London's Scarlet has raised $50 million to speed up approval of AI medical devices, and its figures show how review time shapes a founder's release pace.

The amount was not disclosed and neither was the stake. That combination is normal for corporate strategic investment and worth understanding before a founder accepts one.

A supervisory priority is not a rule change. It is a decision about where inspectors look, and from 2027 they will be looking at how firms use tokenisation with customers.

The round is one of the largest into a UK life sciences company this year, and the capital setting its price came from the United States.

Project Ventures, a solo GP fund backed mostly by Imperial College London alumni, reached a £1.2m first close on 21 September 2026 towards a £5m target, writing £100,000 to £300,000 cheques into deeptech and AI founders.

Metris Energy, whose founder spent three years assessing energy technology companies as a venture investor, has raised a seed round that includes her former employer. The round backs software that makes existing renewable energy assets easier to run, rather than new generation capacity.

A tax insight from gunnercooke on how tokenising shares interacts with EIS and SEIS relief, and how much of the liquidity story you can safely tell at the point of issue. A tax perspective, not legal advice.

Hiten Patel, Oliver Wyman's global head of financial infrastructure, technology and services, has put a specific number on a question that UK tokenisation platforms, custodians and investors keep asking in vaguer terms: how much of today's financial market infrastructure revenue is actually at stake

While public software stocks have taken a beating and social feeds have spent six weeks declaring a SaaSpocalypse, one UK seed investor's own portfolio numbers tell a calmer story about what is actually happening inside early stage software companies.

London based AI Score has raised 5.4 million dollars in seed funding to scale a platform that gives organisations visibility and control over how generative and agentic AI is actually used across their operations, a founder access story that sits squarely in the UK's crowded but under capitalised en

Asset manager Bitwise has launched a set of automated portfolios built on Coinbase's tokenised US stocks, letting eligible non-US investors follow preset investment strategies while keeping their tokens in their own wallets rather than handing custody to a fund manager.

Franklin Templeton has extended its flagship tokenised money market fund into Asia, partnering with Hong Kong based HashKey Exchange to give digital asset investors across the region access to a blockchain based US government liquidity product through a licensed exchange for the first time.

QuantumLight, the venture firm founded by Revolut chief executive Nik Storonsky, has closed 500 million dollars for its second fund, doubling the size of the 250 million dollar debut vehicle it closed just over a year ago. Sifted reported the close on 18 August, citing people familiar with the deal.