James Wise

There are just two companies, Abbot & Dexcom, that dominate the $12B CGM market, until today. Huge congratulations to the Sava team on a world-first clinical breakthrough for their microsensor tec...

Since my appointment a little under 3 months ago, the Sovereign AI Unit has been working hard to establish its structure, team and a unique offer to founders, while continuing the day-to-day work o...

Delighted to share that Kaia Health will be joining Sword Health, the fastest growing AI-led care platform in the world, in a deal worth up to $285M. There's a huge amount said about how AI can ma...

Delighted to welcome Josephine to the SovAI team - where we’re combining best in class experience from top venture and tech firms with the power of the British State. If you want to work with Jose...

The Sovereign AI Fund is hiring! Ahead of our launch in April, we are building an investment team with strong commercial experience, and we're looking for a lead Partner to drive the fund's succes...

One prediction for 2026 - the work of data scientists is going to be upended (again) by AI, and Prior Labs is going to play a big part in that. Really enjoyed this discussion with Professor Frank ...

Incredibly proud of my friend Hiroki Takeuchi as he announces GoCardless's acquisition by Mollie today, creating a combined European payments giant in a multi-billion dollar cash & shares transacti...

If you’re an AI researcher in the UK - good news - Christmas has come early! Apply for access to millions of hours of free compute from DSIT. This is the beginning of what will be the most compel...

I can’t promise every one of the companies below will be a world-changing success ( despite our hopes for them ) - but I can promise that these companies are led by exceptional founders who are bui...

Thank you to everyone who joined our founders & VC charity casino night - it was great fun. And huge congratulations to Sten Saar for winning the most chips and Katie Marrache for wining the poker ...

One of the fastest growing technology companies in the UK isn't in AI or defence - it's Fuse Energy, a vertically integrated energy company transforming our energy system from electron to app. For...

There are world-leading AI companies being founded in Britain, but we can do so much more. Today I'm delighted to be announced as Chair of the UK Government's Sovereign AI Unit, backed by almost £...

The team at Convergence was one of the most talented technical teams I've ever worked with. But as Marvin Purtorab explains below, if you wanted to work with them on frontier AI models, he didn't...

How it started vs How it's going. Huge congratulations to Hiroki Takeuchi, Matt Robinson, Tom Blomfield and the entire GoCardless team on another milestone as they transact over £1B in a single da...

One model. Infinite Predictions. That was the promise when Prior Labs launched this year, and what Frank Hutter and the team he's assembled have achieved in that time is amazing. Their tabular f...

Jonathan Wolf and the team at ZOE have built one of the most unique, and important, data sets in the health world - and now their using that to help you and your gut! I loved speaking to him for o...

🚀 What role does space access have in defence? 🌍 How are shifting global politics impacting space exploration? 🌒 When will you be able to hitch a ride to the moon? In our latest episode of Wh...

Happy to share that Niklas Falk and Zain Waheed have joined the Balderton team today as we continue to scale our investment team in Europe. Niklas is a machine learning engineer and was formerly a...

An absolutely huge win for Europe, the EC and of course deepset, makers of Haystack. Great to see the Commission recognising the strength of AI teams on their doorstep, and the importance of buildi...

25 YEARS OF EUROPEAN VENTURE AT BALDERTON. In 2000, a small group of founders with support from some storied American investors started Benchmark Europe with the view that the UK & European techno...