Loughborough University has launched the Loughborough Venture Investor Network (LVIN) in partnership with venture capital firm Haatch to connect Loughborough University has launched the Loughborough V...

This week’s UK tech funding deals include AI firm Callosum, robotics group Oshen, clean energy producer EcoNomad and more.

The UK government's AI Security Institute has appointed a new director and chief strategy officer to its leadership team.

HexSeed Technology has raised more than £600,000 to scale its technology designed to prevent AI power semiconductors from overheating.

A Plymouth-based startup developing marine robotics for navies and weather agencies has secured a £3.65m investment.

EcoNomad Solutions has secured a £400,000 to help small livestock farms cut methane emissions and turn organic waste into renewable energy.

In a UK first, consumers will be able to access personalised credit scores directly from ChatGPT through an expanded offering from Experian.

Looking to understand which sectors will benefit from AI and which will face displacement, Forrester has launched a disruption model.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has joined the next Geovation accelerator programme to boost innovation in land use. Defra The Department for Environment, Food and Rural...

Cuts to US federal funding for academic research are already impacting the university spinout and startup community.

The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is to invest £28m in a new initiative to cut the UK’s reliance on more expensive sources of power.  The Ultra-Long The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is to inv...

Starling Bank has launched a new suite of AI features integrated into its app that will allow customers to create custom “smart tools”.

UK AI startup Callosum has closed a $100m (£73.5m) seed round in the first investment from the UK Sovereign AI Fund. Headquartered in London, Callosum is UK AI startup Callosum has closed a $100m (£73...

University of Edinburgh spinout Singular Photonics has closed an oversubscribed $2.15m (£1.6m) funding round led by ACF Investors, with participation from University of Edinburgh spinout Singular Phot...

Edtech startup Medly AI has raised £5.9m to scale its automated, personalised tutoring platform to prep students for exams.

Grid operators are managing ageing operational technology, rapid digitisation and a threat landscape shaped by geopolitical competition.

The UK Space Agency is to support 16 projects by companies developing satellite communications systems via a new £13m government investment. The Agency The UK Space Agency is to support 16 projects by...

HSBC and Standard Chartered have completed the first live cross-border tokenised deposit, marking a key milestone.

Hybrid-electric aviation pioneer Ampaire has secured £14m in Series B funding in support of its sustainable aircraft propulsion systems.

Brian Cole, chief financial officer at ClearScore, discusses the rapid diversification of ClearScore's product offering.

Michael Caine has joined a project that aims to understand how members of the public can distinguish real voices from AI-generated deepfakes.

Food delivery service Just Eat is expanding into services with the launch of a laundry offering in the UK via a partnership with Laundryheap.

Scotland’s first AI Growth Zone, based in Lanarkshire, has secured a £300m infrastructure financing package.

Northern Gritstone aims to secure more US capital to support its northern portfolio companies as it prepares to open a San Francisco office.

GALLOS Technologies has announced a £35m balance sheet investment round to fund the creation and scaling of early-stage defence startups.

HMRC has awarded Atos a three-year contract worth up to £78.2m to oversee the tax authority’s low-code application ecosystem.

Versatile RobotX has secured over £1m in funding to accelerate the commercial deployment of its AI-powered agricultural robots.

Gloucestershire-based aerospace and defence startup SpaceAM has closed a seed funding round backed by Foresight Group.

This week’s UK tech funding deals include autonomous air defence firm Cambridge Aerospace, talent-as-a-service firm FlairMakers and more.

StructureFlow has appointed Lloyd Allen as its new chief technology officer to lead the company’s AI-first product roadmap.

The UK government has launched a series of AI training bootcamps in the North West of England to address concerns over youth unemployment.

AI security scaleup Mindgard has raised £22.2m in a Series A funding round to expand its security software for AI systems.

Global learning platform Duolingo has acquired Animade, a London-based animation and motion design studio. The acquisition expands Duolingo's design Global learning platform Duolingo has acquired Anim...

Two key questions lie at the heart of the facial recognition debate. How effective is it? Will its increased use trigger privacy risks?

Midlands-based MatAlytics, a provider of structural physics AI for critical industrial assets, has been awarded £619k in grant funding from Innovate UK.  Midlands-based MatAlytics, a provider of struc...

Cyber startup Cytix has raised a £5.1m Series A funding round to scale its risk platform and address vulnerabilities in AI software.

The UK may have been late to the party, but electronic shelf labels have become one of its fastest growing innovations in retail technology.

UK semiconductor companies have raised $321m (£237.4m) so far this year, up from $262m (£193.8m) across all of 2025 and $232m (£171.6m) in 2024, according UK semiconductor companies have raised $321m ...

The UK's Advertising and Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an "offensive" advert for an AI service that has appeared

Quantinuum and Oracle have entered a multi-year strategic partnership to bring quantum computing to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).  Under the Quantinuum and Oracle have entered a multi-year strate...

FlairMakers has closed a £500k pre-Seed round led by SFC Capital, with participation from angel investors and existing backers of the company. FlairMakers FlairMakers has closed a £500k pre-Seed round...

Watercycle Technologies has secured £3m in grant funding provided by the UK government to establish a demonstration-scale manufacturing line capable of Watercycle Technologies has secured £3m in grant...

Edgify, a provider of AI infrastructure to protect in-store loss for physical retail, has raised $9m (£6.7m) in Series A+ funding.  The London-based Edgify, a provider of AI infrastructure to protect ...

AI fintech platform Model ML has secured an investment from HSBC Asset Management to scale its agentic operating system.

Bristol-based Vertical Aerospace has secured $100m (£74m) to support continued progress toward the certification and commercialisation of its Valo Bristol-based Vertical Aerospace has secured $100m (£...

The FCA transformed a conversation about regulatory constraints into one about advantage and entrepreneurship.

The UK’s automotive sector is to benefit from almost £130m of government investment to discover new zero emission technologies and support skilled jobs The UK’s automotive sector is to benefit from al...