Growth
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Defence delay exposes procurement gap
Delays to the UK Defence Investment Plan have left technology suppliers without clear demand signals.
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UnlikelyAI hires leaders for enterprise scale
UnlikelyAI’s new COO and CTO appointments sharpen its push into explainable enterprise AI.
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Osney closes UK cyber seed fund
Osney’s £60 million fund shows cyber investment moving closer to national resilience.
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Persistent deal tests Europe’s engineering market
Persistent’s planned Nagarro takeover would create a larger AI-era digital engineering group.
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Spain backs Openchip’s AI chip push
Spain’s backing for Openchip moves semiconductor policy closer to Europe’s AI compute bottleneck.
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One Identity chooses Cork for independence
One Identity is putting Cork at Europe’s identity security centre.
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Ireland pushes Europe’s capital market deal
Ireland says Europe’s capital markets deal remains reachable this year politically.
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Defence tech draws venture capital in
Defence technology is pulling venture capital into Europe’s security economy.
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France steers capital into tech sovereignty
France is steering institutional capital towards Europe’s strategic technology companies.
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UK SMEs double AI use
Google Cloud says UK small and midsize businesses have nearly doubled AI use in a year, with adoption moving into customer support, finance, data analysis, and employee agents.



