UK Export Finance insurance has unlocked an HSBC UK credit lift, allowing Hertfordshire SME Masters Speciality Pharma to ship £2.3m of lifesaving medicines to Saudi Arabia.
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ebay rebuffs GameStop’s surprise $55.5bn swoop
eBay has rejected a surprise $55.5bn takeover bid from GameStop, calling it “neither credible nor attractive”. Ryan Cohen may now go direct to shareholders.
OpenAI mints hundreds of overnight millionaires as staff cash out $6.6bn in share sale
Around 600 OpenAI staff have shared a $6.6bn (£4.8bn) payout in a secondary share sale, with average proceeds of $11m and the largest sellers banking $30m apiece, as the ChatGPT maker eyes a 2027 IPO at a $1tn valuation.
SME funded launches one-stop finance platform to plug funding gap for britain’s builders and manufacturers
New specialist lender SME Funded launches with access to 130+ lenders and its own capital, targeting underserved construction and manufacturing SMEs across the UK.
ProcurePro lands $11m to drag construction’s $13 trillion supply chain out of the spreadsheet era
Australian construction tech firm ProcurePro raises $11m at an $80m+ valuation, led by QIC Ventures, to scale its AI-driven procurement platform across the UK, Middle East and North America.
British Business Bank pledges £1m to close gender funding gap through Angel Academe partnership
British Business Bank invests £1m alongside Angel Academe to back female-led UK startups, tackling the venture capital gender gap where women receive under 2% of VC funding.
Singapore’s ‘Queen of Bond Street’ takes a seat at Heston Blumenthal’s table
Singapore billionaire Christina Ong’s Como Group has taken a controlling stake in Heston Blumenthal’s loss-making Fat Duck Group, paving the way for international expansion.
Beware the tax-break brigade: founders warned over EIS and SEIS investors who ‘don’t care about the outcome’
A leading global venture capital firm has cautioned that Britain’s flagship tax-incentivised investment schemes are leaving early-stage businesses stranded, with fewer than one in 25 companies funded solely through them ever raising another penny.
British Business Bank backs record-breaking Ineffable Intelligence raise as UK doubles down on superintelligence ambitions
The British Business Bank and the Government’s Sovereign AI Fund have backed David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence in Europe’s largest-ever seed round, worth $1.1bn.
Bubble Robotics surfaces from stealth with $5m to build the ocean’s autonomous workforce
Bubble Robotics has emerged from stealth with $5m in pre-seed funding to deploy persistent autonomous robots across offshore wind, subsea cables and maritime security operations.
British deep-tech start-up loc.ai raises £1m to break SMEs free from the cloud’s ‘inference tax’
British deep-tech start-up Loc.ai has raised £1m led by Fuel Ventures to shift AI inference off the cloud and onto users’ own devices, easing SaaS margin pressure and bolstering UK data sovereignty.
British Business Bank anchors Northern Gritstone’s £20m rolling close as northern deeptech push gathers pace
British Business Bank commits £10m as cornerstone investor in Northern Gritstone’s £20m rolling close, lifting the VC firm’s permanent capital to £382m to back Northern deeptech and life sciences spinouts.
Bezos’s physical AI lab Prometheus nears $10bn raise at $38bn valuation
Jeff Bezos’s physical AI venture Project Prometheus is closing in on a $10bn funding round at a $38bn valuation, with BlackRock and JPMorgan on board.
Craft Gin Club teeters on brink as Dragons’ Den darling pleads with bondholders
Sarah Willingham-backed Craft Gin Club warns of administration unless lenders approve a CVA wiping £4.2m of debt and ending free gin deliveries to bondholders.
Arrival secures £500,000 to untangle Britain’s broken utilities market for renters
UK fintech Arrival has raised £500,000 in a Fuel Ventures-led pre-seed round to cut tenant utility setup from half a day to under three minutes and tackle £470m in annual rent arrears.
