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AI Deals Timeline, 2017 to today

1. 2026-10-29funding roundi23: funding round £4.9m — Seed for an AI-native insurance broker whose fundraising tech.eu attributes to former UK government minister Afolami.Four Cities Capital (joint lead); Outward VC; Seedcamp; Insiders VenturesStart-upssingle_source
2. 2026-10-29acquisitionDigital Science: acquisition — UK research-data company Digital Science bought AI academic-writing platform Jenni AI; price undisclosed.Jenni AI (target; location not stated)Start-upssingle_source
3. 2026-10-27funding roundAdsilico: funding round £10m — Series A for generative AI and physics simulation of virtual patients to test medical devices.PXN Ventures (lead); Northern Gritstone; ParkwalkStart-upssingle_source
4. 2026-10-27funding roundLette (new): funding round US$6.5m (≈ £4.9m) — Seed for AI agents that automate leasing, maintenance and compliance for rental operators.Peak (lead); Heliad; Foreword VC; Pitchdrive; Adeline; angelssingle_source
5. 2026-10-27funding roundMachenta: funding round US$40m (≈ £30m) — Seed for an AI model that teaches robots tasks from one demonstration, trained in simulation.Creandum; Union Square Ventures (co-leads)Start-upssingle_source
6. 2026-10-27grantAmplified Global: grant £50,000 — Award to develop a responsible, explainable AI tool for financial services.Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FinTech Scotland)Start-upssingle_source
7. 2026-10-27grantVerifoxx: grant £50,000 — Award to develop a responsible, explainable AI tool for financial services.Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FinTech Scotland)Start-upssingle_source
8. 2026-10-27grantFinspector: grant £50,000 — Award to develop a responsible, explainable AI tool for financial services.Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FinTech Scotland)Start-upssingle_source
9. 2026-10-27funding roundMachenta: funding round 40m USD — Machenta (AI model for robot learning) raised $40m (Seed), reported by tech.eu.Creandum, Union Square VenturesInvestorssingle_source
10. 2026-10-27partnershipPhysicsX: partnership — Fortescue partnership expanded For: Industrial AI.FortescueLabssingle_source
11. 2026-10-26funding roundNous: funding round £13m — New capital for a household AI agent that switches providers and handles family admin.Heartcore Capital; Mosaic Ventures; Chalfen Ventures; Joyance Partners; Bain Future Back VenturesStart-upssingle_source
12. 2026-10-26gpu purchaseSWI Compute: gpu purchase US$1bn (≈ £749.2m) — SWI Compute launched with about $1bn of NVIDIA systems on order and a 30 MW UK AI factory as its first site. Buys or funds: About $1bn of NVIDIA systems; UK first phase 30 MW, ~7,000 Rubin GPUs, online by end-2027. Other investors: Delta Computers (integrator).NVIDIA (BIZ-BIG-014)Cloud and computesingle_source
13. 2026-10-24grantAI Biosecurity Lab (AIBL): grant 100,000,000 (government) + up to 200,000,000 (company commitments) GBP — Launch funding for non-profit AI biosecurity lab.UK Government; OpenAI; AnthropicLabssingle_source
14. 2026-10-24partnershipBasecamp Research: partnership — Basecamp joins the AI Biosecurity Lab with Anthropic, OpenAI and DeepMind. For: Joining the UK AI Biosecurity Lab. Other investors: Anthropic; OpenAI; Google DeepMind.AI Biosecurity Lab (BIZ-LAB-2012)Labssingle_source
15. 2026-10-23partnershipWayve: partnership — Wayve, Stellantis and NVIDIA collaborate on AV deployment in France For: Autonomous vehicle deployment in France. Other investors: French Government (involved).Stellantis; NVIDIALabssingle_source
16. 2026-10-22major contractQuantexa: major contract — Selected to build a data and AI foundation against economic crime; value not given on the listingInsolvency ServiceStart-upssingle_source
17. 2026-10-22partnershipSynthesia: partnership — Synthesia and recruiter Hays partnered on avatar roleplay training. For: Roleplay Sessions for skills development.HaysLabssingle_source
18. 2026-10-22partnershipSynthesia: partnership — Recruiter Hays partners with Synthesia For: Avatar roleplay sessions for skills development.HaysLabssingle_source
19. 2026-10-21funding roundOpply: funding round US$7.5m (≈ £5.6m) — Round to expand an agentic AI platform for consumer goods brands.not namedStart-upssingle_source
20. 2026-10-21partnershipLifebit: partnership — Abu Dhabi's health department launched a trusted research environment with Lifebit, M42 and Microsoft. Buys or funds: Trusted research environment in Abu Dhabi. Other investors: M42; Microsoft.Abu Dhabi Department of HealthSoftware and toolssingle_source
21. 2026-10-21partnershipBoltz: partnership — Boltz signs an agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb; terms not disclosed. For: Boltz platform access and co-developed custom models on BMS data.Bristol Myers SquibbLabssingle_source
22. 2026-10-20major contractAstraZeneca and Oracle global AI collaboration: major contract — Non-binding term sheet for global AI collaboration on clinical trialsOracle Health and Life SciencesEstablished firmssingle_source
23. 2026-10-19funding roundHarmonic Security: funding round US$50m (≈ £37.5m) — Series B for tools to secure employees' use of AI (tech.eu recap, week to 19 October 2026).not namedSafetysingle_source
24. 2026-10-19funding roundObsero: funding round €1m (≈ £842,318) — Funding to help brands improve visibility in AI-powered search (tech.eu recap, week to 19 October 2026).not namedStart-upssingle_source
25. 2026-10-19grantTechLocal: grant not stated per project (competition up to 7,600,000; 100,000–225,000 per project) GBP — Grants to 39 local partnerships connecting local talent to tech jobs; 32 projects name AI.39 grant recipients (see AI talent projects sub-page)Services and skillssingle_source
26. 2026-10-18major contractNscale AI Campus, Loughton: major contract — Microsoft reported to have ended its Loughton agreement; grid power not expected until the 2030s.MicrosoftData centressingle_source
27. 2026-10-15major contractAstraZeneca and insitro AI collaboration: major contract US$40m (≈ £30.2m) — AI drug discovery and licensing deal; upfront, plus up to about US$1.46bn milestonesinsitroEstablished firmssingle_source
28. 2026-10-15grantDaltonTx: grant — Gates Foundation grant for AI tuberculosis drug discovery. For: Large-scale computational screening for tuberculosis drug discovery; open models via the Ersilia Model Hub. Other investors: Ersilia (partner).Gates FoundationLabssingle_source
29. 2026-10-14funding roundSalience Labs: funding round US$125m (≈ £95m) — Oversubscribed Series B with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, SBI Group, Hudson River Trading and British Business Bank.Bullhound Capital (lead)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
30. 2026-10-14funding roundAffinity Labs: funding round US$2m (≈ £1.5m) — Pre-seed (including a £498k Innovate UK grant) to build AI-powered software brands with creators.Fuel Ventures (lead, per BusinessCloud); Antler; Innovate UK grant; angelsStart-upssingle_source
31. 2026-10-14funding roundAlchera Technologies (new): funding round £2.7m — Seed to scale AI for transport networks.Maven Capital Partners (South West Investment Fund); Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund; The FSE Group; Innovate UK; Cambridge Applied Researchsingle_source
32. 2026-10-14funding roundAugur: funding round not disclosed — UK Sovereign AI Fund invested in Augur, which says its AI turns sensor networks into a real-time intelligence layer; amount not disclosed.Sovereign AI FundInvestorssingle_source
33. 2026-10-14capacity contractCivo: capacity contract not disclosed — Civo says Starling is the first bank to train an AI model on UK sovereign cloud. Buys or funds: Training an AI model on Civo's UK sovereign cloud (details not read; article page blocked). (Company headline only.)Starling (bank)Cloud and computesingle_source
34. 2026-10-14capacity contractCivo: capacity contract — Civo said Starling became the first bank to train an AI model on a UK sovereign cloud. Buys or funds: AI model training on Civo's UK sovereign cloud (headline only; detail page could not be opened). (Company headline only.)Starling (bank)Cloud and computesingle_source
35. 2026-10-14partnershipGoogle DeepMind: partnership — Google DeepMind and Singapore's government are building a fine-tuned scam-detection model. For: A fine-tuned on-device AI model for scam detection.Government of Singapore (MDDI, per post address)Labssingle_source
36. 2026-10-13investment pledgeHiverge: investment pledge — NVIDIA planned investment, amount not disclosedNVIDIALabsverified
37. 2026-10-13investment pledgePrima Mente: investment pledge — NVIDIA planned investment, amount not disclosedNVIDIALabsverified
38. 2026-10-13acquisitionSagacity Solutions (acquired by Accenture): acquisition — Accenture bought the London customer-data and AI firm; 140+ staffAccenture (Accenture Song)Services and skillssingle_source
39. 2026-10-13funding roundSainaptic: funding round £1m — Funding to expand AI-assisted marking technology.not namedStart-upssingle_source
40. 2026-10-13funding roundBoltz: funding round — NVIDIA takes a minority stake in London biomolecular-model start-up.NVIDIALabsverified
41. 2026-10-13funding roundHiverge: funding round — NVIDIA invests in Cambridge algorithm-discovery start-up.NVIDIALabsverified
42. 2026-10-13funding roundPrima Mente: funding round — NVIDIA invests in London biology foundation-model start-up.NVIDIALabsverified
43. 2026-10-13partnershipLocai Labs: partnership — Locai Labs released a UK synthetic-persona dataset under NVIDIA's Nemotron banner. For: Nemotron-Personas-UK: open dataset of one million synthetic UK personas.NVIDIALabssingle_source
44. 2026-10-13partnershipLocai Labs: partnership — Locai Labs releases Nemotron-Personas-UK, one million synthetic UK personas, announced in NVIDIA's UK post. For: Nemotron-Personas-UK open dataset.NVIDIALabsverified
45. 2026-10-13compute grantFrontier AI Research Lab (Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London): compute grant 250,000,000 over five years (50,000,000 a year) USD reported — NVIDIA commits $250m in compute to UK agentic safety and security research over five years For: Compute for agentic safety and security research: secure agents, open-model security, sandboxes, benchmarks, robotics safety. Other investors: UK-based NVIDIA Cloud Partners to deliver (terms to be agreed).NVIDIALabssingle_source
46. 2026-10-12funding roundScarlet: funding round US$50m (≈ £37.8m) — Series B to speed up certification of AI medical devices.not namedSafetysingle_source
47. 2026-10-12partnershipStackHPC: partnership not disclosed — StackHPC built the University of Sussex's Artemis platform. Buys or funds: Artemis research computing platform on OpenStack and Kubernetes.University of SussexCloud and computesingle_source
48. 2026-10-09renameNscale: rename — Nscale re-registers from private limited company to plc (same event as DEAL-DC-017).Data centressingle_source
49. 2026-10-09renameNscale: rename — Nscale re-registered from private limited company to plc.Data centressingle_source
50. 2026-10-09renameNscale: rename — Nscale's company (CH 16925886) re-registered from a private company to a public limited company, Nscale plc.Data centressingle_source
51. 2026-10-08partnershipPhysicsX: partnership 40,000,000 (joint commitment) SGD — PhysicsX opens Singapore hub with S$40m A*STAR partnership For: Five-year partnership; Singapore Asia-Pacific hub. Other investors: Seatrium (customer); Singapore EDB.A*STARLabssingle_source
52. 2026-10-07major contractBehavox–Civo GPU commitment: major contract US$8m (≈ £6.1m) — Behavox commits $8m to dedicated UK GPU capacity at Civo.BehavoxCloud and computesingle_source
53. 2026-10-07funding roundPlannerPal (new): funding round US$6m (≈ £4.5m) — AI platform for UK financial advisers raises US$6m (£4.3m).Mercia Ventures (BIZ-INV-205) (lead); Ada Venturessingle_source
54. 2026-10-07partnershipIsomorphic Labs: partnership — Isomorphic becomes a founding member of the Virtual Biology Initiative. For: Shared data, compute and measurement to build foundational data for biology AI models.Biohub (Virtual Biology Initiative convenor)Labssingle_source
55. 2026-10-07partnershipDaltonTx: partnership — DaltonTx works with Oxford on antibody structure analysis for its Dalton engine. For: antibody structure prediction and repertoire analysis.University of OxfordLabssingle_source
56. 2026-10-05funding roundRevnu: funding round €2.6m (≈ £2.2m) — Round to build team and grow internationally, for AI sales software (tech.eu recap, week to 5 October 2026).not namedStart-upssingle_source
57. 2026-10-05funding roundZenithon (new): funding round US$10m (≈ £7.6m) — Funding to build world models for extreme physics (tech.eu recap, week to 5 October 2026).not namedsingle_source
58. 2026-10-02acquisitionStudyStash: acquisition — Kortext bought the AI study platform that turns course content into flashcards and tests; price undisclosed.KortextStart-upssingle_source
59. 2026-10funding roundFractile: funding round £577.4m — Series C of £577.4M ($774M) as written in the file, filed via nine Companies House allotments between Sept and Oct 2026 at up to £1,452.35 a share; the file calls it 3.5x the £162.8M/$220M May 2026 Series B. (Chips file line 39; no source link given.)not stated in the researchChips and hardwaresingle_source
60. 2026-10partnershipIneffable Intelligence: partnership — Ineffable named Google Cloud its preferred cloud partner. For: Google Cloud as preferred cloud partner (compute).Google CloudLabssingle_source
61. 2026-09-30funding roundElevenLabs: funding round US$300m (≈ £225.8m) — ElevenLabs closed a $300m employee tender offer (existing shares sold; no new money to the company) valuing it at $22bn.Wellington, T. Rowe Price (co-leads)Labsverified
62. 2026-09-30funding roundElevenLabs: funding round US$300m (≈ £225.8m) — Employee tender offer (secondary sale, not new capital)Wellington and T. Rowe PriceLabssingle_source
63. 2026-09-30investment pledgeWhitespace: investment pledge £240,000 — Invest NI offer towards 40 new Belfast jobs over three yearsInvest NIStart-upssingle_source
64. 2026-09-29renameSemiconductor Catapult: rename — Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult relaunched as the Semiconductor Catapult with an AI hardware remit.Chips and hardwaresingle_source
65. 2026-09-29investment pledgeAviva and Founders Factory AI venture partnership: investment pledge — Three-year extension to build AI-using start-ups; amount not disclosedFounders FactoryEstablished firmssingle_source
66. 2026-09-29renameSemiconductor Catapult: rename — Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult relaunched as Semiconductor Catapult with AI hardware remit.not stated in the researchChips and hardwaresingle_source
67. 2026-09-29acquisitionPEAK:AIO: acquisition — PEAK:AIO agreed to be acquired by NetApp, subject to regulatory approvals. Buys or funds: AI storage software joins NetApp. Other investors: Seller-side investor: Pembroke VCT.NetAppSoftware and toolssingle_source
68. 2026-09-28funding roundSprive (new): funding round US$10m (≈ £7.5m) — Funding for an AI-driven app that turns cashback into mortgage overpayments (tech.eu recap, week to 28 September 2026).not namedsingle_source
69. 2026-09-23funding roundBasecamp Research: funding round US$140m (≈ £105.5m) — Series CS32Labssingle_source
70. 2026-09-23funding roundCascader: funding round — Seed round completed; amount and investors not disclosed.Start-upssingle_source
71. 2026-09-22major contractWayve: major contract — Agreement to bring the Wayve AI Driver to future Mercedes-Benz vehiclesMercedes-BenzLabssingle_source
72. 2026-09-21funding roundExpanse: funding round €4.5m (≈ £3.9m) — Funding for a predictive AI infrastructure platform (tech.eu recap, week to 21 September 2026).not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
73. 2026-09-21funding roundResolutiion: funding round US$10.4m (≈ £7.8m) — Funding for an AI operating system for live enterprise conflict management (tech.eu recap, week to 21 September 2026).not namedStart-upssingle_source
74. 2026-09-21funding roundBig Picture Bio: funding round €2.5m (≈ £2.2m) — Emerged from stealth with funding for AI-designed cancer drug combinations (tech.eu recap, week to 21 September 2026).not namedStart-upssingle_source
75. 2026-09-21site openingFluidstack: site opening 4000000000 (first phase) USD — Fluidstack began building a $4bn, 1.5GW first phase in the Rio Grande Valley. Buys or funds: Construction start at Cameron County, Texas: up to 1.5GW first phase; more than 2,500 construction jobs.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
76. 2026-09-18listingNscale: listing — Nscale files Form S-1 for a proposed IPO, to list on the NYSE as NSCL; not yet effective or priced.US SEC / NYSEData centresverified
77. 2026-09-18listingNscale: listing — Nscale filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the US SEC for a proposed initial public offering, as announced by its lead investor Aker ASA. Exchange, ticker and offering size not stated; Bloomberg-derived reports of a $3bn target were not confirmed.Data centressingle_source
78. 2026-09-18funding roundMantic: funding round US$25m (≈ £18.7m) — London forecasting lab Mantic raised a $25m seed after its Metaculus Cup result. For: Seed; AI forecasting system. Other investors: M12 (Microsoft), Thinking Machines Lab, Balderton Capital, others. Valuation reported: undisclosed.Radical VenturesLabssingle_source
79. 2026-09-17funding roundMagentic: funding round US$18m (≈ £13.5m) — Funding to automate industrial operations with AI agents (tech.eu recap, week to 21 September 2026).not namedStart-upssingle_source
80. 2026-09-17government contractLifebit: government contract — Lifebit won a three-year contract to run the NIHR BioResource research environment. Buys or funds: Three-year federated TRE inside NIHR BioResource AWS tenancy.University of Cambridge on behalf of NIHR BioResourceSoftware and toolssingle_source
81. 2026-09-16grantChemify: grant £22m reported — Chemify receives £22m in grants from Scottish Enterprise and the UK Government For: Grants; Chemify calls itself the first "chemistry hyperscaler".Scottish Enterprise and UK GovernmentLabssingle_source
82. 2026-09-15funding roundMagnitude Biosciences: funding round £1.3m — Round with Maven-managed regional funds and angels.Northstar VenturesStart-upssingle_source
83. 2026-09-15funding roundAcademyAI (new): funding round £1.6m — Funding to close the workplace AI skills gap (tech.eu recap, week to 21 September 2026).not namedsingle_source
84. 2026-09-15debt financingNscale: debt financing 2100000000 + 1000000000 USD — Subscription agreement under which NVIDIA takes up to $3.1bn of Nscale convertible notes or shares. Buys or funds: $2.1bn of unsecured convertible loan notes, plus $1.0bn of unsecured convertible loan notes or non-voting shares.NVIDIACloud and computesingle_source
85. 2026-09-14funding roundBolter: funding round US$10m (≈ £7.4m) — Funding for an AI-powered business messaging app (tech.eu recap, week to 14 September 2026).Improbable (venture builder) among backersStart-upssingle_source
86. 2026-09-14funding roundCloudNC: funding round US$20m (≈ £14.8m) — Funding to expand AI software for precision manufacturing (tech.eu recap, week to 14 September 2026).not namedStart-upssingle_source
87. 2026-09-14funding roundAnemo Labs: funding round £700,000 — Funding to give AI a sense of smell (tech.eu recap, week to 14 September 2026).not namedStart-upssingle_source
88. 2026-09-14partnershipBoltz: partnership — dsm-firmenich partners with Boltz on ingredient discovery. For: AI for ingredient discovery.dsm-firmenichLabssingle_source
89. 2026-09-14partnershipUK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) fusion AI and computing programme: partnership — UKAEA and PPPL signed a declaration of intent at the Global Fusion Policy Summit in London, building on a June MoU. For: Linking the SUNRISE and STELLAR-AI supercomputers to train the same AI models on MAST Upgrade and NSTX-U data; long-term shared spherical-tokamak foundation model.Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (US Department of Energy)Labssingle_source
90. 2026-09-10licensingElevenLabs: licensing not disclosed — ElevenLabs signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Universal Music Group. For: Multi-year licensing agreement and strategic collaboration, including a fan platform.Universal Music GroupLabssingle_source
91. 2026-09-10partnershipElevenLabs: partnership — UMG and ElevenLabs sign multi-year agreement For: Multi-year strategic agreement.Universal Music GroupLabssingle_source
92. 2026-09-08partnershipCanonical (AI and MLOps products): partnership — Canonical and Qualcomm certified Ubuntu on an edge AI evaluation kit. Buys or funds: Certified Ubuntu 24.04 LTS images on Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-8275 edge AI kit.QualcommSoftware and toolssingle_source
93. 2026-09-04funding roundAI Score: funding round US$5.4m (≈ £4m) — Seed.Fuel VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
94. 2026-09-04spin outDexter AI: spin out — Launched as a University of Birmingham spin-out.University of BirminghamStart-upssingle_source
95. 2026-09-04funding roundAI Score: funding round 5.4m USD — AI Score (AI governance platform) raised $5.4m (Seed), reported by tech.eu.Fuel Ventures, GALLOS TechnologiesInvestorssingle_source
96. 2026-09-03major contractIQE: major contract — Purchase agreement for quantum-dot laser epiwafers for AI optical interconnects.QuintessentChips and hardwaresingle_source
97. 2026-09-02funding roundConveo: funding round US$50m (≈ £37m) — YC page lists the headline "Conveo raises $50M Series A".not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
98. 2026-09-01investment pledgePulsant: investment pledge £1m — Upgrades and refurbishment at the Birmingham data centre for AI inference demand.not stated in the researchData centressingle_source
99. 2026-09-01partnershipLifebit: partnership — Boehringer Ingelheim renewed its Lifebit agreement for three years after more than four years of work. Buys or funds: Three-year renewal; federated trusted research environment.Boehringer IngelheimSoftware and toolssingle_source
100. 2026-09funding roundSCI Semiconductor: funding round £5m — Raised £5M in September 2026 (file). (Chips file line 62; no source link given.)not stated in the researchChips and hardwaresingle_source
101. 2026-08-28collapseSmart Data Foundry: collapse — Company entered administrationAdministrators: Michelle Marie Elliot; Callum Angus CarmichaelSoftware and toolssingle_source
102. 2026-08-25funding roundStability AI: funding round US$76m (≈ £55.7m) — Series B; total funding US$232mElectronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music GroupLabsverified
103. 2026-08-25funding roundEmbedd: funding round US$2.7m (≈ £2m) — Pre-seedSeedcampStart-upssingle_source
104. 2026-08-25funding roundItoflow: funding round 2,500,000 (£1.8m) USD — Pre-seed round.Balderton Capital (with angels including Barney Hussey-Yeo)Start-upssingle_source
105. 2026-08-25capacity contractNscale: capacity contract up to 44600000000 USD — Anthropic services agreements dated 25 August 2026 provide for payments to Nscale of up to about $44.6bn. Buys or funds: GPU compute services; the S-1 says Nscale expects to fund the deployment these agreements need.AnthropicCloud and computesingle_source
106. 2026-08-25partnershipCanonical (AI and MLOps products): partnership — Canonical's Ubuntu ships pre-installed on Arduino's VENTUNO Q board (London dateline). Buys or funds: Arduino VENTUNO Q edge AI and robotics board with Ubuntu pre-installed.Arduino (Qualcomm subsidiary)Software and toolssingle_source
107. 2026-08-24capacity contractNscale: capacity contract — GPU Services Agreement with Figure; the S-1 also says Nscale is making a strategic investment in Figure. Buys or funds: Up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs.Figure (Figure AI)Cloud and computesingle_source
108. 2026-08-24partnershipTR Labs Foundational Research, London hub (Thomson Reuters): partnership — TR names DatologyAI, Lambda, Together AI and Imperial as partners on its Thomson model. For: Partners named in building the Thomson LLM. Other investors: Imperial College London; Frontier AI Research Lab (BIZ-LAB-6003).DatologyAI; Lambda; Together AILabssingle_source
109. 2026-08-21funding roundHexSeed Technology: funding round £600,000 — Early-stage round with Net Zero Technology Centre and VentoCarbon13Chips and hardwaresingle_source
110. 2026-08-21funding roundAdvancing Analytics: funding round — First Databricks Ventures investment in a UK consulting firm; amount undisclosedDatabricks Ventures; TerceraServices and skillssingle_source
111. 2026-08-21funding roundCallosum: funding round £73.5m — Seed roundAtomico; Plural; DCVC; UK Sovereign AI FundSoftware and toolssingle_source
112. 2026-08-21funding roundHexSeed Technology: funding round £600,000 — Early-stage funding (more than £600,000) for diamond coatings to cool GaN chips in AI data centres.Carbon13 (lead)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
113. 2026-08-21funding roundCallosum: funding round 73.5m GBP — Callosum (AI computing systems software) raised £73.5m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Atomico, Plural, DCVC, UK Sovereign AI FundInvestorssingle_source
114. 2026-08-21funding roundMedly AI: funding round 5.9m GBP — Medly AI (AI tutoring platform) raised £5.9m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Felix Capital, Eka Ventures, Ada VenturesInvestorssingle_source
115. 2026-08-21funding roundVersatile RobotX: funding round 1m GBP — Versatile RobotX (AI-driven harvesting robots) raised £1m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.British Design Fund, Innovate UK, Defra Farming Innovation ProgrammeInvestorssingle_source
116. 2026-08-20funding roundCallosum: funding round US$100m (≈ £73.4m) — Callosum, a London company whose software matches AI tasks to the cheapest suitable models and chips, raised a $100m seed round led by Atomico; UKTN calls it the UK Sovereign AI Fund's first investment.AtomicoSoftware and toolsverified
117. 2026-08-20funding roundCallosum: funding round US$100m (≈ £73.4m) — US$100m seed; the Sovereign AI Fund's first investmentAtomico (BIZ-INV-011) lead; Plural, DCVC, UK Sovereign AI FundSoftware and toolsverified
118. 2026-08-20funding roundCallosum: funding round £73.5m — Seed round; Callosum was the first Sovereign AI Fund investee.Atomico, Plural, DCVC, UK Sovereign AI FundChips and hardwareverified
119. 2026-08-20grantFive AI: grant not stated (programme backed by up to £150m to 2030) GBP reported — Bosch's Five AI wins CAM Pathfinder funding for its AV simulation tool. For: Five AI's simulation tool for testing autonomous vehicles.UK Government CAM Pathfinder programme (delivered with Zenzic and Innovate UK)Labssingle_source
120. 2026-08-19funding roundSingular Photonics: funding round US$2.1m (≈ £1.6m) — Seed roundACF InvestorsChips and hardwaresingle_source
121. 2026-08-19funding roundMedly AI: funding round £5.9m — Seed with Eka Ventures and Ada VenturesFelix CapitalStart-upssingle_source
122. 2026-08-19funding roundPrevalent AI: funding round US$22m (≈ £16.2m) — Growth investment to scale an enterprise AI platform (tech.eu recap, week to 24 August 2026).not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
123. 2026-08-19funding roundSingular Photonics: funding round £1.6m — Round for Edinburgh SPAD image-sensor maker ($2.15m).ACF Investors (lead)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
124. 2026-08-19partnershipBasecamp Research: partnership — Microsoft customer story on Basecamp training on Azure (headline only). For: Training EDEN models on Microsoft Azure.Microsoft (Azure)Labssingle_source
125. 2026-08-18funding roundDataVita: funding round £300m — Debt facility of about £300m, unlocked by a £202m NWF guarantee, to expand DV1 and build DV3.National Wealth Fund (guarantee); ING, ABN AMRO, Santander, Scottish National Investment Bank, Siemens Financial ServicesData centresverified
126. 2026-08-18major contractDataVita: major contract £202m — NWF guarantee of £202m on DataVita's data-centre debt; NWF's first support for domestic computeNational Wealth Fund (guarantee); ING, ABN AMRO, Santander, Scottish National Investment Bank, Siemens Financial ServicesData centressingle_source
127. 2026-08-18funding roundDataVita: funding round £300m — Debt package to expand DV1 and build a second data centre in the Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone; NWF guarantees £202m.National Wealth Fund (guarantee); ING, ABN AMRO, Santander (lenders)Data centressingle_source
128. 2026-08-17funding roundVersatile RobotX: funding round £1m — Equity and grants, "over £1m"British Design Fund; Innovate UK; DefraStart-upssingle_source
129. 2026-08-17funding roundSpaceAM: funding round — Seed, amount not disclosedForesight GroupStart-upssingle_source
130. 2026-08-17funding roundSpaceAM: funding round not disclosed — Seed round for autonomous sensing systems start-up.Foresight Group (plus government-backed defence innovation funding)Start-upssingle_source
131. 2026-08-17funding roundVersatile RobotX: funding round £1m — Seed round for AI-driven crop-harvesting robots.British Design Fund, Innovate UK, Defra Farming Innovation ProgrammeChips and hardwaresingle_source
132. 2026-08-14funding roundMindgard: funding round 22m GBP — Mindgard (security testing for enterprise AI models) raised £22m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Album VC, Karma Ventures, .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge and othersInvestorssingle_source
133. 2026-08-14funding roundEdgify: funding round 6.7m GBP — Edgify (edge AI infrastructure) raised £6.7m (Series A+), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Rank Ventures, Mangrove Capital PartnersInvestorssingle_source
134. 2026-08-14grantMatAlytics: grant £619,000 — MatAlytics (physics-informed AI software) raised £619,000 (Grant), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Innovate UKInvestorssingle_source
135. 2026-08-14partnershipCosine: partnership — Cosine paired its cyber-security model with Mimic's platform. For: Cosine's Lumen Outpost model (autonomous red team) combined with Mimic's kernel-level enforcement for automated virtual patching, run on-premise.MimicLabssingle_source
136. 2026-08-13major contractVantage Cardiff (CWL1) campus, Newport: major contract — Nebius to lease AI capacity at Vantage's Newport campus; first commercial commitment in the South Wales AIGZ.NebiusData centressingle_source
137. 2026-08-13funding roundMindgard: funding round US$30m (≈ £22.2m) — Series A (£22.2m) with Karma Ventures, .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, LakestarAlbum VCSafetysingle_source
138. 2026-08-13funding roundMatAlytics: funding round £619,000 — Innovate UK grant for physics AI software (CITRUS) for steel makers.Innovate UK (grant)Start-upssingle_source
139. 2026-08-12funding roundCytix: funding round US$7m (≈ £5.2m) — Series A (£5.1m)Northern GritstoneSafetysingle_source
140. 2026-08-11funding roundEdgify: funding round US$9m (≈ £6.7m) — Series A+ (total raised US$25m)Rank Ventures and Mangrove Capital PartnersStart-upssingle_source
141. 2026-08-11funding roundModel ML: funding round — Undisclosed venture investment in vertical AI software for financial services.HSBC Asset ManagementStart-upssingle_source
142. 2026-08-11partnershipTurinTech: partnership — TurinTech headline: "NVIDIA Merged Our Artemis-Discovered Optimization in TensorRT-LLM" (article itself could not be opened). Buys or funds: Artemis-found optimisation merged into NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM.NVIDIASoftware and toolssingle_source
143. 2026-08-11government contractLocai Labs: government contract — The government's Incubator for AI is trialling Locai 1. For: Trial of the Locai 1 on-prem AI appliance (trial, terms not published).Incubator for AI (i.AI), UK governmentLabssingle_source
144. 2026-08-11grantIntellegens: grant not stated reported — Intellegens wins an Innovate UK Frontier AI grant to combine AI with physics simulation for materials For: "Adaptive World Models for Experimental Design" project (~6 months) with an unnamed manufacturer.Innovate UK (Frontier AI grants)Labssingle_source
145. 2026-08-10funding roundReimagine Robotics (new): funding round — Pre-seed for a UK robotics company; amount undisclosed (tech.eu recap, week to 10 August 2026).not namedsingle_source
146. 2026-08-07funding roundOLIX (formerly Flux Corp): funding round 231.8m GBP — OLIX (AI inference chips) raised £231.8m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Fundomo, Arm, Hudson River Trading, Hummingbird Ventures and othersInvestorssingle_source
147. 2026-08-07funding roundWordsmith AI: funding round 10m GBP — Wordsmith AI (AI platform for in-house legal teams) raised £10m (Series B extension), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Intact Private Capital, FT Ventures, Highland Europe, Index VenturesInvestorssingle_source
148. 2026-08-06funding roundWordsmith: funding round US$14m (≈ £10.4m) — Series B extensionIntact Private Capital; FT VenturesStart-upssingle_source
149. 2026-08-05major contractVolta: major contract US$10bn (≈ £7.42bn) — Emerged from stealth with AI factory partnership; seed and Series A valued it at US$2.4bnUnnamed AI lab (with Bitdeer, Norway)Software and toolssingle_source
150. 2026-08-04wind downSatalia: wind down — UK company Satalia Limited (12303234) dissolvedStart-upssingle_source
151. 2026-08-03funding roundOLIX (formerly Flux Corp): funding round US$312m (≈ £232.2m) — Series B for decode-accelerator chips and optical networking.Fundomo, Arm, Hudson River Trading and othersChips and hardwareverified
152. 2026-08-03funding roundOLIX (formerly Flux Corp): funding round US$312m (≈ £232.2m) — OLIX, a London company designing chips for running AI models, raised a $312m Series B at a $3.3bn valuation; UKTN reports the UK Sovereign AI Fund has also backed it.null (no lead named; participants include Fundomo, Arm, Hudson River Trading)Chips and hardwareverified
153. 2026-08-03funding roundinforcer: funding round US$50m (≈ £37.2m) — Series C to scale an AI security platform for managed service providers (tech.eu recap, week to 3 August 2026).not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
154. 2026-08-03funding roundGreyparrot: funding round US$27m (≈ £20.1m) — Series B to scale AI waste intelligence for recycling (tech.eu recap, week to 3 August 2026).not namedStart-upssingle_source
155. 2026-08-03funding roundPerceptron: funding round US$6.5m (≈ £4.8m) — Funding to build a decentralised AI data network (tech.eu recap, week to 3 August 2026).not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
156. 2026-08-03funding roundPerceptual Robotics: funding round £4m — Funding (over £4M) to scale AI-powered wind turbine inspections (tech.eu recap, week to 3 August 2026).not namedStart-upssingle_source
157. 2026-08-03partnershipOxa: partnership — Oxa and Dubai Future Foundation form autonomous-logistics joint venture SHIFFT. For: Joint venture SHIFFT to deploy autonomous vehicles in ports and airports; first scalable commercial deployment in Dubai planned before end of 2027.Dubai Future FoundationLabssingle_source
158. 2026-08funding roundOshen: funding round €4.3m (≈ £3.7m) — Round for robot swarms that monitor the ocean (tech.eu recap, week to 24 August 2026).not named · month only given: rate for the 1stStart-upssingle_source
159. 2026-08site openingAmazon Web Services (UK): site opening — Fourth Availability Zone added to the AWS Europe (London) Region, adding compute for AI training and inference. (Big tech file line 66; no source link given.)not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
160. 2026-07-31funding roundIntropy: funding round £8.2m — SeedFelix Capital; Quiet Capital; General Catalyst; firstminute capitalStart-upssingle_source
161. 2026-07-31funding roundDwelly: funding round 128m GBP — Dwelly (AI-powered property management) raised £128m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.EQT Growth, General Catalyst, s16vc, Begin Capital and othersInvestorssingle_source
162. 2026-07-31funding roundQureight: funding round 15m GBP — Qureight (3D deep learning platform) raised £15m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Molten Ventures, Hargreave Hale AIM VCT, XTX Ventures, Guinness Ventures and othersInvestorssingle_source
163. 2026-07-31funding roundIntropy: funding round 8.17m GBP — Intropy (AI operating system for warehouses) raised £8.17m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Felix Capital, Quiet Capital, General Catalyst, firstminute capitalInvestorssingle_source
164. 2026-07-30funding roundKinematic Trees: funding round £585,000 — Pre-seedHaatch; D2N2; British Business Bank Syndicate FundStart-upssingle_source
165. 2026-07-30funding roundAgon: funding round US$30m (≈ £22.3m) — SeedStart-upssingle_source
166. 2026-07-30funding roundAgon: funding round 30,000,000 (£22.5m) USD — Seed round at launch for a defence AI training model.not statedStart-upssingle_source
167. 2026-07-30funding roundOLIX (formerly Flux Corp): funding round US$312m (≈ £232.4m) — Series B at $3.3bn valuation; Sovereign AI fund also invested.Fundomo, Arm, Hudson River Trading (new); Sovereign AIChips and hardwareverified
168. 2026-07-29funding roundDwelly: funding round US$170m (≈ £127.9m) — Series B: US$95m equity plus US$75m debt facilityEQT Growth (equity); Trinity Capital (debt)Start-upssingle_source
169. 2026-07-29funding roundQureight: funding round US$20m (≈ £15.1m) — Series B for its AI clinical trial imaging platform.Molten VenturesStart-upssingle_source
170. 2026-07-28acquisitionPlus Group: acquisition £16m — Tavistock agreed to buy 87.9% of a Liverpool maker of AI agents for financial advisers; up to £16m including deferred sums.Tavistock Investments plc (87.9%)Start-upssingle_source
171. 2026-07-24funding roundTidalSense: funding round £14.2m — Round to sell its COPD breath test in Europe and the US (lead not stated).Cross-Border Impact Ventures; BGF; Airstream Capital; Foresight GroupStart-upssingle_source
172. 2026-07-24funding roundArrakis: funding round US$30m (≈ £22.5m) — Series A, emerging from stealthBlossom CapitalStart-upssingle_source
173. 2026-07-24funding roundCuspAI: funding round 334m GBP — CuspAI (AI materials discovery) raised £334m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Kleiner Perkins, NEA, Bezos Expeditions, Glade Brook Capital Partners and othersInvestorssingle_source
174. 2026-07-24funding roundHumanoid: funding round 114m GBP — Humanoid (humanoid robots and physical AI) raised £114m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Prime Movers Lab, Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and othersInvestorssingle_source
175. 2026-07-24funding roundArrakis: funding round 22.5m GBP — Arrakis (AI agents for enterprise IT) raised £22.5m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Blossom Capital, Accel, GFC, MainObject and othersInvestorssingle_source
176. 2026-07-24funding roundTidalSense: funding round 14.2m GBP — TidalSense (AI respiratory diagnostic device) raised £14.2m (Not stated), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Cross-Border Impact Ventures, BGF, Airstream Capital, Foresight GroupInvestorssingle_source
177. 2026-07-24funding roundModo Energy: funding round 12.7m GBP — Modo Energy (AI valuation platform for battery storage) raised £12.7m (Not stated (debt)), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.CIBC Innovation BankingInvestorssingle_source
178. 2026-07-23partnershipCivo: partnership — Civo said it would be among the first to host NVIDIA's Vera Rubin systems in the UK. Buys or funds: Hosting NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems for UK sovereign infrastructure (headline only; detail page could not be opened).NVIDIACloud and computesingle_source
179. 2026-07-22major contractVodafone Business–Cosine sovereign frontier model memorandum: major contract — Memorandum of understanding on a UK sovereign frontier model to be trained on Isambard-AI.Cosine (BIZ-SW-014)Cloud and computesingle_source
180. 2026-07-22funding roundHumanoid: funding round US$152m (≈ £113.6m) — Series A with Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon, AglaéPrime Movers LabStart-upssingle_source
181. 2026-07-22funding roundModo Energy: funding round US$17m (≈ £12.7m) — Growth fundingCIBC Innovation BankingStart-upssingle_source
182. 2026-07-22funding roundHumanoid: funding round US$152m (≈ £113.6m) — Series A at $1.35bn valuation.Prime Movers Lab (lead); Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon, AglaéChips and hardwaresingle_source
183. 2026-07-21funding roundMach42 (formerly Machine Discovery): funding round US$9.5m reported (≈ £7.1m) — Mach42 raises $9.5m led by IP Group For: Agentic-ready analogue simulation. Other investors: BGF; Foresight Group (existing).IP GroupLabssingle_source
184. 2026-07-20funding roundCuspAI: funding round US$450m (≈ £334.8m) — Series B; UK Sovereign AI Fund among new investorsKleiner Perkins and NEALabssingle_source
185. 2026-07-20partnershipCuspAI: partnership — CuspAI launches the AI Materials Foundry with 45+ founding organisations. For: Network of data, labs and compute for designing new materials around CuspAI's MIRA platform. Other investors: Hitachi High-Tech; Samsung; Hyundai Motor Group; Merck; over 40 more.AI Materials Foundry founding members (NVIDIA; Meta FAIR)Labssingle_source
186. 2026-07-17funding roundProlo: funding round £4.2m — SeedTriple Point Ventures and othersStart-upssingle_source
187. 2026-07-17funding roundMarker: funding round £9.7m — Seed round for AI-assisted word processor for authors.investors listed: Index Ventures, LocalGlobe, Betaworks, Radical Ventures, Tiny VC, Otherwise Fund, angels (lead not stated)Start-upssingle_source
188. 2026-07-17funding roundApplied Computing: funding round 14.8m GBP — Applied Computing (foundation AI model for energy operations) raised £14.8m (Not stated), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.KBR, Databricks VenturesInvestorssingle_source
189. 2026-07-17funding roundMarker: funding round 9.7m GBP — Marker (AI-assisted word processor) raised £9.7m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Index Ventures, LocalGlobe, Betaworks, Radical Ventures and othersInvestorssingle_source
190. 2026-07-17funding roundProlo: funding round 4.2m GBP — Prolo (AI procurement platform for construction) raised £4.2m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Triple Point Ventures, a16z Scout Fund, Anamcara Capital, Concrete VC and othersInvestorssingle_source
191. 2026-07-17funding roundCue: funding round 3.7m GBP — Cue (AI customer service agents) raised £3.7m (Not stated), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Knife Capital, FAM InvestmentsInvestorssingle_source
192. 2026-07-16major contractLSEG and Model ML data connector: major contract — LSEG data in Model ML via MCPModel MLEstablished firmssingle_source
193. 2026-07-16funding roundApplied Computing: funding round US$20m (≈ £14.8m) — Round led by KBR, with Databricks Ventures; stage not namedKBRLabssingle_source
194. 2026-07-16funding roundCue: funding round US$5m (≈ £3.7m) — Primary roundKnife Capital and FAM InvestmentsStart-upssingle_source
195. 2026-07-16funding roundApplied Computing: funding round US$20m (≈ £14.8m) — Round with Databricks Ventures; Houston officeKBRStart-upssingle_source
196. 2026-07-16funding roundBeCertain: funding round £1.7m — £1.7m pre-seed round for the King's and Surrey dental-imaging AI spin-out.SVV (Sure Valley Ventures)Start-upssingle_source
197. 2026-07-16funding roundApplied Computing: funding round 20m USD — same round as the UKTN row for Applied Computing (£14.8m); figures differ by currency. Applied Computing (foundation AI model for energy operations) raised $20m (Not stated), reported by tech.eu.KBR, Databricks VenturesInvestorssingle_source
198. 2026-07-16partnershipApplied Computing: partnership — KBR becomes lead investor and product partner for Applied Computing's Orbital model. For: Multi-year agreement to develop exclusive energy-sector AI products (alongside KBR's lead investment).KBRLabssingle_source
199. 2026-07-15funding roundValarian: funding round US$50m (≈ £37.1m) — Series A for a control layer governing AI-driven systems for enterprise and defence.New Enterprise Associates (lead); Lightbank, XTX Ventures and othersStart-upssingle_source
200. 2026-07-14major contractIQE: major contract US$14m (≈ £10.4m) — Multi-year production order for AI and data-centre applications.Undisclosed strategic customerChips and hardwaresingle_source
201. 2026-07-13funding roundMarker: funding round US$13m (≈ £9.7m) — SeedIndex VenturesStart-upssingle_source
202. 2026-07-13funding roundGyre Energy: funding round US$1.3m (≈ £971,672) — Round to cut industrial cooling costs with AI and thermal storage (week to 13 July 2026).not namedStart-upssingle_source
203. 2026-07-10funding roundFleek: funding round 18.7m GBP — Fleek (AI sorting of second-hand clothing) raised £18.7m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Burda Principal Investments, eBay, FJ Labs, H14 and othersInvestorssingle_source
204. 2026-07-10funding roundDogtooth Technologies: funding round 14m GBP — Dogtooth Technologies (embodied-AI fruit-picking robots) raised £14m (Growth), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.24Haymarket, EMV Capital, ACF Investors, Innovate UK and othersInvestorssingle_source
205. 2026-07-10funding roundWorldmodeldata: funding round 7m GBP — Worldmodeldata (training data for AI labs) raised £7m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Iona Star CapitalInvestorssingle_source
206. 2026-07-09funding roundMarker: funding round 13m USD — same seed round as the UKTN row for Marker (£9.7m). Marker (AI-assisted word processor) raised $13m (Seed), reported by tech.eu.Index Ventures, LocalGlobeInvestorssingle_source
207. 2026-07-09funding roundAlchemab Therapeutics: funding round £25m — British Business Bank puts £25m into Alchemab, its largest life-sciences investment. For: Series A extension, taking the Series A to £109m. Other investors: (earlier Series A investors: SV Health Investors; RA Capital; DCVC Bio; Eli Lilly; Lightstone Ventures; Ono Venture Investment; Camford Partners).British Business BankLabssingle_source
208. 2026-07-08funding roundDogtooth Technologies: funding round £14m — Growth capital (over £14m) including Innovate UK grants and Kineo Finance leasing.24Haymarket, EMV Capital, ACF InvestorsChips and hardwaresingle_source
209. 2026-07-07funding roundHIVE: funding round US$15m (≈ £11.2m) — Seed for an AI software layer that lets industrial machines act on their own.SuperSeed (lead); Veriten, Skyfall, NysnøStart-upssingle_source
210. 2026-07-06funding roundWorldmodeldata: funding round £7m — Seed, out of stealthIona Star CapitalStart-upssingle_source
211. 2026-07-06acquisitionOgma: acquisition — Speech therapy company Saltroad, which raised £1.5M, bought AI platform Ogma to scale speech therapy for children (tech.eu recap, week to 6 July 2026).SaltroadStart-upssingle_source
212. 2026-07-03funding roundStirlingX: funding round £15m — Series AVentura Capital; RCM Private Markets Master FundStart-upssingle_source
213. 2026-07-03funding roundgeoSurge: funding round US$12m (≈ £9m) — Oversubscribed seed for tools tracking how brands appear in generative AI models.AlbionVC (lead); Play Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Passion Capital and othersStart-upssingle_source
214. 2026-07-03funding roundgeoSurge: funding round £9.4m — Seed round for enterprise brand-visibility tools (check geoSurge's sub-page).not statedStart-upssingle_source
215. 2026-07-03funding roundgeoSurge: funding round 9.4m GBP — geoSurge (brand visibility in AI answers) raised £9.4m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.AlbionVC, Play Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Celero Ventures and othersInvestorssingle_source
216. 2026-07-03funding roundLucida AI: funding round 5.3m GBP — Lucida AI (AI language coaching) raised £5.3m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Velocity Capital, Next Tier Ventures, Look AI Ventures, Bogazici Ventures and othersInvestorssingle_source
217. 2026-07-03funding roundBuild: funding round 6.4m GBP — Build (AI platform for infrastructure projects) raised £6.4m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Index Ventures, Pebblebed, Puzzle Ventures, Tiny.vcInvestorssingle_source
218. 2026-07-02funding roundBidScript: funding round US$800,000 (≈ £598,086) — Pre-seed top-up for an AI tender management platform.PXN Equity Finance (NPIF II); SFC CapitalStart-upssingle_source
219. 2026-07-02funding roundBidScript: funding round US$800,000 (≈ £598,086) — Pre-seed extension taking total past $1mPXN Equity Finance (NPIF II); SFC CapitalStart-upssingle_source
220. 2026-07-02funding roundStirlingX: funding round 20,000,000 (£15m) USD — Series A eight months after seed.Ventura Capital; RCM Private Markets Master FundStart-upssingle_source
221. 2026-07-02government contractLifebit: government contract — Genomics England selected Lifebit for its enhanced research environment. Buys or funds: Enhanced research environment for genomic research.Genomics EnglandSoftware and toolssingle_source
222. 2026-07-02partnershipBoltz: partnership — Boltz announces a collaboration with GSK. For: deployment of Boltz models for drug discovery.GSKLabssingle_source
223. 2026-07-01funding roundBuild: funding round US$8.5m (≈ £6.4m) — SeedIndex VenturesStart-upssingle_source
224. 2026-07funding roundDogtooth Technologies: funding round £14m — "Over £14m" growth capital for fruit-picking robotsStart-upssingle_source
225. 2026-07-01secondary saleWayve: secondary sale US$85m (≈ £64m) — Wayve staff sell $85m of shares at the Series D valuation For: Employee tender (secondary sale of vested equity). Valuation reported: 8,600,000,000 USD. [Labs Round 7] Employee share sale (tender offer): existing shares sold, not money raised."existing and new investors" (not named)Labssingle_source
226. 2026-07acquisitionAttio: acquisition — The Inconvo team, makers of data-agent tools, joins Attio. Buys or funds: data-agent infrastructure; founders Eoghan and Liam Mulcahy join engineering.Inconvo (target; team joins Attio)Software and toolssingle_source
227. 2026-06-30partnershipBasecamp Research: partnership — Basecamp's EDEN models feature in Anthropic's Claude Science launch (headline only; role to confirm). For: EDEN design tools offered through Claude (company models page shows a Claude connector).Anthropic (Claude Science)Labssingle_source
228. 2026-06-29major contractHaleon: major contract — Five-year collaboration for Microsoft to support Haleon's AI-led transformation.MicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
229. 2026-06-26acquisitionSummize: acquisition — Summize bought InnoLaw's staff and key assetsInnoLaw Group (target, Seattle)Start-upssingle_source
230. 2026-06-26funding roundPartly: funding round £38m — Series BDST Global PartnersStart-upssingle_source
231. 2026-06-26funding roundIsometric: funding round £30m — Series AAVP; Lowercarbon Capital; PluralStart-upssingle_source
232. 2026-06-26funding roundPartly: funding round 38m GBP — Partly (AI for car-parts supply chain) raised £38m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.DST Global PartnersInvestorssingle_source
233. 2026-06-26funding roundIsometric: funding round 30m GBP — Isometric (AI-agent verification of carbon removal) raised £30m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.AVP, Lowercarbon Capital, PluralInvestorssingle_source
234. 2026-06-26funding roundHoudini Bio: funding round 1.5m GBP — Houdini Bio (machine-learning DNA design) raised £1.5m (Pre-seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.SCVC (Science Creates), Deep Science Ventures, Cambridge Enterprise VCInvestorssingle_source
235. 2026-06-25asset financingNexGen Cloud: asset financing US$34m (≈ £25.8m) — USD.AI lent $34m against NexGen Cloud's B200 GPUs in Sweden. Buys or funds: Three-year non-recourse debt facility for an NVIDIA B200 fleet in Sweden, sold through Hyperstack.USD.AI (developed by Permian Labs)Cloud and computesingle_source
236. 2026-06-25debt financingNexGen Cloud: debt financing US$34m (≈ £25.8m) — NexGen Cloud borrowed $34m against its B200 GPUs in Sweden without giving up equity. Buys or funds: Three-year, non-recourse facility secured on a fleet of NVIDIA B200 GPUs and their contracted cash flows; site in Sweden (outside the UK).USD.AI (Permian Labs)Cloud and computesingle_source
237. 2026-06-24acquisitionSeldon: acquisition — TrueFoundry announced it had acquired Seldon; terms undisclosed.TrueFoundrySoftware and toolsverified
238. 2026-06-23grantSOFAIR lab (UCL) and BOLD lab (Oxford): grant up to 60,000,000 in total (SOFAIR initial 8,000,000) GBP — UKRI-EPSRC funds SOFAIR (UCL, David Barber) and BOLD (Oxford, Jakob Foerster) from a £60m scheme For: Two fundamental AI research labs for six years; £2m per lab for at least 10 doctoral students; access to large-scale compute.UKRI – EPSRCLabsverified
239. 2026-06-22government contractUniversity of Southampton Lenovo H200 HPC system: government contract 7000000 (approx., initial order) GBP — Southampton picks Lenovo as HPC supplier; first order about £7m for summer 2026. Buys or funds: Lenovo SR675 V3 servers with NVIDIA H200; four-year preferred-supplier framework. Other investors: NVIDIA (GPUs).Lenovo (BIZ-INV-2158)Cloud and computeverified
240. 2026-06-22funding roundHoudini Bio: funding round ~1,500,000 GBP — Houdini Bio raises nearly £1.5m in pre-seed and grants. For: Machine-learning DNA design platform for gene and cell therapies. Other investors: Deep Science Ventures; Cambridge Enterprise VC; non-dilutive grants (funder not named).SCVC (Science Creates)Labssingle_source
241. 2026-06-19funding roundFrontier Health: funding round US$16m (≈ £12.1m) — Seed round with firstminute capital and XYZ.AtomicoStart-upssingle_source
242. 2026-06-19funding roundConduct: funding round 44.72m GBP — Conduct (AI system for legacy enterprise code) raised £44.72m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Index Ventures, ICONIQ, SAP, Creandum and othersInvestorssingle_source
243. 2026-06-19funding roundFrontier Health: funding round 12m GBP — Frontier Health (AI operations assistant for NHS trusts) raised £12m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Atomico, firstminute capital, XYZInvestorssingle_source
244. 2026-06-19funding roundFlagright: funding round 9.3m GBP — Flagright (AI financial-crime compliance) raised £9.3m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Infinity Ventures, Sella Direct Ventures, Frontline, Y CombinatorInvestorssingle_source
245. 2026-06-18funding roundFlagright: funding round US$12.5m (≈ £9.4m) — Series AInfinity Ventures; Sella Direct VenturesStart-upssingle_source
246. 2026-06-18funding roundFlagright: funding round 12,500,000 (£9.3m) USD — Series A for AI financial-crime compliance system.Infinity Ventures (with Sella Direct Ventures, Frontline, Y Combinator)Start-upssingle_source
247. 2026-06-18funding roundElevenLabs: funding round not disclosed — The Polish government took a stake in ElevenLabs through Vinci, part of BGK Group. For: Stake supporting AI Lab Poland initiative.Government of Poland via Vinci (BGK Group)Labssingle_source
248. 2026-06-18partnershipBoltz: partnership — Boltz announces a collaboration with Takeda. For: deployment of Boltz models at Takeda.TakedaLabssingle_source
249. 2026-06-17spin outKraken: spin out — Companies House shows Octopus entities ceasing as controllers and no registrable person from 17 June 2026 (demerger taking effect; inferred from register)Octopus Energy GroupStart-upssingle_source
250. 2026-06-17funding roundConduct: funding round US$60m (≈ £44.8m) — Series A for an AI operating system that maps and changes legacy enterprise software.Index Ventures; ICONIQ (co-leads); SAP, Creandum and othersSoftware and toolssingle_source
251. 2026-06-17major contractHSBC Holdings plc: major contract — Multi-year AI banking partnership; 200+ AI use cases planned over two years.Google CloudEstablished firmsverified
252. 2026-06-17partnershipWayve: partnership — Stellantis, Wayve and Uber agreed to build and deploy driverless robotaxis worldwide. For: Development and deployment of Level 4 (driverless) robotaxis.Stellantis; UberLabssingle_source
253. 2026-06-17partnershipWayve: partnership — Three-way robotaxi partnership For: Robotaxis at global scale.Stellantis; UberLabssingle_source
254. 2026-06-17funding roundOdyssey: funding round US$310m (≈ £231.4m) — Odyssey raises a $310m Series B at a $1.45bn valuation, led by Natural Capital. For: Series B; scaling world models; AWS becomes preferred cloud. Other investors: Amazon; AMD Ventures; GV; EQT; IQT; angels Jeff Dean, Elad Gil, Garry Tan, Guillermo Rauch, Kyle Vogt. Valuation reported: 1450000000 USD.Natural CapitalLabsverified
255. 2026-06-16major contractL&G and Microsoft AI collaboration: major contract — New three-year agreement; Copilot for all 10,000 employees, Azure migrationMicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
256. 2026-06-16major contractUnilever and Accenture AI digital twins in manufacturing: major contract — AI digital twins across factoriesAccentureEstablished firmssingle_source
257. 2026-06-16funding roundUndo: funding round US$37m (≈ £27.6m) — Round for runtime context that lets AI coding agents find root causes of software faults.Elsewhere Partners (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
258. 2026-06-16partnershipGoogle DeepMind: partnership — DeepMind and i.AI are trialling an AI planning prototype in three councils. Possible overlap with DEAL-SVC-013. For: Gemini-based planning-application prototype aiming to halve decision times; national rollout planned from 2027. Other investors: Barnet, Camden and Dorset councils (trials).Incubator for AI (i.AI), UK governmentLabsverified
259. 2026-06-16partnershipIneffable Intelligence: partnership — Ineffable picks Google Cloud For: Preferred cloud partner for RL infrastructure.Google CloudLabssingle_source
260. 2026-06-15uk office openingCohere (UK): uk office opening — Move to larger London office at 100 New Oxford StreetBig tech in the UKsingle_source
261. 2026-06-15uk office openingCohere (UK): uk office opening — Cohere, the Canadian AI model company, moved its London team to a larger office at 100 New Oxford Street: over 14,000 sq ft with room for up to 100 people.Big tech in the UKverified
262. 2026-06-15major contractZero Gravity Tech: major contract £300,000 — AI Tutoring Tools Pioneer Programme R&D contract 2 (ex VAT); estimated 29 June 2026 to 31 March 2027.Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DfE delivery partner)Start-upssingle_source
263. 2026-06-15major contractLearn Anything Education: major contract £300,000 — AI Tutoring Tools Pioneer Programme R&D contract 3 (ex VAT).Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DfE delivery partner)Start-upssingle_source
264. 2026-06-15major contractEedi: major contract £300,000 — AI Tutoring Tools Pioneer Programme R&D contract 7 (ex VAT).Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DfE delivery partner)Start-upssingle_source
265. 2026-06-15major contractMedly AI: major contract £300,000 — AI Tutoring Tools Pioneer Programme R&D contract 1 (ex VAT).Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DfE delivery partner)Start-upssingle_source
266. 2026-06-12funding roundEnera: funding round US$2m (≈ £1.5m) — Pre-seedLakehouse VenturesStart-upssingle_source
267. 2026-06-12investment pledgeAMD (as investor): investment pledge £2bn — Up to £2bn over five years for AI innovation and research in the UK.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
268. 2026-06-12investment pledgeNebius (UK): investment pledge £1.70bn — About £1.7bn to build UK capacity, with a London commercial and AI R&D hub and three new NVIDIA deployments.Ark (Longcross Park)Big tech in the UKsingle_source
269. 2026-06-12uk office openingGeneral Intuition (UK): uk office opening — London King's Cross office opened; part of a $133M seed round to go into its London research team.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
270. 2026-06-12uk office openingLegora (UK): uk office opening — Dedicated engineering hub in London.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
271. 2026-06-12uk office openingReplit (UK): uk office opening — London office to open in 2026.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
272. 2026-06-12uk office openingFynd (UK): uk office opening — First UK office in London; 70 jobs projected across London, Manchester and the UK by 2028.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
273. 2026-06-12funding roundCapsa AI: funding round £13.4m — Series A for AI operating system for private capital funds.investors not named as leadStart-upssingle_source
274. 2026-06-12investment pledgeAMD (as investor): investment pledge £2bn — Up to £2bn over five years for AI innovation and research in the UK.UK GovernmentChips and hardwaresingle_source
275. 2026-06-12funding roundPhysicsX: funding round 225m GBP — PhysicsX (AI physics simulation for engineering) raised £225m (Series C), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Temasek, M&G Investments, Intrepid Growth Partners, Applied Materials and othersInvestorssingle_source
276. 2026-06-12funding roundCapsa AI: funding round 13.4m GBP — Capsa AI (AI system for private capital funds) raised £13.4m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.TX Ventures, Pivot Investment Partners, Bek Ventures, Antler and othersInvestorssingle_source
277. 2026-06-12funding roundEnera: funding round 1.49m GBP — Enera (AI agents for EV charge-point operators) raised £1.49m (Pre-seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Lakehouse Ventures, Divergent Capital, MasiaInvestorssingle_source
278. 2026-06-12investment pledgeAMD (as investor): investment pledge £2bn — At London Tech Week 2026 AMD committed up to £2bn over five years for AI work in the UK. Buys or funds: "up to £2 billion of investment over five years"; GOV.UK does not say whether it covers compute or data centres.AMDCloud and computesingle_source
279. 2026-06-12investment pledgeArk Longcross Park campus, Surrey: investment pledge £807m — Ark announced £807m to expand the Surrey campus that hosts Nebius's UK GPUs. Buys or funds: Longcross Park expansion including a further data centre with 36MW of future capacity; supports Nebius's GPU deployment.ArkCloud and computesingle_source
280. 2026-06-11funding roundCapsa AI: funding round US$18m (≈ £13.5m) — Series A for an agentic AI platform for private capital funds.TX Ventures; Pivot Investment Partners (co-leads); Bek Ventures, Antler, Outward VCStart-upssingle_source
281. 2026-06-11grantSoC Labs AI chip design skills programme: grant £3m — Three-year UK-wide chip design training programme at the University of Southampton.Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyChips and hardwaresingle_source
282. 2026-06-10investment pledgeNext National Supercomputing Service, University of Edinburgh: investment pledge 400000000 (up to; inside the £750m) GBP — DSIT sets aside up to £400m of the £750m for AI chips. Buys or funds: Next-generation AI chips for the national supercomputer.DSITCloud and computesingle_source
283. 2026-06-09major contractCivo–Era4 sovereign AI stack: major contract — Civo software to run on Era4's AI sites (NVIDIA HGX B300).Era4 (BIZ-CLD-006)Cloud and computesingle_source
284. 2026-06-09partnershipSynthesia: partnership — Synthesia signed an MoU with the UK Government on AI adoption and skills. For: Memorandum of understanding on AI adoption and upskilling.UK GovernmentLabssingle_source
285. 2026-06-09partnershipSynthesia: partnership — Synthesia and UK Government sign MoU For: MoU on AI adoption and upskilling.UK GovernmentLabssingle_source
286. 2026-06-08investment pledgeNebius (UK): investment pledge £1.70bn — About £1.7bn for three further UK deployments, 65 MW by 2027Big tech in the UKsingle_source
287. 2026-06-08investment pledgeAIRR heterogeneous national AI supercomputer (£750m): investment pledge £750m — £750m national AI supercomputer under the AI Hardware Plan, incl. £150m advance chip purchase commitment.UK Government (DSIT)Cloud and computeverified
288. 2026-06-08investment pledgeNebius UK capacity build-out (four sites): investment pledge £1.70bn — Nebius invests about £1.7bn in UK capacity at four sites, 65MW by 2027.NebiusData centressingle_source
289. 2026-06-08major contractKao Data Harlow campus: major contract — Nebius signs a 22MW, ten-year agreement at Harlow.NebiusData centresverified
290. 2026-06-08major contractPearson as partner in the government's AI Skills Boost: major contract — Named partner in plan to train 10 million workers in AI by 2030UK government (AI Skills Boost)Established firmssingle_source
291. 2026-06-08funding roundPhysicsX: funding round US$25m (≈ £18.7m) — BBB invested US$25m in PhysicsX's US$300m Series CBritish Business Bank incl. British Growth Partnership Fund I; round led by TemasekLabsverified
292. 2026-06-08funding roundPhysicsX: funding round US$300m (≈ £224.8m) — Series CTemasekLabsverified
293. 2026-06-08uk office openingMultiverse: uk office opening — Multiverse to open an Edinburgh tech hub and create 200 UK jobs to boost workers' AI skillsDSIT (AI Adoption Summit)Start-upssingle_source
294. 2026-06-08investment pledgen8n (UK): investment pledge — Up to 200 skilled UK jobs over three years.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
295. 2026-06-08investment pledgeReflection AI (UK): investment pledge — Plans to hire more than 100 UK staff within 12 months.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
296. 2026-06-08uk office openingPlayground Global: uk office opening £150m — Silicon Valley investor opens its first office outside the US, in the UK, with a fund backed by up to £150m from the British Business Bank for UK AI hardware firms.British Business BankBig tech in the UKverified
297. 2026-06-08investment pledgePlayground Global UK deeptech hardware fund: investment pledge £150m — Up to £150m from the British Business Bank into a Playground Global-led UK hardware fund.British Business BankChips and hardwareverified
298. 2026-06-08investment pledgeSpärck AI Scholarships: investment pledge £4m — Expansion of the Spärck AI Scholarships, sponsoring up to 50 industry placements.Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyServices and skillssingle_source
299. 2026-06-08capacity contractNebius (UK): capacity contract not disclosed — Revolut was named as a UK customer of Nebius as Nebius announced £1.7bn of UK capacity. Buys or funds: Use of Nebius's UK AI capacity.RevolutCloud and computesingle_source
300. 2026-06-08partnershipCosine: partnership — Thirteen UK organisations signed up to shape Cosine's sovereign frontier model. For: Agreements (MoUs, per AML Intelligence for the three banks) to co-design Lumen Sovereign, a UK-trained frontier model for critical sectors.Coalition of 13: BAE Systems, Babcock International Group, BT, Era4, HSBC, Leonardo, Lloyds Banking Group, LSEG, NatWest Group, PwC, Telefónica Tech UK&I, Thales UK, The Alan Turing InstituteLabsverified
301. 2026-06-08partnershipElevenLabs: partnership — ElevenLabs signed an MoU with DSIT and announced a larger London headquarters. For: Memorandum of understanding on voice AI in public services, accessibility, AI security, skills; London HQ expansion.Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (UK Government)Labssingle_source
302. 2026-06-08partnershipElevenLabs: partnership — ElevenLabs partners with UK Government and expands London HQ For: Voice AI in public services; London HQ expansion.UK GovernmentLabssingle_source
303. 2026-06-08partnershipWellcome Sanger Institute AI genomics (Generative and Synthetic Genomics programme): partnership 5,000,000 a year (five-year intention) USD reported — Google DeepMind and Google.org commit US$5m a year to a Sanger AI genomics consortium, announced at the AI x BIO conference. For: A new AI consortium for genomics building AI-ready genomic datasets to train machine learning models.Google DeepMind; Google.orgLabssingle_source
304. 2026-06-06major contractTechFirst: major contract not stated — First five of 12 TechFirst regional delivery partners confirmed.WM5G; Digital Innovators; IN4 Group; Tech Educators; STEM LearningServices and skillssingle_source
305. 2026-06-04major contractLloyds and Microsoft 365 Frontier Suite deployment: major contract — Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite company-wide; 40,000 Copilot licencesMicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
306. 2026-06-04funding roundAveni: funding round £12m — Round with Puma, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, Scottish EnterprisePXN VenturesStart-upsverified
307. 2026-06-04funding roundWordsmith: funding round US$70m (≈ £52.1m) — Series BHighland Europe; Index Ventures (lead not stated)Start-upssingle_source
308. 2026-06-04major contractAurrigo: major contract £6.3m — 25 autonomous guided vehicles for UK airport and passenger transit use (as reported in FY2025 results)Ultra GlobalStart-upssingle_source
309. 2026-06-04funding roundAirspeed (new): funding round US$20m (≈ £14.9m) — Series A for autonomous AI agents for sales and revenue teams; founders ex-DeepMind.DN Capital (lead); Vi Partners, Framework Venture Partners, Atlassian Venturessingle_source
310. 2026-06-04partnershipDaltonTx: partnership — Contract research firm Sygnature Discovery adopts the Dalton platform. For: Dalton joins Sygnature's computational chemistry toolkit; retrospective test on an oncology programme now in Phase I.Sygnature DiscoveryLabssingle_source
311. 2026-06-03funding roundFlok Health: funding round US$12.5m (≈ £9.3m) — Series A with Eka VC, Form Ventures and Mercia Ventures.Albion VCStart-upssingle_source
312. 2026-06-03funding roundGigaton (formerly Carbon Re): funding round US$26m (≈ £19.3m) — Series APluralStart-upssingle_source
313. 2026-06-03funding roundApoha: funding round US$36m (≈ £26.8m) — Round to build a data layer on how molecules and materials behave, for physical-world AI.Singular (lead); Draper Associates; Redalpine, Seedcamp, Wilbe, NucleusStart-upssingle_source
314. 2026-06-03partnershipSynthesia: partnership — Synthesia and Multiverse partnered to help UK workers adopt AI. For: AI adoption training for UK workers.MultiverseLabssingle_source
315. 2026-06-02funding roundPoindexter Labs: funding round £2m — Oversubscribed seed for expert-level training data for advanced AI models.Episode 1 (lead); Evertrue Capital; Octopus Ventures First Cheque Fund; angelsSoftware and toolssingle_source
316. 2026-06-02funding roundArchestra: funding round US$10m (≈ £7.4m) — London's Archestra.AI raised a $10m seed led by 20VC; $13.5m raised in total. Buys or funds: Go-to-market and engineering; enterprise deployments. Other investors: Visible Ventures; Tenacity Capital; angels Olivier Pomel, Kieran Flanagan.20VC (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
317. 2026-06-02uk office openingParloa (UK office): uk office opening — Parloa opened its first London office. Buys or funds: First London office.not stated in the researchSoftware and toolssingle_source
318. 2026-06-01funding roundGeordie AI: funding round US$30m (≈ £22.3m) — Series A.BaldertonSoftware and toolssingle_source
319. 2026-06investment pledgeFinancial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL): investment pledge £3.2m — Three years of programme fundingScottish EnterpriseStart-upssingle_source
320. 2026-06-01funding roundBIZ-SW-2026 Gradient Labs: funding round US$13m (≈ £9.7m) — Gradient Labs extended its Series A by $13m. Buys or funds: Series A extension (Series A now $26m); customer-service, lending, disputes and KYC agents. Other investors: Redpoint Ventures; Exceptional Capital.Octopus Ventures; CommerzVentures (co-leads)Software and toolssingle_source
321. 2026-06funding roundAugur: funding round 15m USD — Augur (AI sensor intelligence for security) raised $15m (Seed (June 2026)), reported by tech.eu.PluralInvestorssingle_source
322. 2026-06partnershipPrima Mente: partnership — Nebius customer story reports a 12% pre-training throughput gain for Pleiades on 16 nodes. For: Compute and engineering for scaling the Pleiades models (BIZ-LAB-14049).NebiusLabssingle_source
323. 2026-05-29funding roundInherent: funding round US$50m (≈ £37.1m) — Seed round co-led by Index and RadicalIndex Ventures and Radical Ventures (co-leads)Labssingle_source
324. 2026-05-29funding roundInherent: funding round US$50m (≈ £37.1m) — SeedIndex Ventures and Radical VenturesLabssingle_source
325. 2026-05-29funding roundInherent: funding round 37.2m GBP — Inherent (AI research lab) raised £37.2m (Stealth), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Index VenturesInvestorssingle_source
326. 2026-05-29funding roundOrbital: funding round 37.2m GBP — Orbital (AI-driven materials discovery) raised £37.2m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Plural, NVentures, Radical Ventures, Compound and othersInvestorssingle_source
327. 2026-05-29funding roundPerceptic: funding round 9m GBP — Perceptic (AI drug discovery platform) raised £9m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Accel, Air Street Capital, Elder GullInvestorssingle_source
328. 2026-05-28funding roundOrbital Industries (Orbital Materials Ltd): funding round US$50m (≈ £37.2m) — Series B; NVentures, Radical Ventures, Compound and Fly Ventures took partPluralLabssingle_source
329. 2026-05-28funding roundPerceptic: funding round US$12m (≈ £8.9m) — Seed for one AI system linking research, development and clinical decisions in drug development.Accel; Air Street Capital; Elder Gull (leads)Start-upssingle_source
330. 2026-05-28partnershipLifebit: partnership — Lifebit and CanPath set up a national federated research framework for Canada. Buys or funds: Canada's national federated research infrastructure framework.CanPathSoftware and toolssingle_source
331. 2026-05-28renameOrbital Industries (Orbital Materials Ltd): rename — Rename For: Orbital Materials renamed Orbital Industries with its Series B.not stated in the researchLabssingle_source
332. 2026-05-27partnershipDaltonTx: partnership — DaltonTx and Bonito Biosciences pair data and AI to design drug-delivery ligands. For: AI-driven discovery of delivery ligands for oligotherapeutics, starting with the central nervous system.Bonito BiosciencesLabssingle_source
333. 2026-05-26renameGigaton (formerly Carbon Re): rename — Carbon Re Ltd renamed Gigaton Technologies LtdStart-upssingle_source
334. 2026-05-25funding roundImperagen: funding round £5m — Seed to accelerate AI-driven enzyme engineering (tech.eu recap, week to 25 May 2026; UKTN dated 21 May 2026).not namedStart-upssingle_source
335. 2026-05-22major contractHumanoid: major contract — Manufacturing agreement to support production of HMND 01 robots for EuropeBoschStart-upssingle_source
336. 2026-05-22funding roundSearchable: funding round £10.3m — Growth round for AI performance-marketing platform.HeadlineStart-upssingle_source
337. 2026-05-22major contractHumanoid: major contract — Manufacturing agreement after HMND 01 proof of concept at Bosch's Bühl logistics centre.BoschChips and hardwaresingle_source
338. 2026-05-22funding roundPrimer: funding round 75m GBP — Primer (AI-enabled payments layer) raised £75m (Series C), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Sofina, Peak XV Partners, Balderton, Accel and othersInvestorssingle_source
339. 2026-05-22funding roundCircuitHub: funding round 21m GBP — CircuitHub (AI and robotics circuit-board assembly) raised £21m (Growth), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.PluralInvestorssingle_source
340. 2026-05-22funding roundSearchable: funding round 10.3m GBP — Searchable (AI performance marketing) raised £10.3m (Growth), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.HeadlineInvestorssingle_source
341. 2026-05-22funding roundImperagen: funding round 5m GBP — Imperagen (AI enzyme design) raised £5m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.PXN Ventures, IQ Capital, Northern GritstoneInvestorssingle_source
342. 2026-05-22funding roundRightbrain: funding round 3m GBP — Rightbrain (AI agents inside CRMs) raised £3m (Growth), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIFII) – PXN Equity Finance, Salica, NYDIGInvestorssingle_source
343. 2026-05-22funding roundTympaHealth: funding round 2m GBP — TympaHealth (AI-assisted ear imaging) raised £2m (Innovation loan), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Innovate UKInvestorssingle_source
344. 2026-05-22partnershipCivo: partnership not disclosed — Civo's platform is coming to Indonesia through Arupa Cloud Nusantara. Buys or funds: Sovereign cloud platform for Indonesia; Jakarta launch on 2026-10-23.Arupa Cloud NusantaraCloud and computesingle_source
345. 2026-05-21partnershipWayve: partnership — Stellantis to use Wayve AI for door-to-door supervised driving For: Hands-free supervised automated driving.StellantisLabssingle_source
346. 2026-05-20wind downAudio Analytic: wind down — Audio Analytic Limited (06673834) dissolvedStart-upssingle_source
347. 2026-05-20major contractZIGUP plc: major contract — Strategic AI collaboration; Copilot for about 3,500 staff. No terms disclosed.MicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
348. 2026-05-19funding roundRightbrain AI: funding round £3m — Round for a platform letting service firms build AI agents on third-party models.Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II – PXN Equity Finance (lead); Salica; NYDIG; angelsSoftware and toolssingle_source
349. 2026-05-19uk office openingNexGen Cloud: uk office opening — NexGen Cloud opened a new City of London head office and named four senior hires. Buys or funds: New headquarters in the City of London; CFO, CRO, Head of Risk and Compliance and Head of Partnerships appointed.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
350. 2026-05-18major contractBT Business and Accenture AI operations programme: major contract — Multi-year AI operations programme for BT BusinessAccentureEstablished firmssingle_source
351. 2026-05-18funding roundSensat: funding round £3m — Investment to support US expansionMercia VenturesStart-upssingle_source
352. 2026-05-18funding roundSearchable: funding round £10.3m — Round for a platform tracking brand visibility across AI search engines.Headline (lead)Start-upssingle_source
353. 2026-05-15major contractExperian and ServiceNow AI agents partnership: major contract — Global multi-year AI agents partnershipServiceNowEstablished firmssingle_source
354. 2026-05-15funding roundMultiverse: funding round US$70m (≈ £52.5m) — New fundingSchroders CapitalStart-upssingle_source
355. 2026-05-15funding roundElliptic: funding round £88.8m — Series D for blockchain analytics and compliance platform.investors listed: One Peak, Nasdaq Ventures, Deutsche Bank, British Business Bank (lead not stated)Start-upssingle_source
356. 2026-05-15funding roundKaizan: funding round £2.5m — Seed round for AI client management platform (check Kaizan's sub-page).investors listed: Pembroke VCT, Velocity Capital, angels (lead not stated)Start-upssingle_source
357. 2026-05-15funding roundFifth Dimension: funding round £19.2m — Series A for decision intelligence platform (check Fifth Dimension's sub-page).investors listed: HV Capital, Prudence, Mercia, MMC, AFG, Speedinvest, Seedcamp, Anthemis (lead not stated)Start-upssingle_source
358. 2026-05-15funding roundKohort: funding round £5.1m — Seed round for AI agents for mobile games companies.investors listed: Play Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, Sisu Game Ventures (lead not stated)Start-upssingle_source
359. 2026-05-15funding roundIsomorphic Labs: funding round 1.6bn GBP — Isomorphic Labs (AI drug discovery) raised £1.6bn (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Thrive Capital, Alphabet, GV, MGX and othersInvestorssingle_source
360. 2026-05-15funding roundNscale: funding round 580m GBP — Nscale (AI cloud infrastructure) raised £580m (Growth), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Ardent, 8VCInvestorssingle_source
361. 2026-05-15funding roundFractile: funding round 162.8m GBP — Fractile (AI inference chips) raised £162.8m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Kindred Capital, NATO Innovation Fund, Oxford Science Enterprises, In-Q-TelInvestorssingle_source
362. 2026-05-15funding roundFifth Dimension: funding round 19.2m GBP — Fifth Dimension (AI decision platform (sector labelled AI)) raised £19.2m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.HV Capital, Prudence, Mercia, MMC and othersInvestorssingle_source
363. 2026-05-15funding roundKaizan: funding round 2.5m GBP — Kaizan (AI client management) raised £2.5m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Pembroke VCT, Velocity CapitalInvestorssingle_source
364. 2026-05-15funding roundKohort: funding round 5.1m GBP — Kohort (AI agents for mobile games) raised £5.1m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Play Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, Sisu Game VenturesInvestorssingle_source
365. 2026-05-14major contractQuantexa: major contract £175m — Ten-year data and AI partnershipHM Revenue and CustomsStart-upssingle_source
366. 2026-05-14major contractHumanoid: major contract — Phased deployment and supply agreement, robot-as-a-service, at two German sites from December 2026SchaefflerStart-upssingle_source
367. 2026-05-14acquisitionTomoro AI: acquisition — Reported acquisition by OpenAI for its OpenAI Deployment Company; price undisclosed; CH officer change 1 July 2026OpenAIStart-upssingle_source
368. 2026-05-14funding roundFractile: funding round US$220m (≈ £163.1m) — Series B to fund first AI inference chips and systems; reported as £162.8m (UKTN) and £165m (DSIT).Accel, Factorial Funds, Founders FundChips and hardwareverified
369. 2026-05-14major contractHumanoid: major contract — Phased deployment and supply agreement; first phase Dec 2026–June 2027 at two German sites.SchaefflerChips and hardwaresingle_source
370. 2026-05-13funding roundFractile: funding round US$220m (≈ £162.8m) — Series B for inference chips and systems.Accel, Factorial Funds, Founders Fund (leads)Chips and hardwareverified
371. 2026-05-13funding roundFractile: funding round US$220m (≈ £162.8m) — Fractile, which designs chips for running AI models, raised $220m (a Series B, per DCD) to produce its first processors.Accel, Factorial Funds, Founders Fund (co-leads)Chips and hardwareverified
372. 2026-05-13major contractLSEG data in Google Gemini Enterprise: major contract — LSEG data in Gemini Enterprise via MCPGoogle CloudEstablished firmssingle_source
373. 2026-05-13funding roundRecursive Superintelligence: funding round US$650m (≈ £481m) — Launch round, "over" US$650m; stage not namedGV and GreycroftLabssingle_source
374. 2026-05-13funding roundElliptic: funding round US$120m (≈ £88.8m) — Series D with Nasdaq Ventures, Deutsche Bank, British Business Bank (£13m)One PeakStart-upssingle_source
375. 2026-05-13funding roundRowden: funding round £25m — Equity, NWF's first defence investmentNational Wealth FundStart-upsverified
376. 2026-05-13acquisitionRossum: acquisition — Coupa bought the London-based intelligent document processing firm; price undisclosed.CoupaSoftware and toolssingle_source
377. 2026-05-13funding roundRowden: funding round £25m — Growth funding for Bristol modular electronics and software systems maker.National Wealth FundStart-upssingle_source
378. 2026-05-13partnershipIneffable Intelligence: partnership — Engineering collaboration with NVIDIA For: Co-designed RL training infrastructure (Grace Blackwell; early Vera Rubin).NVIDIALabssingle_source
379. 2026-05-12funding roundIsomorphic Labs: funding round US$2.10bn (≈ £1.55bn) — Isomorphic Labs raised a $2.1bn Series B led by Thrive Capital, with Alphabet, GV, MGX, Temasek, CapitalG and the UK Sovereign AI Fund.Thrive CapitalLabsverified
380. 2026-05-12funding roundIsomorphic Labs: funding round US$2.10bn (≈ £1.55bn) — Series B; UK Sovereign AI Fund among new investorsThrive CapitalLabsverified
381. 2026-05-12funding roundFifth Dimension: funding round US$26m (≈ £19.2m) — Series AHV CapitalStart-upssingle_source
382. 2026-05-12funding roundTolemy Bio: funding round €1.4m (≈ £1.2m) — Tolemy Bio raises a €1.4m pre-seed round. For: Orbit virtual-cell platform and early deployments. Other investors: Big Sur Ventures; JME Ventures; Masia; an unnamed UK stealth fund.Norrsken EvolveLabssingle_source
383. 2026-05-12partnershipWayve: partnership — Wayve signs partnership with UK Government on self-driving For: Self-driving deployment in Britain.UK GovernmentLabssingle_source
384. 2026-05-11funding roundKaizan: funding round £2.5m — Round for an AI client-management platform that flags client risk.Pembroke VCT (lead, £1.5m); Velocity Capital; angelsStart-upssingle_source
385. 2026-05-08funding roundCodeWords: funding round US$9m (≈ £6.6m) — Seed for autonomous AI agents that learn a business and build automations.Visionaries, Firstminute Capital, Sequel, Illusian; angelsSoftware and toolssingle_source
386. 2026-05-07funding roundEthos: funding round US$22.8m (≈ £16.7m) — Series AAndreessen HorowitzStart-upssingle_source
387. 2026-05-05funding roundElevenLabs: funding round — Third close of the Series D, amount not disclosed; a further US$100m tender closed alongsideBlackRock, Wellington, D.E. Shaw, Schroders, NVentures, Santander, T.Capital and othersLabssingle_source
388. 2026-05-05capacity contractNscale: capacity contract 695000000 (Nscale's own spend: €230m shared infrastructure plus €465m second building) EUR — Nscale will deliver 66,000+ Rubin GPUs to Microsoft in Portugal. Buys or funds: More than 66,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs (Vera Rubin NVL72) in a new 200MW building (SIN02) at SINES Data Campus, Portugal, from late 2027; adds to about 12,600 Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs already planned there. Other investors: Start Campus (site operator).MicrosoftCloud and computeverified
389. 2026-05-01funding roundSpaceflux: funding round £3.5m — Seed extension to £9mBlackfinch VenturesStart-upssingle_source
390. 2026-05-01funding roundIneffable Intelligence: funding round 814m GBP — Ineffable Intelligence (AI research lab (sector labelled AI)) raised £814m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Sovereign AI Unit, British Business Bank, Sequioa, Lightspeed and othersInvestorssingle_source
391. 2026-04-30wind downSmall Robot Company: wind down — Company dissolvedStart-upssingle_source
392. 2026-04-30funding roundOnline Oceans: funding round £4m — Round to scale autonomous surface vessels and a fleet command platform for maritime security.Seraphim Space (lead); Koro Capital; angelsStart-upssingle_source
393. 2026-04-30funding roundOnline Oceans: funding round £4m — Round to scale manufacturing and deployments of autonomous maritime security fleets.Seraphim Space (with Peter Rive, Frank Thieser, Florian Seibel, Koro Capital)Start-upssingle_source
394. 2026-04-30funding roundManaMind: funding round 1.5m USD — ManaMind (AI game testing) raised $1.5m (Pre-seed), reported by tech.eu.Sure Valley Ventures, EWOR, Ascension, SyndicateRoom and othersInvestorssingle_source
395. 2026-04-30funding roundManaMind: funding round US$1.5m (≈ £1.1m) — ManaMind raised a $1.5m pre-seed for AI agents that test video games. Buys or funds: Technical team, proprietary models, market growth. Other investors: EWOR; Ascension; SyndicateRoom; Heartfelt.Sure Valley Ventures (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
396. 2026-04-29funding roundThird Space Learning: funding round £4.4m — To scale the Skye AI tutorSouth West Investment Fund (British Business Bank; Maven Capital Partners)Start-upssingle_source
397. 2026-04-29major contractSlaughter and May: major contract — Firmwide adoption of Harvey's legal AI platform.HarveyEstablished firmssingle_source
398. 2026-04-27investment pledgeIQE: investment pledge £81m — Strategic review concluded with MACOM as strategic partner; total investment £81m including an £11m placing.MACOM Technology SolutionsChips and hardwaresingle_source
399. 2026-04-27funding roundIneffable Intelligence: funding round US$20m (≈ £14.8m) — British Business Bank put US$20m into the US$1.1bn seedBritish Business Bank (BIZ-INV-002), with Sovereign AI co-investing; round co-led by Sequoia and LightspeedLabsverified
400. 2026-04-27funding roundIneffable Intelligence: funding round US$1.10bn (≈ £811.4m) — Seed; Sovereign AI Unit co-invested with the British Business BankSequoia and LightspeedLabssingle_source
401. 2026-04-27collapseMirriad: collapse — Funding failed; operating units to enter administration and shares suspended; plc and Mirriad Limited now in administrationFRP Advisory and Begbies Traynor (administrators)Start-upsverified
402. 2026-04-27funding roundIneffable Intelligence: funding round 1.1bn USD — same round as the UKTN row (£814m, labelled seed); TechCrunch gives a $5.1bn valuation. Ineffable Intelligence (AI research lab) raised $1.1bn (Not stated), reported by TechCrunch.Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Google and othersInvestorssingle_source
403. 2026-04-24funding roundCloudsmith: funding round £53m — Series CTCV; Insight PartnersSoftware and toolssingle_source
404. 2026-04-24funding roundCloudsmith: funding round 53m GBP — Cloudsmith (software artifact management for AI-era development) raised £53m (Series C), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.TCV, Insight PartnersInvestorssingle_source
405. 2026-04-23major contractBT–Nscale sovereign AI data centres: major contract — Nscale to build up to 14MW of AI data centres at three BT sites.BT; Nscale (BIZ-DC-001); NVIDIACloud and computeverified
406. 2026-04-23major contractNscale AI data centres at three BT sites: major contract — Nscale and BT plan up to 14MW of AI data-centre capacity at three BT sites.BTData centressingle_source
407. 2026-04-23major contractBT sovereign AI with Nscale and NVIDIA: major contract — Up to 14MW of sovereign AI data centre capacity at three BT sitesNscale; NVIDIAEstablished firmssingle_source
408. 2026-04-23partnershipLocai Labs: partnership — Locai Labs signed a contract to supply First Light Fusion with its own coding model. For: Supply contract: bespoke domain-specific coding LLM trained with Forget-Me-Not, run air-gapped in Oxford, retrained twice a year.First Light FusionLabssingle_source
409. 2026-04-22funding roundLocai: funding round £1m — Pre-seedFuel VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
410. 2026-04-20partnershipOCF: partnership — OCF agreed to bring Xinnor's software-defined storage to UK customers. Buys or funds: UK distribution of xiSTORE and xiNAS storage software.XinnorCloud and computesingle_source
411. 2026-04-20partnershipOCF: partnership — OCF to distribute Xinnor storage in the UK. Buys or funds: UK distribution of xiSTORE and xiNAS storage.XinnorCloud and computesingle_source
412. 2026-04-20partnershipSynthesia: partnership — KnowBe4 and Synthesia partnered on AI video for security training. For: AI video for cybersecurity training.KnowBe4Labssingle_source
413. 2026-04-17funding roundWayve: funding round 44m GBP — Wayve (AI autonomous driving software (sector labelled AI)) raised £44m (Series D extension), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.AMD, Arm, Qualcomm VenturesInvestorssingle_source
414. 2026-04-17funding roundTraqCheck: funding round 5.9m GBP — TraqCheck (AI candidate screening) raised £5.9m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.IvyCap Ventures, IIFLInvestorssingle_source
415. 2026-04-17investment pledgeCallosum: investment pledge — The UK's £500m Sovereign AI Fund names Callosum as its first investment. Buys or funds: first investment of the fund; amount not stated (probably the fund's share of the August seed — check before counting money).UK Sovereign AI Fund (£500m)Software and toolssingle_source
416. 2026-04-16investment pledgeSovereign AI (UK Sovereign AI Fund): investment pledge £500m — Sovereign AI unit launched with up to £500m to invest in UK AI companiesUK governmentInvestorsverified
417. 2026-04-16grantCosine; Cursive; Odyssey; Twig Bio; Prima Mente: grant over 3 million GPU hours, "worth an estimated £14 million" (not split by company) — First Sovereign AI compute agreements for UK AI firms. [Labs Round 7] sovereignai.gov.uk: "we've deployed over 3 million GPU hours – worth an estimated £14 million" to six UK frontier AI companies. Not added to any total.Sovereign AI / AI Research ResourceLabssingle_source
418. 2026-04-16compute grantPrima Mente: compute grant — One of six start-ups in the Sovereign AI Unit's first compute round (over 3m GPU hours, est. £14m in total); used for dementia blood-test foundation models. Buys or funds: 1,000,000 GPU hours on Isambard-AI.Sovereign AI Unit (BIZ-INV-001), via AIRRCloud and computeverified
419. 2026-04-16compute grantDoubleword: compute grant — Inference-infrastructure firm given AIRR compute in the first Sovereign AI round; later used Isambard-AI for token-generation research. Buys or funds: AIRR GPU hours (per-company figure not published; cap 1m).Sovereign AI Unit (BIZ-INV-001), via AIRRCloud and computeverified
420. 2026-04-16compute grantCosine: compute grant — Defence and regulated-industry model builder given AIRR compute in the first Sovereign AI round. Buys or funds: AIRR GPU hours (figure not published).Sovereign AI Unit (BIZ-INV-001), via AIRRCloud and computeverified
421. 2026-04-16compute grantCursive: compute grant — Agent developer given AIRR compute in the first Sovereign AI round. Buys or funds: AIRR GPU hours (figure not published).Sovereign AI Unit (BIZ-INV-001), via AIRRCloud and computeverified
422. 2026-04-16compute grantTwig Bio: compute grant — Engineering-biology model builder given AIRR compute in the first Sovereign AI round. Buys or funds: AIRR GPU hours for CANOPY model (figure not published).Sovereign AI Unit (BIZ-INV-001), via AIRRCloud and computeverified
423. 2026-04-16compute grantOdyssey: compute grant — World-model developer given AIRR compute in the first Sovereign AI round. Buys or funds: AIRR GPU hours for world models (figure not published).Sovereign AI Unit (BIZ-INV-001), via AIRRCloud and computeverified
424. 2026-04-15funding roundWayve: funding round US$60m (≈ £44.2m) — Extension of the US$1.2bn Series DAMD, Arm and Qualcomm VenturesLabssingle_source
425. 2026-04-14funding roundTraqCheck: funding round £5.9m — Series AIvyCap VenturesStart-upssingle_source
426. 2026-04-14funding roundRalio: funding round £1.8m — Oversubscribed pre-seed for a payments layer built for AI agents.Sure Valley Ventures (lead); Seed X, Love Ventures, Plug and Play, Antler and othersStart-upssingle_source
427. 2026-04-14funding roundRalio: funding round £1.8m — Pre-seed for agentic business payments platform.Sure Valley Ventures (with Seed X, Love Ventures, Plug and Play, rule30, Antler and others)Start-upssingle_source
428. 2026-04-14capacity contractNscale: capacity contract not disclosed — Expanded Microsoft agreement for Rubin GPUs in Norway. Buys or funds: More than 30,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs at the 230MW Nscale Narvik campus, Norway; delivery in 2027; managed solely by Nscale.MicrosoftCloud and computesingle_source
429. 2026-04-14partnershipCivo: partnership not disclosed — Civo and Locai Labs agreed to build UK sovereign language models. Buys or funds: Project Mercury memorandum (BIZ-CLD-3011): sovereign pre-trained models of 0.8–30bn and 256bn parameters on Civo's UK Sovereign Cloud.Locai Labs (BIZ-LAB-2008)Cloud and computesingle_source
430. 2026-04-14partnershipLocai Labs–Civo Project Mercury: partnership — Civo and Locai Labs signed a memorandum to build and host UK sovereign AI models. Buys or funds: UK-trained sovereign model family, 0.8–30bn and 256bn parameters, hosted on Civo's UK cloud or on-premise.Locai Labs (BIZ-LAB-2008)Cloud and computesingle_source
431. 2026-04-14partnershipLocai Labs: partnership — Locai Labs and Civo agreed to build and host UK sovereign models (records BIZ-CLD-4002/3011 exist; no deal row found). For: MoU for Project Mercury: sovereign model family (0.8–30B "Edge Intelligence" and 256B "Frontier Power") hosted on Civo's UK sovereign cloud; first model Jupiter.Civo (BIZ-CLD-001)Labsverified
432. 2026-04-13uk office openingOpenAI (UK): uk office opening — First permanent London office, 88,500 sq ft at King's Cross, due 2027 (trade report)Big tech in the UKsingle_source
433. 2026-04-13funding roundRound: funding round US$6m (≈ £4.5m) — Seed for AI-powered finance back-office automation with an agentic workflow builder.Alstin Capital (lead); Backed VC; Love Ventures; Passion Capital and othersStart-upssingle_source
434. 2026-04-13uk office openingOpenAI London research hub: uk office opening — First permanent London office, about 88,500 sq ft, up to 544 staff, expected 2027.Endurance Land (developer)Labssingle_source
435. 2026-04-13funding roundRound: funding round 6m USD — Round (AI finance automation) raised $6m (Seed), reported by tech.eu.Alstin Capital, Backed VC, Love VenturesInvestorssingle_source
436. 2026-04-10funding roundServe First: funding round £5m — Investment in an AI customer experience and performance platform.Pembroke VCT; Midlands Engine Investment Fund (Mercia Ventures)Start-upssingle_source
437. 2026-04-10funding roundServe First: funding round 5m GBP — Serve First (AI customer experience platform) raised £5m (Not stated), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Pembroke VCT, Midlands Engine Investment FundInvestorssingle_source
438. 2026-04-09pauseStargate UK (OpenAI, NVIDIA and Nscale): pause — OpenAI puts Stargate UK on hold over energy costs and regulationBig tech in the UKsingle_source
439. 2026-04-09pauseStargate UK at Cobalt Park, North Tyneside: pause — OpenAI pauses Stargate UK, citing energy costs and regulation.OpenAIData centressingle_source
440. 2026-04-08funding roundTrent AI: funding round £9.7m — Seed.LocalGlobe; Cambridge Innovation CapitalSoftware and toolssingle_source
441. 2026-04-07funding roundFieldwork Robotics: funding round £3m — Funding for farm trials of autonomous raspberry-harvesting robots.Elbow Beach Capital (existing investor)Start-upssingle_source
442. 2026-04-07funding roundTrent AI: funding round 13m USD — Trent AI (security for AI agents) raised $13m (Seed), reported by tech.eu.LocalGlobe, Cambridge Innovation CapitalInvestorssingle_source
443. 2026-04-07funding roundWholeSum: funding round US$335,000 (≈ £252,887) — WholeSum topped up its pre-seed with $335,000. Buys or funds: Pre-seed top-up; total pre-seed $1.3m (earlier $965k led by Twin Path Ventures, date not given). Other investors: strategic angels.Love Ventures; BeamlineSoftware and toolssingle_source
444. 2026-04-03funding round9fin: funding round £130m — Series C for AI debt-intelligence platform.investors listed: HarbourVest, CPP Investments, Redalpine, Highland Europe, Spark Capital, Seedcamp (lead not stated)Start-upssingle_source
445. 2026-04-03funding round9fin: funding round 130m GBP — 9fin (AI debt-market intelligence) raised £130m (Series C), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.HarbourVest, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Redalpine, Highland Europe and othersInvestorssingle_source
446. 2026-04-03funding roundLucida Medical: funding round 8.7m GBP — Lucida Medical (AI cancer diagnostics) raised £8.7m (Not stated), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.IW Capital, XTX Ventures, Macmillan Cancer SupportInvestorssingle_source
447. 2026-04-01investment pledgeBritish Growth Partnership: investment pledge £200m — Fund close: Fund I first close of £200m; first investment £8m in WayveAegon UK, Cushon Master Trust, M&GInvestorsverified
448. 2026-04-01wind downAMPLYFI: wind down — Extraordinary resolution to wind up; voluntary liquidator appointed (filed 21 April 2026)Menzies LLP (liquidator)Start-upssingle_source
449. 2026-04uk office openingAnthropic (UK): uk office opening — Anthropic announced plans for a new London office for up to 800 staff; it had more than 200 staff in London at the time. The CNBC report (URL dated 16 April 2026) would not open, and no Anthropic release was found.Big tech in the UKsingle_source
450. 2026-03-31investment pledgeDatabricks (UK): investment pledge US$850m (≈ £644.5m) — More than $850m UK investment over three years; new Fitzrovia headquartersBig tech in the UKsingle_source
451. 2026-03-30major contractLloyds Banking Group and University of Glasgow AI research partnership: major contract — Four-year AI software engineering research partnershipUniversity of GlasgowEstablished firmssingle_source
452. 2026-03-30funding roundLucida Medical: funding round £8.7m — Round with XTX Ventures and Macmillan Cancer Support.IW CapitalStart-upssingle_source
453. 2026-03-27funding roundGranola: funding round 93.4m GBP — Granola (AI notetaking) raised £93.4m (Series C), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Index VenturesInvestorssingle_source
454. 2026-03-27funding roundGiraffe360: funding round 7.5m GBP — Giraffe360 (AI property imaging) raised £7.5m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Cipio Partners, Founders Fund, Hoxton Ventures, LAUNCHub Ventures and othersInvestorssingle_source
455. 2026-03-27government contractHMRC–AWS server migration contract (2026): government contract £473m — HMRC awarded AWS a reported £473m ten-year cloud migration contract. Buys or funds: Ten-year move of HMRC servers from three Fujitsu data centres to AWS; AWS was the sole remaining bidder. (General cloud hosting, not AI compute.)HM Revenue and CustomsCloud and computesingle_source
456. 2026-03-25funding roundGranola: funding round US$125m (≈ £93.5m) — Series C.Index VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
457. 2026-03-25funding roundEunice: funding round US$8m (≈ £6m) — Round for AI due-diligence agentsMoonfire Ventures; SpeedinvestStart-upssingle_source
458. 2026-03-25funding roundEunice: funding round 8,000,000 (£6m) USD — Funding round for due-diligence infrastructure for regulated markets.Moonfire Ventures and Speedinvest (with Openspace Ventures, angels)Start-upssingle_source
459. 2026-03-24funding roundKraken: funding round US$140m (≈ £104.6m) — Origin buys about US$140m of Kraken shares plus 1.5% for giving up Australian exclusivity; ACCC approved 20 April 2026Origin Energy (seller CPP Investments)Start-upssingle_source
460. 2026-03-23investment pledgeAir Street Capital: investment pledge US$232.3m (≈ £173.6m) — Fund close: Fund III to back AI-first companies in North America and EuropeInvestorssingle_source
461. 2026-03-20funding roundFlexzo AI: funding round US$12m (≈ £9m) — Series A with Fuel Ventures.Octopus VenturesStart-upssingle_source
462. 2026-03-20funding roundNumonic: funding round £250,000 — £250,000 secured toward a £560k pre-seed for AI-content transparency and compliance tracking.Fuel VenturesAssurancesingle_source
463. 2026-03-20funding roundEdra: funding round 22.4m GBP — Edra (workflow automation (sector labelled AI)) raised £22.4m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Sequoia, 8VCInvestorssingle_source
464. 2026-03-18funding roundEnSilica: funding round — Placing of 10,972,234 new shares at 47p, subject to a general meeting on 7 April 2026; outcome not checked.Allenby Capital and Panmure Liberum (brokers)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
465. 2026-03-18funding roundVerbaFlo: funding round US$7m (≈ £5.3m) — Seed for a conversational AI platform that automates residential leasing and operations.Pi Labs (lead); Haatch; Navigate Ventures; Old College CapitalStart-upssingle_source
466. 2026-03-18funding roundEntourage AI: funding round US$5m (≈ £3.8m) — Pre-seed round at launch, with GU Holdings.ProvisionStart-upssingle_source
467. 2026-03-17funding roundFirst Concepts: funding round £750,000 — Pre-seed for a workspace that coordinates creative tools and AI models.Arāya Ventures; Antler (leads); angelsStart-upssingle_source
468. 2026-03-17funding roundLaminar: funding round US$3m (≈ £2.2m) — Laminar raised a $3m seed for its AI agent tracing and debugging platform. Buys or funds: Product development and go-to-market for agent observability. Other investors: Y Combinator; AAL.vc; angels Ben Sigelman, Ant Wilson.Atlantic.vc (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
469. 2026-03-17partnershipSnyk: partnership — Snyk and Tessl added security scores to all public agent skills in the Tessl Registry. Buys or funds: Security scanning of every skill in the Tessl Registry.TesslSoftware and toolssingle_source
470. 2026-03-17partnershipPhysicsX: partnership — Siemens collaboration on data-centre power For: Data centre power infrastructure. Other investors: NVIDIA.SiemensLabssingle_source
471. 2026-03-16acquisitionFaculty (acquired by Accenture): acquisition — Acquisition completed; 400+ staff join AccentureAccentureBig tech in the UKsingle_source
472. 2026-03-16investment pledgeSunrise, UKAEA Culham Campus: investment pledge £45m — Government funds a 1.4MW AI supercomputer at Culham.DESNZData centressingle_source
473. 2026-03-16acquisitionFaculty (services view; acquired by Accenture): acquisition — Accenture completed the Faculty purchase; 400+ staff joinedAccentureServices and skillsverified
474. 2026-03-16funding roundSpotlight Pathology: funding round £1.4m — Seed round.UKI2S and Liverpool City Region Seed FundStart-upssingle_source
475. 2026-03-16funding roundTernary Therapeutics: funding round £3.6m — Seed round.daphniStart-upssingle_source
476. 2026-03-16capacity contractNscale: capacity contract not disclosed — Microsoft signed a letter of intent for 1.35GW at Nscale's West Virginia campus. Buys or funds: 1.35GW of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 compute at the Monarch Compute Campus, Mason County, West Virginia (up to 2,250 acres, bought through AIPCorp); tranches from late 2027. Other investors: NVIDIA (Vera Rubin, DSX design); Caterpillar (G3500 gas generator sets, 2GW of on-site power).Microsoft (letter of intent)Cloud and computeverified
477. 2026-03-16investment pledgeNscale: investment pledge — Nscale said it would bring over 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin-generation GPUs to Europe from 2027, including UK sites. Buys or funds: Over 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and Grace Blackwell GPUs for European customers, deployed across UK and Norway sites in 2027; Microsoft named anchor customer.NVIDIACloud and computesingle_source
478. 2026-03-16partnershipHiverge: partnership — Hiverge works with NVIDIA, Quantinuum and AWS on quantum algorithm discovery. For: Hive used to search for quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimisation, simulated on NVIDIA GPUs on AWS and tested on Quantinuum hardware.NVIDIA; Quantinuum; AWSLabssingle_source
479. 2026-03-16partnershipWayve: partnership — Wayve and Nissan showed a robotaxi prototype built on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion. For: Robotaxi prototype for Uber trials shown at NVIDIA GTC 2026.Nissan; NVIDIA (DRIVE Hyperion)Labssingle_source
480. 2026-03-16partnershipAlphaFold Protein Structure Database: partnership — Four partners add millions of predicted protein complexes to the AlphaFold Database. For: Calculation of 30 million protein complexes; 1.7 million high-confidence homodimers added to the database (heterodimers added 19 May 2026). Other investors: EMBL-EBI; NVIDIA; Seoul National University.Google DeepMindLabssingle_source
481. 2026-03-13funding roundNscale: funding round 1.5bn GBP — Nscale (AI data centres and cloud) raised £1.5bn (Series C), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Aker ASA, 8090 Industries, Nvidia, Dell Technologies and othersInvestorssingle_source
482. 2026-03-13partnershipPhysicsX: partnership — PhysicsX powers GB1's America's Cup design For: Britain's America's Cup challenge yacht design.GB1Labssingle_source
483. 2026-03-12investment pledgeElsham Tech Park, North Lincolnshire: investment pledge £10bn — North Lincolnshire approves up to 1GW AI campus at Elsham; up to £10bn private investment (article date; decision date not given).Elsham Tech Park Ltd (Greystoke)Data centressingle_source
484. 2026-03-12funding roundHadean: funding round — Bridge round, total undisclosedBritish Business Bank (£2.1m); Booz Allen Ventures; Entrepreneur First; Twin Track VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
485. 2026-03-12funding roundHadean: funding round £2.1m — Bridge round (total undisclosed; figure is British Business Bank share)British Business Bank; Booz Allen Ventures; Entrepreneur First; Twin TrackStart-upssingle_source
486. 2026-03-12funding roundHadean: funding round total not disclosed (BBB £2.1m) GBP — Bridge round towards Series B for AI conflict-simulation firm.British Business Bank (£2.1m confirmed); also Booz Allen Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Twin Track VenturesStart-upssingle_source
487. 2026-03-12partnershipWayve: partnership — Wayve, Uber and Nissan signed an MoU to develop robotaxis, starting with a Tokyo pilot. For: Memorandum of understanding on robotaxis; Tokyo pilot planned late 2026.Uber; NissanLabssingle_source
488. 2026-03-11funding roundOutpost: funding round US$17.5m (≈ £13.1m) — Series A for an AI engine that applies tax and customs rules for cross-border merchants.Ribbit (lead); Better Tomorrow Ventures; angelsStart-upssingle_source
489. 2026-03-11partnershipPhysicsX: partnership — PhysicsX moved model training and customer deployment onto CoreWeave's GPU cloud. For: PhysicsX platform and pre-trained models run on CoreWeave; customers train private Large Physics Models there.CoreWeaveLabssingle_source
490. 2026-03-11partnershipPhysicsX: partnership — Compute partnership For: High-performance compute for physics AI.CoreWeaveLabssingle_source
491. 2026-03-10partnershipAntiverse: partnership — Antiverse and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation team up on antibodies For: Research agreement to develop new antibodies.Cystic Fibrosis FoundationLabssingle_source
492. 2026-03-10partnershipAntiverse: partnership — Antiverse and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation agreed to develop new antibodies. For: antibodies against the extracellular region of CFTR.Cystic Fibrosis FoundationLabsverified
493. 2026-03-09funding roundAugur: funding round US$15m (≈ £11.2m) — Plural led Augur's roundPlural (BIZ-INV-013) leadStart-upssingle_source
494. 2026-03-09funding roundIsembard: funding round US$50m (≈ £37.3m) — Series AUnion Square VenturesStart-upssingle_source
495. 2026-03-09funding roundAugur: funding round US$15m (≈ £11.2m) — Round with First Kind, SNR, Flix, Tiny VCPluralStart-upssingle_source
496. 2026-03-09funding roundAugur: funding round 15,000,000 (£11.2m) USD — Investment round for London defence-focused AI start-up.Plural (with First Kind, SNR, Flix, Tiny VC)Start-upssingle_source
497. 2026-03-09gpu purchaseNewcastle University: gpu purchase — Newcastle University deployed the Comet HPC system with OCF. Buys or funds: Lenovo servers, NVIDIA GPUs, Lustre storage. Other investors: Lenovo (hardware).BIZ-CLD-5004 OCFCloud and computesingle_source
498. 2026-03-09site openingComet, Newcastle University: site opening — OCF case study on Newcastle's Comet system. Buys or funds: Lenovo and NVIDIA HPC system with Lustre. Other investors: NVIDIA.OCF (BIZ-CLD-6001); Lenovo (BIZ-INV-2158)Cloud and computesingle_source
499. 2026-03-06funding roundOxa: funding round 77m GBP — Oxa (autonomous driving software (sector labelled AI/mobility)) raised £77m (Series D), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.National Wealth Fund, NVentures, IP Group, Hostplus and othersInvestorssingle_source
500. 2026-03-04funding roundOxa: funding round US$103m (≈ £77.1m) — Oxa, which makes self-driving software for industrial vehicles, closed the first part of its Series D at $103m, including an initial $50m commitment from the National Wealth Fund. A second close was not confirmed.National Wealth Fund (largest named commitment; no lead stated)Start-upsverified
501. 2026-03-04funding roundOxa: funding round US$50m (≈ £37.4m) — NWF initial commitment to Oxa's US$103m Series D first closeNational Wealth Fund (BIZ-INV-005)Start-upssingle_source
502. 2026-03-04funding roundOxa: funding round US$103m (≈ £77.1m) — Series D first closeNational Wealth Fund (US$50m initial commitment); NVentures, IP Group, Hostplus, bp VenturesStart-upsverified
503. 2026-03-04funding roundMutable Tactics: funding round US$2.1m (≈ £1.6m) — Pre-seed with NSSIFSeraphim SpaceStart-upssingle_source
504. 2026-03-04funding roundMutable Tactics: funding round 2,100,000 (£1.57m) USD — Pre-seed round for drone-fleet coordination software.Seraphim Space (with NSSIF, Koro, Entrepreneurs First, Transpose)Start-upssingle_source
505. 2026-03-04grantGentian: grant £80,000 — Credits for AI satellite analysis of wildlife habitats.Defra / Space Commercialisation Credits (seven winners share £560,000)Start-upssingle_source
506. 2026-03-04government contractFundamental AI Research Lab (DSIT and UKRI): government contract up to 40,000,000 GBP — Government opens a funding call for a new fundamental AI research lab. (Kind as written: government_contract (grant call; nearest listed kind).) For: Six years of fundamental AI research, plus in-kind AI Research Resource compute "worth tens of millions of pounds".Department for Science, Innovation and Technology; UKRI (EPSRC)Labsverified
507. 2026-03-04grantWellcome Sanger Institute AI genomics (Generative and Synthetic Genomics programme): grant — Google DeepMind funds a genomics-and-AI fellow at the Sanger; applications closed June 2026, fellow to be named winter 2026/27. For: One fully funded three-year Google DeepMind Fellowship in Genomics and AI at Sanger.Google DeepMind (Academic Fellowship Programme)Labsverified
508. 2026-03-04partnershipInstaDeep: partnership — InstaDeep signed a strategic partnership with pump maker Wilo. For: AI for water technology.Wilo GroupLabssingle_source
509. 2026-03-03funding roundAntiverse: funding round US$9.3m (≈ £7m) — Series A; DBW invested from Wales Technology Seed Fund II (amount not stated)Development Bank of Wales (BIZ-INV-052); Innovation Investment Capital (BIZ-INV-053)Start-upssingle_source
510. 2026-03-03funding roundAntiverse: funding round US$9.3m (≈ £7m) — Series A for AI-designed antibodies.Soulmates VenturesStart-upssingle_source
511. 2026-03-03funding roundBindbridge: funding round US$3.8m (≈ £2.9m) — Funding for an AI platform designing molecular glues for crop protection.Speedinvest; Nucleus CapitalStart-upssingle_source
512. 2026-03-02wind downSeldon: wind down — Seldon Technologies Limited resolved to wind up (20 February 2026); voluntary liquidator appointed 2 March 2026.FRP Advisory (liquidator)Software and toolsverified
513. 2026-03-02funding roundOptik AI: funding round £600,000 — Equity under Invest NI's access to finance programmeTechstart Ventures (Invest NI)Start-upssingle_source
514. 2026-03-02funding roundTileBio: funding round £1.6m — Seed round at launch, with Scottish Enterprise and GU Holdings.Twin Path VenturesStart-upssingle_source
515. 2026-03-02major contractReach plc: major contract — AI content deal between Reach and Amazon.Amazon Web ServicesEstablished firmssingle_source
516. 2026-03-02acquisitionVersori: acquisition — Avalara bought Manchester integration start-up Versori; founders stay. Buys or funds: Integration platform.AvalaraSoftware and toolssingle_source
517. 2026-03funding roundEarth Blox: funding round £6m — Round with Scottish Enterprise and ArchangelsPXN VenturesStart-upssingle_source
518. 2026-03funding roundEntourage AI: funding round US$5m (≈ £3.7m) — Pre-seed with GU Holdings and angelsProvision · month only given: rate for the 1stStart-upssingle_source
519. 2026-03funding roundTileBio: funding round £1.6m — Seed with Scottish Enterprise and GU HoldingsTwin Path VenturesStart-upssingle_source
520. 2026-03partnershipLatent Labs: partnership — Latent Labs partners with NVIDIA and Nebius For: Compute partnership (announced March 2026, per trade).NVIDIA and NebiusLabssingle_source
521. 2026-02-28wind downLenus Health: wind down — Dissolved after administration.Start-upssingle_source
522. 2026-02-27funding roundWayve: funding round 888m GBP — Wayve (autonomous driving software (sector labelled AI)) raised £888m (Series D), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Eclipse, Balderton, SoftBank, Microsoft and othersInvestorssingle_source
523. 2026-02-26funding roundEncord: funding round US$60m (≈ £44.4m) — Series C; total funding US$110m.Wellington ManagementSoftware and toolsverified
524. 2026-02-26funding roundSolveAI: funding round US$45m (≈ £33.3m) — Series A, with a previously undisclosed US$5m seed led by Accel.GV (Google Ventures)Software and toolssingle_source
525. 2026-02-26funding roundSolveAI: funding round US$5m (≈ £3.7m) — Earlier seed, disclosed with the Series A (actual date not stated).AccelSoftware and toolssingle_source
526. 2026-02-26uk office openingOpenAI London research hub: uk office opening — OpenAI names London its largest research hub outside San Francisco.OpenAILabssingle_source
527. 2026-02-26compute grantUKRI National Compute Resources (NCR): compute grant £76m — UKRI put £76m into four new national research computers, two of them GPU systems. Buys or funds: Four NCR systems: Birmingham (GPU), Cambridge (GPU), Edinburgh (CPU), UCL (CPU); equipment plus five years of service to 2031.UKRICloud and computesingle_source
528. 2026-02-26compute grantCharger (UCL-led National Compute Resource): compute grant £19.5m — UCL-led NCR award (UKRI quote on same page gives £19.4m). Buys or funds: Equipment and five years of service to 2031; more than 37,000 CPU cores. Other investors: HPE (supplier); DataVita (host).UKRICloud and computeverified
529. 2026-02-26funding roundCallosum: funding round US$10.2m (≈ £7.6m) — Callosum, founded by Cambridge scientists, raised $10.25m (£7.5m) led by Plural, six months before its £73.5m round. Buys or funds: systems software letting AI models work across chip architectures. Other investors: Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA); angels.Plural (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
530. 2026-02-25funding roundWayve: funding round US$1.20bn (≈ £886.7m) — Wayve, which makes self-driving software for cars, raised a $1.2bn Series D at an $8.6bn post-money valuation; Wayve puts total capital secured at $1.5bn including milestone-based investment from Uber. TechCrunch published the story at 16:37 PST on 24 February.Eclipse, Balderton, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (co-leads)Labsverified
531. 2026-02-25funding roundWayve: funding round US$1.20bn (≈ £886.7m) — Series DEclipse, Balderton, SoftBank Vision Fund 2Labsverified
532. 2026-02-25funding roundBeyondMath: funding round US$10m (≈ £7.4m) — Seed extension (£7.4m); completed seed £13.8mCambridge Innovation CapitalLabssingle_source
533. 2026-02-25compute grantUKRI National Compute Resources (NCR): compute grant £76m — UKRI's first major Compute Roadmap investment; NCRs to run by Autumn 2026. Buys or funds: Four NCRs: Edinburgh (Cirrus), Birmingham (Baskerville), Cambridge (GPU system), UCL (Charger).UKRICloud and computeverified
534. 2026-02-25compute grantCirrus: compute grant £19.5m — NCR award to enhance and expand Cirrus. Buys or funds: Expansion of the CPU-only Cirrus system at EPCC.UKRICloud and computeverified
535. 2026-02-25funding roundTrace: funding round US$3m (≈ £2.2m) — YC page lists a TechCrunch headline that Trace raised $3M.not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
536. 2026-02-25funding roundWayve: funding round not stated (package $1.5B incl. $1.2B Series D, DEAL-LAB-005) USD — Uber added milestone-based capital on top of Wayve's $1.2B Series D, a $1.5B package. For: Scaling Wayve-powered robotaxi deployments. Valuation reported: $8.6B post-money.Uber (milestone-based capital, alongside Series D)Labssingle_source
537. 2026-02-25partnershipBeyondMath: partnership US$19m (≈ £14m) — BeyondMath works with Honeywell on STRATA, described as a $19m, three-year project. For: STRATA, a three-year project.HoneywellLabssingle_source
538. 2026-02-25partnershipChemify: partnership — Chemify and Sanacor collaborate on cardiometabolic drugs For: Small-molecule therapies for cardiometabolic diseases.SanacorLabssingle_source
539. 2026-02-24funding roundBrainomix: funding round £4.8m — Series C extension with Modi Ventures; round total £18.8m.Parkwalk Advisors and Hostplus (IP Group Hostplus Innovation Fund)Start-upssingle_source
540. 2026-02-24mergerOri: merger not disclosed — Ori merged into Brookfield-backed Radiant. Buys or funds: Joins Ori's AI cloud platform with Radiant's powered land and capital; Radiant to keep running the Ori Global AI Cloud. Other investors: Brookfield AI Infrastructure Fund (BAIIF).Radiant (BIZ-CLD-3006), a Brookfield portfolio companyCloud and computesingle_source
541. 2026-02-20funding roundFyld: funding round 32m GBP — Fyld (AI risk analysis of worksite video) raised £32m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Energy Impact Partners, PartechInvestorssingle_source
542. 2026-02-20funding roundKlaris: funding round £730,000 — Klaris (AI regulatory-approval tool) raised £730,000 (Pre-seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Meridian Health VenturesInvestorssingle_source
543. 2026-02-20funding roundMade With Intent: funding round 2.4m GBP — Made With Intent (AI ecommerce customer insight) raised £2.4m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.PXN VenturesInvestorssingle_source
544. 2026-02-19funding roundStacks: funding round US$23m (≈ £17.1m) — Series A for an agentic AI platform for enterprise finance teams.Lightspeed Ventures (lead); EQT Ventures; General Catalyst; S16VCStart-upssingle_source
545. 2026-02-19grantThe Alignment Project: grant £27m — First-round awards of £27m to 60 alignment research projects, including £12m of new funding.60 grantees, including LawZero (Yoshua Bengio's non-profit)Safetyverified
546. 2026-02-19investment pledgeThe Alignment Project: investment pledge £5.6m — OpenAI's contribution to the Alignment Project fund, reported in AISI's first-round announcement.OpenAISafetysingle_source
547. 2026-02-19grantThe Alignment Project: grant 27,000,000 in total, incl. 12,000,000 new GBP reported — AISI's Alignment Project funds 60 projects and adds partners, taking the fund to £27m For: First 60 alignment research grants, chosen from 800+ applications. Other investors: New partners: OpenAI (£5.6m), Microsoft, Australian AI Safety Institute, AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund, Sympatico Ventures, Renaissance Philanthropy.AI Security InstituteLabssingle_source
548. 2026-02-18funding roundFyld: funding round £32m — Series B for AI that assesses job-site risk from worker videos.Energy Impact Partners (lead); PartechStart-upssingle_source
549. 2026-02-17funding roundKlaris: funding round US$1m (≈ £740,576) — Pre-seed with Antler, Vento Ventures, Alecla7 and angels.Meridian Health VenturesStart-upssingle_source
550. 2026-02-17funding roundSurrealDB: funding round US$23m (≈ £17m) — Series A extension for a multi-model database built for AI systems.Chalfen Ventures; Begin Capital; FirstMark; GeorgianSoftware and toolssingle_source
551. 2026-02-16grantThe Alan Turing Institute (AI assurance and security work): grant £1.2m reported — A Dstl–EPSRC sandpit funds a £1.25m Turing-led AI project for intelligence analysts. For: AiTASHA: two-year explainable-AI programme to help intelligence analysts choose which data to review and collect. Other investors: Partners: University of Warwick; University of Southampton; Heriot-Watt University; Cardiff University.Dstl and EPSRC (co-invested sandpit)Labssingle_source
552. 2026-02-13funding roundElectric Twin: funding round 10m GBP — Electric Twin (AI synthetic audiences for market research) raised £10m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Atomico, LocalGlobe, Mercuri, Samos InvestmentsInvestorssingle_source
553. 2026-02-12funding roundStanhope AI: funding round US$8m (≈ £5.9m) — Round for brain-inspired AI tested in drone piloting and robotics.Frontline Ventures (lead); Paladin Capital Group; Auxxo; UCL Technology Fund; MMC VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
554. 2026-02-12funding roundChemify: funding round — Japanese materials firm Zeon invests in Chemify For: Automated molecular design and synthesis for new materials.Zeon Corporation (strategic investment)Labssingle_source
555. 2026-02-11funding roundOccam: funding round £2.6m — Pre-seed for software-only autonomy for drones tested with Ukraine's military.Presto Tech Horizons, Antler, Freedom Fund, TYR.vcStart-upssingle_source
556. 2026-02-11funding roundMozart AI: funding round US$6m (≈ £4.4m) — Seed for a music workstation with generative AI tools.Balderton Capital (lead); Mercuri; EWOR; Kevin HartzStart-upssingle_source
557. 2026-02-10investment pledgeFractile: investment pledge £100m — Planned £100m expansion of London and Bristol sites, including a hardware engineering facility.Chips and hardwaresingle_source
558. 2026-02-10funding roundtem: funding round US$75m (≈ £54.8m) — Series BLightspeedStart-upssingle_source
559. 2026-02-10investment pledgeFractile: investment pledge £100m — £100m expansion of UK sites in London and Bristol, including a new industrial hardware engineering facility.not stated in the researchChips and hardwaresingle_source
560. 2026-02-09investment pledgePulsant: investment pledge £10m — 1.2MW high-density data hall expansion at Milton Keynes.not stated in the researchData centressingle_source
561. 2026-02-06funding roundElevenLabs: funding round 368m GBP — ElevenLabs (AI voice generation) raised £368m (Series D), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Sequoia, a16z, Iconiq, BroadLight and othersInvestorssingle_source
562. 2026-02-05funding roundLawhive: funding round £44m — Series BMitch RalesStart-upssingle_source
563. 2026-02-05funding roundDecima2: funding round £480,000 — Pre-seed of £335,000 equity plus £125,000 grant for causal modelling and generative AI for marketing.Haatch; Nicolas Dessaigne; grant supportStart-upssingle_source
564. 2026-02-04funding roundElevenLabs: funding round US$500m (≈ £365.9m) — ElevenLabs, which makes AI voice and audio software, raised a $500m Series D led by Sequoia Capital, valuing it at $11bn.Sequoia CapitalLabsverified
565. 2026-02-04funding roundElevenLabs: funding round US$500m (≈ £365.9m) — Series DSequoia CapitalLabsverified
566. 2026-02-04funding roundPolaron: funding round US$8m (≈ £5.9m) — Round of £5.85m with Speedinvest, FuturepresentRacine2Start-upssingle_source
567. 2026-02-02government contractMatNex (Materials Nexus): government contract undisclosed (part of £8m UKAEA commitment to UK firms) GBP reported — UKAEA awarded MatNex a contract for project SHINE. For: project SHINE (shielding and fusion fuel technology).UKAEALabssingle_source
568. 2026-02major contracti.AI Augmented Planning Decisions contract (Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, Faculty): major contract — Contract for AI planning-decision software; Faculty delivery partneri.AI (DSIT) and MHCLG; Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, FacultyServices and skillssingle_source
569. 2026-02grantARIA Scaling Inference Lab: grant £50m — ARIA investment in a new lab on scaling AI inference.ARIACloud and computesingle_source
570. 2026-02compute grantBaskerville GPU National Compute Resource: compute grant £18m — Birmingham's NCR award to host the Baskerville GPU resource. Buys or funds: Liquid-cooled, GPU-centric Lenovo system, launch 2027. Other investors: Lenovo (supplier).UKRICloud and computesingle_source
571. 2026-02capacity contractDataVita: capacity contract — Scottish data-centre firm to host UCL's national compute resource. Buys or funds: Hosting of Charger at DataVita's Lanarkshire campus.UCL (customer)Cloud and computeverified
572. 2026-01-29investment pledgeLanarkshire AI Growth Zone campus (DataVita DV1 and DV3, Chapelhall): investment pledge £8.20bn — Lanarkshire named AI Growth Zone; £8.2bn private investment zone-wide.DataVita; CoreWeaveData centresverified
573. 2026-01-29funding roundAutomata: funding round US$45m (≈ £32.7m) — Series C with Danaher as strategic investorDimensionStart-upsverified
574. 2026-01-29grantCentre for AI Measurement (National Physical Laboratory): grant £10.5m reported — Government backs NPL's new Centre for AI Measurement with £10.5m For: A national centre for measurement science in AI testing and assurance.UK Government (DSIT AI Assurance Innovation Fund)Labssingle_source
575. 2026-01-28investment pledgeTechLocal: investment pledge 27,000,000 (over four years) GBP — TechLocal stated as £27m over four years; two grant competitions of up to £7.6m and £7.8m.Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyServices and skillsverified
576. 2026-01-28partnershipElevenLabs: partnership — Revolut deployed ElevenLabs voice agents for customer support in the UK and Europe. For: Voice agents as first line of support for over 4 million UK and European customers, 31+ languages.Revolut (customer)Labssingle_source
577. 2026-01-28partnershipPrima Mente: partnership — Goodfire and Prima Mente used interpretability methods on Pleiades to identify DNA fragment-length biomarkers. For: Interpretability study on Pleiades to find Alzheimer's biomarkers.GoodfireLabssingle_source
578. 2026-01-27major contractAnthropic–UK government memorandum of understanding and GOV.UK assistant: major contract — Selected to help build an AI assistant for GOV.UKDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology; Government Digital ServiceBig tech in the UKsingle_source
579. 2026-01-27funding roundFlowla: funding round US$2.5m (≈ £1.8m) — Seed for AI automation for sales and customer success teams.Revo Capital (lead); AI Startup Factory, Turkiye Development Fund, APY Ventures and angelsStart-upssingle_source
580. 2026-01-26investment pledgeDawn, Cambridge: investment pledge £36m — Government funds sixfold expansion of Dawn with AMD MI355X GPUs.UK GovernmentData centressingle_source
581. 2026-01-26funding roundSynthesia: funding round US$200m (≈ £145.9m) — Synthesia, which makes AI video with digital presenters, raised a $200m Series E at a $4bn valuation, led by GV.GV (Google Ventures)Labsverified
582. 2026-01-26funding roundSynthesia: funding round US$200m (≈ £145.9m) — Series EGVLabsverified
583. 2026-01-26funding roundOrbital: funding round US$60m (≈ £43.8m) — Series BBrighton Park CapitalStart-upsverified
584. 2026-01-26major contractDell Technologies (UK): major contract £36m — Government funding of £36m to raise Cambridge's Dawn AI supercomputing capacity sixfold by spring 2026, using Dell servers and AMD MI355X GPUs (contract value not published).University of Cambridge; AMDBig tech in the UKsingle_source
585. 2026-01-26grantFinspector: grant £50,000 — Award in FRIL consumer-wealth innovation call.Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FinTech Scotland, with SuperTech WM)Start-upssingle_source
586. 2026-01-26grantPlanda: grant £50,000 — Award in FRIL consumer-wealth innovation call.Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FinTech Scotland, with SuperTech WM)Start-upssingle_source
587. 2026-01-26grantAmplified Global: grant £50,000 — Award in FRIL consumer-wealth innovation call.Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FinTech Scotland, with SuperTech WM)Start-upssingle_source
588. 2026-01-26grantAfternoon (Afternoon Finance): grant £50,000 — Award in FRIL consumer-wealth innovation call.Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FinTech Scotland, with SuperTech WM)Start-upssingle_source
589. 2026-01-26grantZenith, University of Cambridge: grant £36m — Investment in Cambridge AI compute: Sector Plan calls it the new Zenith supercomputer; the 26 January 2026 release describes a sixfold Dawn expansion with Dell and AMD MI355X GPUs.DSITCloud and computesingle_source
590. 2026-01-26gpu purchaseDawn, Cambridge: gpu purchase — (inside £36m, DEAL-CLD-2025) — First AMD MI355X access for AIRR researchers; capacity from Spring 2026. Buys or funds: AMD Instinct MI355X in Dell PowerEdge servers. Other investors: Dell Technologies (BIZ-BIG-2032); StackHPC (BIZ-CLD-2081).AMD (BIZ-BIG-2012)Cloud and computesingle_source
591. 2026-01-26secondary saleSynthesia: secondary sale not disclosed — Synthesia ran an employee share sale with NASDAQ at its $4B valuation. For: Liquidity for long-serving staff alongside the $200M Series E (DEAL-LAB-008). Valuation reported: $4B. [Labs Round 7] Employee share sale (tender offer): existing shares sold, not money raised.NASDAQ (employee secondary sale)Labssingle_source
592. 2026-01-22funding roundOptalysys: funding round £23m — Series A extension ahead of US expansion.Northern Gritstone (lead)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
593. 2026-01-22renameKheiron Medical Technologies (now DeepHealth UK): rename — UK company renamed DeepHealth UK Limited.DeepHealth UK LimitedStart-upsverified
594. 2026-01-21funding roundAntidote: funding round US$5m (≈ £3.7m) — SeedLakestarStart-upssingle_source
595. 2026-01-20major contractHSBC Holdings plc: major contract — Pilot of Harvey's legal AI platform in HSBC Global Legal.HarveyEstablished firmssingle_source
596. 2026-01-20major contractFiretail Limited: major contract £19,793 — Research contract on AI search tools and website traffic, February to March 2026.Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyServices and skillssingle_source
597. 2026-01-20partnershipIsomorphic Labs: partnership — Isomorphic signs a cross-modality research deal with Johnson & Johnson. For: Multi-target research using Isomorphic's design engine across small molecules, antibodies, peptides and molecular glues.Johnson & JohnsonLabssingle_source
598. 2026-01-19renameOLIX (formerly Flux Corp): rename — Flux Corp Ltd renamed OLIX Computing Limited.Chips and hardwareverified
599. 2026-01-19funding roundElyos AI: funding round US$13m (≈ £9.7m) — Series A with Y Combinator and Pi LabsBlackbird VenturesStart-upssingle_source
600. 2026-01-19acquisitionHuman Native: acquisition — Cloudflare bought the London AI data marketplace that turns content into licensable datasets; price undisclosed.CloudflareSoftware and toolssingle_source
601. 2026-01-14partnershipElevenLabs: partnership — Deutsche Telekom put ElevenLabs voice agents into its customer service. For: ElevenLabs voice agents in Deutsche Telekom customer service.Deutsche TelekomLabssingle_source
602. 2026-01-14partnershipUK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) fusion AI and computing programme: partnership — digiLab's models let UKAEA explore reactor designs around 100,000 times faster (company figure). For: Machine-learning models with quantified uncertainty for plasma turbulence, and Bayesian optimisation of sensor placement, for STEP.digiLab (BIZ-SU-OTH-506)Labssingle_source
603. 2026-01-12funding roundBasecamp Research: funding round — NVIDIA investment confirmed alongside the EDEN model release (headline only). For: EDEN programmable gene-insertion models. Other investors: — (an FT headline says Nvidia and Microsoft "back" the work; Microsoft investment not confirmed).NVIDIALabssingle_source
604. 2026-01-08funding roundBoltz: funding round US$28m (≈ £20.8m) — Boltz launches as a public benefit corporation with a $28m seed. For: seed; launch of Boltz PBC and Boltz Lab. Other investors: Factorial Capital; Obvious Ventures; angels incl. Clement Delangue.Zetta; Amplify; a16z (lead not stated)Labssingle_source
605. 2026-01-08partnershipBoltz: partnership — Boltz and Pfizer sign a multi-year strategic collaboration; Pfizer keeps ownership of compounds. For: multi-year access to Boltz Lab and custom models for Pfizer scientists.PfizerLabssingle_source
606. 2026-01-06acquisitionFaculty (acquired by Accenture): acquisition — Accenture agrees to buy Faculty; terms not disclosedAccentureBig tech in the UKsingle_source
607. 2026-01-06acquisitionFaculty (acquired by Accenture): acquisition — Accenture agreed to buy Faculty, a London AI company with over 400 AI staff; terms not disclosed. Completed 16 March 2026.AccentureBig tech in the UKverified
608. 2026-01-06acquisitionFaculty AI evaluations and red teaming: acquisition — Accenture agreed to acquire Faculty; terms and completion not stated (may duplicate a Big tech page deal)AccentureSafetysingle_source
609. 2026-01-06acquisitionFaculty (services view; acquired by Accenture): acquisition — Accenture agreed to buy Faculty (completed 2026-03-16; see DEAL-SVC-014)AccentureServices and skillsverified
610. 2026-01-06acquisitionFaculty (Faculty Frontier): acquisition — Accenture agreed to acquire Faculty; Accenture plc recorded as owner from 12 March 2026.AccentureSoftware and toolsverified
611. 2026-01funding roundFluidstack: funding round US$830m (≈ £617.1m) — Series A at a $7.5bn valuation.Situational Awareness · month only given: rate for the 1stCloud and computesingle_source
612. 2026-01acquisitionMultiverse: acquisition — Multiverse acquired Berlin-based StackFuelStackFuel (target, Berlin)Start-upssingle_source
613. 2026uk office closureStability AI: uk office closure — London office closed; focus moved to the US (Los Angeles)Labssingle_source
614. 2026funding roundElectric Twin: funding round £10m — Round earlier in 2026 (month not given)AtomicoStart-upssingle_source
615. 2026funding roundHypervision Surgical: funding round £17m — King's reports the spin-out "recently raised £17 million".Start-upssingle_source
616. 2026-01funding roundParloa (UK office): funding round US$350m (≈ £260.2m) — Parloa closed a $350m (£260m) Series D at a $3bn valuation.not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
617. 2026funding roundNscale: funding round US$2bn (≈ £1.49bn) — Series C at a $14.6bn valuation, including a pre-Series C SAFE.Aker ASA and 8090 Industries (leads)Cloud and computesingle_source
618. 2026funding roundNscale: funding round US$1.40bn (≈ £1.04bn) — GPU-backed delayed draw term loan reported alongside the Series C.Pimco; Blue Owl; LuminArx Capital Management (lenders)Cloud and computesingle_source
619. 2026grantUKAEA fusion energy supercomputer: grant £45m — Funding to build a supercomputer for fusion energy research, due later in 2026.DSIT / UK Atomic Energy AuthorityCloud and computesingle_source
620. 2026investment pledgeANS (ANS Group): investment pledge £3m — ANS announced £3m of funding for UK businesses' AI transformation projects. Buys or funds: AI transformation projects via ANS AI workshops.UK businesses (recipients)Cloud and computesingle_source
621. 2026funding roundBIZ-SW-5025 Hessian: funding round — Hessian joined Y Combinator. Buys or funds: YC Spring 2026 batch.Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
622. 2026partnershipPrima Mente: partnership — Nebius supplies reserved GPU compute to Prima Mente; pre-training throughput rose 12%. For: Reserved 32-GPU NVIDIA H200 cluster for Pleiades pre-training and scaling.Nebius (BIZ-BIG-021)Labssingle_source
623. 2025-12-29funding roundKraken: funding round US$1bn (≈ £740.7m) — New and existing investors bought about $1bn of Kraken equity, led by D1 Capital Partners with Fidelity International, Durable Capital Partners and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan; release published by OTPP on 5 January 2026.D1 Capital PartnersStart-upssingle_source
624. 2025-12-29funding roundKraken: funding round US$1bn (≈ £740.7m) — c. US$1bn of Kraken equity sold to investors; Octopus keeps 13.7%D1 Capital Partners; Fidelity International; Durable Capital Partners; Ontario Teachers'Start-upsverified
625. 2025-12-24funding roundScrubMarine: funding round US$1m (≈ £740,357) — Funding for autonomous robots for maritime inspection and maintenance.PXN Ventures; SFC Capital; angelsStart-upssingle_source
626. 2025-12-19wind downHumanising Autonomy: wind down — Company dissolvedStart-upssingle_source
627. 2025-12-19funding roundPolyAI: funding round 64.3m GBP — PolyAI (AI voice agents for customer service) raised £64.3m (Series D), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.British Business Bank, Georgian, Hedosophia, Khosla Ventures and othersInvestorssingle_source
628. 2025-12-18acquisitionQualcomm (UK) — Alphawave Semi: acquisition — Acquisition of Alphawave IP Group plc completedQualcomm IncorporatedBig tech in the UKsingle_source
629. 2025-12-18acquisitionAlphawave Semi: acquisition — Completion of the acquisition; Tony Pialis to lead Qualcomm's data-centre business.Qualcomm IncorporatedChips and hardwaresingle_source
630. 2025-12-18partnershipPhysicsX: partnership — PhysicsX selected for Microsoft's Agentic Launchpad For: Selection for Microsoft programme.Microsoft (Agentic Launchpad programme)Labssingle_source
631. 2025-12-17funding roundAnkar: funding round US$20m (≈ £14.9m) — Series A for an AI platform covering the patent lifecycle.Atomico (lead); Index Ventures; Norrsken VC; DaphniStart-upssingle_source
632. 2025-12-17major contractPA Consulting Services Limited (AI work): major contract £78,000 — Ofsted "Agentic AI Support" contract, a G-Cloud 14 call-off, December 2025 to February 2026.OfstedServices and skillssingle_source
633. 2025-12-15funding roundPolyAI: funding round US$86m (≈ £64.2m) — Series DGeorgian, Hedosophia, Khosla VenturesLabssingle_source
634. 2025-12-15major contractTesco and Mistral AI three-year generative AI agreement: major contract — Tesco signs a three-year generative AI agreement with Mistral AI, including a joint AI lab.Mistral AI (BIZ-BIG-008)Established firmssingle_source
635. 2025-12-15acquisitionNscale: acquisition — Nscale bought data-centre engineering firm Future-tech to speed up building its sites. Buys or funds: About 60 staff: designers, engineers, project managers and operators; price not disclosed; Future-tech described as "Based in Europe".Future-tech (data-centre design, build and management consultancy)Cloud and computesingle_source
636. 2025-12-12major contractCrown Commercial Service Technology Services 4 framework (RM6190): major contract — Framework signed with 375 suppliers including most firms on this pageCrown Commercial ServiceServices and skillssingle_source
637. 2025-12-12funding roundMatta: funding round US$14m (≈ £10.5m) — SeedLakestar; Giant VenturesStart-upssingle_source
638. 2025-12-11major contractAviva and hyperexponential AI underwriting partnership: major contract — Full suite of hx AI pricing tools for Global Corporate & SpecialtyhyperexponentialEstablished firmssingle_source
639. 2025-12-11gpu purchaseCalder, University of Leeds: gpu purchase — Leeds buys its next HPC from MTI on Dell hardware. Buys or funds: 56 NVIDIA H200; 12,228 AMD cores; 5.4 PB Lustre. Other investors: Dell Technologies (hardware); Cambridge Research Computing (support).MTI (BIZ-CLD-6004)Cloud and computesingle_source
640. 2025-12-11partnershipGoogle DeepMind: partnership — Google DeepMind signed a new MoU with AISI on safety research. For: MoU on foundational safety and security research: chain-of-thought monitoring, socio-affective harms, economic simulation.UK AI Security Institute (record BIZ-SAFE-2085)Labsverified
641. 2025-12-10acquisitionRobin AI: acquisition — Scissero bought Robin AI's managed-services teamScissero (BIZ-SU-LEG-002)Start-upssingle_source
642. 2025-12-10funding roundBolt Insight: funding round £7m — Round for AI-moderated consumer research (BoltChatAI).Pembroke VCT (lead); 212; Active Partners; Velocity; TIBAS VenturesStart-upssingle_source
643. 2025-12-10funding roundMatta: funding round 14m USD — Matta (AI for factory production lines) raised $14m (Seed), reported by tech.eu.Lakestar, Giant Ventures, RedSeed VC, InMotion Ventures and othersInvestorssingle_source
644. 2025-12-10partnershipGoogle DeepMind: partnership — Google DeepMind widened its partnership with the UK government across science, education, public services and security. For: UK automated materials lab (2026); priority access to four AI-for-science models for UK scientists; education, public services (i.AI Extract) and national-security work.UK government (record BIZ-BIG-2009)Labsverified
645. 2025-12-10partnershipWayve: partnership — Nissan and Wayve signed definitive agreements for next-generation driver assistance. For: Wayve AI driving software in next-generation ProPILOT driver assistance; first model in Japan in fiscal 2027.NissanLabssingle_source
646. 2025-12-10partnershipGoogle DeepMind UK automated materials science lab: partnership — Google DeepMind commits to open an automated materials science lab in the UK in 2026. For: Google DeepMind's first automated lab in the UK (planned 2026), within an expanded partnership with the UK government.UK governmentLabsverified
647. 2025-12-10partnershipGoogle DeepMind: partnership — DeepMind–UK government partnership (record already on site as BIZ-BIG-2009; deal row only) For: Science model access; first UK automated lab (2026); AISI, cyber and education work.UK GovernmentLabssingle_source
648. 2025-12-09partnershipAnduril UK: partnership — Teaming agreement with GKN Aerospace (Cowes, Isle of Wight) and Archer to bid for the MoD's Project NYX, supporting 100+ UK engineering jobs. (Big tech file line 108; no source link given.)GKN Aerospace; ArcherBig tech in the UKsingle_source
649. 2025-12-05funding roundAzoma (new): funding round US$4m (≈ £3m) — Pre-Series A for a platform helping retailers gain visibility in AI search.Ignite Ventures, Rank Ventures, eBay Ventures x Techstars, Twinpath, MaRS IAF; angelssingle_source
650. 2025-12-03major contractLSEG and OpenAI collaboration: major contract — MCP connector for ChatGPT; ChatGPT Enterprise for about 4,000 LSEG staffOpenAIEstablished firmssingle_source
651. 2025-12-03funding roundSearchable: funding round US$4m (≈ £3m) — Seed for tools showing how large language models read and rank brand content.Freestyle VC (lead)Start-upssingle_source
652. 2025-12-03funding roundModo Energy: funding round £25m — Series B for AI-powered software that values batteries, renewables and other electrification assets.Molten Ventures (lead); ETF Partners; MMC Ventures; Fred. Olsen LimitedStart-upssingle_source
653. 2025-12-03funding roundCrediflow AI: funding round £200,000 — PraeSeed investment for AI that automates credit analysis for lenders.PXN Ventures (PraeSeed programme)Start-upssingle_source
654. 2025-12-03funding roundNeuWave Technologies (new): funding round £200,000 — PraeSeed investment for AI that judges offshore safety from historical data.PXN Ventures (PraeSeed programme)single_source
655. 2025-12-03funding roundFeasibly: funding round £200,000 — PraeSeed investment for geospatial AI that assesses solar sites.PXN Ventures (PraeSeed programme)Start-upssingle_source
656. 2025-12-03funding roundRevela (formerly Spotlight Health): funding round £200,000 — PraeSeed investment for AI analysis of ultrasound scans for endometriosis.PXN Ventures (PraeSeed programme)Start-upssingle_source
657. 2025-12-03spin outCogStack: spin out — King's announces CogStack as a spin-out company.King's College LondonStart-upssingle_source
658. 2025-12-03funding roundMater-AI: funding round £1.5m — Round for AI thermoelectric-materials discovery.Twin Path VenturesLabssingle_source
659. 2025-12-03grantAnteam: grant £130,000 — Phase 2 award for AI platform matching empty transport space with demand.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 4 phase 2Start-upssingle_source
660. 2025-12-03grantSpatialCortex Technology Ltd: grant £129,840 — Phase 2 award for MOVA wearable posture monitor.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 4 phase 2Start-upssingle_source
661. 2025-12-03grantSupply Chain Analysis Ltd: grant £111,696 — Phase 2 award; tool forecasts trailer dwell times with DFDS.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 4 phase 2; partner DFDSStart-upssingle_source
662. 2025-12-03grantZizo: grant £100,006 — Phase 2 award for Zizo Confluence with generative AI. Connected Places Catapult separately cites £130,000 from the accelerator; figures differ.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 4 phase 2Start-upssingle_source
663. 2025-12-03partnershipArgyll–SambaNova sovereign AI inference cloud: partnership — Argyll and SambaNova set a Q1 2026 launch for a UK sovereign inference cloud on SambaNova hardware. Buys or funds: SambaRack SN40-16 inference platform in existing UK data centres. Other investors: Argyll Data Development (BIZ-CLD-2049).SambaNovaCloud and computesingle_source
664. 2025-12-03partnershipHartree Centre: partnership — Collaboration agreement and Joint Statement of Endeavour. Buys or funds: QRNG use cases; probabilistic computing validation (BIZ-CLD-6027).Quantum DiceCloud and computesingle_source
665. 2025-12-02partnershipFrontier AI Research Lab (Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London): partnership undisclosed ("guaranteed multi-year funding") — Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London set up a five-year frontier AI lab in London. For: Five-year joint lab at Imperial: research staff, more than a dozen PhD students, access to Imperial's computing cluster.Thomson Reuters; Imperial College LondonLabsverified
666. 2025-12-01major contractHSBC and Mistral AI partnership: major contract — Multi-year partnership giving HSBC self-hosted access to Mistral's commercial modelsMistral AIEstablished firmsverified
667. 2025-12listingTeraView: listing — Listing at reported market value of US$193m; exchange and date not verifiedChips and hardwaresingle_source
668. 2025-12-01acquisitionWayve: acquisition — Wayve bought German data quality start-up Quality Match; its CEO became Wayve director of data. Buys or funds: Data quality assurance for AI training data; 20 staff.Quality Match (target)Software and toolssingle_source
669. 2025-12major contractPalantir–Ministry of Defence strategic partnership: major contract £240m — MoD contract to scale Palantir's Foundry and AIP across UK military command and intelligence work; debated in the Commons on 10 February 2026. (Big tech file line 105; no source link given.)Ministry of DefenceBig tech in the UKsingle_source
670. 2025-11-28funding roundTyten: funding round £750,000 — Investment in an AI platform that automates facilities-management help desks.Fuel Ventures; Concrete Ventures; Antler; angelsStart-upssingle_source
671. 2025-11-28funding roundWhitespace: funding round £10m — Series A for sovereign AI software supplied to defence and national security bodies.Beach Equity; White CloudStart-upssingle_source
672. 2025-11-28funding roundWhitespace: funding round US$13m (≈ £9.8m) — Series A of $13m (about £10m)Beach Equity and White CloudStart-upssingle_source
673. 2025-11-28funding roundWhitespace: funding round £10m — Series A for Belfast sovereign-AI software provider.Beach Equity; White Cloud (lead not stated)Start-upssingle_source
674. 2025-11-28funding roundWhitespace: funding round 10m GBP — Whitespace (enterprise AI) raised £10m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Beach Equity, White CloudInvestorssingle_source
675. 2025-11-28funding roundProcure AI: funding round 9.8m GBP — Procure AI (AI procurement software) raised £9.8m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Headline, C4 Ventures, Futury CapitalInvestorssingle_source
676. 2025-11-28wind downARIA Safeguarded AI programme: wind down TA2 Phase 1 had planned 18,000,000 GBP — ARIA stops Safeguarded AI's TA2 after faster-than-expected frontier AI progress (Kind as written: wind_down (of one strand, TA2, not the programme).) For: Ends the planned machine-learning organisation (TA2); scope folded into an applications strand; TA1 toolkit to go open source.ARIALabsverified
677. 2025-11-27funding roundProcure AI: funding round US$13m (≈ £9.8m) — Seed for AI-native procurement software with AI agents.Headline (lead); C4 Ventures; Futury Capital; angelsStart-upssingle_source
678. 2025-11-27funding roundNeuracore: funding round US$3m (≈ £2.3m) — Round for a robot learning platform providing data infrastructure to robotics teams.Earlybird Venture Capital (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
679. 2025-11-26funding roundMonq: funding round US$3m (≈ £2.3m) — Funding on emerging from stealth for a multi-agent AI system for supplier negotiations.Outward VC (lead); Cornerstone VC, Portfolio Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Endurance Ventures, Lakestar HaloStart-upssingle_source
680. 2025-11-24grantTwig Bio: grant — twig won an Innovate UK Explorers award after a UK trade mission to Japan. For: R&D relationships with Japanese partners.Innovate UK (Explorers award)Labssingle_source
681. 2025-11-21major contractAIRR Expansion AI Cloud Compute (£250m cloud GPU procurement): major contract £250m — Preliminary market notice to rent cloud GPUs for the AIRR, est. £250m inc VAT; no award.DSIT (buyer)Cloud and computeverified
682. 2025-11-21funding roundVyntelligence: funding round 23m GBP — Vyntelligence (video intelligence for field engineers (sector labelled AI)) raised £23m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Blume Equity, Morgan Stanley Investment ManagementInvestorssingle_source
683. 2025-11-21partnershipElevenLabs: partnership not disclosed (includes a strategic investment) — Liberty Global began a commercial partnership with ElevenLabs and made a strategic investment. For: Commercial partnership on voice AI across Europe plus strategic investment.Liberty Global VenturesLabssingle_source
684. 2025-11-20investment pledgePerplexity (UK): investment pledge £80m — London office expansion, 100 jobsBig tech in the UKsingle_source
685. 2025-11-20uk office openingCursor (UK): uk office opening — London office as European headquarters (announced)Big tech in the UKsingle_source
686. 2025-11-20investment pledgeGroq UK data centre (with Equinix): investment pledge £100m — First UK data centre, in London, backed by around £100m; Groq said on 16 Feb 2026 it had launched a UK data centre with EquinixBig tech in the UKverified
687. 2025-11-20investment pledgeGroq UK data centre (with Equinix), London: investment pledge £100m — Groq to open its first UK data centre in London, backed by about £100m; launched with Equinix (reported 2026-02-16).GroqData centresverified
688. 2025-11-20investment pledgeAI Pathfinder data centre, Northamptonshire: investment pledge £150m — GOV.UK: AI Pathfinder fast-tracks a £150m GPU deployment in Northamptonshire, first step of an £18bn programme.AI PathfinderData centressingle_source
689. 2025-11-20investment pledgeVantage Data Centers (UK): investment pledge £10bn — South Wales AI Growth Zone named with Vantage and Microsoft; £10bn zone-wide.Microsoft; UK GovernmentData centressingle_source
690. 2025-11-20collapseWootzano: collapse — Compulsory liquidation (date from Package 1; register shows "Liquidation")Start-upssingle_source
691. 2025-11-20funding roundVyntelligence: funding round US$30m (≈ £22.9m) — Series B for AI video intelligence for field workers in utilities, telecoms and retail.Blume Equity; Morgan Stanley Investment Management (co-leads)Start-upssingle_source
692. 2025-11-20investment pledgeGroq (UK): investment pledge £100m — First UK data centre, in London, backed by around £100m.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
693. 2025-11-20investment pledgePerplexity (UK): investment pledge £80m — £80m to expand London offices, creating 100 jobs.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
694. 2025-11-20uk office openingCursor (UK): uk office opening — London office to be Cursor's European headquarters.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
695. 2025-11-20investment pledgeEquinix (UK): investment pledge £4bn — £4bn to build and run a data centre campus in Hertfordshire.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
696. 2025-11-20investment pledgeZoom: investment pledge £24m — New UK data centre to open in 2026, backed by £24m over three years.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
697. 2025-11-20investment pledgeVantage Data Centers (UK): investment pledge £10bn — £10bn for the South Wales AI Growth Zone, unlocking at least 5,000 jobs.South Wales AI Growth Zone (with Microsoft)Big tech in the UKsingle_source
698. 2025-11-20uk office openingGraphcore: uk office opening — New AI development lab in Bristol, doubling headcount to 750.SoftBankBig tech in the UKsingle_source
699. 2025-11-20investment pledgeEquinix (UK): investment pledge £4bn — Commitment to build and run the Hertfordshire data-centre campus.not stated in the researchData centressingle_source
700. 2025-11-20investment pledgeVantage Data Centers (UK) and Microsoft: investment pledge £10bn — Investment linked to the South Wales AI Growth Zone, Newport to Bridgend.not stated in the researchData centressingle_source
701. 2025-11-20investment pledgeGroq (UK data centre): investment pledge 100,000,000 (about) GBP — About £100m for Groq's first UK data centre in London.not stated in the researchData centressingle_source
702. 2025-11-20investment pledgeAI Pathfinder: investment pledge £150m — Initial GPU deployment in Northamptonshire, part of £18bn over five years.not stated in the researchData centressingle_source
703. 2025-11-20investment pledgeZoom: investment pledge £24m — £24m over three years, including a new UK data centre planned for 2026.not stated in the researchData centressingle_source
704. 2025-11-20capacity contractNscale: capacity contract not disclosed — Nscale took 15MW at Verne in Iceland. Buys or funds: About 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, 15MW, at Verne's Icelandic campus, deployed during 2026; 85% liquid-cooled.VerneCloud and computesingle_source
705. 2025-11-20investment pledgeAdvanced Market Commitment for AI inference hardware: investment pledge £100m — The government said it would spend up to £100m buying AI chips from UK start-ups as their first customer. Buys or funds: Government as "first customer" for UK AI hardware from start-ups; "up to" £100m (later described as £150m, see Depth).DSITCloud and computeverified
706. 2025-11-20partnershipCerebras (UK): partnership — Deeper UK investment and an expanded wafer-scale AI supercomputing partnership with EPCC at the University of Edinburgh (amount not given). (Big tech file line 126; no source link given.)EPCC, University of EdinburghBig tech in the UKsingle_source
707. 2025-11-20uk office openingGraphcore AI development lab, Bristol (SoftBank): uk office opening — Graphcore and SoftBank renew UK backing with a new Bristol AI development lab (Kind as written: uk_office_opening (nearest kind: a new lab announced).) For: New AI development lab in Bristol, expected to double headcount to 750 jobs.SoftBank (owner of Graphcore)Labssingle_source
708. 2025-11-19funding roundPhysicsX: funding round — Series B extension; Series B total "more than USD 155M"NVentures (NVIDIA)Labssingle_source
709. 2025-11-19major contractPwC UK and Palantir preferred-partner alliance: major contract — Multi-year, "multi-million-pound" preferred-partner alliance; no figurePalantir TechnologiesServices and skillssingle_source
710. 2025-11-19uk office openingHelsing UK: uk office opening — First UK Resilience Factory opens near Plymouth to build SG-1 Fathom glidersStart-upsverified
711. 2025-11-19partnershipStability AI: partnership — Warner Music Group and Stability AI agreed to build AI music creation tools. For: Responsible AI tools for music creation.Warner Music GroupLabsverified
712. 2025-11-19partnershipStability AI: partnership — WMG partnership For: AI music creation tools.Warner Music GroupLabssingle_source
713. 2025-11-18major contractGSK and Fleming Initiative AI for antimicrobial resistance: major contract — AI programmes on antimicrobial resistance (builds on £45m pledged in 2024)Fleming InitiativeEstablished firmssingle_source
714. 2025-11-18partnershipPhysicsX: partnership — Multi-year strategic partnership For: AI-native engineering across Europe.Deutsche TelekomLabssingle_source
715. 2025-11-17major contractMultiverse and Palantir NHS data and AI training partnership: major contract — Multiverse and Palantir to train NHS staff in data and AI through apprenticeshipsNHS (Federated Data Platform users)Services and skillssingle_source
716. 2025-11-14funding roundadclear.ai (Adclear): funding round £2.1m — Seed round.investors listed: Outward VC, AFG Partners, Tenity, Haatch, Force Over Mass Capital, angels (lead not stated)Start-upssingle_source
717. 2025-11-14funding roundFALKIN: funding round £1.5m — Pre-seed for AI tools to stop scams before payment.investors listed: TriplePoint Ventures, Notion Capital, BackFuture Ventures, Aviva/Founders Factory, Haatch, Found Capital, Founders Capital (lead not stated)Start-upssingle_source
718. 2025-11-14funding roundAdclear: funding round 2.1m GBP — Adclear (AI marketing-compliance checks) raised £2.1m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Outward VC, AFG Partners, Tenity, Haatch and othersInvestorssingle_source
719. 2025-11-14funding roundFALKIN: funding round 1.5m GBP — FALKIN (AI anti-scam tools) raised £1.5m (Pre-seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Notion Capital, BackFuture Ventures, Aviva/Founders Factory, Haatch and othersInvestorssingle_source
720. 2025-11-13renameLiteral Labs: rename — Mignon Technologies Ltd renamed Literal Labs Ltd.Chips and hardwareverified
721. 2025-11-12capacity contractFluidstack: capacity contract US$50bn (≈ £38.08bn) — Anthropic chose Fluidstack to build its own US data centres under a $50bn programme. Buys or funds: Custom data centres in New York and Texas, more sites planned, coming online through 2026; about 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.AnthropicCloud and computesingle_source
722. 2025-11-11funding roundFALKIN: funding round US$2m (≈ £1.5m) — Pre-seed for AI tools that detect scammer manipulation inside banking apps.TriplePoint Ventures (lead); Notion Capital, BackFuture Ventures, Aviva/Founders Factory, Haatch and othersStart-upssingle_source
723. 2025-11-10funding roundAI Score: funding round £760,000 — Pre-seed on leaving stealth (more than US$1m)not namedAssurancesingle_source
724. 2025-11-10investment pledgePulsant: investment pledge £4.5m — Further investment in Manchester data centre: 300kW more IT capacity and a 320 sq m Data Hall 4 expansion.not stated in the researchData centressingle_source
725. 2025-11-07funding roundTrialView: funding round 3m GBP — TrialView (AI litigation platform) raised £3m (Early VC), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Elkstone VenturesInvestorssingle_source
726. 2025-11-06major contractArk Longcross Park campus, Surrey: major contract — Nebius launches its first UK NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra cluster; DCD places it at Ark's Longcross (initial 4,000 GPUs).NebiusData centressingle_source
727. 2025-11-06major contractOpen Climate Fix: major contract — Quartz Solar forecast live in NESO control roomNational Energy System OperatorStart-upsverified
728. 2025-11-06site openingNebius (UK): site opening — Nebius AI Cloud went live in the UK. Buys or funds: First UK NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra cluster, in a facility in the London area (see BIZ-CLD-2051).not stated in the researchCloud and computeverified
729. 2025-11-06partnershipNebius (UK): partnership not disclosed — Basecamp Research and Prima Mente were named as first partners on Nebius's UK cluster. Buys or funds: Compute on Nebius's UK Blackwell Ultra cluster.Basecamp Research (BIZ-LAB-010); Prima Mente (BIZ-LAB-017)Cloud and computesingle_source
730. 2025-11-06compute grantPitchwise: compute grant £25,000 — Bristol student spin-out given Isambard-AI time worth £25,000 for its football video AI. Buys or funds: 5,500 GPU hours on Isambard-AI. Other investors: Innovate UK (support).UKRI AI Research ResourceCloud and computesingle_source
731. 2025-11-04funding roundVigilant AI: funding round £585,000 — Pre-seed for AI teammates for banks, fintechs and insurers.Haatch (lead); East Midlands Combined County Authority; British Business BankStart-upssingle_source
732. 2025-11-04funding roundVigilant AI: funding round £585,000 — Pre-seed with EMCCA and British Business BankHaatchStart-upssingle_source
733. 2025-11-04major contractSMPnet: major contract — Contract for wide-area grid optimisation.UK Power NetworksStart-upssingle_source
734. 2025-11-04investment pledgeColt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS): investment pledge £2.50bn — £2.5bn to expand the Hayes Digital Park hyperscale campus to 160MW, after Hillingdon Council's resolution to grant planning.not stated in the researchData centressingle_source
735. 2025-11-04site openingMicrosoft 365 Copilot in-country data processing (UK): site opening — Microsoft promised UK in-country Copilot processing by end-2025; on 2026-04-03 it moved the UK date to end-2026. Buys or funds: In-country processing of Copilot prompts in UK data centres.MicrosoftCloud and computeverified
736. 2025-11-03funding roundTrialView: funding round US$4.1m (≈ £3.1m) — Investment in a litigation platform that uses AI to find key evidence.Elkstone Ventures (lead)Start-upssingle_source
737. 2025-10-31funding roundSynthesia: funding round 152m GBP — Synthesia (AI video avatars) raised £152m (Late VC), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Google VenturesInvestorssingle_source
738. 2025-10-30investment pledgeEquinix Hertfordshire Campus: investment pledge £3.90bn — Equinix announces £3.9bn UK investment, including an 85-acre, 250+MW Hertfordshire campus.EquinixData centresverified
739. 2025-10-30acquisitionDeep Render: acquisition — InterDigital bought Deep Render, a London company that compresses video with AI. Price not disclosed.InterDigitalStart-upsverified
740. 2025-10-30acquisitionDeep Render: acquisition — InterDigital announced it was acquiring Deep Render; terms not disclosedInterDigital, Inc.Start-upssingle_source
741. 2025-10-30debt financingiomart Group plc: debt financing £115m — iomart renewed its £115m bank facility, running to June 2027. Buys or funds: Revolving credit facility to 2027-06-30; £97.5m drawn at 2025-09-30.RBS; HSBC; Clydesdale Bank (Virgin Money)Cloud and computesingle_source
742. 2025-10-30partnershipStability AI: partnership — Stability AI and UMG formed an alliance to build professional AI music tools. For: Co-development of professional music creation tools.Universal Music GroupLabssingle_source
743. 2025-10-30partnershipStability AI: partnership — UMG strategic alliance For: Co-developing professional AI music tools.Universal Music GroupLabssingle_source
744. 2025-10-27major contractLSEG and Anthropic data collaboration: major contract — LSEG licensed data available in Claude via MCPAnthropicEstablished firmssingle_source
745. 2025-10-23funding roundWonder Studios: funding round US$12m (≈ £9m) — Atomico led the seed roundAtomico (BIZ-INV-011) lead; LocalGlobe, BlackbirdStart-upssingle_source
746. 2025-10-23funding roundWonder Studios: funding round US$12m (≈ £9m) — Seed with LocalGlobe and BlackbirdAtomicoStart-upssingle_source
747. 2025-10-23partnershipTurinTech: partnership — TurinTech and Intel are building an on-device version of Artemis with no cloud dependency. Buys or funds: Offline Artemis for Intel Core Ultra AI PCs (CPU, GPU, NPU via OpenVINO); Intel also uses Artemis internally.IntelSoftware and toolssingle_source
748. 2025-10-23partnershipStability AI: partnership — Stability AI and EA agreed to co-develop generative AI models for making games. For: Co-development of generative AI models for game development.Electronic ArtsLabsverified
749. 2025-10-23partnershipStability AI: partnership — EA partnership For: Generative AI in game development.Electronic ArtsLabssingle_source
750. 2025-10-22funding roundSaturn: funding round US$15m (≈ £11.2m) — Series A for AI software that automates paraplanner work for financial advisers.Singular (lead); Shapers; Y Combinator; Zeno VenturesStart-upssingle_source
751. 2025-10-22partnershipStackHPC: partnership not disclosed — StackHPC built 6G AI's Swedish AI cloud. Buys or funds: Design and deployment of a multi-tenant AI cloud on NVIDIA HGX H200 nodes (8 GPUs per node) in Sweden. Other investors: VAST Data (storage); NVIDIA (hardware).6G AI (Sweden)Cloud and computesingle_source
752. 2025-10-21funding roundChemify: funding round more than 50,000,000 USD reported — Chemify raises over $50m in an oversubscribed Series B For: Series B: global expansion of digital chemistry and discovery.lead not seenLabssingle_source
753. 2025-10-20site openingMary Coombs (Hartree Centre AI supercomputer): site opening — STFC launches Mary Coombs at Daresbury. Buys or funds: 24.41 PF GPU-based AI system for industry.STFC Hartree CentreCloud and computesingle_source
754. 2025-10-17funding roundWild Bioscience: funding round 45m GBP — Wild Bioscience (AI crop breeding) raised £45m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.EIT, Oxford Science Enterprises, Braavos Capital, University of OxfordInvestorssingle_source
755. 2025-10-16funding roundWild Bioscience: funding round US$60m (≈ £44.7m) — Series A for an AI platform guiding precision crop breeding.Ellison Institute of Technology (lead); Oxford Science Enterprises; Braavos Capital; University of OxfordStart-upssingle_source
756. 2025-10-15major contractL&G and Microsoft AI collaboration: major contract — Multi-year agreement for AI customer-service platform on Dynamics 365 Contact CenterMicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
757. 2025-10-15capacity contractNscale: capacity contract not disclosed — Nscale contracted about 200,000 GB300 GPUs with Microsoft across Europe and the US, including the Loughton supercomputer. Buys or funds: About 200,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs in four countries: Texas about 104,000 (about 240MW campus, phased from Q3 2026; Microsoft option on a 700MW second phase from late 2027); Sines, Portugal about 12,600 (from Q1 2026); Loughton, UK about 23,000 (50MW scalable to 90MW, from Q1 2027); Narvik, Norway about 52,000 (through the Aker–Nscale joint venture).MicrosoftCloud and computesingle_source
758. 2025-10-15capacity contractNscale–Microsoft UK AI supercomputer, Loughton: capacity contract — Nscale signed Microsoft for about 200,000 GB300 GPUs, including about 23,000 at its Loughton campus in Essex. Buys or funds: ~200,000 NVIDIA GB300 across Texas (~104,000), Narvik (~52,000), Loughton UK (~23,000, 50MW scalable to 90MW, from Q1 2027) and Sines (~12,600); value not disclosed. Other investors: Dell Technologies (collaborator); Aker ASA (Narvik joint venture).MicrosoftCloud and computeverified
759. 2025-10-15partnershipWaymo (London and Oxford engineering hubs): partnership — Waymo named Moove as its fleet operations partner for London. For: Fleet operations for planned London driverless service.MooveLabssingle_source
760. 2025-10-14acquisitionDecho (acquired by Accenture): acquisition — Accenture bought the UK Palantir partner, 40+ engineersAccentureServices and skillssingle_source
761. 2025-10-14funding roundDexory: funding round US$100m (≈ £75.2m) — Series C (plus debt from Bootstrap Europe; US$165m in total)EurazeoStart-upsverified
762. 2025-10-14partnershipRevEng.AI: partnership — RevEng.AI was one of 53 start-ups in Google's first Gemini Founders Forum cohort. Buys or funds: Place in first Gemini Founders Forum cohort (forum 11–12 Nov 2025, Mountain View).Google for Startups (Gemini Founders Forum)Software and toolssingle_source
763. 2025-10-13major contractLSEG and Microsoft AI data partnership: major contract — LSEG data connected to Microsoft Copilot Studio agents via MCPMicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
764. 2025-10-13funding roundGladys: funding round £1.5m — Seed round.Cornerstone VCStart-upssingle_source
765. 2025-10-09acquisitionUnaric: acquisition — London software group Unaric, building AI-powered Salesforce apps, bought US firm DESelect for an undisclosed eight-figure sum.DESelect (target, US-based Salesforce ISV)Software and toolssingle_source
766. 2025-10-08funding roundSees.ai: funding round £3.6m — Round for autonomous flight software for drones flying beyond visual line of sight.Sustainable Future Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Elbow Beach Capital (co-leads); WakeUp CapitalStart-upssingle_source
767. 2025-10-07major contractNext National Supercomputing Service, University of Edinburgh: major contract £275m — Preliminary market notice for the Edinburgh service, est. £275m ex VAT; no award.UKRI (buyer)Cloud and computesingle_source
768. 2025-10-06acquisitionMonolith AI: acquisition — Agreement announced 6 October 2025; CoreWeave recorded as controlling shareholder from 5 November 2025.CoreWeaveSoftware and toolsverified
769. 2025-10-06acquisitionMonolith AI: acquisition — CoreWeave agrees to buy Monolith; Companies House shows CoreWeave in control from 5 November 2025CoreWeaveStart-upsverified
770. 2025-10-06funding roundMapify: funding round — One of 14 UK start-ups sharing Antler's £1.7m pool; Mapify's share not stated.AntlerStart-upssingle_source
771. 2025-10-03funding roundSimple Life: funding round £26m — Round with Liquidity.HartBeat Ventures (co-lead)Start-upssingle_source
772. 2025-10-03funding roundPEAK:AIO: funding round £5m — £5m with NPIF II – Praetura Equity FinancePembroke VCTSoftware and toolssingle_source
773. 2025-10-03funding roundNscale: funding round 320m GBP — Nscale (AI data centres and cloud) raised £320m (Pre-Series C SAFE), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Nvidia, Fidelity Investments, Aker ASA, Dell Technologies Capital and othersInvestorssingle_source
774. 2025-10-03funding roundSimple Life: funding round 26m GBP — Simple Life (health app with generative AI assistant) raised £26m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.HartBeat Ventures, LiquidityInvestorssingle_source
775. 2025-10-01funding roundNscale: funding round US$433m (≈ £320.6m) — Nscale closed a $433m pre-Series C SAFE (a convertible instrument) six days after its Series B.Blue Owl Managed Funds, Dell, NVIDIA, Nokia (named investors; no lead stated)Data centressingle_source
776. 2025-10-01funding roundChalkie: funding round £1m — Pre-seedTriple Point VenturesStart-upssingle_source
777. 2025-10collapseRobin AI: collapse — Listed for distressed sale after a failed fundraise; company not wound up as of October 2026Start-upsverified
778. 2025-10funding roundJack & Jill (new): funding round £15m — Seed for an AI recruitment company.not namedsingle_source
779. 2025-10-01funding roundNscale: funding round US$433m (≈ £320.6m) — Pre-Series C SAFE days after the Series B.Nvidia; Nokia; Dell; Blue OwlCloud and computesingle_source
780. 2025-09-30government contractBIZ-SW-6006 Netcall: government contract £4.3m — Lancashire County Council signed a £4.3m multi-year deal with Netcall for AI agents and a resident services platform. Buys or funds: digital front door platform; autonomous AI agents in council contact centre; extendable up to 10.5 years.Lancashire County CouncilSoftware and toolssingle_source
781. 2025-09-29mergerCivo: merger not disclosed — Civo said it had integrated ServerChoice; whether this is an acquisition is not stated. Buys or funds: Integration of a UK data centre specialist into Civo.ServerChoice (BIZ-CLD-3009)Cloud and computesingle_source
782. 2025-09-28funding roundPaid: funding round US$21.6m (≈ £16.1m) — Seed.Lightspeed · rate for 2025-09-26, the previous business daySoftware and toolsverified
783. 2025-09-26funding roundNscale: funding round 1.1bn USD — Nscale (AI data centres and cloud) raised $1.1bn (Series B), reported by tech.eu.Aker, Nokia, NvidiaInvestorssingle_source
784. 2025-09-25funding roundNscale: funding round US$1.10bn (≈ £824.1m) — Nscale, which builds and rents GPU data centres, raised a $1.1bn Series B led by Aker ASA.Aker ASAData centresverified
785. 2025-09-25funding roundMimica: funding round £19.5m — Mimica raised a £19.5m Series B led by Paladin; Paladin's Nazo Moosa joined the board. Buys or funds: Series B; process intelligence for AI agents. Other investors: Khosla Ventures; LGVP; Entrepreneur First.Paladin Capital Group (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
786. 2025-09-24major contractDepartment for Education AI Tools for Education Phase 2 contracts: major contract £795,937 — Six contracts (excl. VAT total about £795,937) to build generative-AI feedback tools for teachersDepartment for EducationServices and skillssingle_source
787. 2025-09-24funding roundSignal AI: funding round US$165m (≈ £122.7m) — Growth equityBattery VenturesStart-upsverified
788. 2025-09-24major contractLearncycle: major contract £191,487 — DfE "AI Tools for Education: Phase 2" contract 1 (ex VAT; £239,359 inc VAT); runs to 30 June 2026 at latest.Department for EducationStart-upssingle_source
789. 2025-09-24major contractOpenkit: major contract £110,377 — DfE "AI Tools for Education: Phase 2" contract 3 (ex VAT; £137,971 inc VAT).Department for EducationStart-upssingle_source
790. 2025-09-24major contractLettingsowl: major contract £131,213 — DfE "AI Tools for Education: Phase 2" contract 4 (ex VAT; £164,016 inc VAT).Department for EducationStart-upssingle_source
791. 2025-09-24major contractKita Education: major contract £128,448 — DfE "AI Tools for Education: Phase 2" contract 5 (ex VAT; £160,560 inc VAT).Department for EducationStart-upssingle_source
792. 2025-09-24major contractCorduroy Dinosaur: major contract £112,320 — DfE "AI Tools for Education: Phase 2" contract 6 (ex VAT; £140,400 inc VAT).Department for EducationStart-upssingle_source
793. 2025-09-23funding roundDaltonTx: funding round £4m–£4.1m as published — DaltonTx leaves stealth with a £4m seed round. For: Building adaptive AI drug discovery platforms. Other investors: Oxford University Innovation (support). [Labs Round 8] redalpine says it led a £4.1m seed round; IQ Capital and tech.eu give £4m.redalpine (per redalpine)Labsverified
794. 2025-09-22grantAnteam: grant £20,000 — Round 4 award for AI tool for freight enterprises and fleet operators.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 4Start-upssingle_source
795. 2025-09-22grantSpatialCortex Technology Ltd: grant £20,000 — Round 4 award for wearable sensor and AI safety product.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 4Start-upssingle_source
796. 2025-09-22grantSupply Chain Analysis Ltd: grant £20,000 — Round 4 award for AI trailer planning and scheduling at ferry ports.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 4Start-upssingle_source
797. 2025-09-19funding roundEvoluteIQ: funding round 38.8m GBP — EvoluteIQ (agentic AI process automation) raised £38.8m (Growth equity), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Baird CapitalInvestorssingle_source
798. 2025-09-18investment pledgePalantir Technologies UK: investment pledge £1.50bn — Up to £1.5bn UK defence investment, up to 350 jobs, London European defence baseMinistry of DefenceBig tech in the UKsingle_source
799. 2025-09-18major contractPalantir–Ministry of Defence strategic partnership: major contract £750m — Strategic partnership worth up to £750m over five yearsMinistry of DefenceBig tech in the UKsingle_source
800. 2025-09-18investment pledgeNVIDIA £2bn UK AI start-up investment: investment pledge £2bn — £2bn for UK AI start-upsAccel; Air Street Capital; Balderton Capital; Hoxton Ventures; Phoenix CourtBig tech in the UKsingle_source
801. 2025-09-18spin outKraken: spin out — Octopus Energy Group announced it would spin off Kraken, its utility software business. Completion not confirmed: no release opened states it; Companies House shows Octopus Energy Group ceased as controller of Kraken Technologies Ltd on 9 January 2026 and "no registrable person" from 17 June 2026.Octopus Energy GroupStart-upssingle_source
802. 2025-09-18spin outKraken: spin out — Octopus announces spin-off of KrakenOctopus Energy GroupStart-upsverified
803. 2025-09-18funding roundPeppercorn AI (new): funding round — Part of a more-than-£1.1m package from EHE Ventures to seven AI startups; per-company sums not stated.EHE Ventures (SEIS AI Growth Fund)single_source
804. 2025-09-18funding roundNeuWave Technologies (new): funding round — Part of a more-than-£1.1m package from EHE Ventures to seven AI startups; per-company sums not stated.EHE Ventures (SEIS AI Growth Fund)single_source
805. 2025-09-18funding roundFotenix: funding round — Part of a more-than-£1.1m package from EHE Ventures to seven AI startups; per-company sums not stated.EHE Ventures (SEIS AI Growth Fund)Start-upssingle_source
806. 2025-09-18partnershipStability AI: partnership — Stability AI's image services became available on Amazon Bedrock. For: Stability AI image services offered on Amazon Bedrock.Amazon Web Services (Amazon Bedrock)Labssingle_source
807. 2025-09-18partnershipStability AI: partnership — Stability image models offered on Bedrock For: Image services on Amazon Bedrock.Amazon (AWS)Labssingle_source
808. 2025-09-17investment pledgeScale AI (UK): investment pledge £39m — UK investment over two yearsBig tech in the UKsingle_source
809. 2025-09-17investment pledgeAI Pathfinder: investment pledge £18.40bn — AI Pathfinder announces up to £18.4bn for two UK data centres (Northamptonshire £3.4bn; North Ayrshire up to £15bn); Business Times reports £1bn for Northamptonshire.AI PathfinderData centressingle_source
810. 2025-09-17investment pledgeDataVita: investment pledge £1.50bn — CoreWeave pledges £1.5bn for UK AI data-centre capacity, partnering DataVita in Scotland (UK-wide figure, not DataVita's alone).CoreWeaveData centresverified
811. 2025-09-17funding roundEvoluteIQ: funding round US$53m (≈ £38.8m) — Growth capital for agentic AI software that automates business processes.Baird Capital (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
812. 2025-09-17funding roundEvoluteIQ: funding round US$53m (≈ £38.8m) — Growth-capital round for London agentic-AI process-automation software company.Baird Capital (BIZ-INV-313)Software and toolssingle_source
813. 2025-09-17investment pledgePalantir Technologies UK: investment pledge £1.50bn — Up to £1.5bn and up to 350 new jobs in UK defence work.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
814. 2025-09-17investment pledgeBlackstone: investment pledge £100bn — More than £100bn of UK assets over a decade, including the £10bn Blyth data centre.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
815. 2025-09-17investment pledgeSaronic: investment pledge 25,000,000–50,000,000 GBP — US defence technology firm plans £25–50m over 3–5 years, with London offices and a Portsmouth production facility.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
816. 2025-09-17investment pledgeCoreWeave (UK): investment pledge £1.50bn — AI data-centre capacity and operations in the UK, including work with DataVita in Scotland.DataVita (partner, Scotland)Cloud and computesingle_source
817. 2025-09-17investment pledgeMicrosoft Azure UK regions (UK South and UK West): investment pledge £22bn — $30bn (£22bn) for UK AI infrastructure and operations, including a supercomputer with Nscale.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
818. 2025-09-17investment pledgeGoogle Cloud London region (europe-west2): investment pledge £5bn — Google's £5bn UK investment, including opening its Waltham Cross data centre.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
819. 2025-09-17funding roundHiverge: funding round US$5m (≈ £3.7m) — Hiverge announced a $5m seed led by Flying Fish Ventures alongside its first results. For: Seed; launch of the Hive algorithm-discovery platform. Other investors: Ahren Innovation Capital, 10x Founders, Alpha Intelligence Capital, 1st Kind, StemAI, Vela Partners, Cur8 Capital, Jeff Dean.Flying Fish Ventures (BIZ-INV-068)Labssingle_source
820. 2025-09-17partnershipSynthesia: partnership — AWS and Synthesia extended their collaboration on AI video. For: Extended collaboration on AI video adoption.Amazon Web ServicesLabssingle_source
821. 2025-09-16investment pledgeMicrosoft (UK): investment pledge US$30bn (≈ £21.97bn) — UK AI infrastructure and operations 2025 to 2028 (£22bn), incl. Nscale supercomputerBig tech in the UKverified
822. 2025-09-16investment pledgeGoogle (UK): investment pledge £5bn — Two-year UK investment incl. Waltham Cross data centre and Google DeepMindBig tech in the UKverified
823. 2025-09-16investment pledgeCoreWeave (UK): investment pledge £1.50bn — AI data-centre capacity and operations in the UK, incl. DataVita in ScotlandDataVitaBig tech in the UKsingle_source
824. 2025-09-16investment pledgeSalesforce (UK): investment pledge US$2bn (≈ £1.46bn) — Additional UK investment through 2030, total $6bnBig tech in the UKverified
825. 2025-09-16investment pledgeStargate UK (OpenAI, NVIDIA and Nscale): investment pledge — OpenAI to explore offtake of up to 8,000 GPUs in Q1 2026, up to 31,000 over timeNVIDIA; NscaleBig tech in the UKverified
826. 2025-09-16investment pledgeMicrosoft (UK data centres): investment pledge US$30bn (≈ £21.97bn) — Microsoft commits $30bn to UK AI infrastructure and operations, 2025–2028 ($15bn capex).MicrosoftData centresverified
827. 2025-09-16major contractNscale AI Campus, Loughton: major contract — Microsoft commits to Nscale's Loughton AI campus (over 23,000 GPUs). Ended 2026-10-18 (DEAL-DC-016).MicrosoftData centresverified
828. 2025-09-16major contractStargate UK at Cobalt Park, North Tyneside: major contract — Nscale, OpenAI and NVIDIA announce Stargate UK; up to 8,000 GPUs initially, potentially 31,000.OpenAI; NVIDIAData centresverified
829. 2025-09-16investment pledgeQTS Cambois Data Centre Campus, near Blyth: investment pledge £10bn — Blackstone commits £10bn to the Cambois campus (QTS: "up to £10 billion").Blackstone fundsData centresverified
830. 2025-09-16investment pledgeGoogle (UK data centres): investment pledge £5bn — Google opens Waltham Cross within a two-year £5bn UK investment.GoogleData centresverified
831. 2025-09-16funding roundClarity (formerly Anecdote): funding round US$12m (≈ £8.8m) — Round for AI customer intelligence and support automation for regulated sectors.Prosus Ventures (lead); STV AI Fund, Sukna Ventures, Wamda Capital and othersStart-upssingle_source
832. 2025-09-16investment pledgeMicrosoft (UK): investment pledge US$30bn (≈ £21.97bn) — $30bn (£22bn) in 2025–2028, half capital spending; includes UK's largest supercomputer with Nscale (23,000+ NVIDIA GPUs).Nscale (supercomputer partner)Big tech in the UKverified
833. 2025-09-16investment pledgeGoogle (UK): investment pledge £5bn — £5bn over two years, announced with the opening of the Waltham Cross data centre.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
834. 2025-09-16investment pledgeCoreWeave (UK): investment pledge £1.50bn — £1.5bn for UK AI data centre capacity and operations, including a Scottish data centre with DataVita.DataVitaBig tech in the UKverified
835. 2025-09-16investment pledgeScale AI (UK): investment pledge £39m — £39m over two years to expand its London European HQ and quadruple staff by end 2026.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
836. 2025-09-16investment pledgeSalesforce (UK): investment pledge US$2bn (≈ £1.46bn) — Additional $2bn (£1.4bn) through 2030, with Salesforce UK to become an AI hub for the UK and Europe.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
837. 2025-09-16investment pledgeNVIDIA (UK): investment pledge — (120,000 GPUs) — NVIDIA to deploy 120,000 advanced GPUs with UK companies under the Tech Prosperity Deal.UK companies incl. NscaleBig tech in the UKsingle_source
838. 2025-09-16investment pledgeStargate UK (OpenAI, NVIDIA and Nscale): investment pledge — (up to 8,000 GPUs, first phase) — Stargate UK's first phase: OpenAI to take up to 8,000 GPUs, possibly about 31,000 over time; sites include Cobalt Park.OpenAIBig tech in the UKverified
839. 2025-09-16investment pledgeOracle (UK): investment pledge US$5bn (≈ £3.66bn) — Oracle reaffirmed $5bn of UK investment over five years.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
840. 2025-09-16investment pledgeBlackRock: investment pledge £500m — £500m into enterprise data centres across the UK.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
841. 2025-09-16investment pledgeBlackstone (QTS Cambois Data Centre Campus): investment pledge £10bn — Blackstone's commitment to its Blyth data-centre campus in the North East AI Growth Zone.not stated in the researchData centresverified
842. 2025-09-16major contractNscale: major contract — Stargate UK: OpenAI to take up to 8,000 GPUs in a first phase, possibly about 31,000 over time.OpenAI; NvidiaCloud and computesingle_source
843. 2025-09-16investment pledgeEra4: investment pledge £1bn — £1bn growth plan for a UK sovereign AI platform scalable past 100,000 GPUs.HPE; Vast Data; WWT (technology partners)Cloud and computesingle_source
844. 2025-09-16investment pledgeNVIDIA (UK): investment pledge — Nvidia to deploy about 120,000 advanced GPUs across the UK, its largest European deployment so far.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
845. 2025-09-16investment pledgeAI Pathfinder: investment pledge £1bn — Initial investment of over £1bn in AI compute capacity, starting in Northamptonshire.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
846. 2025-09-16capacity contractNscale: capacity contract not disclosed — Part of Nscale's 2025-09-16 UK package of up to 58,640 NVIDIA GPUs; may overlap DEAL-CLD-2010. Buys or funds: 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs with NVIDIA DGX Cloud, including the DGX Lepton Marketplace, for UK developers (BIZ-CLD-3010).NVIDIA (DGX Cloud)Cloud and computesingle_source
847. 2025-09-16capacity contractBIZ-CLD-4001 Nscale–NVIDIA DGX Cloud UK deployment: capacity contract — Nscale agreed to host 4,600 GB300 GPUs in the UK for NVIDIA's DGX Cloud. Buys or funds: 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs in the UK.NVIDIA (DGX Cloud)Cloud and computesingle_source
848. 2025-09-16investment pledgeBlackRock–Digital Gravity Partners UK data-centre modernisation: investment pledge £500m — BlackRock said it would spend up to £500m with Digital Gravity Partners modernising UK data centres. Buys or funds: Upgrading existing UK data centres (sites not named); amount is "up to". Other investors: Digital Gravity Partners.BlackRockCloud and computesingle_source
849. 2025-09-12major contractGoogle Cloud–Ministry of Defence secure cloud contract: major contract £400m — Secure cloud contract for defence intelligence and classified sharingMinistry of DefenceBig tech in the UKsingle_source
850. 2025-09-12funding roundFyxer AI: funding round 22m GBP — Fyxer AI (AI email and meeting assistant) raised £22m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Madrona, Lakestar Capital, 20VC, 20GrowthInvestorssingle_source
851. 2025-09-10wind downBuilder.ai (Engineer.ai Global Limited): wind down — UK company Engineer.ai Global Limited in compulsory liquidation (petition 17 July 2025; winding up commenced 10 September 2025; order filed 22 January 2026).Official ReceiverSoftware and toolsverified
852. 2025-09-09funding roundFyxer AI: funding round US$30m (≈ £22.2m) — Series B with LakestarMadronaStart-upssingle_source
853. 2025-09-09acquisitionCytora: acquisition — Growth acquisition; terms not disclosedApplied SystemsStart-upsverified
854. 2025-09-08funding roundElevenLabs: funding round US$100m (≈ £73.9m) — Employee tender offer (secondary sale, not new capital)Sequoia and ICONIQLabssingle_source
855. 2025-09-08funding roundSenseAI Vision: funding round — First seed round, amount not disclosed.Foresight GroupStart-upssingle_source
856. 2025-09-08funding roundAlchemab Therapeutics: funding round — Alchemab announced a Series A extension as ATLX-1282 entered Phase 1. For: Series A extension alongside Phase 1 start of ATLX-1282.nullLabssingle_source
857. 2025-09-04partnershipOrbital Industries (Orbital Materials Ltd): partnership — Orbital launched Orb-v3 with Rowan hosting the models. For: Rowan as launch partner offering Orb-v3 models interactively.RowanLabssingle_source
858. 2025-09-03investment pledgeAI Assurance Innovation Fund (DSIT): investment pledge £11m — £11m government fund for new AI assurance tools; first round opened for funding from spring 2026.Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyAssuranceverified
859. 2025-09-03major contractsupplier not shown in the version read: major contract about 3,000,000 (first-year maximum) GBP — AI Infrastructure Delivery Partner bought through the CCS AI DPS (RM6200); award notice published 3 September 2025.Home OfficeServices and skillssingle_source
860. 2025-09-02funding roundCamera Intelligence: funding round US$2m (≈ £1.5m) — Seed for a camera with an AI assistant for editing and voice control.Digital Catapult (£550,000); Betaworks; F4 Fund; Next Wave via Flybridge; 7pc VenturesStart-upssingle_source
861. 2025-09-02uk office openingNscale: uk office opening — Nscale opened its first physical office, in Mayfair. Buys or funds: First physical office, Mayfair, London.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
862. 2025-09funding roundCuspAI: funding round US$100m (≈ £73.8m) — Raise reported by tech.eu as "September of last year" · month only given: rate for the 1stLabssingle_source
863. 2025-09funding roundConduct: funding round US$12m (≈ £8.9m) — Seed for autonomous AI agents that automate work and modernise legacy ERP systems (Q3 2025 list).not named · month only given: rate for the 1stSoftware and toolssingle_source
864. 2025-08-28wind downAdludio: wind down — Moved from administration to creditors' voluntary liquidationStart-upsverified
865. 2025-08-27funding roundMantic: funding round US$4m (≈ £3m) — Pre-seedEpisode 1Labssingle_source
866. 2025-08-27funding roundAttio: funding round US$52m (≈ £38.6m) — Series B for an AI-native CRM.Google Ventures (lead); Redpoint Ventures; Balderton Capital; Point; 01ASoftware and toolssingle_source
867. 2025-08-27funding roundArtificial Societies: funding round US$5.3m (≈ £4m) — YC page lists a Business Insider headline on a $5.35M round (date is article date).not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
868. 2025-08-22funding roundPhoebe: funding round 12.6m GBP — Phoebe (AI that finds and fixes software errors) raised £12.6m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Google Ventures, Cherry VenturesInvestorssingle_source
869. 2025-08-22funding roundMeshed: funding round £950,000 — Meshed (AI insurance broker) raised £950,000 (Pre-seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Haatch, Founders FactoryInvestorssingle_source
870. 2025-08-21renameRobotiz3d: rename — Robotiz3d Limited renamed Alpha Subco Limited.Start-upssingle_source
871. 2025-08-20wind downModulous: wind down — Modulous Limited dissolvedOpus Restructuring LLPStart-upssingle_source
872. 2025-08-20funding roundPhoebe: funding round US$17m (≈ £12.6m) — Investment in agentic AI that monitors live software and fixes faults.Google Ventures; Cherry Ventures (co-leads)Software and toolssingle_source
873. 2025-08-18funding roundMeshed: funding round £950,000 — Pre-seed for an AI-native insurance broker using AI agents.Haatch; Founders Factory; angelsStart-upssingle_source
874. 2025-08-18funding roundEvaluateLocate (new): funding round £300,000 — SEIS seed for predictive location-intelligence software.angels (SEIS)single_source
875. 2025-08-15funding roundArchestra: funding round 2.5m GBP — Archestra (connects AI agents to company systems) raised £2.5m (Not stated), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Concept Ventures, Zero Prime Ventures, Celero Ventures, RTP Global and othersInvestorssingle_source
876. 2025-08-14funding roundArchestra: funding round £2.5m — Funding round for open-source AI agent data platformConcept VenturesSafetysingle_source
877. 2025-08-13acquisitionHumanloop: acquisition — Humanloop's co-founders and about a dozen engineers and researchers joined Anthropic; Anthropic said it did not acquire Humanloop's assets or intellectual property. A team hire, not a company purchase; terms not shared.AnthropicSoftware and toolssingle_source
878. 2025-08-13wind downHumanloop: wind down — Anthropic hired the founders and most of the team; did not acquire assets or IP; platform closed.Anthropic (team hire)Software and toolssingle_source
879. 2025-08-12partnershipStability AI: partnership — Stability AI and NVIDIA packaged Stable Diffusion 3.5 for enterprise deployment. For: Stable Diffusion 3.5 packaged as an NVIDIA NIM for enterprise deployment.NVIDIALabssingle_source
880. 2025-08-12partnershipStability AI: partnership — Stability AI and NVIDIA packaged SD 3.5 for faster enterprise deployment. For: Stable Diffusion 3.5 packaged as an NVIDIA NIM microservice (after TensorRT-optimised SD 3.5 on RTX GPUs, 12 Jun 2025).NVIDIALabssingle_source
881. 2025-08-11partnershipBIZ-SW-5036 Signapse: partnership — Signapse was selected for IAG's record 29-start-up accelerator cohort. Buys or funds: Accelerator place.IAG (accelerator programme)Software and toolssingle_source
882. 2025-08-08funding roundTracelight: funding round 2.7m GBP — Tracelight (language model for financial modelling) raised £2.7m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Chalfen Ventures, Acequia Capital, Inovo, EFInvestorssingle_source
883. 2025-08-05funding roundETIQ AI: funding round €900,000 (≈ £783,222) — ETIQ AI raised a €900,000 seed led by GapMinder VC. Buys or funds: Data Science Copilot, LLM features, team, marketing.GapMinder VC (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
884. 2025-08-01funding roundJitty: funding round US$3.8m (≈ £2.9m) — Round for an AI-powered home-buying search agent.REA Group (lead); Goodwater Ventures; Gradient Ventures; True Global; angelsStart-upssingle_source
885. 2025-08-01funding roundUltromics: funding round 41.4m GBP — Ultromics (AI heart diagnostics) raised £41.4m (Series C), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.L&G, Allegis Capital, Lightrock, University of Chicago Medicine and othersInvestorssingle_source
886. 2025-07-31funding roundL&G co-led investment in Ultromics (AI cardiology): funding round US$55m (≈ £41.6m) — Ultromics Series C; L&G share undisclosedUltromics (co-led by L&G, Allegis Capital, Lightrock)Established firmssingle_source
887. 2025-07-31funding roundUltromics: funding round US$55m (≈ £41.6m) — Series C for US expansion.L&G, Allegis Capital, LightrockStart-upssingle_source
888. 2025-07-31partnershipNscale: partnership about 1000000000 (both parties, initial 20MW phase; more than $250m equity on a 100% basis) USD — Nscale and Aker formed a joint venture to build Stargate Norway, with OpenAI as first offtaker. Buys or funds: Stargate Norway at Kvandal near Narvik: 230MW planned, ambition for 290MW more; initial 20MW phase; 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs targeted by end-2026. Other investors: OpenAI (initial offtaker).Aker ASA (BIZ-INV-2014), 50/50 joint ventureCloud and computesingle_source
889. 2025-07-29gpu purchaseUniversity of Nottingham: gpu purchase — Nottingham refreshed its HPC facility with OCF and Lenovo, creating the Ada GPU cluster. Buys or funds: 80+ Lenovo servers with NVIDIA A100 and H200. Other investors: Lenovo (hardware).BIZ-CLD-5004 OCFCloud and computesingle_source
890. 2025-07-29gpu purchaseAda, University of Nottingham: gpu purchase — Nottingham's HPC refresh delivered by OCF and Lenovo. Buys or funds: 80+ Lenovo servers with A100 and H200. Other investors: NVIDIA.OCF (BIZ-CLD-6001); Lenovo (BIZ-INV-2158)Cloud and computeverified
891. 2025-07-28funding roundRecraft: funding round not disclosed — NVIDIA and Slack design chief Ethan Eismann joined Recraft's Series B extension. For: Extension to Series B.NVIDIA; Ethan Eismann (Series B extension)Labssingle_source
892. 2025-07-23funding roundinforcer: funding round US$35m (≈ £25.8m) — London's inforcer raised a $35m (£25.8m) Series B led by Dawn Capital, after a $19m Series A in autumn 2024. Buys or funds: Microsoft 365 policy management for managed service providers. Other investors: Meritech Capital.Dawn Capital (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
893. 2025-07-23partnershipPhysicsX: partnership — PhysicsX extended its Siemens collaboration into the Simcenter X product. For: Extension of the Siemens collaboration to Simcenter X for AI-powered CFD workflows.Siemens (Simcenter X)Labssingle_source
894. 2025-07-21uk office openingOpenAI (UK): uk office opening — OpenAI plans to enlarge its London office and research and engineering teams after its MoU with government.UK government (MoU)Big tech in the UKsingle_source
895. 2025-07-17investment pledgeAI Research Resource (AIRR): investment pledge £1bn — Compute Roadmap commits over £1bn to grow the AIRR 20x by 2030.UK Government (DSIT)Cloud and computeverified
896. 2025-07-17wind downSonantic: wind down — Sonantic Limited dissolvedStart-upssingle_source
897. 2025-07-17grantOpenBind: grant £8m — Seed investment in a Diamond Light Source-led consortium.Sovereign AI UnitCloud and computesingle_source
898. 2025-07-17site openingIsambard-AI, Bristol and Bath Science Park: site opening — Isambard-AI launched by the Science Secretary in Bristol. Buys or funds: Full system: 5,448 GH200, 21 AI exaflops.DSIT; HPE (BIZ-BIG-2030); NVIDIA (BIZ-BIG-014)Cloud and computeverified
899. 2025-07-16renameMetaphysic: rename — Metaphysic Limited renamed Brahma AI Services UK LimitedStart-upsverified
900. 2025-07-16grantUK Tech Cluster Group (UKTCG): grant £1m — DSIT picked UKTCG to pilot the £1m Regional Tech Booster for tech founders outside London; 14 catalyst projects named 1 Oct 2025.Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyNetworks and mediaverified
901. 2025-07-14major contractAdarga: major contract £12m — Expanded contract, "up to" £12m, renewing VantageDefence Support (MoD)Start-upssingle_source
902. 2025-07-14funding roundInntelo: funding round £506,000 — Pre-seed for an AI concierge agent for hotels reached via WhatsApp.Haatch with British Business Bank (lead); Look AI Ventures; angelsStart-upssingle_source
903. 2025-07-11funding roundGradient Labs: funding round 9.5m GBP — Gradient Labs (AI customer service agents for finance) raised £9.5m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Redpoint Ventures, Exceptional Capital, Liquid 2, LocalGlobe and othersInvestorssingle_source
904. 2025-07-10wind downPapercup: wind down — Papercup Technologies Ltd (CH 11093649) passed an extraordinary resolution to wind up on 10 July 2025 and appointed a voluntary liquidator (filed 21 July 2025); liquidators' statement filed 10 September 2026.Start-upssingle_source
905. 2025-07-09major contractGoogle Cloud–UK government partnership (legacy technology and civil-service skills): major contract — Google Cloud partnership on legacy IT and civil-service AI skillsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyBig tech in the UKsingle_source
906. 2025-07-09funding roundScienceMachine: funding round US$3.5m (≈ £2.6m) — Pre-seed for an autonomous AI agent that analyses biotech data.Revent; Nucleus Capital (leads); angelsStart-upssingle_source
907. 2025-07-09grantLucida Medical: grant £2.3m — NHS Cancer Programme award for Pi, AI software that analyses prostate MRI scans.SBRI Healthcare / NHS Cancer ProgrammeStart-upssingle_source
908. 2025-07-09grantOptellum: grant £2.3m — Trust-led award combining Optellum AI nodule risk stratification with robotic bronchoscopy.Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (lead) / NHS Cancer ProgrammeStart-upssingle_source
909. 2025-07-09funding roundScienceMachine: funding round 3.5m USD — ScienceMachine (autonomous AI bioinformatics agent) raised $3.5m (Pre-seed), reported by tech.eu.Revent, Nucleus CapitalInvestorssingle_source
910. 2025-07-08funding roundGradient Labs: funding round US$13m (≈ £9.6m) — Series A for AI customer-service agents for financial firms; founders ex-Monzo.Redpoint Ventures (lead); Exceptional Capital, Liquid 2, LocalGlobe, Puzzle VenturesStart-upssingle_source
911. 2025-07-08funding roundGradient Labs: funding round 13,000,000 (£9.5m) USD — Series A for AI customer-service agents for financial firms.Redpoint Ventures (with Exceptional Capital, Liquid 2, LocalGlobe, Puzzle Ventures)Start-upssingle_source
912. 2025-07-08funding roundOptibrium: funding round undisclosed ("multi-million-pound") GBP reported — Optibrium takes a multi-million-pound financing package from Shawbrook For: Core technologies behind its software portfolio and global expansion.Shawbrook (debt financing)Labssingle_source
913. 2025-07-07administrationLogically: administration — UK AI fact-checking firm Logically went through a pre-pack administration; its assets were sold to Kreatur, run by a former director. Buys or funds: core technology, brand and key assets; over 50 full-time roles kept.Kreatur Ltd (buyer of assets in pre-pack)Software and toolssingle_source
914. 2025-07-03funding roundHIVED: funding round US$42m (≈ £30.8m) — Series B for an AI-driven parcel delivery service in London.NordicNinja (lead); Planet A; Future Back Ventures by Bain and Co.Start-upssingle_source
915. 2025-07-02partnershipUnlikely AI: partnership — Lloyds Banking Group began testing UnlikelyAI's neurosymbolic AI. For: Proof-of-concept test of UnlikelyAI's neurosymbolic platform in Lloyds' Innovation Sandbox.Lloyds Banking GroupLabsverified
916. 2025-07-01acquisitionYondr Group (new): acquisition — Infrastructure investors completed purchase of hyperscale data-centre developer (announced October 2024); terms undisclosed.DigitalBridge (BIZ-INV-310) and La Caisse (BIZ-INV-311); seller Cathexis Holdingsverified
917. 2025-07-01major contractPremier League: major contract — Partnership on fan apps and digital platforms, including AI Companion.MicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
918. 2025-07capacity contractImperial College London (ICICLE liquid-cooled cluster): capacity contract — Imperial's first direct liquid-cooled HPC cluster placed at Digital Realty Woking. Buys or funds: Colocation at LGW14, Woking; handed over Q4 2025. Other investors: Lenovo (hardware).Digital Realty (BIZ-DC-048)Cloud and computesingle_source
919. 2025-06-27funding roundElyndra: funding round £1.1m — Investment round.Outward VCStart-upssingle_source
920. 2025-06-27funding roundMetaview: funding round 25.5m GBP — Metaview (AI hiring tools) raised £25.5m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Google Ventures, Plural, Vertex Ventures, Seedcamp and othersInvestorssingle_source
921. 2025-06-26acquisitionPapercup: acquisition — RWS bought the intellectual property behind Papercup's AI dubbing technology; the company itself was not bought. Terms not disclosed.RWS Holdings plcStart-upssingle_source
922. 2025-06-26major contractPearson and Google AI partnership: major contract — Multi-year AI collaboration using Gemini and LearnLMGoogle CloudEstablished firmssingle_source
923. 2025-06-26acquisitionPapercup: acquisition — RWS bought the intellectual property behind Papercup's AI dubbing; company later in liquidationRWSStart-upsverified
924. 2025-06-26funding roundMetaview: funding round US$35m (≈ £25.5m) — Metaview raised a $35m (£25.5m) Series B led by Google Ventures. Buys or funds: AI hiring tools: notetaker, reports, job-post generator. Other investors: Plural; Vertex Ventures; Seedcamp; Coelius Capital; True Equity; Victor Riparbelli; Barney Hussey-Yeo.GV (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
925. 2025-06-24funding roundOutSee: funding round £1.8m — Seed round.Ahren Innovation CapitalStart-upssingle_source
926. 2025-06-24acquisitionSnyk: acquisition — Snyk bought Invariant Labs to build security for AI agents. Buys or funds: Agentic AI security research team; Guardrails product; MCP scanning.Invariant Labs (target; ETH Zurich spin-off)Software and toolssingle_source
927. 2025-06-23investment pledgeAmazon Web Services (UK): investment pledge £40bn — Amazon group UK investment 2025 to 2027, all activities, includes part of the AWS £8bnBig tech in the UKsingle_source
928. 2025-06-22funding roundPhysicsX: funding round US$135m (≈ £100.3m) — Series B led by AtomicoAtomico (BIZ-INV-011) lead · rate for 2025-06-20, the previous business dayLabssingle_source
929. 2025-06-22funding roundPhysicsX: funding round US$135m (≈ £100.3m) — Series BAtomico · rate for 2025-06-20, the previous business dayLabssingle_source
930. 2025-06-20funding roundCaseCraft.AI: funding round £550,000 — CaseCraft.AI (small-claims platform (sector labelled Legal tech/AI)) raised £550,000 (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Mount FundInvestorssingle_source
931. 2025-06-16spin outDigitalCNC: spin out — Sheffield launches DigitalCNC, co-founded with Yorkshire AI Labs.University of Sheffield; Yorkshire AI LabsStart-upssingle_source
932. 2025-06-13major contractAstraZeneca and CSPC AI drug discovery collaboration: major contract US$110m (≈ £81m) — AI drug discovery collaboration; upfront payment, plus up to US$1.62bn development and US$3.6bn sales milestonesCSPC PharmaceuticalsEstablished firmssingle_source
933. 2025-06-13funding roundDefinely: funding round 22m GBP — Definely (AI tools for law firms) raised £22m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Revaia, Alumni Ventures, Beacon Capital, ClioInvestorssingle_source
934. 2025-06-13funding roundMaze: funding round 18.4m GBP — Maze (AI agents for cybersecurity) raised £18.4m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Cherry Ventures, Tapestry, Theory VenturesInvestorssingle_source
935. 2025-06-13government contractICS.AI: government contract — Derby's AI programme, delivered with ICS.AI, produced £7.5m in savings, the council says; contract value not stated. Buys or funds: AI system for council phone and web queries (SMART AI Transformation Programme).Derby City CouncilSoftware and toolssingle_source
936. 2025-06-13partnershipKuano: partnership — Kuano published results of its IRAP collaboration with Bristol. For: quantum simulation of IRAP enzyme inhibition.University of Bristol (Mulholland group)Labssingle_source
937. 2025-06-12investment pledgeTogether AI (UK): investment pledge not disclosed — Together AI plans large European GPU build-outs, with the UK as a priority country. Buys or funds: Nearly 100,000 NVIDIA Blackwell and later GPUs in Europe, up to 2GW; priority countries France, UK, Italy and Portugal; rollouts from late 2025 to 2028.Hypertec; 5C GroupCloud and computesingle_source
938. 2025-06-12partnershipPeptone: partnership — Peptone and NVIDIA release PepTron-o For: Co-introduced PepTron-o structure-prediction model.NVIDIALabssingle_source
939. 2025-06-11investment pledgeNext National Supercomputing Service, University of Edinburgh: investment pledge £750m — Up to £750m for a national supercomputer at Edinburgh.HM Treasury / UK GovernmentCloud and computeverified
940. 2025-06-11investment pledgeNational supercomputer, Edinburgh: investment pledge £750m — Chancellor confirms up to £750m for the next national supercomputer in Edinburgh.UK GovernmentData centresverified
941. 2025-06-11acquisitionConvergence: acquisition — Agreement 15 May 2025, completed 11 June 2025; terms not disclosedSalesforceLabsverified
942. 2025-06-11investment pledgeNext National Supercomputing Service, University of Edinburgh: investment pledge £750m — Up to £750m confirmed for the new national supercomputer in Edinburgh. (Same event as DEAL-CLD-011; count once.)HM Treasury (Spending Review)Cloud and computesingle_source
943. 2025-06-11compute grantLatent Labs: compute grant — Latent Labs named among first users of NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton. For: Early access to NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton compute.NVIDIA (DGX Cloud Lepton)Labssingle_source
944. 2025-06-10investment pledgeNebius (UK): investment pledge £200m — Initial £200m to establish a UK AI factory; two possible sites in South East England.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
945. 2025-06-10uk office openingLiquidity (UK): uk office opening £1.50bn — European HQ in London plus £1.5bn of further investment into businesses over five years.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
946. 2025-06-09acquisitionQualcomm (UK) — Alphawave Semi: acquisition US$2.40bn (≈ £1.77bn) — Qualcomm agrees to buy Alphawave IP Group plc (implied enterprise value)Qualcomm IncorporatedBig tech in the UKsingle_source
947. 2025-06-09investment pledgeNebius (UK): investment pledge — First Nebius UK investment: thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs (amount undisclosed)Big tech in the UKsingle_source
948. 2025-06-09acquisitionAlphawave Semi: acquisition US$2.40bn (≈ £1.77bn) — Agreed offer at an implied enterprise value of about US$2.4bn (US$2.48 a share).Qualcomm IncorporatedChips and hardwareverified
949. 2025-06-09acquisitionAlphawave Semi: acquisition US$2.40bn (≈ £1.77bn) — Qualcomm agreed to buy Alphawave IP Group plc, which designs high-speed connectivity chips for data centres, at an implied enterprise value of about $2.4bn; completed 18 December 2025.Qualcomm IncorporatedChips and hardwareverified
950. 2025-06-09major contractBarclays and Microsoft 365 Copilot roll-out: major contract — Microsoft 365 Copilot for 100,000 Barclays colleaguesMicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
951. 2025-06-09funding roundDefinely: funding round US$30m (≈ £22.1m) — Series B; total US$40mRevaiaStart-upssingle_source
952. 2025-06-09partnershipNscale: partnership — At London Tech Week NVIDIA said Nscale would deploy 10,000 Blackwell GPUs in the UK by the end of 2026. Buys or funds: 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in the UK by end of 2026 (with 4,000 for Nebius, 14,000 in all, first phase).NVIDIACloud and computesingle_source
953. 2025-06-09uk office openingAssembled (UK office): uk office opening — Assembled opened a London office. Buys or funds: London base for European expansion.not stated in the researchSoftware and toolssingle_source
954. 2025-06-08uk office openingNVIDIA (UK): uk office opening — NVIDIA to expand its Bristol AI lab to other areas of the UK.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
955. 2025-06-08investment pledgeTechFirst: investment pledge £187m — Government tech skills programme launched by the Prime Minister.Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyServices and skillsverified
956. 2025-06-06funding roundTreefera: funding round 22m GBP — Treefera (AI supply-chain mapping) raised £22m (Series B), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Notion Capital, AlbionVC, Triple Point, Twin Path Ventures and othersInvestorssingle_source
957. 2025-06-05funding roundKiin Bio: funding round £1.6m — Pre-seed.b2ventureStart-upssingle_source
958. 2025-06-05renameSenseAI Vision: rename — SenseAI Innovations Limited renamed SenseAI Vision Limited.Start-upssingle_source
959. 2025-06-03major contractKainos Workday AI agents and Actonomy: major contract — Kainos named design partner for Workday's AI Agent System of RecordWorkdayEstablished firmssingle_source
960. 2025-06-03funding roundTreefera: funding round US$30m (≈ £22.2m) — Series B for AI that maps first-mile supply chains from satellite and drone data.Notion Capital (lead); AlbionVC; Triple Point; Twin Path Ventures; Endeit CapitalStart-upssingle_source
961. 2025-06-02funding roundLiteral Labs: funding round £4.6m — Pre-seed round.Northern GritstoneChips and hardwaresingle_source
962. 2025-05-30uk office openingLovable (UK base): uk office opening — UK subsidiary Lovable Labs UK Ltd incorporated; "new London office".Software and toolsverified
963. 2025-05-30funding roundApplied Computing: funding round £9m — Seed roundStride.VC; Repeat.VCStart-upssingle_source
964. 2025-05-30funding roundSpAItial: funding round £9.7m — Seed for AI that generates 3D environments with physics.Earlybird Venture Capital; Speedinvest; angelsStart-upssingle_source
965. 2025-05-30funding roundSpAItial: funding round 9.65m GBP — SpAItial (AI 3D world generation) raised £9.65m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Earlybird Venture Capital, SpeedinvestInvestorssingle_source
966. 2025-05-29funding roundNavLive: funding round £4m — £3.3m seed plus £700,000 Innovate UK grant for handheld AI building scanners.Oxford Science Enterprises (lead); SOSV; Oxford Capital Partners and others; Innovate UK grantStart-upssingle_source
967. 2025-05-28funding roundAnkar: funding round £3m — Seed for an AI platform that helps inventors secure patents.Index Ventures (lead); Daphni; Motier; Booom; Puzzle VenturesStart-upssingle_source
968. 2025-05-28major contractAion Silicon (formerly Sondrel): major contract US$12m (≈ £8.9m) — Design of a RISC-V accelerator for HPC and AI workloads.unnamed customerChips and hardwaresingle_source
969. 2025-05-28partnershipTurinTech: partnership — TurinTech named Taylor Wessing, Deaglo and Riskworx as Artemis users alongside Intel. Buys or funds: Artemis enterprise code optimisation and validation. Other investors: Intel (user).Taylor Wessing; Deaglo; Riskworx (users)Software and toolssingle_source
970. 2025-05-23funding roundConverge: funding round 16.3m GBP — Converge (AI concrete monitoring) raised £16.3m (Late VC), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.ABN AMRO, Climate Investment, Move Energy, Pi Impact and othersInvestorssingle_source
971. 2025-05-20collapseBuilder.ai (Engineer.ai Global Limited): collapse — Builder.ai said its main unit, Engineer.ai Corporation, would enter insolvency proceedings and appoint an administrator; Bloomberg reported a creditor had seized most of its cash. No administrator's notice or Gazette entry was opened.Software and toolssingle_source
972. 2025-05-20collapseBuilder.ai (Engineer.ai Global Limited): collapse — Company said it would enter insolvency proceedings and appoint an administrator.Software and toolsverified
973. 2025-05-19major contractAviva and CyberCube AI threat actor intelligence: major contract — AI threat actor intelligence for cyber portfolioCyberCubeEstablished firmssingle_source
974. 2025-05-19partnershipPhysicsX: partnership — PhysicsX forms a strategic collaboration with Microsoft For: Engineering use of Microsoft Discovery.Microsoft (Microsoft Discovery)Labssingle_source
975. 2025-05-15collapseMindtech: collapse — Mindtech Global Limited in administration; creditors' meeting result filed 15 May 2025 (start date not read).Software and toolssingle_source
976. 2025-05-14funding roundGranola: funding round US$43m (≈ £32.3m) — Series B.NFDGSoftware and toolssingle_source
977. 2025-05-14partnershipStability AI: partnership — Stability AI and Arm released a small open audio model for on-device use. For: Release of Stable Audio Open Small for on-device use.ArmLabssingle_source
978. 2025-05-14partnershipStability AI: partnership — Stability AI and Arm released a small open audio model built to run on phones. For: Joint release of Stable Audio Open Small for on-device audio generation (after a 3 Mar 2025 on-device audio announcement).ArmLabssingle_source
979. 2025-05-13wind downAnything World: wind down — Extraordinary resolution to wind up; liquidator appointed 22 May 2025Opus Restructuring (liquidator)Start-upsverified
980. 2025-05-09funding roundDoubleword: funding round £9m — Series A listed in UKTN weekly round-upDawn Capital; K5 Tokyo BlackSoftware and toolssingle_source
981. 2025-05-08partnershipPeptone: partnership — Peptone and Evotec form a strategic partnership For: Small molecules against intrinsically disordered proteins.EvotecLabssingle_source
982. 2025-05-07funding roundNia: funding round US$850,000 (≈ £635,942) — Pre-seed for an AI assistant that helps engineers work across codebases.LocalGlobeSoftware and toolssingle_source
983. 2025-05-06partnershipLatent Labs: partnership — Latent Labs and AWS announce a collaboration. For: Scaling generative AI for life sciences on AWS.Amazon Web ServicesLabssingle_source
984. 2025-05-06licensingAlchemab Therapeutics: licensing up to US$415m including upfront and downstream payments plus royalties — Lilly has licensed Alchemab's ALS antibody (date and terms not in source). For: Licence to ATLX-1282, an antibody for ALS. [Labs Round 8] Alchemab dates the licence 6 May 2025, worth up to US$415m including upfront and downstream payments plus royalties (a ceiling, never summed).Eli LillyLabssingle_source
985. 2025-05-02funding roundArondite: funding round 9m GBP — Arondite (AI for defence hardware) raised £9m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Index VenturesInvestorssingle_source
986. 2025-05-01funding roundArondite: funding round US$10m (≈ £7.5m) — Seed (US$12m with pre-seed)Index VenturesStart-upssingle_source
987. 2025-05-01funding roundAMPLY Discovery: funding round US$1.8m (≈ £1.3m) — Seed round for Queen's University Belfast spin-out.Twin Path VenturesLabssingle_source
988. 2025-05-01funding roundArondite: funding round 12,000,000 (£9m) USD — Seed round led by Index Ventures.Index VenturesStart-upssingle_source
989. 2025-05-01funding roundRecraft: funding round US$30m (≈ £22.6m) — Recraft raised a $30M Series B led by Accel. For: Iterating on its own image model. Other investors: Madrona Ventures; Khosla Ventures, Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, RTP Global (existing).AccelLabssingle_source
990. 2025-05partnershipAnduril UK: partnership — Anduril UK teamed with Archer Aviation, Skyports and AtkinsRéalis on dual-use eVTOL cargo aircraft testing. (Big tech file line 108; no source link given.)Archer Aviation; Skyports; AtkinsRéalisBig tech in the UKsingle_source
991. 2025-04-28renameAion Silicon (formerly Sondrel): rename — Sondrel rebranded as Aion Silicon; Sondrel Limited renamed Aion Silicon Limited.Intel Foundry (alliance joined)Chips and hardwareverified
992. 2025-04-25acquisitionDatatonic: acquisition — Datatonic announced purchase of the data-engineering firm SyntioSyntio (target)Services and skillssingle_source
993. 2025-04-18funding roundHammer Missions: funding round £1.4m — Funding for AI software that maps and inspects structures from drone flights.ACF Investors; angelsStart-upssingle_source
994. 2025-04-16funding roundInephany: funding round £1.8m — Round for technology to make large language model training more efficient.Amadeus Capital Partners (lead); Sure Valley Ventures; Prof Steve YoungSoftware and toolssingle_source
995. 2025-04-16partnershipStability AI: partnership — Stability AI's image models were optimised to run on AMD chips. For: Stable Diffusion optimised for AMD Radeon GPUs and Ryzen AI APUs.AMDLabssingle_source
996. 2025-04-15funding roundSynthesia: funding round — Strategic investment, amount not disclosed; ARR passed US$100mAdobe VenturesLabsverified
997. 2025-04-15funding roundMindset AI: funding round £4.3m — Round for a platform embedding AI agents into software products.Pembroke VCT; Edge VC (joint leads); Mountside VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
998. 2025-04-14funding roundWonder Studios: funding round US$3m (≈ £2.3m) — Pre-seedLocalGlobe and BlackbirdStart-upssingle_source
999. 2025-04-13wind downtripAbrood: wind down — Members' voluntary winding up (resolution 9 December 2022); dissolved 13 April 2025Start-upssingle_source
1000. 2025-04-10funding roundincident.io: funding round US$62m (≈ £47.8m) — incident.io raised a $62m Series B, bringing total funding above $96m. Buys or funds: AI agents that investigate incidents and suggest fixes; engineering and go-to-market hiring. Other investors: Index Ventures; Point Nine.Insight Partners (lead; Thomas Krane)Software and toolssingle_source
1001. 2025-04-10licensingSynthesia: licensing not disclosed — Synthesia licensed Shutterstock video for AI research, with an option for commercial use. For: Research licence to Shutterstock video library, option to extend to commercial use.ShutterstockLabssingle_source
1002. 2025-04-10licensingSynthesia: licensing — Synthesia licensed Shutterstock footage to train its EXPRESS-2 video and audio model. For: Research licence to Shutterstock's HD and 4K video library to pre-train the EXPRESS-2 avatar model, with option to extend to commercial use.ShutterstockLabssingle_source
1003. 2025-04-08funding roundNexGen Cloud: funding round US$45m (≈ £35.3m) — Series A for the London GPU cloud firm.high-net-worth individuals and family trusts (not named)Cloud and computesingle_source
1004. 2025-04-08funding roundNexGen Cloud: funding round US$45m (≈ £35.3m) — Series A for the UK GPU cloud behind Hyperstack.high-net-worth individuals and family trusts (not named)Cloud and computesingle_source
1005. 2025-04-04funding roundIsomorphic Labs: funding round 462.3m GBP — Isomorphic Labs (AI drug discovery) raised £462.3m (Late VC), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Thrive Capital, Google VenturesInvestorssingle_source
1006. 2025-04-03funding roundUnravel: funding round US$7m (≈ £5.3m) — Series ANauta CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1007. 2025-04-03funding roundAlphaLoops: funding round £440,000 — Innovate UK Smart Grant for AI agents that automate investment-firm operations.Innovate UK (Smart Grant)Start-upssingle_source
1008. 2025-04-03funding roundGrid Edge: funding round £2.8m — Birmingham AI building-energy software firm raises over £2.8m.Mercia Ventures (BIZ-INV-205), Midlands Engine Investment Fund II (lead); Centrica; bp Ventures (BIZ-INV-047)Start-upssingle_source
1009. 2025-04-03grantNewtons Tree (Newton's Tree): grant up to 200,000 GBP — Seed grant for CLIO, a project on oversight of clinical large language models.AI Security Institute Systemic Safety GrantsAssuranceverified
1010. 2025-04-03grantSeabot Maritime; Frontier Robotics (with King's College London): grant up to 200,000 GBP — Seed grant for a project on human-AI workforce skills for safe cyber-physical systems.AI Security Institute Systemic Safety GrantsSafetysingle_source
1011. 2025-04-03grantEmlyn Square (with HSE Science and Research Centre): grant up to 200,000 GBP — Seed grant for SAFEHAZ, on safe AI in high-hazard environments.AI Security Institute Systemic Safety GrantsSafetysingle_source
1012. 2025-04-03acquisitionInfoSum: acquisition — WPP bought InfoSum; CEO Lauren Wetzel stays and also becomes GroupM Chief Solutions Officer. Buys or funds: Data collaboration platform; joins GroupM and WPP Open.WPPSoftware and toolsverified
1013. 2025-04-02funding roundLumai: funding round US$10m (≈ £7.7m) — Round of more than US$10m; date from Package 1, not shown on pages opened.Constructor Capital (lead)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1014. 2025-04funding roundFotenix: funding round £2.1m — New funding for AI-powered crop diagnostics; University of Manchester spin-out.not namedStart-upssingle_source
1015. 2025-03-31funding roundIsomorphic Labs: funding round US$600m (≈ £464.8m) — Isomorphic Labs, the Alphabet-owned AI drug-design company in London, raised $600m in its first external round, led by Thrive Capital with GV and Alphabet.Thrive CapitalLabsverified
1016. 2025-03-31acquisitionIDVerse acquisition (LexisNexis Risk Solutions): acquisition — Acquisition of AI document authentication firm closed in Q1 2025 (day not given)IDVerseEstablished firmssingle_source
1017. 2025-03-31funding roundIsomorphic Labs: funding round US$600m (≈ £464.8m) — First external round; GV and Alphabet took partThrive CapitalLabssingle_source
1018. 2025-03-31funding roundDiffblue: funding round £1m — Grant via the ITEA GENIUS project.Innovate UK (grant)Software and toolssingle_source
1019. 2025-03-31funding roundFireflai: funding round £415,000 — Pre-seed for AI software that cleans and organises product data.DSW VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1020. 2025-03-31funding roundPOCKLA: funding round £1.6m — Seed for a London martech start-up using AI for content strategy (tech.eu teaser).not namedStart-upssingle_source
1021. 2025-03-31grantInsideOut 25: grant £196,071 — SBRI award for AI avatar-led workplace mental health interventions.SBRI HealthcareStart-upssingle_source
1022. 2025-03-31grantAffiniti AI: grant £194,852 — SBRI award for AI mental health co-therapist.SBRI HealthcareStart-upssingle_source
1023. 2025-03-28collapseHumanising Autonomy: collapse — Administration, ended 19 September 2025Administrators (79 Caroline Street, Birmingham)Start-upssingle_source
1024. 2025-03-28funding roundEthos: funding round 2.5m GBP — Ethos (AI for consulting and recruitment) raised £2.5m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.General Catalyst, 8VC, Interface Capital, Conviction Partners and othersInvestorssingle_source
1025. 2025-03-28funding roundRival: funding round 3.2m GBP — Rival (3D content generation (sector labelled AI)) raised £3.2m (Seed), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Speedinvest, New Renaissance VenturesInvestorssingle_source
1026. 2025-03-27major contractEnSilica: major contract US$18m (≈ £13.9m) — Arm-based mixed-signal sensor ASIC; estimated over $18m across seven years (not AI-specific).unnamed European electromechanical supplierChips and hardwaresingle_source
1027. 2025-03-26funding roundEmbargo: funding round £350,000 — Innovate UK Smart Grant to build an AI model for its hospitality CRM.Innovate UK (Smart Grant)Start-upssingle_source
1028. 2025-03-25funding roundPaid: funding round €10m (≈ £8.3m) — Pre-seed.EQT Ventures; SequoiaSoftware and toolsverified
1029. 2025-03-25partnershipNscale: partnership not disclosed — InfraPartners to build Nscale's Glomfjord expansion to 60MW. Buys or funds: Expansion of the Glomfjord Industrial Park facility, Norway, from 30MW to 60MW using modular prefabricated build; go-live set for Q2 2025.InfraPartnersCloud and computesingle_source
1030. 2025-03-24major contractEnSilica: major contract — Multi-million-pound chip design and manufacturing services contract.unnamed optical computing systems companyChips and hardwaresingle_source
1031. 2025-03-20major contractNatWest Group and OpenAI collaboration: major contract — Collaboration giving NatWest access to OpenAI products and consultancyOpenAIEstablished firmssingle_source
1032. 2025-03-20funding roundTurinTech: funding round 20,000,000 (cumulative) USD — TurinTech disclosed $20m raised in total as it launched Artemis; round split and investors not given. Buys or funds: Artemis code-optimisation platform.not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
1033. 2025-03-19partnership1Spatial: partnership €9m (≈ £7.6m) — 1Spatial reported a delayed start to a €9m Belgian digital-twin contract. Buys or funds: Digital twin of a distribution network.Unnamed Belgian clientSoftware and toolssingle_source
1034. 2025-03-18grantCareLoop Health: grant £488,002 — SBRI phase 3 award for AI digital therapeutic platform.SBRI Healthcare (Competition 26, urgent and emergency care phase 3)Start-upssingle_source
1035. 2025-03-18grantBering: grant £499,258 — SBRI phase 3 award for machine-learning admission-risk tool.SBRI Healthcare (Competition 26, urgent and emergency care phase 3)Start-upssingle_source
1036. 2025-03-18grantDem Dx: grant £497,234 — SBRI phase 3 award for DemDx clinical decision platform for frontline clinicians.SBRI Healthcare (Competition 26, urgent and emergency care phase 3)Start-upssingle_source
1037. 2025-03-17investment pledgeOracle (UK): investment pledge US$5bn (≈ £3.85bn) — Five-year UK cloud infrastructure investmentBig tech in the UKverified
1038. 2025-03-17investment pledgeOracle Cloud UK regions (UK South, London, and UK West, Newport): investment pledge US$5bn (≈ £3.85bn) — Oracle to invest $5bn over five years in UK cloud infrastructure.OracleCloud and computesingle_source
1039. 2025-03-13delistingBenevolentAI: delisting — BenevolentAI shares were delisted from Euronext Amsterdam, following shareholder approval of a merger into Osaka Holdings (proposal published 5 February 2025).Osaka Holdings S.à r.l.Start-upssingle_source
1040. 2025-03-13delistingBenevolentAI: delisting — Shares delisted from Euronext Amsterdam.Euronext AmsterdamStart-upssingle_source
1041. 2025-03-13funding roundMerx: funding round £1m — Pre-seed for a conversational AI platform for brand messaging and commerce.VentureFriends (lead); AscensionStart-upssingle_source
1042. 2025-03-13funding roundYAi: funding round £250,000 — SEIS funding for an AI content generation and quality-scoring studio.Jenson Ventures (lead)Start-upssingle_source
1043. 2025-03-12acquisitionPeak: acquisition — UiPath announced it had acquired Peak, a Manchester company that makes AI software for pricing and inventory decisions. Terms not disclosed.UiPathStart-upssingle_source
1044. 2025-03-12investment pledgeNational Grid Partners US$100m AI start-up commitment: investment pledge US$100m (≈ £77.1m) — National Grid's venture arm commits US$100m (£77.3m) to AI start-upsAI start-ups in energy (Amperon latest)Established firmssingle_source
1045. 2025-03-12mergerBenevolentAI: merger — Merged into Osaka Holdings, which took the BenevolentAI name.Osaka Holdings S.à r.l.Start-upssingle_source
1046. 2025-03-12acquisitionPeak: acquisition — UiPath acquires Manchester AI pricing and inventory company PeakUiPathStart-upssingle_source
1047. 2025-03-12partnershipGoogle DeepMind: partnership — Google DeepMind partnered with Apptronik on humanoid robots using its Gemini Robotics models. For: Building next-generation humanoid robots with Gemini 2.0 / Gemini Robotics.ApptronikLabssingle_source
1048. 2025-03-10major contractOri: major contract — Ori puts its first UK cloud region, with NVIDIA H200 GPUs, at Kao Data Harlow.Kao Data (BIZ-DC-004)Cloud and computeverified
1049. 2025-03-07funding roundQuantexa: funding round 135.5m GBP — Quantexa (AI data intelligence) raised £135.5m (Series F), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.HSBC, Warburg Pincus, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, BNY Mellon and othersInvestorssingle_source
1050. 2025-03-06funding roundConveo: funding round US$5.3m (≈ £4.1m) — YC page lists the headline on a $5.3M raise. Buys or funds: AI video interviews for market research.not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
1051. 2025-03-05funding roundQuantexa: funding round £15m — £15m follow-on in Quantexa's Series F (date from search listing; page undated)British Patient Capital (BIZ-INV-003)Start-upssingle_source
1052. 2025-03-05funding roundStability AI: funding round — Strategic investment and partnership, amount not statedWPPLabssingle_source
1053. 2025-03-05funding roundNotify (new): funding round £1.5m — Round for a workplace safety platform adding AI-powered features.Calculus Capital; North East Venture Fund (Mercia Ventures; ERDF)single_source
1054. 2025-03-04funding roundNisien.AI: funding round — Undisclosed joint investment from the £130m Investment Fund for WalesForesight Group and Development Bank of Wales (Investment Fund for Wales)Start-upsverified
1055. 2025-03-04funding roundCloudsmith: funding round US$23m (≈ £18.1m) — Cloudsmith raised a £18m ($23m) Series B led by TCV, one of Northern Ireland's largest rounds. Buys or funds: sales, marketing, customer success, R&D. Other investors: Insight Partners; MMC; Frontline; Techstart; Sorenson; Tapestry; Shasta.TCV (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1056. 2025-03-03major contractiSchemaView Inc (US supplier): major contract £12,495 — Licence and support for AI brain-imaging software, April 2025 to March 2026.Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustServices and skillssingle_source
1057. 2025-03wind downTract: wind down — Suspended operations; remaining cash returned to investorsStart-upssingle_source
1058. 2025-03investment pledgeOracle Cloud UK regions (UK South, London, and UK West, Newport): investment pledge US$5bn (≈ £3.97bn) — Plan to expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the UK; AI services added to UK Sovereign Cloud in September 2025.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
1059. 2025-02-28major contractPearson and AWS AI collaboration: major contract — Expanded AI collaboration on AWS and BedrockAmazon Web ServicesEstablished firmssingle_source
1060. 2025-02-28funding roundRelay (new): funding round £27m — Funding for an AI-powered parcel logistics network.Plural; Project A; Prologis Venturessingle_source
1061. 2025-02-28funding roundElectric Sheep: funding round £500,000 — Innovate UK Smart Grant for AI tools that automate rotoscoping in visual effects (BusinessCloud lists it under March 2025).Innovate UK (Smart Grant)Start-upssingle_source
1062. 2025-02-27investment pledgeWPP AI and data strategy (WPP Open): investment pledge £300m — Annual WPP Open investment raised to £300mEstablished firmssingle_source
1063. 2025-02-21funding roundLuminance: funding round 59.5m GBP — Luminance (AI for legal work) raised £59.5m (Series C), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.March Capital Partners, Point72 Ventures, Slaughter and May, Forestay Capital and othersInvestorssingle_source
1064. 2025-02-20funding roundSafe Intelligence: funding round £4.2m — Seed round with OTB Ventures and Vsquared VenturesAmadeus Capital PartnersSafetysingle_source
1065. 2025-02-20grantLighthearted AI Health: grant £99,125 — SBRI phase 1 award for LightScope AI-assisted diagnosis.SBRI Healthcare (Competition 25, women's health phase 1)Start-upssingle_source
1066. 2025-02-20grantSpryt: grant £100,000 — SBRI phase 1 award for Asa WhatsApp AI receptionist.SBRI Healthcare (Competition 25, women's health phase 1)Start-upssingle_source
1067. 2025-02-20grantHolly Health: grant £79,247 — SBRI phase 1 award to co-design coaching for binge eating symptoms.SBRI Healthcare (Competition 25, women's health phase 1)Start-upssingle_source
1068. 2025-02-20partnershipMatNex (Materials Nexus): partnership — MatNex and Viridien partnered to scale MatNex's computing capacity. For: AI, HPC and optimisation capacity for materials discovery.ViridienLabssingle_source
1069. 2025-02-19funding roundAlfa: funding round £500,000 — Pre-seed (around £500,000) for an AI recruitment agent; article body gives a £4.75m valuation.Fuel Ventures (lead); angelsStart-upssingle_source
1070. 2025-02-18funding roundCambridge GaN Devices (CGD): funding round US$32m (≈ £25.4m) — Series CCambridge Innovation Capital, IQ Capital, Parkwalk, Foresight, BGF, British Patient Capital (no lead named)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1071. 2025-02-18acquisitionMetaphysic: acquisition — Brahma, the AI and content technology company created by DNEG Group, announced it was acquiring Metaphysic, a London maker of AI face and video synthesis tools; Broadcast reported the combined business valued at $1.43bn. Terms not disclosed.Brahma (DNEG Group)Start-upsverified
1072. 2025-02-18acquisitionMetaphysic: acquisition — Brahma announced the acquisition of MetaphysicBrahma (DNEG Group)Start-upsverified
1073. 2025-02-18uk office openingNapier AI: uk office opening — Belfast centre of excellence, 106 jobs planned (Invest NI says announced January 2025)Invest Northern Ireland (support)Start-upsverified
1074. 2025-02-18funding roundLuminance: funding round US$75m (≈ £59.5m) — Series CPoint72Start-upssingle_source
1075. 2025-02-17wind downHazy: wind down — Members' voluntary liquidation (special resolution; declaration of solvency).Software and toolsverified
1076. 2025-02-14major contractGuardian Media Group: major contract — Content partnership; Guardian may also use OpenAI technology in-house.OpenAIEstablished firmssingle_source
1077. 2025-02-14funding roundLatent Labs: funding round 40m GBP — Latent Labs (AI for biology design) raised £40m (Series A), reported by UKTN weekly roundup.Sofinnova Partners, 8VC, Kindred Capital, Isomer Capital and othersInvestorssingle_source
1078. 2025-02-13funding roundLatent Labs: funding round US$40m (≈ £31.9m) — Series A; US$50m total funding at launchRadical Ventures and Sofinnova PartnersLabsverified
1079. 2025-02-13funding roundLatent Labs: funding round 50,000,000 (incl. 40,000,000 Series A) USD — Out of stealth with protein-design platform.Radical Ventures; Sofinnova PartnersLabssingle_source
1080. 2025-02-12major contractLondon Economics Ltd: major contract £265,224 — Monitoring and evaluation of the AI Research Resource programme, February 2025 to March 2026.Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyServices and skillssingle_source
1081. 2025-02-12partnershipStability AI: partnership — Stability AI's image model was listed on Microsoft's cloud AI platform. For: Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large offered on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry.Microsoft (Azure AI Foundry)Labssingle_source
1082. 2025-02-11funding roundNoxus: funding round £1.2m — Pre-seed for an AI operating system that lets enterprises deploy teams of AI workers.SFC Capital (lead); AntlerSoftware and toolssingle_source
1083. 2025-02-10wind downConigital: wind down — Liquidators appointed (date of report; appointment date not given)Begbies Traynor (liquidators)Start-upssingle_source
1084. 2025-02-10partnershipScan Computers (Scan AI and Scan Cloud): partnership — NVIDIA certified Scan as a DGX managed service provider, one of eleven worldwide. Buys or funds: DGX-ready managed service provider status.NVIDIA (BIZ-BIG-014)Cloud and computeverified
1085. 2025-02-05major contractGraide: major contract — Three-year contract after a public tenderUniversity of BirminghamStart-upssingle_source
1086. 2025-02investment pledgeFluidstack: investment pledge €10bn (≈ £8.37bn) — Fluidstack pledged €10bn for a 1GW AI supercomputer in France. Buys or funds: A 1-gigawatt AI supercomputer in France.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
1087. 2025-02gpu purchaseScan Computers (Scan AI and Scan Cloud): gpu purchase — Scan installed a DGX B200 system for its hosted DGX service, described as Europe's first DGX B200 cluster. Buys or funds: NVIDIA DGX B200, eight B200 GPUs, with PEAK:AIO storage.NVIDIA (BIZ-BIG-014)Cloud and computesingle_source
1088. 2025-02partnershipIsomorphic Labs: partnership — Novartis collaboration expanded (month only on company page). For: Expansion by up to three more research programmes.NovartisLabssingle_source
1089. 2025-01-31funding roundProsper (new): funding round £4m — Series A for a wealth management platform that uses AI.Fuel Venturessingle_source
1090. 2025-01-30funding roundElevenLabs: funding round US$180m (≈ £144.4m) — Series Ca16z and ICONIQ GrowthLabssingle_source
1091. 2025-01-30site openingPulsant: site opening — Pulsant launched a UK private cloud aimed at data sovereignty and private AI. Buys or funds: Pulsant Private Cloud at Croydon LN-1, Newcastle NE-1, Edinburgh SC-1, with private AI services.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
1092. 2025-01-30partnershipLifebit: partnership — Cancer Research Horizons partnered with Lifebit on research data. Buys or funds: Access to cancer research data.Cancer Research HorizonsSoftware and toolssingle_source
1093. 2025-01-24funding roundVizgard: funding round £1.5m — Series ASure Valley VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1094. 2025-01-24funding roundTalentMapper: funding round £2m — Series A for an HR platform using AI and machine learning to map workplace skills.Mercia Ventures; HaatchStart-upssingle_source
1095. 2025-01-24major contractIQE: major contract US$500,000 (≈ £400,513) — Partnership and initial purchase order for quantum-dot wafers for AI optical interconnects.QuintessentChips and hardwaresingle_source
1096. 2025-01-22funding roundVizgard: funding round £1.5m — Oversubscribed round for London AI threat-identification firm.Sure Valley Ventures (with Midwich Ignite, Focal)Start-upssingle_source
1097. 2025-01-21wind downBehold.ai: wind down — Court order to wind up filed 21 January 2025; liquidator appointed (filed 26 March 2025)Court (compulsory liquidation)Start-upssingle_source
1098. 2025-01-17funding roundOh (new): funding round £3.7m — Seed for OhChat, an AI character chat platform for adult content.Tangent, Kosmos Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Bodhi Ventures, Tagus Capitalsingle_source
1099. 2025-01-17funding roundRocketPhone.ai: funding round £8.6m — Seed for voice software that records sales calls and automates follow-up.no venture capital namedStart-upssingle_source
1100. 2025-01-17funding roundArcube: funding round £1.2m — Seed for an AI platform that raises airline loyalty and ancillary revenue.Fuel Ventures; Oxford Capital PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1101. 2025-01-15funding roundSynthesia: funding round US$180m (≈ £146.8m) — Series DNEALabssingle_source
1102. 2025-01-15uk office openingMistral AI (UK): uk office opening — London office opened as Mistral's first European base outside France; aim to double UK staff by end 2025.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1103. 2025-01-14major contractPearson and Microsoft AI partnership: major contract — Multi-year AI partnership; Pearson VUE certification work to 2029MicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
1104. 2025-01-14partnershipAlchemab Therapeutics: partnership — Lilly and Alchemab agreed to work on up to five ALS antibodies. For: discovery and development of up to five ALS antibodies.Eli LillyLabssingle_source
1105. 2025-01-13investment pledgeNscale: investment pledge US$2.50bn (≈ £2.06bn) — Nscale announces UK data-centre investment (headline £2bn, body $2.5bn over three years), with Loughton at up to 45,000 GB200 GPUs, live Q4 2026 as then planned.NscaleData centressingle_source
1106. 2025-01-13uk office openingCoreWeave (UK): uk office opening — CoreWeave says its Crawley and London Docklands AI data centres are operational (NVIDIA H200).Digital Realty; Global SwitchData centressingle_source
1107. 2025-01-13major contractAdarga: major contract £12m — Enterprise Agreement Lite, "up to" £12mMinistry of DefenceStart-upssingle_source
1108. 2025-01-13investment pledgeVantage Data Centers (UK): investment pledge £12bn — More than £12bn in UK data centres, 11,500 jobs, including a campus in Wales.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1109. 2025-01-13uk office openingKyndryl: uk office opening — New Liverpool tech hub with up to 1,000 AI-related jobs over three years.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
1110. 2025-01-13grantSummatic: grant — One of 16 developers sharing £1 million to build AI feedback tools using the DfE content store; individual amount not stated.Department for Education / Innovate UK (AI content store contest)Start-upssingle_source
1111. 2025-01-12investment pledgeNscale: investment pledge US$2.50bn (≈ £2.04bn) — Three-year UK data-centre investment announced with the AI Opportunities Action Plan, including Loughton, Essex.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
1112. 2025-01-10funding roundVitVio: funding round £1.5m — Pre-seed for computer vision that tracks the performance of medical procedures.LDV Capital, Bek Ventures, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company and angelsStart-upssingle_source
1113. 2025-01-10funding roundRoboK: funding round £1m — UKRI grant for technology that adds AI to CCTV systems.UKRI (grant)Start-upssingle_source
1114. 2025-01-09collapseLenus Health: collapse — Administrator appointed.FRP Advisory (administrators)Start-upssingle_source
1115. 2025-01-08uk office openingxAI (UK) — X.AI London Ltd: uk office opening — xAI begins hiring engineers in London (trade report)Big tech in the UKsingle_source
1116. 2025-01-07wind downiSIZE: wind down — iSIZE Limited dissolvedStart-upssingle_source
1117. 2025acquisitionLawhive: acquisition — Lawhive bought a UK law firmWoodstock Legal Services (target)Start-upssingle_source
1118. 2025funding roundBrainomix: funding round £14m — Original Series C (year only).Parkwalk Advisors; Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund; Hostplus (as recorded in earlier pass)Start-upssingle_source
1119. 2025funding roundIgnota Labs: funding round £5.5m — Seed round (year only, as reported).Start-upssingle_source
1120. 2025funding roundCHARM Therapeutics: funding round US$80m (≈ £63.9m) — Reported in Business Weekly's Q3 2025 Cambridge round-up; investors not stated. · year only given: rate for 1 JanuaryStart-upssingle_source
1121. 2025acquisitionPulsant: acquisition not disclosed — Pulsant bought its Birmingham data centre (now WM-1) from SCC.Specialist Computer Centres PLC (SCC)Data centressingle_source
1122. 2025funding roundFern Labs: funding round US$3m (≈ £2.4m) — Seed round of $3M with Air Street as the only investor; month not given.Air Street Capital (sole investor)Software and toolssingle_source
1123. 2025acquisitionFern Labs: acquisition — Poolside bought Fern Labs; Air Street had backed both companies early. Month and price not given.PoolsideSoftware and toolssingle_source
1124. 2025gpu purchaseHX2, Imperial College London: gpu purchase £10m — £10m Imperial supercomputer under ICICLE. Buys or funds: 24 GPU nodes with 4 × H200 each; 96 Xeon 6 CPU nodes. Other investors: NVIDIA (H200).Lenovo (BIZ-INV-2158); Intel (BIZ-BIG-2034)Cloud and computesingle_source
1125. 2025gpu purchaseCSF3 NVIDIA H200 expansion, University of Manchester: gpu purchase — Manchester adds H200 GPUs to CSF3. Buys or funds: 32 NVIDIA H200 in four HGX nodes. Other investors: Alces (integration); Dell (host servers).NVIDIA (BIZ-BIG-014)Cloud and computeverified
1126. 2025government contractARCHER2: government contract — ARCHER2 extended; access ends 2026-11-20. Buys or funds: 12-month service extension to November 2026.— (grantor not named)Cloud and computeverified
1127. 2025government contractCirrus: government contract — New Cirrus hardware from HPE, due before end of 2025. Buys or funds: HPE Cray EX4000 refresh, 256 nodes, 73,228 cores.HPE (BIZ-BIG-2030)Cloud and computesingle_source
1128. 2025funding roundTrace: funding round — Trace joined Y Combinator. Buys or funds: YC Summer 2025 batch.Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
1129. 2025funding roundthroxy: funding round — throxy joined Y Combinator. Buys or funds: YC Spring 2025 batch. Other investors: Base10 (per headline).Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
1130. 2025funding roundBIZ-SW-5026 Lua (Lua Global Inc): funding round — Lua joined Y Combinator. Buys or funds: YC Fall 2025 batch.Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
1131. 2025funding roundBIZ-SW-5027 Artil: funding round — Artil joined Y Combinator. Buys or funds: YC Winter 2025 batch.Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
1132. 2025funding roundParsewise: funding round — Parsewise joined Y Combinator. Buys or funds: YC Spring 2025 batch.Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
1133. 2025funding roundArtificial Societies: funding round — Artificial Societies joined Y Combinator. Buys or funds: YC Winter 2025 batch.Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
1134. 2025funding roundLeeroo: funding round — Leeroo joined Y Combinator. Buys or funds: YC Spring 2025 batch.Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
1135. 2025funding roundMotives: funding round — Motives joined Y Combinator. Buys or funds: YC Summer 2025 batch.Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
1136. 2025partnershipThe Alan Turing Institute (AI assurance and security work): partnership — Turing, Cambridge and Microsoft Research built the end-to-end AI weather model published in Nature. For: Joint development of Aardvark Weather (BIZ-LAB-14082).University of Cambridge; Microsoft ResearchLabssingle_source
1137. 2024-12-30listingPri0r1ty Intelligence Group: listing £1m — Pri0r1ty joined AIM through SPAC Alteration Earth, which cancelled its Main Market listing. Buys or funds: Working capital.AIM (London Stock Exchange) via Alteration Earth plcSoftware and toolssingle_source
1138. 2024-12-30listingBIZ-SW-6005 Pri0r1ty Intelligence Group: listing £1m — AI SaaS firm Pri0r1ty was due to list on AIM on 30 December 2024 through a deal with Alteration Earth, raising £1m. Buys or funds: working capital alongside a £13m acquisition deal.AIM, London Stock Exchange (via Alteration Earth shell)Software and toolssingle_source
1139. 2024-12-28grantRedpen AI Ltd: grant £64,478 — Innovation funding, published as a contract award, to build a generative AI tool for education.Department for Education (AI Catalyst Fund)Services and skillssingle_source
1140. 2024-12-19acquisitionFeaturespace: acquisition — Visa completed its purchase of Featurespace, the Cambridge fraud-detection AI company. Date is the completion date; price and announcement date not on the page opened.VisaStart-upssingle_source
1141. 2024-12-19acquisitionFeaturespace: acquisition — Acquisition completed; terms not disclosedVisaStart-upssingle_source
1142. 2024-12-19partnershipStability AI: partnership — Stability AI's image models were made available through Amazon's cloud model services. For: Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large offered on Amazon Bedrock (after SageMaker JumpStart, 14 Nov 2024; top three text-to-image models on Bedrock, 4 Sep 2024; Image Services on Bedrock, 18 Sep 2025).Amazon Web Services (Amazon Bedrock)Labssingle_source
1143. 2024-12-18partnershipOdyssey: partnership — Odyssey trialled Explorer inside a production workflow with Garden Studios. For: Production trial of the Explorer image-to-world model (BIZ-LAB-14059).Garden StudiosLabssingle_source
1144. 2024-12-16funding roundConcinnity Genetics: funding round £3m — Round with Scottish Enterprise, Old College Capital and Maven.Eos AdvisoryStart-upssingle_source
1145. 2024-12-16major contractPwC UK (AI practice): major contract £4.1m — UKRI contract for PwC to build and run the AI Skills Hub, December 2024 to March 2026.UK Research and InnovationServices and skillssingle_source
1146. 2024-12-11partnershipTurinTech: partnership — TurinTech news index lists its selection for the Microsoft UK GenAI Accelerator (article not opened). Buys or funds: Accelerator place.Microsoft (UK GenAI Accelerator)Software and toolssingle_source
1147. 2024-12-10partnershipHartree Centre: partnership — Three-way fusion AI partnership. Buys or funds: Fusion foundation models from JET and MAST-U data (BIZ-CLD-6028).IBM Research UK (BIZ-BIG-034); UK Atomic Energy AuthorityCloud and computesingle_source
1148. 2024-12-09funding roundNscale: funding round US$155m (≈ £121.1m) — London AI hyperscaler raised a $155m Series A.Sandton Capital PartnersData centresverified
1149. 2024-12-05funding roundLawhive: funding round US$40m (≈ £31.4m) — London AI legal start-up raised $40m, again led by GV.GV (Google Ventures); TQ Ventures (co-leads per tech.eu)Start-upssingle_source
1150. 2024-12-05major contractFuture plc: major contract — Content partnership bringing Future titles to ChatGPT users.OpenAIEstablished firmssingle_source
1151. 2024-12-05partnershipTolemy Bio: partnership — Tolemy Bio joined MFX and Aminoacids.com to design AI culture media for cell therapies. For: AI-derived media formulations for T-cell culture.MFX; Aminoacids.comLabssingle_source
1152. 2024-12-04partnershipPhysicsX: partnership — Siemens and PhysicsX agreed to build AI-based physics simulation, starting with an aerospace model. For: LGM-Aero trained on simulation data from Siemens Xcelerator (Simcenter STAR-CCM+ and Nastran); Ai.rplane released.Siemens Digital Industries SoftwareLabssingle_source
1153. 2024-12-02funding round9fin: funding round US$50m (≈ £39.6m) — London AI debt-market analytics firm closed a $50m Series B.Highland EuropeStart-upssingle_source
1154. 2024-12-02investment pledgeCivo: investment pledge 2000000000 (stated as INR 200 crore) INR — UK cloud firm Civo committed INR 200 crore to launch its India region in Mumbai. Buys or funds: Civo India cloud region in a Sify data centre in Mumbai (80% renewable-powered); India team; site outside the UK.Sify Technologies (data-centre host)Cloud and computesingle_source
1155. 2024-12uk office openingxAI (UK) — X.AI London Ltd: uk office opening — UK company incorporated; team in X's Piccadilly office.xAILabssingle_source
1156. 2024-12acquisitionPri0r1ty Intelligence Group: acquisition £13m — The SPAC deal valued the acquisition at £13m. Buys or funds: Reverse takeover alongside AIM listing.Alteration Earth plc (acquirer; renamed Pri0r1ty Intelligence Group Plc)Software and toolssingle_source
1157. 2024-12partnershipOrbital Industries (Orbital Materials Ltd): partnership — AWS strategic agreement For: Strategic agreement on data-centre decarbonisation, cooling and water use; Orb on SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Marketplace.Amazon Web ServicesLabssingle_source
1158. 2024-11-29grantCovailent Ltd: grant £50,368 — Innovation funding, published as a contract award, to build a generative AI tool for education.Department for Education (AI Catalyst Fund)Services and skillssingle_source
1159. 2024-11-28funding roundVente AI: funding round £500,000 — London start-up with a lead-analysis model for recruiters raised £500,000 pre-seed.Antler VC and angels (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1160. 2024-11-28grantFFT Education Ltd: grant £50,198 — Innovation funding, published as a contract award, to build a generative AI tool for education.Department for Education (AI Catalyst Fund)Services and skillssingle_source
1161. 2024-11-22partnershipTurinTech: partnership — TurinTech news index lists a strategic partnership with Boston Limited. Buys or funds: Not stated (article not opened).Boston LimitedSoftware and toolssingle_source
1162. 2024-11-21funding roundProRata.ai: funding round — DMG Media invested in AI start-up ProRata.ai and gave it access to its content and archives.DMG Media (Daily Mail and General Trust)Established firmssingle_source
1163. 2024-11-20mergerExscientia: merger — Exscientia, the Oxford AI drug-discovery company, became a wholly owned subsidiary of Recursion on completion of their combination. Date is the completion date; value and announcement date not on the page opened.Recursion PharmaceuticalsStart-upssingle_source
1164. 2024-11-20acquisitionExscientia: acquisition — Business combination completed; Exscientia became a wholly owned subsidiary of Recursion.Recursion PharmaceuticalsStart-upsverified
1165. 2024-11-20delistingExscientia: delisting — Nasdaq ADSs ceased trading and were to be delisted.NasdaqStart-upssingle_source
1166. 2024-11-20government contractHiggs HPC cluster, Northumbria University: government contract undisclosed ("multi-million pound") GBP — Northumbria's first university-wide HPC. Buys or funds: Lenovo ThinkSystem and AMD EPYC HPC; five-year integration and expansion.Lenovo (BIZ-INV-2158); Logicalis UKI (BIZ-CLD-6003)Cloud and computeverified
1167. 2024-11-19acquisitionBronze: acquisition — Bronze bought Chroma; Chroma stock converted to Bronze stockChroma (target)Start-upssingle_source
1168. 2024-11-14funding roundTessl: funding round US$100m (≈ £78.7m) — Series A, disclosed with a US$25m seed led by Boldstart and GV.Index VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1169. 2024-11-14funding roundTessl: funding round US$25m (≈ £19.7m) — Seed round closed earlier in 2024, disclosed in November.Boldstart Ventures; GVSoftware and toolssingle_source
1170. 2024-11-13funding roundOdyssey: funding round US$18m (≈ £14.1m) — Odyssey raises an $18m Series A led by EQT Ventures. For: Series A; capture and generation of 3D worlds.EQT VenturesLabssingle_source
1171. 2024-11-12acquisitionHazy: acquisition — SAS bought Hazy's principal software assets.SAS InstituteSoftware and toolsverified
1172. 2024-11-11major contractEnSilica: major contract — EnSilica to design and supply photonics controller chips for Oriole's optical switches.Oriole Networks (BIZ-CHIP-011)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1173. 2024-11-11funding roundNorthflank: funding round 22,000,000 (seed and Series A combined) USD — Northflank announced $22m across seed and Series A. Buys or funds: Product, SRE and go-to-market teams; more regions, BYOC providers, BYOK. Other investors: Kindred Ventures; Pebblebed; Uncorrelated Ventures.Bain Capital Ventures; Vertex Ventures US (leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1174. 2024-11-05major contractEnSilica: major contract US$7m (≈ £5.4m) — Edge AI chip contract with possible supply revenue above $50m over five years (reported with going-concern warning).unnamedChips and hardwaresingle_source
1175. 2024-10-31funding roundScalpel AI: funding round £3.8m — Round with Tensor Ventures.Mercia VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1176. 2024-10-25acquisitionCorndel: acquisition — Galileo bought THI Investments' stake in CorndelGalileo Global EducationServices and skillssingle_source
1177. 2024-10-25acquisitionKheiron Medical Technologies (now DeepHealth UK): acquisition — DeepHealth acquired the London breast-screening AI company; price not disclosed.DeepHealth (RadNet)Start-upssingle_source
1178. 2024-10-25grantFractile: grant £5m — ARIA funding for analogue in-memory compute.ARIA (Scaling Compute)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1179. 2024-10-25compute grantARIA Scaling Compute: compute grant £50m — ARIA named 12 teams for its Scaling Compute programme, backed by nearly £50m. Buys or funds: 12 Creator teams working to cut AI hardware costs by over 1000x (amount stated as "nearly £50 million").ARIACloud and computesingle_source
1180. 2024-10-23major contractFractile: major contract — Licence for AX45MPV 64-bit RISC-V vector processor IP for Fractile's first data-centre inference accelerator.Andes TechnologyChips and hardwaresingle_source
1181. 2024-10-23funding roundGranola: funding round US$20m (≈ £15.4m) — Granola raised a $20m Series A led by Spark Capital; weekly users up 6x since launch. Buys or funds: AI meeting notepad. Other investors: AI Grant (Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross); Lightspeed; Betaworks; Firstminute Capital.Spark Capital (lead)Software and toolsverified
1182. 2024-10-21funding roundOriole Networks: funding round US$22m (≈ £16.9m) — Series A (reported as £16.9m).Plural (lead)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1183. 2024-10-21investment pledgeGSK: investment pledge £50m — Five-year GSK–Cambridge research collaboration in kidney and respiratory disease that uses AI; "more than £50 million".University of CambridgeEstablished firmssingle_source
1184. 2024-10-21funding roundOriole Networks: funding round £17m — Series A for photonic networking of AI chips.PluralChips and hardwaresingle_source
1185. 2024-10-21major contractIBM UK (AI consulting and AI skills): major contract £247,604 — Generative AI tools and cloud support for Avon and Somerset police, via G-Cloud 13 Lot 3.South West Police Procurement Service (PCC Avon and Somerset)Services and skillssingle_source
1186. 2024-10-17funding roundMindtech: funding round £4.4m — Round with Mercia Ventures and NPIF (date from Package 1).EdgeSoftware and toolssingle_source
1187. 2024-10-15funding roundShift Bioscience: funding round US$16m (≈ £12.2m) — Seed round with F-Prime Capital, Kindred Capital and Jonathan Milner.BGFStart-upssingle_source
1188. 2024-10-14investment pledgeServiceNow (UK): investment pledge US$1.50bn (≈ £1.15bn) — UK business investment over five years, incl. NVIDIA GPUs in UK data centresBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1189. 2024-10-14investment pledgeCoreWeave (UK): investment pledge £750m — Further £750m for UK AI cloud infrastructure, CoreWeave's second UK pledge of 2024.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
1190. 2024-10-14investment pledgeServiceNow (UK): investment pledge £1.15bn — £1.15bn into the UK business over five years, including data centres with Nvidia GPUs.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
1191. 2024-10-14investment pledgeCyrusOne: investment pledge £2.50bn — US-headquartered data centre developer to expand UK investment to £2.5bn; two data centres due by Q4 2028, subject to planning.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
1192. 2024-10-14investment pledgeCloudHQ: investment pledge £1.90bn — Washington DC-based CloudHQ to develop a £1.9bn data centre campus in Didcot, Oxfordshire.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
1193. 2024-10-14investment pledgeCoreWeave (UK): investment pledge £750m — Further UK investment in AI cloud infrastructure, part of a £6.3bn data-centre package announced by DSIT.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
1194. 2024-10-14investment pledgeServiceNow (UK): investment pledge £1.15bn — Five-year UK investment covering AI development, data centres with Nvidia GPUs for local processing, and offices.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
1195. 2024-10-11funding roundLightdash: funding round £8m — Lightdash raised an £8m Series A led by existing investor Accel (week ending 11 October 2024). Other investors: Operator Partners; Shopify Ventures; Y Combinator.AccelSoftware and toolssingle_source
1196. 2024-10-10grantEnsemble Analytics: grant — Round 2 winner for AI depot scheduling.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 2Start-upssingle_source
1197. 2024-10-10grantSorair Technologies Ltd: grant — Round 2 winner for Soranet security platform.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 2Start-upssingle_source
1198. 2024-10-10grantAI Automation Ltd: grant — Round 2 winner for collaborative palletising system.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 2Start-upssingle_source
1199. 2024-10-10grantFlexible Power Systems Ltd: grant — Round 2 winner to optimise delivery schedules and charger use in real time.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 2Start-upssingle_source
1200. 2024-10-09funding roundBasecamp Research: funding round US$60m (≈ £45.9m) — $60m round reported by TechCrunch (headline only; lead and investors to verify). For: Building a 'GPT for biology'.not verifiedLabssingle_source
1201. 2024-10-08major contractVodafone and Google ten-year AI and cloud deal: major contract US$1bn (≈ £763.8m) — Ten-year deal worth more than US$1bn (cloud, security, devices, AI)GoogleEstablished firmssingle_source
1202. 2024-10-08partnershipLifebit: partnership — Flatiron Health and Lifebit partnered on real-world data for cancer care in Japan. Buys or funds: Real-world cancer data in Japan.Flatiron HealthSoftware and toolssingle_source
1203. 2024-10-02funding roundAmeba: funding round US$7.1m (≈ £5.4m) — London AI supply-chain data start-up raised a $7.1m seed round.HedosophiaStart-upssingle_source
1204. 2024-10-02delistingDarktrace (recorded under risk): delisting — Listing and trading cancelled at 8.00am on 2 October 2024, after the scheme took effect on 1 October.Luke Bidco Limited (Thoma Bravo funds, BIZ-INV-301)Start-upsverified
1205. 2024-10-01acquisitionDarktrace (recorded under risk): acquisition US$5.30bn (≈ £3.99bn) — Thoma Bravo completed its all-cash purchase of Darktrace, the Cambridge cyber-security AI company, at about $5.3bn ($7.75 a share). Date is the completion date; the April 2024 offer announcement was not opened.Thoma BravoStart-upsverified
1206. 2024-10-01funding roundPydantic: funding round US$12.5m (≈ £9.4m) — Series A.SequoiaSoftware and toolssingle_source
1207. 2024-10-01acquisitionDarktrace (recorded under risk): acquisition US$5.30bn (≈ £3.99bn) — Take-private at US$7.75 a share completedThoma BravoStart-upsverified
1208. 2024-10-01funding roundDexory: funding round US$80m (≈ £60.2m) — Robotic warehouse-scanning firm raised $80m Series B in equity and debt.DTCPStart-upsverified
1209. 2024-10-01acquisitioniomart Group plc: acquisition £57m — iomart bought Atech for £57m, funded from its revolving credit facility. Buys or funds: Microsoft cloud MSP with 100+ staff in Marlow and about 50 in India; LTM revenue £34.4m.Atech (Marlow; Azure Expert MSP)Cloud and computeverified
1210. 2024-09-27funding roundConvergence: funding round US$12m (≈ £8.9m) — Pre-seedBalderton CapitalLabssingle_source
1211. 2024-09-24major contractVirtiHealth Limited: major contract £40,000 — Generative AI virtual human tool for civil service staff development, one year.Crown Commercial Service for the Cabinet OfficeServices and skillssingle_source
1212. 2024-09-18funding roundCharismatic.ai: funding round £1m — Innovate UK grant to a consortium led by Charismatic.ai with Channel 4 and Aardman (consortium total)Innovate UK (grant)Start-upssingle_source
1213. 2024-09-18acquisitionStreetDrone: acquisition — Oxa buys StreetDrone; fee not disclosedOxa (BIZ-SU-IND-001)Start-upssingle_source
1214. 2024-09-16investment pledgeAtomico: investment pledge US$1.24bn (≈ £939.4m) — Fund close: Atomico Growth VI (US$754m) and Atomico Venture (US$485m); date from search listingBritish Patient Capital (BIZ-INV-003)Investorssingle_source
1215. 2024-09-16acquisitionNetcall: acquisition €10m (≈ £8.4m) — Netcall bought generative AI document-processing start-up Parble for €10m (date is the UKTN report date in the linked URL). Buys or funds: Generative AI document processing for the Liberty platform.Parble (target)Software and toolssingle_source
1216. 2024-09-16acquisitionBIZ-SW-6006 Netcall (buyer): acquisition €8.7m (≈ £7.3m) — AIM-listed Netcall bought Belgian GenAI document firm Parble for up to €8.7m (about €9.8m including assumed net debt). Buys or funds: GenAI document processing; up to €4m earn-out tied to €3.3m revenue.Parble (target, Brussels)Software and toolssingle_source
1217. 2024-09-16renameMach42 (formerly Machine Discovery): rename — Machine Discovery becomes Mach42 For: Machine Discovery renamed Mach42; corporate structure unchanged.not stated in the researchLabssingle_source
1218. 2024-09-13wind downCervest: wind down — Company dissolvedStart-upssingle_source
1219. 2024-09-12funding roundPurple Transform (new): funding round £4.5m — Oxfordshire AI rail-security analytics firm raises £4.5m.Mercia Ventures (BIZ-INV-205), Midlands Engine Investment Fund II (lead); Sure Valley Venturessingle_source
1220. 2024-09-10investment pledgeAmazon Web Services (UK): investment pledge £8bn — UK data centres, 2024 to 2028Big tech in the UKverified
1221. 2024-09-10investment pledgeAmazon Web Services (UK data centres): investment pledge £8bn — AWS plans £8bn for UK data centres, 2024–2028.Amazon Web ServicesData centressingle_source
1222. 2024-09-05funding roundCapsa AI: funding round £1.7m — Seed-stage roundOutward VCStart-upssingle_source
1223. 2024-09-05partnershipStability AI: partnership — Lenovo put a Stability AI image model into its Creator Zone software. For: A Stability AI text-to-image model featured in Lenovo Creator Zone.LenovoLabssingle_source
1224. 2024-09-02collapseAdludio: collapse — Administrator appointedBDO (administrators)Start-upsverified
1225. 2024-09investment pledgeAmazon Web Services (UK): investment pledge £8bn — £8bn over five years to build, operate and maintain UK data centres.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
1226. 2024-09investment pledgeBlackstone: investment pledge £10bn — £10bn AI data centre at Blyth, Northumberland, with 4,000 jobs including 1,200 in construction.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
1227. 2024-08-29funding roundWayve: funding round — Uber invested an undisclosed sum in Wayve, extending its $1.05bn Series C.UberLabsverified
1228. 2024-08-23funding roundGradient Labs: funding round £2.8m — £2.8m seed round; angels named include Monzo co-founders Tom Blomfield and Jonas Templestein.LocalGlobe (named backer; lead not stated)Software and toolssingle_source
1229. 2024-08-21funding roundGradient Labs: funding round £2.8m — Seed with Puzzle Ventures and angelsLocalGlobeStart-upssingle_source
1230. 2024-08-21acquisitionSafe Sign Technologies: acquisition — Thomson Reuters bought Cambridge legal-LLM start-up Safe Sign Technologies; cost undisclosed.Thomson ReutersStart-upsverified
1231. 2024-08-20funding roundBeyondMath: funding round US$8.5m (≈ £6.5m) — Cambridge AI physics-simulation company secured an $8.5m seed round.UP.PartnersLabssingle_source
1232. 2024-08-16funding roundEncord: funding round £23.4m — Encord raised a £23.4m Series B led by Next47 (week ending 16 August 2024). Other investors: Y Combinator; CRV; Crane Venture Partners.Next47Software and toolssingle_source
1233. 2024-08-14uk office openingElevenLabs: uk office opening — European HQ opened on Wardour Street, Soho.not stated in the researchLabssingle_source
1234. 2024-08-12investment pledgeBalderton Capital: investment pledge US$1.30bn (≈ £1.02bn) — Fund close: Early Stage Fund IX (US$615m) and Growth Fund II (US$685m)Investorssingle_source
1235. 2024-08-12funding roundCosine: funding round US$2.5m (≈ £2m) — Round with Lakestar and Focal.SOMA; UphonestSoftware and toolssingle_source
1236. 2024-08-07major contractASOS: major contract — Three-year AI collaboration for operations.MicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
1237. 2024-08-07grantMonumo: grant £750,000 reported — Innovate UK granted Monumo £750k to develop 3D generative design for motors. For: 3D Generative-AI Technology (3D-GAIT) for electric-motor design. Other investors: project partners: University of Nottingham PEMC group; hofer powertrain UK.Innovate UK (UKRI)Labssingle_source
1238. 2024-08-05wind downEdinburgh exascale supercomputer plan (cancelled 2024): wind down £1.30bn — The new government cut £1.3bn of planned compute spending, including the Edinburgh exascale computer. Buys or funds: Cancelled: about £800m for the Edinburgh exascale computer and £500m of extra AIRR money for 2024 and 2025; the £300m already committed to AIRR continued.DSITCloud and computesingle_source
1239. 2024-08-02funding roundHealx: funding round US$47m (≈ £36.7m) — Series C to take HLX-1502 into phase 2.R42 Group and AtomicoStart-upssingle_source
1240. 2024-08-01funding roundVaire Computing: funding round US$4.5m (≈ £3.5m) — Raise reported by DSIT during ChipStart cohort 1.not stated in the researchChips and hardwareverified
1241. 2024-08-01funding roundWave Photonics: funding round £4.5m — Early funding round reported by DSIT.not stated in the researchChips and hardwaresingle_source
1242. 2024-08-01partnershipCanonical (AI and MLOps products): partnership — Canonical's Charmed Kubeflow 1.9 added GenAI serving with NVIDIA tools. Buys or funds: Charmed Kubeflow 1.9 GA deploys GenAI apps with NVIDIA NIM and Triton via KServe.NVIDIASoftware and toolssingle_source
1243. 2024-08funding roundAttio: funding round US$33m (≈ £25.8m) — Attio raises $33m from existing backers and 01 Advisors. Buys or funds: CRM platform. Other investors: 01 Advisors (Dick Costolo).Redpoint Ventures; Balderton Capital; Point Nine (joint leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1244. 2024-07-31major contractAgent Suite and CapitaContact (Capita, with AWS): major contract — CapitaContact AI contact centre powered by AWS, launched with Agent SuiteAmazon Web ServicesEstablished firmssingle_source
1245. 2024-07-31major contractIBM UK (AI consulting and AI skills): major contract 9,000,000 (maximum; initial up to 4,500,000) GBP — DWP G-Cloud 13 call-off for generative AI "lighthouse" projects, August 2024 to May 2025.Department for Work and PensionsServices and skillssingle_source
1246. 2024-07-30wind downKarakuri: wind down — Creditors' voluntary liquidation; dissolved 3 September 2026RSM (liquidators)Start-upssingle_source
1247. 2024-07-29major contractCapita and Microsoft generative AI collaboration: major contract — Copilot for Microsoft 365 trial and GitHub Copilot for 200 developersMicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
1248. 2024-07-29funding roundAveni: funding round £11m — Series A with Lloyds Banking Group and NationwidePuma Private EquityStart-upssingle_source
1249. 2024-07-26funding roundFractile: funding round £12m — Seed round as the company left stealth.Kindred Capital, NATO Innovation Fund, Oxford Science Enterprises (co-leads)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1250. 2024-07-26funding roundFractile: funding round £12m — Seed round as Fractile came out of stealth.Kindred Capital, NATO Innovation Fund, Oxford Science Enterprises (co-leads)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1251. 2024-07-24acquisitioniTero Gaming: acquisition — Bought in a "seven-figure" dealGIANTXStart-upssingle_source
1252. 2024-07-24funding roundFinLegal: funding round £2m — First NPIF II deal in South YorkshireNorthern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (Mercia)Start-upssingle_source
1253. 2024-07-24renameDtechtive: rename — Dtime Limited renamed Dtechtive Limited.Software and toolssingle_source
1254. 2024-07-23funding roundOcula: funding round £3.2m — Series A with Castlenau Group and Lloyds Banking GroupPraetura VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1255. 2024-07-18acquisitionOxford Semantic Technologies: acquisition — Agreement to acquire; terms undisclosed; completion not confirmed.Samsung ElectronicsSoftware and toolssingle_source
1256. 2024-07-18funding roundSpotlight Pathology: funding round £125,000 — Investment from LYVA Labs.LYVA LabsStart-upssingle_source
1257. 2024-07-18funding roundEdit Cloud: funding round £2m — London post-production platform with "AI-fuelled" tools secured £2m.EdgeStart-upssingle_source
1258. 2024-07-17funding roundXapien: funding round £8m — Series A; total £14mYFM Equity PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1259. 2024-07-17funding roundHey Savi: funding round £2.2m — UK AI fashion search and recommendation platform secured £2.2m pre-seed.angels from Boardwave, Founders Capital and WITSEND (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1260. 2024-07-16acquisitionOxford Semantic Technologies: acquisition — OSE portfolio company agreed to be acquired by Samsung ElectronicsSamsung Electronics; sellers included OSE (BIZ-INV-007), Samsung Venture Investment, Oxford University InnovationSoftware and toolssingle_source
1261. 2024-07-12funding roundIconic AI: funding round US$4m (≈ £3.1m) — Pre-seedHodlCoStart-upssingle_source
1262. 2024-07-11acquisitionGraphcore: acquisition — SoftBank acquired Graphcore, which became a wholly owned subsidiary; terms not disclosed.SoftBank Group Corp.Chips and hardwareverified
1263. 2024-07-11acquisitionGraphcore: acquisition — SoftBank bought Graphcore, the Bristol AI chip designer; it became a wholly owned SoftBank subsidiary and kept its name. Price not disclosed; Sifted reported it was below the c.$700m invested to date.SoftBank Group Corp.Chips and hardwareverified
1264. 2024-07-11partnershipHartree Centre: partnership — Quantinuum hardware made available to UK businesses through Hartree. Buys or funds: H1-Series quantum hardware via cloud or on site (BIZ-CLD-6026).QuantinuumCloud and computesingle_source
1265. 2024-07-03listingIntelliAM AI: listing £5m — South Yorkshire maker of AI models for manufacturing listed on Aquis with a £15.4m market value.Aquis Stock ExchangeStart-upssingle_source
1266. 2024-07-03funding roundGendo: funding round £855,000 — London AI platform turning prompts and sketches into architectural visualisations raised £855,000 pre-seed.Concept VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1267. 2024-07-02funding roundBIZ-SW-5039 OpenFi: funding round £500,000 — OpenFi raised a £500,000 pre-seed. Buys or funds: Pre-seed; SalesTalkAI. Other investors: Fortune Green Capital; Foundation Ventures.Bijan Morvaridi (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1268. 2024-07-01funding roundVaire Computing: funding round US$4m (≈ £3.2m) — Seed round; total raised US$4.5m.7percent Ventures and Jude Gomila (leads)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1269. 2024-07-01major contractMultimedia Ltd: major contract £59,500 — AI tool licence for the Business Growth West Midlands adviser team, July 2024 to March 2025.West Midlands Combined AuthorityServices and skillssingle_source
1270. 2024-06-25funding roundStability AI: funding round — New investment; Prem Akkaraju became CEO and Sean Parker executive chairman; amount not statedGreycroft, Coatue, Sound Ventures, Lightspeed and othersLabssingle_source
1271. 2024-06-18funding roundCuspAI: funding round US$30m (≈ £23.6m) — CuspAI raises $30m (£24m). For: Materials discovery platform; Geoffrey Hinton advises the board. Other investors: Basis Set Ventures; Lightspeed Venture Partners; LocalGlobe; Northzone; Touring Capital; Giant Ventures; FJ Labs; Tiferes Ventures; Zero Prime Ventures.Hoxton VenturesLabssingle_source
1272. 2024-06-17renameEigen Technologies: rename — UK company renamed ETL Realisations 2024 Limited; now in insolvency proceedingsStart-upssingle_source
1273. 2024-06-17funding roundSurrealDB: funding round US$20m (≈ £15.8m) — SurrealDB raised $20m (its Series A) led by FirstMark and Georgian; total funding $26m. Buys or funds: Surreal Cloud beta; database engineering. Other investors: Crew Capital; Alumni Ventures.FirstMark; Georgian (leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1274. 2024-06-12partnershipOchre Bio: partnership — GSK signs an AI pact with Ochre Bio on liver disease For: Human liver functional-genomics and single-cell datasets for both firms' AI models; research phase completed 2025-11-18.GSKLabssingle_source
1275. 2024-06-11renameJacquard (formerly Phrasee): rename — Phrasee Ltd renamed Jacquard Group LimitedStart-upsverified
1276. 2024-06-06uk office openingSalesforce (UK): uk office opening — First Salesforce AI Centre opens in London's Blue Fin buildingBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1277. 2024-06-06acquisitionEigen Technologies: acquisition — Sirion bought Eigen's business; terms not disclosedSirionStart-upsverified
1278. 2024-06-06grantAlchemab Therapeutics: grant US$595,000 reported (≈ £465,826) — The Michael J. Fox Foundation granted Alchemab $595k for a Parkinson's antibody. For: antibody with potential in Parkinson's disease.The Michael J. Fox FoundationLabssingle_source
1279. 2024-06-04funding roundHuman Native: funding round £2.8m — London marketplace of licensed data for training LLMs raised £2.8m seed.LocalGlobe; MercuriSoftware and toolssingle_source
1280. 2024-05-31funding roundExactly.ai: funding round £3.4m — London platform for artists to build generative AI models of their own work raised £3.4m seed.SpeedinvestStart-upssingle_source
1281. 2024-05-30grantLevel E Research: grant up to 50,000 GBP — Grant winner, FRIL first innovation call (AI compliance).Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FinTech Scotland)Start-upssingle_source
1282. 2024-05-30grantDX Compliance: grant up to 50,000 GBP — Grant winner, FRIL first innovation call (AI compliance).Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FinTech Scotland)Start-upssingle_source
1283. 2024-05-30grantPytilia: grant up to 50,000 GBP — Grant winner, FRIL first innovation call (AI compliance).Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FinTech Scotland)Start-upssingle_source
1284. 2024-05-22funding roundNory (new): funding round US$16m (≈ £12.6m) — Dublin and London AI operating system for hospitality raised a $16m Series A.Accelsingle_source
1285. 2024-05-21funding roundLabGenius: funding round £35m — Series B; total funding £58m.M VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1286. 2024-05-17major contractSainsbury's and Microsoft five-year AI partnership: major contract — Five-year AI partnershipMicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
1287. 2024-05-17major contractJ Sainsbury plc: major contract — Five-year strategic partnership using Microsoft AI (record already on page as "Sainsbury's and Microsoft").MicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
1288. 2024-05-16funding roundPolyAI: funding round US$50m (≈ £39.5m) — Series CHedosophia, NVentures, Zendesk (new investors)Labssingle_source
1289. 2024-05-15wind downWluper: wind down — Creditors' voluntary winding up; dissolved 20 June 2025.Software and toolsverified
1290. 2024-05-15funding roundMalted AI: funding round £6m — Edinburgh start-up distilling LLMs into smaller bespoke models raised £6m seed.Hoxton VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1291. 2024-05-15funding roundMalted AI: funding round £6m — Seed round with Creator Fund and angelsHoxton VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1292. 2024-05-10uk office openingCoreWeave (UK): uk office opening £1bn — London European headquarters and £1bn UK investmentBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1293. 2024-05-10investment pledgeCoreWeave (UK): investment pledge £1bn — CoreWeave pledges £1bn for the UK, a London European HQ and two UK data centres in 2024.CoreWeaveData centressingle_source
1294. 2024-05-10investment pledgeCoreWeave (UK): investment pledge £1bn — £1bn UK investment with two UK data centres in 2024 and a London European HQ.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
1295. 2024-05-10uk office openingScale AI (UK): uk office opening — London chosen for Scale AI's first European headquarters.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1296. 2024-05-10investment pledgeCoreWeave (UK): investment pledge £1bn — Two UK data centres for AI compute opening in 2024 and a European headquarters in London.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
1297. 2024-05-09funding roundStratiphy: funding round £1m — Grant to a Stratiphy-led consortium for safe AI in investment managementInnovate UK (grant)Start-upssingle_source
1298. 2024-05-08major contractInforma (Taylor & Francis) and Microsoft AI data access agreement: major contract US$10m (≈ £8m) — Data access agreement 2024–2027; initial fee "$10m+"MicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
1299. 2024-05-08funding roundDefinely: funding round US$7m (≈ £5.6m) — Series AOctopus VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1300. 2024-05-07uk office openingScale AI (UK): uk office opening — London chosen as first European headquartersBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1301. 2024-05-07funding roundWayve: funding round US$1.05bn (≈ £836.4m) — Series C with NVIDIA and MicrosoftSoftBank GroupLabssingle_source
1302. 2024-05-01government contractCrown Hosting Data Centres: government contract £22m — Crown Hosting won a Bank of England hosting contract of about £22m. Buys or funds: Data centre hosting, seven years.Bank of EnglandCloud and computesingle_source
1303. 2024-05grantSymphoMe: grant not stated GBP — Eight-month project, June 2024 to January 2025.Scottish Enterprise (SMART grant)Start-upssingle_source
1304. 2024-04-30funding roundJigsaw: funding round US$15m (≈ £12m) — London AI business-diagram builder raised $15m.Exor VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1305. 2024-04-30grantThermly Limited: grant £518,363 — Thermly Distress Diagnostics using machine learning.DESNZ Heat Pump Ready Programme Stream 2 Wave 2Start-upssingle_source
1306. 2024-04-29major contractFinancial Times: major contract — Content licensing deal; first UK newsbrand to announce one with OpenAI.OpenAIEstablished firmssingle_source
1307. 2024-04-24funding roundSorted: funding round £1.6m — London start-up using lasers and AI to sort recyclables raised £1.65m seed.Pi LabsStart-upssingle_source
1308. 2024-04-16funding roundQureight: funding round US$8.5m (≈ £6.8m) — Round for its medical data platform.Hargreave Hale AIM VCTStart-upssingle_source
1309. 2024-04-15funding roundLawhive: funding round £9.5m — Seed with Episode 1GVStart-upssingle_source
1310. 2024-04-09acquisitionOnfido: acquisition — Entrust completed its purchase of Onfido, which verifies identity documents and faces; terms not disclosed. Date is the completion date; the announcement date was not sourced.EntrustStart-upssingle_source
1311. 2024-04-09major contractWPP and Google Cloud Gemini collaboration: major contract — Gemini integrated into WPP OpenGoogle CloudEstablished firmssingle_source
1312. 2024-04-09acquisitionOnfido: acquisition — Acquisition completed; terms not disclosedEntrustStart-upsverified
1313. 2024-04-09acquisitionMultiverse: acquisition — Multiverse bought Californian AI hiring-screening platform Searchlight; terms undisclosed.Searchlight (target, US)Start-upssingle_source
1314. 2024-04-07uk office openingMicrosoft AI London hub: uk office opening — Microsoft AI opens a London hub led by Jordan HoffmannBig tech in the UKverified
1315. 2024-04-07uk office openingMicrosoft (UK): uk office opening — Microsoft AI hub in London announced, led by Jordan Hoffmann, working on language models.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
1316. 2024-04-03funding roundLuminance: funding round US$40m (≈ £31.7m) — Series BMarch CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1317. 2024-04partnershipHartree Centre: partnership — Decade-long Unilever R&D computing partnership restated in Hartree strategy. Buys or funds: Materials chemistry computing, AI and quantum (BIZ-CLD-6025).Unilever (BIZ-EST-052)Cloud and computesingle_source
1318. 2024-04partnershipHartree Centre: partnership — Hartree cleaned and standardised safesteps data; follow-on project planned. Buys or funds: Fall-prevention data dashboard; NHS Spine connection.safesteps (digital healthcare)Cloud and computesingle_source
1319. 2024-03-29funding roundMetaview: funding round £6.3m — Metaview round of £6.3m recorded in UKTN's weekly round-up (labelled seed). Buys or funds: AI interview notes for recruiters. Other investors: Plural; Coelius Capital; Vertex Ventures US; Seedcamp; Village Global.— (lead not stated)Software and toolssingle_source
1320. 2024-03-28funding roundOriole Networks: funding round £10m — Seed round.UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, Dorilton Ventures (co-leads)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1321. 2024-03-28investment pledgeArtificial Intelligence Collaboration Centre (AICC): investment pledge £16.3m — £16.3m package for the AICC at Ulster University with Queen's.Invest Northern Ireland; Department for the EconomyNetworks and mediasingle_source
1322. 2024-03-26major contractHartree Centre: major contract — Lenovo ThinkSystem Neptune system rated 44.7 petaflops for STFC's Hartree Centre; £30m building under construction.LenovoCloud and computesingle_source
1323. 2024-03-22site openingAtlasEdge (UK): site opening £13m — AtlasEdge relaunched its Leeds data centre after more than £13m of upgrades. Buys or funds: More than £13m upgrade of Leeds LBA001.Hardy Fisher Services (anchor customer)Cloud and computesingle_source
1324. 2024-03-21funding roundPresymptom Health: funding round £1.5m — Equity and grant funding.UKI2S; Ploughshare; MedTechToMarketStart-upssingle_source
1325. 2024-03-20funding roundStanhope AI: funding round £2.3m — London start-up applying neuroscience to build AI raised £2.3m seed.UCL Technology FundSoftware and toolssingle_source
1326. 2024-03-19grantOpen Power: grant £313,700 — Microgeneration energy export optimiser.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 3Start-upsverified
1327. 2024-03-19grantOnGen Ltd: grant £326,371 — OnGen expert AI pro.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 3Start-upsverified
1328. 2024-03-19grantFlexible Power Systems Ltd: grant £209,360 — AI to remove barriers to commercial fleet electrification.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 3Start-upsverified
1329. 2024-03-19grantClio Ventures: grant £133,368 — Clio finance: climate-finance backbone for retail loans.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 3Start-upsverified
1330. 2024-03-19grantCarbon Laces Solutions Ltd: grant £342,999 — Place-based AI clustering and demand-flexibility assessment.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 3; Cranfield UniversityStart-upsverified
1331. 2024-03-19grantOptimise-AI: grant £125,100 — Generative AI to optimise energy in buildings without a building management system.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 3; Blaenau Gwent CouncilStart-upsverified
1332. 2024-03-19partnershipGoogle DeepMind: partnership — Google DeepMind and Liverpool FC built TacticAI together. For: Multi-year research collaboration behind TacticAI (football corner-kick assistant).Liverpool FCLabssingle_source
1333. 2024-03-18funding roundHolistic AI: funding round — Mozilla Ventures investment, amount undisclosedMozilla VenturesAssurancesingle_source
1334. 2024-03-15funding roundThinkSono: funding round £2.1m — Round; total raised £5m.Id4 VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1335. 2024-03-07funding roundCogna: funding round £3.8m — London SaaS firm using AI to build custom software applications raised £3.76m.Hoxton VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1336. 2024-03-06funding roundHaiper: funding round US$13.8m (≈ £10.8m) — Funding of £10.9mnot namedLabssingle_source
1337. 2024-03-06funding roundTheia Insights: funding round US$6.5m (≈ £5.1m) — Cambridge AI fintech for financial professionals raised $6.5m.Unusual VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1338. 2024-03-01funding roundVitrue Health: funding round £3.2m — Round.MMC Ventures and Hambro PerksStart-upssingle_source
1339. 2024-03site openingIsambard-AI, Bristol and Bath Science Park: site opening — Isambard-AI phase 1 arrived and accepted. Buys or funds: 168 GH200 on 42 nodes.HPE (BIZ-BIG-2030); NVIDIA (BIZ-BIG-014)Cloud and computesingle_source
1340. 2024-02-28funding roundHACE: funding round £450,000 — Manchester start-up with an AI index of child-labour exposure raised £450,000 pre-seed.Manchester AngelsStart-upssingle_source
1341. 2024-02-28funding roundMondra: funding round £3.6m — London food supply-chain decarbonisation platform using AI digital twins raised £3.6m pre-Series A.7 Generation Ventures; AlbionVC and others (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1342. 2024-02-27funding roundGraide: funding round £1.6m — Round to expand in the UK and North AmericaXTX VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1343. 2024-02-26funding roundAdsilico: funding round £3.5m — Round.Northern Gritstone; Parkwalk AdvisorsStart-upssingle_source
1344. 2024-02-26partnershipNexGen Cloud: partnership — NexGen Cloud signed AQ Compute to host its European GPU cloud on net-zero infrastructure. Buys or funds: Net-zero European data-centre capacity for NexGen's $1bn AI Supercloud, planned at more than 20,000 NVIDIA H100 by June 2024; country not named.AQ ComputeCloud and computesingle_source
1345. 2024-02-23funding roundMonumo: funding round £10.5m — Monumo leaves stealth with £10.5m seed funding (investors behind paywall). For: AI electric-motor design.not namedLabssingle_source
1346. 2024-02-22site openingLifebit: site opening — Lifebit opened an R&D centre in Singapore with Synapxe.SynapxeSoftware and toolssingle_source
1347. 2024-02-21funding roundNapier AI: funding round £45m — Debt financingCrestlineStart-upssingle_source
1348. 2024-02-20funding roundSynthesized: funding round — UBS's venture arm, UBS Next, invested an undisclosed sum in Synthesized. Buys or funds: production-like test data platform.UBS NextSoftware and toolssingle_source
1349. 2024-02-16acquisitionSignal AI: acquisition — Signal AI bought reputation-monitoring firm Social 360; price not disclosedSocial 360 (target)Start-upssingle_source
1350. 2024-02-13funding roundTORTUS: funding round US$4.2m (≈ £3.3m) — Round for its OSLER clinical AI assistant.Khosla VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1351. 2024-02-12funding roundAMPLY Discovery: funding round £1.4m — Grant funding for two projects.Innovate UK (grant)Start-upssingle_source
1352. 2024-02-09funding roundLilli: funding round £8.2m — Round.West Hill CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1353. 2024-02-07renameFetch.ai: rename — Fetch.ai Limited (11203766) renamed FAI Realisations 2024 Limited.Software and toolsverified
1354. 2024-02-07funding roundAudioStack: funding round £2.5m — Round with existing investorsQuadri VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1355. 2024-02-06investment pledgeEpisode 1 Ventures: investment pledge £76m — Fund close: Fund III at £76m with £20m from BPCBritish Patient Capital (BIZ-INV-003)Investorssingle_source
1356. 2024-02-06funding roundColossyan: funding round US$22m (≈ £17.5m) — Round with Launchub, Day One Capital and Emerge EducationLakestarStart-upssingle_source
1357. 2024-02-06funding roundSable Bio: funding round £1.5m — Pre-seed with Seedcamp.Episode 1 VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1358. 2024-02-06grantRAIQC: grant — One of 21 projects sharing £19 million; individual amount not stated.UKRI Technology Missions Fund (Accelerating trustworthy AI, phase 2)Start-upssingle_source
1359. 2024-02-06grantAival: grant — One of 21 projects sharing £19 million; individual amount not stated.UKRI Technology Missions Fund (Accelerating trustworthy AI, phase 2)Start-upssingle_source
1360. 2024-02-06grantNewton's Tree: grant — Federated AI monitoring service project; one of 21 sharing £19 million.UKRI Technology Missions Fund (Accelerating trustworthy AI, phase 2)Start-upssingle_source
1361. 2024-02-06grantAI for Global Goals (Elandi): grant — One of 21 projects sharing £19 million; individual amount not stated.UKRI Technology Missions Fund (Accelerating trustworthy AI, phase 2)Start-upssingle_source
1362. 2024-02-06grantHabitat Learn: grant — DeepMyna phase two; one of 21 projects sharing £19 million.UKRI Technology Missions Fund (Accelerating trustworthy AI, phase 2)Start-upssingle_source
1363. 2024-02-06grantCoefficient Systems Ltd: grant £100,000 — Grant to cut unfair bias in CV screening algorithms and applicant tracking systems.DSIT Fairness Innovation ChallengeAssuranceverified
1364. 2024-02-06grantThe Alan Turing Institute (AI assurance and security work): grant up to 130,000 GBP — Finance-sector award to build a fairness self-assessment toolkit for small firms and developers (the FAID tool).DSIT Fairness Innovation ChallengeSafetysingle_source
1365. 2024-02-01collapseSmall Robot Company: collapse — Creditors' voluntary liquidationKroll Advisory (liquidators)Start-upsverified
1366. 2024-01-30investment pledgeWPP AI and data strategy (WPP Open): investment pledge £250m — About £250m a year on proprietary technology for AI and dataEstablished firmssingle_source
1367. 2024-01-29funding roundWondercraft: funding round US$3m (≈ £2.4m) — Round with Y Combinator, ElevenLabs and Steven BartlettWill VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1368. 2024-01-25funding roundSetmixer: funding round US$760,000 (≈ £598,425) — Round with VGC Partners and angelsRaw VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1369. 2024-01-25funding roundKao Data: funding round £206m — Essex AI data-centre builder completed a £206m debt raise.Deutsche Bank (debt)Data centressingle_source
1370. 2024-01-23collapseFetch.ai: collapse — Original Fetch.ai Limited (2018) entered administration; renamed FAI Realisations 2024 Limited on 7 February 2024; new Fetch.ai Limited incorporated 27 January 2024.Software and toolsverified
1371. 2024-01-22funding roundElevenLabs: funding round US$80m (≈ £62.9m) — Series B; valuation not stated (company says "unicorn status")Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman and Daniel GrossLabssingle_source
1372. 2024-01-22investment pledgeGoogle (UK): investment pledge US$1bn (≈ £786.1m) — Building began on a $1bn data centre at Theobalds Business Park, Cheshunt (Waltham Cross).not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1373. 2024-01-19funding roundRecraft: funding round US$12m (≈ £9.5m) — London AI graphic-design generator raised a $12m Series A.Khosla Ventures; Nat FriedmanStart-upssingle_source
1374. 2024-01-18investment pledgeGoogle Waltham Cross data centre: investment pledge US$1bn (≈ £789.1m) — Google announces a $1bn data centre at Waltham Cross.GoogleData centressingle_source
1375. 2024-01-16investment pledgeVodafone and Microsoft ten-year generative AI partnership: investment pledge US$1.50bn (≈ £1.18bn) — Ten-year partnership; Vodafone to spend US$1.5bn on cloud and AI services with MicrosoftMicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
1376. 2024-01-16funding roundCellVoyant: funding round £7.6m — Bristol biotech using AI to predict stem-cell behaviour raised £7.6m seed.Octopus VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1377. 2024-01-15funding roundBronze: funding round US$1.3m (≈ £1m) — Pre-seed roundDisclosure, Arca, Jimmy Napes, DAO Jones, Method Music, September ManagementStart-upssingle_source
1378. 2024-01-11funding roundNumberEight: funding round US$2.7m (≈ £2.1m) — London AI tool for advertisers detecting device-user behaviour raised $2.7m pre-Series A.ACF InvestorsStart-upssingle_source
1379. 2024-01-10funding roundYoti: funding round £20m — Debt funding (headline in Yoti's press archive)HSBCStart-upssingle_source
1380. 2024-01-07partnershipIsomorphic Labs: partnership 45,000,000 (upfront) USD — Lilly pays $45m upfront; Lilly and Novartis deals together potentially worth nearly $3bn For: Multi-target small-molecule research collaboration.Eli LillyLabssingle_source
1381. 2024-01-07partnershipIsomorphic Labs: partnership 37,500,000 (upfront) USD — Novartis pays $37.5m upfront For: Research collaboration.NovartisLabssingle_source
1382. 2024-01-02funding roundRobin AI: funding round £20.6m — London legal-AI firm raised £20.6m led by Temasek.TemasekStart-upssingle_source
1383. 2024-01partnershipIsomorphic Labs: partnership — Isomorphic's first Novartis collaboration (month only on company page). For: Small-molecule discovery against three targets.NovartisLabssingle_source
1384. 2024investment pledgeAWS Europe (London) Region: investment pledge £8bn — £8bn over five years for UK data centres (as cited by DSIT on 14 October 2024).not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
1385. 2024funding roundSurrealDB: funding round £14.8m — SurrealDB's first Series A tranche in 2024 raised £14.8m; month not given. Buys or funds: Initial Series A. Other investors: FirstMark; Georgian (existing by 2026).not stated in the researchSoftware and toolssingle_source
1386. 2024funding roundConveo: funding round — Conveo joined Y Combinator. Buys or funds: YC Summer 2024 batch.Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
1387. 2024funding roundSmooth: funding round — Smooth is listed in YC's London companies as F2024. Buys or funds: YC Fall 2024 batch.Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
1388. 2024funding roundEncord: funding round US$32m (≈ £25.1m) — Encord closed a $32m Series B in 2024. Buys or funds: R&D and go-to-market.— (not named)Software and toolssingle_source
1389. 2024funding roundinforcer: funding round US$19m (≈ £14.9m) — inforcer's $19m (£14m) Series A in autumn 2024. Buys or funds: MSP platform.— (not named)Software and toolssingle_source
1390. 2023-12-19acquisitionTessian: acquisition — US email-security company completed purchase of London AI email-security firm; terms undisclosed.ProofpointStart-upsverified
1391. 2023-12-15acquisitionRedkite (acquired by Accenture): acquisition — Accenture bought the London data consultancy; 230+ staff joined its UK Data and AI practiceAccentureServices and skillssingle_source
1392. 2023-12-15funding roundArcane: funding round US$5m (≈ £3.9m) — London AI marketing co-pilot start-up raised $5m.AccelStart-upssingle_source
1393. 2023-12-15funding roundSpotta: funding round £3m — Cambridge maker of AI insect-detection sensors raised £3m.The Yield Lab; STIHL Ventures; ACF Investors (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1394. 2023-12-13major contractAyora: major contract — Mishcon de Reya agrees a commercial relationship with MDR LAB alumnus Ayora.Mishcon de ReyaStart-upssingle_source
1395. 2023-12-08funding roundHolly Health: funding round £650,000 — Equity and grant round.Innovate UK; Plug and Play Ventures; Modality PartnershipStart-upssingle_source
1396. 2023-12-07funding roundHarriet: funding round £1.2m — London Slack-based AI HR assistant launched with £1.2m.Concept VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1397. 2023-12-07acquisitioniomart Group plc: acquisition £4.5m — iomart bought legal-sector hosting firm Accesspoint for £4.5m upfront. Buys or funds: Hosting partner to UK legal firms; plus £0.5m milestone and up to £1.4m earn-out.Accesspoint Technologies (North East London)Cloud and computesingle_source
1398. 2023-12-06funding roundPragmatic Semiconductor: funding round £182m — Series D to build two more production lines in Durham.M&G Catalyst and UK Infrastructure Bank (co-leads)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1399. 2023-12-01government contractAWS public cloud hosting contracts with HMRC, DWP and Home Office (2023): government contract £450m — AWS won a £450m, three-year cloud hosting contract with the Home Office. Buys or funds: AWS public cloud hosting for 36 months under the second OGVA, via G-Cloud. (General cloud hosting, not AI compute.)Home OfficeCloud and computesingle_source
1400. 2023-12-01government contractAWS public cloud hosting contracts with HMRC, DWP and Home Office (2023): government contract £350m — AWS won a £350m, three-year cloud contract with HMRC. Buys or funds: AWS cloud services for 36 months under the second OGVA, via G-Cloud. (General cloud hosting, not AI compute.)HM Revenue and CustomsCloud and computesingle_source
1401. 2023-12-01government contractAWS public cloud hosting contracts with HMRC, DWP and Home Office (2023): government contract £94m — AWS won a £94m, three-year cloud contract with DWP. Buys or funds: AWS cloud services for 36 months under the second OGVA, via G-Cloud. (General cloud hosting, not AI compute.)Department for Work and PensionsCloud and computesingle_source
1402. 2023-11-30investment pledgeMicrosoft (UK): investment pledge £2.50bn — Three-year expansion of UK AI data-centre infrastructure, 20,000+ GPUs by 2026Big tech in the UKsingle_source
1403. 2023-11-30investment pledgeMicrosoft (UK): investment pledge £2.50bn — £2.5bn over three years for AI datacentres, 20,000+ GPUs by 2026, and AI skills for one million people.not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKverified
1404. 2023-11-28government contractNHS Federated Data Platform contract (Palantir-led): government contract — NHS England contracted IQVIA for the privacy layer of the Federated Data Platform. Buys or funds: NHS privacy-enhancing technology (NHS-PET) that de-identifies data flowing into FDP.IQVIA LtdCloud and computeverified
1405. 2023-11-28funding roundCloudsmith: funding round US$11m (≈ £8.7m) — Belfast's Cloudsmith raised an $11m (£8.8m) Series A2 led by MMC. Buys or funds: scaling software supply-chain (artifact) platform.MMC Ventures (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1406. 2023-11-27funding roundPhysicsX: funding round US$32m (≈ £25.4m) — Series AGeneral CatalystLabssingle_source
1407. 2023-11-27investment pledgeMediaTek: investment pledge £10m — MediaTek Research and MediaTek Capital to invest £10m in UK tech companies over five years (Global Investment Summit).not stated in the researchBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1408. 2023-11-22funding roundPhare Health: funding round £2.5m — Round with KHP Ventures and Bertelsmann Investments.General CatalystStart-upssingle_source
1409. 2023-11-15funding roundBloom: funding round US$10m (≈ £8m) — London AI coaching app raised a $10m seed round.MMC Ventures; Octopus Ventures (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1410. 2023-11-10funding roundFyma: funding round US$2.1m (≈ £1.7m) — London start-up using AI and computer vision on property video feeds raised $2.1m.Quadri VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1411. 2023-11-09funding roundEilla AI: funding round US$1.5m (≈ £1.2m) — London generative-AI tool for finance raised $1.5m seed.Eleven VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1412. 2023-11-02acquisitioniSIZE: acquisition — SIE agreed to acquire iSIZE; terms not disclosedSony Interactive EntertainmentStart-upsverified
1413. 2023-11-01investment pledgeIsambard-AI, Bristol and Bath Science Park: investment pledge £225m — Government funds Isambard-AI in Bristol.UK GovernmentData centresverified
1414. 2023-11-01funding roundSpotted Zebra: funding round £7.7m — London HR platform using AI to find skills gaps raised £7.7m Series A.Nauta CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1415. 2023-11major contractNHS Federated Data Platform contract (Palantir-led): major contract £330m — Federated Data Platform contract, up to £330m over seven years (day not stated)NHS EnglandBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1416. 2023-11-01grantIsambard-AI (Data centres page): grant £225m — Government funding for Isambard-AI at Bristol, part of a £300m AI Research Resource.DSIT; HPE (builder); Nvidia (chips)Cloud and computesingle_source
1417. 2023-11-01investment pledgeAI Research Resource (AIRR): investment pledge £300m — At the AI Safety Summit the AIRR budget was tripled to £300m to build Isambard-AI and Dawn. Buys or funds: Isambard-AI (Bristol, over 5,000 GPUs) and Dawn (Cambridge, over 1,000 Intel GPUs, Dell and StackHPC), linked by a Scientific OpenStack layer.HM Government (DSIT) / UKRICloud and computeverified
1418. 2023-11-01compute grantAI Research Resource (AIRR): compute grant £300m — £300m to launch the first AIRR phase, tripling a £100m Spring Budget 2023 allocation; per-system split not published. Buys or funds: First phase: Isambard-AI (over 5,000 GPUs) and Dawn (over 1,000 Intel GPUs).UKRI / UK GovernmentCloud and computesingle_source
1419. 2023-10-31funding roundSprout.ai: funding round £5.4m — AI insurance-claims start-up raised £5.4m.Amadeus Capital Partners; Praetura VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1420. 2023-10-30investment pledgeNorthern Gritstone: investment pledge £312m — Fund close: final close of £312mInvestorssingle_source
1421. 2023-10-29major contractAnduril UK: major contract £17m — Force protection and counter-drone technology contract (date is publication date)Ministry of DefenceBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1422. 2023-10-18funding roundNetacea: funding round £4.5m — Round alongside new chief executiveMercia Asset ManagementStart-upssingle_source
1423. 2023-10-18funding roundCaptur: funding round £2.2m — London image-recognition platform raised £2.2m seed.Sure Valley VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1424. 2023-10-16grantDiRAC COSMA (COSMA 8): grant £10m — £10m COSMA 8 cosmology supercomputer launched at Durham University.STFC / UKRICloud and computesingle_source
1425. 2023-10-16partnershipAntiverse: partnership — Antiverse and GlobalBio extended their antibody cancer collaboration. For: antibody cancer therapeutics (extension).GlobalBio, Inc.Labssingle_source
1426. 2023-10-12grantChipStart UK: grant £1.3m — Government funding to launch the ChipStart incubator, run by SiliconCatalyst.UK.Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyChips and hardwaresingle_source
1427. 2023-10-12grantEPCC, University of Edinburgh: grant £31m — New £31m wing of EPCC's Advanced Computing Facility to house the national exascale system.not stated in the researchCloud and computesingle_source
1428. 2023-10-12funding roundTitanML: funding round 2.8m USD — TitanML (LLM deployment tools) raised $2.8m (Pre-seed), reported by tech.eu.Octopus VenturesInvestorssingle_source
1429. 2023-10-12partnershipTurinTech: partnership — TurinTech news index lists a partnership with UbiOps on inference and serving. Buys or funds: Optimising ML code for inference and serving.UbiOpsSoftware and toolssingle_source
1430. 2023-10-06acquisitionKao Data: acquisition — Infratil raised its holding to a 53% majority; L&G Capital 32%, Goldacre 15%.Infratil (BIZ-INV-309); Legal & General CapitalData centressingle_source
1431. 2023-10-05investment pledgeNexGen Cloud: investment pledge US$1bn (≈ £822.4m) — Plan for a European AI Supercloud of 20,000+ Nvidia H100 GPUs, with $576m of hardware already ordered.Moore and Moore Investments Group (co-funder)Cloud and computesingle_source
1432. 2023-10-05grantWellcome Sanger Institute AI genomics (Generative and Synthetic Genomics programme): grant — Wellcome gives supplemental funding for Sanger's sixth research programme. For: Launch of the Generative and Synthetic Genomics programme (machine learning plus large-scale genomic data).WellcomeLabssingle_source
1433. 2023-10-03funding roundUnitary: funding round US$15m (≈ £12.4m) — Series A with Paladin Capital Group and Plural.CreandumSoftware and toolssingle_source
1434. 2023-10-03funding roundMove AI: funding round US$10m (≈ £8.3m) — Round for AI motion capturePlay Ventures, Warner Music Group, RKKVC, Level2 Ventures, Animoca Brands (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1435. 2023-09-27grantBridgeAI: AI Solutions to improve productivity in key sectors: grant £32m — Innovate UK opened a grant competition of up to £32m for AI projects in priority sectors, closing 8 Nov 2023.Innovate UKNetworks and mediasingle_source
1436. 2023-09-26funding roundMach42 (formerly Machine Discovery): funding round £4.5m — Oxfordshire firm using machine learning to simulate designs raised £4.5m.BGF; East InnovateSoftware and toolssingle_source
1437. 2023-09-25funding roundContinuum Industries: funding round US$10m (≈ £8.2m) — Edinburgh start-up using AI for green-energy infrastructure planning raised a $10m Series A.SingularStart-upssingle_source
1438. 2023-09-21funding roundDecently: funding round £500,000 — Round with SFC Capital.Praetura Ventures (GMC Life Sciences Fund)Start-upssingle_source
1439. 2023-09-20funding roundNavenio: funding round £5m — Round to expand into the US.Oxford Science EnterprisesStart-upssingle_source
1440. 2023-09-18major contractNatWest Group: major contract — Generative AI collaboration on Amazon Bedrock.Amazon Web ServicesEstablished firmssingle_source
1441. 2023-09-15funding roundOmetria: funding round £8m — Funding for US expansion and AI co-marketerCIBC Innovation BankingSoftware and toolssingle_source
1442. 2023-09-13funding roundKuano: funding round £1.8m — Seed round.Mercia VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1443. 2023-09-13funding roundMyma Medical: funding round £145,000 — Investment.LYVA LabsStart-upssingle_source
1444. 2023-09-13funding roundTreefera: funding round £1.8m — London AI forest-mapping platform raised £1.8m.Concept VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1445. 2023-09-11funding roundTwig: funding round £3m — London bioengineering start-up using AI and robotics to replace harmful ingredients left stealth with £3m.Project A; Seedcamp; Zero Carbon Capital; UKI2S; Gaingels; HackCapital angels (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1446. 2023-09-08funding roundShop Circle: funding round US$120m (≈ £96.1m) — London AI e-commerce software firm raised $120m Series A in debt and equity.645 Ventures; 3VCStart-upssingle_source
1447. 2023-09-08funding roundAMPLYFI: funding round — First investment by the IIC fund; amount undisclosedInnovation Investment Capital (Cardiff Capital Region)Start-upssingle_source
1448. 2023-09-06funding roundMindgard: funding round £3m — Lancaster spinout building AI security tools raised £3m seed.IQ Capital; LakestarSafetysingle_source
1449. 2023-09-06funding roundMindgard: funding round £3m — Seed funding for AI security tools.Safetysingle_source
1450. 2023-09-05funding roundEnzai: funding round US$4m (≈ £3.2m) — Seed round (£3.2m) with Seedcamp and Techstart VenturesCavalry VenturesAssurancesingle_source
1451. 2023-09-05grantWayve: grant £1.9m — DriveSafeAI: safety-assurance framework for AI in self-driving, with the University of Warwick.Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAM supply chain)Start-upssingle_source
1452. 2023-09-05grantdRisk.ai: grant £2m — DeepSafe: verification and validation of automated driving systems, with Imperial College London and others.Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAM supply chain)Start-upssingle_source
1453. 2023-09-05grantStreetDrone: grant £1.2m — Project SAFE: fail-operational drive-by-wire platform.Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAM supply chain)Start-upssingle_source
1454. 2023-09-05grantAurrigo: grant £480,000 — Autonomous Cargo: autonomous dolly for airside cargo.Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAM supply chain); partner UPSStart-upssingle_source
1455. 2023-09listingArm: listing — Arm Holdings re-registered as a plc on 1 September 2023 and listed on Nasdaq in 2023 (IPO release could not be opened).NasdaqChips and hardwaresingle_source
1456. 2023-09-01renameCirata (formerly WANdisco): rename — Just under 61% of shareholders approved renaming WANdisco as Cirata. Buys or funds: New name Cirata, effective Q4 2023.not stated in the researchSoftware and toolssingle_source
1457. 2023-09renameWANdisco (renamed Cirata): rename — WANdisco rebranded as Cirata in September 2023 after the fraud investigation; it stayed on AIM.not stated in the researchSoftware and toolssingle_source
1458. 2023-08-31acquisitionBabylon Health: acquisition — Administrators sold certain UK businesses and assets to eMed; sources disagree on whether GP at Hand was included.eMed Healthcare UK LimitedStart-upssingle_source
1459. 2023-08-31funding roundMimetrik: funding round £2m — Round.Northern GritstoneStart-upssingle_source
1460. 2023-08-31funding roundContext.ai: funding round US$3.5m (≈ £2.8m) — London LLM-analytics start-up raised $3.5m.Google Ventures; Theory Ventures (co-leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1461. 2023-08-30collapseBabylon Health: collapse — Babylon Group Holdings Limited and Babylon Partners Limited placed in administration.Alvarez & Marsal (administrators)Start-upsverified
1462. 2023-08-25funding roundTrigger.dev: funding round US$3m (≈ £2.4m) — Trigger.dev announced a $3m seed (company blog title listed on YC profile). Buys or funds: Open-source background-jobs and agent platform.not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
1463. 2023-08-21investment pledgeUK Government (UKRI): investment pledge £100m — Reported plan to spend £100m on AI chips, including about 5,000 Nvidia GPUs.Nvidia, AMD, Intel (reported talks)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1464. 2023-08-17funding roundElectric Sheep: funding round £400,000 — London start-up replacing green screens with AI closed a £400,000 pre-seed.Dasein CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1465. 2023-08-17partnershipCirata (formerly WANdisco): partnership US$400,000 (≈ £313,553) — WANdisco won a deal worth more than $400,000 (£315,000) to migrate General Motors data. Buys or funds: Multi-phase migration of large GM data sets.General MotorsSoftware and toolssingle_source
1466. 2023-08-16funding roundLindus Health: funding round US$18m (≈ £14.1m) — Series A with Peter Thiel, firstminute, Seedcamp, Hambro Perks, Amino Collective.CreandumStart-upssingle_source
1467. 2023-08-15grantCarbon Re Ltd: grant £135,000 — AI for higher use of alternative fuels in cement making.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 2Start-upssingle_source
1468. 2023-08-15grantSecqai Ltd: grant £100,000 — Neuromorphic computing unit for ultra-low-power AI.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 2Start-upssingle_source
1469. 2023-08-15grantFuture Decisions Ltd: grant £104,651 — OptimalPrime: AI for building control systems.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 2Start-upssingle_source
1470. 2023-08-15grantH2GO Power Ltd: grant £130,621 — HyAI4RES: AI for renewable hydrogen systems.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 2; partner RWEStart-upssingle_source
1471. 2023-08-15grantOpen Climate Fix: grant £121,500 — Solar PV forecasting with real-time PV and satellite data.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 2Start-upssingle_source
1472. 2023-08-15grantlist.io Ltd: grant £132,147 — AI for grassland monitoring and management.DESNZ AI for Decarbonisation Stream 2Start-upssingle_source
1473. 2023-08-14funding round11x.ai: funding round US$2m (≈ £1.6m) — London start-up building "AI digital workers" raised $2m pre-seed.Project A VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1474. 2023-08-09funding roundKavida.ai: funding round £900,000 — London supply-chain start-up planning an AI co-pilot raised £900,000 follow-on seed.QimaStart-upssingle_source
1475. 2023-08-02funding roundChemify: funding round £36m — Funding including a Series A; Horizon Ventures joined. UKTN reports £33.6m.Triatomic CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1476. 2023-08-02acquisitionPrivitar: acquisition — Informatica announced its intent to buy Privitar on 14 June 2023 and said the deal was complete by 2 August 2023. Buys or funds: Data access management and privacy software, to join Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud.InformaticaSoftware and toolsverified
1477. 2023-07-31acquisitionInstaDeep: acquisition — BioNTech completed purchase of the London-headquartered AI company (announced 11 Jan 2023 at £562m; completion release gives about €500m for shares it did not already own).BioNTechStart-upsverified
1478. 2023-07-28collapseKarakuri: collapse — AdministrationRSM (administrators)Start-upssingle_source
1479. 2023-07-27funding roundThymia: funding round US$2.7m (≈ £2.1m) — Seed round.Kodori VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1480. 2023-07-27funding roundAutogenAI: funding round US$22.3m (≈ £17.4m) — London generative-AI bid-writing software firm received $22.3m.Blossom CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1481. 2023-07-26funding roundMaterials Nexus: funding round £2m — Cambridge AI and quantum-mechanics materials spinout raised £2m.Ada VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1482. 2023-07-26listingCirata (formerly WANdisco): listing — WANdisco shares resumed trading on AIM, about 96% below their pre-investigation value. Buys or funds: Return to trading.AIM (London Stock Exchange)Software and toolssingle_source
1483. 2023-07-24funding roundQuench.ai (now Askollo Ltd): funding round US$5m (≈ £3.9m) — London AI coaching platform founded by Onfido co-founder Husayn Kassai raised $5m pre-seed.Firstminute Capital; Tuesday VC; BY Venture Partners; Ada Ventures (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1484. 2023-07-21funding roundStylib: funding round £1.5m — London architecture product-discovery platform using AI closed a £1.5m pre-seed.FoundamentalStart-upssingle_source
1485. 2023-07-18funding roundSylvera: funding round US$57m (≈ £43.6m) — Series B (£43.6m)Balderton CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1486. 2023-07-18funding roundTractable: funding round US$65m (≈ £49.7m) — AI insurance-claims firm closed a $65m Series E.SoftBank Vision Fund 2Start-upsverified
1487. 2023-07-17funding roundOptalysys: funding round £21m — Series A for photonic computing for fully homomorphic encryption.Lingotto, imec.xpand, Northern GritstoneChips and hardwaresingle_source
1488. 2023-07-14funding roundCausaly: funding round US$60m (≈ £45.7m) — Series B; total raised £71m.ICONIQ GrowthSoftware and toolssingle_source
1489. 2023-07-14funding roundCausaly: funding round US$60m (≈ £45.7m) — Series B.ICONIQ GrowthStart-upssingle_source
1490. 2023-07-12funding roundProlific: funding round £25m — Round co-led by Partech and OSE.Partech; Oxford Science EnterprisesSoftware and toolsverified
1491. 2023-07-11funding roundRaft (formerly Vector.ai): funding round US$30m (≈ £23.3m) — London AI freight-automation company raised a $30m Series B.Eight RoadsStart-upssingle_source
1492. 2023-07-06uk office openingAxelera AI (UK): uk office opening — First UK office opened in Bristol.University of Bristol QTICChips and hardwaresingle_source
1493. 2023-07-06funding roundDistil.ai: funding round £1.1m — Exeter e-commerce customer-data platform using AI segmentation raised £1.1m seed.Mercia VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1494. 2023-07-06funding roundDistil.ai: funding round £1.1m — Follow-on round with angelsMercia VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1495. 2023-07-05funding roundKinnu: funding round US$6.5m (≈ £5.1m) — Round with Spark Capital and JigsawLocalGlobe and Cavalry VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1496. 2023-07-04funding roundImmersive Fox: funding round £2.8m — London AI video-generation start-up raised £2.8m seed.Redseed VC; Monte Carlo Capital; Altair (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1497. 2023-07-04funding roundCirata (formerly WANdisco): funding round £24m — WANdisco raised £24m by issuing new shares while suspended from AIM. Buys or funds: 47.5m new shares to stabilise the business after the fraud finding.Global Frontier Investments; Davis Capital PartnersSoftware and toolssingle_source
1498. 2023-07-04funding roundWANdisco (renamed Cirata): funding round £24m — WANdisco raised £24m through new shares to stay afloat. Buys or funds: balance-sheet rescue after fraud; 47.5m new shares. Other investors: others not named.Global Frontier Investments; Davis Capital PartnersSoftware and toolssingle_source
1499. 2023-06-30funding roundScriptic: funding round £4.5m — London generative-AI interactive drama start-up added £4.5m seed, taking the round to £6.5m.BITKRAFT VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1500. 2023-06-29funding roundRoboK: funding round US$2.1m (≈ £1.7m) — Cambridge spinout using AI to analyse CCTV for workplace safety raised $2.1m in grant and equity.Cambridge EnterpriseStart-upssingle_source
1501. 2023-06-28uk office openingOpenAI (UK): uk office opening — OpenAI opens its first international office, in LondonBig tech in the UKverified
1502. 2023-06-28uk office openingOpenAI (UK): uk office opening — OpenAI announced a London office, its first outside the US.Big tech in the UKsingle_source
1503. 2023-06-27funding roundDexory: funding round US$19m (≈ £14.9m) — Autonomous warehouse-robot firm raised a $19m Series A.AtomicoStart-upssingle_source
1504. 2023-06-27funding roundUpp.AI: funding round US$10m (≈ £7.8m) — London e-commerce ad-spend software start-up raised $10m.Bonfire VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1505. 2023-06-26delistingBabylon Health: delisting — Agreed to delist from the NYSE and become private again; expected to complete in July 2023.New York Stock ExchangeStart-upssingle_source
1506. 2023-06-20funding roundElevenLabs: funding round US$19m (≈ £14.9m) — Series ANat Friedman, Daniel Gross and Andreessen HorowitzLabssingle_source
1507. 2023-06-20collapseCervest: collapse — Administration, ended 13 June 2024Interpath (administrators)Start-upssingle_source
1508. 2023-06-20funding roundSphereTrax: funding round £100,000 — Hereford AI music-licensing platform raised £100,000.Fintage HouseStart-upssingle_source
1509. 2023-06-15funding roundSnowplow: funding round — Databricks' venture arm invested an undisclosed sum in Snowplow (listed on Snowplow's newsroom). Buys or funds: lakehouse behavioural-data partnership.Databricks VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1510. 2023-06-14major contractGoogle Cloud–Dstl memorandum of understanding on AI: major contract — Memorandum of understanding on AI adoption in UK defenceDefence Science and Technology LaboratoryBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1511. 2023-06-13funding roundSynthesia: funding round US$90m (≈ £71.4m) — Series C; NVentures, Kleiner Perkins, GV and FirstMark took partAccelLabsverified
1512. 2023-06-12funding roundGensyn: funding round £33.8m — Decentralised AI compute start-up raised £33.8m Series A.a16z cryptoSoftware and toolssingle_source
1513. 2023-06-01funding roundHypervision Surgical: funding round £6.5m — King's College London spinout combining AI and hyperspectral imaging for surgery raised £6.5m seed.HERAN Partners; Redalpine; LifeX Ventures; ZEISS Ventures (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1514. 2023-05-24renameOxa: rename — Oxbotica Limited renamed Oxa Autonomy LtdStart-upssingle_source
1515. 2023-05-23acquisitionOnfido: acquisition — London identity-verification firm bought US digital-ID company Airside Mobile; sum undisclosed.Airside Mobile (target, US)Start-upssingle_source
1516. 2023-05-23funding roundBuilder.ai (Engineer.ai Global Limited): funding round US$250m (≈ £201.3m) — Software-building platform raised a $250m Series D led by QIA, after selling a stake to Microsoft.Qatar Investment AuthoritySoftware and toolsverified
1517. 2023-05-22compute grantIsambard 3: compute grant £10m — UKRI award for the GW4 Isambard 3 Arm-based system. Buys or funds: NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip system, at least 55,000 cores, HPE POD at NCC. Other investors: GW4 Alliance (awardee); HPE, NVIDIA, Arm (suppliers).UKRICloud and computesingle_source
1518. 2023-05-22funding roundPharmEnable: funding round 7,500,000 (£6m) USD — PharmEnable raises $7.5m pre-Series A led by Mitsubishi Tanabe's venture arm For: Pre-Series A for its AI small-molecule pipeline. Other investors: Heyford Trust; o2h Ventures; Martlet Capital; Arrowfield Capital; Wren Capital; Jonathan Milner; Cambridge Enterprise; University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund VIII (Parkwalk Advisors).MP Healthcare Venture Management (Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma)Labsverified
1519. 2023-05-16partnershipICICLE (Imperial College, Intel and Lenovo HPC partnership): partnership — Imperial, Intel and Lenovo launch ICICLE. Buys or funds: Multi-year sustainable HPC and AI collaboration; Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling, Intel HBM.Lenovo (BIZ-INV-2158); Intel (BIZ-BIG-2034)Cloud and computesingle_source
1520. 2023-05-11funding roundBuilder.ai (Engineer.ai Global Limited): funding round — Microsoft took an undisclosed equity stake in Builder.ai alongside a deeper partnership. Buys or funds: Microsoft cloud and AI integration; Natasha assistant in Teams store.Microsoft (equity stake)Software and toolssingle_source
1521. 2023-05-09funding roundFilament: funding round £2.9m — London AI investment-intelligence platform (Syfter) raised £2.85m.Wealth Club (EIS round)Start-upssingle_source
1522. 2023-05-02funding roundSMPnet: funding round US$1.4m (≈ £1.1m) — London and Glasgow start-up building AI software to control power grids raised $1.4m seed.Marathon Venture CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1523. 2023-04-27investment pledgeInnovate UK BridgeAI: investment pledge £100m — Innovate UK launched BridgeAI as a £100m programme to help firms in four sectors adopt AI, delivered with Digital Catapult, Hartree Centre and Turing.Innovate UK (with Technologies Mission Fund)Networks and mediasingle_source
1524. 2023-04-27funding roundIRIS Audio Technologies: funding round £5.6m — IRIS Audio's first institutional round. Buys or funds: Series A; adoption of IRIS Clarity, especially North America. Other investors: Ojjeh family; TAG Group; Toby Brzoznowski.Puma Private Equity (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1525. 2023-04-25funding roundKluster: funding round US$5m (≈ £4m) — London AI sales-software start-up raised a $5m Series A.Foresight GroupStart-upssingle_source
1526. 2023-04-24funding roundProductive Machines: funding round £2.2m — Rotherham AI software firm for metal-milling vibration raised £2.2m.UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S)Start-upssingle_source
1527. 2023-04-20mergerGoogle DeepMind: merger — DeepMind and Google Brain combined as Google DeepMind, led by Demis HassabisGoogle Research Brain team (Alphabet)Labssingle_source
1528. 2023-04-17funding roundLoopin: funding round £1.6m — Bristol workplace-management start-up using generative AI raised £1.6m from angels.angel investors (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1529. 2023-04-12funding roundInfogrid: funding round US$90m (≈ £72.2m) — London AI building-sustainability platform raised $90m Series B in equity and debt.Original Capital; SoftBank Vision Fund 2; Northzone; TVC; JLL Spark; Committed Capital; Pictet (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1530. 2023-04-11grantRoboK: grant — First-round winner using AI on existing video data.DfT Freight Innovation Fund round 1Start-upssingle_source
1531. 2023-04-04funding roundQuantexa: funding round US$129m (≈ £103.1m) — London data-analytics firm raised a $129m Series E at a $1.8bn valuation.GICStart-upsverified
1532. 2023-04acquisitionTech Nation: acquisition — Founders Forum Group acquired the Tech Nation brand and relaunched it on 16 October 2023.Founders Forum Group (BIZ-NET-003)Networks and mediasingle_source
1533. 2023-03-31funding roundHazy: funding round US$9m (≈ £7.3m) — Series A with Nationwide and Wells Fargo (currency inconsistent on the page).ConvictionSoftware and toolssingle_source
1534. 2023-03-30funding roundIntelligent AI: funding round £2m — Exeter insurance-software start-up raised £2m for Cornwall expansion.Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Investment Fund (FSE Group); SuperSeed and others (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1535. 2023-03-30funding roundPermia Sensing: funding round £250,000 — Imperial College spinout using acoustic sensors and AI to detect crop pests raised £250,000.Jenson Funding PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1536. 2023-03-24grantDogtooth Technologies; Wootzano (partners): grant over 3,800,000 (whole project) GBP — Partners in open development platform for agri-robotic harvesting; partner shares not stated.Defra Farming Innovation Programme, project Agri-Opencore led by APS ProduceStart-upssingle_source
1537. 2023-03-24funding roundHadean: funding round US$5m (≈ £4.1m) — Hadean raised $5m (£4.09m) led by Ericsson Ventures. Buys or funds: immersive infrastructure platform. Other investors: Metrea Discovery; VU Venture Partners; Sanctor Capital; Tirta Ventures.Ericsson Ventures (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1538. 2023-03-21partnershipCanonical (AI and MLOps products): partnership — Canonical's MLOps platform was certified for NVIDIA DGX systems. Buys or funds: Charmed Kubeflow certified under NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software on single- and multi-node DGX.NVIDIASoftware and toolssingle_source
1539. 2023-03-16funding roundSeldon: funding round US$20m (≈ £16.5m) — London MLOps platform raised a $20m Series B.Bright PixelSoftware and toolssingle_source
1540. 2023-03-13funding roundIntrinsic Semiconductor Technologies: funding round £7m — Round with IP Group and UCL Technology Fund, plus £1m of Innovate UK grants.Octopus Ventures (lead)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1541. 2023-03-13funding roundPhare Labs: funding round £300,000 — London fire-alarm start-up using machine learning raised £300,000.British Design Fund and angels (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1542. 2023-03-10collapseWANdisco (renamed Cirata): collapse — WANdisco suspended its AIM shares after finding suspected sales fraud; FY22 revenue might be $9m, not $24m.not stated in the researchSoftware and toolssingle_source
1543. 2023-03-09funding roundCanSense: funding round £1.5m — Swansea start-up with an AI and laser blood test for bowel cancer raised £1.5m.Mercia; Development Bank of Wales; Nonacus (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1544. 2023-03-07funding roundUnitary: funding round US$8m (≈ £6.7m) — Round led by Ian Hogarth at Plural.PluralSoftware and toolssingle_source
1545. 2023-03-07funding roundAbound: funding round £500m — London lender using open banking and AI raised £500m in debt and equity.Citi; Waterfall Asset Management (debt); K3 Ventures, GSR Ventures, Hambro Perks (equity)Start-upssingle_source
1546. 2023-03-03grantMendelian: grant — NHS AI Award round 3 grant for MendelScan rare disease case-finding in primary care records.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 3)Start-upsverified
1547. 2023-03-03grantOxford Cancer Biomarkers: grant — NHS AI Award round 3 grant for OncoProg bowel cancer chemotherapy-benefit test.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 3)Start-upsverified
1548. 2023-03-03funding roundAttio: funding round US$23.5m (≈ £19.6m) — Attio raised a $23.5m (£19.6m) Series A; total $31.2m. Buys or funds: Series A; CRM platform. Other investors: Balderton Capital; Point Nine.Redpoint Ventures (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1549. 2023-03pauseTech Nation: pause — Tech Nation shut down after losing a £12m government grant bid, its main income, to Barclays Eagle Labs.Barclays Eagle Labs (winner of grant)Networks and mediasingle_source
1550. 2023-03funding roundDatatonic: funding round — Perwyn made a "substantial investment" in Datatonic, funding its purchase of Montreal AnalyticsPerwynServices and skillssingle_source
1551. 2023-03acquisitionDatatonic: acquisition — Datatonic bought Montreal Analytics, now Datatonic AmericasMontreal Analytics (target, Canada)Services and skillssingle_source
1552. 2023-03investment pledgeAI Research Resource (AIRR): investment pledge £100m — The 2023 Spring Budget set aside £100m for a national AI Research Resource; it was tripled in November 2023. Buys or funds: First funding for a national AI Research Resource, before Isambard-AI and Dawn were named.HM Government (Spring Budget 2023)Cloud and computeverified
1553. 2023-03investment pledgeAI Research Resource (AIRR): investment pledge £900m — The Chancellor committed about £900m to AI research compute and an exascale computer. Buys or funds: AI research compute and a UK exascale supercomputer; in September 2023 Bristol was named host of Isambard-AI with "thousands" of GPUs.HM Treasury (Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Spring Budget 2023)Cloud and computeverified
1554. 2023-02-28funding roundColossyan: funding round US$5m (≈ £4.1m) — Round reported as Series A at the timeLAUNCHub Ventures and Emerge EducationStart-upssingle_source
1555. 2023-02-28funding roundCordless: funding round US$2.3m (≈ £1.9m) — London AI customer-call analysis start-up raised $2.3m.Fly VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1556. 2023-02-27funding roundRobin AI: funding round US$10.5m (≈ £8.7m) — London legal generative-AI firm raised a $10.5m Series A.PluralStart-upssingle_source
1557. 2023-02-21funding roundAeroCloud: funding round US$12.6m (≈ £10.4m) — Macclesfield airport-management platform using AI raised a $12.6m Series A.Stage 2 CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1558. 2023-02-21partnershipMind Foundry: partnership — Mind Foundry and its insurer backer opened the Aioi R&D Lab in Oxford. Buys or funds: Aioi R&D Lab – Oxford, AI-driven insurance research. Other investors: University of Oxford (advisory board).Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance; Aioi Nissay Dowa EuropeSoftware and toolssingle_source
1559. 2023-02-17funding roundPydantic: funding round US$4.7m (≈ £3.9m) — Pydantic, the London open-source data-validation project, raised a $4.7m (£3.9m) seed from Sequoia. Buys or funds: cloud services with free tier and usage pricing. Other investors: ParTech; Irregular Expressions; angels.Sequoia (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1560. 2023-02-16funding roundVivaCity (Vivacity Labs): funding round £7m — £7m round to expand to North AmericaENV; Foresight Group; Gresham House VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1561. 2023-02-16funding roundQiO Technologies: funding round US$10m (≈ £8.3m) — Hampshire industrial AI firm closed a $10m Series B.WAVE Equity PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1562. 2023-02-15funding roundLumai: funding round £1.1m — Innovate UK grant for optical neural networks.Innovate UK (grant)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1563. 2023-02-13investment pledgeHartree Centre: investment pledge £30m — Groundbreaking for Hartree's new supercomputer centre. Buys or funds: New supercomputing centre building at Daresbury (strategy gives £42m).STFCCloud and computesingle_source
1564. 2023-02-07funding roundRecycleye: funding round £14m — Series ADCVCStart-upssingle_source
1565. 2023-02-07funding roundSyndi Health: funding round US$2m (≈ £1.7m) — London AI wellbeing-recommendation platform raised $2m pre-seed.Founders Factory; Plug and Play and others (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1566. 2023-02-02funding roundRe:course AI: funding round US$4.3m (≈ £3.5m) — Manchester healthcare-training platform using AI avatars raised $4.3m seed.Par EquityStart-upssingle_source
1567. 2023-02-01funding roundInstill AI: funding round US$3.6m (≈ £2.9m) — London start-up building tools to analyse images, video, audio and text raised $3.6m seed.RTP GlobalSoftware and toolssingle_source
1568. 2023-02-01grantConigital: grant £8.3m — Government share of £15.2m Multi-Area Connected Automated Mobility project in Solihull and Coventry.Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAM deployment)Start-upssingle_source
1569. 2023-01-24funding roundWaire Health: funding round £2m — Edinburgh remote-monitoring medtech whose C-Detect device uses AI raised £2m.Eos Advisory; Scottish Enterprise (co-investor)Start-upssingle_source
1570. 2023-01-23funding roundElevenLabs: funding round US$2m (≈ £1.6m) — Pre-seed; Concept Ventures and individuals took partCredo VenturesLabssingle_source
1571. 2023-01-23funding roundGlobal Screening Services (GSS): funding round £37m — Funding from three backersAlixPartners; The Cynosure Group; MUFGStart-upssingle_source
1572. 2023-01-19renameDexory: rename — BotsAndUs Ltd renamed Dexory LimitedStart-upssingle_source
1573. 2023-01-19acquisitionBlackford Analysis: acquisition — Bayer bought Edinburgh medical-imaging AI firm Blackford Analysis for an unspecified sum.BayerStart-upssingle_source
1574. 2023-01-16funding roundGigged.AI: funding round £1.6m — Glasgow AI recruitment-software firm raised £1.6m seed.Par EquityStart-upssingle_source
1575. 2023-01-16funding roundGigged.AI: funding round £1.6m — Seed round with Techstart Ventures and Nile HQPar EquityStart-upssingle_source
1576. 2023-01-11acquisitionInstaDeep: acquisition £562m — BioNTech agreed to buy London AI company InstaDeep (UKTN: £562m incl. up to £200m milestones; BioNTech: about €500m for the remaining shares); completed 31 July 2023.BioNTechStart-upsverified
1577. 2023-01-11acquisitionSnowplow: acquisition — Snowplow bought its Australian partner Poplin Data and opened an APAC hub in Sydney. Buys or funds: APAC operating hub in Sydney; Data Product Accelerators.Poplin Data (target, Sydney)Software and toolssingle_source
1578. 2023-01-10funding roundOxa: funding round US$140m (≈ £115.2m) — Oxford autonomous-vehicle software firm secured a $140m Series C.Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance; ENEOS Innovation Partners (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1579. 2023-01-09grantKuano: grant 540,000 (project value) GBP reported — Innovate UK funded a £540k Kuano cancer-drug project. For: design of a new generation of cancer drugs (NOTUM, colorectal cancer).Innovate UKLabssingle_source
1580. 2023-01-06funding roundPerspectum: funding round US$36m (≈ £29.9m) — First round of Series C (£30.4m)Oppenheimer HoldingsStart-upssingle_source
1581. 2023-01-04funding roundSurrealDB: funding round US$6m (≈ £5m) — SurrealDB raised a $6m seed led by FirstMark Capital. Buys or funds: multi-model database.FirstMark Capital; Matt Turck (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1582. 2023investment pledgeSalesforce (UK): investment pledge US$4bn (≈ £3.32bn) — Five-year UK investment pledge (day not opened) · year only given: rate for 1 JanuaryBig tech in the UKsingle_source
1583. 2023funding roundMalted AI: funding round £1m — Malted AI's £1m pre-seed led by the Creator Fund. Buys or funds: small language model distillation.Creator Fund (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1584. 2023partnershipMet Office AI research (National Capability AI Programme): partnership — The Met Office and the Alan Turing Institute start a partnership to build AI weather forecasting. For: AI for Numerical Weather Prediction (AI4NWP) partnership; co-development of FastNet (BIZ-LAB-6008).The Alan Turing InstituteLabssingle_source
1585. 2023funding roundConcr: funding round £1.9m reported — Concr closes £1.94m seed co-led by Cambridge Enterprise Ventures and R42 For: Seed; Irina Babina promoted to CEO afterwards. Other investors: Oncology Ventures; SyndicateRoom; Debiopharm; Jo Pisani (Cambridge Angels).Cambridge Enterprise Ventures and R42 Group (co-leads)Labssingle_source
1586. 2022-12-20funding roundCarter: funding round £1.7m — Pre-seedPlay VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1587. 2022-12-16grantAlchemab Therapeutics: grant £1.7m reported — Innovate UK granted £1.7m to Alchemab and Medicines Discovery Catapult. For: disease-modifying therapy for Huntington's disease.Innovate UK Biomedical CatalystLabssingle_source
1588. 2022-12-14funding roundBasecamp Research: funding round US$20m (≈ £16.1m) — London protein-design AI company raised a $20m Series A.Systemiq VenturesLabssingle_source
1589. 2022-12-14funding roundJaid: funding round £3m — London AI workflow start-up raised £3m seed.Sure Valley VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1590. 2022-12-13funding roundBeamery: funding round US$50m (≈ £40.3m) — AI talent-management firm closed a $50m Series D at a valuation over $1bn.Teachers’ Ventures GrowthStart-upsverified
1591. 2022-12-09funding round9fin: funding round US$23m (≈ £18.7m) — London debt-market analytics platform using machine learning raised a $23m Series A+.Spark CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1592. 2022-12-06funding roundChattermill: funding round US$26m (≈ £21.3m) — London customer-feedback analysis platform (AI per headline) raised a $26m Series B.BeringeaStart-upssingle_source
1593. 2022-12-02funding roundIntelligent AI: funding round £2m — SeedSuperseedStart-upssingle_source
1594. 2022-12-01funding roundV7: funding round £27m — Series A (date is article date).Radical Ventures; TemasekSoftware and toolssingle_source
1595. 2022-11-30collapseThread: collapse — Thread entered administration (date of appointment not opened)administrators (not named)Start-upssingle_source
1596. 2022-11-30acquisitionThread: acquisition — M&S bought Thread's IP and hired 30 staffMarks and Spencer Group plcStart-upssingle_source
1597. 2022-11-29funding roundBiorelate: funding round £6.5m — Manchester AI drug-discovery platform raised a £6.5m Series A.YFM; Maven; Triple Point Ventures; Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund; Manchester Tech Trust angels (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1598. 2022-11-28funding roundEcoSync: funding round £964,603 — Oxford spinout managing building energy with AI and digital twins raised £964,603.RO Capital Partners; Oxford Innovation EIS growth fund; OION Angels; Crowdcube (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1599. 2022-11-24funding roundObrizum: funding round £9.5m — Series A, total funding about £14mGuinness Ventures and others (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1600. 2022-11-17funding roundVestico: funding round £250,000 — London AI fashion-visualisation start-up took a £250,000 investment.Jenson Funding PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1601. 2022-11-14funding roundQuix: funding round £11m — Quix raised an £11m Series A led by MMC Ventures. Buys or funds: Series A; product development and open source. Other investors: Project A Ventures; Passion Capital.MMC VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1602. 2022-11-10funding roundAnything World: funding round US$7.5m (≈ £6.4m) — "Series seed plus"Warner Music Group and othersStart-upssingle_source
1603. 2022-11-09acquisitionAudio Analytic: acquisition — Meta reported (via The Telegraph) to have bought Audio AnalyticMeta PlatformsStart-upssingle_source
1604. 2022-11-09funding roundToffeeX (formerly TOffeeAM): funding round £5m — London 3D-printing design software start-up raised a £5m Series A.Presidio Ventures; East InnovateStart-upssingle_source
1605. 2022-11-08funding roundMatillion: funding round — Databricks' venture arm invested an undisclosed sum in Matillion. Buys or funds: partnership with Databricks lakehouse.Databricks Ventures (strategic investment)Software and toolssingle_source
1606. 2022-11-07funding roundGigaton (formerly Carbon Re): funding round £4.2m — Seed as Carbon RePlanet A VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1607. 2022-11-01funding roundSolvo.ai: funding round US$4m (≈ £3.5m) — London AI pricing-engine start-up raised a $4m seed round.Speedinvest; Frontline VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1608. 2022-10-27funding roundAxelera AI (UK): funding round US$27m (≈ £23.3m) — Series A for the Dutch edge-AI chip firm; included expansion with a Bristol office.Innovation Industries (lead)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1609. 2022-10-25collapseUKCloud: collapse — Winding-up orders against UKCloud and parent Virtual Infrastructure Group.Official Receiver (Gareth Jonathan Allen); Ernst & Young special managersCloud and computesingle_source
1610. 2022-10-20funding roundNucleome Therapeutics: funding round £37.5m — Oxford spinout using machine learning to predict disease-linked variants raised a £37.5m Series A.M VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1611. 2022-10-18major contractGSK and Tempus AI collaboration: major contract US$70m (≈ £61.8m) — Three-year access to Tempus AI platform and data; initial paymentTempusEstablished firmssingle_source
1612. 2022-10-17funding roundStability AI: funding round US$101m (≈ £88.3m) — Oversubscribed round; valuation not stated by the companyCoatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners and O'Shaughnessy VenturesLabssingle_source
1613. 2022-10-17renameSensyne Health (now Arcturis Data): rename — Renamed Arcturis Data Limited.Arcturis Data LimitedStart-upssingle_source
1614. 2022-10-11funding roundEnate: funding round £2m — Enate raised £2m in a follow-on from Mercia. Buys or funds: Hybrid workforce orchestration platform.MerciaSoftware and toolssingle_source
1615. 2022-10-10funding roundConnex One: funding round £93m — Connex One raised £93m in a Series C. Buys or funds: Series C; global expansion to 1,000 staff.GP Bullhound (undisclosed investment; lead not stated)Software and toolssingle_source
1616. 2022-10-07acquisitionProQuo AI: acquisition — VC firm Grafton Capital bought brand-management software firm ProQuo AI; sum not disclosed.Grafton CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1617. 2022-10-06funding roundLightdash: funding round US$8.4m (≈ £7.5m) — Lightdash raised $8.4m (£7.5m) seed led by Accel. Buys or funds: Seed; open-source BI platform. Other investors: Moonfire; Y Combinator; angels incl. GitLab CMO Ashley Kramer.AccelSoftware and toolssingle_source
1618. 2022-10acquisitionLearning Pool: acquisition — Learning Pool bought an AI skills-management platformPeople Analytix (target)Start-upssingle_source
1619. 2022-10government contractCrown Hosting Data Centres: government contract £250m — Crown Hosting won a second seven-year, £250m government hosting framework. Buys or funds: Single-supplier colocation framework (Crown Hosting II), seven years.Crown Commercial ServiceCloud and computesingle_source
1620. 2022-09-28funding roundSynthesized: funding round — Deutsche Bank invested an undisclosed sum in Synthesized and joined it to its corporate venture portfolio. Buys or funds: synthetic test data; AI/ML experimentation; GCP migration.Deutsche Bank Corporate Venture CapitalSoftware and toolssingle_source
1621. 2022-09-27funding roundOptellum: funding round US$14m (≈ £13m) — Series A.MerciaStart-upssingle_source
1622. 2022-09-26funding roundDisperse: funding round US$16m (≈ £14.8m) — London AI construction-site data platform raised $16m.2150Start-upssingle_source
1623. 2022-09-23funding roundHadean: funding round US$30m (≈ £27.5m) — London's Hadean raised a $30m (£26.6m) Series A led by Molten, with Epic Games. Buys or funds: metaverse and simulation infrastructure, computing power. Other investors: 2050 Capital; Alumni Ventures; Aster Capital; Entrepreneur First; In-Q-Tel; Epic Games.Molten Ventures (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1624. 2022-09-21funding roundAMPLY Discovery: funding round £900,000 — Belfast AI drug-discovery start-up raised £900,000 in equity and grant.Co Fund NI; QUBIS Innovation Fund; Helix Way Partnership; HBAN angels (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1625. 2022-09-20funding roundNeuralSpace: funding round US$2.8m (≈ £2.5m) — London NLP start-up completed a $2.8m seed round.Merus Capital; GoHub (co-leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1626. 2022-09-15funding roundUnlikely AI: funding round US$20m (≈ £17.4m) — Seed (£17.4m)Amadeus Capital and Octopus VenturesLabssingle_source
1627. 2022-09-08cancellationDarktrace (recorded under risk): cancellation — Rumoured takeover of Darktrace by Thoma Bravo was called off; shares fell 30% (Thoma Bravo later bought it in 2024).Thoma BravoStart-upssingle_source
1628. 2022-09-07funding roundPolyAI: funding round US$40m (≈ £34.9m) — Series B with Twilio Ventures; total funding US$70mGeorgianLabssingle_source
1629. 2022-09-01uk office openingSnowplow: uk office opening — US company registered a UK branch at Snowplow's London addressSnowplow Technologies IncSoftware and toolssingle_source
1630. 2022-08-11funding roundJiminny: funding round US$16.5m (≈ £13.5m) — London sales "conversational intelligence" software firm closed a $16.5m Series A.Kennet PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1631. 2022-08-04funding roundCera: funding round US$320m (≈ £264.2m) — Equity and debt round (£263.6m)Schroders Capital; Jane Street Capital; KairosHQ; Vanderbilt UniversityStart-upssingle_source
1632. 2022-08-02funding roundGrowth Intelligence: funding round £1.5m — B2B marketing firm using an AI platform raised £1.5m.Shard Credit PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1633. 2022-08-02acquisitionVIRTUS Data Centres (new): acquisition — Macquarie agreed a significant minority stake; 11 Greater London sites, over 180MW.Macquarie Asset Management (BIZ-INV-312)single_source
1634. 2022-08-01funding roundBuilt AI: funding round £2m — London property-analytics start-up using NLP closed a £2m seed round.Philipp Mohr; Puli Liyanagama (angel leads)Start-upssingle_source
1635. 2022-07-28funding roundHumanloop: funding round US$2.6m (≈ £2.1m) — London AI tooling start-up closed a $2.6m seed round.Index VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1636. 2022-07-28funding roundiLoF (Intelligent Lab on Fiber): funding round US$4.1m (≈ £3.4m) — Oxford and Porto AI biomarker drug-discovery start-up raised funding led by a $4.1m equity investment.FaberStart-upssingle_source
1637. 2022-07-26funding roundGeomiq: funding round US$8.5m (≈ £7.1m) — London manufacturing marketplace that uses machine learning to match jobs raised an $8.5m Series A.AXA VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1638. 2022-07-14partnershipAI Research Centre for Defence (ARC-D), Dstl and The Alan Turing Institute: partnership — Dstl and the Alan Turing Institute launch ARC-D. For: Joint defence AI research centre in London, funded through the MOD Chief Scientific Adviser.Dstl; The Alan Turing Institute (BIZ-SAFE-2060)Labssingle_source
1639. 2022-07-13delistingSensyne Health (now Arcturis Data): delisting — Re-registered from Sensyne Health plc to Sensyne Health Limited (private company).Start-upssingle_source
1640. 2022-07-13funding roundincident.io: funding round US$28.7m (≈ £24m) — incident.io raised a $28.7m Series A led by Index, taking its total to $34.2m. Buys or funds: International expansion incl. planned New York office; London team growth. Other investors: Point Nine; Mike Krieger; Lachy Groom; Mantis VC.Index Ventures (lead)Software and toolsverified
1641. 2022-07-07funding roundWiseWorks AI: funding round US$1.2m (≈ £999,917) — SeedVeridian VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1642. 2022-07-07funding roundWiseWorks AI: funding round 1,200,000 (£1m) USD — Oversubscribed seed round.Veridian Ventures (with SyndicateRoom, Istcapital, Founders Factory, R42)Start-upssingle_source
1643. 2022-07-06funding roundCardiaTec: funding round £1.4m — Cambridge start-up using AI for heart-disease target discovery raised £1.4m pre-seed.Laidlaw Scholars Ventures; APEX VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1644. 2022-07-01funding roundHolly Health: funding round £1.4m — Digital health-coach app raised £1.4m.Kima Ventures and others (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1645. 2022-07acquisitionBIZ-SU-OTH-7001 Re:infer: acquisition — UiPath bought London's Re:infer, a 2015 UCL spin-out; announced 1 August 2022, completed July 2022 per UiPath's 10-K. Buys or funds: NLP for documents and communications; no-code custom models.UiPath (buyer)Software and toolsverified
1646. 2022-06-30acquisitionCodeplay Software: acquisition — Intel's UK subsidiary became 75%-plus ownerIntel (Intel Research And Development UK Limited)Software and toolssingle_source
1647. 2022-06-30funding roundBlack Swan Data: funding round US$18.5m (≈ £15.2m) — Consumer-trend analytics firm whose Trendscope tool uses AI closed an $18.5m growth round; UK base not stated on page.OxxStart-upssingle_source
1648. 2022-06-30acquisitionDiageo AI consumer tools (Vivanda FlavourPrint and Project Halo): acquisition — Diageo buys Vivanda, maker of the FlavourPrint taste-matching AI, for an undisclosed fee (date is the report date).DiageoEstablished firmssingle_source
1649. 2022-06-30funding roundSnowplow: funding round US$40m (≈ £32.9m) — Snowplow raised a $40m Series B led by NEA, taking total funding to $55m. Buys or funds: analytics, composable CDP, AI/ML model data; Boston HQ2. Other investors: Atlantic Bridge; MMC.NEA (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1650. 2022-06-29funding roundOphelos: funding round £5m — London AI debt-collection fintech raised £5m.AlbionVCStart-upssingle_source
1651. 2022-06-28funding roundSpeechmatics: funding round US$62m (≈ £50.8m) — Series B with AlbionVC and IQ CapitalSusquehanna Growth EquitySoftware and toolssingle_source
1652. 2022-06-24funding roundOpteran: funding round US$12m (≈ £9.8m) — Sheffield university spinout building insect-inspired autonomy raised $12m.Join CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1653. 2022-06-24funding roundOpteran: funding round US$12m (≈ £9.8m) — $12m round with IQ Capital, Northern Gritstone, SeraphimJoin CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1654. 2022-06-23funding roundBotsAndUs (new): funding round US$13m (≈ £10.6m) — London warehouse-robot firm using AI digital twins raised a $13m seed round.Lakestarsingle_source
1655. 2022-06-23partnershipDstl AI and data science research (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory): partnership — Dstl forms the Defence Data Research Centre with an Exeter-led consortium. For: Defence Data Research Centre, on data problems for defence AI. Other investors: University of Liverpool; University of Surrey; Digital Catapult (BIZ-NET-2001).University of Exeter (consortium lead)Labssingle_source
1656. 2022-06-22funding roundDAACI: funding round £4m — Seed round launched, EIS-eligible, due to close September 2022; closing amount not foundStart-upssingle_source
1657. 2022-06-21funding roundCloudNC: funding round US$45m (≈ £36.6m) — London maker of software for factories to create components autonomously raised a $45m Series B.AutodeskStart-upssingle_source
1658. 2022-06-21funding roundSonrai Analytics: funding round £2.1m — Belfast AI medical-software firm raised a £2.1m "seed plus" round.Forward PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1659. 2022-06-14funding roundClausematch: funding round US$10.8m (≈ £9m) — With Sony Innovation Fund and FlashpointLytical VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1660. 2022-06-13acquisitionSonantic: acquisition — Spotify to acquire Sonantic; terms undisclosedSpotifyStart-upssingle_source
1661. 2022-06-10funding roundPapercup: funding round US$20m (≈ £16.2m) — Series A with LocalGlobe, Sands Capital, Sky, Guardian Media Ventures, Entrepreneur First and BDMIOctopus VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1662. 2022-06-09funding roundMultiverse: funding round US$220m (≈ £175.4m) — Series DStepStone Group (co-lead)Start-upssingle_source
1663. 2022-06-07funding roundMatillion: funding round — Citi Ventures made an undisclosed strategic investment in Matillion. Buys or funds: cloud-native data integration.Citi Ventures (strategic investment)Software and toolssingle_source
1664. 2022-05-24funding roundGreyparrot: funding round US$11m (≈ £8.8m) — London AI waste-analytics platform closed an $11m Series A.Una TerraStart-upssingle_source
1665. 2022-05-24funding roundOpenDialog: funding round US$5m (≈ £4m) — London conversational-AI platform raised a $5m first seed round.not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
1666. 2022-05-19funding roundOxford Drug Design: funding round 2,200,000 ($2.7m) GBP reported — Oxford Drug Design raises £2.2m bridge round For: Bridge round for oncology programmes. Other investors: R42 Group; returning angels.ACF Investors; o2h Ventures; Meltwind Advisory (existing; no lead named)Labssingle_source
1667. 2022-05-18funding roundKaizan: funding round US$1.2m (≈ £966,728) — AI platform for client-support teams raised $1.2m pre-seed.JigsawStart-upssingle_source
1668. 2022-05-13funding roundSalience Labs: funding round £9.4m — Seed round for hybrid photonic-electronic AI chip.Cambridge Innovation Capital, Oxford Science EnterprisesChips and hardwaresingle_source
1669. 2022-05-04funding roundSlamcore: funding round US$16m (≈ £12.8m) — Series A (£12.8m)ROBO Global Ventures; Presidio VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1670. 2022-05funding roundSlamcore: funding round US$16m (≈ £12.7m) — $16M raised for low-cost spatial understanding for robots; lead not stated.not stated in the researchSoftware and toolssingle_source
1671. 2022-04-28funding roundArbolus: funding round US$15m (≈ £12.1m) — London start-up using AI to digitise offline knowledge raised a $15m Series A.Element VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1672. 2022-04-28partnershipLifebit: partnership — Lifebit partnered with Denmark's national genome centre. Buys or funds: Protection of genomic data.Danish National Genome CenterSoftware and toolssingle_source
1673. 2022-04-27major contractAviva and Tractable AI motor claims: major contract — Visual AI for motor repair estimatesTractableEstablished firmssingle_source
1674. 2022-04-25listingBenevolentAI: listing — AI drug-discovery company began trading on Euronext Amsterdam after a $1.7bn SPAC merger.Odyssey Acquisition S.A. (SPAC); Euronext AmsterdamStart-upssingle_source
1675. 2022-04-25listingBenevolentAI: listing — Began trading on Euronext Amsterdam after combining with the Odyssey SPAC.Euronext Amsterdam (via Odyssey Acquisition S.A., a SPAC), ticker BAIStart-upsverified
1676. 2022-04-21funding roundFutr: funding round £2.1m — Growth roundBlackfinch Ventures (new), Praetura Ventures, British Robotics FundStart-upssingle_source
1677. 2022-04-12acquisitionFive AI: acquisition — Bosch buys Cambridge self-driving software company Five; price not disclosedBoschStart-upssingle_source
1678. 2022-04-11funding roundRegGenome (Regulatory Genome Development Ltd): funding round US$6m (≈ £4.6m) — Cambridge spinout using machine learning to structure regulatory content raised $6m seed.Evolution Equity PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1679. 2022-04-08funding roundConjecture: funding round — Conjecture announces its launch and names its backers; amount not stated. For: launch funding for alignment research. Other investors: Nat Friedman; Daniel Gross; Patrick and John Collison; Arthur Breitman; Andrej Karpathy; Sam Bankman-Fried; others.— (lead not stated)Labssingle_source
1680. 2022-04funding roundBetter Origin: funding round £12m — Series A (closed early April 2022)Start-upssingle_source
1681. 2022-03-25funding roundBIZ-SW-5037 Causal: funding round £15m — Causal (spelt "Casual" by UKTN) raised a £15m Series A. Buys or funds: Series A; team growth from 12 to 50. Other investors: Angels incl. Jeremy Stoppelman, Akshay Kothari, Sam Blond.Coatue; Accel (leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1682. 2022-03-24funding roundAvnio (now Loopio UK Ltd): funding round £3m — London sales-automation start-up combining AI and workflows left stealth with £3m seed.Felicis VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1683. 2022-03-23funding roundClimate X: funding round £4.1m — SeedCommerzVentures; A/O PropTechStart-upssingle_source
1684. 2022-03-22compute grantAlchemab Therapeutics: compute grant — Alchemab was selected for access to NVIDIA's Cambridge-1 supercomputer. For: machine-learning antibody discovery on Cambridge-1.NVIDIA (Cambridge-1)Labssingle_source
1685. 2022-03-21funding roundGensyn: funding round US$6.5m (≈ £4.9m) — London AI compute-network start-up closed a $6.5m seed round.Eden BlockSoftware and toolssingle_source
1686. 2022-03-17delistingBlue Prism (new): delisting — AIM admission cancelled on completion of the SS&C deal.AIM, London Stock Exchangeverified
1687. 2022-03-16funding roundBoltzbit: funding round £1.6m — London start-up whose platform lets businesses generate AI neural networks raised £1.6m seed.Speedinvest; IQ Capital (no lead named)Software and toolssingle_source
1688. 2022-03-16acquisitionBlue Prism (new): acquisition US$1.60bn (≈ £1.22bn) — SS&C completed purchase of the UK robotic process automation company for about US$1.6bn (£1.25bn).SS&C Technologiesverified
1689. 2022-03-14funding roundMindtech: funding round US$3.7m (≈ £2.8m) — Strategic round.AppenSoftware and toolssingle_source
1690. 2022-03-10funding roundLendable (new): funding round £210m — London lender that uses AI in underwriting raised £210m at a £3.5bn valuation.Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board (Teachers' Innovation Platform)single_source
1691. 2022-03-10partnershipLifebit: partnership — Boehringer Ingelheim and Lifebit began a partnership on biomedical data. Buys or funds: Long-term AI and biomedical data partnership.Boehringer IngelheimSoftware and toolssingle_source
1692. 2022-03-07funding roundLifeScore: funding round £11m — Wiltshire AI adaptive-music company raised an £11m Series A.Octopus VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1693. 2022-03-03funding roundSilico: funding round £3.4m — London AI simulation and decision-making platform closed a £3.4m seed round.Join CapitalSoftware and toolssingle_source
1694. 2022-02-28funding roundQuantrolOx: funding round £1.4m — Oxford start-up building AI software to tune quantum computers raised £1.4m seed.Nielsen Ventures; Hoxton VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1695. 2022-02-23major contractQinetiQ Inc. US Joint AI Center test and evaluation contract: major contract — Place on five-year AI test and evaluation frameworkUS Joint Artificial Intelligence CenterEstablished firmssingle_source
1696. 2022-02-22funding roundAutomata: funding round US$50m (≈ £36.8m) — London lab-automation firm raised a $50m Series B.Octopus VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1697. 2022-02-21acquisitionSharktower: acquisition — Data consultancy Proteus bought Edinburgh AI project-management software firm Sharktower for an undisclosed sum.ProteusStart-upssingle_source
1698. 2022-02-15funding roundNetacea: funding round £9m — Series A to fund US expansionnot named on page openedStart-upssingle_source
1699. 2022-02-11funding roundAdthena: funding round US$13.5m (≈ £9.9m) — Credit facility for US expansionEspresso Capital (debt)Start-upssingle_source
1700. 2022-02-08funding roundActable AI: funding round US$1.2m (≈ £885,413) — London no-code analytics start-up raised a $1.2m pre-seed round.Begin CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1701. 2022-02-08cancellationArm: cancellation US$40bn (≈ £29.51bn) — Nvidia abandoned its $40bn takeover of Cambridge chip designer Arm; Arm to pursue a listing instead.NvidiaChips and hardwaresingle_source
1702. 2022-02-08cancellationArm: cancellation — NVIDIA's purchase of Arm (agreed 13 Sept 2020) ended over regulatory challenges; SoftBank kept the US$1.25bn prepayment and planned an Arm IPO.NVIDIA; SoftBank Group (BIZ-INV-018)Chips and hardwareverified
1703. 2022-02-07acquisitionAI Music: acquisition — Purchase reported by Bloomberg via MacRumors; no statement from AppleAppleStart-upssingle_source
1704. 2022-02-07funding roundSova Assessment: funding round US$9m (≈ £6.7m) — London recruitment platform that uses AI to assess job candidates closed a $9m growth round.Octopus VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1705. 2022-02-06grantPinpoint Data Science: grant £752,021 — Late-stage SBRI cancer award to optimise urgent cancer referrals with an AI blood test.SBRI Healthcare / NHS Cancer ProgrammeStart-upssingle_source
1706. 2022-02-02funding roundVEED: funding round US$35m (≈ £25.8m) — First outside fundingSequoiaStart-upssingle_source
1707. 2022-02acquisitionAtlasEdge (UK): acquisition — AtlasEdge bought the Leeds site later relaunched as LBA001. Buys or funds: Leeds data centre, 400 racks.Cornelius House, Leeds (seller not named)Cloud and computesingle_source
1708. 2022-01-27renameANS (ANS Group): rename — The merged ANS–UKFast business adopted the ANS name. Buys or funds: Combined group trades under the ANS name.UKFastCloud and computeverified
1709. 2022-01-25funding roundSylvera: funding round US$32.6m (≈ £24.2m) — Series A (£24.1m)Index Ventures; Insight PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1710. 2022-01-25funding roundInstaDeep: funding round US$100m (≈ £74.2m) — London-based enterprise AI decision-making firm raised a $100m Series B.Alpha Intelligence Capital; CDIB (leads)Start-upssingle_source
1711. 2022-01-18funding roundWayve: funding round US$200m (≈ £147.3m) — Series B; total equity raised to date over US$258mEclipseLabssingle_source
1712. 2022-01-06funding roundiProov: funding round US$70m (≈ £51.7m) — Growth investmentSumeru Equity PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1713. 2022funding roundCleo: funding round US$80m (≈ £59.4m) — Series C (company page; exact date not given)Sofina · year only given: rate for 1 JanuaryStart-upssingle_source
1714. 2022spin outAI Sight: spin out — Spun out of Liverpool's Department of Eye and Vision Science.University of LiverpoolStart-upssingle_source
1715. 2022acquisitionUKCloud: acquisition — UKCloud needed a £30m rescue and was acquired in early 2022, months before liquidation.investment company of chairman Jeff ThomasCloud and computesingle_source
1716. 2022grantExCALIBUR: grant £3m — Up to four two-year projects on high-priority exascale software use cases, to start by 1 December 2022.UKRI Strategic Priorities FundCloud and computesingle_source
1717. 2022funding roundincident.io: funding round US$5.5m (≈ £4.1m) — incident.io's $5.5m seed was announced alongside its Series A. Buys or funds: Seed.not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
1718. 2021-12-20grantHealth Navigator: grant £936,697 — SBRI award to deploy AI on NHS data to identify patients at risk.SBRI Healthcare (urgent and emergency care)Start-upssingle_source
1719. 2021-12-20grantRe:course AI: grant £860,628 — SBRI award (listed as Recourse AI) to cut time needed to train and assess clinicians.SBRI Healthcare (urgent and emergency care)Start-upssingle_source
1720. 2021-12-20grantRAIQC: grant £697,140 — SBRI award for clinical image-interpretation simulation platform.SBRI Healthcare (urgent and emergency care)Start-upssingle_source
1721. 2021-12-20funding roundSalience Labs: funding round £350,000 — Pre-seed plus 13-week mentoring course.Deeptech LabsChips and hardwaresingle_source
1722. 2021-12-15funding roundSignal AI: funding round US$50m (≈ £37.8m) — Round for platform that extracts insights from public content.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1723. 2021-12-15funding roundSignal AI: funding round US$50m (≈ £37.8m) — MMC invested again as Signal AI raised $50M.MMC Ventures (participant; lead not stated)Software and toolssingle_source
1724. 2021-12-08funding roundGrid Edge: funding round £2m — £2m roundbp Ventures; Goldacre; Aston UniversityStart-upssingle_source
1725. 2021-12-08funding roundSynthesia: funding round US$50m (≈ £37.8m) — Series B for AI video avatars.Kleiner Perkins (lead)Labssingle_source
1726. 2021-12-08cancellationBlue Prism (new): cancellation — Vista's recommended offer (Sept 2021, 1,125p) lapsed when Vista would not top SS&C's bid.Vista Equity Partners (BIZ-INV-306)single_source
1727. 2021-12-02investment pledgeOxford-GSK Institute of Molecular and Computational Medicine: investment pledge £30m — Oxford-GSK Institute using machine learning and genetics, five yearsUniversity of OxfordEstablished firmssingle_source
1728. 2021-11-30funding roundRaycast: funding round US$15m (≈ £11.3m) — Raycast raised a $15m (£11.2m) Series A. Buys or funds: Series A; Extensions API and Store, team features. Other investors: Angels: Johnny Boufarhat, Jeff Weinstein, Jason Warner, Ott Kaukver.Coatue; Accel (leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1729. 2021-11-23funding roundieso: funding round US$53m (≈ £39.6m) — Series B; total raised US$77.9m.MorningsideStart-upssingle_source
1730. 2021-11-18funding roundBrainnwave: funding round US$10.2m (≈ £7.6m) — Brainnwave closed $10.2m (nearly £6m) in a co-venture with engineering firm Hatch. Buys or funds: Series A; 100 new roles.Hatch (co-venture)Software and toolssingle_source
1731. 2021-11-17funding roundAdludio: funding round £4m — Growth roundMercia (Northern VCT funds)Start-upssingle_source
1732. 2021-11funding roundAttio: funding round US$7.7m (≈ £5.6m) — Attio raises a $7.7m seed round led by Point Nine. Buys or funds: CRM product. Other investors: Balderton; Headline; Passion Capital; angels.Point Nine (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1733. 2021-10-21mergerANS (ANS Group): merger — ANS and UKFast announced a merger, with a combined board from January 2022. Buys or funds: Combined cloud and digital transformation group.UKFastCloud and computeverified
1734. 2021-10-06funding roundWayve: funding round £10m — Strategic investment by Ocado in self-driving start-up.OcadoLabssingle_source
1735. 2021-10-04acquisitionKao Data: acquisition £130m — Infratil took 40% for £120–130m growth capital; Legal & General and Goldacre kept 30% each.Infratil (BIZ-INV-309)Data centresverified
1736. 2021-10-04government contractTurinTech: government contract — TurinTech news index lists a Horizon 2020 award; amount not given. Buys or funds: EU research and innovation award.European Union (Horizon 2020)Software and toolssingle_source
1737. 2021-10funding roundEncord: funding round £9.6m — Encord raised a £9.6m Series A in October 2021. Buys or funds: Series A; training data platform.not stated in the researchSoftware and toolssingle_source
1738. 2021-09-29partnershipGoogle DeepMind: partnership — DeepMind and the Met Office published a radar-based AI nowcasting model in Nature, tested with Met Office forecasters. For: Joint research on the DGMR rain-nowcasting model (BIZ-LAB-14027).Met OfficeLabssingle_source
1739. 2021-09-28funding roundLifebit: funding round US$60m (≈ £44.3m) — Lifebit raised a $60m Series B led by Tiger Global. Buys or funds: Series B; federated biomedical data platforms. Other investors: Eurazeo; Pentech Ventures; Beacon Capital.Tiger Global ManagementSoftware and toolssingle_source
1740. 2021-09-27funding roundSenseOn: funding round US$20m (≈ £14.6m) — Round for AI threat detection and response.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1741. 2021-09-16renameBeebot AI: rename — Future Now AI Ltd renamed Beebot AI Ltd.Software and toolssingle_source
1742. 2021-09-10funding roundPerceptual Robotics: funding round £1.6m — Round with Humble Holdings and Metavallon VC.TSP VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1743. 2021-09-09funding roundPolyAI: funding round US$14m (≈ £10.1m) — Round name not stated; total raised to date US$28mKhosla VenturesLabssingle_source
1744. 2021-08-24gpu purchaseLovelace (Loughborough University HPC): gpu purchase £1m — Loughborough bought the £1m Lovelace HPC system from OCF. Buys or funds: 58 Lenovo nodes, 6 NVIDIA V100 GPUs, 800TB storage. Other investors: Lenovo; NVIDIA.BIZ-CLD-5004 OCFCloud and computesingle_source
1745. 2021-08-23acquisitionSatalia acquisition (WPP): acquisition — WPP acquires AI company Satalia; price not publishedSataliaEstablished firmssingle_source
1746. 2021-08-23acquisitionSatalia: acquisition — WPP bought Satalia; it joined Wunderman Thompson CommerceWPP plcStart-upssingle_source
1747. 2021-08-18funding roundInfoSum: funding round US$65m (≈ £47.3m) — InfoSum raised a $65m Series B from Chrysalis Investments, taking its total to $90m.Chrysalis InvestmentsSoftware and toolssingle_source
1748. 2021-08-04wind downJukedeck: wind down — Jukedeck Limited dissolvedStart-upssingle_source
1749. 2021-07-26acquisitionPulsant (new): acquisition — Infrastructure fund bought operator of 10 UK data centres; terms undisclosed.Antin Infrastructure Partners (BIZ-INV-308); sellers Oak Hill Capital and Scottish Equity Partnersverified
1750. 2021-07-22renameCharisma.ai: rename — To Play For Limited renamed Charisma Entertainment LimitedStart-upsverified
1751. 2021-07-22partnershipGoogle DeepMind: partnership — Google DeepMind and EMBL-EBI made AlphaFold predictions freely available. For: Joint launch and hosting of the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database.EMBL-EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute)Labsverified
1752. 2021-07-20funding roundClimate X: funding round £1.1m — Pre-seed round for climate-risk data intelligence.Pale Blue Dot (lead); Blue Wire Capital; A100x; othersStart-upssingle_source
1753. 2021-07-13funding roundQuantexa: funding round US$153m (≈ £110.5m) — Series D for AI-based data tools for risk and investigations.Warburg Pincus (lead)Start-upssingle_source
1754. 2021-07-13funding roundQuantexa: funding round US$153m (≈ £110.5m) — Series D led by Warburg Pincus; valuation not published.Warburg Pincus (BIZ-INV-304)Start-upsverified
1755. 2021-07-08funding roundKuano: funding round £1m — Kuano raises a £1m seed round. For: Technology team, platform and own therapeutics. Other investors: Cambridge-based angel syndicate.no lead named (ACF Investors; o2h Ventures)Labssingle_source
1756. 2021-06-28investment pledgeGlobal Technical Realty (new): investment pledge — GTR and KKR announced a 40.5MW, three-building campus in Slough.KKR (BIZ-INV-303); SEGRO (land)single_source
1757. 2021-06-24partnershipKuano: partnership — Kuano agreed a research collaboration with the ARUK UCL Drug Discovery Institute.Alzheimer's Research UK UCL Drug Discovery InstituteLabssingle_source
1758. 2021-06-23funding roundCENTURY Tech: funding round US$6.5m (≈ £4.7m) — Growth roundSolve Innovation Future (MIT Solve) among new investorsStart-upssingle_source
1759. 2021-06-17funding roundBeamery: funding round US$138m (≈ £98.9m) — Round for recruitment software platform.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1760. 2021-06-16funding roundTractable: funding round US$60m (≈ £42.5m) — Series D for AI damage appraisal.Insight Partners; Georgian Partners (co-leads)Start-upssingle_source
1761. 2021-06-16grantBehold.ai: grant — NHS AI Award round 2 grant for chest X-ray analysis to fast-track suspected lung cancer.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 2)Start-upssingle_source
1762. 2021-06-16grantSkin Analytics: grant — NHS AI Award phase 4 grant for DERM skin lesion analysis.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 2, phase 4)Start-upsverified
1763. 2021-06-16grantCaristo Diagnostics: grant — NHS AI Award phase 3 grant for CaRi-HEART heart inflammation detection on CT.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 2, phase 3)Start-upsverified
1764. 2021-06-16grantNavenio: grant — NHS AI Award phase 3 grant for AI hospital workforce deployment.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 2, phase 3)Start-upsverified
1765. 2021-06-16grantOptellum: grant — NHS AI Award phase 3 grant for DOLCE lung nodule decision support.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 2, phase 3)Start-upsverified
1766. 2021-06-16grantStorm ID: grant — NHS AI Award phase 3 grant for Lenus COPD Management Service.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 2, phase 3)Start-upsverified
1767. 2021-06-16grantMyWay Digital Health: grant — NHS AI Award phase 2 grant for MyDiabetes IQ.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 2, phase 2)Start-upsverified
1768. 2021-06-16grantSonrai Analytics: grant — NHS AI Award phase 2 grant for ImageDx cancer biopsy analysis.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 2, phase 2)Start-upsverified
1769. 2021-06-16grantPerspectum: grant — NHS AI Award phase 2 grant for First PLUS placenta measurement (University of Oxford-led, Perspectum partner).NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 2, phase 2)Start-upsverified
1770. 2021-06-16grantCyberLiver: grant — NHS AI Award phase 1 grant for CirrhoCare.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 2, phase 1)Start-upsverified
1771. 2021-06-16grantKheiron Medical Technologies (now DeepHealth UK): grant — NHS AI Award grant for Mia breast screening reader.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 2)Start-upssingle_source
1772. 2021-06-10investment pledgeBalderton Capital: investment pledge US$680m (≈ £480.8m) — Fund close: Balderton Growth I at US$680m with BPC's US$75m cornerstoneBritish Patient Capital (BIZ-INV-003)Investorssingle_source
1773. 2021-06-08major contractQinetiQ and Adarga AI partnership: major contract — Strategic AI partnership for defence and securityAdargaEstablished firmssingle_source
1774. 2021-06-04major contractIBM Research UK: major contract £210m — Five-year partnership creating the Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation at DaresburySTFC Hartree Centre (UKRI)Big tech in the UKsingle_source
1775. 2021-06acquisitionLearning Pool: acquisition — Marlin bought out Carlyle Cardinal IrelandMarlin Equity PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1776. 2021-06funding roundModulous: funding round £5m — Funding roundBlackhorn Ventures; CEMEX Ventures; GroundBreak VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1777. 2021-06acquisitionANS (ANS Group): acquisition — Inflexion acquired ANS before the UKFast merger. Buys or funds: Ownership of ANS.Inflexion Private EquityCloud and computesingle_source
1778. 2021-05-25funding roundTessian: funding round US$65m (≈ £46m) — Round for AI e-mail security against social engineering.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1779. 2021-05-24funding roundFaculty (services view; acquired by Accenture): funding round £30m — Growth round; Faculty had raised £40m in total.Apax Digital FundServices and skillssingle_source
1780. 2021-05-20funding roundCausaly: funding round US$17m (≈ £12m) — Causaly raises $17m (about £12m) Series A led by Index Ventures. Buys or funds: biomedical AI research platform. Other investors: Marathon; Pentech; EBRD.Index Ventures (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1781. 2021-05-17funding roundAgile Analog: funding round US$19m (≈ £13.5m) — Round with Delin Ventures, firstminute capital and MMC VenturesOMERS VenturesChips and hardwaresingle_source
1782. 2021-05-13listingAlphawave Semi: listing £856m — London IPO raised £856m at an implied £3.1bn valuation; shares fell on the first day. Date taken from the article's URL.London Stock ExchangeChips and hardwaresingle_source
1783. 2021-05-11funding roundHuma (formerly Medopad): funding round US$130m (≈ £91.9m) — Round for AI and biomarker patient monitoring and research platform.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1784. 2021-05-07funding roundSharktower: funding round £400,000 — Seed round backed by Scottish EnterpriseEquity GapStart-upssingle_source
1785. 2021-05-05funding roundDatactics: funding round £2m — Round led by Par Equity with Kernel Capital and ClarendonPar EquitySoftware and toolssingle_source
1786. 2021-05-05funding roundSprout.ai: funding round £8m — Series AOctopus VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1787. 2021-05-05partnershipAlchemab Therapeutics: partnership — AstraZeneca and Alchemab collaborated on prostate cancer research. For: use of Alchemab platform in a prostate cancer study.AstraZenecaLabssingle_source
1788. 2021-05funding roundEmitwise: funding round £2.2m — Seed extension taking the seed round to £4.6m for AI carbon accounting.ArcTern Ventures (lead); angelsStart-upssingle_source
1789. 2021-05funding roundForecast: funding round US$19m (≈ £13.7m) — Series A for AI-assisted project and resource management software.Balderton Capital (lead); Crane Venture Partners; SEED Capital; Heartcore · month only given: rate for the 1stStart-upssingle_source
1790. 2021-04-30listingDarktrace (recorded under risk): listing £165.1m — IPO at 250p; £143.4m to the company and £21.7m to selling shareholders.London Stock Exchange (ticker DARK)Start-upssingle_source
1791. 2021-04-30listingDarktrace (recorded under risk): listing £165.1m — Priced at 250p on 30 April 2021; unconditional dealings and admission 6 May 2021; offer about £165.1m.London Stock Exchange, Main Market (premium listing), ticker DARKStart-upssingle_source
1792. 2021-04-26funding roundtripAbrood: funding round £645,000 — Round taking total to about £1mBen DaveyStart-upssingle_source
1793. 2021-04-20funding roundSynthesia: funding round US$12.5m (≈ £9m) — Series A for AI video generation.FirstMark Capital (lead)Labssingle_source
1794. 2021-04-16funding roundOxa: funding round £10m — Ocado stake extending Oxbotica's Series B (led by bp ventures; total over $60m).OcadoStart-upssingle_source
1795. 2021-04-15funding roundAlchemab Therapeutics: funding round £60m reported — Alchemab closed a £60m ($82m) Series A. For: platform for disease-modifying antibody therapeutics.null (lead not stated in text read)Labssingle_source
1796. 2021-04-12funding roundThirdfort: funding round £1.5m — Round taking total raised to £4.2mExisting investors; Future FundStart-upssingle_source
1797. 2021-04-08funding roundKleene.ai: funding round US$1.5m (≈ £1.1m) — Kleene.ai raised $1.5m led by Episode 1. Buys or funds: First round; ELT data platform, new connectors. Other investors: Superseed; angels.Episode 1Software and toolssingle_source
1798. 2021-03-18funding roundAntiverse: funding round £1.4m — Antiverse raises a £1.4m seed round. For: Antibody drug discovery platform. Other investors: Development Bank of Wales; Angel Co-Investment Fund; Tensor Ventures; Wren Capital; Cambridge Angels; SyndicateRoom; UKI2S.angel syndicate led by Ed ParkinsonLabssingle_source
1799. 2021-03-15funding roundFetch.ai: funding round US$5m (≈ £3.6m) — Cambridge's Fetch.ai took about $5m (£3.6m) from Toronto's GDA Group. Buys or funds: R&D for decentralised machine-learning platform.GDA GroupSoftware and toolssingle_source
1800. 2021-03grantExCALIBUR: grant £91,440 — ExCALIBUR hardware and enabling software leadership grant ST/W004925/1, March 2021 to March 2024.STFC (funder); University of Bristol (lead)Cloud and computesingle_source
1801. 2021-03gpu purchaseBede (formerly NICE-19): gpu purchase £3.8m — N8 Tier 2 supercomputer designed, installed and maintained by OCF. Buys or funds: IBM POWER9 nodes with V100; NVIDIA T4 inference nodes. Other investors: Durham University (host); N8 Research Partnership.OCF (BIZ-CLD-6001), supplierCloud and computesingle_source
1802. 2021-02-25funding roundKuano: funding round — Kuano raised a pre-seed round led by the o2h human health EIS Fund. Other investors: consortium (not named).o2h human health EIS FundLabssingle_source
1803. 2021-02-17funding roundPeak: funding round US$21m (≈ £15.2m) — Series B for Manchester AI decision platform.Oxx (lead)Start-upssingle_source
1804. 2021-02-16funding roundMatillion: funding round £72.2m — Series DLightspeed Venture PartnersSoftware and toolssingle_source
1805. 2021-02-11funding roundSolidatus: funding round £14m — Solidatus raised £14m Series A led by AlbionVC, with two of its bank clients investing. Buys or funds: Series A; data lineage software. Other investors: HSBC Ventures; Citi.AlbionVCSoftware and toolssingle_source
1806. 2021-02major contractMet Office: major contract £1.20bn — Contract for an Azure-based supercomputer; phase one from 2022, threefold expansion planned for 2028.MicrosoftCloud and computesingle_source
1807. 2021-01-28funding roundETIQ: funding round £585,000 — Pre-seedSFC Capital; Innovate UK grantsStart-upssingle_source
1808. 2021-01-11grantDIEM Analytics: grant — (share of £3m competition) GBP — Phase 2 funding in DASA's military AI competition.Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)Start-upssingle_source
1809. 2021-01-11grantMontvieux Limited: grant — (share of £3m competition) GBP — Phase 2 funding in DASA's military AI competition.Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)Start-upssingle_source
1810. 2021-01-11grantDecision Lab (decisionLab): grant — (share of £3m competition) GBP — Phase 2 funding in DASA's military AI competition.Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)Start-upssingle_source
1811. 2021-01-08funding roundPeptone: funding round US$2.5m (≈ £1.8m) — Seed round (about £1.84m)Hoxton VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1812. 2021-01-07grantPelation Limited: grant up to 75,000 GBP — Winner: automatic analysis of cycling near misses.Geospatial Commission transport innovation competition (up to £75k each)Start-upssingle_source
1813. 2021-01-07grantDynamon Limited: grant up to 75,000 GBP — Winner: AI tool to pick zero-emission vehicles.Geospatial Commission transport innovation competition (up to £75k each)Start-upssingle_source
1814. 2021-01-07grantEmu Analytics Limited: grant up to 75,000 GBP — Winner: AI analysis of shipping movements.Geospatial Commission transport innovation competition (up to £75k each)Start-upssingle_source
1815. 2021-01-07grantOpenspace Group Limited: grant up to 75,000 GBP — Winner: GIS and AI for station operations at St Pancras.Geospatial Commission transport innovation competition (up to £75k each)Start-upssingle_source
1816. 2021funding roundAtom Learning: funding round US$25m (≈ £18.3m) — First outside funding after a bootstrapped startSoftBank · year only given: rate for 1 JanuaryStart-upssingle_source
1817. 2021funding roundRipjar: funding round US$36.8m (≈ £27m) — Series B; total raised passed US$60mLong Ridge Equity Partners · year only given: rate for 1 JanuaryStart-upsverified
1818. 2021listingBabylon Health: listing — Listed on the NYSE at a reported US$4.2bn valuation (year only).New York Stock ExchangeStart-upssingle_source
1819. 2021listingExscientia: listing US$510m (≈ £373.7m) — IPO raising US$510m (as reported by Sifted, year only).Nasdaq · year only given: rate for 1 JanuaryStart-upssingle_source
1820. 2021funding roundBIZ-SW-5037 Causal: funding round £3.1m — Causal raised a £3.1m seed in spring 2021 (reported in 2022 article). Buys or funds: Seed. Other investors: Naval Ravikant; Scott Belsky.not statedSoftware and toolssingle_source
1821. 2021funding roundBIZ-SW-5038 CoLoop: funding round — CoLoop is listed in YC's Summer 2021 batch. Buys or funds: YC Summer 2021 batch.Y CombinatorSoftware and toolssingle_source
1822. 2021funding roundGensyn: funding round US$1.1m (≈ £805,920) — Gensyn's 2021 pre-seed of $1.1m. Buys or funds: decentralised ML compute protocol.7percent Ventures; Counterview Capital (leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1823. 2021funding roundCloudsmith: funding round £11m — Cloudsmith raised £11m in 2021, per a Northern Ireland investment report. Buys or funds: 60 more staff; US sales and engineering.— (not named)Software and toolssingle_source
1824. 2020-12-30funding roundGraphcore: funding round US$222m (≈ £163.1m) — Series E at $2.77bn valuation.Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, Fidelity, Schroders, Baillie Gifford, Draper EspritChips and hardwaresingle_source
1825. 2020-12-29funding roundGraphcore: funding round US$222m (≈ £164.5m) — Series E.Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (lead)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1826. 2020-12-17renameBirmingham Tech: rename — Birmingham Tech Week CIC renamed Birmingham Tech CIC.Networks and mediaverified
1827. 2020-12-10funding roundCleo: funding round US$44m (≈ £33.1m) — Series B with Balderton, LocalGlobe and SBIEQT VenturesStart-upsverified
1828. 2020-12-10funding roundPapercup: funding round £8m — Round for AI voice translation.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1829. 2020-12-03renameCarefulAI: rename — Experto Crede Limited renamed CarefulAI LtdAssuranceverified
1830. 2020-11-17funding roundSeldon: funding round £7.1m — Series A for machine-learning deployment tools.AlbionVC; Cambridge Innovation Capital (co-leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1831. 2020-11-16funding roundHarbr: funding round US$38.5m (≈ £29.2m) — Harbr raised a $38.5m Series A six months after leaving stealth. Buys or funds: Series A; enterprise data exchange platform. Other investors: Mike Chalfen; Crane Venture Partners; Boldstart Ventures; Backed; Seedcamp; Daniel Dines; Brandon Deer.Dawn Capital and Tiger Global ManagementSoftware and toolssingle_source
1832. 2020-11-09funding roundMind Foundry: funding round US$13.6m (≈ £10.3m) — Oxford spin-out Mind Foundry raised $13.6m Series A led by Japanese insurer ANDI; total raised $24.4m. Buys or funds: strategic partnership with the insurer. Other investors: Parkwalk Advisors; Oxford Sciences Innovation; University of Oxford; Oxford Technology and Innovations EIS Fund.Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1833. 2020-10-29funding roundLabGenius: funding round US$15m reported (≈ £11.6m) — Atomico led a $15m extension that took LabGenius's Series A to $25m. For: Series A extension (round total $25m) for EVA platform. Other investors: Lux Capital; Obvious Ventures; Kindred Capital; Inovia Capital.AtomicoLabssingle_source
1834. 2020-10funding roundQatalog: funding round about 12,000,000 GBP — Qatalog raised nearly £12m in a Series A; total £14.7m by April 2022.not namedSoftware and toolssingle_source
1835. 2020-10funding roundUnlikely AI: funding round £1.1m — Unlikely AI raised £1.1m from 26 angels before its 2022 seed. For: angel round.— (26 angel investors)Labssingle_source
1836. 2020-09-08funding roundThoughtRiver: funding round US$10m (≈ £7.7m) — Series AOctopus VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1837. 2020-09-08funding roundSkin Analytics: funding round £4m — Series A for AI skin-cancer screening.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1838. 2020-09-08grantNovoic: grant — NHS AI Award phase 1 round 1 grant for Project Rhapsody speech-based disease detection.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 1)Start-upssingle_source
1839. 2020-09-08grantMirada Medical: grant — NHS AI Award phase 1 grant for AI review of radiotherapy treatment plans.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 1)Start-upssingle_source
1840. 2020-09-08grantNeuronostics: grant — Two NHS AI Award round 1 grants: smartphone EEG app (phase 1) and BioEP (phase 2).NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phases 1 and 2)Start-upssingle_source
1841. 2020-09-08grantSenti Tech: grant — NHS AI Award phase 1 grant for remote chest examination device.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 1)Start-upssingle_source
1842. 2020-09-08grantNine Health Global: grant — NHS AI Award phase 1 grant for Woubot wound-care software.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 1)Start-upssingle_source
1843. 2020-09-08grantAdvanced Expert Systems: grant — NHS AI Award phase 1 grant for colonoscopy prioritisation model.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 1)Start-upssingle_source
1844. 2020-09-08grantMacusoft: grant — NHS AI Award phase 1 grant for eye-stability software.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 1)Start-upssingle_source
1845. 2020-09-08grantOdin Vision: grant — NHS AI Award phase 2 grant for FORE-AI polyp detection project.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 2)Start-upssingle_source
1846. 2020-09-08grantXim (Lifelight): grant — NHS AI Award phase 2 grant for contactless blood pressure measurement.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 2)Start-upssingle_source
1847. 2020-09-08grantDem Dx: grant — NHS AI Award phase 2 grant for ophthalmology triage support.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 2)Start-upssingle_source
1848. 2020-09-08grantBreatheOx (Albus Health): grant — NHS AI Award phase 2 grant for home asthma-monitoring device.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 2)Start-upssingle_source
1849. 2020-09-08grantUfonia: grant — NHS AI Award phase 2 grant for telephone AI assistant in cataract follow-up.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 2)Start-upssingle_source
1850. 2020-09-08grantOxford Heartbeat: grant — NHS AI Award phase 3 grant to test PreSize Neurovascular.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, phase 3)Start-upssingle_source
1851. 2020-09-08grantKheiron Medical Technologies (now DeepHealth UK): grant — NHS AI Award round 1 phase 4 grant for Mia Mammography Intelligent Assessment.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 1, phase 4)Start-upsverified
1852. 2020-09-08grantBrainomix: grant — NHS AI Award round 1 phase 4 grant for e-Stroke Suite.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 1, phase 4)Start-upsverified
1853. 2020-09-08grantUltromics: grant — NHS AI Award round 1 phase 4 grant for EchoGo Pro stress echo analysis.NHS AI Lab (AI in Health and Care Award, round 1, phase 4)Start-upsverified
1854. 2020-09-02funding roundInfoSum: funding round US$15.1m (≈ £11.4m) — InfoSum raised $15.1m in a Series A with media and data companies as strategic backers. Buys or funds: Series A; decentralised data collaboration platform. Other investors: Ascential; Akamai; Experian; ITV; AT&T's Xandr (strategic).Upfront Ventures and IA VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1855. 2020-08-25investment pledgeTelehouse: investment pledge not disclosed — Announcement of Telehouse South, a six-floor, 31,000 sq m building near the Docklands campus.not stated in the researchData centressingle_source
1856. 2020-08-04gpu purchaseMaxwell (University of Aberdeen HPC): gpu purchase — Aberdeen's Maxwell genomics cluster was designed, integrated and managed by OCF. Buys or funds: Maxwell HPC cluster with NVIDIA GPUs, managed by OCF. Other investors: Lenovo; NVIDIA; ThinkParQ.BIZ-CLD-5004 OCFCloud and computesingle_source
1857. 2020-07-28funding roundComplyAdvantage: funding round US$50m (≈ £38.6m) — Round for AI financial-crime detection platform and database.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1858. 2020-07-23funding roundQuantexa: funding round US$64.7m (≈ £50.8m) — Series C.Evolution Equity Partners (lead)Start-upssingle_source
1859. 2020-07-15funding roundRavelin: funding round US$20m (≈ £15.8m) — Series C for fraud detection.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1860. 2020-07-15site openingARCHER2: site opening — First phase of ARCHER2 installed at EPCC's Advanced Computing Facility. Buys or funds: First 4 of 23 cabinets installed. Other investors: UKRI; University of Edinburgh.Cray (an HPE company)Cloud and computesingle_source
1861. 2020-07-08funding roundConcirrus: funding round US$6m (≈ £4.8m) — Investment after a US$20m Series B led by AlbionVCCommerzVenturesStart-upssingle_source
1862. 2020-07-07funding roundNorthflank: funding round US$2.6m (≈ £2.1m) — Northflank raised a $2.6m seed led by Kindred Ventures and Stride.VC. Buys or funds: Developer cloud platform; nine-person remote team. Other investors: Amaranthine; angels Alexis Le-Quoc (Datadog), Laurent Perrin (Frontapp), Eric Nadalin (Nexmo).Kindred Ventures; Stride.VC (leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1863. 2020-07-06funding roundBotsAndUs: funding round 6m USD — BotsAndUs (robots for public spaces (headline: London AI startup)) raised $6m (Equity), reported by tech.eu.Kindred Capital, Capnamic VenturesInvestorssingle_source
1864. 2020-06-30funding roundPharmEnable: funding round 1,800,000 ($2.25m) GBP — PharmEnable's oversubscribed £1.8m seed round For: Seed: move to in-house drug discovery in cancer and neurodegeneration. Other investors: Martlet Capital; o2h ventures; Wren Capital; KQ Labs (Francis Crick Institute); angels incl. Jonathan Milner, Andy Richards.Cambridge Enterprise and University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund VI (Parkwalk Advisors)Labsverified
1865. 2020-06funding roundSlamcore: funding round US$5m (≈ £4m) — Further $5M raised to meet demand from robotics makers; lead not stated.not stated in the researchSoftware and toolssingle_source
1866. 2020-05-27investment pledgeGlobal Technical Realty (new): investment pledge US$1bn (≈ £818.5m) — KKR infrastructure set up GTR to build and buy data centres in the UK and Europe with US$1bn equity.KKR (BIZ-INV-303)single_source
1867. 2020-05-21funding roundNavenio: funding round £9m — Series A.QBN CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1868. 2020-05funding roundEnate: funding round £2.2m — Enate raised £2.2m from Mercia (reported in 2022 article).MerciaSoftware and toolssingle_source
1869. 2020-04-30funding roundLifebit: funding round US$7.5m (≈ £5.9m) — Lifebit closed a $7.5m (£6m) Series A led by Idinvest Partners. Buys or funds: Series A; engineers and bioinformaticians. Other investors: Pentech Ventures; Beacon Capital; Connect Ventures.Idinvest PartnersSoftware and toolsverified
1870. 2020-04-27grantDecision Lab (decisionLab): grant nearly 240,000 GBP — DASA Phase 2 funding to predict and counter cyber attacks, with DIEM Analytics and Actica.Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)Start-upssingle_source
1871. 2020-04-27grantMontvieux Limited: grant nearly 250,000 GBP — DASA Phase 2 funding to predict and counter cyber attacks.Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)Start-upssingle_source
1872. 2020-04-27grantDIEM Analytics: grant — (within decisionLab's ~240,000) GBP — Collaborator on decisionLab's DASA cyber-attack prediction project.Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), as collaborator with decisionLabStart-upssingle_source
1873. 2020-04-15funding roundOnfido: funding round US$100m (≈ £80m) — Round for AI-based ID verification; up-round per chief executive.TPG Growth (lead)Start-upssingle_source
1874. 2020-04-15renameHuma (formerly Medopad): rename — Medopad renamed itself Huma.Start-upssingle_source
1875. 2020-04-15acquisitionBioBeats: acquisition — London-based Huma bought mental-health AI start-up BioBeats (location of BioBeats not stated in source) and TLT.Huma (formerly Medopad)Start-upssingle_source
1876. 2020-04-15funding roundOnfido: funding round US$100m (≈ £80m) — Series D reported as led by TPG Growth (not TCV).TPG Growth (BIZ-INV-305); Salesforce Ventures; M12Start-upssingle_source
1877. 2020-04funding roundBIZ-SW-2014 Kluster: funding round US$1m (≈ £804,894) — Kluster raised a $1m round in April 2020 (reported in 2023 article). Buys or funds: AI sales planning software.SuperSeed; Newable Ventures (leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1878. 2020-03-10funding roundSynthesized: funding round US$2.8m (≈ £2.2m) — Seed.IQ Capital; Mundi VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1879. 2020-03-02funding roundSonantic: funding round €2.3m (≈ £2m) — Round for synthetic voices for games.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1880. 2020-02-28acquisitionMudano (acquired by Accenture): acquisition — Accenture completed purchase of the London data and machine-learning consultancy for financial servicesAccentureServices and skillssingle_source
1881. 2020-02-27funding roundTractable: funding round US$25m (≈ £19.4m) — Round for AI damage assessment for insurers.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1882. 2020-02-25funding roundGraphcore: funding round US$150m (≈ £115.2m) — Series D extension.Baillie Gifford; Mayfair Equity Partners; M&G Investments (new); existing investorsChips and hardwaresingle_source
1883. 2020-02-24funding roundChattermill: funding round US$8m (≈ £6.2m) — Series A for customer-feedback analytics.DN Capital (lead); Ventech; btov PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1884. 2020-02-08acquisitionScape Technologies: acquisition — Facebook acquired London computer-vision start-up, per a Companies House filing; price not disclosed (estimated about $40m).FacebookStart-upssingle_source
1885. 2020-02-06grantOxford Heartbeat: grant £100,000 — SBRI Healthcare cardiovascular award for stent graft planning and rehearsal software.SBRI HealthcareStart-upssingle_source
1886. 2020-02-06grantNelus AI: grant £99,516 — SBRI phase 1 award for AI-enabled hearing test bot.SBRI HealthcareStart-upssingle_source
1887. 2020-02-06grantUpstream Health (Bridgit): grant £90,023 — SBRI phase 1 award for Bridgit home support system.SBRI HealthcareStart-upssingle_source
1888. 2020acquisitionVantage Data Centers (UK): acquisition — Vantage bought NGD's 180MW Welsh campus; close expected Q3 2020; terms undisclosed.Vantage Data Centers (equity from Digital Colony investors)Data centressingle_source
1889. 2020debt financingProximity Data Centres: debt financing £25m — Proximity took a £25m loan to fund an £80m UK roll-out. Buys or funds: £80m UK edge data centre roll-out.lender not namedCloud and computesingle_source
1890. 2019-12-13acquisitionDeeptide (Atlas ML; Papers With Code): acquisition — Facebook became majority owner of Deeptide, maker of Atlas ML and custodian of Papers With Code; reported price about $40m. Company dissolved 12 Oct 2023.FacebookSoftware and toolssingle_source
1891. 2019-11-26funding roundPanintelligence: funding round £4.5m — Panintelligence raised a £4.5m Series A. Buys or funds: Series A; Pi embedded analytics suite. Other investors: Comhar Capital (£1m).YFM Equity Partners (£3.5m, minority stake)Software and toolssingle_source
1892. 2019-11-21acquisitionAiden.ai: acquisition — Twitter acquired London AI marketing-analyst start-up for its paid-campaign tools.TwitterStart-upssingle_source
1893. 2019-11-15funding roundSnowplow: funding round £4m — Series AMMC VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1894. 2019-11-14funding roundEigen Technologies: funding round US$37m (≈ £28.8m) — Round for natural-language document parsing for banks.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1895. 2019-11-04funding roundCervest: funding round £3.7m — Pre-seed for Earth Science AI climate-risk platform.Future Positive Capital (lead); Astanor VenturesStart-upssingle_source
1896. 2019-10-29funding roundTurinTech: funding round 1,000,000+ GBP — UCL spin-out TurinTech raised over £1m seed led by IQ Capital. Buys or funds: Hiring data scientists; "Optimisation Automation" suite.IQ Capital (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1897. 2019-10-22funding roundLabGenius: funding round US$10m (≈ £7.7m) — Round for AI protein drug discovery.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1898. 2019-10-22funding roundSignal AI: funding round US$25m (≈ £19.4m) — Series C of $25M. The MMC page's timeline dates it 2018, which conflicts with the 2019 article date: check.not stated in the researchSoftware and toolssingle_source
1899. 2019-10-21funding roundSignal AI: funding round US$25m (≈ £19.3m) — Round for public-data market intelligence.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1900. 2019-10-21funding roundSpeechmatics: funding round £6.3m — Speechmatics raised a £6.35m Series A. Buys or funds: Series A; speech recognition languages. Other investors: IQ Capital; angels.AlbionVC (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1901. 2019-10-16funding roundHealx: funding round US$56m (≈ £43.7m) — Series B for AI search for rare-disease treatments, Cambridge.AtomicoStart-upssingle_source
1902. 2019-09-24funding roundOmetria: funding round US$21m (≈ £16.8m) — Ometria raises a $21m Series B led by Octopus Ventures. Buys or funds: US expansion. Other investors: Sonae IM; Summit Action; Samos; Adjuvo; ten angels.Octopus Ventures (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1903. 2019-09-03funding roundElliptic: funding round US$23m (≈ £19m) — Round for crypto-risk analytics.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1904. 2019-08-02funding roundBabylon Health: funding round US$550m (≈ £453.5m) — Series C for AI-based health services.PIF; ERGO Fund (Munich Re); Kinnevik; Vostok New Ventures; others (no lead named)Start-upssingle_source
1905. 2019-08-01funding roundFNA: funding round US$5.5m (≈ £4.5m) — Series A; headline gives £4.5mIQ CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1906. 2019-07-23acquisitionJukedeck: acquisition — Reported purchase by ByteDance, inferred from staff moves; no announcementByteDanceStart-upssingle_source
1907. 2019-07-18funding roundContractPodAi: funding round US$55m (≈ £44.1m) — Series BInsight PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1908. 2019-07-15funding roundOptellum: funding round £3.2m — Seed follow-on round (£1m from Luminous) for AI lung-cancer diagnosis, Oxford.Luminous Ventures; IQ Capital; St John's College OxfordStart-upssingle_source
1909. 2019-07listingCykel AI: listing — First listed in LondonLondon Stock ExchangeStart-upssingle_source
1910. 2019-06-20acquisitionThoughtonomy: acquisition £80m — Blue Prism agreed to buy Thoughtonomy; closing expected by end of July 2019; later reported as $100m (£80m). Buys or funds: Cloud automation SaaS on Azure.BIZ-SW-5013 Blue PrismSoftware and toolssingle_source
1911. 2019-06-20acquisitionBIZ-SW-6001 Thoughtonomy: acquisition £80m — Blue Prism agreed to buy Thoughtonomy for £80m, closing expected by end of July 2019. Buys or funds: Azure-based virtual workforce and automation SaaS.Blue Prism (buyer)Software and toolssingle_source
1912. 2019-06-19funding roundHumanising Autonomy: funding round US$5m (≈ £4m) — Round for pedestrian-behaviour AI for vehicles.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1913. 2019-06-17funding roundMatillion: funding round US$35m (≈ £27.9m) — Matillion raised a $35m Series C, total $60m. Other investors: Sapphire Ventures; Scale Venture Partners.Battery VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1914. 2019-06-11funding roundPrivitar: funding round US$40m (≈ £31.4m) — Privitar closed a $40m Series B led by Accel; Accel's Seth Pierrepont joined the board. Buys or funds: Series B; privacy engineering products. Other investors: Partech; IQ Capital.AccelSoftware and toolssingle_source
1915. 2019-06-03acquisitionFabula AI: acquisition — Twitter acquired London deep-learning start-up working on misinformation detection.TwitterStart-upssingle_source
1916. 2019-04-25funding roundSynthesia: funding round US$3.1m (≈ £2.4m) — Seed financing after the David Beckham malaria video.LDV Capital (lead)Labssingle_source
1917. 2019-04-16funding roundCytora: funding round £25m — Series B for AI commercial-insurance underwriting.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1918. 2019-04-11funding roundTrint: funding round US$4.5m (≈ £3.4m) — Series AHorizons Labs (follow-on), TechNexus, The Associated PressStart-upssingle_source
1919. 2019-04-08funding roundSimudyne: funding round US$6m (≈ £4.6m) — Simudyne closed a $6m Series A led by Barclays, taking total raised to $10m. Buys or funds: Series A; client acquisition in financial services. Other investors: Graphene Ventures; Gauss Ventures.Barclays (principal investments)Software and toolssingle_source
1920. 2019-04-08funding roundBIZ-SW-5016 Simudyne: funding round US$6m (≈ £4.6m) — Simudyne raised a $6m Series A, taking total to $10m. Buys or funds: Series A; agent-based simulation for banks. Other investors: Graphene Ventures; Gauss Ventures.Barclays (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1921. 2019-04-03funding roundOnfido: funding round US$50m (≈ £38m) — Series C2.SBI; Salesforce Ventures (co-leads); MicrosoftStart-upssingle_source
1922. 2019-03-14funding roundHadean: funding round £7m — Draper Esprit leads a £7m round in Hadean. Buys or funds: HadeanOS and Aether Engine. Other investors: Aster; London Venture Partners; Luminous Ventures; Entrepreneur First.Draper Esprit (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1923. 2019-02-19funding roundSenseOn: funding round US$6.4m (≈ £4.9m) — Round for AI threat detection.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1924. 2019-01-31funding roundSifted: funding round — Sifted launched with the FT holding a 25% stake (amount not disclosed).Financial TimesNetworks and mediasingle_source
1925. 2019-01-21funding roundFlexciton: funding round £2.5m — Seed round for AI production scheduling for factories.Backed VC (lead); Join Capital; Entrepreneur FirstStart-upssingle_source
1926. 2019-01-16funding roundSeldon: funding round £2.7m — Round for machine-learning deployment platform, London.Amadeus Capital Partners (lead); Global Brain; TechstarsSoftware and toolssingle_source
1927. 2018-12-18funding roundGraphcore: funding round US$200m (≈ £158.3m) — Series D.Atomico; Sofina (joint leads); BMW and Microsoft as strategic investorsChips and hardwaresingle_source
1928. 2018-11-13funding roundFluidly: funding round £5m — Series A for machine-learning cash-flow forecasting for small firms.Nyca PartnersStart-upssingle_source
1929. 2018-11-06funding roundAiden.ai: funding round US$1.6m (≈ £1.2m) — Seed round for an AI marketing analyst.PartechStart-upssingle_source
1930. 2018-09-27funding roundDarktrace (recorded under risk): funding round US$50m (≈ £38.1m) — Series E led by Vitruvian at a US$1.65bn valuation.Vitruvian Partners (BIZ-INV-302); KKR and 1011 Ventures participatingStart-upsverified
1931. 2018-09-26funding roundDarktrace (recorded under risk): funding round US$50m (≈ £37.9m) — Round for AI cyber-security.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1932. 2018-09-21investment pledgeThe Data Lab: investment pledge £13.5m — Scottish public funders committed up to £13.5m to The Data Lab's second phase. Buys or funds: Phase 2 from April 2019 for five years; 100+ projects; 665 MSc places.Scottish Funding Council; Scottish Enterprise; Scottish Government; HIESoftware and toolssingle_source
1933. 2018-09-20funding roundCleo: funding round US$10m (≈ £7.5m) — Series A for AI chatbot that gives insights into spending.Balderton CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1934. 2018-09-11funding roundRavelin: funding round £8m — Series B for machine-learning e-commerce fraud detection.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1935. 2018-09funding roundSlamcore: funding round US$5m (≈ £3.8m) — Seed round backed by MMC.MMC VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1936. 2018-08-31funding roundJacquard (formerly Phrasee): funding round US$4m (≈ £3.1m) — Series A with Next Fifteen and Galvanise CapitalAlbion CapitalStart-upssingle_source
1937. 2018-08-01funding roundHazy: funding round US$1.8m (≈ £1.4m) — Hazy raised $1.8m seed, total seed $2.8m. Buys or funds: Seed. Other investors: Nationwide Building Society; Pentland; Amadeus Capital Partners; AI Seed.UCL Technology FundSoftware and toolssingle_source
1938. 2018-07-20funding roundLifebit: funding round US$3m (≈ £2.3m) — Lifebit raised a $3m (£2.25m) seed round. Buys or funds: Seed; Deploit genomic analysis platform. Other investors: Beacon Capital; Tiny VC (AngelList).Pentech and Connect VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1939. 2018-07-03acquisitionBloomsbury AI: acquisition — Facebook acquired London natural-language question-answering team; reported price $23m–$30m, not confirmed.FacebookStart-upssingle_source
1940. 2018-06-29government contractPrivitar: government contract — NHS Digital chose Privitar software for one consistent way to de-identify patient data. Buys or funds: De-ID system for de-identifying patient records.NHS DigitalSoftware and toolssingle_source
1941. 2018-06-21major contractMarks and Spencer Group: major contract — Strategic partnership to use AI in retail.MicrosoftEstablished firmssingle_source
1942. 2018-06-20funding roundBeamery: funding round US$28m (≈ £21.3m) — Series B for talent CRM.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1943. 2018-06-18funding roundTessian: funding round US$13m (≈ £9.8m) — Round for AI e-mail security.Balderton Capital; Accel (co-leads)Start-upssingle_source
1944. 2018-06-11funding roundEigen Technologies: funding round £13m — Eigen raised a £13m ($17.5m) Series A co-led by Goldman Sachs and Temasek. Buys or funds: London and New York operations, Asia and Americas, R&D in document AI.Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments; Temasek (co-leads)Software and toolssingle_source
1945. 2018-06-07funding roundCloudNC: funding round £9m — Series A for software that automates programming of CNC milling machines.AtomicoStart-upssingle_source
1946. 2018-05-03funding roundCognism: funding round £2m — £2m round for London sales-intelligence AI firm.South Central Ventures (lead); SFC, London Co-Investment Fund, Newable Private InvestingStart-upssingle_source
1947. 2018-05-02funding roundCera: funding round US$17m (≈ £12.5m) — Series A for homecare services company building AI decision support.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1948. 2018-05-02funding roundHazy: funding round US$1m (≈ £735,348) — Hazy won $1m from Microsoft's M12 Innovate AI award. Buys or funds: Innovate AI award; plus $500,000 Azure credits over three years.M12 (Microsoft)Software and toolssingle_source
1949. 2018-04-25funding roundNatterbox: funding round £5m — Natterbox raised a £5m Series A from Octopus Investments. Buys or funds: Series A; expansion to North America and the Nordics.Octopus InvestmentsSoftware and toolssingle_source
1950. 2018-04-18funding roundBenevolentAI: funding round US$115m (≈ £80.8m) — Round for AI drug discovery.Woodford Investment Management; family offices and strategic backersStart-upssingle_source
1951. 2018-03-22funding roundMatillion: funding round US$20m (≈ £14.2m) — Matillion raised a $20m Series B, total over $26m. Other investors: Scale Venture Partners; YFM Equity Partners.Sapphire VenturesSoftware and toolssingle_source
1952. 2018-03-15funding roundBlue Vision Labs: funding round US$14.5m (≈ £10.4m) — Blue Vision Labs raised a $14.5m (£10.37m) Series A; total $17m. Buys or funds: Series A; collaborative AR cloud platform. Other investors: Accel; Horizons Ventures; SV Angel; others.GV (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1953. 2018-02-07partnershipRainbird: partnership — Rainbird was selected for Tech City UK's Upscale 3.0 programme. Buys or funds: Six-month scale-up programme.Tech City UK (Upscale 3.0 programme)Software and toolssingle_source
1954. 2018-02-02funding roundFactmata: funding round US$1m (≈ £707,965) — Seed round closedBiz Stone, Craig Newmark and othersStart-upssingle_source
1955. 2018-01-29funding roundDuco: funding round US$28m (≈ £19.9m) — Duco closed a $28m Series C. Buys or funds: Series C; Europe and US headcount. Other investors: NEX Opportunities; Eight Road Ventures; Cristobal Conde.Insight Venture Partners (listed first)Software and toolssingle_source
1956. 2018-01-12funding roundHazy: funding round £340,000 — Anon AI, later Hazy, raised £340,000 pre-seed. Buys or funds: Pre-seed; data anonymisation software. Other investors: London Co-Invested Fund; AI Seed; Ascension Ventures.UCL Technology FundSoftware and toolssingle_source
1957. 2017-12-07funding roundChattermill: funding round £600,000 — Seed round for deep-learning analysis of customer feedback.Entrepreneur First; Avonmore Developments; angelsStart-upssingle_source
1958. 2017-12-01funding roundMindTrace: funding round £1.3m — Initial funding for self-learning AIAccelerated Digital Ventures; NPIF – Mercia Equity FinanceStart-upssingle_source
1959. 2017-11-24funding roundLabGenius: funding round US$3.7m reported (≈ £2.7m) — LabGenius raised a $3.66m seed round. For: London R&D centre and EVA evolution engine. Other investors: Berggruen Holdings; Backed VC; Beast Ventures; System.One; Charlie Songhurst; Tom McInerney.Kindred Capital; Acequia Capital (co-leads)Labssingle_source
1960. 2017-11-20acquisitionTwizoo: acquisition — Skyscanner bought London user-generated-content business Twizoo; team moved to Skyscanner's London office.SkyscannerStart-upssingle_source
1961. 2017-11-16grantJADE (Joint Academic Data science Endeavour): grant £3m — EPSRC-funded deep-learning system of 22 Nvidia DGX-1 servers at the Hartree Centre.EPSRC (funder); Atos (supplier)Cloud and computesingle_source
1962. 2017-11-13funding roundGraphcore: funding round US$50m (≈ £38.1m) — Round (no series letter in source) for Bristol AI chip maker; followed a $30m Series B led by Atomico in July 2017.Sequoia Capital (lead)Chips and hardwaresingle_source
1963. 2017-11-03acquisitionImagination Technologies: acquisition £550m — China-backed private-equity firm completed purchase at 182p a share (agreed September 2017).Canyon Bridge Capital Partners (BIZ-INV-307)Chips and hardwareverified
1964. 2017-11-03delistingImagination Technologies: delisting — Shares delisted on completion of the Canyon Bridge purchase.London Stock ExchangeChips and hardwaresingle_source
1965. 2017-10-11funding roundOmetria: funding round US$6m (≈ £4.5m) — Ometria raises a $6m (£4.5m) Series A led by Summit Action. Buys or funds: AI customer marketing platform; total raised $11m. Other investors: Sonae IM; Samos Investments; Adjuvo; Lance Batchelor; Alan Parker; Matt Cooper.Summit Action (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1966. 2017-10-09acquisitionVIRTUS Data Centres (new): acquisition — STT GDC moved from 49% to full ownership of the London data-centre operator; price undisclosed.ST Telemedia Global Data Centres; seller Brockton Capitalsingle_source
1967. 2017-10-05acquisitionVIRTUS Data Centres: acquisition not disclosed — STT GDC bought Brockton Capital's holding, making VIRTUS its subsidiary.ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (buyer); Brockton Capital (seller)Data centressingle_source
1968. 2017-09-27funding roundOnfido: funding round US$30m (≈ £22.4m) — Round for AI-based identity verification.Crane Venture Partners (lead)Start-upssingle_source
1969. 2017-09-11funding roundInfoSum: funding round US$5m (≈ £3.8m) — Basingstoke's InfoSum topped up its seed round by $5m, taking its total to $8m. Buys or funds: Seed top-up; senior team and first products. Other investors: LocalGlobe; Mosaic Ventures.Upfront Ventures; IA Ventures (existing)Software and toolssingle_source
1970. 2017-09-05funding roundFive AI: funding round £26.8m — Series A in two tranches (£14m and £12.8m) for self-driving software, Cambridge.Lakestar Capital (lead)Start-upssingle_source
1971. 2017-07-26funding roundCleo: funding round £2m — Seed round for chatbot that replaces banking apps.LocalGlobe (lead)Start-upssingle_source
1972. 2017-07-20funding roundReceipt Bank: funding round US$50m (≈ £38.5m) — Receipt Bank raised a $50m (£38.4m) Series B, taking its total to $65m. Buys or funds: Series B; proprietary bookkeeping automation technology.Insight Venture PartnersSoftware and toolssingle_source
1973. 2017-07-11funding roundDarktrace (recorded under risk): funding round US$75m (≈ £58.4m) — Round for AI cyber-security.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1974. 2017-06-27funding roundDiffblue: funding round US$22m (≈ £17.2m) — Oxford University spin-out Diffblue raised a $22m Series A led by Goldman Sachs. Buys or funds: AI tools that find bugs and write unit tests. Other investors: Oxford Sciences Innovation; Oxford Technology and Innovations Fund.Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1975. 2017-06-08funding roundTrint: funding round US$3.1m (≈ £2.4m) — Pre-Series AHorizons LabsStart-upssingle_source
1976. 2017-05-08funding roundHadean: funding round US$2.6m (≈ £2m) — Hadean closes a $2.6m round led by White Cloud Capital (headline only). Buys or funds: cloud operating system.White Cloud Capital (lead)Software and toolssingle_source
1977. 2017-04-25funding roundBabylon Health: funding round US$60m (≈ £46.8m) — Round to build out AI doctor app.not stated in sourceStart-upssingle_source
1978. 2017-04-11funding roundBeamery: funding round US$5m (≈ £4m) — Series A for recruitment CRM.Index Ventures (lead)Start-upssingle_source
1979. 2017-04-03funding roundCortexica: funding round £2m — Cortexica raised £2m from existing investor Touchstone Innovations (formerly Imperial Innovations). Buys or funds: Visual search AI.Touchstone InnovationsSoftware and toolssingle_source
1980. 2017-02-02grantAutoTrip: grant £137,444 — Grant (total cost £196,349) for Non-Intrusive Vehicle Monitoring System NiVMS.Innovate UK / CCAV CAV2 Stream 3 feasibility studiesStart-upssingle_source
1981. 2017-02-02grantCGA Simulation Ltd: grant £137,284 — Grant (total cost £196,120) to use machine learning and AI for mobility-as-a-service costing.Innovate UK / CCAV CAV2 Stream 3 feasibility studiesStart-upssingle_source
1982. 2017-02-02grantOxa: grant £121,947 — Grant (total cost £174,210) for Anytime, Anywhere Low Cost Localisation.Innovate UK / CCAV CAV2 Stream 3 feasibility studiesStart-upssingle_source
1983. 2017-02-02grantOxa: grant £122,728 — Grant (total cost £175,325) for Vote3Deep real-time object detection.Innovate UK / CCAV CAV2 Stream 3 feasibility studiesStart-upssingle_source
1984. 2017-02-02grantAurrigo: grant £90,902 — Grant (total cost £129,860) for the Cambridge Autonomous Bus System feasibility study.Innovate UK / CCAV CAV2 Stream 3 feasibility studiesStart-upssingle_source
1985. 2017funding roundConnex One: funding round £9.1m — Connex One sold £9.1m of shares to private equity firm Belerion Capital. Buys or funds: Share sale.Belerion CapitalSoftware and toolssingle_source