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London this week! The best place to build right now 🔥🔥🔥

Apparently VC investors also see our content as signal :) Multiple investors reached out to this founder since our post went live. We’re building something special 🥹

A UK Chip startup has JUST raised $220m to take on Nvidia! @AnthropicAI is already looking to buy chips from them. There have been rumours about the round for some time, but it has now been confirmed. @fractile_ai has raised a $220m Series B led by @Accel, @foundersfund and @factorialfunds. Its chips rely on a different kind of memory technology to Nvidia’s GPUs called static random access memory (SRAM). This is to improve the speed and cost of AI inference. The raise follows another big UK Chip raise - Olix which raised $220m at a $1bn valuation. Two years ago it would have been unimaginable to have two UK unicorns become unicorns by trying to take on Nvidia, and yet here we are. LETS GO

Legitimate access to private markets exists. At @AngelsDen every deal goes through proper channels: board approved & cap table confirmed. That's not a nice-to-have. It's the whole point.

Before buying on any secondary platform: — Verify the company's transfer restrictions — Ask for proof of board approval — If they can't provide it, the transfer is almost certainly void Secondary access is only real if it's authorised.

@AnthropicAI just voided unauthorised secondary transfers on 8 named platforms. Buyers thought they owned a slice of the hottest AI company on the planet. Without board approval, they were never on the cap table. Who approved your transfer?

Proposal to acquire eBay. investor.gamestop.com/ebay

UK VC investment hit £18.6bn in 2025, a 35% jump year on year. Is the best time to raise in the UK right now, or are early-stage founders still being squeezed while late-stage takes all the capital? Drop your thoughts 👇

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3/ Anthropic leased xAI's Colossus 1: ~300MW, 220,000+ Nvidia GPUs. Rivals becoming landlord and tenant only happens when compute is scarcer than pride. Anthropic rationed users for months. The day the deal went live, those restrictions reversed. Infra is the moat now.

This Week in Early-Stage Investing 📈 3 stories that matter for UK angels + founders this week: Quantum Motion raised $160m SAP bought Prior Labs 15 months after its €9m pre-seed Anthropic leased xAI's supercomputer Thread 👇

@claudeai @SpaceX

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.