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UK government launches £100 million competition for British AI companies
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Birmingham launches data-led initiative to increase capital for female founders
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Foundry3 launches dedicated agentic-AI accelerator for women-led startups
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Athena Festival calls for urgent action on the UK female-founder funding gap
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SCALE Manchester launches with female-founder pitch competition
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Record funding, falling share: the female founder funding paradox
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Capital F closes $17m debut fund focused on the female economy
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TowerBrook announces strategic partnership with female-founded women’s wellness brand Rael
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Geovation founder Emissiv recognised in Innovate UK Women in Innovation programme
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SCALE appoints Women Who Scale founder Amy Knight as director
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London female entrepreneurs pass £100m milestone through Start Up Loans
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West Midlands women-led business pitch competition returns with NatWest partnership
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Investing in Women Code report says signatories continue to outperform wider market in backing female founders
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Oshen raises $5 million to scale production of ocean-monitoring robots
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Female Founders Rise highlights an expanding UK fundraising-support infrastructure
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Female Founder UK expands its regional community with events planned across the country
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Plotpackers founder secures £120,000 Dragons’ Den investment
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TOSS raises £660,500 to expand its plant-based dressing brand
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BuildHer Labs opens applications for new programme for female and non-binary founders
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Supermums launches Business Hub targeting 1,000 women-led businesses adopting AI by 2030
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Edinburgh’s Singular Photonics raises $2.15m for photon-counting image sensors
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Female Founder UK expands its regional community through Founder Live events
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Loughborough launches venture investor network with Haatch
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Noggin HQ raises £2.3m seed round and becomes a UK credit reference agency
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Venture Forward opens applications for North of England founders seeking equity investment
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Peripear receives Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award for childbirth wearable
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Irish female-founded femtech Coroflo expands into the UK with Coro launch
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Angel Academe launches second EIS fund for female-founded UK startups
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Hysteron founder Verity Fotheringham wins two South East Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards
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New analysis highlights structural causes behind the UK female-founder funding gap
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Sister-founded condiment brand TOSS closes £660,500 funding round
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SHEaccelerates opens applications for female-founded businesses in St Helens
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Blend raises £350,000 pre-seed to modernise workplace training
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Cashflows invests in Blackpool payments startup Tap & Go
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Never Fully Dressed prepares Spitalfields store opening
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Dragons’ Den introduces first female-majority panel in the programme’s history
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North West attracts less than 0.4% of UK femtech equity funding, analysis finds
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Pimentae seeks £150,000 through Crowdcube to extend £850,000 funding round
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South Yorkshire launches Women in Tech & Investment Taskforce amid funding disparity
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Angel Investment Network joins SCALE Manchester’s Female Founders Pitch Competition
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Beauhurst report finds female-founded UK tech companies secured £8.52 billion over the past decade
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FFinc opens applications for Forward Faster female-founder accelerator
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The 51% Club announces return of Birmingham’s IGNITE female-founder conference
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Government signals next £100m phase of Investor Pathways Capital initiative
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Female Founder Scotland Awards opens nominations for 2027 programme
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British Business Bank reports progress in backing female-led businesses
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Women Who Scale takes its female-founder pitch competition to Manchester
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PetPact founder Rachel Roche wins £75,000 Innovate UK Women in Innovation grant
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Freeater selected for Foundervine’s The Foundry accelerator
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UK’s fastest-growing startups remain overwhelmingly male-founded, Sifted report finds
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GC Angels opens Venture Forward Cohort 3, including investment-readiness support for female founders in Northern England
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The Entrepreneurs Network report examines barriers facing female university spinouts
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Peripear wins Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award for childbirth wearable
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Pimentae opens Crowdcube raise alongside wider £823,000 funding round
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Derry AI startup SeeMe wins Innovate UK Women in Innovation award
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ARU report finds funding barriers limiting the growth of women-led businesses in Essex
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Innovate UK names its largest-ever Women in Innovation cohort, with 61 founders receiving £75,000 grants
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UK femtech investment grows sharply but regional funding remains uneven
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Aavalynx raises £1.5m pre-seed for enterprise dispute-intelligence AI
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Nationwide becomes sole banking partner of Female Founders Rise
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UK SME finance data shows the funding gap remains pronounced for female founders
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North of England founders invited to apply for Venture Forward investment-readiness accelerator
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Angel Academe and SyndicateRoom launch EIS fund focused on female-founded companies
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Propel Healthtech secures £4.5m to support 240 innovators across West Yorkshire
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Material Evolution partners with Environment Agency and RPC on lower-carbon concrete trial
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Creative UK opens its next Female Founders support programme
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Suzanne Ashman appointed managing partner of Sovereign AI
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Intropy announces $11m seed round for spare-parts AI platform
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TaskHer raises £650,000 to expand its verified tradeswomen platform
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Tolicious secures £50,000 from North East Accelerator Programme
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Femtech deals soar over the last decade, but regional and funding inequalities persist
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London bodywork brand MASAJ raises £1.5 million for expansion
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DITTO secures $6m seed round to expand menstrual-health research
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South West Investment Fund surpasses £150 million milestone while targeting underrepresented founders
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First Pour launches incubator for women-founded drinks brands
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BusinessCloud identifies 78 companies with female founders in its UK Founder 250 list
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Refined Capital Partners invests in Never Fully Dressed to support international expansion
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New analysis highlights continuing investment gap for women-led UK businesses
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The 51% Club and Future Planet Capital Regional launch the £2 million Fortuna Fellowship
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OLAI completes Bruntwood Female Founder Programme and pitches to investors
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Female-led businesses approach North East fund for finance at nearly twice the national rate
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Day One Strategy reaches two UK business-award finals after 68% annual growth
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Stevens & Bolton becomes exclusive UK legal partner for FFinc accelerator
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Analysis highlights that UK female-founder venture funding remains near 2%
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Investing in Women Code report finds signatories direct more venture capital to female-founded teams than the wider market
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Government publishes findings from women-in-tech evidence call, with funding barriers among the leading themes
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Women Backing Women fund reaches £130 million first close
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