Fundraising data for 2025 highlights a £1 billion boost to Surrey’s economy in the last year. The top 20 businesses alone brought in millions of pounds and created dozens of new roles, helping cement Surrey as one of the UK’s regional economies.
Data supplied by private company data platform Beauhurst and its partners Mercia Ventures shows there were 111 fundraisings from registered businesses with trading offices in Surrey in 2025. In total more than £1 billion is estimated to have been raised.
This is nearly half the total amount raised across the whole of the south east (£2.25 billion). Plus one in six deals in the last year across the south east took place in Surrey (111 out of 667).
The largest was McLaren, the Woking-based automotive company, which is estimated to have raised £811 million in December 2025.
The figures are highlighted in a report called The Deal 2026, compiled by Beauhurst Insights and Mercia Ventures.
It examines all equity investments received by UK-headquartered companies across all industries.
Key findings from The Deal include:
- Amount raised into UK companies in 2025 has increased by 3.34% from last year
- Number of first-time deals in 2025 has increased by 23.6% year on year
- Amount raised has also reached a record high since 2020, up 74.3% to £6.27b
- Total number of deals has continued to ease, down 7.87% from 2024
Fundraising in 2025 – top 20 Surrey businesses
- McLaren (automotive) – £811 million
- Gordon Murray Design (automotive) – £88.9 million
- AFC Energy (renewables) – £23 million
- Nature Metrics (environmental) – £20.3 million
- CelLBxHealth (biotechnology) – £6.8 million
- Futura Medical (biotechnology) – £2.75 million
- Evolve Dynamics (aerospace) – £2.73 million
- The HOPP (sports and leisure) – £2.45 million
- Orthofuse (manufacturing) – £2.2 million
- Fiinu (financial) – £3.25 million
- Bruce’s (pets) – £1.75 million
- Hofmeister (beverages) – £1.74 million
- Money Guided (financial services) – £1.55 million
- Assisted Living Project (property) – £1.54 million
- Mater-AI (clean energy) – £1.5 million
- Bots For That (accounting) – £1.5 million
- BetterPoints (technology) – £1.34 million
- Limetrack (technology) – £1.32 million
- Cignpost (medical) – £1. 26 million
- SchoolsMobile.com (technology) – £1.09 million
Fundraising data 2025 and The Deal
The fundraising date for 2025 is presented in a report titled The Deal 2026.
Will Clark, Managing Director for Mercia Ventures, writes: “This year’s data suggests that the UK equity market is not retreating so much as refining its focus, and that founders remain firmly at the centre of that recalibration.”
He adds: “While the overall number of deals eased again in 2025, the amount of capital being deployed did not. Total equity investment rose modestly year on year, and average deal sizes continued to increase, passing £4m for the first time since 2021.”
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