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| 10.01.2026 | Accenture to buy UK AI firm Faculty in USD $1bn deal | - |
| 09.01.2026 | Capital flows to scale as 2025 closed, Swap raises $100M, and CES 2026 showcases Europe’s hardware renaissance | This week, we tracked more than 35 tech funding deals worth over €407 million and 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories
In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most important/industry-rel... |
| 07.01.2026 | Accenture Acquires UK AI Firm Faculty, Bolstering Global AI Prowess | Accenture acquired UK AI firm Faculty. This strategic move dramatically expands Accenture's AI capabilities. It enhances offerings in AI safety, applied AI, and decision intelligence. Faculty brings expertise with leading AI models and crit... |
| 06.01.2026 | Accenture bets on British AI talent with Faculty buy | Professional services firm Accenture has announced the acquisition of London-based AI specialist Faculty, in a deal that cements the City’s role as a global talent hub.
The Dublin-based US firm said the acquisition will bring more than 400 ... |
| 06.01.2026 | Accenture Acquires UK AI Firm Faculty | Accenture is set to acquire UK‑based AI firm Faculty, aiming to fold its decision‑intelligence products into clients’ operations and streamline core business processes.
The deal, made for an undisclosed sum, will see Faculty’s team of over ... |
| 06.01.2026 | UK AI firm Faculty to be acquired by consulting giant Accenture | A UK AI firm that advises OpenAI and other frontier AI models on AI safety is to be acquired by IT consulting giant Accenture.
Faculty, which also worked with Vote Leave on the Brexit referendum, was co-founded in 2014 by Marc Warner, its c... |
| 13.11.2025 | UK Offers AI Masters Scholarship At 9 Universities | The UK government is launching a new scholarship programme to support students studying AI and other STEM subjects at nine of the UK’s universities.
The Spärck AI scholarships, named after pioneering British computer scientist Karen Spärck ... |
| 01.10.2025 | Investors don’t understand AI, says founder of OpenAI safety adviser | Investors don’t understand AI technology and are not being “particularly smart” about investing in it, according to the founder of a UK AI firm that advises OpenAI and other frontier model companies on AI safety. Marc Warner, the founder of... |
| 17.09.2025 | Like Covid, we ignore AI exponentials at our peril | The Notebook: Where the City’s movers and shakers have their say. Today, it’s Marc Warner, chief executive of AI firm Faculty
It’s February 2020. A little known disease called coronavirus is spreading exponentially. It seemed early to act –... |
| 16.09.2025 | AI home care saves NHS and government over £1bn | Cera, the UK’s largest HealthTech home care provider, has announced that its AI-backed social care model has saved the NHS and government over £1bn to date, according to a new analysis.
The preventative care model leverages AI to reduce avo... |
| 16.09.2025 | £1bn AI home care savings spotlight urgent need for public sector tech reform | The NHS and government have saved more than £1bn to date thanks to an AI-driven approach to home care.
HealthTech innovator Cera, which employs 10,000 carers and nurses delivering 2.5 million home visits per month, has developed predictive ... |
| 27.05.2025 | UK Border Force Looks to Increase Use of AI | The UK Border Force is aiming to expand its use of AI to enhance the searching and screening of freight at UK seaports.
The agency is seeking to automate the detection of anomalies in x-ray images, as manual analysis is both time-consuming ... |
| 15.05.2025 | Navigating New Frontiers: The Rise of M&A and AI in Australia’s Defence Sector | In the ever-evolving landscape of business and technology, two significant trends are emerging in Australia: the rise of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in defence. These developments a... |
| 13.05.2025 | Leonardo partners with London-based Faculty AI to advance defencetech | UK defence and aerospace giant Leonardo has announced the first partnership under its newly launched SME Collaboration Partner Programme, teaming up with London-based Faculty AI to co-develop next-generation AI-powered defence technologies.... |
| 13.03.2025 | Working with AI: When should humans be 'in the loop' or 'over the loop'? | It’s a fact that over 80 percent of AI projects fail. Not because of AI’s potential, but because businesses prioritize minor use cases over real transformation. Automated insights and meeting summaries may be impressive, but AI only drives ... |
| 24.01.2025 | Meet the startup shaking up UK education AI policy: Faculty AI | UK government education policy is being shaken up by a UK startup, which is leveraging AI to help teachers mark homework. Faculty AI is behind the government initiative, which pools data to create AI apps aimed at making a teacher's job eas... |
| 18.12.2024 | More task focus, the rise of AI whisperers and improved observability -- AI predictions for 2025 | Artificial intelligence has been one of the fastest growing areas in the tech sector over the past few years.
As AI becomes more commonly adopted what changes can we expect to see happening in 2025? Here are some expert views.
Avthar Sewrat... |
| 20.11.2024 | Helsinki-based Taito.ai raises €2.5 million toward employee performance management | Taito.ai has secured €2.5 million in seed funding, led by Accel, to transform employee performance management using AI. The round also attracted prominent angel investors, including Eléonore Crespo, (Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Pigment), Rober... |
| 20.11.2024 | Taito.ai Raises $2.7M in Seed Funding | Taito.ai, a Helsinki, Finland-based provider of an AI-powered performance enablement platform, raised $2.7M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Accel, with participation from Illusian’s angel investors, including Eléonore Crespo, (Co-Foun... |
| 10.05.2024 | Unmasking the impact of shadow AI -- and what businesses can do about it | The AI era is here -- and businesses are starting to capitalize. Britain’s AI market alone is already worth over £21 billion and expected to add £1 trillion of value to the UK economy by 2035. However, the threat of “shadow AI” -- unauthori... |
| 03.11.2022 | The ultimate AI use case -- engaged, productive and happy employees | Business adoption of AI is on the rise in the UK. According to a Government report, roughly 15` percent of all UK businesses have adopted at least one AI technology, with a further 10` percent planning to do so. Adoption is really taking of... |
| 22.09.2022 | Introducing: the 13 companies joining Future Fifty 11.0 | We are delighted to announce 13 new companies selected to join its eleventh Future Fifty programme for late-stage tech companies.
The latest companies to join the programme are going from strength to strength in what has been a record brea... |
| 18.05.2022 | Faculty launches "Frontier" to drive better organisational decision making | New decision intelligence software to help solve supply chain crisis
Business leaders able to see what will happen in their organisation and why
Faculty CEO: current decision making methods “not fit for purpose”
Businesses will benefit from... |
| 04.08.2021 | Supercritical addresses super critical climate crisis, raises £2 million in pre-seed funding | London-based carbon removal platform Supercritical has raised £2 million in pre-seed funding. The company is seeking to assist businesses in achieving net-zero goals by measuring their carbon output and then offering a matrix of viable solu... |
| 09.07.2021 | Tech Zero becomes official partner to the UN Race to Zero | Tech Zero, the tech industry’s flagship climate action group, has become an official partner organisation to the UN Race to Zero.
The Tech Zero taskforce is led by Bulb and Tech Nation. Its founding members are British tech firms allplants... |
| 24.05.2021 | British artificial intelligence company Faculty raises £30m of growth funding to deliver “AI as a Service” globally | Faculty, a leading British artificial intelligence (AI) company, today announced that it has raised £30m in growth funding from the Apax Digital Fund (“ADF”). It is the largest investment Faculty has accepted to date, and brings total inves... |
| 24.05.2021 | British AI startup Faculty raises €34.7M; expects to create over 400 new jobs | London-based Faculty is an applied artificial intelligence (AI) company that helps companies who have the scale, data and foresight to adopt AI into their organisations. It helps make AI real across society by providing a combination of str... |
| 26.04.2021 | AI startup Faculty wins contract to predict future requirements for the UK’s NHS | Faculty, a VC-backed artificial intelligence start-up, has won a tender to work with the NHS to make better predictions about its future requirements for patients, based on data drawn from how it handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
In December 2... |
| 01.03.2021 | UK’s fastest-growing tech firms join forces to tackle climate crisis | Fifteen of the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK have joined forces to create the ‘Tech Zero taskforce’ which will take bold steps to tackle the climate crisis and make the UK the top global destination for green investment.
Backed ... |
| 23.11.2020 | Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn has invested over $130M in more than 100 tech startups; now betting big on London-based AI startup Faculty.ai | Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian computer programmer famous for co-founding Skype, a popular telecommunication platform that offers free video chat and voice calls to internet-connected devices. Skype was co-founded in 2002 by Jaan Tallinn, Janu... |
| 02.04.2020 | UK tech companies tackling Covid-19 – from detection to vaccination | The 2020 Tech Nation Report revealed that UK healthtech investment has doubled since 2017, reaching £1.7bn in 2019. And this world-leading sector has just become more crucial than ever. Faced with a global pandemic, innovative scaling compa... |
| 01.04.2020 | Coronavirus Business Tracker: How The Private Sector Is Fighting The Covid-19 Pandemic | Alain Mérieux, founder of BioMérieux.AFP via Getty Images |
| 20.11.2019 | GovTech: 10 Startups Transforming the Public Sector | 85 shares
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GovTech startups are helping to transform the way the UK is run. As huge strides are made in artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital communications, it’s unsurprising that governments an... |
| - | Supercritical addresses super critical climate crisis, raises £2 million in pre-seed funding | London-based carbon removal platform Supercritical has raised £2 million in pre-seed funding. The company is seeking to assist businesses in achieving net-zero goals by measuring their carbon output and then offering a matrix of viable solu... |
