UK Business Angels Association

Investors in this round: Gabriel Investment Syndicate, Scottish Enterprise, Highland Venture Capital, Investing Women Angels, Apollo Informal Investments, FundMyPitch investor network Edinburgh-based female health brand GLORIAH has completed an oversubscribed seed round, raising £600,000 against a £500,000 target. The round was led by Gabriel Investment Syndicate, alongside Scottish Enterprise, Highland Venture Capital, Investing Women Angels and Apollo Informal Investments.

Skip to content Investors in this round: FundMyPitch investor network Mana Medical, the UK digital health company supporting people with rheumatic and autoimmune conditions, has raised £475,000 in a round backed by the FundMyPitch investor network. The capital will be used to accelerate product development and expand clinical deployment. Rheumatic care today is largely reactive. Patients are reviewed in episodic snapshots, often months apart, and clinicians depend on patient recall in between.

Skip to content Investors in this round: Angels from the FundMyPitch investor network Rivr, the digital insurance platform for high net worth households, has secured a six figure investment from angels in the FundMyPitch investor network. Arranging cover for a high value home typically takes around two weeks through a traditional broker.

Two syndicate introductions, one pitch in Cambridge, and the funding to finish a prototype that made the seed round possible. Universal Atmosphere Processing is developing a new way to extract valuable noble gases directly from the air. Neon supports the lasers used in semiconductor manufacturing, xenon is used in electric satellite propulsion, and krypton improves the insulation of high-performance glazing.

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I was at Cambridge Tech Week 2026, but from a different perspective this year. Instead of just walking the floor, I was on stage as part of the Deep Tech Playbook (2026-2030) panel, talking through what it'll take to scale UK deep tech over the next five years. There's plenty here for early-stage founders to take from it. Here's what stood out.

Skip to content The East of England's angel investment network unveils a new name and identity after ten years of backing regional founders. Anglia Capital Group, a collaborative group of individual investors who come together to support early-stage businesses in the East of England, has today announced a new name and identity. It is now Eastern Angels.

London still dominates UK venture capital, but the regions are growing fast. Here's where the new money is going. In the first half of 2026, UK businesses raised £14.4 billion in equity investment, up 26% on the second half of 2025. 1 London took the biggest slice of that, as it always does, growing 48.5% to £10.1 billion. But the North West grew almost twice as fast, up 89.4% to £1.19 billion, pulling ahead of every UK region except London.

Ranking Copilot completed its second pre-seed round in August 2026, raising in excess of £500k. Combined with its earlier funding, this brought the total capital raised by the company to more than £1 million. The story started with a very specific problem. The software behind legal directory submissions Dmytro Fedoruk spent two decades in law before he started building software for it.

Skip to content The £11.7m Series B, led by Scottish National Investment Bank, with further backing from PXN Group and Archangels, will accelerate the commercialisation and adoption of Gii, iGii's proprietary carbon nanomaterial The Series B funding is accompanied by £11m of Scottish Enterprise funding, taking total backing to £22.7m and supporting the next stage of iGii's technology, manufacturing and development The investment follows years of scientific and manufacturing development that...