Salience Labs
Salience Labs develops silicon photonic switches for datacenter operators connecting large AI computing clusters.
$125MSeries B
ParticipantBB
British Business Bank
Activity from announced rounds
Activity in this selectionHardware
British Business Bank is the UK’s economic development bank, supporting business access to finance through investment programmes, funds and financing partners.
Its Future Fund: Breakthrough programme, delivered by British Patient Capital, co-invests with private investors in later-stage, R&D-intensive UK companies. It targets technologies such as quantum computing, cleantech and life sciences, where development requires substantial capital.
Applications to that programme come from a qualifying sponsor investor, rather than directly from the company. The published criteria require a round of at least £30 million, with the programme contributing no more than 30% on the sponsor investor’s terms.
- Rounds participated in
- 4
- Confirmed lead rounds
- 0 2 roles undisclosed
- New companies
- 4 First participation on record · 0 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $638.1M 4 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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Rounds
4 in this selectionCSignum
CSignum makes wireless communications technology that lets IoT sensors transmit data from underwater and underground infrastructure without conventional cable runs.
£2.6MFollow-on funding
ParticipantOxford Quantum Circuits
Develops superconducting quantum computers delivered via cloud for financial services, defence, and research customers
£260MSeries C
Role not disclosedQuantum Motion
Builds utility-scale quantum computers using industry-standard silicon transistors
$160MSeries C
Role not disclosed