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Sprive raises $10m Series A seven months after £50,000 Dragons' Den deal
The mortgage app says it has 567,000 registered users and an £18m annual revenue run rate. Its round is a rounding error next to Britain's biggest tech deals this year.
Allica applies for Swedish licence months after $1.2bn valuation
The UK business lender has filed with Sweden's regulator, hired four executives and set up a local entity. Its £4bn UK loan book now shares management attention with a second country.
Ramp built its own coding agent with 5.5 people
The fintech turned down off-the-shelf coding agents and wrote its own. It says 75% of merged pull requests now come from it, and the team that maintains it is four engineers, a director and a part-time PM.
Humanities PhD dropout raised $92m for AI billing startup Tabs
Ali Hussain left Oxford two months into a doctorate, spent six years learning operations at a 10-person startup, then hired a technical co-founder to cover what he could not do himself.
Rillet raises $100m in 48 hours after a board meeting
The AI accounting company was not fundraising. It showed investors a quarter in which annualised revenue doubled, and a $1bn valuation followed two days later.
New York City gives four prediction market firms 14 days
City consumer-protection officials have demanded answers from Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini over marketing that may be deceptive. Any founder advertising financial upside should read the deadline as a warning.