Sunhat announces €9.2 million in Series A funding. The round was led by CommerzVentures, with participation from existing investors Capnamic, EnBW New Ventures, xdeck, and WEPA Ventures.
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity – and deepfakes are fast becoming one of the most disruptive threats.
A new report from Lockton ‘From gut-feel to data-driven: Overcoming blind spots in SME benefits strategy’, reveals that seven out of 10 (69%) of SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) leaders are now using AI tools like ChatGPT to shape their employee benefits strategy.
DRUID AI announced it has secured $31 million in Series C financing to advance the global expansion of its enterprise-ready agentic AI platform under the leadership of its new CEO, Joseph Kim. The strategic investment, which will advance DRUID AI’s mission to empower companies to create, manage, and orchestrate conversational AI agents, was led by Cipio Partners, with participation from TQ Ventures, Karma Ventures, Smedvig, and Hoxton Ventures.
Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has advised Tide on its $120 million Series C follow-on funding round led by TPG and The Apax Digital Partners.
Duel, the leading Brand Advocacy platform helping leading retail brands including Lush, ELEMIS, Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch grow through their own fan and creator communities instead of traditional advertising, has raised $16 million in a Series A round. The funding was co-led by Molten Ventures and Bright Pixel, alongside existing investor Peter Bauer, founder of Mimecast.
Futurail has announced the closing of a seed round, bringing total funding to €7.5 million. The round was co-led by Asterion Ventures (Paris) and Leap435 (Munich), joined by EIT Urban Mobility and US investors Zero Infinity Partners and Heroic Ventures.
The 4YFN Awards are back – and if you’re building something bold in digital tech, we want to hear from you.
Nick Perrett spent years building gaming mechanics before losing track of his own pensions – an expensive wake-up call that led him to found Prosper. His contrarian view: ethical fintech isn’t just morally right, it’s more profitable long-term – and founders who understand this will build the next generation of financial giants.
Launching a new business is exhilarating – the energy, the creativity, the vision of building something that’s uniquely yours. But the statistics are sobering. According to ONS data, around one in five UK businesses fail within the first year, and nearly half don’t make it to their fifth birthday.
Striking out on your own to launch a rival tech business could be one of the most exciting but also daunting times of your career. The temptation will be to hand in your notice, fire up your laptop, and start calling prospective clients.
After a run of double-digit growth, many founders look to bank the momentum and exit. Increasingly, however, others are turning to Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs). For these leaders, the priority is building a company that can sustain growth and stay true to its values. In today’s volatile market, independence matters, and so does a culture that helps teams adapt without compromising standards. An EOT provides both: it secures that independence while keeping long-term goals at the centre of decision-making.
After spending 15 years leading teams in one of the UK’s largest retailers, I made the bold decision to put everything into my dream: becoming a full-time magician and speaker. On 4th April 2020, I took redundancy – ready to launch the business I had been quietly building for years.
YASO has raised £8.25 million in a Series A investment round led by Puma Growth Partners, a leading provider of growth capital to scale-up businesses.
Away from the pomp and pageantry of Donald Trump’s State Visit to the UK, there was real progress made on business. The record-breaking £150 billion Tech Prosperity Deal of US investment in the UK rightly grabbed a lot of attention. This is the largest-ever single package of commercial investment linked to a State Visit.
Riyadh will host the KSA edition of DATE (Digital Acceleration & Transformation Expo) on 8-9 December at JW Marriott, bringing together 2,000+ government officials, investors, industry leaders, and innovators from around the world.
Catalyst brought 40 UK and Irish venture capital firms to Belfast last week, for its annual Inbound Investors event, to meet and hear from 50 fast-growing Northern Ireland startup and scaleup companies.
A mother-daughter perspective on AI’s impact on future careers.
The venture capital market, shaped by US norms, has a persistent inefficiency: capital allocation is…
In today’s fast-moving tech world, customer and user data is no longer optional, it’s essential. How a business interprets, contextualises, and applies this data often determines whether it accelerates or stalls. The companies that succeed are those that don’t just react to change, but anticipate it through intelligent, data-led decision-making.
