Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher is Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Pathfounders, and former Editor-at-large of TechCrunch.

Pathfounders Newsletter: Wall St. Bloodbath; VC round parties; UK Budget hangovers

Oct 30, 2026

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4 min read

Tech & Venture Briefing: Friday 30 October 2026

Oct 30, 2026

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3 min read

Tech & Venture Briefing: Friday 30 October 2026

Tech & Venture Briefing — Thursday 29 October 2026

Oct 29, 2026

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4 min read

UK Budget Live - What it means for startups & scaleups

Oct 28, 2026

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11 min read

UK Budget Live - What it means for startups & scaleups

Tech & Venture Briefing — Wednesday 28 October 2026

Oct 28, 2026

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2 min read

Tech & Venture Briefing — Wednesday 28 October 2026

Tech & Venture Briefing — Tuesday 27 October 2026

Oct 27, 2026

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3 min read

Tech & Venture Briefing — Tuesday 27 October 2026

Monday’s Tech & Venture Briefing

Oct 26, 2026

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5 min read

As AI agents come for household spending decisions, the UK’s Nous raises $17m (Exclusive interview)

Oct 26, 2026

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3 min read

As AI agents come for household spending decisions, the UK’s Nous raises $17m (Exclusive interview)

Pathfounders Newsletter: Lessons from the PHP hack week from hell

Oct 23, 2026

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8 min read

Comment: Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs has implications for startups

Oct 22, 2026

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2 min read

Comment: Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs has implications for startups

Exclusive: UK's Scram bets on DeepSeek to make vibe-coding free

Oct 22, 2026

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2 min read

Exclusive: UK's Scram bets on DeepSeek to make vibe-coding free

New £70m debt fund targets pre-rev startups in London ignored by banks

Oct 22, 2026

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1 min read

New £70m debt fund targets pre-rev startups in London ignored by banks

AlphaGo co-creator comes out of stealth with startup to kill hallucinations and agentic overreach

Oct 19, 2026

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3 min read

AlphaGo co-creator comes out of stealth with startup to kill hallucinations and agentic overreach

Enzo Ventures launches €20m second fund targeting Southern Europe and its diaspora founders

Oct 19, 2026

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2 min read

Enzo Ventures launches €20m second fund targeting Southern Europe and its diaspora founders

Comment: Nvidia is love-bombing European startups. But there’s a steely-eyed vision behind it all

Oct 15, 2026

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2 min read

Comment: Nvidia is love-bombing European startups. But there’s a steely-eyed vision behind it all

Analysis: Jensen’s Paris, London, Berlin tour is hoovering up useful startups... for Nvidia

Oct 15, 2026

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2 min read

Analysis: Jensen’s Paris, London, Berlin tour is hoovering up useful startups... for Nvidia

This founder decided humans could be an API... and raised $32M

Oct 14, 2026

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3 min read

This founder decided humans could be an API... and raised $32M

UK to call for AI security as White House reverses ban on access to frontier AI models

Oct 12, 2026

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2 min read

UK to call for AI security as White House reverses ban on access to frontier AI models

Pathfounders Newsletter: She's our model, and she's looking good

Oct 11, 2026

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9 min read

UK looks to limit non-compete clauses after lobbying from tech founders

Oct 9, 2026

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2 min read

UK looks to limit non-compete clauses after lobbying from tech founders

Pathfounders Newsletter: The Monzo no-sale; Eleven Labs hits $22bn; to sovereign or not to sovereign

Oct 2, 2026

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5 min read

Exclusive: Planning a big fund-raise, AskGVT emerges from stealth with AI consumer app that 'sees' gestures in video

Oct 2, 2026

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5 min read

Exclusive: Planning a big fund-raise, AskGVT emerges from stealth with AI consumer app that 'sees' gestures in video

Pathfounders Newsletter: All the news this week; plus, "LUSH", the new Pathfounders retreat

Sep 25, 2026

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7 min read

Is Morphotonics the next ASML? Its €40M+ B-round will scale tech for AR glasses and data centres

Sep 22, 2026

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2 min read

Is Morphotonics the next ASML? Its €40M+ B-round will scale tech for AR glasses and data centres

UK's Unit1 raises $20m to make ABBA Voyage-style avatar concerts

Sep 21, 2026

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2 min read