This week’s UK tech funding deals include AI notetaker Granola, service charge collection and allocation platform TiPJAR and more. UKTN tracked £131.1m worth of UK tech investment this week (23 March to 27 March), a 144% week-on-week increase across seven funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. Granola – £93.4m ... Read more ›
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Five companies are under investigation as part of a crackdown on fake reviews from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Online vehicle retail platform Autotrader, review platform Feefo, funeral company Dignity, online takeaway service Just Eat and restaurant brand Pasta Evangelists are being investigated by the CMA. The regulator has noted the significance of online ... Read more ›
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Matthew Wilson is co-founder and chief executive of Jack & Jill, an AI-powered recruitment firm that learns a persons skills and experience and match them to appropriate companies. In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Wilson discusses why aligning your ambitions with a self-starting team is more motivating than management, how agentic AI has transformed productivity ... Read more ›
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The British Business Bank has joined the Series C round of warehouse intelligence and robotics group Dexory with an £8.5m investment. The London-based firm, which develops fully autonomous warehouse products, announced a £123m Series C funding round in October last year that came just a year after its £60m Series B. Dexory’s latest round was ... Read more ›
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More people in the UK support the introduction of digital IDs than oppose it, according to new polling published by a prominent think tank. According to a poll of more than 2,000 UK adults published by the Tony Blair Institute, 43% of respondents were said to support the technology, compared with 37% who oppose it. ... Read more ›
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Bioniq, a London-based health startup backed by football star Cristiano Ronaldo, has agreed to be acquired by US wellness group Herbalife. Founded in 2019, Bioniq develops personalised health products and supplements. Its conscious product offering caught the attention of several well-known athletes turned investors, including Ronaldo’s former Manchester United teammate Diogo Dalot. Herbalife, the California-headquartered ... Read more ›
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Theia Insights, a software firm launched to address a major blind spot in financial market investments, has raised $8m (£6m). Named after the Greek goddess of sight, the Cambridge-based company was launched to resolve an oversight in the categorisation of financial assets. While financial markets can often assign individual companies with simplistic category labels such ... Read more ›
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TiPJAR, a software platform used to collect, allocate and distribute tips and service charges, has completed a £4.5m investment round. The London-based business offers an end-to-end digital solution for automating cashless tipping in a way it promises is fair and transparent. According to the firm, TiPJAR software is used by hundreds of hospitality businesses across ... Read more ›
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California-based quantum computing group Rigetti has announced plans to invest up to $100m (£75m) in the UK. Rigetti Computing, worth more than $4bn, said it intends to invest the funds to accelerate quantum development in the UK in the company’s first major investment outside of its home market. With the investment, Rigetti aims to deploy ... Read more ›
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Giraffe360, a proptech firm that creates digital content for the listing and marketing of real estate assets, has raised $10m (£7.5m) in a Series B funding round. Based in London with offices in Manchester, Riga, Liepāja and Miami, Giraffe360 through a combination of proprietary video capture hardware and AI software creates virtual property tours, detailed ... Read more ›
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New AI pilot programmes launched in Barnsley could serve as a blueprint for modern “Tech Towns” as the government aims to spread digital skills across the country. Last month the South Yorkshire town was named as the UK’s first Tech Town, a new designation from the government that signals targeted support to rollout new technologies ... Read more ›
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Granola, a London-based AI-powered notepad startup has been valued at $1.5bn after securing a $125m (£93.4m) Series C investment. The company has grown rapidly since its launch in 2023 with its platform that allows users to turn conversational language into what it describes as “actionable context”. Users can take rough notes which are transcribed by ... Read more ›
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The UK government has announced plans for a £20m capital injection in the Tay Cities Region in support of Scottish tech innovations. Announced on Wednesday by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), the investment comes from the £500m Local Innovation Partnerships Fund. It will go towards cities and regions including Dundee, Perth, Angus, ... Read more ›
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Eunice, a company building due diligence infrastructure for regulated markets, has raised $8m (£6m) in a new funding round. The London-based group was founded off the back of the rise of alternative digital asset trading. Eunice aims to standardise the assessment and documentation of regulated digital asset investments. Already working with companies include Coinbase, Crypto.com, ... Read more ›
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Pressure on social media to take a more active role in combatting fraud is growing as a new report from The Payments Association (TPA) demands action. The fintech industry has for some time been calling for social media platforms to accept their role in the rise of scams and do more to prevent them. This ... Read more ›
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Uber Eats and Starship Technologies are expanding their robotic food delivery service after an initial launch in Leeds. The companies’ robotic food couriers came to the UK via the West Yorkshire city in December last year. Uber Eats and Starship said its initial rollout was successful and it will be bringing its autonomous couriers to ... Read more ›
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The UK government is launching a series of pilot studies to test the impact of restricting young people’s access to social media as it considers a full ban. The pilots will include various measures that reduce the use of social media and screen time that will take place in the homes of 300 teenagers in ... Read more ›
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Starling Bank has appointed Keith Algie as its new group chief risk officer, subject to regulatory approval. Algie is set to replace Cyrille Salle De Chou, who has spent the last two years in the role scaling the company’s risk controls. The outgoing chief risk officer is leaving the company to pursue a portfolio career. ... Read more ›
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In 2021, the Kalifa Review was published as an examination of both the impressive growth of the burgeoning British fintech sector and an appeal to policymakers and the industry to keep the momentum growing. Back then UK fintech was an exciting and promising industry of the future, today it is a cornerstone of the entire ... Read more ›
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This week’s podcast guest is Amelia Armour, a partner at Amadeus Capital, who discusses the impact of having a female co-founder in the male dominated world of VC, what tech she is excited about for the future and how AI might help democratise entrepreneurship. Amadeus Capital is a deep tech venture firm founded in 1997 ... Read more ›
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