This week’s UK tech funding deals include AI material discovery company CuspAI, biomaterial developer Ponda and more. UKTN tracked £565.3m worth of UK tech investment this week (20 July to 24 July), a more than 400% week-on-week increase across 11 funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. CuspAI – £334m ... Read more ›
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The British Business Bank (BBB) has committed €25m (£21.26m) to EQT Life Sciences’ Health Economics 3 Fund (EQT HE3) to support scaling medical technology and digital health companies. The investment is aimed at driving innovation across Europe and encouraging greater capital flow into the UK’s high-potential life sciences sector—one of the eight key growth areas ... Read more ›
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Cue has raised a $5m (£3.7m) primary funding round to accelerate the development of its AI-powered customer service platform. Founded in 2015, Cue’s autonomous AI agents resolve customer issues end-to-end across WhatsApp, webchat, email, Messenger, USSD, SMS and voice. The company powers customer conversations for more than 500 companies across the UK and South Africa, ... Read more ›
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London-based cybersecurity platform Risk Ledger has raised £24m in a Series B funding round to accelerate international expansion and deploy new AI capabilities. Founded in 2017 by Haydn Brooks and Daniel Saul, Risk Ledger provides a network-first platform that shifts organisations away from traditional, point-in-time third-party risk assessments. Risk Ledger’s offering aims to replace repetitive ... Read more ›
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Investment into UK artificial intelligence (AI) companies reached a record high of £4.56bn in Q2 2026, according to new data from Beauhurst. The equity fundraising tracked for the second quarter of the year was 4.1% more than in the first quarter and nearly three times more than in the same period of 2025 – a huge ... Read more ›
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London-based fintech ClearScore has reported record full-year results, with adjusted EBITDA surging 101% to £17.1m. The profit jump in the year ended December 2025 was driven by a 37% increase in group revenue to £144.7m. The company cited improved operational efficiency, AI investments and data “innovations” as core reasons for its strong financial performance. ClearScore ... Read more ›
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Imagine a world where sentient superintelligent AI is imminent. This is an AI which has all the cognitive abilities of an adult human, and greatly exceeds human level in most of them. It is one of the most important and philosophically intriguing concepts facing humanity today, and yet, it is barely discussed outside scientists and ... Read more ›
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Applied Computing, the UK AI firm building foundation AI for energy operators, has closed a $20m (£14.8m) funding round and announced its expansion into the United States with the opening of a new office in Houston, Texas. Applied Computing’s flagship platform, Orbital, is the first foundation model built specifically for energy operations, combining physics-grounded intelligence ... Read more ›
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Public finance institutions UK Export Finance (UKEF), British Business Bank, National Wealth Fund and Innovate UK have made at least £50bn of investments over the last two years, supporting or sustaining around 802,000 jobs. Since July 2024, the government says it has unlocked an additional £80bn of financial capacity across the four organisations, increasing their ... Read more ›
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Birmingham-based Saible, a UK construction fintech building software to stop project money from being delayed, withheld or trapped before it reaches suppliers, has raised £2.9m from angel investors. Saible says it tackles one of construction’s most persistent problems – systemic cash extraction by late and non-payments. On a large project, up to five tiers can ... Read more ›
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Over 40,000 blind and visually impaired children in the UK could benefit from a tech breakthrough that will make block coding accessible for them. A new screen reader compatibility has launched in Microsoft MakeCode, removing barriers that have long prevented many blind and low vision pupils from taking part in block-based coding alongside their classmates. ... Read more ›
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Valarian has closed a $50m (£37.3m) Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Valarian is a UK-based sovereign infrastructure company building a control layer for high-consequence operations and AI-driven systems. Its platform, used by enterprise and defence firms, enables organisations to retain control over how critical applications, AI systems and operational workloads ... Read more ›
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Default overnight curfews from midnight to 6am will be switched on for 16 and 17 year olds on social media apps like Instagram and TikTok as the government takes further action to protect the next generation online. Features that can keep users scrolling for longer, such as videos that automatically play one after another and ... Read more ›
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We’ve all done it – closed a “how did we do?” pop-up before it’s finished loading or started a questionnaire to get a discount, only to drop off midway because it’s taking too long. None of this means we’ve stopped having opinions. It means we’ve stopped being willing to hand those opinions over in the ... Read more ›
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British entrepreneurs believe that the UK is a great place to start a business but a poor place to scale one, according to the fourth wave of The Entrepreneurs Network’s tracker survey of UK founders. While nearly two-thirds (65%) of founders say the UK is an easy place to start a business, fewer than one ... Read more ›
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Birmingham Tech Week will return this October with its strongest international presence to date amid growing global interest in the West Midlands as a destination for technology investment and innovation. In 2025, the festival welcomed delegates from 16 countries, including China, India, Canada and South Korea, with organisers expecting even greater international participation in 2026. ... Read more ›
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The government is to open applications for the AI Upskilling Challenge Fund, inviting organisations to deliver innovative AI training to help Barnsley workers, businesses and residents build AI skills. In February, Barnsley was named by the government as the UK’s first ‘Tech Town’, a new designation that will see a more deliberate effort made to ... Read more ›
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Hyperscale cloud and AI data centre platform Pure Data Centres Group (Pure DC) has signed a deal worth up to £6.4bn to build an AI data centre in Seinäjoki, Finland. Designated SJK01, the full campus is set within 370 acres and targeted to support over 550MW of IT capacity for mass-scale AI and machine learning ... Read more ›
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This week’s podcast guest is Michael Herron, the chief executive of Atos UK and Ireland, who discusses what keeps him awake at night, how Atos is moving towards a human/AI agent world, and why he is an optimist about his sons’ futures in the job market. Plus, Herron discusses the rising costs of powering AI ... Read more ›
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Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce, Riverlane and EPCC, the UK National Supercomputing Centre based at the University of Edinburgh, have signed an agreement to explore the quantum computing capabilities needed in future industrial workflows, such as gas turbine design. Complex fluid dynamics simulations are central to gas turbine design, but they can require substantial computing resources as models ... Read more ›
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Prolo, an AI-powered procurement platform designed to support SME construction firms source materials, equipment and hire at the best market rates, has secured £4.2m in seed funding. Procurement within the construction industry remains analogue and is ripe for disruption. Prolo says smaller contractors bear the brunt of industry inefficiencies, losing hours ringing around builders’ merchants ... Read more ›
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