London-based entrepreneur, Reedah El-Saie, has successfully secured £30,000 funding from A-list Dragons’ Den stars, Sara Davies, Deborah Meaden, and Touker Suleyman for her educational gaming startup, Brainspark Games.

SheMed, the female-founded health technology company changing how women access personalised healthcare, has announced it has raised $50 million to further develop its innovative health platform and advance new breakthroughs for pre-emptive healthcare.

Paygentic, which provides an all-in-one billing and payments platform purpose-built for AI-native and agent-driven products, has successfully completed a $2 million pre-seed round.

ShengShu Technology launched Vidu Q2 ‘Reference-to-Video’, setting a new standard for AIGC products. This release shifts AI from simply creating motion to performing it, blending technology with creativity to deliver realistic, emotional, and cinematic videos.

Blue Earth Ventures has announced the 2025 BE100 Winners, selected in a live pitch finale at Blue Earth Summit in London. Three ventures were chosen by audience vote from a finalist cohort of six category-leading start-ups, each tackling urgent global challenges in water, energy, and construction.

Wonder Studios, the AI-native entertainment studio, has raised $12 million in seed funding to scale the studio model for a new era of entertainment production.

Bronto announced it has raised $14 million in seed funding led by Cercano Management – alongside Heavybit and Conviction Capital – to re-invent logging from end to end.

When Birmingham-based healthtech startup quietnote first set out to explore the intersection of mindfulness and music, it was a vision driven by passion as much as possibility. Today, that vision is backed by science, thanks to a groundbreaking clinical trial completed in collaboration with the University of Birmingham and funded by Innovate UK.

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The UK is set to receive over £31 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure investment from global tech giants including Google, Amazon, and NVIDIA. From new data centres to startup funds, this wave of capital marks a pivotal moment for the UK’s digital economy and sends a clear signal that the race to scale applied AI is accelerating.

Australia’s innovation ecosystem is consolidating its position among the most dynamic globally, with almost 1,600 tech scaleups identified and over $36billion in capital raised, according to the Tech Scaleup Australia 2025 Report presented today by Mind the Bridge and ACCIONA at the MTB Scaleup Summit Sydney 2025.

MyCelsius, the UK-based innovator in personal cooling technology, has launched its highly anticipated MyCelsius Cooling Bracelet – a discreet, stylish, and science-driven wearable designed to offer cooling comfort during hot flushes; whether that be due to menopause and hormonal changes or stress and anxiety.

Every startup owner ultimately wants the same things: More money. More growth. More loyal customers or clients. 

365 Finance has reported that during the last 12 months, 32% of applicants for its revenue-based funding have been women – which is a significant increase on previous years.

Start Up Loans, part of the British Business Bank, has announced that the programme has delivered more than 9,500 loans worth more than £100 million to founders from across the East of England.