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| 08.09.2026 | “We have a chance to build Britain’s first one trillion dollar company,” says executive at top UK chip startup | A top executive at one of the UK‘s hottest AI startups has made the bold claim that it has the potential to be Britain's first one trillion dollar company. Carmen Alfonso Rico is a VC-turned-angel investor-turned operator. Rico, who started... |
| 26.08.2026 | OpenAI’s Jalapeño AI chip brings new ‘threat’ to Nvidia margins as custom silicon gains ground | OpenAI’s first custom AI chip, Jalapeño, is expected to begin deployment in the company’s computing infrastructure by the end of the year.
Analysts told CNBC that it could put pressure on Nvidia in the fast-growing inference market and redu... |
| 22.08.2026 | Broadcom eyes $80 billion debt deal to fuel Anthropic’s AI chip ambitions | Broadcom is in talks with lenders to raise $70 billion to $80 billion in debt to finance a chip and computing infrastructure arrangement benefiting artificial intelligence companies, including Anthropic, as the AI industry races to secure t... |
| 20.08.2026 | Производитель ИИ-чипов Fractile ведет переговоры об оценке в $6,5 млрд после сделки с Anthropic | Британский стартап Fractile, разрабатывающий чипы для задач искусственного интеллекта и уже заключивший сделку с Anthropic PBC, ведет переговоры о раунде финансирования с оценкой в $6,5 млрд — более чем в шесть раз выше уровня, зафиксирован... |
| 20.08.2026 | Anthropic Bet $250M on Unshipped Silicon: Why Fractile Earned Pre-Revenue Contract | By Mark Rutherford
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| 20.08.2026 | UK AI startup Callosum raises $100M to rethink how AI uses models and chips, backed by Sovereign AI Fund | Callosum, a London AI startup founded last year, has raised $100 million in seed funding to tackle one of the industry’s increasingly expensive problems: deciding which AI model should run on which chip.
The company announced Thursday it ha... |
| 03.08.2026 | Olix Raises $312M at $3.3B Valuation To Scale Specialized AI Inference Silicon | As AI has exploded over the last few years, there have been different types of AI chips designed to solve different tasks. Olix raises $312 million to create one chip that handles every part of an AI model’s work. New York firm Fundomo led ... |
| 17.07.2026 | UK AI Funding Reaches Record £4.56BN in “Landmark” Quarter | AI firms in the UK raised a record £4.56 billion in equity funding in the second quarter fo 2026, accounting for 57% of all equity investment in the country, according to new data from Beauhurst.
Acorss the 1,070 equity deals in all UK sect... |
| 15.06.2026 | May 2026's top 10 European tech deals you need to know about | European tech activity in May 2026 was characterised by a decline in deal volume but a substantial increase in capital raised compared to April. The ecosystem recorded 258 funding deals and €10.5 billion raised, compared to 290 deals and €5... |
| 09.06.2026 | Britain Unleashes £1.1 Billion AI Hardware Push | Britain has unveiled a colossal £1.1 billion AI Hardware Plan, marking a decisive national commitment to the future of artificial intelligence. This extensive strategy targets the construction of a cutting-edge national AI supercomputer, sl... |
| 08.06.2026 | UK Launches New £1.1BN AI Hardware Plan | The UK announced a £1.1 billion plan to boost the country’s AI technology with a new AI Hardware Plan.
The plan sets out how the government will back UK companies developing the chips and semiconductor technologies behind AI, while also inv... |
| 08.06.2026 | Labour bets £1.1bn on Britain’s AI chip race | Keir Starmer’s government has unveiled a £1.1bn package aimed at turning Britain into a global AI hardware powerhouse, with ministers backing domestic chipmakers and pouring capital into training the next generation of engineers.
The new AI... |
| 19.05.2026 | Fractile Fuels AI Leap with $220M for Next-Gen Inference Chips | Fractile secured $220M in Series B funding to revolutionize AI inference hardware. The UK-based startup engineers chips that dramatically accelerate AI output generation. Current systems generate about 40 tokens per second, making complex t... |
| 19.05.2026 | Google and Blackstone take aim at Nvidia in $5bn AI bet | Alphabet’s Google and Blackstone are launching a $5bn (£3.7bn) AI infrastructure firm in one of the clearest signs yet that Big Tech is trying to loosen Nvidia’s grip on the AI boom.
The deal, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal, w... |
| 14.05.2026 | Outmarket AI Secures $17M Series A, Redefining Insurance Operations with Advanced AI | Outmarket AI, a San Francisco insurtech innovator, successfully raised $17 million in Series A funding. Permanent Capital Ventures spearheaded this round. The company's total funding now exceeds $21.7 million. This capital boost empowers Ou... |
| 14.05.2026 | Fractile: $220 Million Raised To Build Next-Generation AI Inference Hardware | Fractile announced it has raised $220 million to accelerate the development of a new generation of inference hardware designed to dramatically increase the speed and efficiency of frontier AI systems.
Founded in 2022, Fractile was created o... |
| 14.05.2026 | Fractile Raises $220M To Advance AI Inference Chip Development | Fractile Raises Major Funding To Scale Inference Hardware
Fractile has raised $220 million in Series B funding. The UK based startup is building specialised AI inference chips. These chips are built to make advanced AI systems faster and mo... |
| 13.05.2026 | UK AI chip startup Fractile raises $220M to tackle the growing inference bottleneck | UK company Fractile has today raised a $220M Series B as it continues to build next-generation inference hardware for AI.
The round was led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund, with participation from Conviction, Gigascale, O1A, Fe... |
| 13.05.2026 | Fractile lands $220m as ministers hail ‘vote of confidence’ in UK AI | British AI chip startup Fractile has raised $220m (£165m) in fresh funding with the government pointing to the deal as evidence the UK can produce globally competitive AI infrastructure companies.
The London-founded company, which is develo... |
| 13.05.2026 | Outmarket AI Raises $17M in Series A Funding | Outmarket AI, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI platform purpose-built for insurance, raised $17M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Permanent Capital Ventures, with participation from SignalFire, Fika Ventures, TTV Capital... |
| 13.05.2026 | Fractile Raises $220M in Series B Funding | Fractile, a London, United Kingdom-based AI inference chip company, raised $220m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund, with participation from Conviction, Gigascale, O1A, Felicis, Buckley Ventu... |
| 06.05.2026 | Fractile vs Nvidia: can a UK startup undercut AI’s chip darling? | A little-known British startup is beginning to test one of the biggest assumptions underpinning the AI boom: that Nvidia will remain the unavoidable centre of the ecosystem.
Founded in 2022 by Oxford researcher Walter Goodwin, Fractile is a... |
| 07.03.2026 | UK AI Ambitions Face Geopolitical Reality Check | Britain drives to become an AI superpower. UK chip startup Fractile pledges a massive £100 million investment. This move bolsters domestic AI hardware. The government champions sovereign tech. It urges bold risks and innovation. Yet, a star... |
| 06.03.2026 | How geopolitics is influencing investment | The UK’s classification of AI as critical infrastructure is being paradoxically balanced by increasingly strict national security scrutiny on ownership, investment, and partnerships, introducing political risk into the innovation pipeline, ... |
| 10.02.2026 | Chipmaker Fractile to Invest £100m to Back UK’s AI Ambitions | UK chipmaker Fractile is set to invest £100 million to ramp up its domestic operations over the next three years, with plans to build a state-of-the-art engineering facility in Bristol that will support the production of next-gen AI chips.
... |
| 10.02.2026 | Fractile pledges £100m UK expansion amid AI chip push | UK chip start-up Fractile has announced a £100m expansion of its British operations, scaling up in London and Bristol as ministers step up calls for greater domestic ownership of critical AI.
The investment, which will be rolled out over th... |
| 10.02.2026 | UK tech startups urged to take bold risks, by AI minister, as chip startup Fractile invests £100M | UK tech startups are being urged to take bold risks, by the UK’s AI minister, saying the government will back them, as a UK chip startup pledges to invest £100m in its business.
The call comes as the UK government looks to make the UK an AI... |
| 05.02.2026 | China ties force co-founder exit at UK AI startup Fractile | Co-founder of British AI chip startup Fractile left the company after concerns were raised internally about his links to China amid growing scrutiny of national security risks across the UK’s strategic tech sector.
Yuhang Song, Fractile’s f... |
| 07.07.2025 | Nvidia challenger Groq expands with first European data center | Groq said it has established its first European data center in partnership with Equinix.
The AI semiconductor startup is looking to take advantage of rising demand for AI services in Europe following other U.S. companies also ramping up inv... |
| 06.05.2025 | “We are sprinting towards implementation of our first chip”, says UK startup in AI inference race | The founder of a UK chip developer looking to take on Nvidia and US tech firms in the AI chip race says he hopes to bring its chips to market in 2027- and claims they can run LLMs (Large Language Models) faster, cheaper and more energy effi... |
| 25.10.2024 | Fractile receives £5M from ARIA Scaling Compute programme | UK-based deeptech Fractile has £5M in funding from the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) programme. Fractile is one of 12 projects to receive an award; ARIA is handing out almost £50M in total.
ARIA's programme, Scaling Compute, a... |
| 15.10.2024 | Q3 2024’s Seed deal boom: Europe’s top tech startups to watch | The Tech.eu Q3 2024 Report reveals that European tech companies raised €11 billion across 891 deals during the third quarter.
Approximately 14% of these companies successfully closed seed rounds, amounting to nearly half a billion euros (€4... |
| 26.07.2024 | The Battlefield of Innovation: Fractile's Leap in AI Hardware | In the world of technology, innovation is a relentless tide. It sweeps away the old and ushers in the new. Fractile, a UK-based AI chip company, has emerged from the shadows, announcing a $15 million seed funding round. Founded by Walter Go... |
| 26.07.2024 | Fractile Raises $15M in Seed Funding | Fractile, a London, UK-based developer of a new AI chip for AI models, raised $15M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Kindred Capital, NATO Innovation Fund, and Oxford Science Enterprises, with participation from Cocoa and Inovia Capital... |
| 26.07.2024 | Fractile secures $15M funding for better hardware for AI inference | UK AI chip company Fractile has today exited stealth and announced $15 million in Seed funding.
Founded in 2022 by 28-year-old artificial intelligence PhD, Walter Goodwin, Fractile s building its first new AI chip, capable of running state-... |
| 26.07.2024 | London-based Fractile exits stealth with €13.8 million seed to develop radical new AI chip | Fractile, a UK company building a groundbreaking new AI chip to deliver exponential performance improvements for AI models, has exited stealth and announced €13.8 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Kindred Capital, NATO Innova... |
| - | Fondul NATO pentru Inovare susține un fond de investiții polonez care a finanțat startup-urile românești FintechOS și Veridion | Fondul NATO pentru Inovare (NIF) a anunțat, marți, că susține o serie de fonduri de investiții europene, printre care și OTB Ventures din Polonia, care a finanțat în trecut și stratup-urile românești FintechOS și Veridion. |
| - | Fractile | “Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.” |
