Startups
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.
Overview
Location
United Kingdom, England, Birmingham
Employees
11-50
Mentions in press and media 24
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| May 13, 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.... |
| Feb 19, 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... |
| Aug 19, 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... |
| Dec 30, 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... |
| Sep 11, 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... |
| Sep 11, 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... |
| May 16, 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... |
| May 8, 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 ... |
| Apr 24, 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 ... |
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What has the press written about UKI2S?
Parsers VC has collected 24 articles mentioning UKI2S, among them “Resurrect Bio expands Series A to $10.3m to scale tech helping plants to defend themselves” (May 13, 2026) and “Resurrect Bio raises $8.1m to unlock plants’ innate disease resistance capabilities” (Feb 19, 2026).
Is UKI2S still active?
Yes, UKI2S is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 13, 2026.