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Doctify raises growth round to accelerate ambition to help 100 million patients

Doctify launches global benchmarking tool to rank doctors and hospitals across borders after strong engagement through COVID

Connecting female entrepreneurs with resources, funding and coaching

Vista has announced a partnership with IFundWomen (IFW), a funding marketplace for women-owned businesses.

Solving Europe’s labour shortage

HeyJobs has raised $47m in Series B financing led by Digital+ and FMZ ventures, with participation from existing investors Notion Capital, Heartcore Capital and Creathor Ventures.

The threat to the successful return to the office for workers

Research shows a lack of planning and investment in hybrid working is threatening to derail a widespread successful return to the office.

Geovation named as a finalist in the Go:Tech Awards.22

Geovation, Ordnance Survey’s (OS) geospatial innovation hub, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Incubator or Accelerator Programme Award category at the Go:Tech Awards.22.

Music tech and XR company Volta closes initial funding round

Volta, the novel music tech and XR (extended reality) company, has closed its initial round of funding, bringing in support from major players in the music and tech industries. 

Consumers less concerned about their data privacy than 10 years ago

Latest industry research reveals age as a key factor behind consumers’ attitudes to data sharing, as well as the rise of the consumer capitalist mindset

Supporting Survivors of Financial Crime

Nasdaq has recently announced its partnership with UK-based charity TRIBE Freedom Foundation, a community focused on fighting human trafficking and modern slavery.

Startup C12 & CEA collab for quantum computers

CEA, a French key player in research, development and innovation, and C12 Quantum Electronics, a startup focused on developing the next-generation of quantum computers using carbon nanotubes, announced a partnership to produce the first multi-qubit chips at wafer scale.

University of Lincoln uses AI to grow the UK’s millions of strawberries to perfect ripeness

Biting into the perfect strawberry and savouring its sweetness mostly depends on whether it was picked at the right time. Picking labour accounts for 40% of horticulture production costs, and much of the remaining costs derive from berries being picked at the wrong time, leading to spoilage, or sour under-ripeness.

Business school teams up with entrepreneurs to boost Europe’s development of scaleups

IESE, a business school for executive education has launched the School of Founders (SoF) to foster the development of founders and their teams at fast-growing small and mid-sized companies.

Digital Catapult unveils powerhouse selection of net zero startups

The UK authority on advanced digital technology, Digital Catapult, has unmasked the next generation of net zero startups and scaleups during its FutureScope Industrial Net Zero Showcase.

Top 5 cities for women in tech
This article is part 25 of 27 in the series IWD 2022

As our lives have gone more digital, an increasing number of women are transitioning into areas across tech. So, as tech investment surges across the UK, experts from FDM Group have collected data on the most prosperous cities women can work in.

Spring statement misses the mark for UK professionals

The Government’s Spring Statement has fallen short for UK professionals as the latest survey from the UK’s leading independent job board, CV-Library, reveals.

The world’s most popular sustainable businesses, according to Google

To celebrate B Corp Month 2022, green energy experts at Uswitch reveal which B Corp certified businesses are the most searched for around the world and which countries have the most sustainable businesses

An exciting new vision to bring coworking to suburbs and investment to the highstreet

Inspired by the shift to flexible working, the founders of both Patch and Tally Market are on a mission to change the way we work, influenced by the Patch vision for ‘Work Near Home’

Startups and investors from around the world gather at Alpha Wolves

The owners of startups and scaleups from Central and Eastern Europe are meeting with investors from all around the world in Poland in April at Alpha Wolves – an exclusive, two-day forum run in a hybrid mode. This is the first such event in the CEE region to be held this year in Warsaw.

Dassault Systèmes supports startup in development of a climate-positive mobility concept

With the help of the 3DEXPERIENCE Works for Startups program and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes, ottobahn is developing a rail-guided, climate-positive gondola service for use in and between cities. After extensive software-based tests in virtual space, 100,000 test kilometres are to be completed from the second half of the year as part of the approval process.

How will the startups and scaleups market develop in 2022?

Investors’ predictions for the central and eastern Europe tech market for 2022

​​​​​​​Google for Startups to supercharge Black-led tech startups

Google for Startups is inviting UK-based Black-led tech startups to apply for this year’s Black Founders Fund worth a total of $4 million (approximately £3 million), in an effort to help tackle the stark inequality in venture capital (VC) funding.