As businesses look to drive growth in 2025 amid a dynamic market environment, new research from American Express reveals about eight in 10 (78%) are planning to improve their business payments process, with almost two-fifths (39%) doing so as part of strategies to drive growth.
The European startup ecosystem is rich and diverse but faces a paradox similar to other high-value markets like the United States and Canada. Whenever Europe has a well-established economy with successful educational institutions that generate a lucrative talent pool, early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) tends to lag.
Startups Magazine is proud to have partnered with the Elite Business 100 (EB100) Awards, which once again recognised and celebrated the UK’s most innovative and ambitious SMEs.
Space Forge has been awarded a licence from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to launch ForgeStar-1 – its in-orbit manufacturing satellite. With the launch set for later this year, this marks a significant milestone for both the company and Wales as ForgeStar-1 is set to become the first UK ISAM satellite in orbit.
The National Enterprise Network has warned that urgent action is needed to prevent the UK losing the vital infrastructure which supports growth across the country’s economy.
Soulmates Ventures is strengthening its commitment to sustainable innovation with a €50 million fund, increasing initial investments to up to €3 million per startup, with follow-on funding totalling up to €5 million to ensure long-term support.
Bioniq, founded in 2019 and renowned for its personalised nutritional supplements based on blood biomarker data, is proud to announce that football star Diogo Dalot, right-back for Manchester United and the Portugal national team, has joined the company as an investor, contributing over €1 million.
YellowScan is set to present its YellowScan Navigator topo-bathymetric system for drones, marking a pivotal moment in technological innovation for environmental monitoring.
Co-parenting shouldn’t feel like an emotional minefield, yet for many, it does. Every message sent carries the weight of past conflict, and every reply risks turning a simple logistical question into an exhausting emotional exchange.
While female entrepreneurship is on the rise, only 19% of businesses in the UK are female owned. Despite the growth of women-led businesses, there is still a way to go before we reach a more level playing field across the business landscape. Samantha Addy, CEO & Founder of the Female Advisory Board (FAB), the UK’s first all-female peer advisory organisation, discusses the challenges facing business owners and the barriers holding female entrepreneurs back from taking their business to the next level.
A few years ago, I remember sitting down with a team of passionate individuals, all with a shared vision: to create a solution that would make work management easier, faster, and more intuitive. We wanted to simplify the complexities that teams face daily, helping them collaborate and deliver projects with confidence and efficiency.
In the process of launching a new business? Here’s a staggering statistic for you – in 2024, 90% of business startups failed. The speed of failure varies – only 10% fail to claw their way through the first year, but after that, the rate of attrition is epic.
The startup journey is unpredictable and filled with challenges, such as securing funding and scaling effectively. For many entrepreneurs, mentorship is crucial in navigating these obstacles because it offers expert guidance, industry insights and valuable connections. An experienced guide can help founders refine their business strategies and unlock growth opportunities that might otherwise be out of reach.
“Trade, it turns out, is like water flowing through a stream strewn with rocks. When it can’t go through them, it goes around them,” said Patricia Cohen, New York Times.
What is one of the biggest misconceptions about virtual data rooms? People usually associate data room software with corporations or large-scale mergers and acquisitions. M&As are indeed the biggest use case of virtual dataroom technology, but data rooms offer so much more to SMBs and startups.
The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines (PRISM), the world’s first non-profit partnership dedicated to investigating and understanding sentient machines, has launched to foster global collaboration on the emerging issue of AI consciousness.
The Government will deliver its Spring forecast on 26 March. Whilst not intended to be a platform for major tax announcements, the changing political and economic landscape may leave the Chancellor with little or no choice.
Employment continued to retract in February following the Government’s decision to hike job taxes, a new report from Employment Hero shows.
Greg Hoffman, the driving force behind Nike’s brand evolution and one of the world’s most influential experts in branding and business creativity, will take part in South Summit Madrid 2025, the leading global gathering of the entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem, co-organised with IE University. The next edition will be held from June 4th to 6th at La Nave in Madrid.
Travel Counsellors has appointed entrepreneur and businesswoman Sara Davies MBE as the brand’s first Growth and Entrepreneurship Partner.
