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Pocket, a device designed to capture AIconversations, has raised $11 million from Accel and Y Combinator. The company says it has shipped 35,000 units and reached $27 million in annualised revenue. This funding arrives at a time when the AI hardware sector has seen several high-profile failures, making Pocket’s revenue one of the strongest in the field so far. Enterprise...

The UK VC market grew a lot in 2025. HSBC Innovation Banking found that total investment across 711 term sheets reached £11.2 billion, up from £7.6 billion in 2024. While the numbers look good for UK tech, key changes in term sheet conditions mostly ...

It's past 10 pm and Hussein Kanji has just spent three hours around a table with a group of his portfolio companies to discuss what the next decade of technology looks like.  And even as we sit in the midst of London's latest heatwave, the found...

Wultra, a Czech startup, has raised €6.8 million in a Series A round led by Seventure Partners. The funding will help expand its post-quantum banking authentication platform into the Middle East and the United States. Angel investors Marc Norlain and Guillaume Despagne, who co-founded ARIADNEXT (acquired by IDnow in 2021), decided to back Wultra after first using its produc...

Gaussion, a battery startup based in London, has raised $28 million, bringing its total funding to more than $44 million. The company plans to use this investment to expand its magnetic charging technology, which can be used with any lithium-ion battery without changing its chemistry or design. The funding round includes investment from Steve Jurvetson’s Future Ventures, wh...