Edinburgh-based global entertainment tech company Esk has raised £2.6m in a round led by Maven Capital Partners. Esk produces live experiences for blue-chip brands such as Netflix, Paramount and BAFTA. The business specialises in licensing IP from rightsholders and transforming it into live entertainment formats, providing services to promoters and venue operators on an international ... Read more ›
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Mobile gaming analytics, forecasting and user acquisition (UA) startup Kohort has closed a $7m (£5.1m) Series A round to build UA agents for mobile game studios using AI. Kohort’s machine learning-based predictive analytics platform is built for the gaming and consumer sectors, helping mobile game studios, operators, finance teams and investors optimise user acquisition spend ... Read more ›
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Arãya Ventures and Sie Ventures have partnered to launch the Arãya Sie Fund, announcing a £7.5m first close to back female founders building in AI, deeptech, fintech, healthcare and sustainability. The new fund will invest in up to 40 pre-seed and seed-stage companies over the next four years, writing initial cheques of £100k to £300k ... Read more ›
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This week’s UK tech funding deals include quantum computing group Quantum Motion, cultured meat company Meatly and more. UKTN tracked £234m worth of UK tech investment this week (4 May to 8 May), an 86% week-on-week decrease across eight funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. Quantum Motion – £117.5m ... Read more ›
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CodeWords, a London-based startup aiming to provide firms with fully autonomous AI agents, has secured a $9m (£6.6m) seed investment. Founded in 2023, CodeWords is aiming to take agentic AI use among businesses to a deeper level. Instead of deploying agents that receive instructions and complete tasks, CodeWords aims to have agents that learn the ... Read more ›
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Shashwat Patel is the founder and chief executive of Perry AI, an AI-based legal tech platform that automates tasks including document reviews and compliance checks. In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Patel discusses the importance of understanding who your customers are before you build your product, the practice of ruthless prioritisation and his passion for ... Read more ›
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Seraphim Space Investment Trust has raised £137m from its recent issuance of C-shares announced late last month. The group, which primarily invests across the space technology sector, announced on 27 April that it was looking to raise up to £350m through the offering of C-shares. The decision was made in part to take advantage of ... Read more ›
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The City of London Corporation is calling on tech firms to build stronger digital verification services as fraud continues to wreak havoc on the financial sector. The organisation has launched a digital verification initiative that through it has urged the tech industry to support the development of these services on behalf of the financial sector. ... Read more ›
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Open source solutions provider Red Hat is set to launch Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8 to address modern security threats, speed AI innovation and minimise operational drift. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8 provide an operating system (OS) platform that unifies IT operations across the hybrid cloud with a focus on security. ... Read more ›
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Meatly, a London-based firm that became the first company in Europe approved to sell lab-grown meat in 2024, is now planning to open the continent’s “largest cultivated meat facility” after securing new funding. The company, which predominantly provides pet food groups with its cultivated meat products, announced on Thursday that it raised £10.4m in a ... Read more ›
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UK-headquartered Quantum Motion has closed a $160m (£117.5m) Series C round to commercialise its scalable and energy-efficient approach to quantum computing. Quantum Motion builds utility-scale quantum computers using industry-standard silicon transistors. Built on qubits using the silicon technology found in smartphones and computers, its systems are designed for deployment into standard data-centre racks. This avoids ... Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence is often positioned as the biggest opportunity for business, that is true, but it is also changing the nature of cyber risk far faster than most organisations are prepared for. The conversation needs to catch up. This is no longer just about productivity or efficiency. It is about the speed at which systems ... Read more ›
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Asterix Health has raised £2.1m in pre-seed funding to build out its workforce solution that hires UK-registered GPs to support primary care remotely through a proprietary technology platform. Julian Titz and Max Thilo founded the company in 2024 after both navigating serious health conditions – Thilo was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Titz is currently awaiting ... Read more ›
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Ethos, the AI platform that matches skilled professionals to income opportunities, has secured a $22.75M (£16.7m) Series A funding round. While AI has made it easier to generate CVs and job applications, it has also made it harder to identify expertise. Organisations are facing volumes of increasingly similar profiles, with limited ways to assess what ... Read more ›
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UK fintech funding dropped significantly in the first quarter of the year, according to the latest quarterly report from data intelligence platform Tracxn. According to the report, UK fintechs raised $741m (£544.2m) in the first three months of the year, a decline of 43% compared with the last quarter of 2025. The amount of funding ... Read more ›
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A consortium of UK organisations as secured government funding for a project to develop lithium-ion battery recycling technology. Currently, the UK is heavily reliant on foreign imports for battery production and recycling, leaving the country’s supply of batteries extremely exposed to geopolitical shocks. So far, early efforts have been made to establish a circular economy ... Read more ›
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The British Business Bank has committed an initial £1m to co-invest with Angel Academe, a founding signatory of the Investing in Women Code. Investing in Women Code is a commitment to support the advancement of female entrepreneurship in the UK by improving female entrepreneurs’ access to tools, resources and finance from the financial services sector. ... Read more ›
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UK biotech Cytospire Therapeutics has closed a £61m Series A round to advance its development of antibodies used in cancer treatment. Cytospire is developing a portfolio of differentiated multispecific engager antibodies to enhance and direct the activity of immune cells. In addition to advancing its development capabilities, the funding will be used to support a ... Read more ›
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The UK government has committed £46.5m to the drone and advanced air mobility sector, helping drone deliveries, flying taxis and smarter emergency services become a reality in the UK’s skies. Part of the investment will also see a crackdown on “faceless” drones, which can be used in suspicious or illegal activity, through a bespoke drone ... Read more ›
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Luna Pet Healthcare, which operates as Luna the Dental Vets, has secured a £700k funding round to accelerate its mission to improve pet dental health. With sites in Bristol and Reading, Luna provides affordable veterinary dental care for dogs and cats through dedicated dental-only clinics. The business has also launched a range of preventative dental ... Read more ›
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