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Discover key insights and strategies for UK startups to secure venture capital in 2025, leveraging lessons from 2024 to navigate an evolving funding landscape.

Raising Venture Capital in the UK: 2025 Strategies for Startups

Update, 16 October 2026. This article looked ahead to 2025 from December 2024, and its market figures date from 2024. For a more recent view of fundraising, read The New Fundraising Discipline, published in February 2026. Fundraising in 2025As we transition into 2025, the UK’s venture ...
Paul Forrest London AI Consultant Ecaveo Discusses Agentic AI

Agentic AI in 2025

Update, 16 October 2026. This article set out expectations for 2025 from the vantage point of December 2024. Agentic AI has moved quickly since, and so have the governance questions around it. For the current position, read Delegated Authority, our September 2026 article on governing ...

Achieving Sustainability; Towards Green AI

Update, 16 October 2026. The data centre figures below were estimates current in late 2024. The International Energy Agency's Energy and AI report of April 2025 put data centre electricity use at about 415 TWh in 2024, around 1.5% of global consumption, and projected roughly ...

RAG & Vector Databases for AI

Unveiling the Potential of RAG Architectures and Vector Databases in AIArtificial intelligence continues to evolve and researchers and practitioners alike are constantly pursuing more efficient and powerful approaches. Among recent innovations, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures and vector databases stand out as transformative technologies. Together, they ...

Crafting Your Go-to-Market Strategy

How Ventures Should Approach Their GTM Strategy Launching a startup or scaling a venture is a high-stakes endeavour where the go-to-market (GTM) strategy can determine success or failure. Too often, founders overcomplicate the process or rely on cookie-cutter approaches that fail to address their unique context. ...

Dependable Artificial Intelligence in Defence

Defence AI - Strategic ImperativeArtificial Intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of technological transformation across industries, with its potential to revolutionise operations, improve efficiency, and deliver unprecedented capabilities. Nowhere is this potential more critical than in the realm of national defence. Recognising the profound implications ...
Paul Forrest of Ecaveo discusses a primer on the new EU Ai Act

EU AI Act Primer

Update, 29 July 2026 Nothing in this article constitutes legal advice, and the material is presented to support discussion and further review by qualified advisers. This primer was written in October 2024, a few months after the Act entered into force. The risk-based structure it describes still ...
High Risk Ai Systems and the GDPR... EU AI regulations

Strengthening AI Data Privacy

Update, 16 October 2026. This article was written in October 2024 and its timeline for the EU AI Act has moved. The prohibitions applied from 2 February 2025 and the obligations for general-purpose AI models from 2 August 2025. The Digital Omnibus on AI, Regulation ...
What can Groundhog Day teach entrepreneurs

The Entrepreneurial Groundhog Day

What “Groundhog Day” Can Teach Entrepreneurs  If you’ve been in business long enough, you’ll be familiar with the sense of déjà vu that comes with entrepreneurship. You wake up with grand plans, ready to make big moves, only to find yourself stuck in the same routine. ...
Ecaveo on What you can learn about Organisational Culture from Slow Horses

Organisational Culture: Slow Horses

Slow Horses - Lessons on Organisational CultureI recently revisited the captivating series Slow Horses on Apple TV. While the engrossing plot and compelling characters easily hold attention, I was struck by how the show portrays organisational culture. Beneath the MI5 intrigue and high-stakes drama lies a ...
The Rise of the Chief AI Officer

Rise of the Chief AI Officer

Update, 16 October 2026. The White House requirement described below, memorandum M-24-10 of March 2024, was rescinded and replaced in April 2025 by memorandum M-25-21. The new memorandum keeps the role, so US federal agencies must still have a Chief AI Officer, and it set ...

Funding Your Film

The Art and Strategy of Securing Film Funding: A Comprehensive GuideFilmmaking is often described as a miracle, a journey from the spark of an idea to the final flicker on the big screen. This intricate process, filled with creativity and logistical challenges, starts long before ...
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