This week’s UK tech funding deals include health tech startup Amber Therapeutics, wealth management platform Sidekick, cybersecurity firm OnSecurity and more.
UKTN tracked £139.2m worth of UK tech investment this week (10 June to 14 June), a 379% week-on-week increase across 11 funding rounds.
Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals.
Amber Therapeutics – £80m
Sector: Health tech
HQ: London
Round: Series A
Funding type: Equity
Investors: New Enterprise Associates as part of a syndicate of new investors F-Prime Capital, Lightstone Ventures, and Intuitive Ventures and existing investors Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE) and 8VC
Founded in 2021, Amber Therapeutics is developing adaptive neuromodulation therapy to treat mixed urinary incontinence (MUI).
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Echion Technologies – £29m
Sector: Energy
HQ: Cambridge
Round: Series B
Funding type: Equity
Investors: Volta Energy Technologies, CBMM, BGF, and Cambridge Enterprise Ventures
Founded in 2017, Echion Technologies develops fast-charging battery materials.
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Sidekick – £8.5m
Sector: Fintech
HQ: London
Round: Seed
Funding type: Equity/debt
Investors: Pact VC, TheVentureCity, MS&AD, Blackwood, 1818, Octopus Ventures, Seedcamp, Semantic Ventures and Columbia Lake Partners
Founded in 2022, Sidekick is a wealth management platform aimed at founders, tech workers, lawyers and similar professionals who want to invest beyond picking stocks but don’t know what the next steps are.
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Rendesco – £6m
Sector: Climate tech
HQ: London
Round: Series A
Funding type: Equity
Investors: Clean Growth Fund, Eurazeo’s Smart City fund, Aviva Ventures and Copley Point Capital
Founded in 2012, Rendesco develops low-carbon heating solutions.
Visibly – £5.9m
Sector: Edtech
HQ: London
Round: Seed
Funding type: Equity
Investors: Creandum, Seedcamp, Brighteye Ventures, Triple Point and angels
Founded in 2021, Visibly is a startup that provides training for the infrastructure sector.
OnSecurity – £5.5m
Sector: Cybersecurity
HQ: Bristol
Round: Seed
Funding type: Equity
Investors: Gresham House Ventures
Founded in 2018, OnSecurity is a cybersecurity platform that delivers computer system, network and web application penetration tests.
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Workl – £2m
Sector: Recruitment
HQ: London
Round: Series A
Funding type: Equity
Investors: Calculus Capital
Founded in 2017, Workl is a job marketplace that contains the “World’s Happiest Workplaces List”.
Gener8 – £2m
Sector: Privacy
HQ: London
Round: –
Funding type: Equity
Investors: Angel investors including Harry Redknapp, Peter Jones and Tinie Tempah
Gener8 has developed software that lets people block websites from tracking them across the internet.
Real World Health – £1.37m
Sector: Health tech/data
HQ: Hertfordshire
Round: Series B
Funding type: Equity
Investors: Maven Capital Partners and Dowgate Capital
Founded in 2011, Real World Health provides the NHS with software solutions to better understand and use its vast volumes of data.
VoltShare – £500,000
Sector: EV charging
HQ: London
Round: Pre-seed
Funding type:
Investors: SFC Capital, London Co-Investment Fund, Bethnal Green Ventures, Copa Ventures and angels
Founded in 2019, VoltShare develops charging solutions for electric vehicles.
Bluedot – £473,000
Sector: AI
HQ: London
Round: Seed
Funding type: Not disclosed
Investors: Angels
Founded in 2022, Bluedot is a Google Chrome extension that records, transcribes and summarises Google Meet video calls.
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