This week’s podcast guest is Dr Farzana Rahman, chief executive officer of Hexarad, who discusses her journey from medical doctor to startup founder, how companies like hers are tackling the high demand for medical treatments not being met by the NHS and how AI is being used in the health tech ecosystem. Hexarad is an end-to-end radiology ... Read more ›
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The potential for emerging technologies to deliver new jobs, public services which are fit for the future, and everyday improvements to all our lives is a defining opportunity. We can either be proactive, and build on the foundations now which will see us realise those opportunities in full, or fall behind and spend the coming decades playing catch-up. We will not play catch up. When ... Read more ›
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Tracebit, a London-based cyber startup specialising in threat detection for cloud businesses, has secured a £15m Series A round that will support its expansion in the US. Founded in 2023 by former employees of Tessian, Tracebit was launched to offer deception technology in the era of cloud computing. Deception technology is a cyber threat detection ... Read more ›
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A new programme worth up to £2bn of government investment will strive to keep the UK at the forefront of quantum innovation, says technology secretary and chancellor Liz Kendall. The ProQure:Scaling UK Quantum Computing procurement programme will launch next week, when companies will be invited to table proposals to partner with DSIT and deliver prototypes for evaluation. These prototypes will be assessed, and selected ... Read more ›
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The UK government is investing £45m in a supercomputer based in the country’s first designated AI Growth Zone at the UK Atomic Energy Authority campus in Culham, Oxfordshire. Called Sunrise, the 1.4MW supercomputer was announced as part of the government Fusion Strategy, a document outlining how the UK aims to grow the fusion industry. With ... Read more ›
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Ternary Therapeutics, a biotech startup building an AI platform to create a class of medicines known as “molecular glues”, has secured a £3.6m seed investment. The London-based business was founded in 2024 to develop a platform combining machine learning and physics-based molecular modelling and rapid laboratory testing to design a new class of medicines known ... Read more ›
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Faculty AI co-founder and chief executive Dr Marc Warner is set to become the chief technology officer of consulting giant Accenture following the completion of its acquisition of the AI firm. Founded in 2014, Faculty offers AI strategy, safety, design and implementation services to companies and public sector group looking to implement the technology. Its ... Read more ›
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Chorus Intelligence, a provider of investigative software for law enforcement, has secured a £15m investment from Maven Capital Partners. The investment, which came from Maven’s UK Regional Buyout Fund II, will support the development of the Chorus Intelligence Suite (CIS), a software platform used by government agencies and law enforcement groups to carry out investigations. ... Read more ›
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The vast majority of UK tech firms are based outside of London, according to new data that reveals the overlooked impact of businesses beyond the capital. New data from Beauhurst commissioned by Startup Coalition and UK Tech Week found that as many as two-thirds of Britain’s tech businsesses are based outside of London. The data ... Read more ›
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This week’s UK tech funding deals include AI hyperscaler Nscale, crop gene editing group Tropic and more. UKTN tracked £1.64bn worth of UK tech investment this week (9 March to 13 March), a 1,553% week-on-week increase, driven heavily by the enormous round raised by Nscale, across six funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK ... Read more ›
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Tropic, a Norwich-based agtech specialising in gene-edited tropical crops, has secured a $105m (£79.2m) Series C funding round. The company, which uses a proprietary platform to develop improved crops that are resistant to disease with higher yields, is planning the global commercial scale up of its crop portfolios following the sizeable round. Currently Tropic’s crop ... Read more ›
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Simon Bocca is the founder of PayCaptain, a payroll solutions that allows for the flexible management of salaries. In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Bocca discusses how he ditched overconfidence in favour of diligent and forensic implementation, the importance of how technically capable staff who also care about the customer and why running a hotel ... Read more ›
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The UK government has handed a contract worth £63m to tech firms Atos and Softwire to deliver digital development services for the electoral system. The seven-year contract will see the tech firms work with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to support the development of a digital elections services portfolio. “We are ... Read more ›
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A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have called for tighter regulations to be placed on toys fitted with AI capabilities, following a study of how children play with them. The research team examined how the interactions of a small sample of toddlers with an AI-powered toy called Gabbo. Fitted with a voice-controlled ... Read more ›
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The UK’s data regulator has demanded tech platforms hosting social media and video sharing content act immediately to strengthen age assurance measures in the name of child safety. In an open letter to applicable firms, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that the technologies required to prevent children from accessing harmful content are “readily available”, ... Read more ›
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Medical device manufacturer Combat Medical has raised £2.6m in the first close of its Series A funding round. Combat Medical develops devices to optimise the delivery of cancer therapeutics and is currently working on a hyperthermic intravesical chemotherapy treatment, called HIVEC. With the new funding, the company plans to advance HIVEC through phase three clinical ... Read more ›
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We have sleepwalked in an age where the scientific method is being dragged into the culture war. It is increasingly treated not as a rigorous process of discovery, but as a badge of political allegiance. Certainty is rewarded, nuance is dismissed as a hedge, and legitimate scientific disagreement is recast as conspiracy. For a global ... Read more ›
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Hadean, a London-based defence startup that uses AI to simulate conflict scenarios, has secured a bridge round as it works towards its Series B. Founded in 2017, Hadean through a combination of spatial computing and AI creates simulations for defence organisations, government agencies and businesses to rehearse, train and plan for combat scenarios in live ... Read more ›
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The UK government has launched a programme to support women and girls in entering the male-dominated tech industry. It has been a well-established truth for years now that the tech industry has a serious diversity problem, with efforts to improve the gender equity in the sector so far only barely moving the needle. Moreover, research ... Read more ›
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After a lengthy period of delays and regulatory scrutiny, Revolut, Britain’s most valuable fintech, has officially launched as a UK bank. Revolut announced on Wednesday that it has received approval from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) to exit mobilisation, a period after a UK banking application is approved during which the company is required to ... Read more ›
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