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Humanforest records its highest ever ebike usage in London

HumanForest, a sustainable micro-mobility platform, recorded the highest ever usage of its electric bikes in London last month. It is expecting the numbers to continue to grow, as it opens more London Boroughs and launches the first of its cycle training academies.

Tobias Hauser joins Limbic as Head of Computational Psychiatry

Tobias Hauser joins Limbic as its Head of Computational Psychiatry.

Future Health Works acquired by HOPCo to reduce NHS elective surgery waiting times

London-based Future Health Works (FHW), known for its patient engagement platforms myrecovery and msk.ai, has been acquired by Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company (HOPCo).

The chance to go big and win advertising space reaching millions

A new campaign has been launched/today Tuesday June 7, which offers small businesses across the UK a unique opportunity to grow their business by winning advertising investment worth £100,000.

The Hustle Awards comedian host announced!

We are thrilled to announce that star of Live at The Apollo, Laura Lexx will be our host for the Hustle Awards. 

Artists join multiverse platform revolution

VRJAM, a leading multiverse platform for live entertainment, has unveiled the first artists to join its Creator Guild. VRJAM will offer live virtual reality and interactive content across streaming platforms, websites, VR and mobile devices powered by blockchain technology. 

Employers need a greater understanding of cancer care to support employees

Sunday 5 June is Cancer Survivors’ Day. This is a timely reminder that cancer is often survivable, given the right lifestyle, screening, diagnosis, and care. All of which are factors that employers are in a position to support.

Trustly’s acquirement strengthens UK position

Trustly, the leading global payments platform for digital Account-to-Account transactions (A2A) today announces the acquisition of the UK-based Open Banking Payments platform Ecospend. Ecospend’s strong UK A2A product and full bank connectivity will complement and enable Trustly to deliver a market-leading product in the UK, and further accelerate its UK roll-out – one of Europe’s most rapidly growing A2A regions and a core growth market for Trustly.

Huge increase in 18-25 business owners since the start of the pandemic

It is no secret that during the midst of the covid pandemic, thousands of people decided to start their own business. The under 25’s boomed with innovation during lockdown, and a new study has shown that e-commerce, freight and real estate were the top sectors for the start-up businesses in under 25’s.

Crowd Data Systems raises €1m to enable the future of treasury management software

Crowd Data Systems (CDS), a B2B SaaS platform providing data-driven decision support to corporate treasury, has secured an €1m seed round led by Triple Point Ventures, alongside Portfolio Ventures and a number of angel investors.  This investment will enable the business to build out sales, marketing and customer success in order to meet its next phase of growth.

Slashing Co2 Emissions and Curbing E-Waste – Klyk Unveils Sustainability Goals

Sustainable IT solutions partner, and certified B Corporation Klyk announces their ambitious sustainability targets and the launch of their IT repair café on June 24th. Over the next five years Klyk aims to cut CO2 emissions by 1,200 tonnes and reduce electronic waste (e-waste) by 145 tonnes.

Seed round to help develop ultra high-speed chips using photonics for AI applications

Salience Labs has raised a seed round of $11.5m to develop an ultra high-speed multi-chip processor combining photonics and electronics to accelerate exponential advances in AI. The round was led by Cambridge Innovation Capital and Oxford Science Enterprises, with Oxford Investment Consultants, former CEO of Dialog Semiconductor Jalal Bagherli, ex-Temasek Board Member Yew Lin Goh and Arm-backed Deeptech Labs participating.

Bike Club gets more pedal power to double-down on circular economy

Racing to disrupt both access and sustainability within the cycling industry, kid’s bike subscription service, Bike Club, gears up for national and European expansion after closing £16.75m in new investment.

‘Finpowerment’ financial education strengthens employer-employee connection

UK workers want more financial education resources from their employers and believe receiving it as a wellbeing benefit can strengthen their commitment to their jobs, according to the ‘Can We Connect’ report, released today by global financial wellbeing platform nudge Global. 

Sustainability platform records 235% rise in new users

Sustainable parenting platform, YoungPlanet, has seen a 235% increase in app sign-ups during the first five months of 2022, compared to the same timeframe in 2021. The app is used by families across the UK to give and receive pre-used children’s items for free; helping parents to prevent unnecessary landfill waste.

Female-founder attributes female VC support as key for women-led businesses

May 2022: The key to increasing investment in more female-founded companies is by increasing the representation of female VCs, suggests VC-backed, female-founded retail technology app Slip. Although less than 20% of investors in Slip are female, Co-founder and CEO Tash Grossman believes that increased female investor representation would support the growth of more female-founded businesses.

5 ways group risk benefits can support employees with cancer

Cancer is the main reason employers claim for their staff across all group risk benefits (employer-sponsored life assurance, income protection and critical illness), so it’s especially important that employers know how to make the most of the support available under these policies.

1/3 of employers do not offer early parenthood support

Nearly two thirds (63%) of employers say they offer early parenthood support, according to research from Peppy, leaving those employers who don’t, extremely vulnerable to losing staff to other more family-friendly organisations at the point their staff become parents.

Brands double-down on VR and Metaverse but consumers remain ambivalent

Did you know, 85% of social media marketers anticipate incorporating new technologies like Virtual Reality, the Metaverse, Cryptocurrencies, and NFTs into their social media strategy within the next year? This is according to Sprout Social’s UK & Ireland Index 2022 released last week.

Sheffield Hallam PhD Student launched World-Leading Coach Education Platform

Award-winning entrepreneur and former Ambassador for Entrepreneurship in the UK, Gerard Jones has launched a digital coach education platform ULearnbly.com which offers online sports coaching courses, mentoring services and exclusive insight interviews to sports coaches across all levels around the world.