Ovo Labs, a frontier company dedicated to advancing egg quality and reproductive longevity, is making its debut with £4m in seed funding. The round, co-led by Creator Fund and Local Globe and with participation of Blue Wire Capital, Ahren Innovation Capital and Antonio Pellicer, founder of IVI. The company builds on research from one of ... Read more ›
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Deep tech company Neurolabs has closed a $7.8m Series A funding round, led by pan-European venture capital firm Nauta. The investment is set to accelerate Neurolabs’ mission to transform how consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands capture and act on in-store data. The round had participation from existing investors including LAUNCHub, Lunar Ventures and Techstart and ... Read more ›
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UKTN can exclusively reveal that the UK and New Zealand’s space sectors will join forces to tackle climate issues facing both Earth and outer space as part of new agreements struck during New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s visit to the UK this week. As part of a new UK-New Zealand space science partnership, the ... Read more ›
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The traditional philosophy of the first-mover advantage is dead in today’s startup ecosystem. We are nowadays in the age of open information – sources such as LinkedIn or GitHub make everything open and transparent. Combined with an abundance of venture capital and that the cost of building software is gradually trending to zero, it is ... Read more ›
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Climate tech company 51toCarbonZero has secured £3m in funding to expand and enhance its next-gen platform. Fuel Ventures led the investment for the sustainability business, with the funding round including contributions from angel investors. 51toCarbonZero specialises in a growing number of sectors including advertising, sports and entertainment, with this additional funding enabling 51toCarbonZero to extend ... Read more ›
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Nearly half of FTSE 100 companies (48%) have now established chief AI officers or equivalent AI-focused roles, according to a new report from AI-native executive search firm pltfrm. The report, ‘All In: The Corporate AI Leadership Race’, shows companies are racing to hire AI-savvy executives, with 65% of these AI leadership roles created in the last ... Read more ›
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Panos Panay, Amazon’s head of consumer electronics, has been selected to manage the company’s move into Cyprus. Panay joined the global conglomerate in 2023 following 19 years at Microsoft and has been running the consumer electronics business in his tenure – including Alexa, Echo and Fire TV. Sources close to Nicodimos Damianou, deputy minister of ... Read more ›
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Nearly three-quarters (73%) of UK businesses have seen an increase in online fraud over the past 12 months, according to a new survey by Veriff. The global identity verification firm’s UK Fraud Industry Pulse Survey polled 200 fraud professionals across financial services, technology, and retail sectors. The same proportion of those surveyed (73%) reported that ... Read more ›
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Dell Technologies has appointed Lisa Ergun as the client solutions group (CSG) channel lead for the UK. Ergun will spearhead Dell’s UK CSG channel strategy, focusing on key growth areas such as AI-powered PCs, sustainable IT solutions and advanced security compliance. In her new role, Ergun will work closely with Dell’s UK Channel lead, Ian ... Read more ›
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TDK Ventures, the corporate venture capital subsidiary of Japanese electrical conglomerate TDK Corporation, has launched Fund 3, a $150m (£112m) commitment to catalysing the next generation of deep tech startups. Fund 3 will target seed to Series B early-stage businesses, with the firm promising startups a platform to scale faster with less risk through its ... Read more ›
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The global payments platform Ecommpay has appointed Roy Blokker as head of strategic sales as the company sets to grow its footprint across Europe. Blokker will focus on engaging with large, complex, and globally focused merchants to build strategic partnerships and will lead the development of tailored solutions that deliver optimal payment performance. In his ... Read more ›
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CSignum has completed a £6m funding round to accelerate the growth of its EM-2 family of products which are set to innovate the way critical wireless sensor data is transmitted from submerged environments to networks above. The Series A funding round was led by a variety of investors including Scottish Enterprise, British Business Investment and ... Read more ›
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This week’s podcast guest is Jing Ouyang, co-founder and chief growth officer of Patchwork Health, who discusses the political pressure on health services to streamline operations, the difficulty in digitising NHS clinics and leaving a career as a medical doctor to launch a tech startup. Patchwork Health is a digital platform for clinics to manage ... Read more ›
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Challenger bank Monzo has surpassed 12 million customers in a milestone that places the fintech closer to the scale of the high street incumbents. Founded a decade ago this year, Monzo’s user count means the group provides accounts for around a fifth of UK adults. Personal accounts make up the bulk of Monzo users – ... Read more ›
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One word in particular has stuck out to me this past week. It’s been in financial accounts, trading updates and casual conversation: uncertainty. Alphawave, a London-listed electronics group that develops core technology for the semiconductor industry, recently released its annual results for 2024, in which it noted that due to “global uncertainty” and the “rapidly developing nature ... Read more ›
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AI company Hammer Missions has raised £1.4m in new funding to accelerate its AI technology development and strategic expansion into North America. The firm, which provides a technology solution for the inspection of built structures, secured the funding from UK-based venture capital fund ACF Investors and angel investors such as GeoSLAM’s Graham Hunter and Atkins’ ... Read more ›
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This week’s UK tech funding deals include insurtech unicorn Marshmallow, fast-charging energy group Nyobolt and more. UKTN tracked £122.45m worth of UK tech investment this week (14 April to 18 April), a 124% week-on-week increase across nine funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. Marshmallow – £68m Sector: Insurtech HQ: London Round: Late ... Read more ›
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Khyati Sundaram is the founder of Applied, an HR tech startup using AI to try to make hiring fairer. In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Sundaram discusses nightmare pitches, the importance of storytelling in business and why first-time entrepreneurs need good co-founders. What’s your worst pitching experience? My worst pitching experience happened roughly around the ... Read more ›
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Vizzy, a London-based recruitment startup looking to disrupt traditional CVs, has raised a £3.65m seed round. Launched in 2023, the startup describes itself as a “talent platform”, with which job candidates can create CVs more reflective of their future potential and ambition. Vizzy was co-founded by Joe Woodward and Jess and Chris Woodward-Jones, inspired by ... Read more ›
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Semiconductor group Alphawave is foregoing guidance for its 2025 results amid tariff-fuelled uncertainty as it posts a loss for last year. The London-listed group said in its results for the year ended December 2024 that “due to current global economic uncertainty and the rapidly developing nature of the recently imposed tariff regimes, we are not ... Read more ›
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