UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups
UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups

Britain’s Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has pledged to strengthen efforts to channel institutional investment into UK tech companies. Speaking to Bloomberg TV during London Tech Week, Kendall said the government would pursue legal reforms to how pen…

Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US
Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US

An Irish company that uses AI to stop crashes before drivers see them coming has raised up to €49m to expand in North America and Europe. CameraMatics, founded in Dublin in 2016, makes a video-telematics platform for commercial fleets. Its cameras and …

Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf
Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf

One of Europe’s oldest deep-tech specialists is opening a London office, and pitching it as a fresh expansion into new territory. Companies House tells a slightly different story. Vsquared Ventures, founded in Munich and known for raising one of Europe…

US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process
US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process

US AI giants are planting flags in London at a pace the city has never seen, and in doing so they are turning the British capital into the clearest rival to San Francisco, while making life harder for the homegrown startups they are landing next to. In…

Upriver raises $14M to fix the unglamorous layer where enterprise AI quietly breaks: the data
Upriver raises $14M to fix the unglamorous layer where enterprise AI quietly breaks: the data

Most enterprise AI projects do not fail because the model is bad. They fail because the data feeding it is a mess: broken pipelines, mismatched systems, and context locked in one engineer’s head. Upriver, an Israeli startup, has raised $14M to automate…

BNP Paribas says the $3.6 trillion US tech IPO pipeline will pull European startups towards public markets
BNP Paribas says the $3.6 trillion US tech IPO pipeline will pull European startups towards public markets

The IPO filings by SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have created a pipeline of US tech offerings worth approximately $3.6 trillion. That wave is going to generate appetite for European tech deals too, according to Ygal el Harrar, global head of equity cap…

Inside Automat-it’s playbook for scaling AI startups on AWS
Inside Automat-it’s playbook for scaling AI startups on AWS

The AI boom has fundamentally changed how startups think about infrastructure. What was once a relatively straightforward cloud scaling journey has become far more complex, as companies now balance GPU-intensive workloads, rapidly evolving AI models, c…

Icertis veterans raise $7.55 million to build the AI layer that recovers money enterprises don’t know they’re losing
Icertis veterans raise $7.55 million to build the AI layer that recovers money enterprises don’t know they’re losing

Rivvun AI, a Seattle-based startup founded by former senior executives at contract management platform Icertis, has raised $7.55 million in an oversubscribed seed round co-led by Sitara Capital and 3one4 Capital. The company is building what it calls a…

01Health raises £11.2M to turn its dental-AI platform into infrastructure for specialist care
01Health raises £11.2M to turn its dental-AI platform into infrastructure for specialist care

01Health, a London healthtech company, has raised £11.2M ($15M) in Series A funding to open up the clinical platform behind its dental brands and sell it to other practices. The round was led by Gresham House Ventures. Existing backers Balderton Capita…

Uncovr raises $7M for AI that writes the operative report before the surgeon leaves the room
Uncovr raises $7M for AI that writes the operative report before the surgeon leaves the room

Uncovr, a surgical AI startup based in New York and Paris, has raised $7M in seed funding to turn the video from an operation into its official written record. The round was led by Index Ventures. Seedcamp, Frst, No Label Ventures, and Entrepreneurs Fi…