Correspondent
Startups correspondent
Sophie Bennett covers UK startups and the people who own them — the round, the dilution, the board seat. Not starstruck. Unmoved by the word unicorn.
Cardiff startup DampSense raised a £1.2 million angel round to install humidity and mould-risk sensors in Welsh rented flats, pitching landlords ahead of Awaab’s law enforcement milestones.
A Yorkshire NHS trust will pilot rapid nanopore sequencing for respiratory outbreaks with Oxford Nanopore partner genomics firm SampleSeq, aiming to cut ward closure decisions from days to hours.