This week’s UK tech funding deals include AI scientific research lab Inherent, biomaterials company Mykor and more. UKTN tracked £102.7m worth of UK tech investment this week (25 May to 29 May), a 20% week-on-week decrease across six funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. Inherent – £37.2m Sector: AI ... Read more ›
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This week’s UK tech funding deals include AI hyperscaler Nscale, crop gene editing group Tropic and more. UKTN tracked £1.64bn worth of UK tech investment this week (9 March to 13 March), a 1,553% week-on-week increase, driven heavily by the enormous round raised by Nscale, across six funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK ... Read more ›
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Tropic, a Norwich-based agtech specialising in gene-edited tropical crops, has secured a $105m (£79.2m) Series C funding round. The company, which uses a proprietary platform to develop improved crops that are resistant to disease with higher yields, is planning the global commercial scale up of its crop portfolios following the sizeable round. Currently Tropic’s crop ... Read more ›
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Simon Bocca is the founder of PayCaptain, a payroll solutions that allows for the flexible management of salaries. In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Bocca discusses how he ditched overconfidence in favour of diligent and forensic implementation, the importance of how technically capable staff who also care about the customer and why running a hotel ... Read more ›
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The UK government has handed a contract worth £63m to tech firms Atos and Softwire to deliver digital development services for the electoral system. The seven-year contract will see the tech firms work with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to support the development of a digital elections services portfolio. “We are ... Read more ›
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A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have called for tighter regulations to be placed on toys fitted with AI capabilities, following a study of how children play with them. The research team examined how the interactions of a small sample of toddlers with an AI-powered toy called Gabbo. Fitted with a voice-controlled ... Read more ›
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The UK’s data regulator has demanded tech platforms hosting social media and video sharing content act immediately to strengthen age assurance measures in the name of child safety. In an open letter to applicable firms, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that the technologies required to prevent children from accessing harmful content are “readily available”, ... Read more ›
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Medical device manufacturer Combat Medical has raised £2.6m in the first close of its Series A funding round. Combat Medical develops devices to optimise the delivery of cancer therapeutics and is currently working on a hyperthermic intravesical chemotherapy treatment, called HIVEC. With the new funding, the company plans to advance HIVEC through phase three clinical ... Read more ›
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We have sleepwalked in an age where the scientific method is being dragged into the culture war. It is increasingly treated not as a rigorous process of discovery, but as a badge of political allegiance. Certainty is rewarded, nuance is dismissed as a hedge, and legitimate scientific disagreement is recast as conspiracy. For a global ... Read more ›
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Hadean, a London-based defence startup that uses AI to simulate conflict scenarios, has secured a bridge round as it works towards its Series B. Founded in 2017, Hadean through a combination of spatial computing and AI creates simulations for defence organisations, government agencies and businesses to rehearse, train and plan for combat scenarios in live ... Read more ›
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The UK government has launched a programme to support women and girls in entering the male-dominated tech industry. It has been a well-established truth for years now that the tech industry has a serious diversity problem, with efforts to improve the gender equity in the sector so far only barely moving the needle. Moreover, research ... Read more ›
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After a lengthy period of delays and regulatory scrutiny, Revolut, Britain’s most valuable fintech, has officially launched as a UK bank. Revolut announced on Wednesday that it has received approval from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) to exit mobilisation, a period after a UK banking application is approved during which the company is required to ... Read more ›
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The University of Cambridge will house what it has described as the “UK’s most powerful quantum computer” as part of a new partnership with US company IonQ. The agreement, which represents the largest-ever corporate research partnership for the university, will support the creation of the IonQ Quantum Innovation Centre, which will be based at the ... Read more ›
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Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS), a non-profit industry body representing the publishing industry, has launched an sector-led collective licensing initiative designed to ensure AI’s use of published works is done legally and fairly. The first stage of the initiative invites publishers to opt-in to a a collective licence scheme that will enable AI companies to legally ... Read more ›
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Outpost, a startup using AI to support the international expansion of merchant trading, has secured a $17.5m (£13m) Series A investment led by Revolut backer Ribbit. Founded by a former Revolut employee, Outpost was launched to support retailers amid a period of increasingly complex global trading regulation. From continued Brexit knock-on effects to Donald Trump’s ... Read more ›
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The Aquis Stock Exchange, a challenger investment market based in London, has launched an IPO academy in partnership with Barclays Eagle Labs, an arm of the banking giant focused on incubating startups and scaleups. The Aquis IPO Academy will serve as a readiness programme for businesses looking towards a public launch. Participants will receive advice ... Read more ›
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The UK government has launched a programme to support women and girls in entering the male-dominated tech industry. It has been a well-established truth for years now that the tech industry has a serious diversity problem, with efforts to improve the gender equity in the sector so far only barely moving the needle. Moreover, research ... Read more ›
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The government is accepting public views on how the incoming digital IDs can be used to access public services. In a new national consultation, the government will be seeking views on how digital identification could be used in areas ranging from managing free childcare payments to filing tax returns and more. Through the consultation, the ... Read more ›
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Between soaring energy costs, made all the worse by constant geopolitical escalations, and the constant looming threat of a climate disaster, it has become generally accepted that renewable power must become the standard. But despite vocal intentions from policymakers to support the mass adoption of clean energy, the exact process of removing our reliance on ... Read more ›
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Beckie Taylor, co-founder of Tech Returners, discusses her long career in HR and how the buzzword of diversity has changed to questions about the impact of AI, how she found the journey from becoming a mum back into the workplace, and why CVs might not be the best way for women looking for a pathway back into the tech ... Read more ›
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A fully “unlocked” open banking regime could add £43bn a year to the British economy, according to new analysis from EY. Commissioned by Open Banking Limited, the analysis found that so far, the introduction of open banking into UK finance has already delivered £8.3bn in cumulative benefits. Looking ahead, the report suggests that annual economic ... Read more ›
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