UK funding year · 2019
2019 UK funding rounds
48 disclosed startup and growth-company rounds are retained for this year. Amounts remain in 3 reported currencies; no FX conversion or undisclosed-amount estimate is applied.
| Date | Company | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-02 | Quorso | Series A | $5.2M | OMERS Ventures, Hambro Perks | Medium ↗ |
| 2019-11-27 | Trouva | Series B | $22M (£17M); $30M total cited by some trackers | Octopus Ventures, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures, LocalGlobe · 1 additional source-listed | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-11-19 | Causaly | Series A | $4.8M (headlined '$5m') | Pentech Ventures, EBRD Venture Capital (co-leads), Marathon Venture Capital, existing angels | Causaly ↗ |
| 2019-11-18 | Wayve | Series A | $20M | Eclipse Ventures, Balderton Capital · 1 additional source-listed | Balderton ↗ |
| 2019-11-14 | Snowplow | Series A | £4M | MMC Ventures | Finsmes ↗ |
| 2019-11-13 | Cloudsmith | Seed | £2.1M | MMC Ventures · 2 additional source-listed | Vc ↗ |
| 2019-11-07 | IMMO Capital | Series A | €11.5M equity | Talis Capital · 4 additional source-listed | Taliscapital ↗ |
| 2019-11-01 | Eigen Technologies | Series B | £29M | Not stated | Eigentech ↗ |
| 2019-10-28 | Duffel | Series B | $30M | Index Ventures, Benchmark, Blossom Capital, Kima Ventures | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-10-22 | LabGenius | Series A | $10M+ (also €11.5M) | Lux Capital, Obvious Ventures, Air Street Capital, Kindred Capital · 4 additional source-listed | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-10-10 | Element (Matrix / Element.io) | Series A | $8.5M | Notion Capital, Dawn Capital, firstminute Capital | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-10-01 | Huboo | Seed | £2.1M | Episode 1 Ventures, Ada Ventures · 1 additional source-listed | Info ↗ |
| 2019-09-19 | Red Sift | Series A | $8.8M | MMC Ventures, White Star Capital, Oxford Capital · 1 additional source-listed | Redsift ↗ |
| 2019-09-07 | PrimaryBid | Series A | £7M ($8.6M) | Pentech, Outward VC · 1 additional source-listed | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-09-04 | Papier | Series B | $11m (also reported as £9.1m; one aggregator cites £8.1m) | Beringea, Felix Capital, JamJar Investments, Downing Ventures | City A.M. ↗ |
| 2019-09-02 | Arctic Shores | Series A | $5.5M | Beringea · 1 additional source-listed | UKTN ↗ |
| 2019-08-02 | Babylon Health | Series C | $550M | Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Kinnevik AB, VNV Global, ERGO Fund | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-07-15 | MPB | Series C | £9m (~€10m) | Acton Capital, Mobeus Equity Partners, Beringea (existing, participating) | Tech.eu ↗ |
| 2019-07-15 | Paragraf | Series A | £12.8M | Parkwalk, Amadeus Capital Partners, Cambridge Enterprise · 2 additional source-listed | Paragraf ↗ |
| 2019-07-12 | Tyk | Series A | £4M (~$5M) | MMC Ventures | Info ↗ |
| 2019-07-01 | Hopin | Pre-seed | Not disclosed | Seedcamp | Seedcamp ↗ |
| 2019-07-01 | Soldo | Series B | $61M | Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital | Soldo ↗ |
| 2019-06-27 | Runa (formerly WeGift) | Series A | £4M (~$5.07M) | Stride.VC (Fred Destin), SAP.iO, Unilever Ventures, angel investors James Hind (Carwow founder), Eamon Jubbawy (Onfido co-founder) | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-06-24 | Monzo | Series F | £113M (~$144M) | General Catalyst, Stripe, Passion Capital, Thrive Capital, Accel · 4 additional source-listed | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-06-19 | Duffel | Series A | $21.5M (also reported as £16.96M / €19.2M in UK/EU press — same event) | Benchmark, Index Ventures, Blossom Capital | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-06-06 | Depop | Series C | $62M | General Atlantic · 1 additional source-listed | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-05-30 | Monolith (Monolith AI) | Seed | £1.9M | Pentech Ventures, Stanford Angels of the UK, Ascension Ventures, Charlie Songhurst | UKTN ↗ |
| 2019-05-29 | Phasecraft | Pre-seed | £750,000 | UCL Technology Fund, Parkwalk Advisors, London Co-investment Fund | Uclb ↗ |
| 2019-05-28 | YuLife | Series A | £10M ($12.6M) | Creandum, MMC Ventures, Notion Capital, OurCrowd · 2 additional source-listed | Lifeinsuranceinternational ↗ |
| 2019-05-22 | Bicycle Therapeutics | IPO | $64.9M | Not stated | Gov ↗ |
| 2019-05-22 | Wise | Growth / secondary sale (existing shares only — no new primary capital to the company) | $292M (valuation $3.5B) | Lead Edge Capital, Lone Pine Capital, Vitruvian Partners, BlackRock, Andreessen Horowitz, Baillie Gifford (increasing existing stakes) | Forbes ↗ |
| 2019-05-20 | Stream (formerly Wagestream) | Series A | £40M ($51M: £15M equity + £25M debt facility) | Balderton Capital, Northzone, QED Investors, London Co-investment Fund, Village Global · 2 additional source-listed | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-05-02 | Checkout.com | Series A | $230M | Insight Partners, DST Global, GIC, Blossom Capital, Endeavor Catalyst | Checkout ↗ |
| 2019-05-01 | Fnatic | Series A | $19M | LVL1 Group / Lev Leviev (per Fnatic's own press release) — NOTE: a Beringea-linked trade body (UKBAA) instead credits Beringea as leading this round, conflicting attribution not resolved, BlackPine, Unbound, Raptor Group · +1 more linked | Fnatic ↗ |
| 2019-05-01 | Modulr | Scale-up round | £14M | Frog Capital, Blenheim Chalcot | Modulrfinance ↗ |
| 2019-04-30 | Masabi | Series B (per Wikipedia/aggregators) | $20M; extended Feb-2020 by an additional investment from Shell described as part of the same round (amount undisclosed) — not counted separately | Smedvig Capital, MMC Ventures and other existing investors, Shell (added Feb-2020) | Masabi ↗ |
| 2019-04-25 | Synthesia | Seed | $3.1M | MMC Ventures, Seedcamp, Taavet Hinrikus · 5 additional source-listed | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-04-16 | Cytora | Series B | £25M | EQT Ventures, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Parkwalk | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-04-03 | Onfido | $50M round (labeled 'Series C2' by at least one source; most press left it unlettered — not confirmed as 'Series D') | $50M | SBI Investment (SoftBank), Salesforce Ventures (co-leads), M12, FinVC, Acequia Capital · +10 more linked | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-04-01 | Congenica | Series B | £23.3M | Cambridge Innovation Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, Parkwalk, BGI, Digital China Health | Congenica ↗ |
| 2019-03-01 | Stable | Seed | $6M | 4 additional source-listed | TechCrunch ↗ |
| 2019-02-27 | By Miles | Series A | £5M | Octopus Ventures, JamJar Investments · 2 additional source-listed | UKTN ↗ |
| 2019-02-19 | iwoca | Series D | £20,000,000 equity (part of a combined £150M equity+debt package) | Augmentum Fintech (contributed ~£7.5-8M of the £20M equity tranche), Prime Ventures and other existing investors | Global ↗ |
| 2019-02-07 | Luminance | Series B | $10M | Invoke Capital, Talis Capital · 1 additional source-listed | Bloomberg ↗ |
| 2019-02-01 | Vortexa | Series A | $5M | Notion Capital | Vortexa ↗ |
| 2019-01-22 | Farewill | Series A | £7.5M | Augmentum Fintech | Fundraising ↗ |
| 2019-01-16 | Seldon | Seed | £2.7M | Amadeus Capital Partners, Techstars, Force Over Mass Capital, Playfair Capital · 3 additional source-listed | Amadeuscapital ↗ |
| 2019 | OrganOx | BGF first investment (label uncertain — inferred later 'Series C'-equivalent by sequence) | undisclosed | BGF | Bgf ↗ |