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UK Innovation Science Seed Fund

https://www.ukinnovationscienceseedfund.co.uk

Last activity: 13.05.2026

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The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (formerly known as The Rainbow Seed Fund) is an early-stage venture capital fund dedicated to kick-starting promising technology companies developed at some of the UK’s largest publicly-funded research facilities.

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Location: United Kingdom, England, Birmingham

Employees: 11-50

Investment Type: Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A

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Date	Name	Website	Total Raised	Location
28.03.2023	Silicon Mi...	silicong.com	$12.22M	United Kin...

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19.05.2026	Resurrect Bio Secures $10.3M to Revolutionize Crop Disease Resistance with AI Gene-Editing	Resurrect Bio announced a successful $10.3 million Series A funding close. This oversubscribed round powers its cutting-edge gene-editing technology. The UK-based biotech company targets pervasive crop diseases. It reactivates plants' inher...
13.05.2026	Resurrect Bio expands Series A to $10.3m to scale tech helping plants to defend themselves	[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Resurrect Bio] UK-based Resurrect Bio—a startup equipping crops with genetic defenses against disease—has announced the final close of its Series A round at $10.3 million....
19.02.2026	Resurrect Bio raises $8.1m to unlock plants’ innate disease resistance capabilities	[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Resurrect Bio] – UK-based Resurrect Bio—a startup equipping crops with genetic defenses against disease—has announced the initial closing of its Series A round at $8.1 mil...
19.08.2025	Oxford-based SugaROx secured €1.1 million to accelerate the development and production of its crop-enhancing biostimulants	SugaROx, an Oxford-based agri-biotech spinout, has secured an additional €1.1 million (£1 million) in a seed round extension to accelerate the development and production of its crop-enhancing biostimulant, targeting improvements in food pro...
30.12.2024	Ikarovec – seed funding round closes at £8m	We are delighted to announce our investment in Ikarovec as part of their seed funding round. Ikarovec is a biotech gene therapy company with a focus on ophthalmology. Norwich, UK, October 2024 – Ikarovec, which is developing novel bicistron...
11.09.2024	SOLASTA Bio: A New Dawn for Sustainable Agriculture	In the world of agriculture, the battle against pests is relentless. Farmers wield traditional insecticides like swords, but these weapons are losing their edge. Resistance is rising, and the environmental toll is becoming too heavy to bear...
11.09.2024	SOLASATA Bio raises $14m, plans to commercialize peptide-based biopesticides in ‘half the time’ it takes for synthetics	UK-based ag biotech startup SOLASTA Bio has closed a $14 million oversubscribed Series A round, bringing its total funding to $19 million. Forbion (via its Bioeconomy fund), FMC Ventures, and Corteva (through its recently launched Corteva C...
16.05.2023	Exclusive: Resurrect Bio lands $2m from AgFunder & others to build up plants’ immune systems	Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder UK-based plant biotech startup Resurrect Bio has closed a £1.61 million ($2 million) seed round. Resurrect Bio uses gene editing to fix the innate immune system of crops and make them more resist...
08.05.2023	DIGIT Deal Roundup \| April 2023	Welcome to the latest edition of the DIGIT Deal Roundup column, featuring some of the top investment, acquisition and expansion news stories from February, 2023. Scotland’s digital technology sector saw a number of notable deals across the ...
24.04.2023	Machine tool AI start-up raises £2.2m seed funding	Productive Machines, a Sheffield-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, has raised £2.2m in seed funding to make its advanced machine tool process optimisation technology available to a far wider range of manufacturers worldwide.
24.04.2023	Good vibrations as Productive Machines raises £2.2 million for machine tool AI	Sheffield-based Productive Machines, an AI start-up has raised £2.2 million in Seed funding to expand the reach of its advanced machine tool process optimisation technology. A spin out of The University of Sheffield, Productive Machines is ...
11.04.2023	Scottish Agritech Secures £4M for Eco-Friendly Insecticides	Scottish agritech, SOLASTA Bio, who specialises in the next generation of green insecticides has secured a further round of investment, totalling £4 million to scale up the development of its nature-inspired pesticides. Investment in this p...
11.04.2023	Scottish startup SOLASTA Bio secures €4.5M to scale up nature-inspired pesticides	SOLASTA Bio, a Glasgow University spin-out that specialises in the next generation of green insecticides, announced that it has secured further funding in its pre-Series A round totalling £4M (approximately €4.56M). The company has now rais...
28.03.2023	Silicon Microgravity secures £1.8 million to commercialise its MEMS	Cambridge-based Silicon Microgravity (SMG) has raised £1.8 million in funding, the first stage of a £2.8 million funding round, which will enable the commercialisation of its MEMS (micro-electrical mechanical systems) technology. Funds came...
25.07.2022	UKI2S gets £37m boost to back British seed-stage startups	Birmingham-based UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) has added an extra £37m to its patient capital fund to invest in seed-stage startups operating in areas including synthetic biology, fusion energy and defence. The fund will mak...
25.07.2022	UKI2S gets £37m top up to support British energy, defence, biology spinouts	Publicly backed UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) is expanding its patient capital fund by £37m to support spinouts in fields like synthetic biology, fusion energy and defence. The evergreen fund — one with no set end date, which ...
04.02.2022	Q5D raises $2.5M towards R&D of robotic 5-axis wiring and electronics 3D printing technology	UK-based robotics firm Q5D Technology has secured $2.5 million in seed funding to finance the development of a new multifunctional wiring and electronics 3D printer. Known as the ‘CU500,’ the 5-axis FFF system features a changeable toolhead...
03.06.2020	Tropic Biosciences banks $28.5m in Temasek-led Series B for gene-editing, RNAi approach	Losing a crop to a pest or disease is a devastating outcome for a farmer. If that farmer is based in a developing country without the promise of subsidies or crop insurance, it’s even direr. And in a pandemic world where food supply chains ...
17.03.2020	LifeArc announces seed fund investment in start-up GyreOx	LifeArc has joined leading UK venture capital firm UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) in investing into GyreOx Therapeutics (GyreOx). The funding will support a two-year programme to develop and automate GyreOx’s proprietary drug...
08.11.2019	Cambridge companies recognised at industry leading OBN Awards 2019 event	Cambridge companies recognised at industry leading OBN Awards 2019 event 08-11-2019 Cambridge Network members Bicycle Therapeutics and Endomag have been honoured at the 2019 OBN Awards, which celebrate the best of UK life sciences. OBN (UK)...
14.08.2018	Astellas announces acquisition of Cambridge spin-out Quethera	Astellas announces acquisition of Cambridge spin-out Quethera 14-08-2018 Astellas Pharma Inc. and Quethera Limited have announced that Astellas has acquired Quethera, a gene therapy company headquartered in the United Kingdom that is focuse...
14.08.2018	Astellas announces acquisition of Cambridge spin-out Quethera	Astellas Pharma Inc. and Quethera Limited have announced that Astellas has acquired Quethera, a gene therapy company headquartered in the United Kingdom that is focused on developing novel treatments for ocular disorders, such as glaucoma. ...
05.03.2018	UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund Invests in Seven Companies	UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) , formerly known as Rainbow Seed Fund, a Harwell, Oxford-based early-stage venture capital fund focused on promising technologies based on the UK’s publicly-funded research, has invested in seve...
-	UKI2S expands fund by £37 million to speed up British innovation	The UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund (UKI2S ) has expanded its patient capital fund by £37 million. The early-stage investment fund will support the most ambitious UK-based innovators at seed and beyond to facilitate sustainable growth, ...

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