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UK Sovereign AI Fund
Venture capital · United Kingdom · Europe
The UK Sovereign AI Fund is a sovereign venture fund backed by the UK Government that invests in British AI companies. It offers early-stage equity investment of up to £10M on market terms and provides access to sovereign compute of up to 1M GPU hours.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsartificial intelligencecompute infrastructurefoundation modelshealth techtrust and safetyindustrial ai
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Or find every investor that fitsUK Sovereign AI Fund lists 9 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (47%), Healthcare & Biotech (20%) and Cybersecurity (13%). 100% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Plural, Entrepreneurs First and GV.
Counts come from funding rounds that name UK Sovereign AI Fund, 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 | 0% |
| Seed | 60% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 20% |
| Growth | 20% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 23th | 10 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 76th | 60% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 100th | 50% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 81th | 47% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Plural | 3 |
| Entrepreneurs First | 2 |
| GV | 2 |
| Hummingbird | 2 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 2 |
| LocalGlobe | 2 |
| nVentures | 2 |
| Acclimate Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers9100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 47% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 20% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 13% | 4% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 13% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare UK Sovereign AI Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with UK Sovereign AI Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 20 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Jul 2026 | Series B | |
| 27 Apr 2026 | Seed |
Round details for UK Sovereign AI Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in UK Sovereign AI Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
9 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augur is a next gen perception engine that maximises operational capability by leveraging existing camera infrastructure | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Basecamp Research designs and develops therapeutic models and medicines using artificial intelligence | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Callosum is building infrastructure where heterogeneous chips and intelligence co-evolve to solve the world's hardest problems. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Aug 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Cusp AI Limited discovers materials using artificial intelligence | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Fractile builds hardware to advance AI's underlying capabilities | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Ineffable Intelligence is creating a superlearner that discovers knowledge and skills through reinforcement learning algorithms. | AI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Isomorphic Labs is building predictive and generative AI models to accelerate scientific discovery in drug discovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| OLIX is building the infrastructure for frontier AI | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Tendrils is building a new general-purpose architecture that scales to thousands of cores | Healthcare & BiotechRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- sovereignai.gov.uk
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 27 Apr 2026
- Companies checked
- 9
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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