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AI dominates UK's smaller business equity market - UKTN
PushButton AI Team ·
44% of all small business investment in the UK is now flowing into AI companies. Not big tech. Small businesses. Businesses like yours. That stat hit me differently when I read it — because most of
44% of all small business investment in the UK is now flowing into AI companies.
Not big tech. Small businesses. Businesses like yours.
That stat hit me differently when I read it — because most of my clients aren't seeing returns yet. They're sitting on unused software subscriptions wondering what everyone else knows that they don't.
Here's the uncomfortable truth: money is moving fast, but most of that investment is going into AI companies, not into AI that actually works inside real businesses. There's a difference. A big one.
Your competitors aren't necessarily smarter. They're just earlier in the same trial-and-error process you're dreading.
The businesses quietly winning right now didn't start with a platform. They started with one broken process — something repetitive, time-consuming, low-stakes — and fixed just that. One thing. Measurable result. Confidence built.
That's the entry point nobody sells you, because there's no big commission in it.
This week, write down the one task your team does repeatedly that produces zero joy and questionable results. That's your starting point. Not a strategy overhaul. Just that one thing.
What's the AI tool you bought that nobody actually ended up using — and what do you think went wrong?
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AI companies accounted for 44% of total equity investment into smaller businesses in 2025 – the highest share on record. AI represented 26% of all ...