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Ascension-Q, the clinical research operating system, has secured £250,000 in a pre-seed round led by early-stage focused venture capital firm Jenson Funding Partners.
Fight Scout has announced that it has raised $50,000 in seed funding to scale its app that connects users to the combat sport community within minutes.
It’s widely reported that female founded businesses get less funding than male. Research from the European Investment Bank revealed that female entrepreneurs secured only one percent of venture capital investment last year.
Businesses are unintentionally expanding their threat surface as hybrid working becomes the norm and more organisations migrate to cloud services.
Eight extraordinary women from across the country have been unveiled as the 2022 winners in the UK’s leading programme for female entrepreneurs.
100x Impact Accelerator, a new £50m global initiative dedicated to shaping a new generation of “social unicorns”, launches its first call for applications. Based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 100x aims to nurture high-potential social enterprises, enabling them to achieve positive impact on the scale of billions.
Dry January is now a global event, which requires a global response from employers with overseas staff.
Fraud prevention company, SEON, has announced the new hires of Ben Ortman as its new Global VP of Sales and Andrew McAllister as its new VP of Customer Success. The new additions reaffirm the company’s commitment to continued growth in 2023.
Economic ‘peak opportunity’ is likely to be late Quarter 1 for most major developed economies, and when investors might be rewarded for taking the plunge, predicts the CEO and founder of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory, asset management and fintech organisations.
Concerns around recession, inflation, and high operating costs are causing distress to UK small businesses as they enter this year, according to new SME Outlook 2023 research from iwoca – one of Europe’s largest small business lenders.
CES 2023 concluded yesterday with innovative product launches that will help to solve many global challenges.
Recent years have been challenging for small businesses, with an estimated 20% increase in insolvencies in 2022, and nearly 400,000 businesses closing between 2020 and 20211.
Arbe Robotics Ltd. (Nasdaq: ARBE) (“Arbe”), a global leader in Perception Radar Solutions, today announced its latest release, a 360° Radar-Based Perception that pushes the boundaries beyond imaging to provide an integrated analysis of the complete vehicle surroundings in long range. The surround data captured by a suite of Arbe’s perception radars, which leverage AI to identify, classify, and track objects in 360°, is processed in real-time to create a full free space map around the vehicle, as well as an analysis of the evolving hazards sensed by the radars.
New Healthtech start-up, Jack Fertility, announces it will be launching the first UK postal male fertility test in 2023, providing men with a convenient way to collect a sperm sample home and send it to a lab for testing, avoiding the need for awkward, inconvenient in-person clinic appointments. The innovative offering is set to change how men access fertility testing thanks to a unique preservation solution, meaning patients can get a fast and comprehensive semen analysis from anywhere in the UK.
The way we work is gradually starting to change – with many of us preferring to spend more time with our loved ones than in the office. This shift in attitude has led to a range of new working styles gaining popularity – from remote-working, flexible working and hybrid working arrangements, to a newer approach: a four-day work week.
Economic headwinds have created a challenging environment for technology startups that they must confront in order to grow this year. The risk of devaluation could lead founders to attempt to streamline costs by foregoing expenditure on generating intellectual property (IP) assets, but such actions are too often taken at the expense of long-term success.
Winner of the USA TODAY award in the Best of Tech category at CES 2022, the French startup Lili for Life is back at CES this year.
CES, the world’s most influential tech event, is back in Las Vegas on January 5th – 8th. With more to see than ever, the show footprint will be over 70 percent larger than CES 2022.
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced a CES 2023 keynote panel, “Bold Solutions for a Changing World,” featuring top female investors and company founders. The conversation will explore how investments in under-represented founders are propelling innovation and having big impact on global challenges.
Murata announced that it is showcasing its new Edge AI module Type2DA with Syntiant® NDP102 Neural Decision Processor™ (NDP) at CES 2023 (LVCC booth #10249). Ideal for always-on audio and sensor applications, the new solution significantly improves efficiencies while simplifying design challenges for a seamless integration and faster time-to-market.
