What this shows, and what it cannot tell you

Every figure here comes from the Companies House public register. When a UK company allots shares it must file with the registrar, usually within a month. That filing is public before the round is announced, added to a funding database, or picked up by press.

The tool watches companies incorporated between 9 and 30 months ago whose self-reported SIC codes fall in a consumer-leaning shortlist, and polls their capital filing history daily.

This is the most important thing on the page. The register discloses nominal issued share capital. Share premium — which is where essentially all of a venture round sits — is not in this field. A company with shares of £0.0001 nominal value that raises £2m will show a change of a few pounds.

So treat the capital column as evidence that an issuance happened and roughly how many shares moved. Never read it as deal size. Recovering the money raised means parsing the filed SH01 document itself, which this version does not do.

Companies allot shares for founder subscriptions, option exercises, share reclassifications, and equity paid to advisers. All of those look identical here. Expect a meaningful share of the rows to be routine housekeeping rather than a raise. Sorting by recency and reading the company name is still faster than any alternative, but the filtering is yours to do.

SIC codes are self-reported at incorporation and almost never updated. Plenty of consumer startups register under generic software or consultancy codes because that is what their formation agent selected. The shortlist is broad on purpose, but companies outside it are invisible to this tool and there is no way to measure how many. The backtest page is the only honest check: run it against companies you know were funded and see how many the filters lose.

A language model reads the company name and SIC codes and proposes a theme. That is thin evidence — the register holds no website, no description, and no product information. Confidence is capped at medium for that reason, the model's reasoning is shown next to every row so you can overrule it, and a classification is written once and never recomputed.

Themes are a sorting aid. They are not a judgement about any company, and nothing here should be read as a claim about what a business actually does.

Filing is due within a month of allotment and often arrives late. This gets you ahead of the funding databases by weeks, not months. That is a real edge for sourcing, and it is smaller than it might first appear.

The register publishes director and shareholder details. This tool stores and displays none of it. Only company-level records are kept: name, number, incorporation date, SIC codes, registered locality, and filing metadata.