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The Founder Gazette
Startup news, held to newspaper standards

Filed under: funding

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Startup news

NatWest puts £100,000 on its London pitch final in November

Five finalists will pitch at the bank's Bishopsgate office on 19 November. Entry is limited to UK companies incorporated in the past five years with revenue up to £1m.

243 · 16 September 2026
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Funding Atlas lists 27,000 funding opportunities in one database

David Raynor spent his career in film. At 75 he has built a search engine for grants, accelerators and angel investors, and says it now holds more than 27,000 entries.

237 · 13 September 2026
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Chiswick startup signs US government deal on nuclear cargo ships

Core Power has a first-of-its-kind agreement with the US Maritime Administration, $200m from three Japanese conglomerates and a 2028 target for its first propulsion systems. None of the shipbuilding will happen in Britain.

152 · 27 August 2026
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Boldr raises €4.2m to sell heating tech through US contractors

The London company will spend a pre-Series A round on North American expansion and software for the HVAC installers it treats as its route to market. Unconventional Ventures led.

142 · 25 August 2026
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Oshen raises $5m after one-metre robot sailed into a Category 5 hurricane

The Times reports a $5m round for the Plymouth firm whose sailing robot recorded 955 millibars inside Hurricane Humberto. Three years ago its founders were living on a 25ft boat at the cheapest marina in Britain.

111 · 21 August 2026
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Cambridge Aerospace raises $300m at $3.4bn valuation

The UK interceptor-missile maker has closed a €259.7 million Series C and says the money goes into manufacturing capacity to deliver contracts it already holds.

53 · 11 August 2026
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Edgify raises $9m to cut shop losses at the till

The London company runs its loss-prevention models on hardware already sitting in the shop. Total funding now stands at $25m.

51 · 11 August 2026
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Innovate UK names 100 women founders in largest cohort

Every awardee gets 12 months of tailored business support. The grant figures and the next application window are not yet confirmed.

36 · 9 August 2026