At the AWS Summit in London, I sat down with Tricia Troth, Head of Startups UK and Ireland at Amazon Web Services (AWS), to explore how the company is supporting early-stage businesses through technical enablement, investment guidance, and a broad ecosystem of resources.
Primer, the unified infrastructure for global payments, has launched “Primer for Growth” – a fresh initiative designed to solve payment headaches for digitally savvy startups and scaleups.
Closing out the financial year remains a major challenge for businesses. Reports identify 55% of organisations still struggle with outstanding invoices from the previous tax year, while 20% of unpaid invoices are reconciled four to six months late.
Why is the human side of branding something startups can’t afford to ignore? When we talk about branding, most minds jump straight to logos, taglines, and colour palettes. But for startups, whether B2B/B2C or, as I like to call it, H2H (human to human), the most powerful branding doesn’t live in visual identity or marketing campaigns. It lives in what we can’t see: emotions, trust, and human connection.
The digital identity landscape in the UK has undergone a seismic shift in recent years, driven by government initiatives like the Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (DIATF).
The Hustle Awards, a longstanding highlight in the entrepreneurial calendar, has some updates for you all!
On April 25th, Rare Founders Demo Day returned with its most ambitious event to date – delivering a powerful reminder that the UK’s startup ecosystem doesn’t need more polish. It needs more truth.
As SMEs navigate an increasingly complex business landscape in 2025, rising operational costs, talent retention, and cyber threats continue to dominate boardroom discussions.
Hackathons have long been a launchpad for innovation, but what if they could do more than just spark ideas? What if they could become structured, real-time engines for building, learning, and connecting? These are the questions AI Product Engineer Igor Luchenkov set out to explore.
Mission Zero Technologies (MZT) has opened its Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant in Norfolk, the world’s first fully integrated DAC-to-building materials production demonstration.
BioMara, a seaweed biotechnology company, has successfully completed commercial-scale trials of its proprietary fucoidan extraction process at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), the UK’s premier bioprocessing facility.
Despite being built on great ideas, 90% of startups eventually fail. Fernando Amaral, Chief Revenue Officer at expense management solution Rydoo shares his insights on the common pitfalls and best practices for building a successful startup.
AI startups in the UK are raising billions in funding, yet there’s a startling gap between capital and real-world impact. Recent studies reveal that only one in seven UK AI companies are working towards solving actual market or societal problems. Given that there are more than 3,000 AI firms operating in the region, it feels appropriate to ask – what’s going wrong?
Deckmatch, an AI-powered market intelligence company that analyses pitch decks for investors and product data for startups, has added former Financial Times Editor Lionel Barber as an adviser to the company.
Arondite, a British company building AI to transform how defence organisations safely deliver “human-machine” teaming at scale, has secured over $12 million in funding from leading global investors.
A new report from Swoop Funding has uncovered a striking gender disparity in UK business debt.
Despite mounting cost pressures, shifting tariffs, and a turbulent economic outlook, UK small businesses are fuelling a surprising surge in employment growth.
Findings from a DeepL survey of UK and global executives reveal that despite English being the language of global business, UK companies are more likely to encounter language-related challenges when expanding into new markets than their counterparts in the US, France, the Netherlands, and Germany.
International business development consultancy Intralink has expanded its global presence to India to help UK technology companies secure customers and partners in this rapidly-developing market, and to enable Indian businesses to grow overseas.
Manchester has been crowned the UK’s most AI-ready city in 2025, according to new research.
