Tech Climbers has revealed its latest shortlist of the best performing product-led tech businesses in Greater Manchester that are making an impact. This week, the tech community gathered at the Cloud 23 cocktail bar in the heart of Manchester’s city centre as journalist Peter Stojanovic unveiled the 11 companies that made the official list and ... Read more ›
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Conservative peer Lord Kulveer Ranger has been appointed to the board of directors of British AI firm Automated Analytics. Ranger, who was appointed to the House of Lords in 2023, has held a handful of prominent roles in and out of the tech industry. In the public sector, Ranger worked in the London mayorship of ... Read more ›
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M Squared Lasers, a photonics company based out of Glasgow, has entered administration after almost 20 years of operation. The company, which developed lasers for a broad range of uses from quantum computing to chemical sensing, served customers across the globe, including in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US. M Squared Lasers has now ... Read more ›
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Coventry-based autonomous vehicle company Aurrigo has secured £13.8m in additional capital from the sale of new shares. The London-listed firm, which develops self-driving vehicle technology for the aviation industry, raised the new funds from a combination of a share placing and subscription. The placing, in which it issued new shares available for purchase from public ... Read more ›
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The majority of UK tech leaders consider their home market as a more attractive place to grow their business than any other region, according to data from Barclays. Research from the bank as part of its Business Prosperity Index found that 62% of polled tech leaders prefer the UK for scaling a company than mainland ... Read more ›
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Bristolian biotech startup EnsiliTech has secured a £4.5m seed investment to scale its work developing transport systems for vital medicines. Founded in 2022, EnsiliTech has patented technology to improve the storage and transportation of vaccines, antibodies and enzymes. The group was launched to reduce the biopharmaceutical industry’s reliance on legacy ‘cold-chain’ systems, which are costly ... Read more ›
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Mantic, a London-based startup that claims to have built an AI system to predict world events, has emerged from stealth with a $4m (£2.97m) investment. Having assembled a team of engineers from firms including Google DeepMind and Oxford and Cambridge, Mantic is working towards an AI system capable of what it calls “judgemental forecasting”. The ... Read more ›
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The chief financial officer of Manchester-based delivery tech company Sorted has announced he will be leaving the firm a little over a year after the resignation of its chief executive. Mahmoud Warriah will remain as the company’s finance chief and as an executive director of the firm until the end of his six month notice ... Read more ›
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UK banks are projected to invest over £1.8bn in generative AI by 2030, according to a study from Zopa and Juniper Research. Finance is among the sectors that could benefit most from a safe integration of generative AI, from the automation of menial tasks, to complex financial modelling to customer service and strengthened security. According ... Read more ›
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Attio, a company developing an “AI-native” CRM platform, has raised $52m (£38.6m) in a Series B round led by Google Ventures. Founded in 2017, Attio is working towards a CRM service that is built with AI tools and agents in mind. According to the firm, many current CRM platforms were built based on manual data ... Read more ›
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Attensi is a training and performance platform that combines psychology, technology and gaming principles. Founded in Oslo in 2013, Attensi has enabled organisations to develop their workforce through engaging interactive training experiences. Jamie Watson started his journey at the firm in 2022, heading up the hospitality and leisure division of the business until eventually being ... Read more ›
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OrganOx, a University of Oxford spinout that has developed an automated device to preserve organs in transit, has been acquired by Tokyo-based medical manufacturer Terumo for $1.5bn (£1.1bn). The company, which was spun out of the university in 2008, is known for creating a transportation device for organs used in liver transplant surgeries that offers ... Read more ›
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The audiovisual industry is in the middle of one of its biggest shifts in decades as AI reshapes its future. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a post-production assistant. It is changing how stories are developed, marketed, and unlocking entirely new dimensions of audience engagement. For years, the kind of data that could predict audience ... Read more ›
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The London Stock Exchange has become the first organisation to receive approval from financial regulators to operate a PISCES platform. The Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES) is a new system for corporate funding that allows private businesses to auction off shares to a pool of professional investors without a full-scale public offering. ... Read more ›
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Sustainable hygiene startup Wype has raised £1m in an equity round as it looks to build on strong sales momentum. Unsuccessfully pitched on Dragons’ Den three years ago, Wype, which sells cleansing gel to turn toilet paper into wet wipes – reducing demand for the environmentally straining product – has since grown its revenue by ... Read more ›
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Paragraf, a graphene-based semiconductor manufacturer, will scale its production output capabilities with a new $55m (£41m) Series C investment from the sovereign wealth fund of the Unites Arab Emirates (UAE). The Cambridgeshire-based chip maker aims to accelerate the adoption of graphene electronics in mass markets. The unique properties of the material allow chips made from ... Read more ›
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This week’s podcast guest is Rob Whitehead, chief executive of MSquared and co-founder of Improbable, who discusses why, despite a drop in the initial hype, companies in the space are still making exciting innovations in metaverse technology. Whitehead explains why different iterations of virtual space technology have struggled to take off and why focusing on ... Read more ›
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Starling Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Ember, a tax and bookkeeping software that will be built into Starling’s app and online bank. The partnership aims to provide small business owners with an all-in-one solution to manage their finances ahead of HMRC’s ‘Making Tax Digital’ legislation coming into effect in April 2026. The ... Read more ›
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The North West region of the UK is leading the country in the adoption of 3D printing, according to research, however the technology’s potential impact remains unmet. Advanced manufacturing is among the eight growth sectors highlighted in the recent Industrial Strategy, with the government holding a keen from interest in progressing the field to build ... Read more ›
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This week’s UK tech funding deals include AI immune system Phoebe, wearable health tech developer Neurovalens and more. UKTN tracked £33.45m worth of UK tech investment this week (18 August to 22 August), a 105% week-on-week increase across nine funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. Phoebe – £12.6m Sector: AI ... Read more ›
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The UK competition regulator has announced it has sufficient reason to officially launch an investigation into the anticipated £2.9bn merger of Shutterstock and Getty Images. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said in June it was inviting comments regarding the deal to determine if the proposed acquisition could be harmful to the competitiveness of the ... Read more ›
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