NewVoiceMedia | Series E | $50M | Technology Crossover Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners Europe, Salesforce.com | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2014-07-01 | Crowdcube | Series B | £5M | Balderton Capital | Balderton ↗ |
| 2014-06-26 | Deliveroo | Series A | £2.75M | Index Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, JamJar Investments · 2 additional source-listed | Indexventures ↗ |
| 2014-06-23 | Zoopla | IPO (LSE, as Zoopla Property Group) | $1.56bn valuation | Not stated | Octopusgroup ↗ |
| 2014-06-09 | Wise | Series B | $25M | Sir Richard Branson, Valar Ventures, IA Ventures, Index Ventures, TAG (Robin & Saul Klein), Kima Ventures | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2014-03-13 | MUBI | Series D (rolling close) | $7.5M initial close reported Mar-2014; same financing reported at $15M cumulative by Jan-2015 (institutional money ~5% of the round) | Floreat, MMC Ventures, White Star Capital (institutional anchor), no single lead among ~49 individual investors, C4 Ventures, individuals including Jon Winkelried (ex-Goldman Sachs), Eric Fellner (Working Title Films), Martín Varsavsky, Pascal Cagni (ex-Apple EMEA), Osama Al Ayoub (Kuwait Investment Office), Simon Patterson (Silver Lake Partners), Jörg Mohaupt (Access Industries), Peter Dubens (Oakley Capital), Bertrand Demole (Pictet) | Privateequitywire ↗ |
| 2014-03-11 | Adbrain | Series A | $7.5M | Notion Capital · 1 additional source-listed | Notioncapital ↗ |
| 2014-03-02 | FullCircl | Series B | $17M | Oak Investment Partners, Notion Capital, Passion Capital | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2014-03-01 | nDreams | Early-stage first check | £250,000 (Mercia's 2023 retrospective rounds to "£0.3m") | 1 additional source-listed | Mercia ↗ |
| 2014-02 | EDITED | Series A | $4.4M | Frog Capital, Index Ventures (follow-on) | Finsmes ↗ |
| 2014-01-23 | Lyst | Series B | $14M | Balderton Capital, Draper Esprit, Accel Partners | Balderton ↗ |
| 2014-01-09 | iwoca | Series A | £5,000,000 (~$8.2M) | Global Founders Capital, Redline Capital Management, Beyond Digital / Talis Capital (existing) | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2014-01-01 | Brandwatch | Series B | $22M | Highland Europe | Brandwatch ↗ |
| 2014-01-01 | Dealflo | Series A | Not disclosed | 1 additional source-listed | Vc ↗ |
| 2014-01-01 | Lantum | Series A | £3.2M | Piton Capital, Playfair Capital · 1 additional source-listed | TechCrunch ↗ |