Bridgio Tech Accelerator, in collaboration with Infineon Technologies, is announcing the launch of the second batch of the Industry-Focused Pre-Acceleration Program.
Inephany, an AI optimisation startup, has announced the close of a $2.2 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the development of its AI-powered optimisation platform, which promises to revolutionise how neural networks – including Large Language Models (LLMs) – are trained and fine-tuned.
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva, has announced it has made an €11.4 million investment with Lakestar, a European venture & growth capital firm specialising in technology.
Bees are revered for their hard work and ‘busy as a bee’ is a common theme throughout culture and society worldwide. To create a single 500 gram jar of honey, honey bees will have collectively visited approximately 2,000,000 flowers. They will have flown 88,000 kilometres and visited up to 100 flowers in a single day. Bees live their lives at a fast pace, and in the summer that’s only about thirty-four days.
UK fintech startup Altery has announced its partnership with UnionPay International as a principal member, following the official approval on 13th September 2024.
A major cyberattack can send shockwaves through a business, causing severe financial, operational, and reputational damage. While some companies have managed to claw their way back, others may never fully recover. But in a world where cyber threats are a matter of “when, not if,” can businesses truly bounce back from a devastating breach?
Global marketplace and destination for branded pre-loved fashion, eBay, is investing $300,000 into Refiberd in its ongoing efforts to support fashion startups to scale circular solutions through its global Circular Fashion Fund programme.
The most influential startup conference in the Alps-Adriatic and Western Balkans region, PODIM, taking place in Maribor, Slovenia, from May 12 to 14, 2025, is entering an exciting new chapter. This year marks a strategic milestone, as Silicon Gardens – a prominent venture capital firm led by entrepreneurs who have scaled and sold their own companies – joins as a co-organiser. The shared vision is clear: to elevate PODIM into a globally recognised platform that connects the region’s most promising startups with top-tier international investors.
As the UK government continues to implement its AI Opportunities Action Plan, British business leaders are pinning their hopes on technological innovation alongside HR strategies, such as offering hybrid work, to boost employee morale and productivity, according to research by Celonis, the global company in Process Mining and Process Intelligence.
As salaries continue to be stretched thin by a high cost of living and with National Insurance tax hikes placing more pressure on company budgets – many professionals are being driven to clock into a ‘5-9’ after their ‘9-5’.
KÄÄPÄ Biotech, a biotechnology company that researches, innovates, and develops functional mushroom products, has announced it has closed a €900,000 strategic investment from PeakBridge, a pioneering global fund manager in agri-food and a member of the Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity partnership.
Mindset AI, an embedded AI agent platform, has raised £4.3 million in funding to expand its operations in the UK and open an office in Chicago, US.
Revenir, the UK fintech specialising in automated tax reclaim solutions, has announced a new partnership with US-based financial technology company, Karta, representing Revenir’s first partnership outside of Europe.
To help research institutions guard against self-plagiarism, research image integrity software provider Proofig AI has launched MyDatabase, a repository designed to protect the originality of research by preventing the unintentional reuse of your own published images.
UK fintech, Marshmallow, announces that it has raised $90 million worth of funding from Portage, BlackRock, and Columbia Lake Partners. The raise comes three years after the business’ Series B, in which time, it has almost doubled its valuation to just over $2 billion.
The startup Atacama Biomaterials was the winner of the fourth edition of the Startup Competition of South Summit Brazil, the leading meeting of the entrepreneurial ecosystem co-organised by IE University and the Government of Rio Grande do Sul, which was held between April 9 and 11 in the city of Porto Alegre.
The UK Government is investing £121 million in quantum technology, a novel technology with huge potential, to tackle crime, fraud and money laundering, bolstering the UK’s world-leading research programmes.
It started with severe insomnia. At my worst, I was only getting two hours of continuous sleep a night, and that’s on the good days. This went on for 18 months. 18 months of broken nights, waking up more exhausted than I’d gone to bed, and trying to navigate my life through a fog of fatigue so intense, I sometimes couldn’t even remember what day it was.
Every great startup begins with a “why.” For viAct, that why echoed loudly across dusty construction sites, roaring factory floors and oil rigs lost on the horizon – “Why are we still risking lives in the age of AI?”
What happens when a software engineer is also an amateur DJ? Dancefloor, the platform that encourages dance music fans to discover new DJs and club nights in their city! “We exist to get people dancing,” explained Ben King, the Founder and CEO of Dancefloor.
