Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) – Startup Investor Profile

DSIT is responsible for helping to encourage, develop and manage the UK’s scientific, research, and technological outputs.

Location: London

Country:

Investment Regions: EU

Investment Stages: late-stage, seed, series-a

Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-science-innovation-and-technology

AI Reasoning: Search of DSIT announcements and UK government pages shows DSIT involvement in funding programs (e.g., backing the Knowledge Assets Seed Fund, Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund, CyberASAP evaluations) with the most recent explicit investments or backing references found dated May-June 2025. However these refer to program funding and evaluations rather than a direct equity investment into a specific startup; the last clearly dated DSIT-backed funding action tied to a named beneficiary (Knowledge Assets Seed Fund backing referenced May 2025) is more than 12 months prior to the reference date used to classify activity. The startup/fund named in sources: Knowledge Assets Seed Fund (spinouts). Given the elapsed time exceeds 12 months, tag assigned accordingly.

Not Active – No known investments in the last 12 months.

Low Activity – Only known investments between the last 12 and 6 months.

Active – Known investments between the last 6 and 3 months.

Very Active – Known investments in the last 3 months.