The UK can build great startups. But unless our venture ecosystem learns to move faster and back conviction earlier, we’ll keep losing the companies that could define Britain’s next industrial era.
With less than two weeks until the Budget speech, a leading voice in the quantum industry is warning the UK government needs to announce a Quantum Sovereign Wealth Fund or risk an innovation exodus.
Cocreatd, the British venture studio founded by serial entrepreneurs Oliver Yonchev, James Lawson Barker, Paul Stevens, and Simon Whittaker, has announced its portfolio is valued at over £100 million from a standing start just 365 days ago.
Dreame Technology announced that three of its products have been named CES Innovation Awards 2026 honourees: the H15 Pro Heat Wet Dry Vacuum, Aqua10 Ultra Roller Robot Vacuum, and Furcatch Air Purifier FP10.
Skycore Semiconductors announces it has raised €5 million in seed funding. The round was led by the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, with participation from First Momentum, Mätch VC, and Balnord.
Silicon Valley–based additive manufacturing company, Carbon, announces it has raised $60 million in new funding. The round was headlined by current investors Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake, adidas, Baillie Gifford, Madrone, and Northgate.
As UK organisations strive to boost productivity in a challenging economy, new research from TeamViewer highlights concern about dysfunctional technology. Digital friction, the study reveals, is quietly eroding business performance and limiting productivity gains across industries.
According to the ‘State of Cloud and AI Security 2025’ report by Tenable, developed in collaboration with the Cloud Security Alliance, 89% of organisations today are either running (55%) or piloting (34%) AI workloads.
The World Economic Forum estimates 40% of core job skills will change by 2030, with employers already paying an average of 47% more for workers with AI skills, according to Skillsoft’s 2024-2025 IT Skills & Salary Report.
This year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week UK launches on 17th November, under the theme of ‘Together We Build’. Led by the Global Entrepreneurship Network UK (GEN UK) and Centre for Entrepreneurs (CfE), over 150 events will take place across the country from Belfast and Glasgow to Exeter, Hull, and Oxford.
I love the British startup community. Its founders are filled with creativity, talent, and a sense of fairness and purpose. However, when I started my climatetech career at Greentown Labs, the US’ largest climate tech incubator, I could tell the energy was different.
European venture firm Backed VC has closed its third fund, Backed 3, at its $100 million cap, alongside making its 100th investment. Backed partners with outlier founders building generational frontier technology companies, who have made a fundamental technological or conceptual breakthrough.
Defence Builder, Ukraine’s accelerator for defencetech startups and 17Tech Oy, a Finnish defence technology accelerator and venture capital firm, announce a strategic partnership to reinforce the defence tech innovation ecosystems of Finland and Ukraine. The accelerator accepts startups from all NATO countries.
Tech startups are embracing stablecoins to streamline cross-border payments and boost operational efficiency. But adoption is still being constrained by concerns over fraud and links to criminal activity.
Despite two-thirds (64%) of startups planning to increase investment and 85% wanting to stay in Britain, one in five of the UK’s fastest growing companies could leave the UK within the next three years without action, a new report from Virgin Media O2 has warned.
Innovation and growth company Plexal has welcomed six forward-thinking founders to its Cyber Runway Ignite leadership programme.
Outreach is a network problem. Stop the scattergun strategy; data-driven networks are the smarter way to solve it, explains Luke Ibbotson, Manager at commercial data solutions provider JMAN Group.
A new report released at Web Summit, Lisbon, by one of the UK’s fastest growing fintech lenders, Juice, uncovers the hidden behavioural forces driving the UK’s £65 billion SME funding gap, and how lenders, fintech’s, and policymakers must act to close it.
For most startups, building credibility takes a lot of hard work, as they must demonstrate consistency and competence to build trust. They may have a great product or service, but until people trust the brand, growth stalls.
New research has revealed that Generation Alpha expect their jobs to be dramatically different to those of their parents, from the death of the daily commute and email to working regularly with robots at work.
