James Wise
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Partner @Balderton. Investing in AI, health and energy. Chair of UK Sovereign AI. Author of Start-Up Century. Mostly Generative.
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Joined March 2010
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NEW Cambridge-headquartered tech giant Arm Holdings announces it will manufacture its own AI chips - a significant change after 3 decades of success getting its chip designs in 350 billion devices worldwide - IPhones, cars, data centres etc… partnerships announced with most of
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We're co-hosting the @UKSovereignAI launch event on 16 April! Proud to support their mission to back ambitious British companies to scale in the UK and around the world.
Today, @RachelReevesMP announced that Sovereign AI will officially launch with @alexgkendall at @wayve_ai on 16 April... Lets get Britmaxxing 🚀 🇬🇧
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There are many different views on what a future, AI-driven economy will look like. Some think each country must effectively 'own' privately-funded, closed-source companies through nationally directed legal and export controls. Some think the Government should develop and fund
Big news from Tokyo 🇯🇵 @Uber and @NissanMotor and @wayve_ai have signed an agreement to deploy supervised robotaxis in Tokyo from late 2026, bringing the Nissan Leaf powered by the Wayve AI Driver to riders through Uber. This is what scalable autonomy looks like: • OEM-native
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Britain has been home to some of the greatest engineers, scientists and technologists of the last 200 years. Our role at @UKSovereignAI is to support our best founders, and accelerate our best AI companies, to build on this heritage. Because when you build here, you don’t
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The steam locomotive. The electric motor. Portland cement. The electromagnetic induction coil. The electric telegraph. The fax machine. The synthetic dye. The Bessemer steel process. The electric light bulb. The steam turbine. Pneumatic tyres. The discovery of the electron.
Introducing Sovereign AI, the Government’s new £500m venture fund. Sovereign AI will support founders from day one to start here, scale here and win everywhere. https://t.co/frsEPhSDie
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Introducing Sovereign AI, the Government’s new £500m venture fund. Sovereign AI will support founders from day one to start here, scale here and win everywhere. https://t.co/frsEPhSDie
sovereignai.gov.uk
The UK's £500 million artificial intelligence fund launches April 16th, 18:00 GMT. Building on Britain's legacy from Ada Lovelace to AlphaFold.
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It’s only nuclear fusion if it’s spun out of the Max Planck institute, everywhere else it’s just sparkling plasma. Congrats to @balderton backed @proximafusion. A step closer to the cheapest, cleanest energy source we have.
A German startup has just signed an agreement to build the world’s FIRST nuclear fusion plant. @proximafusion has signed an MOU securing €400m from its home state of Bavaria to build the €2bn plant. The rest of the funding is expected to come from the federal government.
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This @Citadel article (link below) is excellent on the short & medium term impact of AI. It's the antidote to the doom ridden and often economically illiterate articles that have dominated a lot of discussion recently. AI adoption is happening, in some sectors more than others.
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Huge congrats to @wayve_ai on some big technical & commercial milestones. As Alex sets out - this is the boldest approach of any autonomous software lab. It’s not going to be easy, but being contrarian & right is what Alex does. Started in the UK, winning everywhere.
Another major milestone in @wayve_ai's history. Proud to say we’ve secured $1.5 billion Series D investment at $8.6 billion valuation. We started a decade ago with a contrarian technical thesis: that self-driving is an AI problem, and Embodied AI will enable autonomy to scale
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Sure sign that Claude co-work is winning. We’re on a huge contract and hit our monthly cap within 14 days…
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In 48 hours at the Munich Security Conference I met British & European founders building: - space data centers - fusion power - cyber defences for AI (x2) - intelligence drones - robotic exo-skeletons - novel geothermal energy plants - new AI-designed body armour - new
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More positive news today on our Sovereign AI efforts:
UK tech startups urged to take bold risks, by AI minister, as chip startup Fractile invests £100M https://t.co/mBd7CAmJpg
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A big dose of Anglo-optimism: UK-based @Savahealth just announced world-first clinical evidence for effective continuous glucose monitoring via their proprietary microsensor technology. Head-to-head with a leading CGM, across Oxford and Cambridge trial sites, Sava's
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TLDR... They're hiring a managing partner. Rare chance to do civic good and build a venture career.
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 of supporting our most successful British-based AI companies. You can follow
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