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Employers worry about remote work productivity, but fail to invest in solutions

New research released by Ricoh Europe has revealed that employers are failing to invest in technology to maintain productivity across their remote workforce, despite concerns about their output.

Sign up for FREE tickets to Europe’s largest Business Show…

Europe’s largest business show is back for 2021, returning to London’s ExCeL on the 24th & 25th November! This year we are launching a new event – Working From Home Live, running alongside The Business Show and Retrain Expo.

Virtual Femtech Week aims to increase awareness of women’s healthcare tech solutions

Reaching over 500k womxn around the world Femtech Media’s Virtual Femtech Week hopes to increase awareness of available femtech solutions available that can replace or bridge gaps in traditional healthcare, increasing women’s access to safe, affordable, and equitable care.

NorthInvest and Social Tech Communications form strategic partnership

Non-profit organisation, NorthInvest, and specialist technology communications agency, Social Tech Communications, have announced their strategic partnership in a bid to provide vital support in PR ad marketing to the northern ecosystem of tech startups, helping budding entrepreneurs achieve their growth potential.

London maintains its crown as one of the world’s top startup hubs

London is the leading destination to grow a technology business outside of Silicon Valley, according to a comprehensive ranking of international startup hubs compiled by Startup Genome for its annual Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021. Despite Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic, London maintained its second-place ranking tied with New York for the second year in a row.

15 companies selected to join Tech Nation’s Future Fifty programme

As the spotlight shines on the UK tech sector for the next day of London Tech Week, Tech Nation, has announced 15 new companies selected to join the Future Fifty programme – Tech Nation’s growth programme for late-stage digital businesses.

Startup providing competition in the home security space

Boundary Technologies, based in Edinburgh, is launching a Home Security Saviours campaign, in which it offers to buy out 50 of the most in-need customers stuck with traditional alarm companies.

New pioneering interactive documentary The Uncertainty Experts

Sam Conniff has written, directored and presented of The Uncertainty Experts. Having experienced the negative impact of uncertainty at its full force and overcoming it, Sam embarked on a discovery journey to equip people and business with the competence to battle uncertainty and transform their lives for the better.

International ecosystem initiatives raising funds to democratise entrepreneurship

Faced with obstacles like gender discrimination, financial security, geographical bias, or availability of funding, entrepreneurs are demanding stronger community support. As a response, a new global movement of ecosystem builders is raising €2.7mn within two years to implement innovation projects that will democratise entrepreneurship and empower founders.

Huckletree launches Futures Hub for founders and startups pioneering a new future

Creative workspace and accelerator, Huckletree has announced the launch of its Futures Hub, a redesign of their flagship space in its White City workspace – including three new focused ecosystems for innovative businesses to make their home – Future Living, FoodTech and Creative Labs.

Tech startup raises $1.9m pre-seed to enable a low carbon economy

Tanso Technologies, a Munich-based sustainability tech startup has announced the closing of its $1.9m pre-seed financing round. The round was led by UVC Partners, a B2B technology investor with a strong focus on enterprise software, with participation of early-stage investors Picus Capital, Possible Ventures (formerly Inventures), and business angels.

WeWork launches Growth Campus Europe to boost startup ecosystem

WeWork has launched Growth Campus Europe, an initiative targeted to boost economic recovery across nine European countries; Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Norway and Czech Republic.

The LinkedIn Changemakers driving change in the world of work

LinkedIn Changemakers are a selected group of nine LinkedIn members and creators actively driving change in the topics most important to UK professionals.

Spex Capital and MedCity joint investment call to fund healthtech ventures

Investment firm, Spex Capital and London’s life sciences cluster organisation, MedCity open today their first joint call as part of their exclusive partnership to identify and fund the next generation of digital health and medtech innovators.

Microsoft’s top AI expert, Lila Tretikov, joins a London startup to fight climate change

Microsoft Deputy CTO brings decades of climate science, technology, and business acumen to the Climate Intelligence innovator.

Releaf secures $4.2m to drive industrialisation of food processing in Africa

Releaf, an agtech startup that develops proprietary hardware and software solutions that makes African farmers and food factories more efficient and profitable, has raised $2.7m seed funding in a round led by Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa and Consonance Investment Managers with participation from Stephen Pagliuca, Chairman of Bain Capital and Justin Kan (Twitch). Releaf also secured $1.5m in grants from The Challenge Fund for Youth Employment (CFYE) and USAID.

Tech Nation welcomes 32 climate tech companies to its second Net Zero programme

Tech Nation has announced the 32 climate tech companies who have been accepted into Net Zero 2.0 – the second iteration of the Net Zero programme.

FedEx launches Small Business Grant Competition in Europe

FedEx Express has announced the launch of the Small Business Grant Competition in Europe. The competition offers a total grant pool of nearly €250.000 to European small businesses to help them grow and achieve their ambitions. For the first time, the competition will be run as a single pan-European contest, open to small businesses based in 16 countries.

Andes raises $15m in Series A funding co-led by Leaps by Bayer and Cavallo Ventures

Leaps by Bayer, the impact investment arm of Bayer AG, announced that it has co-led a $15m Series A investment round in agriculture and biotechnology innovator, Andes, with Cavallo Ventures. Other new investors Builders VC, Germin8, Accelr8 and Wilson Sonsini participated, alongside existing investors KdT Ventures and Endurance.

MYNDUP raises £300,000 after transforming mental health for professionals

British mental health startup, MYNDUP has raised £300,000 in an oversubscribed third round of seed funding. Founded in February 2020, the company has now received £500,000 in investment and grants since December last year, with investors recognising MYNDUP’s innovative offering and potential for further growth.