The UK tech trade was the second best-funded on the earth within the first 9 months of 2025, forward of the US, China, India and Germany, in line with Tracxn knowledge.
Analysis from Tracxn discovered that UK tech corporations collectively raised $12bn (£8.9bn) within the first 9 months of the 12 months, an 8% enhance from the identical interval final 12 months, however a 2% drop from 2023.
Whereas early-stage funding, which historically makes up a big chunk of UK tech rounds, fell 15% from the $5.6bn raised in the identical interval in 2024, late-stage funding, the place the UK has struggled prior to now, has surged.
Tracxn discovered that UK late-stage funding rounds jumped to $5.7bn, 36% up from 24 and 11% from 2023, suggesting a better diploma of maturity within the nation’s ecosystem.
This may be seen as a big win for the trade, which has long-complained that whereas the seed and early-stage funding ecosystem has been very lively, companies looking for to scale past both wrestle to safe funding or search an acquisition or transfer to a different market.
Probably the most lively late-stage traders within the UK recognized by the analysis had been Latitude Enterprise Companions, Sturdy Capital Companions and BeyondNetZero.
Y Combinator, Gas Ventures and Haatch had been discovered to be essentially the most lively seed traders.
Among the many largest investments secured by UK corporations in 2025 had been Nscale’s $1.8bn Sequence B and Isomorphic Labs’ $600m Sequence D.
