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| Jul 3, 2026 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | June 2026 | Welcome to June 2026’s edition of Movers & Shakers.
This month saw a flurry of Scottish expansions, appointments, and partnerships before the summer
June saw a range of major cloud and AI partnerships as well as appointments for some ma... |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Multiverse Launches Edinburgh AI Tech Hub | Multiverse, the upskilling platform for AI and tech adoption, announced the opening of a new technology hub in Edinburgh.
Following its recent $70m funding round, the hub marks an expansion of Multiverse’s engineering footprint, placing an ... |
| May 18, 2026 | Multiverse Raises $70M in Primary Funding | Multiverse, a London, UK-based provider of a platform for AI and tech adoption, raised $70M in primary funding.
The round was led by Schroders Capital, with participation from existing investors including General Catalyst, Lightspeed Ventur... |
| May 18, 2026 | Multiverse Raises $70M to Expand AI Training in Europe | Multiverse has raised $70 million in primary funding. With this fresh cash injection, Multiverse seeks to create Europe’s infrastructure for popularising workforce AI. It’s a long-overdue solution to a painful bottleneck for many enterprise... |
| May 15, 2026 | Euan Blair’s Multiverse raises $70M at $2.1BN valuation | Euan Blair’s Multiverse has raised £70m in fresh funding, as it looks to expand across Europe and take a chunk of the enterprise AI training market.
The funding round in the edtech, which originally specialised in digital apprenticeships at... |
| Apr 20, 2026 | AI Tools Everyone Will Use in 2026: Best Apps for Work, Creativity, and Daily Life | By Glanze Patrick
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| Feb 24, 2026 | Top entrepreneurs demand ‘radical reset’ in new campaign | Britain is entrenched in a narrative of decline that can only be reversed with a radical political and cultural reset, a group of top entrepreneurs has warned at the launch of a campaign to improve the investment and trading environment for... |
| Feb 19, 2026 | Exclusive: Octopus to swerve new private stock exchange | Octopus Energy will not join the delayed Pisces private stock market when it launches, its boss Greg Jackson has said, in a sign the utilities giant is distancing itself from the project after attending an event for interested companies las... |
| Jan 29, 2026 | MoD Signs £240M Contract with US-owned Palantir | The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded US tech company Palantir with a £240.6 million contract over three-years to work on its data analytics.
The deal will start on 1 April; the contract was described as an agreement “for continued l... |
| Jan 28, 2026 | UK Gov Plans Free AI Training for All in Industry Tie Up | Every adult in the UK is eligible to take free, newly benchmarked courses to gain practical AI skills for work – as the joint government and industry programme sees a major expansion to upskill 10 million workers.
In order to make Britain t... |
| Jan 5, 2026 | Euan Blair edtech Multiverse laid off dozens more staff after losses widened | An edtech firm founded by Tony Blair’s son Euan laid off dozens more staff after reporting widening losses, its latest accounts show.
Multiverse, which was launched in 2016 and hit a valuation of £1.2bn in a 2022 funding round, said it made... |
| Dec 4, 2025 | Movers and Shakers | November 2025 | Welcome to Novembers 2025’s edition of Movers & Shakers.
As the year continues to wind down, the Scottish tech scene shows no signs of hibernation. Last month saw a pristine award ceremony, major appointments for a top cyber firm, and a... |
| Nov 12, 2025 | CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter: Rightmove’s AI gamble is a cautionary tale for UK investors | Rightmove’s stock price correction clipped nearly £634 million ($833.4 million) from its market valuation.
The company’s plan to increase its investments in AI raises questions over how British companies may or may not be rewarded by bets o... |
| Oct 8, 2025 | From community roots to AI ambitions: byFounders shapes the 'New Nordics’ next chapter | In a region famed for its collaborative spirit and global tech champions, byFounders has emerged as one of the most influential early-stage venture capital funds in the Nordics and Baltics.
Headquartered in Copenhagen, the firm backs global... |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Manas AI Secures $26M Seed Extension, Bolstering AI Drug Discovery | Manas AI, a leader in AI-driven drug discovery, announced a $26 million seed extension. This capital accelerates its mission. The company develops faster, more precise, and cost-efficient medicines. Ujjwal Singh now serves as Co-Founder and... |
| Sep 25, 2025 | It’s Not Just Tech Workers Upskilling with AI | The UK’s AI workforce is not confined to tech hubs and software developers, new research from Multiverse found, as workers outside of the traditional tech sphere take on AI.
Instead, an “invisible” AI workforce of nurses, librarians, survey... |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Manas AI: $26 Million Seed Extension Closed For AI-Based Drug Discovery Platform | Manas AI, a company dedicated to revolutionizing drug discovery and development through the use of artificial intelligence, has successfully closed a $26 million Seed Extension funding round. This significant investment will enable the comp... |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Startups tell Labour to snatch talent ‘displaced’ by Trump’s H-1B fee | An entrepreneur campaign group backed by executives at top UK businesses has urged the Labour government to re-design its Global Talent visa to take innovators “displaced” by President Trump’s radical changes to the H-1B visa.
The Startup C... |
| Sep 11, 2025 | Cassidy Secures $10 Million: Fueling Non-Technical AI Automation | Cassidy, an innovative New York City-based AI automation platform, successfully secured $10 million in Series A funding. HOF Capital led this significant investment round. The capital injection will fuel aggressive platform enhancements and... |
| Sep 9, 2025 | Cassidy Raises $10M in Series A Funding | Cassidy, a NYC-based provider of a context-powered AI automation platform for non-technical teams, raised $10M in Series A funding.
The round was led by HOF Capital, with participation from The General Partnership, Neo, Alumni Ventures, and... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Santander Orders Mandatory AI Training for All Staff | Banking giant Santander has announced it will launch mandatory AI training for all of its employees starting next year amid plans to scale up the use of the technology across all areas of its business.
Outlining the latest AI strategy, Banc... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | CreateFuture Secures Partnership with Skyscanner | CreateFuture has secured a technology partnership with Skyscanner which will see the digital consultancy work closely with the global travel marketplace’s tech teams across its Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, and Barcelona officers in areas inc... |
| Aug 6, 2025 | What Are the Top Human Skills Needed for AI Success? | As reports trickle in saying that GenAI is diminishing critical thinking, researchers at Multiverse have identified 13 durable skills the UK workforce can adopt to ensure AI adoption has a positive impact.
A human skills deficit can threate... |
| Aug 4, 2025 | Debenhams Launches AI Skills Academy to Boost Workforce | Debenhams Group, the online firm behind brands including Debenhams, PrettyLittleThing, boohoo, boohooMAN and Karen Millen, has launched its AI Skills Academy – a new programme to equip employees with practical AI skills.
The Academy is bein... |
| Jul 9, 2025 | Europe’s AI Wave Has Sparked a Tech Funding Rebound | European tech funding has reached new heights, fuelled by a surge of AI-led innovation that has seen a recovery in megarounds and an acceleration in unicorn creation, according to a new report from GP Bullhound.
The tech advisory and invest... |
| Jul 2, 2025 | The Rise of Pisces: A New Era for Private Market Trading | The financial landscape is shifting. The introduction of the Pisces private stock market is like a breath of fresh air for growth-stage companies. This new platform, backed by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), aims to bridge the liqui... |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Exclusive: Revolut, Octopus mull joining Pisces | Revolut, Octopus and Oaknorth are among billion-pound businesses weighing joining the new Pisces private stock market after being courted by prospective operator London Stock Exchange Group, City AM can reveal.
The fast-growing firms were p... |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Стартап Wordsmith AI с украинским сооснователем привлек $25 млн | Раунд финансирования серии A Legal Tech стартапа Wordsmith AI возглавил фонд Index Ventures. Также к раунду присоединилась организация Scottish Enterprise. Благодаря инвестиции оценка Wordsmith превысила $100 млн, что делает ее одной из сам... |
| Jun 9, 2025 | Multiverse powers national AI drive with 15,000 new apprenticeships | Today, the upskilling platform for tech and AI adoption Multiverse announces a commitment to train 15,000 new AI apprentices over the next two years.
Multiverse has partnered with over 1,500 companies in the US & UK to deliver a new kin... |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Wordsmith AI: $25 Million Series A Raised For Scaling Legal AI Agent Infrastructure | Wordsmith AI announced it has secured a $25 million Series A led by Index Ventures to scale its AI infrastructure that deploys legal agents across organisations to guide them to outcomes faster.
With AI transforming the legal profession and... |
| Jun 4, 2025 | Wordsmith AI: The Dawn of Legal Tech Transformation | In the heart of Edinburgh, a revolution is brewing. Wordsmith AI, a legal technology startup, has just secured a hefty $25 million in Series A funding. This investment, led by Index Ventures, is not just a financial boost; it’s a signal fla... |
| Jun 4, 2025 | Wordsmith AI Raises $25M in Series A Funding | Wordsmith AI, an Edinburgh, Scotland, UK-based legal intelligence company, raised $25M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Index Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.
Led by C... |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Wordsmith AI Raises $25 Million Series A from Index Ventures to Deploy Fleets of Legal AI Agents and Power the Rise of Legal Engineers | Wordsmith AI has secured a $25m series A led by Index Ventures to scale its AI infrastructure that deploys legal agents across organisations to guide them to outcomes faster. With AI transforming the legal profession and giving rise to enti... |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Scots Startup Wordsmith AI Raises $25M Series A | Edinburgh-based startup Wordsmith AI has secured a $25 million (£18.5m~) Series A, led by venture capital firm Index Ventures.
The Series A funding, which also comes from the likes of Scottish Enterprise, will be used to scale the startup’s... |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Wordsmith AI raises $25M for agentic legaltech | Edinburgh-based legal technology startup Wordsmith AI has raised a $25 million Series A round, led by Index Ventures. The company, which builds AI infrastructure to deploy fleets of legal agents across organisations, is capitalising on the ... |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Gentrace: $8 Million (Series A) Secured By GenAI Testing And Monitoring Company | Gentrace – a developer platform for testing and monitoring generative AI applications – announced an $8 million Series A funding round led by Matrix Partners, with participation from Headline and K9 Ventures. The funding round, bringing Gen... |
| Nov 26, 2024 | UK Fintech iwoca Announces Fund to Help SMEs Build Expertise in AI and Data Analytics | Listen to this article
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| Sep 6, 2024 | Multiverse Assembles AI Advisory Board to Guide Workforce Transformation Efforts | Multiverse, the British EdTech that uses skills diagnostics and applied learning programs to unlock economic opportunity, today announced the formation of its Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board. The board, composed of luminaries from ac... |
| Sep 6, 2024 | Multiverse Assembles AI Advisory Board to Guide Workforce Transformation Efforts | LONDON, Sept. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Multiverse, the British EdTech that uses skills diagnostics and applied learning programs to unlock economic opportunity, today announced the formation of its Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board. The... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | Data Skills Gap Leading to Productivity Shortfalls | Data skills gaps are expounding into productivity gaps across industries, with workers on average losing 25 days of productivity a year due to inefficient completion of data tasks.
This is according to a new report from Mutliverse Skills, w... |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Data Skills Gap Costs Businesses Nearly a Month of Productivity Per Employee Annually, Multiverse Skills Diagnosis Reveals | NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Businesses are grappling with a significant productivity drain due to widespread data skills gaps among their workforce. According to data from Multiverse, a skills intelligence and development platfor... |
| Jul 29, 2024 | VDS: Steve Chen, Randi Zuckerberg, and Juan Antonio Samaranch Lead Lineup of Top Speakers at Valencia’s Premier Tech Event | VDS, one of Southern Europe's most prominent international tech events, will take place on October 23-24, at the iconic City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia. Featuring a lineup of stellar business leaders from major companies and top ventu... |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Ashby: $30 Million Raised To Help Companies Scale Hiring Processes | Ashby, a recruiting platform that helps companies efficiently scale hiring, announced it has raised an additional $30 million in equity financing. Lachy Groom, who also led Ashby’s seed round, led the Series C funding round, which included ... |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Top UK Tech Firms Surpass National Gender Pay Gap Average | According to the most recent gender pay gap filings mandated by the government, tech companies such as Revolut, Checkout.com, and Starling, among others, exhibit disparities in pay between male and female employees that exceed the national ... |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Multiverse Acquires Searchlight | Searchlight Founders – Kerry and Anna Wang
Multiverse, a NYC-based tech company that delivers apprenticeship that combines education, work and technology to create equitable access to economic opportunity, acquired Searchlight, a San Franci... |
| Apr 9, 2024 | UK edtech unicorn Multiverse acquires AI intelligence platform Searchlight | Today, UK tech company Multiverse acquired AI talent software company Searchlight to help businesses close skills gaps.
Multiverse combines work and learning to deliver equitable access to economic opportunity. It closes the critical skill ... |
| Apr 8, 2024 | Multiverse, the apprenticeship unicorn, acquires Searchlight to put a focus on AI | Multiverse, the U.K. unicorn that builds apprenticeship programs for people to learn technology skills while on the job, has made an acquisition as it aims to skill up itself. The company has bought Searchlight, a startup that builds AI-bas... |
| Mar 8, 2024 | 10 female-founded unicorns to watch | In their recently published report “All In: Female Founders in the European VC Ecosystem” PitchBook revealed the top 10 female-founded unicorns by most recent post-money valuation.
According to the report, the number of female-founded compa... |
| Nov 21, 2023 | Parkwalk supports ‘Founders at the University of Cambridge’ pre-seed accelerator | Along with 100 experts from Graphcore, Arm, Google and Stripe, we are proud to support the Founders at the University of Cambridge, with Cambridge Enterprise, aiding the next generation of start-ups. This new initiative is the first pre-see... |
| Oct 25, 2023 | Euan Blair’s Multiverse quietly shelves school-leaver mission as growing pains set in | Euan Blair’s educational technology firm Multiverse has quietly shelved its mission of getting school leavers into jobs in a restructuring that former employees claim has created a “cut-throat” culture of “fear”, City A.M. can reveal.... |
| Aug 4, 2023 | 6 startup founders gaze into a future-of-work crystal ball | The excitement around remote work reached fever pitch during the pandemic, when most people with an office job were forced to work from home. This opened up conversations about what the future of work looks like, with a lot of attention pai... |
| Jun 22, 2023 | UK-based Supercritical secures €11.8M to scale its carbon removal marketplace | London-based Supercritical, a software platform that helps businesses reach carbon net zero and tackle the climate crisis, announced on Thursday that it has raised $13M (approximately €11.81M) in a Series A round of funding.
The round was l... |
| May 23, 2023 | Multiverse acquires Danish edtech Eduflow to scale its tech apprenticeship operation | UK founded tech apprenticeships provider Multiverse has acquired its first company, the Danish edtech training platform Eduflow. The acquisition will allow the unicorn to scale its operation.
Multiverse provides a different learning model t... |
| May 22, 2023 | Multiverse Acquires Eduflow | Multiverse, a London, UK-based training company which specializes in data analysis and software engineering, acquired Eduflow, a Danish education startup.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
With the acquisition, Multiverse will offer... |
| Dec 6, 2022 | Навигатор венчурного рынка HR-tech: ежемесячный аналитический обзор | Привет! На связи Оксана Погодаева — управляющий партнёр инвестиционного фонда HR&ED-tech. Каждый месяц мы с Евгением Вольновым, руководителем венчурного направления в hh.ru, экс-директором по инновациям и развитию цифровых продуктов ИД ... |
| Jun 9, 2022 | ARK’s Cathie Wood weighs in on venture capital and her plans to launch a crossover fund | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Venture capitalists may be predicting trouble ahead for the private markets—but Cathie Wood has a... |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Multiverse Raises $220M in Series D Funding; Valued at $1.7 Billion | Multiverse, a London, UK-based apprenticeship company, closed a $220m Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.7 billion.
The round, which brought total funding to over $400m, was co-led by StepStone Group, and returning inves... |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Multiverse nabs $220M at a $1.7B valuation to expand its tech apprenticeship platform | We’ve been tracking a worrying trend of layoffs in the technology industry, but that is not the full story. There is, concurrently, a wave of organizations that are also in the process of training and hiring to fill a number of technology-r... |
| Nov 1, 2021 | Multiverse – Internship Zoomer-style by Alexander Gornyi | The post was originally published in Russian on Startup of the Day. Alexander kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers.
‘Forget everything you learned at school, you’re not gonna need it.’
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| Oct 22, 2021 | Travis Perkins : launches data apprenticeships to boost future skills | Travis Perkins launches data apprenticeships to boost future skills
Industry first addition to the company's 40-strong apprenticeship offering
Will improve data literacy and understanding across the Group
First 40 colleagues already enrolle... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | Multiverse, the tech-focused apprenticeship startup, nabs $130M at an $875M valuation | After rebranding from White Hat and raising $44 million earlier this year, tech apprenticeship startup Multiverse has raised another round of funding. The company today announced that it has closed $130 million in a Series C round.
The fund... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | Amplitude CEO’s ode to scrutiny ahead of going public | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| Sep 21, 2021 | Introducing: the 15 companies joining Future Fifty 2021 | We are excited to announce the latest group of 15 home-grown tech companies selected for Tech Nation’s prestigious Future Fifty programme, now entering its tenth year.
The companies represent world-leading innovations across more than 10 s... |
| May 12, 2021 | Salesforce com : How Salesforce Is Opening the Doors of Opportunity for Untapped Talent | Young people, particularly Black and Latinx individuals, faced the highest increases in unemployment due to the pandemic, making our commitment to untapped talent more important than ever.At Salesforce we define untapped talent as young peo... |
| Apr 23, 2021 | Since colleges are failing to prepare students for tech jobs, it’s time to bring back apprenticeships | Sophie Ruddock Contributor
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| Jan 20, 2021 | This edtech startup founded by former British PM Tony Blair’s son secures €36M funding to fuel apprenticeship | Talents are everywhere, but the opportunities are often not! For numerous students finding a job opportunity or internship depends on the on-campus career counsellors. Also, there’s a belief that university, supplemented by corporate traini... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | UK’s WhiteHat rebrands as Multiverse, raises $44M to build tech apprenticeships in the US | University education is getting more expensive, and at the moment it feels a bit like a Petri dish for infections, but the long-term trends continue to show a dramatic growth in the number of people worldwide getting degrees beyond high sch... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | UK’s Multiverse, formerly WhiteHat, books $44 million to expand apprenticeship model to US | London-based education and career platform Multiverse, formerly known as WhiteHat, has announced a hefty $44 million Series B funding round in addition to the rebranding. The company will expand across the UK, with plans to create two hundr... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | Multiverse completes $44 Million Series B Funding Round to Bring College Alternative to the U.S. Market | Multiverse Apprentices
Multiverse, a U.K.-based startup tech company focused on high-quality education and training through a unique apprenticeship model, today announced the closing of a $44 million Series B funding round to launch techno... |
| SCOTT GALLOWAY: Our kids are falling behind at school due to the pandemic. Teachers aren't going to fix it. | "Back to school 2021 feels more like 'Stranger Things' than the fall ritual we grew up with," writes Scott Galloway. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
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| Apprenticeship opportunities finder Multiverse masters $130 million | London’s apprenticeship finder Multiverse has found $130 million of its own in a Series C funding round. This funding arrives just 8 months since the company’s healthy $44 million Series B round, and now gives the startup a total of $194 mi... |
| Британский образовательный стартап Multiverse привлёк $44 млн от фонда Google и других Статьи редакции | Стартап помогает проходить стажировки в крупных компаниях, например, Facebook, Morgan Stanley и Microsoft.
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| Startups Weekly Round Up – 13 February | Welcome to Startups’ Weekly Round Up, where we bring you the latest headlines to keep you in the SME loop.
The highlights this week:
The government has announced the creation of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)
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| What I’m looking forward to at the first-ever One Earth Summit | Diane Brady here, filling in for Peter Vanham.
I’m excited to be heading tonight to Hong Kong, where I started my career as a reporter. Since COP28 concluded, it’s clear that we have a long way to go in combating the global climate challeng... |
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| Multiverse | “We’re building a world where tech skills unlock people’s potential. We deliver professional apprenticeships to boost productivity and upskill talent for jobs of the future.” |
