Across a chaotic 2022, scores of UK tech companies laid off staff as they scrambled to balance the books — the challenges have continued into 2023, with funding into UK startups on a downward trajectory after Q1.
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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