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Applications open for £100k NatWest accelerator pitch

NatWest has opened applications for its UK wide Accelerator Pitch competition, inviting entrepreneurs to compete…

Fine art logistics scaleup Convelio secures Series C
Fine art logistics scaleup Convelio secures Series C to advance its AI-powered shipping and storage services

Convelio has secured a Series C investment to expand its AI-powered logistics and collections management…

Start Up Loans delivers £25M to Kent’s small business owners
Start Up Loans delivers £25M to Kent’s small business owners

The Start Up Loans programme, part of the British Business Bank, has provided £25 million…

Omniscient raises $4.1m to put executives ahead of the next reputational crisis
Omniscient raises $4.1m to put executives ahead of the next reputational crisis

Omniscient, the decision intelligence platform built for boards and senior executives, announced it has raised…

£130M fund closes to back female-led investment team: Women backing Women fund of funds
£130M fund closes to back female-led investment team

Bootstrap4F has announced that its ‘Women backing Women’ fund of funds for the Invest in…

Pickmybrain raises $2.1M to turn experts into AI digital brains
Pickmybrain raises $2.1M to turn experts into AI digital brains

Pickmybrain, a startup building AI-powered Digital Brains for celebrities, experts, and public figures, has raised…

9fin raises $170M at $1.3Bn valuation
9fin raises $170M at $1.3Bn valuation

9fin, the AI-native platform for global debt markets, has raised $170 million in Series C…

Celebrity-backed wearable WHOOP raises £575M
Celebrity-backed wearable WHOOP raises £575M

WHOOP, the wearable membership company endorsed by many celebs, has raised $575 million in Series…

How rolling closes are powering deeptech fundraising
How rolling closes are powering deeptech fundraising

Fundraising, as many startup playbooks describe it, should follow a clean arc. Raise a set…

Oxford spinout Stateful Robotics raises $4.8m
Oxford spinout Stateful Robotics raises $4.8m

Stateful Robotics, an embodied AI company spun out from the University of Oxford, has raised…

UK founders: stop confusing a pitch desk with investment readiness
UK founders: stop confusing a pitch desk with investment readiness

Rupert Lyle, FPC Regional’s Investment Director and Fund Principal of the West Midlands Co-Investment Fund…

The rise of women-led investment consortiums: what’s changing in 2026 and why now
The rise of women-led investment consortiums: what’s changing in 2026 and why now

For decades, venture capital was controlled by a select few. In 2026, women-led investment consortiums…

The $5 lottery ticket that changed how I think about funding
The $5 lottery ticket that changed how I think about funding

There are things a $5 lottery ticket teaches you that any millions of dollars in…

Future Worlds: nurturing talent, scaling innovation
Future Worlds: nurturing talent, scaling innovation

Future Worlds, the startup accelerator based at the University of Southampton, has spent the past…

Hosted.ai raises $19M Seed round to help neocloud service providers utilise wasted GPU capacity
Hosted.ai raises $19M Seed round to help neocloud service providers utilise wasted GPU capacity

Hosted.ai has raised a $19 million Seed round led by Creandum, with additional investment from…

VerbaFlo raises $7 million led by Pi Labs to build the AI Communications Platform for Global Real Estate
VerbaFlo raises $7 million led by Pi Labs to build the AI communications platform for global real estate

VerbaFlo announced it has raised a $7 million seed round, led by Pi Labs, with…

Small business lending surged to near-record in 2025
Small business lending surged to near-record in 2025

Gross SME bank lending increased by 9% to £68 billion in 2025, marking the second…

Why faster iteration matters in startups – insights from Ruslan Tymofieiev
Why faster iteration matters in startups – insights from Ruslan Tymofieiev

Speed in startups is an execution standard that directly affects outcomes. While one team is…

Tower raises $6.4m to empower data engineers in the AI era
Tower raises $6.4m to empower data engineers in the AI era

Tower has raised $6.4 million across a pre-seed and seed round to transform how data…

The case for patience CVC
The case for patience

In venture, speed is treated as a moral imperative. Founders are taught to sprint. Investors…