Portia AI raises £4.4m to help developers build AI agents

Posted by: Simon Baxter 17 April 2025

Portia AI, a London-based startup building open-source tools for production-grade AI agents, has raised £4.4m in seed funding. The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from First Minute Capital and Stem AI. The funding will be ...

Leidos and Moveworks to bring Agentic AI to the Public Sector

Posted by: Marc Hardwick 16 April 2025

The adoption of Agentic AI is one of the big trends of 2025 as AI agents increasing become our new co-workers. It's also one of the key ways in which Government is looking to drive much needed productivity improvements. To capitalise on these dyn...

Mindset AI raises £4.3m for embedded AI agents

Posted by: Simon Baxter 16 April 2025

Mindset AI, a London based provider of an embedded AI agent platform has raised £4.3m in funding to support the development of its natural language programming interface, expand its APIs, SDKs, and no-code tools, and scale its go-to-market effo...

OneAdvanced launches sovereign AI service

Posted by: Simon Baxter 09 April 2025

AI (with adoption assistance) dominates at Oracle and NetSuite events

Posted by: Craig Wentworth 01 April 2025

‘Better Capita’ looks to improve profitability on declining revenue

Posted by: Marc Hardwick 05 March 2025

UK Financial Services SITS Supplier Prospects 2025

Posted by: Jon C Davies 06 February 2025

This report profiles the performance and prospects of the top 10 leading SITS vendors (by revenue) active in the UK Financial Services sector. It explores the recent progress of each of these companies, highlights some of the latest developments and ...

Plans and progress of UK government AI adoption

Posted by: Simon Baxter 22 January 2025

The UK government released two new reports in January 2025, the ‘State of digital government review’ and ‘A blueprint for modern digital government’, along with several further press releases, all of which further outlined the...

Disruptors & Innovators: AI in sustainability

Posted by: Craig Wentworth 21 January 2025

This report looks at ten disruptive and innovative suppliers in the field of AI in sustainability whose offerings leverage the technology across a number of use cases. Some bring sector-specific applicability – in manufacturing, energy, ag...

Totally Sust #7: Sustainability tracking and circularity

Posted by: Craig Wentworth 09 January 2025

The seventh episode in TechMarketView's Totally Sust podcast series features an interview with Mathias Boomah (Head of Automotive Germany for Eviden) and Christoph Sturnardle (Director of Technology Adoption at IOTA). Here subscribers to Sustainabili...

Totally Sust #6: Wind-as-a-Service: Wing-sail solutions to decarbonise global shipping

Posted by: Craig Wentworth 05 December 2024

The sixth episode in TechMarketView's Totally Sust podcast series features an interview with Di Gilpin (Founder & CEO at Smart Green Shipping) and Henry Smith (Chartering Manager at MOL, the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines shipping business). Here subscribers to...

Totally Sust #5 - Sustainability intelligence & product impact scoring (Dayrize & Products of Change)

Posted by: Craig Wentworth 07 November 2024

The fifth episode in TechMarketView's Totally Sust podcast series features an interview with Bart Nollen (Co-Founder of Dayrize) and Helena Mansell-Stopher (Founder & CEO of Products of Change). Here subscribers to SustainabilityViews can hear the fu...

*UKHotViewsExtra* AI (with adoption assistance) dominates at Oracle and NetSuite events

Posted by: Craig Wentworth 01 April 2025

Both Oracle and Oracle NetSuite held their flagship UK customer events in London recently, and AI advancements stood behind the major announcements for both companies. Whilst Oracle’s news focused on big AI infrastructure investments and mul...

*UKHotViewsExtra* Spring Statement prioritises defence technology spending 

Posted by: Dale Peters 27 March 2025

Given the government’s commitment to holding just one major fiscal event each year in the autumn, yesterday’s Spring Statement was supposed to have been a minor update. However, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) reduced its real ...

The corrosive influence of tech-enabled organised crime

Posted by: Dale Peters 19 March 2025

Europol has published its annual European Union Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (EU-SOCTA) report. It highlights the destabilising and corrosive influence criminal networks are having on society and how, driven by the exploitation of ne...