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‘Rock, paper, scissors’ start-up lined up for ITV show

London-based mobile entertainment business Live Tech Games is working on turning its first mobile ga...

Animation studio behind ‘Klaus’ raises £6m to open UK originals unit

Animation studio Snipple, which boasts a portfolio of popular cartoons, has secured £6m  to suppor...

London ‘cloud kitchen’ start-up raises £1.46m

Cloud kitchen and virtual dining start-up Kitchen Ventures has raised $2m (£1.46m) in s...

10 of the main players in UK tech investment

Tech dominated private equity and VC investments in 2020. Chris Maguire looked at 10 o...

Innovate UK backing for new remote teaching tool

EdTech developer CoreBlue has received over £250,000 backing from the UK’s innovation agency, Inn...

Why all investment roads point to tech

At 11.15pm on Monday this week I sent Jonathan Boyers, who is KPMG’s UK Head of Corp...

Hertfordshire eLearning firm secures private equity investment

Hertfordshire eLearning provider Omniplex, has secured investment from private equity investor LDC, ...

Autonomous car platform raises £34.4m to accelerate expansion

Autonomous vehicle software firm Oxbotica has announced the completion of a $47m (£34.4m) investmen...

Investors back BioTech behind 15-minute COVID-19 test

The Norwich tech company behind a 15-minute test for COVID-19 has been backed with £2 million inves...

Start-up allowing local shops to list on Google raises £2m

Retail tech start-up NearSt, which makes a retail shop's inventory visible in online searches, has r...

AI chip maker Graphcore raises £162m

Bristol-headquartered tech giant Graphcore has raised $222m (£162.4m) of investment to fuel further...

HumanForest crowdfunds £1.27m to expand e-bike fleet

HumanForest, a provider of sustainable shared e-bikes, has successfully completed a crowdfunding cam...