In the last 8 hours

Influential North Sea oil investor, Banchory businessman Keith Mair, dies age 78 The Press and Journal16:13

Biomanufacturing startup Anzen Industries secures £2m UKTN (UK Tech News)16:01

Earlier today

Mal Breaks MEA Records with $230m Seed Round to Build ‘World’s First’ AI-Native Islamic Digital … The Fintech Times13:53

Pump.fun Establishes Investment Arm to Support Solana Ecosystem Startups DeFi Planet13:48

Tim Draper Predicts Bitcoin Will Hit $250,000 as Biotech Firms Adopt Crypto Treasuries DeFi Planet12:47

Sequoia, Accel-backed Ethos Technologies eyes $1.3 billion valuation in US IPO Yahoo! UK & Ireland12:17

Fintech unicorn Pennylane raises €175m round at €3.6bn valuation Sifted10:25

Well-known North East corporate lawyer joins Ward Hadaway as partner Insider Media08:14

Yesterday

Tax incentives push Italian pension funds deeper into venture capital Investment & Pensions Europe15:44 19-Jan-26

BusinessBite: Sunday Times 100 leader Dfyne opens HQ BusinessCloud.co.uk15:44 19-Jan-26

Opinion: UK companies have a golden AI opportunity as regulatory uncertainty remains Verdict15:37 19-Jan-26

Gut-friendly toothpaste brand shines with £1.8m funding TheBusinessDesk.com14:39 19-Jan-26

Andreessen Horowitz Makes a $3 Billion Bet Against the AI Bubble Yahoo! UK & Ireland13:40 19-Jan-26

Forth Green Freeport to deliver £7.9bn of economic regeneration Scottish Financial News13:33 19-Jan-26

Portage inks deal to manage select fintech assets from Point72 Ventures' portfolio FinTech Futures13:26 19-Jan-26

Angel Capital Scotland appoints Archangels’ Niki McKenzie as chair Scottish Financial News12:32 19-Jan-26

Optimistic Capital sharpens focus on vinyl-themed microbreweries The Drinks Business12:10 19-Jan-26

Why Legal AI Startups Are Attracting the Same Investors as OpenAI Law News11:46 19-Jan-26

How Legal Startups Are Becoming the Next Billion-Dollar Bet for VCs Law News11:05 19-Jan-26

The Surprising Connection Between Venture Capital and Legal AI Law News10:55 19-Jan-26

Anzen Industries raises $2.2M for chemical production innovation Tech.eu09:37 19-Jan-26

Sequoia Capital planning billon dollar investment in Claude-maker Anthropic Tech Monitor09:37 19-Jan-26

Former radio presenter lands funding to grow his gut-friendly toothpaste brand Insider Media06:12 19-Jan-26

India's thriving online delivery platforms face a year of reckoning BBC03:04 19-Jan-26

In the last 7 days

Forth Green Freeport unlocks funding for reindustrialization Container News15:36 18-Jan-26

Musk seeking up to $134bn from OpenAI, Microsoft in "wrongful gains" CyberNews14:36 18-Jan-26

Parliament may question water outage investors The Observer19:29 17-Jan-26

Peter Thiel makes his biggest donation in years to help defeat California’s billionaire wealth… Yahoo! UK & Ireland19:16 16-Jan-26

Startup Island Taiwan partners with City of Phoenix Evertiq14:19 16-Jan-26

Plymouth Albion, The Chestnut Appeal and Diversity Business team up to tackle health inequality Plymouth Albion - Official Site12:13 16-Jan-26

Veera, the On-chain Neobank for everyday crypto users, raises a total of $10M, Backed by Sigma… Invezz10:32 16-Jan-26

Should you take venture capital or will it cost you control? Yahoo! UK & Ireland20:01 15-Jan-26

Is Europe’s AI infrastructure build-out heading for a gigafactory-style bust? Sifted13:40 15-Jan-26

Vision to rebuild 1,200-year-old pub through community fundraising LincolnshireWorld13:26 15-Jan-26

Agreement frees up £25 million for Forth Green Freeport Fife Today11:54 15-Jan-26

UK VC investment sees first annual growth in four years UKTN (UK Tech News)11:03 15-Jan-26

Eight business incubator units approved for NI business park News Letter10:50 15-Jan-26

Green Freeport forecast to see £7.9 billion investment and 16,000 jobs Edinburgh Evening News10:32 15-Jan-26

Shamed Dragons' Den star is still styling herself as Dr and MBE despite being stripped of… MailOnline10:20 15-Jan-26

Agreement frees up £25 million for Grangemouth Freeport The Falkirk Herald09:12 15-Jan-26

Forth Green Freeport: £25m agreement to bring economic growth to Fife Dunfermline Press07:48 15-Jan-26

Investment-ready businesses to take spotlight at Dorset pitch event Bournemouth Daily Echo05:33 15-Jan-26

Forth Green Freeport unlocks £25m funding to kick-start £7.9bn regeneration drive Energy Voice00:17 15-Jan-26

£25m unlocked for Forth freeport development Daily Business00:15 15-Jan-26

Would putting a price on our decisions change our behaviour? New Statesman17:57 14-Jan-26

Islamic digital bank Mal secures $230m in seed funding FinTech Futures12:15 14-Jan-26

Angel investors most likely to behave inappropriately towards founders, new survey finds Sifted10:51 14-Jan-26

AI-driven genomics biotech inks new partnership after closing £2.5m seed round Insider Media06:09 14-Jan-26

Indian aerospace startup Misochain raises $2 million Evertiq05:43 14-Jan-26

Kenya: UK-Kenya Tech Hub Partners With Investors to Train New Angel Investors AllAfrica19:30 13-Jan-26

New French mobile studio One Rule Games closes seed funding round GamesIndustry.biz16:31 13-Jan-26

Bvca to rebrand to UK Private Capital UKTN (UK Tech News)15:09 13-Jan-26

Will Cody Gakpo investment prove a healthy one? BusinessCloud.co.uk14:04 13-Jan-26

Liverpool FC star makes health investment BusinessCloud.co.uk11:31 13-Jan-26

Schonfeld seeds Indian hedge fund access platform Sarda Capital HedgeWeek09:10 13-Jan-26

Rosberg Ventures steams ahead after closing $100m Fund III BusinessCloud.co.uk08:29 13-Jan-26

SONIX adds Laurent Bischof to its Board of Directors Esports Insider08:08 13-Jan-26

OutSee completes seed funding round and establishes partnership with o2h discovery for lead drug target candidate News-Medical.Net04:27 13-Jan-26

In the last month

Former F1 champion raises $100m for Venture Capital Firm GPblog.com20:15 12-Jan-26

Bvca changes name to UK Private Capital Daily Business20:01 12-Jan-26

Reeves’ VCT changes ‘could put start up funding at risk’ City AM16:06 12-Jan-26

Eatphoria officially launches with multi-million investment from TAN Food for UK expansion EasternEye14:53 12-Jan-26

D1 Capital up 39% on SpaceX valuation surge HedgeWeek14:01 12-Jan-26

Former F1 champion Nico Rosberg raises $100m for VC fund City AM11:13 12-Jan-26

Sustainable South Hams secures £20,000 seed funding South Hams Gazette11:08 12-Jan-26

PuffPizza® secures £75,000 seed funding to scale premium Sfogliettas® business across UK retail Retail Times10:48 12-Jan-26

PuffPizza secures £75k in ‘turning point’ investment for Sardinian startup The Grocer08:52 12-Jan-26

Global financial services M&A activity rose in 2025, with 93 deals over $1b in value announced Ernst & Young (Press Release)07:04 12-Jan-26

Andreessen Horovitz raises $15bn Electronics Weekly06:44 12-Jan-26

Hub71 Strengthens UAE-Ireland Ties with Venturewave Capital Partnership The Fintech Times06:30 12-Jan-26

Dragons’ Den for property world seeks applicants The Negotiator Magazine05:57 12-Jan-26

Trading updates: Life Science REIT portfolio valuation declines 7.8% London South East19:23 9-Jan-26

Sustainable South Hams nature campaign secures funding boost South Hams District Council (Press Release)14:44 9-Jan-26

Andreessen Horowitz raises $15 billion across five funds for tech startup investments Yahoo! UK & Ireland13:15 9-Jan-26

Fintech firm secures £4 million growth boost Bdaily Business News13:07 9-Jan-26

Maia secures £4 million growth boost Bdaily Business News11:15 9-Jan-26

Enodia raises seed funding to advance protein degradation platform Verdict Medical Devices11:02 9-Jan-26

Clarion targeting $1bn in seed capital for newly launched alternative property fund IPE Real Assets10:33 9-Jan-26

Alice Raises €1m Pre-Seed For Litigation Platform Artificial Lawyer09:15 9-Jan-26

Forvia secures Sinopec Capital hydrogen investment Automotive World08:55 9-Jan-26

Five businesses seek up to £550,000 at upcoming Dorset pitch event Insider Media08:25 9-Jan-26

Arctus Aerospace raises $2.6 million in pre-seed round Evertiq07:40 9-Jan-26

Babylon pushes Bitcoin into on-chain finance as a16z crypto backs expansion CoinJournal.net01:07 9-Jan-26

Anthropic reportedly seeks $10B raise at $350B valuation as AI funding boom continues DeFi Planet13:43 8-Jan-26

Viewpoint: The missing pillar of EU’s start-up strategy is risk Science|Business11:18 8-Jan-26

Harvey Capital raises $1.8bn in credit-focused hedge fund launch HedgeWeek09:29 8-Jan-26

The 28th Regime and the False Promise of a European Delaware University of Oxford04:32 8-Jan-26

Specialist instrument manufacturer bought by private equity-backed Dutch counterpart Insider Media14:30 7-Jan-26

THC drinks firm Jeng secures investment just-drinks.com13:18 7-Jan-26

US venture capital fundraising slumps 35% in 2025 as IPO drought drags on: report Invezz12:45 7-Jan-26

Hg to acquire OneStream in $6.4bn deal FinTech Futures11:53 7-Jan-26

iMaintain closes £250k pre-seed round with SFC Capital backing UKTN (UK Tech News)10:37 7-Jan-26

Academic Warns Venture Capital's Push for "Hypergrowth" Puts Tenants at Risk King's College London10:34 7-Jan-26

Betlabs closes seed funding round with SportsContentCo investment InterGame Online08:54 7-Jan-26

How Big Tech killed literary culture UnHerd00:08 7-Jan-26

Apex Rides raises £420k to advance its connected fitness platform UKTN (UK Tech News)16:01 6-Jan-26

Dalston’s raises £850k and hires new MD for growth push The Grocer14:35 6-Jan-26

Kryptobyte Leads the Way for UK Energy-To-Digital Infrastructure IBTimes.co.uk09:38 6-Jan-26

AL Interview: Logan Brown, Founder, Soxton Artificial Lawyer08:35 6-Jan-26

Legal Tech Raised $6Bn in 2025 as AI Boom Shows Divisions Artificial Lawyer07:54 6-Jan-26

Architect Financial Technologies lands $35m for new AX exchange FinTech Futures07:06 6-Jan-26

Climate venture investment climbed 8% in 2025, with focus shifting to AI’s energy demand edie.net00:12 6-Jan-26

Pawd fetches £400k in seed round for dog supplements expansion The Grocer13:59 5-Jan-26

The EU fiscal framework undermines innovation and security VoxEU.org00:05 5-Jan-26

Venture Capital Records Two Historic Milestones, Reinforces Saudi Arabia’s Regional Leadership Asharq Al-Awsat16:38 4-Jan-26

The Real Reason Big Law Is Backing Legal Startups Law News10:53 2-Jan-26

Jvp explores transatlantic innovation strategy linking Israel, New York and Europe EU Reporter10:39 1-Jan-26

PROPTECH-X : Current investment landscape in the UK Proptech sector Proptech-X00:32 1-Jan-26

Europe’s founders and VCs share their New Year resolutions for 2026 Sifted05:08 31-Dec-25

GameFi Funding Drops 55% in 2025, Web2.5 Games Signal Shift DeFi Planet12:43 30-Dec-25

‘Move fast, break stuff’: how tech bros became Hollywood’s go-to baddie in 2025 Yahoo! UK & Ireland09:17 30-Dec-25

VC’s predict 2026 for the tech industry UKTN (UK Tech News)13:02 29-Dec-25

Archangels gives £41 million boost to Scottish tech and life science scale-ups The Scotsman11:49 29-Dec-25

Venture Capital industry 2026 outlook: will it all be about AI again? Invezz11:17 29-Dec-25

Daniel Kaluuya, Jack Whitehall and other stars launch startup fund UKTN (UK Tech News)09:04 29-Dec-25

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