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British Business Bank
Investor · United Kingdom · Europe
British Business Bank is an economic development bank wholly owned by the UK government's Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, operating independently. It designs and manages finance products through over 200 delivery partners, including Start Up Loans, government-backed guarantees, and investment programmes that attract private capital into venture and growth markets.
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Or find every investor that fitsBritish Business Bank lists 63 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 63 funding rounds, 13 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 32% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (31%), Healthcare & Biotech (19%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (9%). 80% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Haatch, Elbow Beach Capital and Mercia Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name British Business Bank, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 4% |
| Seed | 32% |
| Series A | 22% |
| Series B | 16% |
| Growth | 26% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 1 | 1 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 2 | 0 |
| '25 | 15 | 5 |
| '26 | 45 | 7 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 89th | 63 companies |
| Recent activity | 100th | 49 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 65th | 36% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 55th | 31% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 91th | 8 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 31% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 19% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Education | 3% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Haatch | 6 |
| Elbow Beach Capital | 5 |
| Mercia Ventures | 5 |
| Oxford Science Enterprises | 5 |
| Entrepreneurs First | 4 |
| LocalGlobe | 4 |
| Ascension Ventures | 3 |
| BGF | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6197%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company23%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare British Business Bank head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with British Business Bank| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Nov 2026 | Debt | |
| 5 Nov 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Oct 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Series B | |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Seed |
Round details for British Business Bank
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in British Business Bank's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
63 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company creates a new single-dose inhaler for medicines, including those for respiratory conditions and other diseases. | Healthcare & Biotech | Nov 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Alchemab Therapeutics develops antibody therapeutics for hard to treat diseases using the immune system | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| The company provides credit cards and related financial services to small businesses. | FintechFintech | Nov 2026Debt | Funding round | |
| Cambridge Innovation Capital is a venture investor that supports entrepreneurs in knowledge-intensive businesses, particularly in life sciences and deep tech | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Feb 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| CSignum develops technology to wirelessly transmit data through water, ice, and ground. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Cyted Health develops a diagnostic platform for early detection of esophageal disease | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Cytospire Therapeutics develops next generation immune cell engagers, including multispecific antibodies and gamma delta T cell engagers, for cancer therapies. | Healthcare & Biotech | May 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Dataline Labs connects to existing systems and turns them into intelligence to make better decisions | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Dexory provides a platform that connects every warehouse shift and site in a supply chain to a continuous view of physical reality and intelligent support to make informed decisions. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Draig Therapeutics is developing therapies to treat neuropsychiatric disorders | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Series B | Funding round | |
Healthcare & Biotech | Dec 2025Series A | Funding round | ||
| Esk is a global entertainment technology company that makes innovative live events happen. | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | May 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Fieldwork Robotics is developing the world’s first autonomous raspberry harvesting robot. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Forge Genetics offers strain development and other services using its genetic engineering tool | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Freya builds and works on speech models, including speech synthesis, speech recognition, and voice interaction. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Hadean Supercomputing provides AI and simulation capabilities for defense and national infrastructure applications | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Mar 2026Round | Funding round | |
| Highway Data Systems provides digital quality assurance for UK road construction | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Holdson creates electrochemical polishing technology that transforms rough metal parts into smooth, uniform components in rapid turnarounds. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Round | Funding round | |
| IDenteq delivers cutting-edge data and software solutions to address the key customer data challenges in the utilities sector | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| The company analyzes the immune system in high definition to help predict its behavior | Healthcare & Biotech | Jun 2026Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 6 Nov 2026- Site
- british-business-bank.co.uk
- Last read
- 6 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Feb 2022
- Companies checked
- 63
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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