Just Eat and Starship Technologies have partnered to launch delivery robots to Barnsley, named government’s first ‘tech town’, from today. The pilot scheme in North East Barnsley will put small orange self-driving delivery robots on local streets to deliver meals from restaurants to customers’ doors. The service starts in Carlton, Athersley, Monk Bretton and Lundwood, ... Read more ›
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Bristol-based AI scaleup Narwhal Labs has raised £20m to coincide with the launch of DeepBlue OS, its autonomous platform designed to replace traditional customer communications with agentic AI. Narwhal Labs builds enterprise-grade autonomous communications infrastructure for organisations spanning any size and sector. DeepBlue OS deploys AI agents across voice, SMS, email and WhatsApp, managing the ... Read more ›
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Among the fields perhaps most ready for AI-driven efficiencies is industrial engineering, which has already for years now been using automated software to make improvements. For companies like Monumo, which in 2024 emerged from stealth with more than £10m in funding, the use of AI in the design process of mechanical engineering represents an enormous ... Read more ›
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A quantum computer has been successfully used to catch a money mule network in an experiment conducted by Lloyds Banking Group and IBM. Financial institutions have been increasingly investing in quantum capabilities, with strong belief in the industry that the technology could become an invaluable tool in dealing with fraud. Lloyds has been investing heavily ... Read more ›
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Fieldwork Robotics, a startup that has developed autonomous agricultural harvesting robots, has announced £3m in funding to support the trialing and adoption of its tech in real farms. The Cambridge-based group launched to address the rising cost of labour among berry growers. Its robots reduce reliance on seasonal labour and the company claims its tech ... Read more ›
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The UK government is putting £50m into a series of challenges funding technological solutions to improve safety on British streets. Delivered by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the Safer Streets Challenges funding is part of the government’s £500m Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme. The Safer Streets Mission was launched with a handful of goals ... Read more ›
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GXO Logistics, a New York-listed pure-play contract logistics provider, will launch a new accelerator programme supporting startups from the UK and Ireland. Based in Connecticut, US, GXO Logistics is an $11bn group that manages distribution centres for large corporates and handles ecommerce fulfilment and reverse logistics. The company on Tuesday announced the launch of GXO ... Read more ›
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This week’s UK tech funding deals include AI debt intelligence platform 9fin, agentic consulting startup Riplo and more. UKTN tracked £143.8m worth of UK tech investment this week (30 March to 3 April), a 9% week-on-week increase across four funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. 9fin – £130m Sector: Fintech ... Read more ›
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George Wade is the co-founder and CCO of Zevero, a carbon management platform that automates emissions data collection. In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Wade discusses the vital importance of listening to customers and integrating the findings, how the right working environment makes all the difference and the problem with modern social media platforms. What ... Read more ›
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London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a multi-year partnership with Dell Technologies to build a new private cloud platform. Dell has been selected by the group behind the London public markets to optimise its existing on premises infrastructure as well as create a new platform to strengthen resilience and performance across a number of ... Read more ›
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The UK under many metrics ranks rather favourable among its fellow G7 nations, however, a recently identified alarming trend has revealed a major shortfall. In recent analysis conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a prominent progressive think tank, it was found that among G7 countries, the UK fares particularly poorly in certain ... Read more ›
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The UK government has announced plans to reform how companies can offer subscription services in an effort to improve the consumer experience. Announced by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), the new laws concern how easy companies can make it to manage or cancel paid subscriptions. DBT claimed the new measures could save UK ... Read more ›
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The Alan Turing Institute, a publicly funded research organisation focused on AI and data science, has been deemed “unsatisfactory” in a review of its work. The review, conducted by the government funding body UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), acknowledged the “strong foundations” and “clear evidence of scientific excellence” at the institute, however, warned that it ... Read more ›
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The Women backing Women fund, launched recently by a government-appointed taskforce, has announced its first close of £130m in what it described as a “landmark moment for the UK’s investment ecosystem”. The Invest in Women taskforce launched in 2024 to bring together business experts to improve the gender equity in investment. As part of its ... Read more ›
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A new £20m funding boost has been unveiled by the government to support the local innovation economies of regions across England and Wales. The funding, to be awarded through the competition element of the £500m Local Innovation Partnerships Fund, will go towards a number of tech schemes in areas from Teesside to Cornwall. In the ... Read more ›
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London fintech Revolut has secured a major step towards establishing a licensed banking operation in Peru as it seeks grow its Latin American business. Revolut has been granted an Organisation Licence by the Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP (SBS) of Peru, a key step in the journey of being a licensed bank in the ... Read more ›
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Search engine optimisation (SEO) has been a staple element of business growth for decades now, but if the shift towards AI searching continues, it could be left in the dust, creating a divide between the AI visible and the rest. That was in part the thinking behind the launch of Surfacd, an AI visibility tool ... Read more ›
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The UK Semiconductor Centre (UKSC), a government-backed hub supporting the domestic microchip centre, has appointed two new directors to its leadership team. Launched in 2024 following the landmark National Semiconductor Strategy, UKSC serves as a gateway to the country’s semiconductor industry, attracting international investment, providing technical and strategic support to domestic firms and driving skills ... Read more ›
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For much of fintech’s evolution, regulation was treated as a hurdle to overcome rather than a foundation for long-term scale. That narrative no longer reflects reality. In the UK fintech ecosystem, regulatory maturity is increasingly a differentiator rather than a constraint. The firms investing in strong governance, robust control frameworks and institutional-grade compliance are not ... Read more ›
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The UK Semiconductor Centre (UKSC), a government-backed hub supporting the domestic microchip centre, has appointed two new directors to its leadership team. Launched in 2024 following the landmark National Semiconductor Strategy, UKSC serves as a gateway to the country’s semiconductor industry, attracting international investment, providing technical and strategic support to domestic firms and driving skills ... Read more ›
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