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What does it really take for UK tech cos to win in the US? 🇬🇧➡️🇺🇸 At our latest GBx fireside, we heard from: 🎙️@Patersonae, Founder, Digital Shadows (Exit for $160M) & now @HarmonicSec 🎙️Daniel Glazer (Wilson Sonsini) Huge thanks to our event partners: @SVB Andy Tsao Sara Rona

Our much-loved annual GBx Women's Luncheon returned this week: a vibrant gathering celebrating women in innovation 🇬🇧 Hosted by GBx Board: Tammy Sandhu M.B.E. MBE, Kathryn Parsons MBE, Serena Dayal, ꕥ Amber Atherton, Janice Roberts And big thanks to TaylorWessing for supporting!

Thanks to Daniel Glazer and Emma Game from Wilson Sonsini for holding a Delaware Flip webinar today for the GBx and WSGR communities 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Congratulations to Parth Garg and the Aspora team on raising $50M Series B co-led by Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners London-based startup, Aspora, helps non-resident Indians send money home and access mobile cross-border banking services 🌎🇬🇧

📢 Brit-ish founders: GBx's annual Best in British Tech Awards have just opened for submissions. Past winners have gone onto become unicorns and sold for over $1Bn. Apply or nominate others here: forms.gle/vnsksigzFSsS5R… Deadline: EOD Sept 1st #BritishTech #LondonTechWeek2025

Our Co-Chair Kathryn Parsons’ latest article in The Times and The Sunday Times highlights a GBx moment: Mark Charkin, Julian Green, Kathryn, and the British Ambassador to the US, in a disused SF bank vault, plotting future British AI moonshots powered by the UK’s unmatched tech talent 🌙💉 🇬🇧👏

🇺🇸 US Tax Tips Webinar Missing a single US tax deadline, can cost you $25k+ in penalties. Get founder tax tips and a checklist from experts CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) to help you stay compliant, investor & exit-ready 📅 Tues 6th Aug | 🕘 9am PT / 5pm UK |📍 Zoom RSVP 👉 lu.ma/m3a61mb9

Last week, GBxers gathered with the WSGR community in London to celebrate America's Birthday with a BBQ 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Wonderful to see so many familiar faces turn out. Thanks @DanCGlazer for hosting us!

🇺🇸 AMA – US Immigration & Visa Q&A Expanding to the US? Need a new visa route? Join Ellis Porter lawyers for a live Q&A on immigration for Brits. 📅 Thurs 21st Aug | 🕘 9am PT / 5pm UK | 📍 Zoom RSVP 👉 lu.ma/8ywpaeag

Congratulations to Tom Charman and the Blok team on coming out of stealth with $7.5m in funding. Blok uses AI to simulate user behavior before shipping code––to test ideas in hours, not weeks, and uncover issues before they become expensive mistakes.

Delighted to see GBx partner Imperial College London host 'AI Action: From Science to Growth'—a frontier discussion with President Emmanuel Macron, Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Arthur Mensch (Mistral AI). Amanda Wolthuizen moderated. Science + policy + entrepreneurship. 🇬🇧

Congratulations to CEO Jonathan Bean and the Matnex team on being selected for the 2025 @IRCAI_unesco & AWS Startups’ #ComputeforClimateFellowship. Matnex is an AI-enabled Materials Discovery Platform accelerating our transition to net-zero 🌎🇬🇧🔬

As H1 draws to a close, things are looking bright for the UK startup scene: 🇬🇧 UK startups raised $8B in H1 2025 — more than France and Germany combined. 💰 UK was Europe’s top VC destination for the 30th straight quarter, attracting 30% of all funding. According to Dealroom

🎉 Congrats to @Pimloc on raising $5M to scale its AI-powered video privacy tools — blurring faces, plates & other sensitive content for compliance 📹🔒 💸 Round co-led by Amadeus Capital Partners

🎉 Congrats to dmasin.bsky.social, Neal Lathia, and Danai Antoniou, co-founders of Gradient Labs on raising $13M in Series A to grow its AI agents for fraud detection, risk management & compliance automation in finance 🚀 Round led by Redpoint, with LocalGlobe & others joining

⚡ Congrats to Dr. Niall Coogan and Barry Johnston and the AssetCool team on raising $13.6M Series A to advance robotic coating tech that boosts overhead power line capacity & resilience 💸 Round led by Energy Impact Partners