Featurespace CEO Martina King will exit the fraud prevention firm following its acquisition by Visa. King, who ran the Cambridge-based company for over a decade since 2012, will step down as it begins operations as a Visa product. Jason Blackhurst, a senior vice president for innovation and strategic partnerships at Visa will be tasked with ... Read more âș
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A Labour MP has launched a âY Combinator for Walesâ in a bid to support budding tech talent in the country. MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, Kanishka Narayan, has unveiled the Vale Startup Accelerator â a first-of-its-kind programme to support early-stage businesses and unlock the regionâs entrepreneurial potential. Backed by local and national partners, ... Read more âș
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Hampshire-based low carbon heating tech startup Caldera has secured a ÂŁ10m investment from major German industrial group GEA. GEA, which is mostly active in the food and beverages sector, plans to use the companyâs green heating solutions for its customers. Caldera has developed a boiler that stores renewable electricity sourced from on-site solar panels and ... Read more âș
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Much of the immediate reaction to the Spring Statement has focused on cuts to public spending, and rightly so. In truth, however, I have some sympathy for the position the government is in. When Labour came to power last summer, it was no secret where their priorities lay â growth. And yet, with a chaotic ... Read more âș
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Revolut has warned that Brits are the most vulnerable to WhatsApp scams in Europe, as the neobank intensifies its demands liability to repay fraud to be handed to social media platforms. New research from the fintech has claimed that UK WhatsApp users lost on average ÂŁ2,437 to scams last year, the most in the continent. ... Read more âș
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A friend of mine once worked for consulting firm that won a government contract. For the next nine months he was deployed with a Whitehall department to support digital transformation projects. The work started off well, but after a while, he and colleagues ran out of things to do, and began to be ignored. For ... Read more âș
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Arguably the most impactful innovation of the modern era of open banking-powered finance is the introduction of competition for cross-border payments. Where once sending money internationally was time consuming, inefficient and expensive, now consumers and businesses have a host of options for fast and cheap cross-border transfers. Here are Britainâs biggest cross-border payments companies. (Note: ... Read more âș
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This weekâs UK tech funding deals include AI 3D content generation startup Rival, hospitality CRM platform developer Embargo and more. UKTN tracked ÂŁ6.05m worth of UK tech investment this week (24 March to 28 March), an 90% week-on-week decrease across three funding rounds. Hereâs your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding deals. Rival â ... Read more âș
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Public sector data scientists will be trained to use AI tools as part of a government scheme to plug the skills gap holding back its Plan for Change ambitions. The 12-week AI accelerator will teach machine learning engineering skills to help civil servants use automation to tackle public sector problems. The programme will be open ... Read more âș
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Improving gender equality in tech could deliver a material boost to investor returns, research has found, amid a government-backed campaign to support more female founders. Figures compiled by Beauhurst suggest woman-led businesses deliver 35% higher returns than male businesses, despite receiving just 2% of venture capital funding. The figures were part of a female entrepreneurship ... Read more âș
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Jess Woodward-Jones is the co-founder of Vizzy, a recruitment platform that works with hiring businesses to look beyond CVs. In this weekâs Founder in Five Q&A, Woodward-Jones discusses why building a successful business will always be hard no matter how good the idea is, the transformational power of effective note keeping and the problems with AI ... Read more âș
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Revolutâs valuation has been upgraded by one of its best-known shareholders, implying a rise to $48bn. The upgrade by Schroders Capital Global Innovation Trust plc, an investment trust managed by Schroders, is an 85% jump compared to the valuation it gave the London fintech a year ago. The trust controls a small stake in the ... Read more âș
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Cypriot tech experts living in London are to get a visit from their President wanting to lure them home to take up jobs in the booming STEM sector. The strategy â dubbed the âBrain Gainâ â is backed up with lucrative incentives including tax breaks, free health care and housing subsidies. It comes as a ... Read more âș
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Commercial viability can be the biggest enemy of emerging technologies. It takes years for novel, capex-intensive innovations to build a big enough market to survive in. Historically, therefore, many entrepreneurs have found that there are few better customers of innovation than the military. Take semiconductors. Microchips are ubiquitous now in countless consumer and business-facing ... Read more âș
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Senior officials at the UK governmentâs tech department met with Google and Anthropic to explore the use of AI in public services as chancellor Rachel Reeves turns to automation to make the state more efficient. Officials at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) met with Anthropic in mid-December to discuss âAnthropicâs work on ... Read more âș
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Revolut is to ramp up its crypto marketing effort with a number of new hires across Europe. The London fintech is hiring product marketing managers for crypto in the UK, Poland, Spain and Portugal, responsible for creating and owning a new marketing strategy for cryptocurrency. Successful candidates will be tasked with helping bring more products ... Read more âș
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The governmentâs plan to rapidly integrate AI into public services is âfor the birdsâ because of âout of dateâ technology and âpoor qualityâ of data, a damning parliamentary report has found. Labourâs Plan for Change strategy hinges heavily on the idea that the public sector can provide better services cost-effectively by outsourcing work to automation. ... Read more âș
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The parent company of OnlyFans has been handed a ÂŁ1.05m fine for failing to accurately respond to requests for information about its age assurance measures. Fenix International, which owns the platform known for hosting explicit content, was approached by Ofcom on two occasions in 2022 and 2023 with requests for information on how it was ... Read more âș
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Universities are in trouble. Budgets are tight, a quarter of leading UK higher education institutions are cutting staff and student recruitment for almost every kind of degree fell in 2024. The cause? Perhaps itâs tuition fee caps and rising costs, but ultimately, there is a real concern that they are unable to bring in enough ... Read more âș
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Startups change fast. One day you and your co-founders are locking down pre-seed funding to develop an MVP. Blink, and suddenly youâre managing a scaling team, milestone customer acquisitions, and major VC raises. But thereâs one element of your operations that can often fail to evolve at the same pace â the board. This is ... Read more âș
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