Lifted Ventures’ Athena VC conference delivers call for change UBS names head of Manchester & North West Martello raises £1.2m to transform property risk assessment Titans of tech illuminate Sunday Times Rich List Miri Thomas joins Roland Dransfield PR Dominic McGregor launches The Fearless Accelerator THG cuts headcount by 40% in three years OpenAI and ex-Meta figures join £16m Origin funding round University of Salford research cluster to improve life at work Manchester's Venturi acquired by 3,000-strong firm Org Group Sage reports strong start to FY25 with ARR up to huge £2.5bn BT signs £10m deal to deliver full fibre broadband in South Wales Manchester tech firm Six & Flow merges with Dutch counterpart Leading boohoo figure joins Foot Anstey B&M appoints new CEO Top 100 Rising European Startups for 2025 revealed Out of this world! Space Forge secures record £22.6m funding Is Sara Davies the busiest ever Dragon? Impact of new Man Utd stadium on Manchester's green credentials DHL eCommerce UK combines with Evri in monster merger University of Liverpool is latest to partner with Northern Gritstone Wembley boost for Crystal Palace fans ahead of FA Cup final Wembley boost for Man City fans ahead of FA Cup final Leonardo partners with Faculty AI to serve armed forces S4labour raises £4m from YFM to continue expansion Wembley gets major upgrade ahead of FA Cup final on Saturday HOST Salford delivers £22.6m social value in 2 years Cronofy secures £15m from BGF to supercharge growth Zopa to ‘shift gears’ with £80m AT1 raise AdvancedAdvT makes £5.3m swoop for HFX Unicorn Multiverse to deliver training at new AI academy EdTech receives funds following £500k Innovate UK project ProFinda is 5th firm to receive Palatine Growth Credit backing Matthew Riley: The ultimate dealmaker  Insolvency Service appoints interim CEO as former boss leaves Bilfinger acquires Ellesmere Port’s £30m turnover firm nZero Group M&S reveals personal customer data stolen during cyber attack Entrepreneur urges Liverpool to focus on ‘place over tourism’ Sales sink at Revolution Beauty ahead of CEO departure £60m Greenheys, to house UK Biobank, tops out FUEL Liverpool: A successful sale will always solve a problem Another swoop for Focus Group after hot dozen in 2024 19 entrepreneurs to join Dragons’ Den and The Apprentice stars Daisy founder says Virgin Media O2 deal is his biggest yet MOTH & ILĀ unveil music track powered by quantum GenAI Why has Bitcoin passed $100k valuation? RWS appoints former BBC and BT figure to executive team Daisy-Virgin Media O2 B2B deal creates £1.4bn revenue company Ascendx Cloud raises £82m to scale apps and expand US team FinTech Ravio raises £9m from investors around the world UK's fastest-growing FinTech unicorn Zilch passes 5m customers Monzo eyes blockbuster £6bn IPO How have global political changes impacted tech sector? FinTech lender hits £50m milestone in Liverpool TT Electronics appoints interim CFO weeks after CEO steps down CareLineLive praised in Mental Health Awareness Week RetailBook raises £4.5m round led by Augmentum Fintech Bartlett-backed retail business forced to close Rovco, FD, Etiq AI & Argentex - the week’s best-read stories Four UK regions set for £30m funding to create spinouts Lucanet expands UK presence with appointment of CFO Breathe raises £16m to supercharge expansion London-based Doubleword raises £9m following US expansion Tripledot Studios acquires AppLovin for £603m in giant gaming deal Listed CyanConnode appoints new CEO and chairman Brave Bison plots £19m swoop for MiniMBA Dragons’ Den star: I couldn’t be a stay-at-home Mum Could Zeus improve sleep for a million people? Tech Nation's latest Future Fifty revealed at 10 Downing Street Meet the 28-year-old taking the iGaming world by storm OnlyFans founder launches rival platform Subs.com InsurTech Loxa secures £1.69m funding in seed round MedTech wins £1.26m Innovate UK grant to tackle brain tumours MindSpire secures £850,000 pre-seed funding for stress regulation ZOO Digital swoops for NSC Group CFO How to build a multi-million-pound business in 6 years Listed Big Technologies appoints new CEO and CFO Platter eats up pre-seed funding for wholesale food platform £570m US private equity swoop for FD Technologies plc £25m backing to Juice up FinTech lender FUEL Liverpool: The 4 documents you need to be investor-ready Are UK artists right to challenge the AI 'copyright heist'? Former Football League chairman to join Yorkshire-based IntelliAM Landsec appoints ex-BBC boss Webb as MediaCity CEO Plus500 faces shareholder backlash despite rising share price Innovate UK invests £37.6m in city's UK Digital Twin Centre Cheltenham-based Ecctis snaps up Enroly London FinTech OakNorth signs OpenAI collaboration 18-year-old raises £637k to build AI startup Nia Wagestream secures £300m facility from Citi Another CEO appointed by Redcentric as it reports results Vodafone CFO quits for CEO role Atombit makes triple swoop backed by Palatine Double delight at BusinessCloud as audience numbers soar Tended raises £2m for tech improving safety of railway staff Europe’s newest unicorn invests £400m into UK expansion Nonsensical's expertise recognised with TikTok Agency badge 'Milestone moment' as MST Group secures £6m NatWest package Firm headed by trio of ex-Rolls-Royce execs emerges from stealth Cheshire-based RoBAT acquired by listed Swedish firm Roland Dransfield announces client wins and new appointment Stellar line-up of speakers at FUEL Liverpool London FinTech Shieldpay appoints new CEO and CRO StackOne secures £15m Series A round led by Google Ventures Newcastle-based Ceto raises £3.6m to fuel global expansion ChatGPT maker OpenAI forced to reverse restructure Skype shuts down after 22 years of operation £1.2bn Alpha unanimously rejects US takeover bid Trump's tariff fallout leads to boardroom cull at Argentex Deliveroo board accepts £2.9bn takeover offer Could Steven Bartlett really conquer America? Vote in our MediaTech 50 innovation ranking THG’s term loan rating upgraded by Fitch Grand Theft Auto VI delayed until May 2026 Gymshark, Deliveroo, Bartlett & THG - the week’s best-read stories Female-founded Etiq AI raises again after £1m Innovate UK grant Rovco administration to make 100+ staff redundant The impact of the M&S cyber attack Red Bull F1 chief among speakers at London Tech Week Board Intelligence acquires global platform Competent Boards OnBuy cites Trump's tariffs as factor in record sales growth GM’s Rising Stars wow launch event audience Lancashire firm posts record £21m revenues for FY25 NYSE-listed Kyndryl opens Liverpool AI lab to create 1,000 jobs Former British Army Officer raises £9m for ‘life or death’ tech YFM backs MBO of cyber security firm Game-changing tech founders urged to apply to Baltic Ventures Chelsea FC among leaders crafting ultimate fan journey with AI British Business Bank to invest alongside five UK angel syndicates Three UK founders confirmed in prestigious EWOR cohort Co-op latest retail giant to suffer cyber attack after M&S HMRC launches tool to help people understand compliance checks The Ingenuity Group acquires London-based platform Pearlfinders FinTech FE fundinfo makes fourth acquisition in 12 months Astrato raises £3.7m seed round after 5-fold revenue jump Greater Manchester ranks 13th in Europe for AI talent Financial Conduct Authority appoints four new board members Property Sense launches £1m round to help double headcount How partnership approach can shape a better future for businesses Chancellor Rachel Reeves announces UK crypto crackdown Private equity buyers circle NCC Group Administrators to drill down into listed Enteq Vinted launches investment arm to target UK and EU startups Who is Baroness Poppy Gustafsson, the Minister for Investment? everywoman Entrepreneur Awards entries for 2025 now open Venture capital firm Verb Ventures announces £21m second fund Spotlight Pathology gets EHE backing for faster cancer diagnosis London FinTech Navro raises £31m to fuel global growth Sprive bags £5.5m to help UK homeowners repay mortgages faster Innovate UK-funded O.R.I.S.I.S project partners with BOW Gymshark revenue hits £600m but profits drop for 3rd straight year MedTech NCIMB raises £1.7m growth funding from IFS/Maven Glider Technology swoops for Cheshire-based software tool Listed Insig AI wins client managing more than £1bn THG's annual revenues fall but Moulding remains bullish Sales down at SysGroup amid refocus on AI ASCEND programme to ramp up in 2025 200 M&S agency workers told to stay home amid cyber crisis 75Media appoints industry veteran as new chair YFM backs WorkBuzz with another £4m Ulla Technology Ltd. secures £500k to unveil AI-powered assistant Bartlett buys out co-founder of firm behind Diary of a CEO podcast Fast-growing GigPig set to make £14.5m from 60,000 gigs in 2025 Is personalised AI video Hollr.io the future of customer renewals? Prime Minister praises NHS App as 1.5 million appointments saved FUEL Liverpool masterclass expert line-up finalised Retreat launches for burnt out UK tech leaders Third sponsor confirmed for Northern Leaders podcast Volution launches $100m fund with Japan's SBI Investment Deliveroo set to be acquired for £2.7bn Cruise retailer tops £32m turnover and announces expansion plans Bartlett continues hiring spree with Warner Music exec ‘How I bootstrapped a multi-million pound business’ Who is Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky? Turnover passes £3m mark at FinTech 50 star My Digital Bartlett, Dragons' Den & Trump tariffs - the week’s best-read stories Fuel Ventures becomes Trusted backer of startup Cloud Retail raises £2.4m following pivot from Jiffy Post Office spent £600m to continue using faulty Horizon IT system Software-first manufacturing firm Isembard raises £6.8m Manchester Digital proposes National Centre for Ecommerce Following Manchester United's RTO lead? Here's some advice THG Ingenuity: Fulfil is driving customer acquisition LG now sued by listed tech spinout Nanoco Leading Newcastle PropTech to create 100 jobs in 18 months myHappymind and UrbanChain among big winners at tech awards Ofcom sets out new Codes of Practice to protect children online Brightsolid completes full acquisition of Gateshead IT firm FinTech Wales announces new advisory panel Listed SkinBioTherapeutics makes two leadership appointments Government-backed Made Smarter launches £1m funding pot 'First FinTech platform for cloud' emerges with £5.8m raise Record growth at Revolut as profits reach staggering £1.1bn EDF weighs swoop for struggling Pod Point Zopa Bank doubles profits ahead of current account launch Manchester firm in Sync as it starts 2025 with rapid YoY increase Beyond homework: How Tassomai is powering learning in the classroom Inside the fight for Myprotein Why Harry Kane & Ben Stokes were key to rise of ticketing platform Payroll director banned over failure to pay over £2.5m in VAT M&S CEO issues apology after cyber attacks impact retail giant ITV-backed what3words slashes losses after cutting jobs Rugby stars Finn Russell & Ben Earl back CBD/mushroom firm Private equity firm Palatine raises record £254m fund School of Coding funding 'to launch UK's 1st AI learning lab' Neurolabs raises £6m for 'image recognition as a service' Northcoders reports revenue growth for FY24 THG ‘unequivocally rejects’ bid for Myprotein from former director Trump's tariff fallout forces Argentex takeover talks Innovate UK grant to develop quantum testbed GP Bullhound announces separation of investment arm Samsung News launches in UK as it looks to rival Apple News Fuel Ventures backs global expansion of 51toCarbonZero Ex-SuperAwesome duo raises £3m for AI venture Cruise retailer offers staff flexible working during school hols Trump's tariff uncertainty forces Argentex to suspend share trading GB Bank passes £2bn milestone after turning profit Sancus UK to sponsor Northern Leaders podcast Lack of AI adoption: Northern firms risk being left behind by London IBEX raises £2m to target 'silent disease' osteoporosis CSignum raises £6m to advance wireless technology Protein entrepreneur targets £100m turnover by 2030 Hargreaves Lansdown founder makes return after £5.4bn takeover Bartlett turned down massive $100m podcast deal