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UK Tech Incorporations Hit Record High in 2025: What This Means for Tech Founders
56,615 new tech companies were registered in the UK last year. Here's why entrepreneurs are betting big on British tech, and what it signals for your startup.
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International Students: Read This Before You Register Your First Tech Company in the UK
Why using your student accommodation or rental address for your company registration can be a high-risk mistake, and how to set up a professional registered office in the UK without overpaying.
Growth
10 Free Startup Resources That Can 10X Your Chances of Success
The exact free resources used by founders at Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, and Reddit. From YC Startup School to Paul Graham's essays, these tools cost nothing but can transform everything.
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Ionech Raises £2 Million in Funding to Power the Future with Air-to-Electricity Technology
The Oxford-based cleantech startup has developed a way to generate electricity from ambient air, and has already signed Coca-Cola Europacific Partners as a pilot customer.
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Cyb3r Operations Raises £4M to Fix the Blindspot That Causes a Third of All Cyber Breaches
London cybersecurity startup Cyb3r Operations has raised £4 million led by Octopus Ventures to replace outdated spreadsheets and annual questionnaires with continuous, AI-powered third-party risk monitoring.
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Virgin Media O2 Cuts 1.3 Million Call Transfers Using AI — Saving Customers 400,000 Hours
Virgin Media O2 deployed Natural Language Understanding technology and cross-skilled 5,000 agents to dramatically reduce call transfers, saving customers over 400,000 hours on hold.
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Why Founder and Team-Led Content Is the Growth Engine of 2026
The fastest-growing startups aren't winning with bigger ad budgets they're winning because their people are talking. In 2026, a personal brand from one account isn't enough anymore. You need a team that both ships and speaks.
Growth
Everything Startup Founders Need to Know About Pro Rata Rights
Pro rata rights are one of those terms that seem minor at first glance but quietly shape everything. They determine who gets to invest more in your company later, how much room you have for new investors, and how much control you retain over time.
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Meta Acquires AI Agent Startup Manus for $2 Billion And What It Means for UK Founders
The deal closed in just 10 days. Manus hit $100 million ARR eight months after launch. For AI founders in Britain, it's both a signal and a warning.
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Top 100 UK AI Startup Investments in 2025
This comprehensive guide profiles the top 100 AI startup investments in the UK, featuring companies that have secured significant funding from world-leading investors.
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UK's AI Awakening: How the UK Became Tech's Most Wanted Destination
A year of unprecedented investment, bold infrastructure, and a nation rewriting its tech future. UK has attracted over £45 billion in committed AI investment, welcomed plans for Europe's largest GPU deployment, and established itself as the undisputed AI hub of the continent.
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ScrubMarine Secures €849k To Revolutionise Subsea Operations With Autonomous Robots
UK-based startup ScrubMarine, developing subsea robotics and data systems for inspection and maintenance, has secured €849k ($1M) in a pre-Seed round to accelerate engineering, expand its team and advance its next phase. Lead investors included PXN Ventures North of England and SFC Capital with strategic support from angels Colin Greene and Graham Westgarth.
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30.5 Things You Must Know Before Creating Your Startup Pitch Deck in 2026
A pitch deck is a story. It's your story, told in 10-15 slides, designed to make someone believe in what you're building.
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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.
Growth
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.
Growth
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.