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As COVID restrictions are lifting and the world is opening back up again, businesses are keen to get back to travelling.
Following on from the easing of national lockdown restrictions in April, Real Business Rescue have released their quarterly Business Distress Index for Q2 (April – June 2020), uncovering a post-pandemic health check on SMEs in the UK. You can view the full report here.
Europe’s largest Business Show is back for 2021, returning to London’s ExCeL on the 24th & 25th of November, helping small businesses grow and develop. The 43rd edition of the show will reveal the secrets of business adaptation, innovation and survival as we recover from the pandemic.
Human Performance specialists Virti have launched an AI-powered feedback suite of tools designed to help businesses meaningfully engage with and learn from their employees.
The Big Score, organised by Startups.be ScaleUps.eu in collaboration with VLAIO and Voka, welcomes 35 project leaders from international organisations who will present their operational challenges in full transparency to hundreds of impactful startups, who will be able to explain their technology live or remote. A unique format and a win-win where companies like AB InBev, Nestlé, Procter and Gamble, Toyota, Engie, Dow and Volvo can discover niche solutions that make their processes more climate friendly. And the startups? They can score the deal of a life time.
Local citations and Amazon PPC complete the top three skills searched for by UK businesses, as it seems businesses and workers look to a much more digital future.
Believed to be the UK’s first online ante and neonatal clinic, Naytal, gives women instant access pregnancy and for postnatal healthcare.
The future belongs to those who can tell their story. The founders of Lone Design Club Accelerates and 5 Stories are partnering to help fashion businesses build that future.
The UK’s longest running index of disruptive new startups, the Startups 100, has released its 2021 lineup and named Multiverse, the startup launched by Euan Blair, as number one.
Playfair Capital, Tech Nation and Google for Startups are joining forces for the sixth edition of their Female Founder Office Hours initiative. This event will be the largest yet, with over 300 female founders and 120 VCs from some of the world’s leading funds, and expected to be as big as success as past years, as data from the previous five events shows that over 27% of companies that have attended have gone on to secure funding from VCs, angel investors or other sources.
Chosen from over 150 international submissions, eight seed and early-stage innovators from around the world went head-to-head for a chance to work with the UK’s leading retailer, in the Tesco Agri T-Jam Final with World Agri-Tech on Monday October 18.
Global funding for start-ups exploded this year, with the cyber security market riding its own wave, accelerated by the pandemic boom. In the first half of 2021, the market has already surpassed the $7.8bn raised the previous year.
Globalisation Partners, which makes it fast and easy for companies to hire anyone, anywhere within minutes, via its global employment platform, today announced Sir Richard Branson will headline its PANGEO Conference taking place October 20-22, 2021.
Anglia Components announces the launch of Anglia Unicorn, a dedicated division to help technology startups get off the drawing board and into the market faster. Anglia Unicorn was conceived to provide startups with the innovative technology ideas they need and offers engineering resources, evaluation hardware and software tools along with samples from Anglia’s world class technology partners, all free of charge.
European companies with female-only founders receive less than one percent of all VC capital investment despite the number of female-led companies almost doubling over the past decade, research by Yoppie, the pioneers of personalised menstrual wellness and period care has revealed.
It goes without saying that the past two years have been, for the most part, unpredictable. In both our professional and personal lives, we’ve all had to pivot and adapt to situations we never thought imaginable. In fact, according to the World Uncertainty Index (Ahir) we’re living in the most uncertain time in human history.
The potential business success stories of tomorrow have been unveiled at the Santander X Entrepreneurship Awards 2021, a prestigious UK-wide entrepreneurial business pitching competition for students and recent graduates.
New data from Untapped AI has revealed more than 4 in 5 people have described themselves as feeling in the grip of change fatigue in September, exhausted with workplace and social uncertainty.
A green robotics company, slashing the cost of maintaining wind turbines, is flying high after securing £1.6m in its latest funding round.
In their previous article, entitled ‘The top 5 trends to watch out for, beyond 2021!’ MarketNgage discussed what’s shaping the healthcare industry and what is their impact on the future. In this article they discuss the top healthtech startups that are taking the world by storm with their futuristic products and innovative thinking.
