# Kelpi funding: rounds and investors

> Kelpi has raised $5.5M across 2 rounds since 2024. Investors include Innovate UK, Maven Capital Partners and Blackfinch Ventures. Every round with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/company/kelpi (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

United Kingdom · [Venture startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies)

# Who invested in *Kelpi*

2 rounds we have observed, with the 3 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

Biotech

Raised 9 months ago

Funding summary Updated 26 Oct 2026

**$5.5M** raised across 2 rounds since 2024, from 2 sources

- **Latest round:** Venture Feb 2026
- **Biggest round:** $5.5M Seed · May 2024
- **Investors:** 3

See who backed them

## The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

2025 2026

**$5.5M** Seed

**?** Venture

- **First round:** Seed, $5.5M
- **Biggest round:** $5.5M
- **Between rounds:** 21 months

## The rounds

- **Feb 2026** Venture **Amount undisclosed** *1 new* *2 returning* [Innovate UK](https://millionrounds.com/fund/innovate-uk) [Maven Capital Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/maven-capital-partners) [Blackfinch Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/blackfinch-ventures) Source recorded
- **May 2024** Seed **$5.5M** *2 new* [Innovate UK](https://millionrounds.com/fund/innovate-uk) [Maven Capital Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/maven-capital-partners) Source recorded

## Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

**Seed** 2024 **Venture** 2026 [Innovate UK](https://millionrounds.com/fund/innovate-uk) [Maven Capital Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/maven-capital-partners) [Blackfinch Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/blackfinch-ventures)

## Everyone who backed them

[Innovate UK](https://millionrounds.com/fund/innovate-uk) VC firm **2** rounds

[Maven Capital Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/maven-capital-partners) Private equity **2** rounds

[Blackfinch Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/blackfinch-ventures) VC firm **1** round

Missing a round, or an investor who was in one? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=kelpi).

## Also claim to have backed them

These 5 firms list Kelpi as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.

[oneplanet.capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/oneplanet-capital) VC firm Per its own site

[Green Angel Syndicate](https://millionrounds.com/fund/green-angel-syndicate) VC firm Per its own site

[Moonstone VC](https://millionrounds.com/fund/moonstone-venture-capital) VC firm Per its own site

[QantX](https://millionrounds.com/fund/qantx) VC firm Per its own site

[With Bread](https://millionrounds.com/fund/with-bread) VC firm Per its own site

## Quick answers about Kelpi

### Who invested in Kelpi?

Kelpi's investors include Innovate UK, Maven Capital Partners and Blackfinch Ventures.

### How much has Kelpi raised?

Kelpi has raised $5.5M across 2 rounds since 2024. One round did not disclose an amount, so the total is a floor.

### When did Kelpi last raise?

Kelpi's most recent round was a Venture in Feb 2026.

### What was Kelpi's biggest round?

Kelpi's largest round on record is $5.5M (Seed), in May 2024.

### Who backed Kelpi first?

Kelpi's first round on record, in May 2024, was backed by Innovate UK and Maven Capital Partners.

### What stage is Kelpi at?

Kelpi's latest named round is a Venture, in Feb 2026.

### Where is Kelpi based?

Kelpi is based in the United Kingdom.

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