Explore our venture capital news, presenting interviews and analyses on various venture capitalists, their backed startups, and the prevailing investment trends.
ElevenLabs has raised $500 million in fresh funding, catapulting the London-based startup to an $11 billion valuation and cementing its place among Europe’s most valuable artificial intelligence companies.…
Elon Musk is backing a new and unusual idea in the fast-growing world of artificial intelligence: moving data centres off the Earth and into space. The plan has…
British artificial-intelligence startup Synthesia has raised $200 million in a Series E funding round, nearly doubling its valuation from $2.1 billion a year ago to $4 billion. The…
A UK court has allowed a legal challenge to government approval of a 90-megawatt data centre near London, after campaigners Foxglove and Global Action Plan said ministers failed…
OpenAI is preparing to place advertisements at the top of its AI chatbot, ChatGPT. Starting with a U.S. trial, the ads will appear for users of both the…
Accenture has agreed to buy Faculty, a UK artificial intelligence company, in a deal that could be worth more than 1 billion dollars. The global professional services firm,…
Tesla just lost its position as the world’s top electric vehicle seller. In 2025, China’s BYD delivered more EVs than Tesla, marking a major shift in the global…
Octopus Energy Group has agreed to sell $1 billion in equity of its software arm, Kraken Technologies, valuing the business at $8.65 billion. The transaction, led by U.S.-based…
A group of well-known British actors, comedians and musicians, including Daniel Kaluuya, Jack Whitehall, Maya Jama, Roman Kemp and Tom Grennan, have quietly come together to launch a…
A British maritime-robotics startup, ScrubMarine, has raised $1m (€849,000) in pre-seed funding to develop autonomous systems for underwater inspection and hull maintenance, as shipping companies search for ways…
Britain’s government has confirmed that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office was hit by a cyber attack back in October. Trade Minister Sir Chris Bryant said in interviews…
Solve Intelligence has announced a $40 million Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $55 million. The London-based startup, which quietly built a powerhouse product…
At Royal Navy headquarters in Portsmouth on 8 December 2025, John Healey, the UK’s Defence Secretary, unveiled Atlantic Bastion, an ambitious, technology-driven programme intended to defend the UK…
