Saskia Koopman
Saskia Koopman covers the business and politics of artificial intelligence and the wider technology sector for City A.M., with an emphasis on how capital and policy shape the industry. Her beat spans Wall Street’s AI boom, domestic funding trends and the UK government’s evolving tech strategy, giving her coverage a consistently financial and regulatory frame. Her author archive runs to more than 140 pages, reflecting sustained, high-volume reporting on technology and AI over multiple years.
UK AI investment and London’s tech boom
A core strand of Koopman’s work is the scale and direction of investment into UK AI companies and the role of London as a leading European tech hub. She has reported on research showing that Britain’s AI sector attracted a record £8.3bn of investment in 2025, marking a sharp acceleration from earlier years. In that coverage she highlights how funding surged after a sluggish period for venture capital, driven by demand for firms building AI infrastructure and specialist legal and financial software. Her reporting breaks down where capital is flowing, including the finding that nearly half of UK AI funding rounds in the period came from first-time raises, indicating a new wave of startups entering the market.
She tracks London’s dominance in this story, noting that nearly three quarters of Britain’s AI fintech companies are based in the capital and that the city remains at the centre of the investment boom. Koopman also makes use of cohort data such as the Barclays Eagle Labs AI 100, detailing aggregate capital raised, revenue generated and jobs supported by leading AI businesses.
The numbers in these pieces sit alongside clear explanations of what investors are backing, with a focus on software and infrastructure businesses that can monetise AI tools quickly as corporate adoption accelerates.
Government AI strategy and tech departments
Koopman regularly covers how government policy and departmental decisions intersect with the UK’s AI ambitions.
In her reporting on the record AI investment figures, she sets out how the UK government has moved to position the country as a destination for AI capital, including plans for a new Sovereign AI Unit designed to support domestic firms and retain intellectual property. She writes about regional AI clusters as part of this policy landscape, noting that the North West’s AI sector has expanded faster than London’s since 2019, driven by advanced manufacturing and industrial AI, even though it starts from a smaller base. Her political coverage includes scrutiny of ministerial moves that could disrupt this strategy, such as plans to dismantle a tech department that drew immediate criticism from peers.
In that work she reports on warnings that abolishing the department would be a “phenomenal waste of time” and could undermine Britain’s AI plans, giving equal weight to political argument and its practical implications for the sector. She also tracks how high-profile funding rounds, like the $220m raise by British AI chip startup Fractile, are framed by ministers as a “vote of confidence” in the UK’s ability to produce globally competitive AI infrastructure firms.
Across these stories, Koopman treats policy announcements and departmental changes as part of the same narrative as investment flows and industrial capacity, rather than as isolated political set pieces.
Wall Street’s AI craze and global capital flows
Alongside domestic policy and sector coverage, Koopman’s beat explicitly includes Wall Street’s AI craze and its spillover effects on the UK tech landscape.
Her author bio describes a remit that stretches from US market enthusiasm for AI to the UK government’s response, underlining a habit of linking global investor sentiment with national strategy. Within this frame she focuses on how international capital chases AI “growth stories”, particularly businesses supplying the infrastructure behind the technology rather than consumer-facing apps alone. Her investment pieces place UK firms within broader global patterns, showing how overseas investors are backing British startups in areas such as AI chips, infrastructure platforms and sector-specific software.
When she reports on cohorts like the AI 100, she sets British companies in the context of worldwide fundraising and revenue trends, connecting their performance to wider market appetite for automation and generative AI. This cross-border perspective gives her coverage a consistently international angle even when the companies and policymakers she writes about are domestic.
Editorial background in culture and magazines
Koopman’s professional background includes work as a tech reporter as well as editorial and contributing writer roles at culture-focused publications and magazines. She has held section editor responsibilities and co-founded an outlet, adding hands-on experience in commissioning and shaping coverage alongside writing. Her résumé also includes editorial internships at design and lifestyle titles, broadening her familiarity with feature formats and long-form narratives.
This mix of tech reporting and cultural editorial work sits behind a portfolio that combines detailed business and policy analysis with accessible storytelling about AI and technology industries.
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