Perci Health, self-described as the world’s first digital cancer support clinic, has raised £3.4m to expand its services. Cancer treatments have developed a lot in the past 30 years, and according to Perci Health, this means aftercare is relatively underdeveloped. Offering support at every stage, from pre-treatment to post-survival, Perci Health has built a digital ... Read more ›
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Scan.com, a health tech startup backed by Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield, has secured £4.2m for its Series A round. Founded in 2017, Scan.com’s creation was inspired by the extreme wait times faced by NHS patients in need of medical scans. From MRIs to ultrasounds to X-rays, scans are a vital part of medical practices. However, ... Read more ›
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Wayve is partnering with supermarket Asda to deliver groceries from its Park Royal superstore in West London using self-driving vehicles. The year-long trial Asda will serve an area of 72,000 households and is the largest trial of its kind in the UK, according to Wayve. A Wayve safety driver will accompany Asda delivery drivers for ... Read more ›
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Loopin, a Bristol-based workplace management startup using generative AI from the popular advanced chatbot ChatGPT, has raised £1.6m from angel investors. Powered by an API from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and combined with its own tech, Loopin aims to become an essential piece of workplace software to be used in tandem with the ... Read more ›
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Credit card challenger company Yonder has raised £62.5m in Series A capital, consisting of £12.5m in equity and £50m in debt financing. The Series A funds came from lead investors Northzone and RTP Global, with support from Crust Bros founder Joseph Moore and Cred founder Kunal Shah. Its Series A remains open, with the firm ... Read more ›
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After a decade of success championing British disruptors, KPMG’s Private Enterprise practice has today launched its annual search for the UK’s most exciting tech innovators. The competition, which celebrates its 10th year, has uncovered British tech innovators including What3Words, SafetoNet, FIDOTech and 2022 winner HiiROC, which went on to win the global final during Web ... Read more ›
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A spate of recent developments in Wales’ technology sector has led to it being described as a country with an “emerging tech cluster”, or in other words, a haven for job seekers looking for a tech position in the region. In March, the Welsh Government announced it was progressing with plans to expand its compound ... Read more ›
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Edinburgh’s Forrit has received £5m in investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank for its cloud-based content management system (CMS). Forrit’s CMS runs on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure. Businesses use the CMS to manage their website’s content, security and billing, whilst remaining compliant with regulations. “This investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank will help ... Read more ›
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London-based blockchain payments processing platform Helio has raised $3.3m (£2.6m) in seed funding to expand its team. Ecommerce merchants use Helio to process payments using crypto assets. “Payments is the ultimate blockchain killer app, promising lower fees, instant settlement for merchants, and increased privacy & friction-free checkouts for users,” said Stijn Paumen, CEO of Helio. ... Read more ›
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The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) will launch a service to trade crypto derivatives through a partnership with a former banker and a hedge fund manager. The plans will allow institutional clients to purchase Bitcoin futures, wherein they speculate on the value of the crypto asset in Q4 this year. The London Stock Exchange Group ... Read more ›
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Exchange-Traded-Fund (ETF) investment platform InvestEngine has closed a crowdfunding round of £1.94m from 1134 individual investors. InvestEngine hopes to use the crowdfunded capital to add features such as savings plans, workplace investing and self-invested personal pensions to its ETF platform this year. The London-based fintech exceeded its initial goal of £1.25m. Andrey Dobrynin, co-founder and ... Read more ›
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HSBC UK is investing £30m into the Stallingborough, North East Lincolnshire headquartered smart home device business myenergi. The company develops a variety of smart home goods, including an electric vehicle charger, energy monitoring sensor and modular battery storage system. Capital from HSBC UK will be spent on upgrading its Stallingborough headquarters with the addition of ... Read more ›
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Little Journey, an app created to help children and families prepare for surgery, has closed a £2.5m funding round led by Octopus Ventures. The app, co-created by anaesthetist Dr Chris Evans, features animated characters that explain to young users the nature of their upcoming procedure, attempting to calm their nerves during the stressful pre-surgery period. ... Read more ›
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Andrei Danescu is the founder and CEO of Dexory, an autonomous warehouse robot maker. Dexory, previously known as BotsAndUs, launched in 2015. The startup’s robots use artificial intelligence (AI) to create a digital twin of a warehouse. That mapping data can then be used by operators to run logistics more efficiently in the warehouse. The ... Read more ›
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The first commercially successful steam locomotive was built in Leeds in 1812. Today, it’s full steam ahead for the West Yorkshire city’s tech ecosystem, which is producing trailblazing scaleups at an impressive rate. For several years Leeds has had some of the fastest scaleup growth in the North of England – defined by companies that ... Read more ›
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Software as a service (SaaS) startup Cerbos has landed $7.5m (£6m) in an extended seed round led by venture capital firm OMERS Ventures. London-headquartered Cerbos’ software is used by developers and programmers to conduct authorisation checks on code. Torsten Volk, managing research director, Enterprise Management Associates, said: “Writing and managing repetitive code for the ‘plumbing’ ... Read more ›
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Skyports’s drone services division is collaborating with the Royal Mail, Orkney Islands Council Harbour Authority and Loganair to deliver cargo in the Orkney Islands. Electric drones from Skyports will undertake both daily inter-port and shore-to-ship deliveries. “The possibility of drone deliveries from shore to ship in particular, could add an extra dimension to the services ... Read more ›
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Almost half of business leaders in Europe have resorted to buy now pay later (BNPL) services to smooth cash flow amid difficult economic conditions, new research has suggested. In a survey from fintech company Marqeta, it was found that 43% of business leaders had used BNPL services in the last three months as cash flow ... Read more ›
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Darktrace has warned it expects a slowdown in sales and new customers amid the difficult macro-economic environment. In its latest financial update, the London-listed cybersecurity firm reported a 6.3% drop in annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth in Q3, compared to the same period last year. The company cited “continued uncertainty” in the global economy as ... Read more ›
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The government has allocated £9.4m in funding from its Longer Duration Energy Storage competition to Nottingham-based Cheesecake Energy. Cheesecake Energy will use the government funding to install its energy storage solution as a microgrid in Colchester to help with local grid limitations. University of Nottingham spinout Cheesecake Energy’s installation will collect energy made by a solar ... Read more ›
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