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How much does it cost to hire a migrant Skilled Worker for your UK tech startup?
For a small sponsor hiring one Skilled Worker for 5 years, the employer pays £3,499 in Home Office fees. This covers the sponsor licence, Certificate of Sponsorship, and the Immigration Skills Charge. If the employee applies from inside the UK as a single applicant, they usually pay £1,751 for the visa plus £5,175 for the Immigration Health Surcharge, making £6,926 in personal application costs.
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Top Early-Stage AI Startup Accelerators in the UK
Here is a curated list of the leading early stage AI startup accelerators in the UK. Each supports founders working with artificial intelligence across different sectors. The list covers equity based and equity free programs, and includes university backed, government backed, corporate, and private accelerators.
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UK deepens partnership with Google DeepMind to drive progress in science, education and national security
AI is opening the door to faster scientific discovery, stronger public services, and improved national security. The UK government and Google DeepMind are expanding their partnership to accelerate progress in science, education, and digital resilience for the country.
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Bristol based Anaphite raises £1.4million for a dedicated LFP cathode and graphite anode dry coating project.
Anaphite plans to extend its DCP® technology platform, which currently engineers homogenous dry composite powders for dry coated NMC cathodes. The aim is to support high throughput and high yield production of dry coated LFP cathodes and graphite anodes.
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How do I scale my service business? 18 Game-Changing Insights to Skyrocket Revenue
These 18 insights form a roadmap for scaling any service business. Start with a few that resonate most, and watch your operation transform.
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The Budget 2025: 12 measures that will affect your small business
Find out how Budget 2025 affects your business, with clear explanations of key tax, wage and compliance changes, plus what they mean for you. 12 Budget policies that affect small business owners.
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After sending 100k+ promotional emails, I discovered 10 ways to write the perfect sales email that can multiply your open rate by 10X
Many small business owners rely on email outreach but struggle to achieve consistent engagement. This article distils lessons learned from sending one hundred thousand promotional emails and identifies ten practical methods that can significantly improve open rates and responses.
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A complete guide & useful tips that can help you with the UK Innovator Founder Visa in 2025
The Innovator Founder Visa is one of the most challenging but rewarding immigration routes in the UK. Success depends entirely on the strength of your idea, your ability to execute it, and the evidence you present.
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Cambridge Photon Technology raised £1.56m in Funding
Cambridge Photon Technology (CPT), a spin-out from University of Cambridge, has raised £1.56 million in its latest funding round in order to accelerate the deployment of its photon-multiplier solar technology.
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UK expands and refines High Potential Individual visa route for global graduates
The UK government has updated the High Potential Individual (HPI) visa route, reinforcing its position as a key channel for highly qualified graduates from overseas to live and work in the UK. The updates bring fresh clarity and reaffirm the route’s flexibility for eligible applicants.
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PACT secures over $20 million in Series A funding to scale up sustainable materials manufacturing
Series A funding to advance the commercial scale-up of Oval, a revolutionary, scalable roll-to-roll material with unique aesthetics and handfeel, made from natural collagen. Financing co-led by Forbion and HV Capital
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Grammarly rebrands to Superhuman, launches a new AI assistant
Grammarly is renaming itself as Superhuman after acquiring the Superhuman email client in July.
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Manchester startup Housr raises £7.5m to take on UK & US
Student living platform wins backing of two Texas investment firms after growing revenue 186% year-on-year & is looking to reach 1m students
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UK Secures Second Place Globally in Tech Funding for 2025
The United Kingdom has cemented its position as one of the world’s most dynamic technology hubs, british tech companies attracted $12 billion in equity funding between January and September, placing the country just behind the United States and ahead of India and Germany.
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SheMed raises €43 million to advance personalised women’s healthcare in the UK
SheMed, London’s female-founded HealthTech company changing how women access personalised healthcare, today announced it has raised €43 million to further develop its innovative health platform and advance new breakthroughs for preemptive healthcare.
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HotGreen Solutions raises £1.2M for ultra-efficient heat pumps
A UK cleantech startup HotGreen Solutions, has closed a £1.2 million pre-seed round, led by Empirical Ventures, with strategic participation from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), First Imagine! Ventures, The Conduit Impact Fund, and Almanac Ventures.
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UK’s beauty tech startup Yuv secures funding on Dragons’ Den
London-based beauty technology company, Yuv, recently appeared on BBC One’s Dragons’ Den and attracted significant investor interest.
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Non-drill brain monitoring startup CoMind raises over $100M
A UK startup which is developing brain monitoring and treatment technology which avoids drilling a hole into a patient’s skull has raised more than $100m in funding in total, it has announced.
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Serval raises $47 million to bring AI agents to IT service management
Serval is using agentic AI models to automate IT service management, but the company has a unique approach that takes advantage of agentic AI’s powers while avoiding many of its pitfalls.
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Designing User Experiences That Convert
Learn the principles of conversion-focused UX design and how to create digital experiences that drive business results.