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The latest HRTech report from Hampleton is full of insights into this sector, and sheds light on just how bullish it is. The stats speak for themselves: transaction volume has surged by 282% since 2020, with the total disclosed value reaching the $11 billion mark at the end of last year. Private equity investors have shown continuing enthusiasm for companies in this space, spearheading nearly half of the transactions in 2H2022. 

Since the earth-shaking arrival of platforms like ChatGPT and Midjourney last year, much of the media attention on AI has focused on its uncanny ability to mimic human creativity when it comes to music, writing and the visual arts.  But, as experts as disparate as Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque and the government’s former chief scientific advisor Sir Patrick Vallance have noted, the arrival of AI represents a new Industrial Revolution which is changing the game in every conceivable space. Not least, medicine and healthtech.

Back in 2013, venture capitalist Aileen Lee wrote a watershed article for TechCrunch which introduced one of the most popular terms in the tech lexicon: unicorn. A decade on, the term is one of the most-used in the tech world. It’s even spawned related words like decacorn (a company valued at over $10 billion) and the yet-to-exist superunicorn (a company that breaks the $1 trillion barrier). 

Taking your tech idea from dream to reality will undoubtedly be one of the biggest adventures of your life. And, as with any adventure, there will be challenges to overcome. Chief among these may be generating enough funding to both get your startup off the ground and scale it appropriately. The good news is there are several options available to UK founders, not counting taking out business loans or bootstrapping, so let’s discuss them in turn.

Discussing the most active M&A dealmakers, analysing prominent trends determining the course of each sector, and putting a spotlight on specific transactions, the reports provide valuable briefings for tech owners and decision makers. Here are just some of the key insights our readers have gleaned so far this year.

Stockholm is a fitting location for the event, having more tech unicorns per capita than anywhere else, bar Silicon Valley. The tech industry in the Nordic region in general has been going great guns, with 10 new unicorns emerging in 2022 and plenty of fresh-faced startups to keep an eye on. Here are some that have been on our radar.

Some technologies go far beyond being merely innovative, altering not simply their respective industries but the way society as a whole functions. Two great examples of this over the past few decades have been the arrival of social media platforms and smartphones, both of which fundamentally re-shaped how we live, work, date, and generally exist. The sudden ubiquity of AI promises to be an even more seismic step for society.

Referring to physical objects that are equipped with sensors and connected to the internet, the Internet of Things has always been an oddly clunky term for such a significant and pervasive technological development. But while it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, the Internet of Things, or IoT, has certainly been on industry leaders’ lips lately, with VC funding reaching new heights.

The European Innovation Council, a body which supports high-impact, super-disruptive technologies in the EU, recently announced a massive €331 million investment windfall for an eclectic range of startups. What they have in common is that they’re all deep tech companies, and the announcement underscores how much interest deep tech is generating in 2023.

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