UK-based hospitality tech startup Inntelo AI has raised £506,000 in pre-seed funding to scale its AI Concierge platform, which is already being adopted by hotels across the UK, UAE, and Europe. The round was led by Haatch and British Business Investments, with participation from Look AI Ventures and angel investors.

Food tech company Win-Win, creators of the UK's first cocoa-free alternative to chocolate, has announced the closure of its Series A funding round, raising £3 million from investors including the Oetker Collection, Foodlabs, Mustard Seed Maze, Gota Ventures, Paulig, and Kapital, bringing their total raised to date to £8 million.

Build Concierge, the customer engagement platform, has raised $5.1m (£3.8m) in seed funding from a consortium of private investors. The deal values the year-old start-up at £35m.

Korra Ventures, an impact-investment angel syndicate backing underrepresented founders to create the next wave of £100m+ companies, has launched with a mission to deploy £50 million of capital to support these founders over the next decade.  The syndicate is founded on a simple but radical premise: the next generation of £100m+ businesses will be built by underrepresented founders tackling the UN Sustainable Development Goals, if they can access the right capital and networks.

Scotland's early-stage investment landscape continues to broaden its international appeal, with 73 investors new to the Scottish market participating in funding rounds during 2024, according to the latest Scotland Newcomer Investors Report from Young Company Finance.

IdentifAI, the fast-growing startup tackling the threat of AI-generated disinformation, has raised a €5 million funding round led by United Ventures. This new investment follows a €2.2 million seed round less than a year ago, which included a number of angel investors, and will fuel IdentifAI's international expansion in Europe and into the US, as well as its continued development of a proprietary deepfake detection technology.

London-based Zango has raised $4.8m, in a round led by Nexus Venture Partners, a leading global venture capital firm with over $2.6 billion capital under management. Other participants in the latest round include South Park Commons, Richard Davies, CEO of Allica Bank, Alan Morgan, former head of Financial Services at McKinsey (EMEA), Mark Ransford, Notion Capital, No Label Ventures and Start Ventures.

Digostics, the UK-based health tech company behind the world's first oral glucose intolerance test (OGTT) that can be done at home instead of a clinic or hospital, has announced it has surpassed £500,000 in funding on the Crowdcube equity crowdfunding platform, with more than 100 investors backing the company's mission to revolutionise diabetes detection and monitoring.

The Athena Festival, a trailblazing event dedicated to empowering female entrepreneurs outside of London, returns for its second year at Nexus Leeds on Tuesday 7 October 2025.

The 2025 Invest in Women Code report shows that at the early stage, 71% of deals reported by angel groups who were signatories were for all female led or mixed gender led teams, with all female led being the highest single group. In addition female founders backed by women led angel groups achieved twice as much investment as all male founder led businesses.

Inyanga Marine Energy Group has raised a further £3.7m of investment from a group of investors that includes the British Business Bank via The FSE Group, Welsh Ministers via Local Partnerships, and business angels including the FSE Investor Network.

AI auditing platform Warden AI has raised new funding round led by the founders of Onfido, the digital identity verification company acquired by Entrust in 2024. The round also includes participation from Playfair, a leading early-stage VC firm, and will support Warden's geographic expansion and product development.

Opper AI has announced the launch of its Task Completion API, backed by an oversubscribed $3 million pre-seed round. The API is designed to help developers move beyond one-off prompts and fragile prototypes, providing a structured and dependable path to launching AI-powered features in production environments.

The funding round includes backing from Luminar Ventures, Emblem Venture Capital (backers of one of the fastest growing AI startups in Europe - Loveable), Greens Capital, and several prominent angel investors. The Opper founding team - Göran Sandahl, Johan Gustafsson, and engineers from the Unomaly core team - bring more than 50 combined years of experience building automated, production-grade systems.