This week’s UK tech funding deals include legal AI firm Luminance, semiconductor materials developer Cambridge GaN Devices and more. UKTN tracked £122.9m worth of UK tech investment this week (17 February to 21 February), a 34% week-on-week decrease across 11 funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. Luminance – £59.5m ... Read more ›
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Biome Technologies, a developer of plastic-alternative materials, has become the latest biotech business seeking to ditch its AIM listing after the stock fell more than 90% in a year. The company said on Friday that it has proposed the cancellation of shares from trading on AIM, with the ultimate decision subject to approval at the ... Read more ›
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Automotive software group Pinewood has agreed to acquire the outstanding 91% of share capital of AI SaaS platform Seez in a deal worth £33.3m. Pinewood, which provides software for vehicle vendors, has been on a push to incorporate automation into is tech offering, having rolled out its AI product across 155 dealerships in a deal ... Read more ›
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Georgina Robinson is the co-founder of Gladys, a Bath-based platform to connect families with trusted carers in their local area. In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Robinson discusses not agonising over feedback when starting your business, promoting diversity by taking action and going from barrister to tech founder. Which role was the most important early ... Read more ›
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In their book No Ordinary Disruption, Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Lola Woetzel, conclude that the fundamental change caused by urbanisation, technological change, globalisation and demographic ageing on world economies and societies is happening “10 times faster” than the industrial Revolution – at “300 times the scale, or 3000 times the impact”. The Prime Minister’s ... Read more ›
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Private share trading platform JP Jenkins will deploy AI technology to handle its ESG reporting through a deal with London-listed Insig AI. Insig AI’s software will be used to quantify and analyse datasets, such as company disclosures, to generate peer group comparisons in an instant and traceable manner. Through the deployment of Insig AI, JP ... Read more ›
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Shares in Tekcapital, an investor and tech transfer office targeting the intellectual property in British universities, jumped more than 10% on Monday after it reported its portfolio value grew by over a third in 2024. The London-listed group’s portfolio holdings rose 38% to $64.2m (£50.9m) last year, in a promising sign for the value of ... Read more ›
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UKTN‘s latest dive into regional tech ecosystems is all about the Solent Region of the UK’s south coast, featuring the tech hubs of Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, the Isle of Wight and more. It is fitting that much of the research conducted by UKTN that has formed the basis of our report into the Solent region ... Read more ›
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This week, I listened to a podcast in which former government adviser turned substacker Sam Freedman complained about the relationship between government and media. Newspapers don’t give enough thought to the effects of policy, he said, and are only interested speeches and announcements. “The government have tried to make use of that by feeding that ... Read more ›
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When digital banks first arrived on the scene a decade ago, Britain’s high street rivals were rattled. Centuries-old institutions that had never seen much competition were suddenly threatened by a group of twenty-something coders in T-shirts. It was an opportune time to disrupt the sector. The 2008 financial crash had wrought havoc on the high ... Read more ›
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The UK is the third largest AI market in the world, behind only the United States and China and if the noise from the government is anything to go by, its AI sector will be one of its most important assets in the world. So, who are the biggest players in UK AI? Which companies ... Read more ›
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The UK government’s tech department has been accused of “downgrading” its safety and ethics standards in a blow to its relaunch of the AI Safety Institute as the AI Security Institute. London-based charity fact-checker Full Fact described the rebranding as “disappointing” due to the focal shift from bias and transparency to criminal and national security ... Read more ›
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London-listed car retail software company Pinewood Technologies is rolling out its automotive intelligence platform across 155 dealerships through a deal with Global Auto Holdings. The company’s AI platform, which gives car retailers data-driven commercial insights, will be deployed across all of the Global Auto dealerships in the UK, North America and Scandinavia. The contract marks ... Read more ›
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This week’s UK tech funding deals include early invoice payment service Revving, frontier AI business Latent Labs and more UKTN tracked £185.5m worth of UK tech investment this week (10 February to 14 February), a 361% week-on-week increase across six funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. Revving – £107m ... Read more ›
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Arm is gearing up to launch its own chip in a landmark moment for Britain’s most valuable technology company. The Cambridge-based business has already signed up Meta as one of its first customers, according to a report in the Financial Times, with the chip set to be launched before the end of the year. Arm ... Read more ›
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Raoul-Gabriel Urma is the founder and CEO of Cambridge Spark, an edtech business that works with companies to provide AI and data upskilling. In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Urma discusses trusting your own instincts, the innovative power of education and founders getting distracted from their clients by focusing too much on tech and operations. ... Read more ›
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The UK government has struck a partnership with Silicon Valley AI firm Anthropic to support the integration of artificial intelligence into public services. The deal marks one of the first private partnerships for the UK’s Sovereign AI unit, formed following the release of the tech department’s AI Opportunities Action Plan in January. The partnership will ... Read more ›
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Donald Trump is a very quotable man. Despite his ostensible dislike of the media, America’s new president has done about as many press conferences in his first two weeks as Biden managed in his entire period in office. Often he is quotable for the wrong reasons. When an American Airlines flight crashed in Washington last ... Read more ›
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The UK competition watchdog is reviewing how it can approve more deals amid increasing government pressure to fall in line with its push for economic growth. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was delivering a package of reforms that will address the pace, predictability, proportionality and process of its regulatory activities. The CMA ... Read more ›
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The UK government will quickly “follow” the €109bn investment announcement from France’s President Emmanuel Macron, AI Minister Feryal Clark has said, in signs Downing Street is keen not to lose ground to Paris in the global AI race. Speaking at the opening of the London AI Hub – an AI-focused co-working space from Tech Nation, ... Read more ›
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