Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

On Monday, May 18, Barclays Eagle Labs launched the AI:100 - a data-led view of some of the high-growth AI companies shaping the UK’s future, across a wide range of sub-sectors. 🇬🇧🚀 Firms working across SaaS, data provision and analysis, robots and automation, and many other industries are featured within this report (link in the comments). The featured businesses span across the UK’s four home nations and have collectively raised over £11.3b, turnover more than £734m, and employ over 8,500 people. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is proud to partner with Barclays Eagle Labs on the AI:100 initiative – and its just-announced Scaleup Consortium, bringing together founders, investors and industry to support UK AI companies as they scale - and honored to be collaborating with nearly 50% of the companies named to the AI:100 list.

Congratulations to London/NYC-based Happl on its $11 million Series A, led by Portage Ventures! The round includes participation from F Capital and continued support from Y Combinator, 6 Degrees Capital, Haatch and VenturesTogether! 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Happl is an AI-native platform that transforms how global companies manage, automate, and scale employee benefits. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is proud to support Happl on the transaction and wishes Ben Towers MBE and the Happl team well for this next stage of their journey.

Congratulations to London/NYC-based Happl on its $11 million Series A, led by Portage Ventures! The round includes participation from F Capital and continued support from Y Combinator, 6 Degrees Capital, Haatch and VenturesTogether! 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Happl is an AI-native platform that transforms how global companies manage, automate, and scale employee benefits. Link in the comments to Happl’s Series A announcement. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is proud to support Happl on the transaction and wishes Ben Towers MBE and the Happl team well for this next stage of their journey.

Congratulations to SF/London-based Recursive on its $650 million funding round at a $4.65 billion valuation! The round was led by GV (Google Ventures) and Greycroft, with major participation from AMD Ventures and NVIDIA. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Emerging from stealth with a bold bet on self-improving AI, Recursive is led by former research team leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Salesforce AI, and Uber AI. The company is creating AI that conducts experiments on how to safely improve itself - in an open-ended process of automated scientific discovery. Link in the comments to Recursive’s announcement. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is proud to support Recursive on the transaction and wishes Richard Socher and the Recursive team well for this next stage of their journey.

Congratulations to London-based Fractile on its $220M Series B funding round led by Accel, Founders Fund and Factorial Funds, with participation from Conviction, Gigascale Capital, 01.A, Buckley Ventures, 8VC, Felicis, Oxford Science Enterprises, Kindred Capital VC, and NATO Innovation Fund (NIF)! 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Fractile is building chips, systems and software to radically improve the speed and cost of running frontier AI inference. Existing hardware is good for training frontier AI models, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly defining the new era of AI compute workloads. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale. The funding round will accelerate the path to getting Fractile’s first chips and systems into customers’ hands. Link in the comments to Fractile’s Series B announcement. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is proud to support Fractile on the transaction and wishes Walter Goodwin and the Fractile team well for this next stage of their journey.

Congratulations to SF/London-based Recursive on its $650 million funding round at a $4.65 billion valuation! The round was led by GV (Google Ventures) and Greycroft, with major participation from AMD Ventures and NVIDIA. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Emerging from stealth with a bold bet on self-improving AI, Recursive is led by former research team leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Salesforce AI, and Uber AI. The company is creating AI that conducts experiments on how to safely improve itself - in an open-ended process of automated scientific discovery. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is proud to support Recursive on the transaction and wishes Richard Socher and the Recursive team well for this next stage of their journey.

Honored to represent, pro bono, former state Senator Mark Leno in a letter supporting a petition for review by the California Supreme Court this week. It relates to an important issue under the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or CalECPA. A full circle moment for me after externing at the California Supreme Court during law school 20 years ago. Fingers crossed that the Supreme Court grants review! Thanks to Jake Snow and the ACLU of Northern California for the referral. And to Susan Freiwald (my former professor!) and Nicole Ozer for their hard work to help pass CalECPA in the first place. Thank you to WSGR associate David Fox for helping with drafting the letter. Lastly thank you to my firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati for supporting this effort pro bono.

Congratulations to London-based Fifth Dimension on its $26m Series A fundraise led by HV Capital, with participation from Prudence, Mercia, MMC and AFG, and continued support from Speedinvest, Seedcamp and Anthemis! Fifth Dimension is the decision intelligence platform for real assets. The company powers investment decisions by unifying fragmented institutional and market data into a single intelligence layer with agentic AI that delivers analysis, surfaces risk and prepares decisions proactively. With offices in London, New York and Singapore, and trillions in assets running on its platform, Fifth Dimension serves global investment managers, asset managers, lenders and family offices across multiple asset classes. Link in the comments to Fifth Dimension’s Series A announcement. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is proud to support Fifth Dimension on the transaction and wishes Dr. Kate Jarvis , Johnny Morris , and the Fifth Dimension team well for this next stage of their journey.

For the past 6 months we’ve been proud to support the FFinc Forward Faster Accelerator, powering 100 high-growth female founders through an intensive program designed to unlock growth. The level of collaboration and mutual support among founders stands out and speaks to the strength and intentionality of the environment the program has cultivated. We’re pleased to be part of initiatives like this that create meaningful opportunities for connection and growth across the ecosystem. A special thank you to my Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati corporate partner, Ashmi Bhagani , for her work championing this partnership. 👉 If you’re a female founder looking to take your business to the next stage, you can learn more about the 2026/2027 accelerator here: https://lnkd.in/dcZAQrJa