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Form's regulated market thesis in the AI era
"Hard things" such as regulation and hardware were once viewed sceptically by VCs - now they are islands of defensibility as AI disrupts software.
 • Leo Ringer
Why policy must be a core operating function in frontier markets
Lessons from the frontline: Sarah Gates, VP, Global Affairs & Assurance, Wayve
 • Patrick Newton
Backing future industry giants, with Tom Adeyoola of Innovate UK
Innovate UK’s mission is to turn breakthrough ideas into industry giants and it’s best known for grant funding.
 • Leo Ringer
When “sovereignty” means everything, it means nothing
One word features more than any in startup pitch decks, at VC AGMs and in government tech comms at the moment: “sovereignty”.
 • Patrick Newton
thymia, the health and safety intelligence layer for the voice revolution
A key part of the AI revolution is not just what work tech does for us, but how we engage it.
 • Patrick Newton

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Form Summit 2026 at the House of Lords
On Wednesday we held our third Form Summit at the House of Lords, which has been making UK laws since the fourteenth century.
 • Leo Ringer
Lessons from the hardest part of seed investing
We raised Form Fund I in 2019.
 • Patrick Newton
Five: Why palm is the next in-person payments platform shift
It’s not often you have a truly magical experience when using new technology.
 • Patrick Newton
On the role of “gut” in investing
There is a school of thought that the art of early stage investing, at its most advanced, can be boiled down to a “gut feeling”.
 • Mayowa Ogunremi
Why "philosopher builders" are crucial in the AI era, with Harry Law from the Cosmos Institute
This week, we’re speaking to Harry Law, previously a senior researcher at Google Deepmind, and currently researcher at the Cosmos Institute – an…
 • Patrick Newton
Why can’t regulators think like founders?
Etaine has been interning with us this winter as she wraps up her MBA at the Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth) in the US.
 • Etaine Lamy
Tech and policy in 2026
Last January the Form Ventures team made four tech and policy predictions for the year ahead. How did we get on?
 • Form Ventures
It’s time to slash the red tape myth
Politicians love talking about the “red tape” that constricts business and gets in the way of growth.
 • Leo Ringer
Team Talks III: Trade-offs in Team Analysis
Many paradoxes exist in VC, perhaps most of all when assessing founding teams.
 • Mayowa Ogunremi
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