Future plc makes £40m swoop for women’s fashion publication. Listed company acquires London-based bootstrapped digital publishing group Sheerluxe & BLUSH Talent MGMT, which has an audience of over 6m.
NCC Group to sell Escode business to PE firm in £275m deal. Manchester business had been eyeing sale to become pure-play global cyber security & resilience company & has struck deal with TDR Capital.
Rows; side hustles; influencers: Meet The Apprentice candidates. 20 candidates will be vying for Lord Sugar’s £250k investment in the 20th series of The Apprentice – but who will win?
$100m startup co-founded by ex-FIFA YouTuber JMX raises £16m. London-based creator monetisation platform Fanvue has reached $100m ARR in under four years & will now scale team & expand internationally.
Sunday Times 100 Tech rankings revealed for 2026. Abound, a lending FinTech company which just yesterday completed its latest acquisition to move into mortgages, tops the ranking.
Shareholder revolt ‘changes Monzo’s plans for CEO TS Anil’. Monzo to keep Anil on with more authority than planned while he is also likely to remain on the board, insiders tell the Financial Times.
$65bn Cloudflare makes swoop for London-based AI business. San Francisco-based tech giant acquires AI data marketplace Human Native in deal to help create better data pipelines for AI developers.
Zurich Insurance makes £7.7bn offer for Beazley plc. The offer is in an attempt to create an insurance powerhouse & has caused Beazley shares to rise by over 40% & hit an all-time high.
HealthTech 50 star Eolas Medical raises £9m to scale AI in NHS. Belfast-based business secures funds in Series A round led by Acton Capital & will also look to expand internationally.
FinTech PLC set for $1bn facility as it eyes US listing. Valereum Plc, which is focused on tokenised digital markets, changed its leadership team this summer following collapse of investment deal.
Funding Circle shares jump as it exceeds 2025 & 2026 targets. London-based FinTech, which floated in 2018, exceeds 2026 targets a year early as it hits over £200m revenue & grows profits by nearly 700%.
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