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£5.6m funding to sharpen Pencil’s gene-editing tech

A MedTech company behind gene-editing technology has raised £5.6 million in seed financing. Penc...

Laverock Therapeutics raises £13.5m for gene-silencing platform

Laverock Therapeutics, established in 2021 to commercialise a gene editing induced gene silencing (G...

Bidstack CEO sets up private firm due to public market headwinds

The CEO and chief strategy officer of Bidstack Group plc have set up a private company “to preserv...

Listed MedTech TruSpine scrambles for survival

Listed MedTech TruSpine has reported another year of losses as it scrambles for survival. For the...

CMA clears £1.2bn NHS healthcare tech deal 

The Competition and Markets Authority has approved UnitedHealth’s proposed £1.2 billion purchase ...

Former Revolut star raises £12.3m for invoice software startup

Apron has raised £12.3 million in Series A funding to slash the time small businesses spend process...

Pet platform secures six-figure investment

Liverpool-based pet HealthTech platform Vidivet has secured a six-figure investment from fund:AI, wh...

Amazon has forced logistics sector to embrace technology

The impact of Amazon has forced the logistics sector to ‘raise the bar’ when it comes to meeting...

New bank raises £43m to ‘structurally change mortgage market’

Perenna, a new bank with a mission ‘to structurally change the UK mortgage market’, has secured ...

Challenging the status quo – Zally founder on mission to eliminate passwords

Despite being invented in the early 1960s, passwords remain a standard way to verify one's identity ...

PE-backed Ripe makes it 15 straight years of revenue growth

Ripe achieved strong double-digit growth in 2022, maintaining its 15-year record of consistent reven...

£4.5m backing for fast-growing Stellar Omada

Stellar Omada, a fast-growing Edinburgh-headquartered technology services company, has raised £4.5 ...