UK Tech News at UKTN: A Guide to the Site and Its Owners

You are trying to follow UK tech news, and the name on the funding posts is UKTN, the trade title at uktech.news. It writes for founders, investors and people in professional services who need that beat in one place.

Coverage runs from the earliest startups through scaleups to established tech unicorns, and from Bristol to Leeds and Cardiff to Edinburgh. The rest of this guide sorts the sections, the company that owns the title, the sponsored reports and the lookalike sites.

The UKTN Sections You Can Open Today

UKTN’s own account of its mission calls the title the go-to online media brand for the UK technology industry, and it promises to hold the industry to account while championing innovation across the nations and regions. The same page splits the output into six lanes. The menu adds founder interviews, a jobs link and a map of tech hubs on top of those lanes.

THE SIX UKTN PRODUCTS

• News: Funding rounds, acquisitions, policy changes and market shifts, filed as they happen.
• Industry analysis: Longer reads on the pressures in a sector and what is driving growth there.
• Opinion: Signed views and expert advice, which sit apart from a news report.
• Podcast: Interviews with founders, investors and operators, hosted by Jane Wakefield.
• Reports: Regional and sector briefings you can download, many of them with a sponsor line.
• Events: Gatherings the title says it organises so founders, investors and advisers can meet.

Founder interviews have their own stream, which is where a profile sits when it is not a straight news story. The Week in Tech is a separate archive of roundups on the site. A free registration, offered on story pages, adds bookmarks, daily updates and fewer ads. That box does not list a price for ordinary news.

The UKTN podcast page on Apple Podcasts lists 175 episodes and still calls the show weekly, with Jane Wakefield as host, across 2022 to 2026. The newest episode on that list is dated 24 August 2026 and features Simon McIntosh-Smith of the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing. Episode posts from the UKTN account that summer carried a sponsor credit for HSBC Innovation, and the episode links were already marked series 15.

By 13 October 2026 the host had said the weekly podcast had “come to a sudden and unexpected end” after three years and 15 series. Those two descriptions are different counts: the show page dates a 2022 to 2026 catalogue of 175 episodes, and the host described the finished run as three years and 15 series. The episodes remain available to play. The weekly label is not a promise of a new recording.

The Twelve Tech Hubs UKTN Tracks

The national file is not the only front door. The menu lists twelve hubs, and it puts Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in the same list as the English regions, which matches the line about nations and regions.

• London
• North East
• West Midlands
• Wales
• South East
• North West
• East Midlands
• Scotland
• South West
• East of England
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Northern Ireland

If the company you care about is in Cardiff, open the Wales hub before you read a homepage that mixes every region. The same move works for Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol or Belfast. The about page names Bristol, Leeds, Cardiff and Edinburgh when it describes the spread it wants credit for, and the hub menu is what makes that spread usable. A hub page will not replace a funding story, but it keeps one place in view when the homepage does not.

The Company Behind the UKTN Name

The title you read is a trading name, and the company number to search is 11023400. The Companies House record for the publisher is Media Ventures International Limited, a private company that is still active. The brand began years before that company existed, which is why a 2012 title and a 2017 company can both be true.

The shareholdings filed for the two owners name Ramesh Kumar Sharma and Marco Callegari, and neither filing describes a majority owner. On the news posts they appear as co-founders Ramesh Sharma and Marco Callegari. Sharma was notified as a person with significant control on 10 January 2019. Callegari has been on that list since the day the company was incorporated.

The ICO entry that lists its trading names places UKTN next to City Road Communications and Propertywire at the City Road address. One activity on the company record is public relations and communications, listed with publishing and with data processing and hosting. LinkedIn describes a small staff at a Whitechapel office, while the podcast page still prints a Corsham Street line. Those are three addresses on three records, not one headquarters written three ways. Use 124 City Road when you need the legal office.

A sister trading name is not a hidden sponsor on a news story. It does tell you the company publishes more than this one title, and that public relations is one of the activities it has filed. That filing is the reason to read the sponsor line on a report before you treat the PDF as the newsroom’s own work.

Sponsored Reports on the UKTN Site

The homepage prints a sponsor credit under several reports, in plain sight, rather than leaving you to infer a commercial link. The set below is what that page was showing, not a full archive of every sponsored briefing the title has ever run.

SPONSOR LINES IN VIEW

• Solent: The regional report on the Solent is sponsored by Womble Bond Dickinson.
• West Midlands: The AI report for the West Midlands is sponsored by nuom, KPMG Enterprise and Lloyds Bank.
• Norfolk and Suffolk: That regional report is sponsored by KPMG Private Enterprise, Connected Innovation and Tech East.
• Documents: The Document Intelligence Benchmark is sponsored by ABBYY.
• Podcast posts: Episode posts from the UKTN account in August 2026 credited HSBC Innovation.

Use a sponsored report when you want that firm’s briefing on a region or a tool. Use the news section, with a reporter’s byline, when you want a story the newsroom filed. Opinion stays in its own lane because the writer is arguing a view, and that writer may work at a vendor. An Oxford and Cambridge arc report also sits with the regional set. Cite it only after you have read whatever sponsor line is on the page you opened, since a missing credit in a homepage blurb is not the same as an unsponsored document.

Events are a third door. The about page says the title organises events to connect people in the industry, and the menu has an events link for the current dates. A conference that UKTN mentions in a news story is not automatically an event it runs. Read the organiser line on that story the same way you read a sponsor line.

UKTN and the Lookalike Sites

Three names collide in search, and a sloppy citation treats them as one newsroom. They are not.

Before you quote a funding figure, read the domain in the address bar. uktech.news is this title. uktechnews.co.uk is the other site, the one that runs product news and appointment notes from firms well outside a single UK startup round. uktin.net is a telecoms programme, not a publisher of startup news, and search still places it beside the news titles. A roundup that writes “UKTN (UK Tech News)” as if the brackets were a translation has skipped this check.

The practical test takes one extra look. If the page is talking about a law-firm alliance, a lighting distribution deal or a checkout fault in a convenience store, you are probably on the other news site. If the page is a telecoms programme updating its own wind-down, you are on UKTIN. If the page is a funding round, a policy note or a founder interview with a UKTN byline, you are on uktech.news.

Tech City News and the 2017 Shift

The brand is older than the company on the register. UKTN started as Tech City News when the UK tech story it cared about was concentrated in the Silicon Roundabout cluster in East London. The hub menu is the later correction.

THE PATH FROM TECH CITY NEWS

1. 2012: Tech City News starts, aimed at Silicon Roundabout in East London.
2. 1 August 2017: A media-contacts note records the rebrand to UKTN, now online only, with the same editorial team.
3. 20 October 2017: Media Ventures International Limited is incorporated, which is the company on the register today.
4. 4 December 2017: The company registers with the ICO and lists UKTN among its names.
5. 4 September 2024: UKTN appoints Simon Hunt as editor, from the Evening Standard, where he had been business and technology correspondent for two and a half years, after a spell as an associate at PwC and as a wealth reporter at Bloomberg News.

Both co-founders commented on that hire in the announcement. Sharma welcomed Hunt as the person to lead the title. Callegari tied the appointment to analysis for people who work in technology scaleups and people who invest in them. The date tells you who was hired then. For the name on the masthead after that announcement, read a byline from this week.

You can see the rebrand in the way the site is built. A title made for one East London cluster had to rename itself once the companies it covered were also in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds and Belfast. The homepage still mixes the country. The hub page stays on one place. That split is the practical legacy of 2017, and it is more useful than the old name on its own.

How to Pick a UKTN Section for Your Job

You do not need every lane on a given morning. Match the row to the work on your desk, then open that section before you scroll the homepage.

Take a founder in Cardiff who is about to raise. She opens the Wales hub, then the funding news and the founder interviews, and she treats the Solent report as a law firm’s briefing rather than as news about her round. An investor who wants a policy story from this week goes to analysis. Someone hiring opens the jobs board, which lives on its own address in the menu, before reading opinion.

Tips follow the same habit of checking the date. The news desk has used named reporters for short cover stints, with an address on the uktech.news domain. A byline from this week is a better contact than an editor named in a 2024 appointment post. The Week in Tech archive is the slower catch-up if you missed several days and do not need the daily register email.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do You Have to Pay to Read UKTN?

Start with the free register rather than a checkout. The box on story pages offers a free account for bookmarks, daily updates and fewer ads, and it does not list a price for ordinary news. The site also keeps a Premium stream of pieces, so read the label on the story in front of you before you assume every URL is open.

Is Simon Hunt Still the UKTN Editor?

No, you should not treat Simon Hunt as the current editor. UKTN announced him on 4 September 2024, and by late October 2026 his public profile listed him as city editor at City AM, so read this week’s byline before you use an old address.

Does UKTN Have a Jobs Board?

Yes, the main menu links to a separate jobs board at jobs.uktech.news. Use that board for hiring and job hunting, and use the news section when you want a funding round or a policy change.

Can You See UKTN’s Profits?

You will not find a full profit figure on the public register. The publisher files micro-entity accounts, and the latest set is made up to 31 October 2025, which is a small-company filing rather than a long annual report.

Type uktech.news into the bar yourself when you want this title. Check the sponsor line before you pass a regional report to a colleague, and read the byline before you email the editor named in the September 2024 announcement. The company number, if you need the owner rather than the logo, is 11023400.