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UK Innovation Science Seed Fund
https://www.ukinnovationscienceseedfund.co.ukLast activity: 30.12.2024
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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.
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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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... |
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