Disha Manocha

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Edinburgh-based HealthTech firm Snap40 mints £2m in seed round

Snap40 today announced it has raked in £2 million in Seed funding…

EdTech startup MEL Science receives $2.5M in Series A round from Sistema Venture Capital

MEL Science, a subscription EdTech service, has raised a $2.5m Series A funding…

AI accountability: ramp it up, say UK MPs

A UK parliamentary committee has recommended that the government act immediately and proactively to…

Recruitment tech startup Sonovate rakes in £9m

Sonovate, a finance and technology provider for contract recruitment, received £9 million…
waymo, google

Autonomous vehicle tested for the first time in UK in Milton Keynes

A public testing of the driverless car occurred for the first ever…
Occulus, Gear VR, Samsung, Facebook

IMAX is opening up its first VR Centre for Europe by year-end, in Manchester

IMAX, the movie mega-giant, is branching out smaller screens, yet still managing…

London-based Glisser gets $1M in seed, announces expansion into US market

Glisser, a London-based startup with a vision to put an end to…

Mobile payments app Flypay secures £3.5 million from food delivery firm Just Eat

Just Eat, the online takeout ordering giant, has invested in U.K. startup…
Facebook, applications

Facebook paid £4.2 million in corporate tax for 2015, 1,000 times more than the previous year

Public anger over tax avoidance seems looming on the horizon for Facebook.…

ISP TalkTalk fined £400,000 for miserably failing to secure userdata during 2015 cyber attack

A data breach by the UK ISP TalkTalk back in 2015 has…

Gig to launch its hospitality work-shift app with £1Mn seed funding

Gig, a London-based startup, has raised £1 million in seed funding to launch…

Glasgow-based customer loyalty platform Swipii rakes in $2.5m from LocalGlobe and others

Swipii, a startup providing a loyalty, marketing and customer relationship management suite…

OpenGamma scores a fresh $13.3 Mn investment in Series D from Accel and ICAP

SaaS-based fintech solutions provider, OpenGamma announced the closure of a $13.3 million…
uber, uberclub

uberPOOL users in London will now need to walk some distance to catch their rides

London’s one-way systems have literally hindered quick pick ups. But Uber’s latest…

HealthTech startup Healx secures £1.5m in Series A round of funding

HealthTech startup Healx has raked in funding worth £1.5 million in Series…

Mastercard brings biometric technology to Europe, take a selfie and pay !

Mastercard has hailed its new biometric technology to European countries including UK,…

Commerzbank joins Series C equity financing round of fintech lender Iwoca

As part of a new multi-million pound round of funding, Commerzbank has…

UK Government pledges £220m to boost technology in the country

It’s raining money for the technology sector. Or at least, it will…

Credit score provider Aire raises $2m in its latest funding round

Aire, a London based credit score provider that focuses on users without a…

Cybersecurity firm Darktrace keen to go public as its valuation surpasses $500Mn benchmark

Darktrace is a cyber security startup which has a particularly illustrious road…

Cambridge-based AI startup Prowler.io raises £1.5m in seed round

Cashing in investment from Passion Capital, Amadeus Capital and Infocomm Investments, AI startup Prowler.io…