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Events for your diary!

With spring on the horizon, and diaries filling up, we wanted to share a few details about tech and venture capital events we’re particularly excited about. By no means a comprehensive list, but a selection of the ones not to miss in the coming months from us and our partners – and we hope to […]

Startup taking shipping industry paperless sails to six-figure Pre-seed round from Jenson Funding Partners

23 February 2023, London – eTEU, a SaaS platform that removes the need for physical shipping paperwork, has secured a new round of funding from early-stage focused venture capital firm Jenson Funding Partners alongside Larix Equity, Pinto Ventures, and a number of angel investors including Nils Wemhoener, former Head of Logistics for Amazon Europe, Joao […]

Google, Apple, BT and Arm executives to speak at the world’s first Cambridge Tech Week

22 February 2023, Cambridge: Cambridge will host the inaugural Cambridge Tech Week (CTW23) from 9-12 May 2023, celebrating the ideas of the future in artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors and quantum technologies. CTW23 positions the city and the UK in the world spotlight by uniting companies, organisations and academic institutions and showcasing the best of the […]

Ubisoft-owned game Brawlhalla pushes industry benchmark on accessibility with Speechmatics

Cambridge, UK – February 22, 2023 – Speechmatics, the world’s leading speech-to-text API scaleup, has joined forces with Ubisoft to provide improved accessibility for leading free-to-play (F2P) game ‘Brawlhalla’. There has been an increase in inclusive design practices within the video game industry over the past few years, and now live captioning enables a wider […]

First-of-its-kind lab launches to build AI-powered future of insurance

Mind Foundry, an AI company that develops AI to solve the world’s most important problems, has launched a new research lab in Oxford, England in partnership with the global insurance brand Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance (ANDI) and Aioi Nissay Dowa Europe (AND-E), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ANDI. The Aioi R&D Lab – Oxford brings together […]

Open letter to Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology

The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Whitehall, SW1.   14th February 2023   Dear Secretary of State, We represent a cross-section of the UK’s innovation ecosystem, with decades of experience in building, investing in, and supporting high-growth companies.  The creation of the new Department of Science, Innovation […]

Auction management software platform Artisio hammers out £250,000 investment

2 February 2023, London – Artisio, complete front to back auction management solution, has secured £250,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by early-stage focused venture capital firm Jenson Funding Partners. The funding will help Artisio reach a global auction market looking to streamline the way online auctions are run. The auction industry has been […]

Clinical trials platform Ascension-Q lands £250,000 round from Jenson Funding Partners

11 January 2023, London – Ascension-Q, the clinical research operating system, has secured £250,000 in a pre-seed round led by early-stage focused venture capital firm Jenson Funding Partners. The funding will be used by the startup to continue its mission of enabling as many hospitals and clinics as possible in the UK and Ireland to […]

Living with nature: how are growth companies building biodiversity into their business models?

There are two facts about diversity which are not up for debate. The first is widely known and mostly accepted; the second less so. Fact number one: biodiversity is being destroyed at an alarming rate. Fact number two: Biodiversity loss has massive implications for businesses. Many don’t appreciate the impact that biodiversity loss has on […]

Thank you, and Happy New Year!

There were, however, two certainties for us at FieldHouse Associates. First, we would proudly celebrate our 10th year anniversary – and second, we would continue to deliver impact for innovative fast-growth tech businesses, VCs, and ecosystem enables alike just as we have for the last decade. Thank you to everyone who has trusted us to tell their stories and make sure […]

Start-up, scale-up, don’t give up the fight: does new report put Labour on front foot as “party of entrepreneurship”?

A small number of notable upsets in recent years – most significantly the Vote Leave win in the Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory over Hilary Clinton – have encouraged us all to take opinion polls with a pinch of salt. But such is the scale of the Labour Party’s lead over […]

Speechmatics Supercharges Machine Learning Capabilities with NVIDIA AI

Cambridge, UK – December 6, 2022 – Speechmatics, the world’s leading speech-to-text API scaleup, has announced it is using NVIDIA accelerated computing to supercharge its machine learning capabilities. Speechmatics’ transition to self-supervised learning has increased the need for processing power. Speechmatics has now deployed NVIDIA market-leading artificial intelligence (AI) systems and software stack to train […]